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  • Wow that is a lot of reading, which means you did a lot of work researching, planning, testing and writing. Thank you for publishing this.

    A cursory look seems like the software you are using could benefit from a more powerful machine. I know power is a concern for some, but for me it is irritating waiting around for things to load. A Dell Optiplex 7070 SFF i7-9700 @ 3.00GHz 16GB RAM 256GB SSD is only $56 on ebay and would be significantly faster than an orange pi. Thoughts?



  • I think the issue is here: “I can’t remember reading a good explanation of why.” One can make any number of excuses for why or why not to do things, it really is what you want to do.

    I use Windows Core solely for my file storage. I have thought about moving to a solution like TrueNas but didn’t find that as simple as my current solution. I found windows core runs hdsentinel and ssh/iscsi/nfs/samba easily and the uptime is well over 3 years. I block outside access and never do updates. Since I have a mixture of Windows and Linux/BSD/Arm/Apple products in my home the file server is dedicated to file storage and does nothing else. Windows core is stable and always up.

    I only use ReFS because I did have corruption with NTFS and it has been super stable. I know people love ZFS, but for me it was an unmitigated shit show of mismatched utilities and documentation, and losing containers on reboot with proxmox was a PITA getting them back. Since I have 20tb drives, I don’t do any raid or anything like that, just straight drive presentation.



  • Is self hosted really meant for business? Do you mean like a coffee shop environment that people can spin up servers for themselves or what is the point? All the apps you pointed out work fine for selfhosted home and lanparty environments Most people that host servers want os compatibility and hardware speed. Docker isn’t really known for its Windows compatibility that a lot of game servers need. Linux servers are more popular but a lot of the games people play have their servers on lockdown so this is really a niche market anymore.