…There’s a kind of honesty to that setup that virtualization can obscure. When your DNS server is on a tiny box, and your media server is on another, the boundaries are…
…But unless you opt for a dedicated setup involving SATA HATs, it’s not worth building a dedicated Network-Attached Storage server with a Raspberry Pi and external drives. And even with…
…a file server, and Docker containers like Caddy, Redis, Jenkins, and others. The NVMe enables all VMs, LXCs, and containers to spin up quickly. The network-specific Pi setup is lean, and…
…In hindsight, I could’ve gone with a nested container configuration, but since I wanted some nice GUI elements, I decided to spin up the MCP server inside a Debian VM. The…
…Virtual machines (VMs) and containers all run in harmony, taking full advantage of my cluster setup, which requires a few systems to be running Promox, sharing the web GUI, and making it…
…Let's say your NAS is also your VM host, media server, automation hub (hello, Home Assistant!), DNS filter, and more. It's asking a lot from the hardware, and while it…
…I host on my local servers in any benchmark. Likewise, if I wanted to generate code for my projects, connecting the terminal-based Claude to my VMs and letting it go ham…
…servers, Winpodx heavily debloats the Windows environment, on top of enabling a couple of high-performance settings. Heck, it also mounts USB drives on the host as Windows disks, and its setup…
…long time, my initial Tailscale setup was drastically different from the one I currently have: I had the bad habit of arming my LXCs and VMs with Tailscale – one that I’ve…
…Moving Jellyfin onto the DXP4800 Pro made the whole setup feel more direct. That doesn’t mean a NAS automatically makes the best media server for everyone. Transcoding needs, user count, and…
