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Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head! (kbin.earth)

submitted 1 year ago by themadcodger@kbin.earth to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm not tech illiterate, but it's also not my job or anything. That said I managed to figure out how to get a synology up and running and it hosts my Jellyfin and *arrs. Nothing too exciting. I also have a couple of vps's that I use for nextcloud, a recipe server, all in docker containers. Not nothing but also, not the hardest thing to accomplish.

Well, my manager gifted me an old Dell PowerEdge R720 and 4 hard drives. Yeah, this is way more than I know what to do with, or even where to start. Do I need to plug both power cables in? I still need to figure out how to get a monitor hooked up to it with what looks to be a VGA cable. And even then this thing is a behemoth and what do I even do with it?? My manager was so excited to talk to me about it and I'm all 😵‍💫

Where do I start?

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[–] LucidNightmare@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, OP! I was recently gifted a desktop PC, with one spare drive, and 2 drives I had in storage for "bad sectors". I popped the old ones in (because I have a backup) and downloaded and installed TrueNAS Scale.

TrueNAS' web UI is BEAUTIFUL and very informative at a glance. What I was NOT prepared for, was the permissions. Like you, I started out with a Synology, because I didn't know anything. It did what it needed to do, and that was fine. I use Plex and Jellyfin, and the new desktop had a 1660 Super in it, so you bet your ass I wanted to put that to use!

TrueNAS isn't as easy as Synology, and like I said, the permissions thing really threw me for a loop because of how the wording on things is. To me, it isn't in english so to speak. I learned a few tricks here and there, so if you need any help, feel free to reach out and I'll try to help! :)

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the encouragement! To be honest, while it was a good place to start from its hand holding, I don't love synology for how walled garden it is. I'll definitely take a look at TrueNAS and see what that's like.