I’ve been self-hosting Home Assistant for over a year, and I want to take the dive into more self-hosting. I want to start by converting an old laptop into a home server. Assuming that goes well, I’ll probably want to upgrade to a more modern, purpose built server and NAS fairly soon. How can I make sure that what I set up on the laptop can be easily moved to my upgraded hardware later?

Additional notes:

  • I’m already using Tailscale (it’s what prompted me to want to do more self-hosting)
  • I want to be able to access my server via Tailscale, but I want everything mapped to my own custom domain via a reverse proxy
  • I’m planning on using Proxmox

Thanks in advance for the advice! :)

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I edited, since it was ambiguous. I think you only need zfs if you want replication, cold migrations should be fine without it.

    Removing nodes from clusters is fine. It’s not really encouraged, but if a node fails you have to be able to remove it, so it’s possible.