Working on a home server update video, and want to cover all the cool stuff. I plan to do it in two parts – one for the hardware we’d pick and then one for software.
We will cover freenas, obviously, but what else do people actually use? What are the plex alternatives and are there any sites that really show off the capabilities?
Will probably also show off ESXi. If you are running nifty home server/media server/vm host I would love to show off this thread in the part 2 video.
I know it might sound lame, but damn, CUPS running on my home server fixes a lot of issues with printing on the network to 3 different kinds of printers (sublimation ink, large format and laser).
If you have a PS3 hooked up for media instead of gaming, PS3 Media Server is also neat
I’m running Fedora 26, with ZFS On Linux combined with LUKS encrypted drives for a 16TB storage pool. Using Plex for media consumption, but the last few version updates have been problematic. That’s really all the system does, besides general file storage.
I’d love to see a more detailed, bullet-proof, cross-platform dropbox replacement. And an email solution that rivals gmail, but isn’t convoluted and complicated.
edit: I’d also like to get into containers and set up a steam cache.
Fedora 26
ZFS
Running all services in LXC Containers.
List of Containers:
Factorio Server
Unifi Controller
Dokuwiiki(Looking at possible replacement for keeping my technical notes)
Gitlab
Zoneminder(Motion Recording 2 1080p POE cameras) Would like replacement suggestions for this also.
Im thinking of setting up a steam cache server and Tarsnap container for backing up photos.
Looking forward to the videos and seeing what everyone else is running at the house.
It’s nice in a homelab, but it’s frustrating in production and while the functional problems are reducing, it still has regressive changes and unstable storage drivers.
We use docker in production because that’s the only way the developers will deliver us a product. We have to rebuild containers weekly, regardless if there’s a stable update or not, we also refuse to put or database in docker because if you want to keep your data, you do not put it in docker.
This is some software i use on my home server.
Plexpy: cool way to get metrics out of plex. Handy when you share you plex with people.
Blue iris: good ip camera nvr software
I want to see more of Emby as it looks like a very good alternative to plex.
Eh, it’s different when you’re running complex installations in production.
I don’t want to derail the thread too much, but this post outlines a lot of the issues we’ve seen. I know it’s a year old, but it’s still happening.
Let me be clear. I think that docker could be good if they’d be more friendly to companies and would implement complete apis (can we please have the ability to clean images from both registry and hosts?)
The problem is that they are just a bunch of high-school kids playing programmer, building cool software (and it is!), with no plan for long-term support or understanding of the monumental undertaking that some of their “features” is.
I fell victim to the same trap when I said I’d have a alpha release done in a month for a crashplan replacement program. I have about 5 hours a week to work on this project, so there’s no way that’s a realistic goal. I’m still working on it and I’ve rewritten it like 5 times, but this time, I’m taking hints from some existing programs and experienced people and that should help me build a better mousetrap. I think the folks behind Docker are getting to that stage now as well.
but doable.