Opnsense kinda has a webUI for HAProxy, but it's also not very good.
I recommend learning the config files, since HAProxy is probably the best option for a HA load balancer.
MangoPenguin
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Yes some, but the power consumption is extremely high. A cheap $40 PC with an i5-6500 CPU would out perform it at about 1/15th the power draw.
This thing is mostly just interesting to play with.
Probably quite expensive, and when doing something as a hobby it's often hard to get the funds.
You're going to get much better performance now too if the monitor was plugged into the motherboard before
when selfhosters can just help each other storing parts of others backup.
That's essentially what Storj, Sia, etc.. are for, they're decentralized storage systems where users can contribute storage to the network which automatically distributes data over all the 'hosters'.
A typical NUC that I know draws like 10-20W, maybe you're looking at the power supply maximum ratings, and not the actual tested draw?
Fedora or maybe Bazzite if you're gaming or using an nvidia GPU I'd say.
The power draw will go up when a device is drawing power from it, but there will be base/idle draw of course as well.
LXCs are more an alternative to VMs if your use-case supports it.
Docker is its own thing with pre-made application images.
VMs barely use more resources than LXC, debian minimal probably needs another 50MB of RAM in a VM vs LXC and that's about the only difference. It matters at scale but for home use it really doesn't IMO.
That said LXC has some benefits over a VM of being able to pass through mounts and parts of devices, those can be useful for Frigate where you want to use Intel Quicksync or OpenVINO and still share it with the host and other containers, because you can't do that on a VM unless you have a device you can dedicate to the VM only. You can also bind mount a directory on the host to a directory inside the container which is useful for sharing files between multiple containers.
I like the concept. But something without any central admins is probably going to be full of all kinds of awful stuff, and I don't want to have to spend time strictly moderating my own feed, because if my client happens to cache anything illegal then I'm now potentially distributing that illegal content P2P which is a huge problem.
The mention of cryptocurrency or blockchain also provokes quite a negative feeling, it's basically just a haven for scams and useless things, and any kind of integration with it I do not want to be involved with.
Yeah Exos are enterprise drives, so there's no point in making them quiet like they do with lower speed desktop stuff.
Definitely run everything on the M.2 since you have it. MicroSD is so slow and wears out super quickly.