If it works for you, there’s no reason not to keep using it.

If it looks like an upgrade in performance and simplicity and you think it’s worth swapping, then you could consider it, though personally I’d wait until it’s a bit more mature/proven (maybe it is already idk).

A separate backup NAS would better than nothing. If losing your data would be a disaster, then don’t overlook backing up your data in a separate location (either at someone elses house or use a cloud backup provider like Backblaze) incase of a fire, etc.

Cloud or any way to backup your data in another location is greatly preferred to having another NAS in the same location just as a mirrored copy of your first.

I’m gonna stuff that unlimited budget between the fabric layers of mine and take it home with me.

Usually fine for media only like Jellyfin, since you write every now and then new content, then only read from it for longer periods of time.

I probably wouldn’t go for a SMR drive anyways just because drives can last a long while and who knows what i’ll want to do with it in the future.

(If you use RAID, this advice doesn’t matter, but if you don’t run raid like me and only use it for media like in the example, I’d imagine it’d be fine)

Sounds good, I mean you can use literally anything to host servers.

It’s (debian) a great choice especially when you plan to only use docker though, for sure, as you won’t really run into those old package issues (+ if u like to upgrade and feel very safe doing so each time without looking at news first, might be survivorship bias, but debian has never broken for me through multiple major version upgrades and I’ve been blindly upgrading each time).

https://github.com/alexta69/metube does this very well already!

Any backup location is secure as long as you encrypt your data securely before you back it up there.

For something as important as a backup that you don’t want to lose, I’d stick with something tried and true like Backblaze B2.

Backblaze is also very cheap for what it is (a great storage solution). You can pay monthly or use more of the regular pay as you go model.

Monthly and pay as you go have ups and downs, but the benefit of pay as you go for me is the ridiculously cheap deal (if you download your backups a lot it may be less so, but I don’t so it works out very cheap for me).

You have arch and debian experience, so I think Debian would be great for your server.

You don’t want rolling releases (eg arch) on your server really because you don’t want stuff to break. Debian will be a rock solid choice.

I don’t feel confident with the hardware questions because I have never streamed higher than 1080p, but I would imagine it’d be easy for most systems. A used computer would probably be my choice, mostly for upgradeability, but that’d use more power than a mini-pc for example.

A normal used tower pc could be good if you plan on getting a cheap GPU down the line for transcoding (maybe you’re out and don’t want to use as much data, etc). CPUs can probably do a lot for one user though.

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Will my steam account get banned if I pre-order every one of their games, click play for 5 minutes then instantly refund? I have my faith, but I don’t know if they’d see that as abuse of their refund policy.

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Sounds nice to have it separate, but it’s not hard to reinstall services or even your whole os (as long as you are partitioned correctly) while your data is on the same machine/disk.

Two machines does sound overkill for Jellyfin (and 99.99% of self hosters).

Agree, I use it myself. My only gripe is that it seems pretty slow, not sure if thats the deduplication part or what, haven’t bothered looking into it because i run the backup after im in bed so not a big deal.

If you are gonna run the backups during daytime might be a problem.

Then again though, could just be my setup (havent looking into it).

As for the government ID thing, it’s hardly an authoritarian’s dream when almost every country on planet Earth does it already. You may not realise it, but we’re very much in the minority for not having this already.

Just have to say, being in the minority for something does not mean it’s all of a sudden a good thing and that everyone else must do it.

100% agree, my server has pretty much nothing except docker installed on it and every service I run is always in containers.

Setting up a new service is mostly 0% risk and apps can’t bog down my main file system with random log files, configs, etc that feel impossible to completely remove.

I also know that if for any reason my server were to explode, all I would have to do is pull my compose files from the cloud and docker compose up everything and I am exactly where I left off at my last backup point.

Hehe disagree, I think it’s more like a bit more difficult than your random app where all you have to do is start it, but nowadays, with the amount of guides that exist alongside complete mail server packages, it’s much easier than previously. Just gotta have patience mostly and follow all steps.

Once it’s setup though, it’s mostly not touched like most other things until theres an update.

Don’t selfhost email at home. Tons of reasons why won’t work, this is only the tip of the iceberg you are facing.

I disagree, but I do agree you can’t achieve this without business internet usually.

+1 for just using html & css if it’s literally just an online business card (I’m sure theres millions of themes you can easily modify the source of and there won’t be updates to work around).

A generator is only really useful if you have blog posts, multiple pages, something that changes often, etc, right?

I never had, but after being told I figured out that he was that meme face.