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Re: [Sheflug] Home recommendations
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On 2025-02-28 16:12:23, Perry Ismangil wrote:
The one thing I did not regret buying for home is 4 bay Network Attached
Storage, from Synology. It's still well supported after a long time,
receiving updates etc.
Seconded, we have one at work and it has been running for 13 years now with
zero issues. Ours does only storage, but it has a good suite of other apps you
can run (e.g. a mesh VPN like tailscale or zerotier).
At home I run an OS called XigmaNAS, a no-frills NAS-centred freeBSD. It's
like freeNAS used to be before they changed to a more enterprise focus.
On the remote-access front, if you are interested, I would very much recommend
one of these peer to peer vpns (zerotier, tailscale, nebula et al). Yes you
have to install the clients on every machine instead of just setting up your
router, but the advantage is that it punches through NAT pretty much wherever
you are without any hassle.
I tend to run lots of boxes but it's because I am old and my stuff has been
running for years. An old NAS. A kodi media player (recently put a jellyfin
server in there too for multi-device access). A homeassistant server (for
controlling radiators).
However I have noticed a lot of people just having one box and running proxmox
on it. To be frank this seems like a better setup. I tried proxmox at work and
was very impressed with how easy it was to set up VMs.
On a networking front I have a very tall narrow house, so I found several wifi
points have helped for wifi coverage. Ubiquiti is ok, if you can get Ruckus
it's even better. eBay is good for this. Ruckus APs have the controller on
board the actual devices so you don't have to run a server to run the network.
If the controller goes down, another AP takes over.
We have a PoE switch in the cellar that powers all the wifi APs. It's neat
only having one cable to each hotspot, but be warned some of these swtiches
have noisy fans designed for datacentres. I'm very lucky to be able to hide it
away. (my NAS is also horrifically noisy and hides downstairs next to the
switch).
If you are into running your own router/firewall I can vouch for opnsense. I
have a device from Protectli that runs opnsense but I gather you can get
similar devices for cheaper elsewhere. Also you could just build your own.
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