I am finally making the push to self host everything I possibly can and leave as many cloud services as I can.

I have years of linux server admin experience so this is not a technical post, more of an attempt to get some crowd wisdom on a complex migration.

I have a plan and have identified services i would like to implement. Take it as given that the hardware I have can handle all this. But it is a lot so it won’t happen at once.

I would appreciate thoughts about the order in which to implement services. Install is only phase one, migration of existing data and shaking everything down to test stability is also time consuming. So any insights, especially on services that might present extra challenges when I start to add my own data, or dependencies I haven’t thought of.

The list order is not significant yet, but I would like to have an incremental plan. Those marked with * are already running and hosting my data locally with no issues.

Thanks in advance.

Base system

  • Proxmox VE 8.3
    • ZFS for a time-machine like backup to a local hdd
    • Docker VM with containers
      • Home Assistant *
      • Esphome *
      • Paperless-ngx *
      • Photo Prism
      • Firefly III
      • Jellyfin
      • Gitea
      • Authelia
      • Vaultwarden
      • Radicale
      • Prometheus
      • Grafana
    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Why clustering? What do you need HA ina home environment.
      I could care less if my Jellyfin server went under for some hours of downtime due to some config change.
      Will some be unhappy because my stuff isnt available? Maybe. Do I care about it? Depends on who it is.

      Anyway: Way overkill outside of homelabbing and gaining experience fpr the lols.

    • meyotch@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      That’s surely overkill for my use level. Most of these services are only really listening to the web port most of the time. Yes, some like Immich or Paperless-ngx do some brief intense processing, but I am skeptical that I need nearly that much separation. I am using an AMD Ryzen 7 5825U. I am open to ideas, but I also press hard against over-investing in hardware for a single-person home setup.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        19 hours ago

        A three node cluster gives you much more flexibility and potentially uptime (assuming you do some sort of HA)

        If you server has a major issue it is really nice to be able to offload to different hardware. I learned this the hard way.