I don’t run the 'arr stack, but for comparison, one of my servers is a Optiplex 7020 SFF / i7-4790 / 32GB RAM. It’s running around 45 containers now with ease from automatons with n8n to streaming audio with Navidrome. In fact, it spends most of it’s life in an idle state with load averages looking like .20/.27/.32. I don’t do any transcoding tho, so I can’t speak to that as far as resources. I see others have made suggestions in that dept. As far as the 4 bay USB HDD, you’re going to need some storage space at some point or another so it’s not like it would be wasted effort.

Not too far from the truth really in a weird way. When I have a grand mal, in addition to doing a breakdance on the ground and pissing and defecating my pants, I also sport a full mast. It’s quite a majestic performance all around. I’ve only seen videos.

When you have a tool like mine, it promotes itself.

Good to keep an eye on them because it can happen to any battery,

As we age, we become intensely aware of our mortality and the cost of replacing things. :)

It does feel great to be able to provide something like this for my family and to know that i control the data.

Hellz yeah! Git sum.

My first attempt at a selfhosting project is up and running.

That’s awesome. Doesn’t it feel good when everything works?

Thunderbird Mobile

It really gripes me that Thunderbird hasn’t released an iOS compatible app.

Thinkpad T480

There is a lot of discussion whether to leave the battery in when using a laptop as a server. I think the consensus is that you cap the charge at 60% to 80%. Sometimes the configuration for this is in your BIOS, and sometimes you have to do it manually if possible. The reasoning being, so you aren’t constantly charging the battery to it’s max limit and causing a ‘spicy pillow’ which would be a fire hazard.

Rock on with yo’ bad self bro!

That’s a shame. I was unaware of that. Still…a good read with some good advice.

I’ve never had Covid, but my lady friend has. She contracted it at the hospital working as a medical professional of 40 years. There were circumstances surrounding how she contracted Covid that I will not go in to, but basically a lack of stocked PPE on the part of the medical facility. She now has long Covid and will for the rest of her life. Getting up in the morning to make herself some breakfast is exhausting for her, and they really are no closer to understanding why these symptoms persist in certain people. She had to retire, which really broke her.

Awesome. I look forward to further iterations.

Questions:

Encryption: Is there any? I see that there is a password option, but does that lock the file or is that just to access the file itself.

Deletion: I see there are options related to the time the file can exist, but what are my guarantees that the file indeed will be deleted.

Selfhosting: Is this a venture you are offering to the public, or will there be an option to selfhost?

Please understand, I’m not trying to shit on your project. However, if there is no encryption, and no real guarantee the file will self destruct, I’d be hard pressed to use your service, unless it has a selfhosted option. It does look like there are some good options. I like the ability to tag a note for the recipients. The tor option is good too. Looks like you’ve put some time in on it. Polish it up, get some encryption options, and release the code on Github or equal so everyone view it and can make up their mind to use or not.

Thank you for sharing.

Tell us what you are hosting! Tell us now! Lol

IKR! You can’t just tease us OP.

Well, that’s pretty cool.

Are you a web designer, or how do you utilize 400k+ of stock images?

I just run whatever db is required in the docker compose stack. I’ve thought about running separate db like mongo, mysql, sqlite and having them as central db services for the containers. I don’t see a downside to doing that. It just seems to me that it’s easier just to run what is required by the compose stack itself. For what I’m doing, they don’t seem to eat up much resources.

I have single server made out of an Optiplex 3060 Micro

I’ve got a couple of Optiplex including a 3020 micro. Snappy little machines.

I also have hard time getting them to even allow me to run my homelab (I’m a teenager, I live with my parents), because it takes space and uses power (for context idle is around 8W).

Do a cost analysis. Present your parents with the results. Offer to do odd jobs around the house to offset the incurred cost of power consumption. For instance, generally speaking, that OptiPlex 3060 Micro running 24/7 in my locale would cost me about $3 per month to run 24/7. Which is pretty negligible, but understandable that your parents are concerned with costs and resources. Sometimes parents default to that boomer mentality that ‘I didn’t have a server when I was a kid and I walked to school uphill, both ways, in the snow, barefooted’. LOL However, when presented with some facts, charts n graphs, and a goal to learn a life skill, you might see some leniency.

Are you hosting arr stack/plex/jellyfin?

I do not run the 'arr stack, but I do run about 38 other containers on my Ubuntu Jammy server. I prefer reading to watching.

Not sure why you are getting down voted, but don’t let it get under your skin.

its OK that other people have different tastes and priorities than you do

There is a great book on this called the ‘The Let Them Theory’ by Mel Robbins. Stop wasting energy on things you can’t control and stop comparing yourself to other people.

severe long-term symptoms of Covid

Sure hope you’re doing better now, and no ‘long Covid’ after effects.

Are posts about that welcome here?

Absolutely. The gate’s open…come on in. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a Windows based server. I still run Windows 10 in the lab, plus Linux and Mac. I don’t really discriminate. All OS’s have their place imho.

So far its a blast!

That is one of the prime directives of selfhosting. I have a ton of fun learning about new stuff to do and how to do it. Tell us all about it man. What do you selfhost? Are you running any Docker containers? I’m all ears, which in reality isn’t too far from the truth with my Jumbo ears. Share! Share!

You could do it that way. You could use something like Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust where you’d get DDoS protection for tunneled hostnames http/https. If you’re looking for raw tcp/udp arbitrary ports protection, they have a paid Spectrum protection plan.

I don’t know your specific situation, but after all these years of self hosting, I can’t say as I’ve ever experienced a DDoS attack. Not saying they don’t happen or that it isn’t a concern. I’ve experienced someone hacking my server, but I was super green back then and undoubtedly didn’t have the proper protections in order.

Most of your reputable, well established VPS vendors like Digital Ocean, Linode, Vultr, offer DDoS protections. Some like Hetzner offer multiple tiers of DDoS protection.

I’m just new here.

Welcome to the club bro!

I’ve bookmarked the project for reading later on this evening. I’ll probably have questions then. Thank you for sharing your project with us.