Yeah, but they’re storing so much data only orgs with a lot of funding could participate, so it’d still be in the hands of wealthy parties.

I’m a fan of pfSense, myself. But other suggestions here for OSes have been reasonable. I have a netgate router feeding an eero wap with a second wap creating a bridged wifi network. Future-proofing with 10GB on a wired switch if a good idea. I got a pair of Unifi 2.5GB switches with 10GB uplink for that. The difference in performance moving large data around is massive. I have 10GB between my primary machine, the one that I run as my always-on server, and my NAS. It’s awesome. Everything else is 2.5GB.

Edit: made one bit plural

12.8TB. Mostly uncompressed rips from Blu-rays, some DVDs, some from iTunes Store. Some from the high seas, but not in a long time because the market solved that problem with streaming.

Go sucky? All right, rascist dev. Me love you long time! /s

I don’t have opensource solutions, but CloudFlare had some news about a system that I didn’t read about (saw two headlines) last week. Dunno if it works or not.

Cool, more power to you.

My Synology is compatible with an expansion unit and can support two of them. Check if yours can do the same for the storage aspect.

If you get a NAS with 10G (it’s such a nice upgrade, I made the jump last year), there’s no reason a nice NUC can’t do the job. I went that route after previously running significantly overpowered server hardware ten years ago. We have an embarrassment of riches with modern hardware.

A+

“Lazy sherpas.”

I had a tower that generated so much heat that during a particularly hot summer, I had to stop using it around 1-2pm every day. The room just got too hot to occupy. I’m a computer nerd, so this was particularly heinous for me.

Despite not answering their phone or responding to emails, they’ll still complain if you try to close the ticket.

You’re pretty rad, y’know that?

I moved to 10Gbps and 5Gbps on some of my devices and it’s been glorious. Future-proof by having either built-in.

All my extra RAM was super old and I let it get offed when I hired a junk hauling company clear out my last place when I moved (I’d been there for like 15 years, so there was a lot of worn out furniture and stuff).

Even though I’m already experienced in self-hosting, I absolutely love that you’re making this available. We need more on-ramps for newbies. Cheers!

Learning Linux is nothing. Most people will never need anything outside of the GUI. There are distros that are very close to Windows in the GUI.

Oh well. Same people think switching to a Mac will take effort.

Here’s a resource: https://serverfault.com/

I don’t care about his content, but I downloaded for historical preservation. If you’re willing to watch can you explain the beef?

Samsung for storage. Crucial if you can’t get Samsung.