I have 3 separate machines:
That fat home server with NAS and VM’s etc.
A Pi serving my smart home.
A plastic router with OpenWrt doing DNS and (I like to believe) some security, and giving WiFi to many small devices.
They all run 24/7 but I just don’t want everything to be dead and dark when one machine is down for whatever reason.
This will be the spec for my next server. The current one is smaller, and several years old
I have several different requirements for my server, for example, my son does video editing and needs lots of storage. I want to experiment with more VM’s and containers, therefore RAM and threads.
Do you think people just beginning could get buy on 4 cores and 8 GB RAM for a while?
For most people I think they just want to have some NAS and a reliable machine. But please grant them 16 GB, otherwise they would ask why their laptop has so much more than their server :-)
I would absolutely want the extra router because most people have one from their service provider. For self hosting, you want an additional router with your own software.
The hypothesis is that $150 of equipment to avoid dozens of hours of software configuration
OK fair try, but you also need to sell me 20-25 TB of disk space on 5 spindles (plus a SSD for the bootdisk), 64 GB RAM (with a chance to go up to 128) and the CPU must have 16 threads or more.
we can have 5~10 photos which are basically duplicates
Have any of you guys handled a similar situation?
I decide which one is the best and then delete the others. Sometimes I keep 2, but that’s an exception. I do that as early as possible.
I don’t mind about storage space at all (still many TB free), but keeping (near-)duplicates costs valuable time of my life. Therefore I avoid it.
even allowed in Germany?
Yes.
works well on my LAN network, but when I try to make the server accessible via a DynDNS service
I guess your Fritzbox does NAT for your LAN. Then the dyndns address works only when the client is outside.
all that data would become inaccessible to my OMV.
Why?
Nothing gets destroyed unless your OMV actively destroys things (which is very unlikely)
A zpool is easily portable to a new machine/VM.
enforce tagging at the switch level (i.e. don’t trust the cameras to maintain their own VLAN) settings.
Very smart solution!
I guess you need to “zpool import -f” because your system has crashed before and did not shutdown properly.
After reading again, I understand that your pool is alive and well. It is just not mounted anywhere.
Look into /etc/fstab if you find the correct mountpoint there. Then tell it to your ZFS with "zfs set mountpoint= "
Measure the time after the reboot of the AP until the next failure.
If it is always the same duration, then that excludes the memory problem. If it is a variable time, then that excludes the DHCP problem and probably also DNS.
I can imagine several causes:
more than one DHCP server in your network (most likely)
very wrong DNS setup in your network (unlikely, because I guess you would have given us a hint in that direction)
heavy downloading traffic and one cheap plastic device (router, switch etc.) runs out of memory
I would take a normal Android device and this slideshow app:
unless you know how to verify they are not running malware out of the box.
So why don’t you tell us how to verify that?
In my living room, buffering happens when the connection is only WiFi, but you are on ethernet already (which solves that for me).
pi4 libreelec
Have you considered getting one of these small Chinese “Android TV” boxes?
Define, what does “git” mean to you?
The core git is a peer to peer system. You don’t need any server at all. It runs on all of your dev’s workstations anyway.
If you want a webserver with gitlab etc. on top of it, then that determines most your needs. In addition, a properly set up nameserver is very helpful, and maybe you want even an Active Directory?
jDownloader
It is the most patient downloader I know.
My server has 5 harddisks (real spinning ones), and everybody says they live longer when running 24/7, so that’s what I do. They are 6 or 7 years old now. S.M.A.R.T says they are clean.
Power outages occur sometimes. Once I had a problem with a file system afterwards. Later I got a small ups (for just 10 or 20min) and no trouble anymore.
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I guess this would be a good starting point for your reading:
Tl;dr but:
If you simply want the best UX, then you need to stay with the real Facebook etc.
They spend millions and millions and millions only for UX. Free software can never compete, period.