NUCs make really nice homelab servers. They can give you a lot of power while not sucking too much electricity. I have used three NUCs to build a kubernetes cluster and I’m very happy with them.

The only thing that made me buy additional hardware was the need for 10Gb Networking and more internal storage, which I couldn’t realize with my NUCs. I also learned to love the IPMI feature of server motherboards, that NUCs don’t offer afaik. I would recommend to use a hypervisor like proxmox which makes it easy to spin up new servers inside virtual machines - this way you don’t have to re-install your OS on the NUC everytime something goes wrong or needs to be upgraded.

Generally a NUC is a great device for a homelab, especially if you’re just starting out!

Since you’re also located in germany, I’d like to share a site I found when I was looking for my own router based on OPNsense: NRG Systems. Some of their models use pretty old hardware, but I got the IPU651 with the 19" chassis and I really love it.

Use something like pgAdmin, DBeaver or the pg cli to connect to your postgres instance. Then run the command from the changelog as a SQL query.

You can get a quick overview via DSM, I think in the Disk Manager. For more details you could jump into a terminal and use smartctl.

Have you checked the SMART values of your drives? Do they give you a reason for your concerns?

Anyhow, you should never be in a position where you need to worry about drive failure. If the data is important, back it up separatly. If it isn’t, well, don’t sweat it then.

Why would you buy something new if your current solution works and your requirements don’t change? Just keep it.

Wasabi S3 is nice and cheap. You’ll only pay what you use, so probably just a few cents in your case.

Oops, nevermind:

If you store less than 1 TB of active storage in your account, you will still be charged for 1 TB of storage based on the pricing associated with the storage region you are using.

I recently upgraded three of my proxmox hosts with SSDs to make use of ceph. While researching I faced the same question - everyone said you need an enterprise SSD, or ceph would eat it alive. The feature that apparently matters the most in my case is Power Loss Protection (PLP). It’s not even primarily needed to protect from an possible outage, but it forces sync writes instead of relying on a cache for performance.

There are some SSDs marketed for usage in data centers, these are generally enterprisey. Often they are classified for “Mixed Use” (read and write) or “Read Intensive”. Other interesting metrics are the Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD) and obviously TBW and IOPS.

At the end I went with used Samsung PM883.

But before you fall into this rabbit hole, you might check if you really need an enterprise SSD. If all you’re doing is running a few vms in a homelab, I would expect consumer SSDs to work just fine.

What’s wrong with Portainer?

No, the registrar just registers the domain for you (duh). You can then change the DNS recods for this domain and these records will propagate to other DNS servers all around the world. Your clients will use some of these DNS servers to lookup the IP address of your server and then connect to this IP.

The traffic between your clients and server has nothing to do with your domain registrar.

Yep, spotDL is nice. It does however not download from Spotify directly because of legal reasons. Instead, it searches the songs on other sites, for example YouTube Music, and downloads them from there. So YMMV based on which songs you’re trying to get.

Ohhhh, this looks promising!

Same here.

You could look into mainboards with IPMI. They give you a web based interface to fully control your server, including power management, shell, sensor readings, etc.

Haha, no problem!

Have you seen the link?

I love Jellyfin but I would absolutely not make it accessible over the public internet. A VPN is the way to go.

Fixed, thanks.

Yeah, tail would be the more obvious choice instead of negating head.

Fuck, I need coffee. @klay@lemmy.world is right (again).

You’re right, I edited my comment. Thanks!

This line seems to list all dumps and then deletes all but the two most recent ones.

In detail:

• ls -1 /backup/*.dump lists all files ending with .dump alphabetically inside the /backup directory
• head -n -2 returns all filenames except the two most recent ones from the end of the list
• xargs rm -f passes the filenames to rm -f to delete them

Take a look at explainshell.com.