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How close are you to "fck it, im just gonna pay for unraid"? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by jobbies@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Currently working on an Arch server for my self hosting needs. I love arch, in my eyes its the perfect platform for self hosting. There is no bloat, making it lightweight and resource efficient. Its also very stable if you go down the lts route and have the time and skills to head off problems before they become catastrophic.

The downsides. For someone who is a semi-noob there is a very steep learning curve. Arch is very well documented but when you hit a problem or a brick wall its very frustrating. My low tolerence for bullshit means I take hours/days long breaks from it. There's also time demands in the real world so needless to say I've been going at it for a few weeks now.

Unraid is very appealing - nice clean interface, out-of-the-box solutions for whatever you want to do, easy NAS management... What's not to like? If it was fully open-source I would've bought into it from the start. At least once a day I think "I'm done. Sign me up unraid". Its taking an age to set up the Arch server. If I went for unraid I could be self hosting in a matter of hours. Unraid is the antitheses of Arch. Arch is for masochists.

Do you ever look at products like unraid and think "fuck this shit, gimme some of that"? What is your version of this? Have you ever actually done it and regretted it/lived happily ever after?

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Exactly. I like doing clever scripting and neat one off projects, I don't like having to become a networking expert, a containerization expert, a hardware expert, and an integration expert so my wife can reliably watch law and order.

I can roll a custom arch build no problem, but I can not set up custom vlan or nat rules or easily swap to a new file system with baked in snapshots or tell you anything about how my GPU compares to anything on the market or how to make it reliably perform hardware acceleration. I would be happy to learn those skills, but sometimes it's all just too much.

If I'm gonna do it, I want to do it. If I need to verbatim copy someone's YouTube video where I use proxmox to use someone's Ubuntu KDE VM to set up couch potato, I'd rather just use unraid and not pretend I'm a FOSSing haxor :).