I recently setup a full matrix server. What I am currently worried about is my server. I am currently shopping for a used dual Xeon server. I am hosting close to 40 docker containers on 2 1 liter PCs with very low specs. I would love to bring it all in house to a single server with a separate NAD which I do have currently holding 60 terabytes of storage space.
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Currently in a holding pattern because, while I got RAM & SSD for a new-to-me "1-liter" server before tariffs hit, I don't have the server itself nor any money to buy one, despite looking for 9th or 10th gen Intel which will cost me only $120 to $150 barebones.
Money to buy one is not coming in because the place where I live has nonstop noise & activity and I don't have a separate room or any door I can close, which severely limits my ability to work as I have auditory hypersensitivity and an absolute need for solitude in order to recharge enough to think. 🤷🏻
Been spending some time with podman, but ran into some issues with denied access on a bind mount. Messed around with acl for 30 minutes or so until I realized selinux is a thing.
So, now I'm learning selinux. I'm a long time ubuntu guy, but just now adding Rocky to my setup.
Immich is UP and even my wife likes it, now I'm slowly adding her 100gb library to immich. Kinda fun going through all those old pictures.
Proxmox Backup Server is DOWN. I've got a synology that boots at 11pm for my backup to use it as NFS share, but PBS won't auto mount that darn NFS. Works fine with PVE backup.
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I finally bought a tiny PC to replace my aging APU border router/firewall (OpenBSD), so I'm trying to wrap my head around building a router currently inside the network that it will be protecting.
I have Debian installed as hypervisor, Incus, and sticking with OpenBSD for the firewall. pf makes too much sense to me too switch to firewalld. I'll also move the network-related containers off my main lab host once this is up and running.
I have a question on top of my matrix setup. Has any one integrated VoIP? I am trying to bring all communication in house.
I installed Jitsi Meet on my YUNOhost server and am very impressed. It works really well and needed basically no setting up after installing.
Trying to get the right combo of iptables rules to shuttle traffic from vps to home lab server (as I think I'll need to do once my ISP upgrade puts me behind CGNAT for the first time...
Got it working sorta, but I didn't like seeing my vps private link address instead of the remote in logs.
My problem is that I'm moving in the not so far future and I don't know where to put my server. Physical security is important and if someone gets into my house, takes the computer and leaves, it'll be worthless due to encryption. But if it's in somebody's datacenter (co-location or whatever), they could be forced to monitor my traffic, tamper with my system, and I'd have to entrust the key to somebody in order to boot the system and decrypt the drives should it restart for an update or for any other reason.
I'm considering asking a friend to host the homeserver and reimburse them for a better internet connection (fiber) + electricity costs. But I'm not sure they'd be up for it.
How would you solve the problem?
Myself right now I'd probably take it with me - in fact that's that I'm planning to do in a couple of months - but it sounds like my needs are a bit less than yours, and i can do some stuff just over LAN and on the 'server' (which is also a laptop) itself.
For more, I think I'd also ask a friend like you're thinking.
I did that before with a relative - just had to ask them to restart the server every now and again!
About trusted encryption keys, I did it with a simple password for boot encryption, that my relative knew, so in the event of theft it'd still be hard for thieves to get anything; but after boot I'd ssh in and unlock the second disk with my own password, then start up the services.
What do you actually need to run on your server? I'd look into downsizing. A single small form factor computer or even a newer Raspi can do a lot these days.
My problem isn't the hardware, it's that the place I'm moving to will have a bad internet connection. My current homeserver has stuff like a CI (currently being tested), a builder for software (compiling rust, C/C++, go, and whatever else), immich, nextcloud with an extension to download from youtube and other sources (basically to circumvent geoblocking of multiple friends and family), and it could be expanded to host other services e.g a seedbox. All that stuff needs good hardware and a good connection.
Yep - while only drawing a fraction of the power and creating almost no noise