Hi, so I’ve ended up bagging myself a big supermicro server. I’m wanting to try out a little bit of everything with it, but one thing I really want is to be able to have services that haven’t been used for a bit to stop or sleep. And then to wake up again or start up on request, rather than me having manually stop and start services. Is that a thing?
I know of portainer and whatnot, but I’m wondering if anyone has any advice on this.
I’m planning on putting debian on it i think (unless someone can convince something else is better suited - i usually use arch on my personal devices btw 😜)
Also i know some basics on raid but I’ve only ever messed with raid0 with usb drives on a pi. I have 8 bays but 2 are currently vacant. What is the process of just adding an extra drive to a raid, or replacing one that already exists?
Ah so i might be thinking leaving a service running is worse than it actually is then?
The motherboard has two networks ports and a card with another two. There’s also some fibre ports but i imagine I’ll never end up using them haha.
I don’t actually really know much about firewalls at all yet though
For the firewall you can try OPNsense or OpenWrt