I wanted to shared my enthusiasm, which makes me feel like a little boy (despite me being 50+) fascinated by how such complex systems can be managed so easily by novices. I started using Proxmox recently. I had a machine running one VM with various docker images installed. But NVMe was tiny. So I setup another node and got it to share the same NFS share on the NAS, where I had saved full backups of the VM. Once added the NFS share to the new node (with a bigger ZFS local partition) I simply restored the VM from the NFS share that had been backed up from the original node. It seemlessly imported and started. Then I cloned on the new node so that I could get it on the new ZFS partition. Now the next task is to get a bigger NVMe on the original machine, install Proxmox from scratch, and add to cluster so that it shared the backup NFS share. I just then need to understand how to get HA up and running so that VMs are always synced flawlessly. Proxmox is super brilliant. I feel like I have a data center at home :-) I could not imagine this system was so flexible and relatively easy to use. The people that deliver and contribute to this stuf are super cool. A couple of proxmox nodes, a Truenas scale NAS and a good backup strategy and your data is really safe and rock solid … I hope :-)

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    “Just one more thing” we all say until we’re hosting a bespoke cloud service for everyone we know.

    Next do pihole, put everything on a mesh VPN, home assistant all of your lights/locks/coffee machines, jellyfin, then you may as well get a seedbox in Singapore and automate your media consumption, while you’re there you may as well run subsonic and lidarr and if you’re going to host media audiobookshelf for your reading/audiobook needs.

    Or, branch out to other nerd hobbies and buy a 3D printer (why not) and cover your walls and flat surfaces with modular organization systems

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      Until we’re hosting a bespoke cloud service for everyone we know

      Oddly enough, when I offer friends free cloud storage they don’t really seem to care. I dunno if they just don’t understand what that’s worth, don’t trust me, or what. I do have some family members on Immich, but that’s about it.

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        Yeah, I have had a similar experience.

        Some are excited about it when I give them the tour but never use their login.

        Luckily my nieces and nephews love the fact that they can watch all of the Mouse House movies without the Mouse House+ subscription