Looking to reinvigorate my self hosting setup
reddit / selfhosted

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coveorder · 2023-12-09 23:11

I don't keep up with computer hardware these days and I'm relatively
new to selfhosting. I did run Jellyfin for a few years until the
system hdd died recently.  Now I'm here in an attempt to improve what
I had going on in the past.

**Current State:**
This is setup that I had running for a few years:

* Optiplex 790 i7 with Debian and running Jellyfin with a couple of
remote users.
* Raspberry Pi 4 running OpenMediaVault as a NAS

I had 2 7TB hard drives connected via usb to the Pi 4 for storage and
backup. The Optiplex running Debian would mount the storage drive over
the  local network. This setup worked well with Jellyfin transcoding
and whatnot.


**Future State:**

I have in my possession an Optiplex 7060 Small Form Factor with 64 GB
or Ram i708700 3.20 GHz
I want to run Jellyfin and other containerized apps like Immich, etc.
I'm familiar with Docker, and to a lesser extent, Kubernetes. I would
like to be able to access and manage stuff from some custom domain
over internet instead of directly using my ip address like I was doing
previously for Jellyfin.

**Questions:**

Should I run the containers on the system drive (2 TB SSD) and for the
volumes use a mounted storage drive over the network like I was doing
before?  Should I connect the storage drives directly to the system
via usb or PCIe? What is the best way to connect the storage drives if
I would like to add more space in the future?

Should I continue to use the Pi 4 as the NAS or are there more
performant options for storage?

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Jonteponte71 · 2023-12-10 00:04

If you want to keep it simple , continue with debian on the 7060 and
run everything on docker there. Install Nginx Proxy Manager and buy a
domain name. When you have it, set up a wildcard certificate for your
domain in NGPM. And from there you can start adding all your services
and have NGPM point subdomains directly to their corresponding service
IP’s. I.e jellyfin.example.com.

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coveorder · 2023-12-10 00:23

\> Do you need the usb hd on the network or can you just plug it in to
the 7060 instead?

This is one of the things that I was asking about. Originally I had
the drives plugged the Pi 4 running OMV so that OMV could do backups
and so that I could use space on the drive for dumping files over the
network as well.  If I can get away with plugging drives directly into
the 7060, I think that would be nice.


Thanks for the tips!

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NinjaFragrant7710 · 2023-12-10 09:45

I would use the system drive to download and run the containers. As
for data I would definitely use a different disk, preferably via
PCiE/SATA rather than USB. Be sure to mount the volume at startup (add
the disk in fstab file by its UUID). I am actually running a very
similar setup  using a NUC.

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coveorder · 2023-12-10 10:34

What would be the best way to handle expansion, if I connected the
drive directly? Can I chain multiple drives from one PCIE or SATA
port? Or would my only option be to get a larger drive drive when that
time comes?