Moving a step up
reddit / selfhosted

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Jerome_Toloko123 · 2023-10-23 17:06

Hey there!
After running my website and various small services off my Raspberry
Pi I've slowly come to the realization that I need to step it up a
notch. So I'm planning to buy a used HP Elitedesk 800 G3 (i5 7500, 8GB
RAM) to handle e.g. Immich and my website.
Thing is, I'd love to have some guidance on some questions I have:


\- I'm planning to run Proxmox as an additional layer of abstraction:
Should I then run each service I have as a systemd / cronjob / docker
container in a seperate instance or can (or rather should) I bunch
them together (e.g. DuckDNS with the nginx service to run the
website)?

\- I'm planning to have a 2TB NVMe SSD as a main drive for the server,
with some SATA HDD as a backup drive: Can I simply rsync the main
drive to it in case it fails? Or what would be the way to go about
doing this?

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If you can help me out with any of my questions, I'm already super
thankful! Also, if you have any other advice you'd like to tell me,
I'm also very glad to hear it! Thank you!

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dazchad · 2023-10-23 18:34

> - I'm planning to run Proxmox as an additional layer of abstraction:
Should I then run each service I have as a systemd / cronjob / docker
container in a seperate instance or can (or rather should) I bunch
them together (e.g. DuckDNS with the nginx service to run the
website)?

It's up to you. Some people like to create a VM to host the docker
containers since docker is not guaranteed to not crash your host. I
don't use Proxmox anymore, but I'd group by "restartability" meaning,
what services I can restart together without crashing the others. In
this case, nginx would be its own VM. Servarr would be their own.
Torrent their own as well.

> - I'm planning to have a 2TB NVMe SSD as a main drive for the
server, with some SATA HDD as a backup drive: Can I simply rsync the
main drive to it in case it fails? Or what would be the way to go
about doing this?

If you feel comfortable with that, there's no problem. I do that
myself with a cron job rsyncing every hour from my fast SSD to a HDD,
and then uploading to backblaze.


Regardless of what you do, keep backups and make sure you can restore
them!

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Jerome_Toloko123 · 2023-10-24 07:33

Thank you so much for the insight dazchad! I really appreciate it!
On that note, is it possible to let the HDD sleep while it's not in
use? Since HDDs consume more power (and can be quite loud actually)
than SSDs, and it'll only be needed for the daily backup; do you by
chance have any knowledge about that? Thanks!

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dazchad · 2023-10-24 13:12

I know it’s possible but I haven’t done myself, unfortunately.