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9 days ago- Sure. Having more drives is typically done for reliability reasons and they’re set up in some sort of redundant file system like ZFS, BTRFS, or RAID. Having only one drive means when it fails (and it will) you’ll have some downtime while you replace the drive and restore backups.
- Proxmox is great, and I recommend it. Proxmox gives you two important things: 1) A nice way to manage storage (this may not be applicable to you with just one drive, but if you decide to add more later you can explore the options 2) BACKUPS! You’re going to have lots of docker containers and stuff. Restoring docker containers on bare metal is tedious, because you’re dealing with all of the folders that you’ve set up as volumes, all of the compose files, etc. With proxmox, you run Debian in a virtual machine and have all of the Docker stuff in the VM. Your backup will be the entire VM, so restoring it is very simple.
- I don’t have a good answer for this.
- The best choice is whatever works best for you. Sort of a cop out answer, sorry. A lot of people like Tailscale (Headscale is another option), but the downside is you have to set it up on ever device you want to access stuff from. A reverse proxy like Nginx Proxy Manager or Caddy lets you use your own domain. They handle renewing certificates and everything in the background. It requires opening (forwarding) ports 80 and 443 on your router/firewall. Some see this as a security downside, but if everything is done using HTTPS then in theory it’s very safe.
- I don’t have a good answer for this.
