…shares, backups, containers, media services, and a few lightweight tools, it makes far more sense than its modest name suggests. The best home server isn’t always the most powerful one, because…
…backups. Related 6 reasons you need a NAS, not an external drive Store more stuff, while sharing. Moving services away from the NAS It's great that turnkey NAS systems are powerful…
…Plus, I’ve already created a 3-2-1 backup pipeline that’s powered by this beast of a server distro, and unless iXsystems pulls the same anti-consumer measures as Broadcom…
…Heck, I even used a Raspberry Pi as a tertiary backup server by pairing it with two USB-powered HDDs a long time ago. Now, random disconnections were always the Sword of…
…I wanted to build ESP32 devices for my smart home and needed a relatively powerful machine to run Home Assistant. I chose to install it on my Proxmox running mini PC (HP…
…Password managers also need backups A rule for every self-hosted entity ever Any self-hosting guide worth its salt will hammer home the importance of backups. So, you dutifully set up…
…on my home NAS As a Lifetime Plex Pass holder, it's finally time to jump ship. Buying external drives A recurring expense every time I ran out of backup space Buying…
…case — storage that I could access on my home network. However, with multiple drives on my desktop PC, as well as cloud backups of important files, the NAS ended up feeling mostly…
…With enough computing power, TrueNAS can handle containers and virtualized instances, effectively transforming the NAS into a full-blown server. But just because TrueNAS can run everything you need in a home…
…Combine OpenMediaVault’s barebones nature with its terrific hardware compatibility, and you can see why I used to rely on a Raspberry Pi-powered OMV server for my 3-2-1 backup…