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What do I actually need? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm in the means of buying a mini pc for selfhosting stuff. My main reasons are sailing the high seas for movies and series and hosting my families photos, videos to escape gdrive. I'm thinking about some kind of DMS / digitalizing paperwork and mail in the future.

I casually look into all kinds of software that could do the task and now I'm a bit overwhelmed. Is owncloud or an alternative enough, or do I need something more elaborated like TrueNAS? But all the NAS Foss stuff seems to run on their own OS. Can my Pirate Ship run on that? I feel like the diversity of solutions is making this very opaque for me.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

@[email protected] You don't need a "NAS" per se -- just running a baremetal distro and using containers in it will suffice.
Further, while Nextcloud can work fine, I'd suggest not using it and going for individual solutions instead of something AIO -- NC is fairly clunky, and fairly slow comparatively. It's also PHP.
I personally use Proxmox + LXC/VMs in one Micro PC (i5-7xxx/24G), and Just Ubuntu with Docker compose in another(i5-6xxx/16G) alongside a couple of Oracle VMs. It works out fairly well.
For Digitizing paperwork and mail, paperless-ngx is a good solution. For your pirate ship, look into *arr solutions. jellyseerr -> sonarr/radarr -> bazarr -> jellyfin works fine.