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Seanz seanz.000001@nostr.com 10 months ago
image I am proof that you can self host almost anything and still be an idiot. I do most things through a gui. If I have to use command line I copy and paste like a cheating middle school student. If I can't copy and paste watching me work the command line is like watching a 4 year old learn to read. BUT YOU CAN DO IT! I use #truenas on which I self host My photos #immich All my backsups truenas I run my own network using #pfsense I host my own wireless controller BTC node Xmr miner Nostr relay Home security Home video surveillance I run #grapheneos I don't use Google for cloud stuff I must have a use #proton You CAN DO THIS TOO!

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Seanz seanz.000001@nostr.com 10 months ago
Yes. You can. I'd recommend doing this over a VPN to your remote location. It is actually pretty easy to set up. Tom from Lawrence systems has a video on it. I linked it below. Tom will be your go to. He has a ton of Truenas help videos.
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Jaret _@jaret.fyi 10 months ago
Yeah I setup unifi and pfsense mainly thanks to him. I have to research TrueNas more now thanks to you. I was set on Synology but I prefer open source. 🤙
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Seanz seanz.000001@nostr.com 10 months ago
I had a Synology about 5 years ago before truenas. It was fine. The main problem I had with it was the price for the quality of hardware. You could build a FAR better device for MUCH cheaper and load truenas onto it. Yes you have to figure a lot out yourself. And the support you have is forums. But people in the truenas forums are very helpful. There are a ton of apps already ported over to truenas. Plex and unifi controller to name a few. Also immich for photos. And nextcloud if you're into that. The one thing I found that Synology does much better is surveillance cameras.
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Seanz seanz.000001@nostr.com 10 months ago
Unifi and pfsense is what I use as well. I found an awesome deal on Amazon for some 2.5 gb poe switches. For like $80. That, a few access unifi access points and a pfsense router and it can do most things an enterprise network can do.
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Jaret _@jaret.fyi 10 months ago
I have nextcloud setup already. Yeah, Synology is moving aware from intel chips I think. I appreciate this info. I was set on a couple 1522+ but I am going to pause and research. Separately, I setup a unifi controller on raspi. Now that it’s setup it works well. One question you might know: For Vlans should you only can tag one port per vlan for the switch? I have it working but I have vlans pointing to multiple ports and that can likely be improved.
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Seanz seanz.000001@nostr.com 10 months ago
You can have multiple ports per vlan. I don't used managed switches so I configure vlans in the unifi controller on the access points. For example I will tag the guest network as a separate vlan. Then I control all the routing with firewall rules on pfsense.
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Seanz seanz.000001@nostr.com 9 months ago
Hm. Yea, I mean if you have to buy all new hardware it might not be worth it to you. I bought a used server (10 years old) on ebay and I loaded truenas onto that. But that may not work for you.
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