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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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Hi, so I've ended up bagging myself a big supermicro server. I'm wanting to try out a little bit of everything with it, but one thing I really want is to be able to have services that haven't been used for a bit to stop or sleep. And then to wake up again or start up on request, rather than me having manually stop and start services. Is that a thing?

I know of portainer and whatnot, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on this.

I'm planning on putting debian on it i think (unless someone can convince something else is better suited - i usually use arch on my personal devices btw 😜)

Also i know some basics on raid but I've only ever messed with raid0 with usb drives on a pi. I have 8 bays but 2 are currently vacant. What is the process of just adding an extra drive to a raid, or replacing one that already exists?

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah so i might be thinking leaving a service running is worse than it actually is then?

The motherboard has two networks ports and a card with another two. There's also some fibre ports but i imagine I'll never end up using them haha.

I don't actually really know much about firewalls at all yet though

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

For the firewall you can try OPNsense or OpenWrt

[–] Chewie@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

I rate OPNsense. I've not tried pfsense, but I use Enterprise-level firewalls daily. When you're used to Palo Alto, Cisco or CheckPoint firewalls, it is a lot harder to use, and the interface isn't great, and had fewer features, but for free (and cheap support if you need it), it's pretty amazing. Upgrading to new versions is seamless, and once when something happened and it broken, I reinstalled it from the .ISO, uploaded my backed up .xml config file, and it was back to normal. It's more than adequate to use for my home internet connection and all the services I run in my DMZ etc.