>>108562427
no thanks it's trivial and ChatGPT knows better than you anyway

>>108562427
I got confused, so I just bought a DAS :(

>>108563660
I imagine he doesn't
arpaservers.com

Ive had this question since forever, but any OS that's like arch but for servers? I'd like to use pacman and arch for a server but having it be stable and security releases only like Ubuntu ltsc, but there's no arch flavor like that as far as I know

>>108563660
Can it install loonix already? How about gentoo? How about from scratch?
Until then geepeety is only as useful as searching the webs, just faster.
>>108562427
Do you know of any actors that would do DoS attacks on people seeding movies etc? I just don't do much of that, clueless. People harden their torrent clients or what?
What about that new library that is used under the hood of all clients? libtorrentsomething. It's got a v2. Worth trying or is there a problem with that one?

>>108565778
great questions, thanks for joinging me this fine day.

I too had the arch for my server question. package management on apt is fucking cancer. i have so many fucking issues with apt it's unreal. I had to make custom update scripts for code maintainers who cannot get apt to work for them or just don't bother

https://github.com/homeserversltd/updates/tree/master/modules/atuin

atuin is fucking amazing btw, their new update curl script is cancer, it's manual 3 questions every time you run it. So i need to basically write my own shell script just for them. . .

pacman would have solved this. alas we are left with the cancer that is apt. you are correct there is no arch flavor like that. That is something I could look into developing long term, but largely if i were to pivot my distro it would probably be devuan with my own init system that i haven't fully built out

https://github.com/homeserversltd/sysX

until then, you genuinely can run arch as server tech. there's literally nothing stopping you and it will be reliable and stable* . if things break just ssh in and fix them, it's fine. pacman is what makes arch incredible. don't be afraid to embrace the pain

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>>108565810
so largely speaking, the play right now is to load transmission / bittorrent client under a vpn namespace, a segmented network off of your main server, with only the one port open that the port forwarding has assigned you. So your exposure is your throw away namespace that can't touch the rest of your system too much. And you include tech to teardown the whole mini stack the second the vpn breaks in anyway

that's largely the extent of torrent hardening right now, there are other options, but to my knowledge this is the most popular.

>libtorrentsomething. It's got a v2.

looks like i have some new tech to research, i haven't looked into this, thank you for the info

>>108565938
I see. So it's "let it burn" basically. And isolate the potential fire hazard.
I'd actually add some sort of script that would make the currently seeding files read only, just in case.
Do you think it makes sense to expose them through samba or nfs? We're talking home lab, personal, not some sort of crazy tracker with high traffic.
If you never tried that, it's ok. Point is to actually ask a real person, 'cause LLMs hallucinate all the time and talk gibberish.

What is home.arpa or a home domain?

What do you do with a 'home server'?

>>108566463
>Do you think it makes sense to expose them through samba or nfs?
so here's where the power of hardlinks come in. and you're absolutely right, your intuition is entirely spot on. so you can hardlink your torrenting file, to where you serve it via some other service. and then you can have two separate sets of permissions, but both are pointing at the same index of content. So you point samba at the "other location" that you've hardlinked the same file to. You do not point samba at where your bit torrent client is cooking. you hardlink the files from where your bit torrent client works, over to where you want to serve said files

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>>108566541
great questions

so from a home server, you can host any service a cloud provider offers. What does this mean in practice?

>you've been scammed the past decade

every cloud service you pay for, can be hosted off the processing power of a 2016 cell phone. not kidding. I sell n100's that idle down to less than a watt, and run my entire ci/cd pipeline. My stack that I sell, is a segmented clone of my entire build. I can swap to new hardware in an hour. (maybe more some of the scripts haven't been tested thank god).

but i haven't answered your question. What do you do with a home server? Your imagination is the limit. from your entire media suite to home automation. if you have solar panels you can literally program and control them from inside your own home server.

now not all things are peachy keen. I still profess 321 backups, and recommend backblaze to everyone as their pricing model is absolutely perfect for the common user to keep a regular backup of their photos and the like. things that actually matter to them

what's a home.arpa?

so in . . . 2018? . . the government finally gave us a full domain for home usage. I have search.home.arpa , music.home.arpa, photos.home.arpa , and these all link to real services i'm running locally. i can view my 20,000 photos as if it were a professional google photos gallery, but google in this case doesn't have my meme collection. And it's faster. BLINDINGLY FASTER. i can load 100 photos at a shot instantly, next page next page next page, and it'll be cached locally then to do it again even faster next time. Things a cloud service cannot offer you due to logistics.

any service you can possibly think of https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
is probably listed here and easily interfacable once you have the ball rolling on your own personal home server

>>108566633
now this is the hard and fast rule. I want to make it clear. I break this rule. I have samba pointing over everyone's entire nas. for convenience. However every individual service has its own entire permission stack with what exactly it's allowed to touch. so jellyfin can only touch jellyfin things and what's inside /mnt/nas/media
thusly i'm giving samba carte-blanche access over the whole nas, and each individual service just gets a folder on the nas it gets to interop with

>>108566686
>every cloud service you pay for, can be hosted off the processing power of a 2016 cell phone
ai is the first service where this isn't true. and once inference cards come out. It will become true again. just plug in your inference card into the home server, and you now have local ai. that's the plan. It may require a separate n100 to power the card and be totally a unique OS just for running the AI. no pure inference cards are available for me to test yet. But that is on the line up for me to sell. local ai that you own forever with a single purchase

Bro is asking questions to himself and then replying to them. I am not interested in your overpriced server, buy an ad.

>>108566758
make your own then you retarded faggot. that's what i'm literally telling you to do and why you entered this thread

>>108566541
That one is reserved for being a privately used domain name. Guaranteed to work and not conflict with anything, unlike some other ways of doing it.
Home server is where you can have apt cacher, npm cacher etc, if you're working from home. That is also where you can host your youtube proxy (no shorts, no AI slop, no ads etc). That is where you can keep your digital copies of music and movies and what else you own. For convinience, whole physical stored somewhere cold and dry. That's where you host ads blockers in general. That's where you run your custom router so that you can do traffic shaping to ensure high speed torrenting does not choke everything else at your home.
Also if you have children, you can host geepeety alternatives, tuned to provide explainations and guide them, instead of doing their homework for them and thus ruining their education.
I personally want to build some cool indexer that would search my stuff, embed it with metadata etc. It may be small things. But imagine being able to find some old meme by just describing it. You know it's there somewhere, but you can't find it. Goggle is so cucked, it might refuse if there is something even remotely offensive. But you would have your index at home. It takes some relatively cheap hardware (like 16GB mac mini tier) to slowly generate metadata for your old stuff, like saved images, maybe your personal photos, etc. You wouldn't trust something like that to a cloud. They can legally erase your stuff for actually no reason at all. Like they run out of free space for big shot client or smth. They often lose data of regular people, but you won't see that in the news. Not to mention privacy stuff.

That's just things I currenly had on my mind, there's more, but it depends. Depends on who you are, I guess. Just ask people around and see if you need any of that. None of this stuff is mandatory. It's like a boomer garage with tools that you may use often or may have em just in case.

>>108566749
That's getting closer to being real. If you can be satisfied with gemma4 tier of performance, then a random 2023 budget Android phone (like $250 back then) can already do inference just well enough, a bit faster than you can read the output text.

>>108566791
YES! YESS! there's .. . .hold on. TagStudio
https://github.com/TagStudioDev/TagStudio
so you envision automating that process, and giving it a backend that auto-tags, and a front end you can search through reliably. AMAZING. Yes! Great ideas, great tech! damn why didn't i think of that

>>108566791
>>108566845
nta, but I "tag" memes by storing them in my directory system it works flawlessly 9 out of 10 times, the rest, welp hehwh
by this I mean I use directories like laugh, rage, really, etc.

>>108565778
Just use Arch.
"Arch isn't for servers" is something people who don't know the first thing about Arch say. People who, for example, are not aware of the existence of the testing repo, and take every user report about someone breaking their system as an inherent flaw with the OS.
The people who say that are the people who think installing Ubuntu is the peak of being technical, and anything past that is pointless.
Why wouldn't the most up to date packages be the best choice for a web-facing application?

>>108565810
>Until then geepeety is only as useful as searching the webs, just faster.
Uh, yeah. That's the point. That's exactly what I want when I want to learn something about servers.

>>108567031
reading about a thing is not doing the thing. I promise you your first preseed for any distro will cause rage and panic like you've never experienced before. If it's your first time that is

>>108566995
so i have similar, and i remember mostly what's inside the things. but liek. i have a reactions folder. with 1200 pepe's. and if i want the one with the tongue sticking out like luffy, well..

>>108567106
I cannot imagine being so deeply invested in something I can just wipe and start over. Why would I be pissing myself and crying over installing Linux?

>>108567150
my last run took 35 tries to get the pressed working as intended. And I'm very good at what I do

>>108565752
buy an ad you fuckstick

>>108567189
build a server retard

>>108567180
It sounds like you're actually pretty bad at what you do then. Either way, why panic? Just edit your config and try again. Nothing is lost.

>>108567203
>Nothing is lost.
your time might be free, but mine isn't. nor is anyone else's

>>108567204
Predictable reply. If your time is so valuable, you should probably get better at Linux so you don't have to fuck up an install 34 times in a row.

>>108567193
I get all my servers for free from people who vibe code web apps.

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>>108567214
I imagine my tech is vastly more powerful than yours. Where's yours?

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>>108567222
present it