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As we received new network hardware from our ISP, and inevitably are getting a new IP address again with that, I'm looking into setting up a DDNS. I've wanted to check out DuckDNS.
They run their (free) service on AWS EC2 instances, though, and as I am currently also trying to end my reliance on Google and Amazon, I've got some more digging to do. If anyone has a good, European (or heck, federated?) solution, hmu!
I've been using DuckDNS on a multiple platforms for a couple of years and it works great. Never had a problem.
Debatting with myself and to a lesser degree what to do in terms of our homeserver situation. While the proxmox node has more than enough CPU and RAM capacity left, the NAS, an older Synology, is full to the brim, EOL and needs replacement.And sadly being a mini PC the proxmox node is unable to get the HDs connected.
So something new is needed and I would rather have my setup streamlined and combine the two.
But that is... More difficult than anticipated. I really would like something power saving with ECC ram that can take at least two PCI-e (SFP+ and a potential graphic card for AI later on). That can take 4,better 6 HDs. And at least one,better two NVMe. ...that basically means self building which I am happy with, but all current builds I calculate come out somewhere south of 2000€ (including two new HDs, as two old ones need to go). And that's sadly out of the financial possibility at the moment.
If only the fucking Ugreen (DXP6800)would support ECC. While not ideal in terms of PCI-e it would be enough to do the trick.
Finally installed jellyfin when I realized I could use rclone to mount 10G of free disk space from box (with client side encryption using rclone) on my server.
Very easy to install on Debian, but the plugins are a security nightmare. Jellyfin devs are kinda dumb.
A LOT of plugins in many projects are a huge concern. I say this as someone who ran security for an OS for a while. It's just people making bad decisions for everyone and then hand-waving the risks when questioned.
I dont mean the plugins themselves but the fact that there's no way to safely download a plugin.
Even if the plugin really is benign, jellyfin will happily download something inauthentic and malicious befuarse there's no cryptographic signature checks
I added a cheap PCI 4 slot NVMe expansion card and a couple of SSDs for a new pool and then migrated all the database-heavy stuff over to it. Required some use of local ZFS send/receive which I didn't know was possible, but it has gone smooth so far. Very happy with it! It no longer sounds like my HDD pool is trying to escape from hell and some of the services are much snappier, especially Bitmagnet. I'd highly recommend it as an upgrade for anyone still running purely HDDs. I thought I could get away with it but ZFS speeds are no faster than single drives and the amount of stuff I had was hammering it non-stop.
I also bought my own domain finally to escape the free-tier dynamic DNS woes and I can finally feel good about sharing links with other people. I slapped a file share container with disabled registrations on a sub domain. I put it all behind free tier Cloudflare to hide my server's IP, it took a little bit of learning what the different records are but so far much easier than I thought. Although I have yet to do the hardest part of setting up dynamic IP for my DNS records. I see a bunch of scripts floating around, but none seem that easy or well-maintained...
Oh, and the PI I've had running Pi-Hole v5 for god knows how long with no maintenance couldn't run Tailscale, so I wiped the entire thing to start fresh and got it up and running with Pi-Hole v6, Tailscale, and Unbound. I like having these separated from my other services as they are more critical to have at all times and I have had 100% uptime with my Pi so far. Although I chose Dietpi for my OS on a whim because it looked interesting and am not sold on it. I like that it has easy software installs with sane defaults so I probably saved time overall, but the amount of time I spent debugging the weird choices Dietpi made for basic shit like networking options really threw me off.
I'd appreciate some feedback on what I'm looking to do.
I'm wanting to follow the FUTO guide, but I don't want to build a router, to save on some money for now.
So I'm planning on buying a Mikrotik MT RB750Gr3 and putting OpenWrt on it, then using my current TP-Link Archer C6 as a wireless access point. (will buy a dedicated AP in the future).
One thing I wonder is, if there is a Mikrotik model that would be better?