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I have successfully setup trojan / trojan-go on my server. It uses port 443 and will return a standard website if the connection is not recognized as an authorized trojan-go client. As stealth as it can get.

https://azadzadeh.github.io/trojan-go/en/

I was living in Spain for 25 years and there we would definitely use vosotros. Ustedes is used in middle and South America.

True. Getting a TB of storage is not affordable nowadays. And we know why. F*©k AI.

But here in Poland you can still find some used Q920 with the same specifications.

If you are located in Europe they would most likely send it even to your country.

This one would be like the one I have.

https://allegro.pl/oferta/solidny-i-kompaktowy-komputer-micro-fujitsu-q920-i5-16gb-2000-ssd-w11-praca-17993236542

I don’t know exactly what you want host but I have an old Fujitsu Q920 i5 with 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD drive which cost me around 200 Euro.

I’m serving around 20 services on it including Nextcloud, Navidrome, Paperless NG, Emby, Matrix, Friendica, Wireguard, Zabbix, DNS blocker and a few VMs. Processor utilization is around 5% most of the time and it uses about 8 GB of RAM.

I admit that Nextcloud could be more responsive and faster but for the family it is enough.

I haven’t exactly checked how much electricity I’m using but I would have noticed a bigger change on my bill.

For backups I have a remote node at another location that retrieves ZFS snapshots periodically.

Anyway. I have this setup for 2 years now and I’m happy. It does what I expect it to do.

As a side note. i use FreeBSD with jails and bhyve for this. A Proxmox running VMs with nested Docker apps may need something more performant so be aware.

Second that. I don’t have another node that I can use for WoL at my backup location so I opted for the node to turn on every morning, run the backup and turn off using cron at a given time. Works perfectly!

That’s just the best game ever!

OK. Thanks for clarifying. :)

Am I reading this correctly. 799 pln for entrance?

My feeling is that there is. I think it all started with the speed I can login over ssh. Debian always seems to have a short delay but FreeBSD feels instant. When it comes to rating FreeBSD as a better OS for servers I may be biased as Debian has served me so well over the years. I was never a Docker fan but instantly liked Jails for isolating services. Then we have native ZFS support which simplifies my backup needs. A simple zfs send | zfs receive and you have an exact copy of your service instance on a remote node. Everything feels integrated and not stacked. Again, just a personal opinion.

Yes yes yes. It’s great to see other FreeBSD fans here with the same opinion.

I was using Debian as a server OS for more than twenty years with short escapades to other distros but then I discovered FreeBSD and there was no way back. ;)

I’m a long time user of Debian myself too. No cutting edge fuzz, just a working, stable OS all of the time. What else do you need for a server? It always did the job.

But then I stumbled on FreeBSD, and man, that’s a server OS. Simple design and blazing fast. No Docker but I never liked it anyway. My Docker is called Jails and in my opinion is they’re superior. Service isolation on the next level.

On my laptop? Debian due to hardware and software support. And I’ll stick to that for now. I feel home on that distro.

I can’t say anything about OpenBSD as I never tried it but it sure is a perfect fit for a server as well depending on your needs and preferences. BSD just rocks!

Second that. Been with them for a year now. Good price and performance.

I was debating between getting myself a NAS or some PC to setup my homelab. I decided for a PC as it gives me more freedom to install and personalize it the way I want.

At the moment I’m running FreeBSD with jails on a Q920 with an i5 processor, 16 GB of RAM, one internal SSD with 512 GB and 2 external USB SDDs with each 1 TB which costed me around 300 Euros.

Seems more than enough for the services I want to provide to myself which are the following.

Navidrome > serves all my music locally and remotely.

Zabbix > to monitor my servers

DNSMasq > ad blocking and local dns

gitea > repo for code and other docs

Transmission > torrenting

Radicale > webcal and webdav

Photoprism > local photo gallery

Vaultwarden > Password manager

SearXNG > search

HAproxy > to serve my public content easily to the web

Mastodon

Emby > local media server

And I run a Linux VM on bhyve to serve 2 tools that I was not able to make work easily on FreeBSD.

Besides that, the node replicates some data from my VPS as a backup solution.

And I can’t complain at all. That PC is doing its job just fine. No need for any rack that uses huge amount of electricity.

Thanks for the tip but I’m not sure why I would choose a desktop client over Navidrome itself. I usually have the browser open anyway. But maybe I’m missing something useful by using an actual app?

I settled with Navidrome. It solves 2 use cases for me. Due to being web based it can be used by any PC or mobile device with access to my server. Additionally it supports subsonic which allows me to use a native android app (ultrasonic) and have music on the go. I don’t use services like Spotify.

I jumped onto the FreeBSD train a year ago and needed some virtualization tool for my job. A started using bhyve and must say that I am quite happy with it and don’t plan to move to any other tool soon. Not sure how it compares to other tools performance wise but it does the job for me.

Da liefen doch heute einige Sketches im Ersten. Jetzt verstehe ich warum. :)

So wurde mir das auf allen Kanälen beigebracht hat sich aber bei mir nicht bewahrheitet. Klar hat mich Covid nicht umgebracht aber der Verlauf der Krankheit war der gleiche nach der Impfung. Hatte es nun vier Mal. Drei Mal nach der Impfung und der Verlauf war immer der gleiche, ausser der vor 2 Wochen der etwas kürzer war.

Ok. Die Kosten haben nicht direkt mit der Wirkung zu tun. Ich habe hier das Thema gewechselt. Bei mir ist el halt so das ich oft genug infiziert wurde auch wenn ich mich an alle Regeln gehalten habe. Nur glimpflicher war der Verlauf nicht, nur das letzte Mal vor 2 Wochen was ich aber nicht auf die Wirkung des impfens zurückführen kann das es schon über ein Jahr her ist und ich danach noch 2 Mal COVID hatte.

Entsxhuldige aber ich wohne nicht mehr in Deutschland also kann ich da nicht direkt mitreden. Aber das alles teurer wird ist ja schon klar und ich denke das solche Ausgaben indirekt dazu beitragen.