Public facing services (via Cloudflare + NPM + fail2ban):

• Immich (around 575,000’ish / 3.5TB photos 50,000’ish / 3.0TB of videos)
• Nextcloud (around 500GB or so of shared work photos/documents, then another ~2TB or so of auto uploads user from mobile)
• Plex/Jellyfin/Emby all sharing from the same ~100TB library.
• Navidrome for just music, though I actually prefer Plex Music now.
• Paperless with the usual tika/gotenberg for OCR (around 50,000 documents, lots of technical manuals which means search is very handy to find codes/part numbers quickly). Also imports from my work email so any purchase orders or invoices get saved, and anything the office scanner scans gets automatically imported too.
• Archivebox for archiving websites (pretty crap now tbh)
• Bentopdf for editing PDF files (super handy!)
• Chhoto for my own short URL service (super handy!)
• Convertx for file conversions from anything to anything pretty much
• MeTube for downloading clips from FB/YT/etc
• Nginx for an image hosting website I made many many years ago (kinda like Imgur but 15 years ago) with a few hundred GB that still get referenced in forum links on occasion (I see links to files from 2011 still active in the logs)
• Pingvin for sharing large files
• SearXNG for when I get sick of Google bubbling me

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Non-public facing:

• Kopia to back up my home server to my work server, and vice versa
• Crashplan for a(nother) remote backup on someone elses hardware
• Syncthing as a way to keep photo directories on laptops and what not backed up to the server
• The classic *arr stack (sonarr, radarr, lidarr) with qbit/sab behind gluetun
• An assortment of scripts to do things that are useful.
  For example I record my VOIP calls to WAV files which get emailed at the end of a call. There’s a script that logs in to my email account and downloads any recorded files, transcribes it with Gemini, then posts it to Discord with a summary of the call at the top, a transcription of the call, and then stats at the bottom (source number, time and date of call, duration).
  Another one is a webhook via the VOIP provider - when someone rings, the webhook calls a script that downloads my shared phone book (or falls back to the last downloaded copy if it times out after 2 seconds), matches the incoming number to the phone book, and adds a Discord notification for the person who’s ringing. The Discord notification saying who is ringing and where they are from (and any other notes) pops up basically at the same time as the first ring is received.
  Also for whatever reason I set up an Arduino for the entry buzzer on our workshop and it sends Discord notifications when the buzzer is turned on/off via timer or by the manual override. I did have it set up to record entry/exits but turns out that got real spammy, real fast.

I worked good out a whole ago, so here’s a copy and paste:

I have a power monitoring plug on this setup, so I can tell you exactly how much!

CPU: 2 x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 512 GiB DDR4 Multi-bit ECC

My disk layout is like so:

This draws a fairly consistent 650W, including a POE router (15.6kwh per day). My current electricity price is 39.38c/kwh… HOWEVER I have a cheap rate of 8c/kwh between midnight and 6:00am, and free power between 11:00am and 2:00pm. I also have solar which tends to cover ~10:00am to ~2:00pm, but its dependant on sunlight so I’ll ignore it for now.

So:
12:00am-06:00am = ($0.0800/kwh * 0.65kw) * 06 = $0.312
06:00am-11:00am = ($0.3938/kwh * 0.65kw) * 05 = $1.279
11:00am-02:00pm = ($0.0000/kwh * 0.65kw) * 03 = $0.000
02:00pm-12:00am = ($0.3938/kwh * 0.65kw) * 10 = $2.559

Total = $4.15AUD per 24 hours, or $1,514.75AUD per year

My Merross plug is showing that I’m currently averaging a daily consumpion of 15.021kwh, and I’m not accounting for the hours of solar offset so the actual dollar value will be a little lower. But still. Fair few bucks.

Sucks to add users to, users can’t reset their own password, and apparently security is so bad that exposing it to the internet is basically just giving hackers the front door key.

Yeah, we are pretty great 😎

Yeah I guess it probably makes more sense when it’s my business… Maybe not if you’re an employee at some corporate randomly hosting backups of your dog photos.

I have a 120TB unraid server at home, and a 40TB unraid server at work. Both use 2 x parity disks.

The critical work stuff backs up to home, and the critical home stuff backs up to work.

The media is disposable.

Both servers then back up to Crashplan on separate accounts - work uses the Australian server on a business account, home used the US server on a personal account.

I figure I should be safe unless Australia and the US are nuked simultaneously… At which point my data integrity is probably not the most pressing issue.

I’d be happier if Firefox received more support. A relatively equal duopoly of browsers is preferable IMO to 80% market share for one, and the remaining 20% broken up amongst half a dozen competing alternatives.

Lot of developer power out there that would be better spent improving what’s mostly already there (Firefox) rather than starting multiple different projects from scratch again. People will burn up any energy and spare time they had to help without even seeing a new browser render it’s first HELL WORLD

Yeah, I did the same. I’m sure there’s a great reason for it, but it’s obnoxious and I cbf translating it.

Is this a badly coded ad bot?

Feels like this is the sort of important information OP should have included in their post.

Buy used enterprise hardware for cheap, install Unraid, dip your toes in… Then if you enjoy tinkering, evolve from there.

Unraid does everything I want so I’ve kinda plateaued for the moment.

I run Nextcloud for this. Never understood the complaints about it, I find it hard to believe everyone’s so short of CPU power that Nextcloud is anything more than a rounding error running in the background.

There’s half a dozen of us using it for shared calendars, files, and contacts.

Currently around 6TB of files, a couple of hundred or so contacts in the shared contacts list, and many recurring (and one off) events.

Been working perfectly since before Nextcloud forked from OwnCloud.

Padding and grid / snap to half-grid makes it so easy to get things lined up exactly how you like.

I also like having slide actions on the dock… I have a phone icon. If you tap on it, it opens a folder with my most common 9’ish contacts as direct dials. If I slide up on it, it opens the phone app. Repeat for other icons on the dock and you get over a dozen potential actions from 4 icons.

Not sure if anything else offers this.

Everyone knew Nova was dead once it was sold. Surprised old mate held on this long.

Still haven’t found a replacement launcher that matches all it’s functionality.

I’ve been using Nextcloud since it forked from OwnCloud (… and used OwnCloud before that). It’s gone from a VPS, to bare metal on dedicated hosting, and now self hosted as a docker container because we’ve finally got fibre internet.

I’ve got around 6TB or so hosted for my small business, with shared directories for different levels of file access, shared contact lists, shared calendars, and a publicly accessible area for things like email attachments (works with a Thunderbird plugin to automatically host and link large attachments with a password) and uploads from customers (they can only upload, no viewing or deleting).

It’s incredible, and I’ve never had the issues people complain so much about. The worst I ever experienced was using snap and occasionally an automatically updated version simply wouldn’t work… So I’d just roll back to the last version and manually update a few months later when I remembered.

Currently using the Nextcloud AIO docker image which includes Borg backups. They get stored on another disk to Nextcloud, which gets automatically backed up to Crashplan.

I never had any success using Nextcloud with any type of cloud storage. It was always slow as molasses, even by normal Nextcloud standards.

I just bought a JBOD and store the data myself locally, with a remote backup instead.

I believe it is cheaper long term this way, though with energy costs on the up and up that may not always be the case. Does mean I have super fast access to the content when I want it though.

I’ve got 30x4TB disks, just because second hand enterprise gear is so cheap. I’ll slowly replace the 4TB SAS with larger capacity SATA to make use of the spin down functionality of unraid. I don’t need the extra speed of SAS and I wouldn’t mind saving a few watt-hours.

(I’m just shy of 500tb and my server holds 38 disks.)

That means every one of your disks is >13TB? That’s expensive!

I love healthchecks. It’s so simple and easy to incorporate in to… anything much?

I’ve run Nextcloud since OwnCloud was the only option, with zero issues on any setup - be it direct, via snap, or via docker.

(EDIT: Out of interest I looked up the first subdomain I can remember using - it sent my username the login details in February 2015 so that’s over a decade now!).

On a cheap VPS, a dedicated box, and now self hosted since I finally have a decent enough connection to support it. Ran out of storage on the VPS, then the 4TB dedicated box, now on 120TB self hosted (Nextcloud only using around 6TB mind you). CPU and RAM were never an issue.

Mostly documents (PDF, ODS, ODT), photos and videos from jobs, and some people (myself included) use the storage to back up their phone gallery.

I use shared and private folders, shared and private calendars, and shared and private contact lists on Android, iOS, and PCs (Windows and Linux). I have a public upload directory for customers to send us files and often share files directly using expiring read only links.

It’s easy and it works, no idea wtf people are doing to have so much drama with it.