Storage

I can’t tell you how many channels have disappeared and been memory-holed. Especially since censorship went into overdrive around 2019.

Data hoarders can show you how the world was before all that happened.

Unraid and Proxmox

Yes and no.

Yes if you have the resources to monitor and update. Companies have entire teams dedicated to this.

No if you don’t have the resources/time to keep up with it regularly.

IMO, no need to take this risk when you have services like Tailscale available today.

It’s not cheap to operate a business in Canada

Really depends on the gear. Some of it you can, some you can’t.

Check IPMI and see if you can adjust it there. For mine, I use the IPMI plugin that you can get for Unraid. So some OS’s do have solutions. But depends on your OS and hardware.

You can replace fans, usually. But need to make sure you still have enough airflow for the equipment.

I did replace my server grade fans with the Noctua Industrial. They are still a bit loud for being in the same room, but quiet one room over. Where before you could hear it in any room of the house.
My goal was quiet one room over.

Sure, I have hit 10TB/mo. I’m making sure I get my money’s worth for paying $10 to have unlimited with comcast.

Really depends on your use case.

Unraid is wonderful and easy to use. But really has two reasons to use it:Unraid Array fits your file storage strategy. (few writes, mainly reads)You want an EZ way to get into docker and use the unraid appstore.

Other than that, you can probably find everything on Debian or Ubuntu. (I prefer Debian for services)

You can add one more:
Proxmox and then run a Debian VM for docker, for example, and compartmentalize other things you may want to run.

Also, download a mem test utility and run it overnight to test your hardware.

I started out self hosting everything… 20 years ago or so. Then I got swept up in the “cloud” movement and put so many things into the “cloud”.
Today I’m reverting back to how I started, self hosting everything that I can.

Mainly privacy, but also because they keep changing and I don’t want to have to worry about them.
I just didn’t feel like it was ‘my’ data anymore.

I’m not on the latest wifi standard, but I can still get close to 1 Gigabit on wifi6, as both my AP and receiver are 4x4. I’d rather have a 4x4 wifi 6 than a 2x2 wifi 6e. (4 steams of data vs 2 streams)
So you might want to look at that as well when shopping and make sure one isn’t cheaper because they cut corners on that!