Ever wanted to participate in a #synology sponsored competition with a chance to win DS3622xs+ with 6xHAT3310 HDDs?

Now is your chance! Describe how you would implement Synology solution to your workflow as a photographer!

https://event.synology.com/en-au/photographer-experience-sharing/detail?utm_source=thinktankphoto

@_elena looking at you ;)

This Week in Self-Hosted (11 April 2025)

Hoarder's new name change, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Streamystats -- a Jellyfin statistics-tracking platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-04-11/

Hey folks, my cranky old #Synology #NAS is getting full and I'm thinking about upgrades. I don't think I want to buy another commercial NAS and I have an AM5 motherboard doing literally nothing. Sny opinions on #unraid vs #truenas ? (I mostly use for #plex streaming and local backups) but may consider moving my #HomeAssistant install to the box too in the future). #homelab

Started to minify and simplify the #homelab and had a paradoxical reaction--I've now got three Lenovo M720q boxes on the way for a #K3s cluster.

I'm very slowly starting to properly architect my network with VLANs. First successful endeavor was creating a VLAN 20 network tied to a segmented part of my wifi.
This way I have a single SSID but if guests join my network, they're given a separate password that puts their device in an isolated VLAN.

I could've just created a guest network but then I'd have "Network" and "Network Guest" visible and that isn't as clean.
Microsegmentation DOES disable the 6Ghz band but nothing on my network supports that so if that time comes where they even benefit from 6Ghz, I'll swap back to a Guest network solution
#Networking #Homelab

Yeah, it looks like running a k8s control plane on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an attached SATA SSD is a "nope". I don't even know what's going on, but I'm pretty sure my firewall should never, ever be seeing (and blocking) Pod subnet traffic.

I guess this is the moment when I go to bitch publicly about how stuff at the #registrar https://glauca.digital is broken and not letting me do things, and how it's basically impossible to reach #support there or @q who runs it.
#sysadmin #linux #homelab #DNS #domains #domain

So die ersten Gehversuche mit #Hompage sind fertig für heute.
#Proxmox zum laufen zu bekommen ist echt nicht mal eben schnell gemacht wenn man es das erste mal macht o.o°
Aber hey es geht voran :D

#PatchSaturday im #Homelab
#paperlessngx
#Nextcloud
#PRTG
#AdGuard
#HomeAssistant
Jeweils mit dem darunter liegenden OS.

Ganz entspannt, morgens beim Kaffee

Okay, authentik is up! Took a while, I was fighting against flux and the helm release because it deployed with the wrong StorageClass (I forgot to have that configuration ready before release.) Helm wasn't able to modify the PVC because they're immutable, updating the release has to wait for the initial release to succeed (which it won't) or timeout and flux is quiet on the reasons for all of this unless you know where to look lots of learning was had though!

Anyway, admin and personal user accounts created, MFA enabled. Got my first application integrated too! (actual budget)

What next? The world is my oyster... Probably gitea or semaphore. I'm hesitant to integrate services like jellyfin before I have more users onboarded and this gives me an opportunity to experiment with other edge cases like other providers and service accounts and such

Some more work for #ParchSaturday.

#ProxMox
#HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/company-details/press-releases/proxmox-backup-server-3-4

Сейчас самосборные NAS'ы кто-то собирает или готовое используете?
#homelab #nas

Ich baue zzt mein eigenes #nas, oder eher #homelab #server zusammen. Meine Platten sind unterschiedlich groß und ich denke, dass mich das schon an #unraid bindet. Dabei bin ich mir doch unsicher welches OS ich nehmen soll

Is there an on-premise, open source option for a monitoring/telemetry platform comparable* to say New Relic or Dynatrace with an approachable query language?

Is Prometheus+Grafana pretty much it?

Simpler the better, approachable for a casual user (i.e. curious non-technical tenants) would be great.

* Caveats for "comparable" apply!

I'm finding myself using these AI models more and more for search in my #homelab. I don't have the ability to run my own LLM's yet, but hitting that free limit becoming pretty limiting.. Any of the #homelab homies pay for any of these or we still not on that cause billionaires am I right!

Finally onto the last step of the k8s migration: Moving the control plane nodes from their VMs (all running on the same physical host ) to the 3 Raspberry Pi 4 which served as control plane nodes for my previous Nomad/Consul/Vault cluster.

The biggest/only issue is that the CP nodes also house the Rook Ceph MONs, and their IPs are hardcoded in several places.

I'm also a bit worried about performance, because the k8s CP definitely uses more CPU/RAM than the HashiCorp one.

1/2

That moment, when you are bidding in an #auction for a piece of equipment for your #homelab. You don't really need it but would be really fun to have. You are mostly in it for the heck of it. Not really to win. The auction closes exactly at the max you are willing to pay. Feels great... with a bit of guilty. And future me has yet another piece of gear to wrangle into place #firstworldproblems #selfhosting #computers