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Thank you! I haven’t heard of racknerd/low end box, I’ll have to check them out. Yeah I’m not worried about the CPU just the bandwidth haha.
I have 30 people on my Plex share and never had to care about bandwidth so I’m a bit worried for my end
How much bandwidth is used via the VPS in this instance? I’ve seen most VPS in the USA have a limit of 1TB of bandwidth.
How many users are you sharing with?
I know Hetzner does 20TB bandwidth, but that is only EU servers as far as I know.
And another thing I have not heard yet. Dokploy looks really enticing just from a brief look at their site, I’ll definitely add it to my list of things to look into. Thank you!
How long have you been running this type of setup?
How is swarm support/integration with Dokploy? Are you able to initiate the swarm and also connect other docker nodes to that swarm all through the webgui or does Dokploy just see and attach to the swarm after its been setup? Are you able to manage it all through the gui? Swing/motion containers to other nodes, etc.
I’ll definitely need to deploy it in a test environment and see how it all works. Thank you again!
Glad to hear I’m not crazy with different distros haha. I wanted to be able to have different “enviroments” to keep familiar with release schedules, package managers, and just the flow of the distro. I’ve been using nothing but Debian/Ubuntu in my homelab for ~10 years now, at work we use RHEL, and for my desktops I’m on Arch. I’ll have to look into pinning.
I’ve never heard of Nomad(love the name) so I’ll definitely add it to my list of things to research. Looking at their site it looks solid, but want to weigh my options once I’ve loomed at everything.
And thanks for your comment! I’ve been doing this a long time and nothing “tickles” my brain more than something in my homelab breaking and I have to figure out how to fix it and then prevent it going forward.
Hmm, I’ll have to play around with it a bit more then to see if I can trigger it.
My only gripe is the browser autofill. Sometimes it triggers correctly and sometimes it doesn’t. I’ve noticed if I let KeePass add in a new login itself after I’ve manually entered it then it’s much more receptive to suggesting that login correctly going forward. So I’m tempted to create a brand new database and login everything manually so KeePass will create the database entries itself to fix my gripe.
I’ve been using KeePass with Syncthing for 5+ years now and I think I’ve only had a sync issue once in all this time.
Granted I do make sure I only use the database on one device at a time (so not making edits on desktop and my phone at the same time) and I’m using XC and DX clients not the OG KeePass program.
I’m curious what is causing sync issues to make it “common”, I use my db every day.
Yup, been doing this combo for 5-6 years now.
I use KeePassXC on desktop and KeePassDX on Android. No issues whatsoever.
I do have a NAS so that’s my “always on” device for Syncthing. Everything syncs up within like 10-15 seconds when a device connects.
I also use a key file as a pseudo 2FA that I keep on a flash drive, so you’d need my master password and my key file to unlock the database.
Using Mediawiki here.
I have obsidian and tried using it, but my personal workflow for my homelab just doesn’t…work with it? Idk, it’s just easier to throw it into a private wiki.
I still use obsidian but for personal life stuff.
This is what I was looking into recently. I just want to replace my shitty Spectrum router.
I was looking at Topton N150s on AliExpress, but $250+(tax/shipping) is terrible, with no RAM.
I saw people using the Lenovo m720q/m920q with a pcie 4 port, so I’m leaning towards that.
We’re about to get fiber in the next year or two, so I want to get something that can handle 1g up and down.
There’s a lot of options, none perfect, but none terrible.
I ended up just pushing everything behind my tailnet and only leave my game server ports open(which are non-standard ports).
You can check out MediaStack: https://github.com/geekau/mediastack
Here is their “full vpn” compose file here(all of *arr goes through vpn): https://github.com/geekau/mediastack/blob/master/full-download-vpn/docker-compose.yaml
And their “mini vpn” compose(only torrenting goes through vpn): https://github.com/geekau/mediastack/blob/master/mini-download-vpn/docker-compose.yaml
Probably something there will give you the right push towards fixing your setup? Best of luck! I am actually going to be attempting this soon(gluetun+qbit), but with ProtonVPN.
Install Tailscale on all devices.
Then ssh into whatever you need.
If you need desktop remote access the Windows RDP should work for Windows to Windows machines.
For Linux host to Windows client I’ve had good experiences with Remmina Desktop.
Going back through my github issues/comments, it was around May 2024 with the v1.105.0 release was my last attempt.
I’m happy to hear it is stable now, I’ll probably give it a shot again here soon. Again, I loved the app and I was hosting it for friends/family to share photos of my kids, so it helped immensely with everyone collaborating with uploads(though mobile uploads for individual photos wasn’t available at that time, had to direct people to use the website…).
To be fair I don’t think I used the docker installation back then, so I’ll probably make a stack for it this time around.
This is what we use Jira Service Management for at work(break/fix tickets), but Jira, the core software, is used for stuff like code development.
Not sure what use case OP has for Jira specifically, but I could see it being beneficial for a homelab where you’re building out docker containers manually or tracking your own coding projects or you want an (overkill) way to do project management for your homelab.
I really want to use Immich but I’ve installed it 3 different times and each time an upgrade completely breaks my installation and I spend hours troubleshooting. And yes, I read the patch notes and do whatever changes they mark in bold red as a warning.
It’s amazing when it works and they’re doing a great job at adding features, but my God does it break if you just look at it wrong.
Since others were posting end of life style docs, here is another: https://www.erikdewey.com/bigbook.htm
Cloud options:
Self-Host locally options:
Honestly you can probably find a N100 or N150 miniPC online for cheap, like $200 USD or less. Install Proxmox(or just install Ubuntu or whatever), install Docker+DockHand, and then install Tailscale and from your laptop/computer with Tailscale on it. You’ll be able to remotely access it, spin up whatever servers you want, and I doubt your campus IT will even see anything due to the tailnet mesh.
If you’re not living on campus, then even better, just self host your own stuff.
I’m surprised to not see this suggestion, but Plex does music pretty well and they have an app dedicated for music/audio called “Plexamp”. Though I don’t think this app is on things like AppleTV/Roku(haven’t looked).
It’s so-so when it comes to playlist building…but the app on mobile works and I use it for audiobooks mainly, but I am starting to plan to use it switch off Spotify here soon.
or should I consider other software?
Unfortunately I had similar thoughts and plans that you outline here(receipt scanning into budgeting), but the amount of work involved was…too much for my liking.
I instead opted for a paid solution, which is Monarch: https://www.monarch.com/
It’s $100 a year, but they have a promotion(they always run promotions), where you can do your first year for 50% off with code: NEWYEAR2026
So far my wife and I have been loving Monarch. We linked our bank accounts and other financial institutions(401k, brokerages, IRAs, etc.) and everything mostly “just works”. There is an odd time or two where a bank account needs to be re-signed into to re-auth because token/api expired/changed, but again, the app works and does things well.
I’d suggest looking into it. I’m usually a huge proponent of self-hosting everything, but this is one of the few things I caved on…
And just looked them up, saw their $2 a month VPS has a 3TB bandwidth limit and I signed up immediately lol.
Thank you!