Just a reminder that you can host on a group of pis and still have all that good stuff, it won’t be as fast as x86 stuff. But spread the load and things can be quick.
Yes you do need backups of import data, but you don’t need to have data backups and images backups. If you can rebuild the host the data was on thats fine.
I did run my homelab on about 9 pi’s, all connected like spaghetti. If the NFS pi fell over it took out the lot.
So yes you can use pis as a homelab
Do you maintain all that stuff?
Like patch it and back it up?
If not then your doing it wrong!
I started running everything I could, but found the upkeep a pain. Didnt use most of it.
So I now only keep hosted stuff I use, if I don’t access it once it’s running then it goes in the bin.
God yes, where I work I cover most of that.
There for self hosting is part of how I work, I need to know networking, how to administer Linux servers and even how to debug applications from logs.
It’s all skills that you need to learn, that’s not gate keeping it part of self hosting.
I would echo that, if you have read the manual and still can’t fix it then forums are the place. I see so many posts that start with “I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas”
Self hosting is a skill that needs learning, you can’t start at the top.
Learning to read manuals and how to find the bit you need is part of that skill.
Was about to add that very idea, maybe I should write a compos file with postfix setup
Just putting it out there, as a Linux sysadmin for over 400 VMs. Even I don’t want to be cli running my media, that’s why I use jellyfin.
It’s good that people know you can do it, but most won’t as they just want to click a button to get going.
sure