If your server doesn’t rely on docker I would give FreeBSD a try. I’ve been using Debian for 20 years and moved to FreeBSD a few years ago. Now I can never go back. Not that I don’t like Debian anymore but FreeBSD is a true server system. Simple, fast and stable. And with their jails implementation (something like docker but less obscure) you can easily isolate your services from the rest of the system.
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slabber@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Thoughts about my (potential) first server?English
2·5 months agoTrue. Getting a TB of storage is not affordable nowadays. And we know why. F*©k AI.
But here in Poland you can still find some used Q920 with the same specifications.
If you are located in Europe they would most likely send it even to your country.
This one would be like the one I have.
slabber@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Thoughts about my (potential) first server?English
1·5 months agoI haven’t. They only provide docker deployment which I’m not fond of. If they would offer an alternative installation method I may would. Heard a lot of good things about it.
At present I use Nextcloud client on my phone to backup photos and the Memories app to nicely browse them.
slabber@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Thoughts about my (potential) first server?English
7·5 months agoI don’t know exactly what you want host but I have an old Fujitsu Q920 i5 with 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD drive which cost me around 200 Euro.
I’m serving around 20 services on it including Nextcloud, Navidrome, Paperless NG, Emby, Matrix, Friendica, Wireguard, Zabbix, DNS blocker and a few VMs. Processor utilization is around 5% most of the time and it uses about 8 GB of RAM.
I admit that Nextcloud could be more responsive and faster but for the family it is enough.
I haven’t exactly checked how much electricity I’m using but I would have noticed a bigger change on my bill.
For backups I have a remote node at another location that retrieves ZFS snapshots periodically.
Anyway. I have this setup for 2 years now and I’m happy. It does what I expect it to do.
As a side note. i use FreeBSD with jails and bhyve for this. A Proxmox running VMs with nested Docker apps may need something more performant so be aware.
slabber@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Which has more opportunities and is more welcoming overall, Poland or Italy?
0·7 months agoI’ve been living in Poland for the last 13 years and can only say good about the country. The language barrier still exists after all that time but luckily most younger Polish speak English. It’s definitely a nice place to life.
I cannot comment about living in Italy as I have only visited it for vacation a few times. It’s a beautiful country and people where nice everywhere but if it comes to work, I’m sure Poland has more to offer. It’s the outsourcing country of Europe. Good wages and highly qualified people.
slabber@lemmy.mlto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN.English
1·7 months agoSecond that. I don’t have another node that I can use for WoL at my backup location so I opted for the node to turn on every morning, run the backup and turn off using cron at a given time. Works perfectly!
slabber@lemmy.mlto
World News@lemmy.world•Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for far-right, racist and fascist partiesEnglish
0·9 months agoThe Nobel Peace Price is purely political and a big joke for decades already.


I don’t think that’s the reason for killing pedos. Rather the fact that this adult has hurt or abused a child. Those criminals have always been a target. Nothing new as far as I know.