I can’t answer all your questions but I am using a similar setup. To my knowledge the free tier on proton doesn’t allow torrent traffic, this could explain why you see the connection fail after some time.
You do have to open 6881 on gluetun. You do need to make sure that your qbit is utilizing your gluetun connection. I am using docker and have the qbit container use gluetun network. That way, if something happens to gluetun, qbit won’t failover to your host’s network and leak your ip.
Thanks for the answer! On my desktop with the same account I’m able to torrent without any problems, I’ve done it for years, I don’t think it’s a problem
I’ll try to open the port and see if it works, thanks!
Another thought: I use grocy (or at least try to use it) to have an overview of my stock and know when an open item in the fridge neeeds to be used before spoiling. But I just use a shared note on nextcloud for shopping, which is good enough for two people. But of course there is no meal planning or recipe management
Kinda related: what if I install something like Debian/Ubuntu on it? Can I still use the NAS hardware in the same way?
And that’s what you should do because those NAS specific software is more overhead than solution. You can setup the entire thing manually use less resources and have it better. BTRFS is a good solution when it comes do a simple RAID.
To be fair for a basic NAS what you need is Samba 4 for shares and something like FileBrowser for a WebUI. Another suggestion I’ve for you is to really go Debian and use LXD/Incus to create containers and virtual machines if required. I’ve posted about it here.
Do I have to use a special NAS-specific OS to make use of the NAS hardware? Like to do snapshots and stuff?
No, these features are provided by various components, which are available in any modern OS. Snapshots for example can be provided by LVM or ZFS. Disk fault tolerance (RAID) is typically provided by LVM-RAID, ZFS, or plain old mdadm, or a hardware RAID card.
Kinda related: what if I install something like Debian/Ubuntu on it? Can I still use the NAS hardware in the same way?
You can, provided you set up these components yourself. Pre-made NAS OS like OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS will have these set up out-of-the-box. Web-based configuration interfaces are often specific to these pre-made distributions, so if a Web UI is a must-have, you will have to find suitable alternatives (for example cockpit, web-based file managers, web-based user management tools, etc)
I don’t know how I managed to log in after some troubles and now it added the SSL certificate without problems… I’m confused, but it worked so it’s good ahahaah
I found TrueNas scale to be what fits my needs but I tried unraid (trial) and open media vault first. Also not this is not my first rodeo as I’ve done “from scratch” Ubuntu, and bsd.
I just built a server from older parts off eBay. An i7 2600, Asus p8z77, a Silverstone c382 nas case, 32gb of 1333, a pny P600 video card and a 9200+8i hba card. Then I used TrueNas on an SSD and another SSD for docker containers and cache.
4k Plex streaming no issues, system is fast and the only issue I had was the old Asus boards don’t use pwm fan control.
Open Media vault just confused the heck out of me, I ran it for a few months and donated money to the team for their effort but it was too restricting for my needs. It was definitely a capable nas os but it didn’t feel like it fit my style which is more hands on.
TrueNas has snapshots and replication. I run 4 12tb disks for my live data, striped raid 1’s. Then I have two more 12tb’s in a raid 1 for my replication read only. It’s not enough space if I filled my live drives but I havent needed more yet for the backup. And I can always expand my backup set.
I also have a qnap tr004 das with some random drives in a hardware raid 5. That’s my third copy I do every so often.
The funny part is I didn’t want to pay for a Synology but ended up spending more on parts. However it’s incredibly powerful for what it does so I’m using that as my “happy little mistake”. It’s going to last a long time and run as many services that I could possibly want as a home user.
I don’t need, but wasn’t sure am I using full capacity of what I’m paying for and want to learn more. This is my hobby, I enjoy setting up things more than using the server lol edit: and yeah feels like CPU capped
I enjoy setting up things more than using the server lol
Also me in life, in games… I like min-maxing, making it as efficient as things will allow.
So I asked chatgpt what professions would be best for a person like that and from the 10 answers it spat out, surprise surprise, I’ve worked as 2 out of the top 3.
Commenting largely to watch - I use Syncthing as my daily driver sync tool, and Resilio for the on-demand stuff.
Resilio has on-demand/selective sync, but I don’t recall if it’s open source, I don’t think so. Plus, it’s hard on memory with larger folders, as it keeps the index in ram. My media sync folder really impacts my desktop, and I only run Resilio on my mobile devices when I want to sync something, then turn it off.
Now you seems to get MySQL permission issue (or wrong database password, but your issue is probably not that). When using docker compose, MySQL won’t see access coming from linguacafe’s container as coming from localhost, but instead it’s coming from a different IP address inside docker subnet. So make sure your MySQL user has proper privilege, e.g. by granting all permissions to ‘user’@‘%’.
I run a modded Minecraft server for my friends, PiHole for my home network, DDclient, and a discord bot for my discord server on a RPi4 8GB. I also use another as an emulation station.
I ran HA on mine for a while before I moved it to a VM. Right now I’m using my Pi as a secondary wireguard VPN in case my primary is down for some reason.
Also, quick tip, I found that ikea zigbee bulbs work really well but have really bad coil whine when off, don’t use them for bedside lighting.
Already got ssd as a nfs share in my openwrt-based router before that I did have it set up on the rpi. I did want to do offsite backup into that disk originally but I’ve got “only” ~100Mb/s up/down speed here so I didn’t want to risk slow-downs etc (but now that you remind me, borgbackup should be rather light on traffic!).
NEMS being a whole OS is a pitty, I like the possibility to have multiple different services there.But you are absolutely right I could have a offsite resource monitoring for my Hetzner setup with these, thanks!
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