Tai’shar Malkier!

Good luck with that. .local is reserved for mDNS calls, and not every OS treats it the same way. Ask me how I know.

I bought a cheap used Dell R710 on Facebook marketplace for like $100 or so, as well as an ups, rack, 10g switch, etc, from various other sellers. All told, I’ve got about $500 in my server setup.

Installed proxmox on it. It’s “free” if you don’t buy a license. You just have to put up with a little nag screen when you open the control panel but it still works 100%, much like winrar.

Works great.

Edit: just realized this is in c/selfhosted AND I misunderstood the post. I’m gonna leave it here just on the off chance it’s useful to somebody, but I acknowledge it’s not what you’re looking for.

FWIW, I run proxmox at home, and I friggin love it. It’s really not hard at all.

As a self-hoster thats also a ham…

Fucking ow.

I don’t, but it’s not a bad idea. Never thought about it.

Sorry bruh, I only accept people I know in meatspace. While some of the books came from ahoy-matey means, more of them came from legitimate sources and may have digital watermarks. It’s one thing to share a book with other players at my table, another entirely to publish it online for any rando.

I run A Nextcloud instance for my group containing character sheets, maps, supplements, and PDFs of every RPG book I’ve been able to get my grubby little mitts on.

With RAID10, you’d have 8TB of storage that is both striped and mirrored. You’d get a 4x increase in read speed and a 2x increase in write speed. You’d be fault tolerant against AT LEAST one drive failure, possibly two depending on which drives fail.

With RAID5, you’d have 12GB that is striped and parity checked. You’d get a 3x read speed increase and normal write speed. You’d be fault tolerant against a single drive failure.

With RAID6, you’d have 8TB that is striped and parity checked. You’ll have a 2x increase in read speed and normal write speed. You’ll be fault tolerant against two concurrent drive failures.

I recommend RAID10 if you want the all around speed boost and fault tolerance but don’t care so much about capacity;

RAID6 if you care more about redundancy;

RAID5 if you want a read speed boost and more capacity with a little fault tolerance mixed in.

There’s also raid 0, which is gonna be hella fast all around but god help you if somebody farts too aggressively next to it; and raid 1 if you just want 4 redundant backups of the same drive.

Personally, I’d go 10 unless you just really want the extra storage.

Get another hard drive and do RAID5. Then you get striping AND parity.

Or even better, get TWO more drives and do RAID10.

I’ve got 8 SAS drives in a RAID10 and it’s lovely.

I’m paying $115/mo for 1G down 30M up, no data cap.

I WAS paying $150 for the same until I called and bitched that new subscribers were getting the same for $89. So, still getting fucked, but at least they’re using lube now.

There’s fiber literally on the next street over from me. Come the fuck on guys - fiber in my neighborhood. Let’s fucking gooooooooooo already. You’ve been teasing me for years. Quit pulling my hair and fuck me already damn.

I’ve been trying to hunt down cheap used network equipment lately. It’s a weird thing to be disappointed that there aren’t any failing businesses around me :(

I’m about to make an 8 hour round trip drive for a cheap server rack this coming weekend. Please send help.