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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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[–] solariplex@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Jerboa crashed mid-comment so i'll be brief.

Save yourself pain and increase your happiness by

using btrfs or zfs (snapshots, checksum and self-healing is great)
using declarative approach rather than imperative, and keep a copy of configs elsewhere (I accidentally nuked my system multiple times, you should expect to do the same)
keeping backups. If zfs, https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid and syncoid are great https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/setting-up-syncoid-for-offsite-backup/1611
have an extra tiny machine running the same system and workloads, where you test potentially risky stuff before doing so on the prod server
metrics solutions like prometheus and grafana are your friend