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How low maintenance can a small home setup be? (alien.top)
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I have my own home-server and it's not really a problem maintaining it as I've been through a steep learning curve. Now I have a friend who has an ancient Synology and it is always causing terrible problems for him.

If I were to set up a little server for him with docker services running things like immich and syncthing etc, would this be set and forget enough to not cause problems for him? Ideally he wants his own cloud so relatives can store and share files, photos, and possibly movies too. He isn't the most tech savvy, but he knows his way around Windows and PC's generally. He doesn't live that close so I can't be at his if anything went a little pear-shaped. I could however ssh into it at least.

Is this feasible or practicable? Or would he have to learn Linux and Docker et al.?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

would this be set and forget enough to not cause problems for him?

Let me check my crystal ball... hmm yes, maybe.

Maybe you should consider putting a simple to use "OS" like /r/CosmosServer or CasaOS on that little server, so even he could do basic things with it like update a container. But also make sure you have a reliable remote option over SSH for example.

Nothing is 100% foolproof.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I have no doubt it could be tricky, maybe not even possible at all. However it could maybe be doable with the correct setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been doing this for so long on my own that I always forget that all these awesome things exist. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This I'm literally running a single hard drive of just servable data like movies and game saves pictures music nothing mission critical and it was super easy to set up on a SBC. That said setting up raid or using superior hardware should not be an issue I highly recommend op get a Zima blade with NAS kit. Best option out there. Or the new Zima cube