I run debian on everything, so I set up unattended-upgrades for security updates and basically forget about it. Docker updates are also automatic with Komodo, just make sure databases are pinned to a major version.
For monitoring my services I use Uptime Kuma, and get an alert if a service goes down so I can fix it.
Been pretty solid for years now. Things get rebooted every month or two when I do a Proxmox upgrade and reboot the host.
In the case of these ones you just remove the LXC/VM it created.
Install Debian as a server with no GUI, install docker on it and start playing around.
You can use Komodo or Portainer if you want a webUI to manage containers easily.
If you put any important data on it, set up backups first, follow the 3-2-1 rule by having at least 2 backups in place.
The problem with stuff like yunohost is when it breaks you have no idea how to fix it, because it hides everything in the background.
You can move files and continue seeding, just tell the torrent client where the new location is.
Sounds like NFS might still be the way to go for you.
For backups personally I use Restic and connect over SFTP via SSH, since that’s just built in and doesn’t need any configuration.
For more traditional file sharing I use WebDAV with SFTPGo, since I need windows and android compatibility too, and webdav is pretty easy to setup and use.
And I also use Syncthing for keeping some directories in sync between devices.
Cloudflare is fine for DNS hosting and the control panel is well made and easy to use compared to a lot of other services, they have no access to your traffic or anything unless you specifically use their proxy features.
Add the domain to cloudflare, change the nameservers in Bluehost, and you should be all set to use Letsencrypt via the API.
You could also transfer the domain to Cloudflare.
You can still use Syncthing to pull photos back to the phone, Immich just stores them in organized directories as normal files.
I’ve also found resolve to really struggle handling files that other editors can deal with just fine, not sure why.
Those old server CPUs and motherboards just draw a ton of power, I’m not sure there’s much more you can do.
It might be best to change hardware if you need lower power draw, a $50 PC off ebay with an i5-7500 should be faster and a only uses about 15W idle.
That N200 is likely on par or faster than dual Opteron 6272 CPUs, since they are so old.
Migration should be as simple as importing the existing ZFS stuff into the Proxmox OS. Having backups of important data is critical though.
If I understand correctly, you can specify directories that live on the Proxmox Host, and they appear inside the VM, right?
Inside a Container, yep. VMs can’t do bind mounts, and would need to use NFS to share existing data from the host to inside the VM.
How does this compare to using virtual storage?
Like a VM virtual disk? Those are exclusive to each VM and can’t be shared, so if you want multiple VMs to access the same data then NFS would be needed.
But containers with bind mounts don’t have that limitation and multiple containers can access the same data (such as media).
Also, how can I replicate the ZFS pools to an external machine?
ZFS replication would do that.
Proxmox supports ZFS natively with management in the WebUI. So you could get rid of TrueNAS entirely and not need to deal with HBA pass-through or anything.
You also wouldn’t need NFS or have to deal with shares, as the data is available directly to Proxmox Containers via bind mounts.
NFO files are just text and don’t execute, so generally should be safe.
I’m not really sure what you mean by gathering data, an info or nfo file is just a text file with some instructions.
To me a zip file is a lot more suspicious than a normal directory of files.
Personally I just copy/paste into the VM over a network share, then disable networking before running (or enable with a firewall rule on the hypervisor to allow only internet access for the VM if it needs it)
If you only want to tunnel a few apps use include mode. Just add the torrent client to the app include list, bind to the VPN interface in your torrent client settings, and you should be good to go.
A VM is a good way to do it, the only real downside is just the space used by a whole extra OS install.
Most VPN clients will have an option to route only specific applications over the VPN. Just remember to also lock the Bittorrent client to the VPN network interface to prevent leaks if the VPN stops working.
Yeah it would be no different from running without a VM. The issue you’re having isn’t related to it being a VM.
Your popup there looks like it is because the user account you’re using doesn’t have admin privileges on windows. If this is a fresh install, I have no idea how you’ve ended up in that situation, as the user account you create on install is admin by default.
I suppose you can probably do most things without the plugins too, just more time intensive
There is barely any overhead with a Linux VM, a Debian minimal install only uses about 30MB of RAM! As an end user i find performance to be very similar with either setup.