Well now im very jealous lol. Good for you man, thats a banger deal.

88 x 8TB drives? 704 TB of storage?

You got a whole damn data center lol. Good stuff dude. Was this off of ebay or direct from a company? I’m curious to know the total cost.

They’re both around $330 where I’m at. The performance jump from my 1070ti to 6700xt is around 30% and 38% to a 6750xt. I figure the better option was a newer card with the extra vram. Either one seems to be a good upgrade for me.

Thats good to hear. Ive been hearing that Nivida has gotten better in Linux but i was still leaning towards amd even if price to performance isnt super great with the card im looking at.

I like to game at 1440 at 144hz so i feel like a 7600xt would work fine but its good to hear a more personal experience especially since you mentioned KDE since I was planning on installing Fedora with KDE.

I’ve been thinking of going amd for a while now for when i switch to Linux. Hows the 7800 perform? I was looking at a 7600xt cause thats what in my price range.

Fair point. My company keeps drives that get taken out of servers for office use. After that theyre recycled.

Damn thats cool! My work doesnt let me take drives old drives. Though we dont use sas drives so that might be why.

I certainly dont mind used drives for mass storage. I was planning to do some kinda raid anyways.

I haven’t gotten any kind of nas setup yet. Trying to avoid buying too much lol but good to know other folks are using sas drives too.

No use for them you say 🤔

I was actually just looking at buying some sas spinning drives for a nas. Found a seller on Amazon thats unfortunately gone before i could buy em but it was a pretty good deal. Where do you buy yours from?

ATnT should be able to tell you for sure. I remember reading about another person facing a cgnat using ATnT on reddit while i still went there so it very well could be.

And fairly easy setup yea. I did mine using a windows pc for testing as i was kinda in between places at the time and thats what i ended up using for jellyfin as well. Just lives on my media pc at the moment. The docs are pretty straight forward.

I recommend that or zero tier which is even more dead simple. Both are good but cloudflare does care about how much bandwidth you’re using so just bear that in mind if you think you’ll use the server for anything else.

Both are vpn tunnels so either should work just fine.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

https://www.zerotier.com/pricing/

Self hosting can get pretty overwhelming but i find that using docs in addition to youtube videos helps a lot. I also recommend giving Linux a go when you feel up to it. It can be a very nice option if you’re working with older hardware.

I’m not super familiar with docker so im sorry im not much help there but i noticed that you mentioned a ATnT router. Are you using them as an Internet provider?

If so, you might have a carrier grade nat which makes reverse proxy like this not possible even if you do get caddy server working. I had a similar situation with my jellyfin server.

I had caddy server working but when i moved and started using a mobile internet provider, i had to use a vpn tunnel like cloudflare or zerotier to get around it.

All this to say, id recommend finding that out so if that is the case you dont spend anymore time on caddy.

Good luck either way.

The more you know! Do you know any guides that go over this? I’d be interested in setting this up.

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Its apart of thier docs. https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets?q=subnet

That i can’t say. Id imagine no at least on android.

If you dont mind the extra setup, cloudflare tunnels are awesome. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

I prefer this over tailscale as i dont want to have an app i need to access my server.

I started off with pi hole when i started messing around with an old laptop for self hosting. My advice is setup what you think is useful.

To access the server outside your home, tailscale is a great option. Fairly simple to setup especially if its just you accessing the server.

Reverse proxy would be best if you intend to let others acess your servers services often or if you dont wanna mess with tunnels. I settled on cloudflare tunnels because i didn’t want another thing to turn on to acess my server outside my house.

When I didn’t have a carrier grade nat to deal with, i used caddy server for automatically getting ssl certs from lets encrypt and reverse proxy all in one. I really liked that once i got it setup.

Ventoy is pretty great. Ive screwed quite a few usb sticks by flashing isos and now i can just put all the isos on one drive. Its a good tool.

Thats good to know because Fedora seems to be where im heading when i make the switch as well.

Ah I gotcha. Another option im considering is using a separate pc for windows and using a kvm to switch between them. That may be a good option for you as well if you can swing it.

imo dual booting is kinda clunky. Id rather have a vm of windows tbh. I dont like restarting my pc to swtich OS.

But hey if you like it, more power to you man.

Oh that rules! Thanks for sharing that

I’m actually considering making this switch for the same reason. My 1070 ti is still a great card but its starting to struggle a bit with some games.

I did something similar but used grub to be able to choose the OS at startup.

Both Windows and Linux (I used Ubuntu at the time) had thier own separate drives and grub was on the Windows install. That was the main boot drive that would launch grub so that i could choose to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu at start up.

I dont remeber the guide i used and this was a couple years ago so there may be something more up to date at this point. I liked the way it worked though.

That being said, another way would be to use two different pcs and use a kvm to switch between them. Dual boot is cool but having to power off is annoying. Or you can virtualize windows from your linux install or vice versa. Really depends on what you need.

For me, Windows is likely going to serve as my music making OS so having it bare metal makes more sense for me. I’m going to be using a mini pc for windows and my main rig will be for Linux. At least thats the plan for now.