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Cake day: June 14th, 2022

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  • I don’t know exactly what you want host but I have an old Fujitsu Q920 i5 with 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD drive which cost me around 200 Euro.

    I’m serving around 20 services on it including Nextcloud, Navidrome, Paperless NG, Emby, Matrix, Friendica, Wireguard, Zabbix, DNS blocker and a few VMs. Processor utilization is around 5% most of the time and it uses about 8 GB of RAM.

    I admit that Nextcloud could be more responsive and faster but for the family it is enough.

    I haven’t exactly checked how much electricity I’m using but I would have noticed a bigger change on my bill.

    For backups I have a remote node at another location that retrieves ZFS snapshots periodically.

    Anyway. I have this setup for 2 years now and I’m happy. It does what I expect it to do.

    As a side note. i use FreeBSD with jails and bhyve for this. A Proxmox running VMs with nested Docker apps may need something more performant so be aware.


  • I’ve been living in Poland for the last 13 years and can only say good about the country. The language barrier still exists after all that time but luckily most younger Polish speak English. It’s definitely a nice place to life.

    I cannot comment about living in Italy as I have only visited it for vacation a few times. It’s a beautiful country and people where nice everywhere but if it comes to work, I’m sure Poland has more to offer. It’s the outsourcing country of Europe. Good wages and highly qualified people.









  • I’m a long time user of Debian myself too. No cutting edge fuzz, just a working, stable OS all of the time. What else do you need for a server? It always did the job.

    But then I stumbled on FreeBSD, and man, that’s a server OS. Simple design and blazing fast. No Docker but I never liked it anyway. My Docker is called Jails and in my opinion is they’re superior. Service isolation on the next level.

    On my laptop? Debian due to hardware and software support. And I’ll stick to that for now. I feel home on that distro.

    I can’t say anything about OpenBSD as I never tried it but it sure is a perfect fit for a server as well depending on your needs and preferences. BSD just rocks!



  • Same here. I’m using mainly FreeBSD on my servers so docker is a no go due to lack of support. I have to stick with Photoprism for now as it offers a install without docker and it does the job for me. Anyhow, I’m not happy with the trend that most FOSS projects today limit the deployment on docker and do not offer a way of a plain install on you *nix system of choice.