Thanks I will learn LXC once I have a new 8 core Intel machine. I also want to hose this website that needs an outdated php/Apache setup so it would be nice to keep that in an isolated container.
As an owner of the HC-2, I’d say if you don’t need to transcode and you really only need qBitTorrent and Jellyfin, the HC-4 should be an awesome NAS and media host. You really only need more power when you have scope creep, and you realize you want your home server to do more and more. In any case it’s a pretty low cost of entry, should you choose to upgrade in the future.
I’m in the same boat. My poor HC-2 is struggling on memory running Omada (WAP controller) and HomeBridge, among other things. I use Emby so I don’t need transcoding - supports 4k streaming just fine.
Right now I’m looking at one of the fanless Intel four port software routers, like this one.. But for a machine like that I’m going to use ProxMox to spin up a Firewall/Router/VPN/Networking VM - not sure which OS/image. That will remain separate from my media and web serving. I will probably end up just off-loading the network tasks to the new machine, and leave my HC-2 running as a media server. That way I can restart and upgrade the systems independently. Using ProxMox, it may be possible to move the media services onto a second VM on the same machine, but I’m not sure what advantage that might give me, if any.
I wish there was a good option. It’s actually legal to re-broadcast an over the air signal, provided it’s not altered in any way (re-encoded).
There should be a live torrent system for OTA TV. Antenna owners could use it to ensure perfect signal. The stream could be divided up by key frames and hashed (as bit torrent is). Any antenna owner would compare their hash to others to check if it was properly received. If not, that chunk could be downloaded instead of using the signal.
Such a system would make it easy to extend to leechers. They could offer a service to the antenna owners: hard disk space. The leechers are the ones who allow DVR service to the antenna owners.
Everybody wins. Antenna owners get perfect signal and they can pause and fast forward through commercials. Leechers get to view the live program without an antenna, and store the stream to repair antenna-owner broadcasts.
The Memmy app has a feature to block an instance.