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Aw. But I'm thinking of all the self hosting thing I'm going to do with it! Lol. Thanks for the reply bud. Is ESXi free? That's similar to vSphere right? I used that a lot in college.
What operating system would you recommend? I was thinking maybe proxmox? Because then I can put a bunch of virtual machines of other operating systems on it I want to try open media vault and a few others
It's on sale right now, I got mine yesterday at 392, it's up to 449 right now.
HP Z840 AutoCAD Workstation 2X E5-2637 V3 8 Cores 16 Threads 3.5Ghz 128GB 250GB SSD 2TB Quadro K2200 Win 10 Pro (Renewed) https://a.co/d/0cwGttl)
128 GB OF RAM??? I just bought a beelink for 200 and I'm regretting it terribly after I bought this, if this thing performs how I think it will I'll be able to literally run a shit ton of virtual machines and darker containers and anything I can think of basically my entire home lab on this one machine. Am I tripping? Is this not as good as I think it is?
Currently I'm restoring the backup for all of my R's on the B-Link windows. At this point the only thing I'm going to run on the Linux is the overseer. I'm surprised this seemed pretty powerful but I haven't added the VPN yet. That's also what I'm going to do in the Linux machine so I can get a good config with Docker and be able to reload it easily.
I'm worried it won't have enough juice to power all of that. Dx
I'll try to keep a long story short. Basically, I wanted to set up the *arrs to be my automated downloaders with Qbittorrent, with NordVPN.i access my machines via a Cloudflare tunnel I spent way too long figuring out how to configure manually. Somewhere along the line I picked up a Usenet subscription. OG machine was a refurb M715q Lenovo Thinkcentre with an AMD A10-8770e I think. 16gb ram.
Well, I started on Docker Desktop for Windows. I bet you all can imagine how that turned out. Had lots of difficulties, as I was a docker noob. I then made a Linux VM, Ubuntu Server, and ran the straight up Docker Daemon from there. I learned a shit ton about docker. My issue became the VM kept having strange issues, my services were fine, but I would randomly lose network connectivity on the VM, among other things. I have heard how stable Linux is, so I hope it was just the fact it was a VM on an older PC which didn't have a lot of extra horsepower. So I decided to move all of the services back to Windows, after figuring out almost everything I wanted at this point (the *arrs) were natively supported in Windows, and I still had my Qbit & Nord on windows the entire time as I couldn't get any of the docker images for torrents+VPN working stably, or it would cause some network issues I couldn't figure out.
I finally had it set up 90% perfectly. I no longer could use torrents because if I connect to Nord no matter how much I split tunnel, it either causes my cloudflare tunnel to stop working or connectivity between the containers and the Windows host, part of the reason I switched back to Windows. It was running flawless for days on pure Usenet. The only hurdle was Overseerr isn't supported natively on Windows, and the old AMD CPU would get to 70+% usage on a single transcode. And I had been down the docker road before. Now I am confident in my docker skills, but afraid it will use too many resources as the PC bogs down quite a bit when I'm RDPing into it (seems to work fine when I'm not making it render graphics, because unless I'm RDPing into it, it's headless.)
So I ended up having a bright idea to buy a Beelink EQ12 after seeing some people online rave about how great it is at Plex transcodes, and separate my download station and my media serving station. So I'm about to overwrite my Windows 10 pro with some flavor of Linux, to run the docker containers I refuse to run on Windows OR a VM. Now I'm just trying to figure out what the best OS would be to maintain compatibility with Windows. I had it set up on the VM that my external hdd Windows path was mounted into Linux, so I didn't really have to worry about filesystems and such as it directly downloaded to Windows through Linux.
Sorry I'm a bit all over the place, two months of my life condensed into a few paragraphs and I left a shit ton out. I was thinking of trying Ubuntu Server again because I'm familiar with it, but I've seen a lot of people suggest OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, CoreOS, etc. What do you think I should do? I feel like I'm in a tougher position now than I was before even though I have more horsepower to work with lmao.
Really cool! Looks straight outta FFXV!
Hey everyone, I've been bitten with the self-hosting bug the last couple months and after migrating from Windows, to a Linux VM, and now partially back to Windows (just for my core "media" cycle) I'm looking for alternatives to Overseerr that can be ran natively in Windows.
Before I hear your crowd of y'all scream at me, I still have my Linux VM and I'm still going to be messing around with it and adding services to it. But I've had a lot of issues with certain things on it and my windows service seems to be a lot more stable so I want to keep my media cycle on Windows so my users aren't as affected by my tinkering. I may even still keep overseer on Linux but I would like at least some sort of alternative that runs on Windows so no matter what happens to my Linux VM, whether it's on, off, malfunctioning or what have you, My users will still be able to request content.
Additionally, does anyone know of any good software to make images of Linux, or specifically Virtual Machines? Currently I'm using VMWare player free, but I have Windows Pro so I could go to Hyper-X. Thanks ahead of time for any suggestions you may have.