Just a noob who likes homelabs and selfhosting

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  • There isn’t really anything like Spotify. There were attempts to use a service like Last.fm (which isn’t self hosted) or libre.fm (which is self hosted but development has been stopped) to track your listening data. Then there were a couple discovery projects that worked with Navidrome (don’t really remember the name but they’re probably somewhere in r/selfhosted) but they haven’t been very succesful.

    Even if you somehow managed to solve those problems you’ve got the next problem which is the fact that you don’t have the recommended song available in your library. Perhaps it could be solved wit Lidarr.

    Personally I think Spotify is worth $10 a month.



  • True, I’m not really concerned about the active users dissapearing, because most of them would just join the second biggest community about that topic.

    I’m more concerned about the ammount of information/knowledge that would be lost.

    I get what you say about not having a be-where-everyone-is mentality. But the fact is that following 15 communities about the same topic is really inconvenient, and people tend to congregate (look at how many users each instance has and you’ll see that a few instances have like 80% of the total users).

    If we want the fediverse to succeed we have to simulate centralization for a better user experience, while being decentralized. And that means that there should be some sort of protection to prevent whole communities from dissapearing.






  • First I’d like to apologize because I originally wrote less than 30TB instead of more than 30TB, I’ve changed that in the post.

    A colocation is a data center where you pay a monthly price and they’ll house your server (electricity and internet bandwidth is usually included unless with certain limits and if you need more you can always pay extra).

    Here’s an example. It’s usually around $99/99€ per 1U server. If you live in/near a big city there’s probably at least a data center that offers colocation services.

    But as I said, it’s only worth it if you need a lot of storage or if you move files around a lot, because bandwidth charges when using object storage tend to be quite high.

    For <7 TB it isn’t worth it, but maybe in the future.


  • Depending on how much storage do you need (>30 TB?), it may be cheaper to use a colocation service for a server as an offsite backup instead of cloud storage. It’s not as safe, but it can be quite cheaper, especially if for some reason you’re forced to rapidly download a lot of your data from the cloud backup. (Backblaze b2 costs $0.01/gb downloaded).



  • Really weird. Might be a bug.

    I can’t find anyone else reporting memory usage problems. Maybe you could ask in the support community and see if anyone else has encountered the same problem.

    Your VPS should be more than enough and you shouldn’t have to spend more money because of a software issue.






  • There may be some sort of marking that indicates if the bay is only accepts Nvme drives on the front of the drive tray. Line this.

    Another option would be to open the server and find the part number for the backplane on Google or Dell’s page.

    U.2 connectors and sata connectors are pretty similar, so It will be hard to tell only by watching the connector.

    The link you’ve provided is the type of enclosure I’ve mentioned, that goes from m.2 to u.2 . I’ve never used one of those before, so I don’t know how well they work, but there could be compatibility issues with some operating systems, especially if you plan on setting up RAID.

    If the backplane ends up having SAS connectors, you could try and get used enterprise SAS SSDs. Sometimes they can be had for about the same price as consumer SATA SSDs. And the max sequential speed is 1.2 GB/s.


  • The first thing that you should do is see if your server supports Nvme drives and which bays do. If I’m not mistaken not all R640 have bays that support Nvme.

    If it supports Nvme drives then it has a backplane with U.2 connectors. Both U.2 and U.3 drives are compatible. These type of drives are enterprise only, and unless something has changed recently, consumer grade 2.5" Nvme SSDs don’t exist.

    New enterprise SSDs are very expensive (used are hard to find) and they’re only worth it if you’re going to write a lot to the disk.

    Apparently there are m.2 to u.2 enclosures, which would allow you to use cheaper consumer drives. I’ve never used them, so I don’t know how good they’re. They may be total crap, so do your research before you buy such an enclosure.

    The last option is to buy consumer grade Sara SSDs. This is the cheapest by far right now and probably the best idea unless you know you need faster drives. Sequential speeds of almost 600MB/s. Compatible with Sata/SAS ports, but not with u.2 ports.

    For drives up to 4TB I’d recommend TLC and if you want 8TB drives I’m pretty sure there’s only QLC.