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It's Hard to Stay Motivated (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I got Jellyfin up and running, it's 10/10. I love this thing, and it reinvigorated my love for watching movies. So I decided to tackle all the other services I wanted, starting with Paperless-ngx...

What a nightmare. It doesn't have a Windows install so I made an Ubuntu VM. Don't get me started on Ubuntu. I just spent about 12hrs trying to get Portainer to cooperate and had to give up. I tried just installing Paperless the "normal way" and had to give up on that too.

My point: if you're getting started selfhosting you have to embrace and accept the self-inflicted punishment. Good luck everybody, I don't know if I can keep choosing to get disappointed.

Edit: good news! Almost everything I wanted to do is covered by Jellyfin which can be done in Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have a spare computer, install proxmox on it.
There are loads of tutorials how to do this, it has a good installer, after which it's all a web based GUI.
Use it to spin up VMs to your heart's content, create scripts to automatically provision a new Ubuntu or Debian or whatever flavour. Or run up some Windows VMs. You can pass through GPUs and other devices (tho this can be difficult, again lots of tutorials out there).

Be prepared to spend some time learning proxmox. It took me 2 or 3 installs to figure out the best way to set up networks, storage etc. Mostly cause I just jumped in, found something that could be better, googled that and found a useful tutorial on it so started again.
But once proxmox is running, everything else become so much easier

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I don't think proxmox is great if you don't know Linux yet. It's an additional tool to understand. But I do regret not getting into proxmox earlier, since it makes trying new things so much easier.

[–] clavismil 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

could you share some tutorials? i'm thinking to rebuild to setup better storage for VMs and backups

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty broad question.
How many nodes are you running? Are you using CEPH? Or another flavour of distributed storage? Or external nas/san? Or just local arrays? Zfs? Btrfs?
What's your backup strategy? Do you use Proxmox Backup Server?

If you can figure out what you don't like about your current setup, there will probably be a tutorial or article about alternatives.
Sometimes they can be applied without having to reinstall (actually, 99% of them probably can. Sometimes I just find it easier to start from scratch tho)