Tailscale

Proxmox. You can install any os on it to test it out.

Proxmox

An SMB share from a Windows server VM. I’ve also been playing around with paperless but honestly I trust the SMB share way more and it’s so much easier for me to not fuck up and lose all my data like I’ve done in the past playing with Docker containers.

Nice

I just use Obsidian with Synchthing to sync devices

I use Docker-compose for everything instead of Docker run

Custom domain starts at $3/mo for one domain name

Nice. What camera system are you using? Hardware and software. Any subscriptions?

Forced updates and forced restarts. If you want a server that’s available 24/4 that’s a no no.

That’s what did it for me. I started my selfhosting journey on a Windows 10 machine, I stalled Docker on it and all of my containers. Every time Windows forced an update and auto reset, I had to manually go back in, log in, spin up Docker again and every container (I now know that a lot of this can be automated but it’s a lot easier to manage a Linux server now). Plus the system requirements are significantly less. The Windows OS alone takes up a chunk of your storage and RAM right off the bat.

I do have one Windows server VM because I enjoy the file system, and it doesn’t do forced resets, but most of my infrastructure is made up of Linux VMs on bare metal Proxmox machines.

Thank you. What do you use for container backups and restoring?

I just tried this but there doesn’t seem to be a web interface to it. I was hoping I could use it accross my network on different devices.

Thank you so much! I asked ChatGPT if pgAdmin was meant to work with MariaDB and it kept saying “yes. It should work” and giving me useless instructions. I thought I was the one doing something wrong.

What can you even do with such low specs? What’s the use case?

I need more money. Is there a self-hosted solution for that?

Can’t you set up an shares via a Windows PC/server and grant access as needed? I might not have understood the question but this to me seems like the simplest solution to manage SMB shares.

That’s my concern but I also know that most modern phones have battery monitoring software that stops the battery from charging once it reaches 100%

You you keep the phones permanently plugged in or charge them periodically?

That sounds really interesting. Can you share how you set this up and what software you used?