I wanted to shared my enthusiasm, which makes me feel like a little boy (despite me being 50+) fascinated by how such complex systems can be managed so easily by novices. I started using Proxmox recently. I had a machine running one VM with various docker images installed. But NVMe was tiny. So I setup another node and got it to share the same NFS share on the NAS, where I had saved full backups of the VM. Once added the NFS share to the new node (with a bigger ZFS local partition) I simply restored the VM from the NFS share that had been backed up from the original node. It seemlessly imported and started. Then I cloned on the new node so that I could get it on the new ZFS partition. Now the next task is to get a bigger NVMe on the original machine, install Proxmox from scratch, and add to cluster so that it shared the backup NFS share. I just then need to understand how to get HA up and running so that VMs are always synced flawlessly. Proxmox is super brilliant. I feel like I have a data center at home :-) I could not imagine this system was so flexible and relatively easy to use. The people that deliver and contribute to this stuf are super cool. A couple of proxmox nodes, a Truenas scale NAS and a good backup strategy and your data is really safe and rock solid … I hope :-)
I feel like homelabs are our generations’ model train nerd hobby equivalent. I get so much joy in being able to connect the containers and hardware and doing for myself what I was paying others for via subscription.
So I even mask my autism like my old man?
Maybe if the model trains could actually bring in your groceries and mow your lawn they’d be comparable. Granted, self-hosted software can’t do those exact things either, but it can do an awful lot of the digital stuff that’s part of our lives now which often takes up just as much time and effort if not more. Model trains are a banger hobby, but homelabbing can easily be more than just a hobby, it’s deeply practical too, and I’d argue it’s actually a necessity for establishing personal digital sovereignty and privacy going forward.
Yeah but I think Americans are going to make personal compute a felony soon.
That just makes it cooler
Please do not conflate me with the bullshit that is going on. Not all of us have hive mind.
No it means you’re going to be a based desperado sysadmin this fucking garbage fire century isn’t getting any less garbage fire but it is getting funny and cool let it happen
As a kid I always thought the basement model train set ups were cool. Then as I grew into a young man, I thought it was kind of weird that some grandpa had a train set in his basement he played with. Then as I got older, it started making more sense to me. I don’t have a train set in my basement, but selfhosting I would imagine, is along the same lines at least for me.
It is. Do you know how I know? It pisses off my wife to no end the ridiculous amount of time I spend testing services to self-host 🤣
Ahhhh the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). I don’t have those issues, so I’m free to run amuck as I please.
Joy and utility.
Plus, there’s something for everyone.
I kind of barely use mine it just hangs around in the background hosting services but I just love knowing it’s running and accessible anywhere.