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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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Hi, so I've ended up bagging myself a big supermicro server. I'm wanting to try out a little bit of everything with it, but one thing I really want is to be able to have services that haven't been used for a bit to stop or sleep. And then to wake up again or start up on request, rather than me having manually stop and start services. Is that a thing?

I know of portainer and whatnot, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on this.

I'm planning on putting debian on it i think (unless someone can convince something else is better suited - i usually use arch on my personal devices btw 😜)

Also i know some basics on raid but I've only ever messed with raid0 with usb drives on a pi. I have 8 bays but 2 are currently vacant. What is the process of just adding an extra drive to a raid, or replacing one that already exists?

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah so i might be thinking leaving a service running is worse than it actually is then?

The motherboard has two networks ports and a card with another two. There's also some fibre ports but i imagine I'll never end up using them haha.

I don't actually really know much about firewalls at all yet though

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 0 points 10 months ago

For the firewall you can try OPNsense or OpenWrt