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You fan pretty effective software raid with Linux built in drivers. No need for hardware raid, specially not cheapo ones...

Running Linux software raid for 20+ years with zero issues... Currently on USB3 and USB-C disks, but in the past all kind of mixed solutions (ide/sata/esata/USB/FireWire...).

Speed is not a big issue in my experience if you consume your media over network anyway.

You have the older one then

Add Pam or basic auth to nginx and you are done.

Mine does av1... So?

Amazon firestick pro.

Sysvinit on gentoo here. Its so simple and clean, all can be managed and hacked via bash scripts.

I see no benefits in my use cases for systemd. Boot speed is unneeded, service auto-restart is done via Monit, anything else I don't need.

This is true for all my server -and- all my workstations and laptops as well.

Systemd never solved a problem needed to be solved to start with.

Now that it also does coffee and cream for you, i start seeing some benefits like auto-restart services. Was it worthwhile? Meh, dunno.

At first it seemed another case of "I am too young and I want stuff done my way just because" and redhat shoved it down everybody throath to gain marked dominance. That they did.

At least now systemd looks like mature and finally start making sense. I was even contemplating testing a migration on one server.

Then I remembered, I like freedom of choice and keeping up being an old fart, so I didn't (yet).

(No, for Wayland and network manager I think they are both welcome and needed from the start).

It didn't help the main Dev suckass attitude, that didn't made friends.

This is a great reason, I didn't know, but its interesting.

Fair, setting up ssh tunnels with autoreconnect and such is indeed more complex.

Anything I can download again doesn't get backup, but it sits on a RAID-1. I am ok at losing it due to carelessness but not due to a broken disk. I try to be carefully when messing with it and that's enough, I can always download again.

Anything like photos notes personal files and such gets backedup via restic to a disk mounted to the other side of the house. Offsite backup i am thinking about it, but not really got to it yet. Been lucky all this time.

From 10tb of stuff, the totality of my backupped stuff amount to 700gb. Since 90% of are photos, the backup size is about 700gb too. The actually part of that 700gb that changes (text files, documents..) amount to negligible. The photos never change, at most grow a bit over time.

Why rathole and not ssh tunneling? The latter exposes only one port (that you are already exposing anyway) while the former requires an additional port.

What is the actual benefit of rathole? I an asking genuinely.

Rent a cheap vps and do something like I did with ssh tunneling, or wireguard VPN, between home and the vps:

https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=router:ssh_tunnel

(Sorry I keep posting links to my wiki but the whole point was writing once)

I create folders with name like: /gallery/2024/03 - Trail Del Marchesato/

And put there all the photos related to that event.

Or more generic like: /gallery/2024/Winter To collect generic photos of that period.

So I divide by year and reason/event. Inside each use moves his own photos for that event, or they create their folders.

Tags do the rest.

Homegallery let's you view them by similar or tags, while pigallery2 let's you view them by the folder. Both together fits the bill

Sorry man, I am on mobile so I keep missing parts.

As for hardware, I would recycle anything you have at home if it has at least 8gb ram and a network card. Specially laptops (low watts consumption and built-in battery in case of power outage) are my favourites. But if you want to spend for new stuff, the low power N100 are all the rage nowadays.

For storage, go with at least two disks or ssds or nvme in RAID1 (and keep in mind that is not backup, which you should plan to do), they can be external USB drives as well, provided you spend some good money and don't go cheap on the USB enclosure. Mine have been working perfectly for the last decade.

More.

I agree nextcloud might be a very good solution.l, specially because all the service you might need are there. The fun factor decreases tough.

Also, while cloudflare is heavily sponsorized in this community I disagree. It's probably the easiest approach but you end up depending on a specific service. Renting a cheap vps (virtual private server) and setting up a VPN or ssh tunneling is the best approach, but slightly more complex. In exchange you are free to migrate to a different vps at any time with basically zero downtime.

Using a VPN is clearly the safest approach but has two limits:

• more complex setup for you users
• cannot expose public services (like sharing photos with friends outside family, or sharing your resumee)

Using ssh tunnels to make your internal server accessible on port 80/443 of the vps instead gives you the maximum freedom, but you run higher risk unless you secure it properly (service separation, https with let's encrypt, strong authentication and so on....)

I wouldn't follow the advice of using Immich. While its a great tool, growing fast and super polished, its currently aimed at photo backup from your android phone/tablet and is not a good pick for a family photo gallery.

To that end I would look into pigallery2 or the very good homegallery, which is still in early stages as well but also quite polished and already working great. They will not replace Immich, but will complete the workflow nicely.

My photo management flow (which includes your requirements, plus the capability to organize new photos over time) is here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services:photomanagement if you are interested.

In general the flow is to buy or recycle a pc of anykind, install linux (optional, but recomendes), buy a domain you like from some registrar, setup some kind of remote access from outside to your home, and install the services you want.

The workflow mandatory includes hours spent trying and failing, and also having tons of fun in the process. Don't forget the WAF (Wife Appreciation Factor) which will determine how much fun you can have.

Last, i al documenting all my steps and proceedings while I run down my own selfhost rabbit hole in the above linked wiki (self hosted, ofc).

See you around, I guess!

Wow... Luckly I don't use systemd which seems to be the vector causing the sshd backdoor, via liblzma...

Pretty scary anyway.

At home i have a FWA over 5G (mobile) with 1Tb/month of traffic cap. That can be raised by 200Gb if needed. Cost 24€/month.

On mobile I have 150Gb capped 3G/4G/5G (whatever works) for 7.99€/month.

Not bad deals in comparison with what I read here.

I run containers on bare metal indeed.

I have services running in containers on bare metal and services running without containers, on bare metal.

I have an older version of this one https://www.amazon.it/QB-35US3-6G-Esterno-pollici-Ventola-Sensore/dp/B00ORENYJE/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=1KENY5PQOJIOT&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nlJxnMmeia511-944B2D_mtdZ4CuHIkQTM0UZoqLAuLIQn470qNhnrRN4H6ezYGx3mHU-TvzPGQojcRUbxyeYnIq51YnLuXz5p_4wdE4_wxD5wnskq2Qe88wR2cuh5b6MOt7lkpoPJqsG9nAdhrZzwTZsrDEFGCi8r9v9xXdBrCnM7LjrU1NyMjZPCM-XqlNDu0439gr0GdnN0XFPvLRqg.7ykrAUTe4pI2DC9C5GLSlkvg_hV1JOosK2G_0qE62p4&dib_tag=se&keywords=jbod+4+bay&qid=1711652796&sprefix=jbod%2Caps%2C138&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.9d4f9b77-768c-4a4e-94ad-33674c20ab35 bought many years ago.

I tried a few.

Podhoarder is nice but more geared toward hoarding and a bit complex for listening.

Podfetch is nice and currently maintained but has some issues with proxy auth. It might cut the cheese for you I think. It has a weird naming scheme on disk tough.

AudioBookReader is amazing and still currently under very active development. With its mobile app is perfect for my use case. Podcast support is just fine for me.

PodGrabber seems abandoned since 2022, but I didn't try it.