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I'm pretty new to selfhosting and homelabs, and I would appreciate a simple-worded explanation here. Details are always welcome!

So, I have a home network with a dynamic external IP address. I already have my Synology NAS exposed to the Internet with DDNS - this was done using the interface, so didn't require much technical knowledge.

Now, I would like to add another server (currently testing with Raspberry Pi) in the same LAN that would also be externally reachable, either through a subdomain (preferable), or through specific ports. How do I go about it?

P.S. Apparently, what I've tried on the router does work, it's just that my NAS was sitting in the DMZ. Now it works!

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Drives are somewhat noisy (even though I took fairly quiet ones) and I appreciate total silence at night. Unfortunately, I don't have many places to put it outside my single room, so there's that.

I'd love to move to SSDs for storage at some point (I know it's controversial, but they would fit my use case better), but for now it's too expensive for me.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahh, that's valid. I've been wanting to build a (relatively) small 16TB SSD NAS for video editing, after which I could dump footage to my main NAS. SSD NAS systems can definitely make sense depending on your use case. Hell, you can even game off of them if you've got 10gig networking.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd love to eventually have a 10gbps LAN, yep :)

I'd also love to explore the technology going into cloud gaming, so not only would I launch games using files laying on the server, but could actually play them everywhere from my energy efficient potato laptop :D

But that's long ahead and more of an "if it even works properly"