Hello!
I’m Arkhive (they/she), one of your new mods and I’ve just got a sort of update from the mod team.
We, the mods of Onehundredninetysix (hereby referred to as OneNineSix for my own sanity), would like to introduce ourselves. The members of the mod team that are interested will post a comment below this post and hopefully mingle a bit. Something that has come up in our discussions is a general interest in owning our actions, even in online spaces. That means putting people behind the names you see in the sidebar.
As the OneNineSix community coalesces, things have been quite good from our end. While we could be quicker at processing reports, a lot of that stems from us discussing choices as a group before making final decisions…and probably a bit more fear to use our power than is good for us, but time I’m sure will fix that proceeds to power trip. We are absolutely not infallible, and we also strive to admit wrong when necessary and work to rectify it. There is a degree of patience that necessarily extends both directions between mods and users, and in the end we are all users of the same space. We will work to be good stewards of this space for all those being good stewards with us.
And so! This thread. If this idea goes over poorly, please take it out in the replies to my comment, and we will assess and hopefully the other mods will dive in on the discussion too. We have also floated the idea of an irregularly occurring, semi-regular, mod chat thread. My pitch is for “Modly Mondays” but its still an idea in its infancy and feedback is welcome;)
Thank you for your time, thank you for the memes (the cat included), and I’ll remove see you from in the comments.
TL;DR I’m Arkhive (they/she), I’m a mod, there’s more of us (surprise!), and we’d like to introduce ourselves in the comments.
Side note: I realize this is being posted on a day there are protests happening across the US and presumably throughout the world. While this is not an explicitly US comm, I want to remind people to stay safe. Know your rights, know the ACLU phone number, have an exit plan, go as a group, and don’t talk to cops. We keep us safe.
I spot a Jellyfin! Very based.
BUT before I am fully impressed I must know if and how many (in GiB) torrents you are currently seeding for Anna’s Archive. I’m at 600 (aiming for 1 TiB) but I just like hoarding data :3
I definitely wasn’t just researching drives to see how much of it I could seed. Absolutely not, could never be me. 😬
Honestly I wish I was seeding more of their dataset. My storage situation is a bit wonky atm. I’ve got an old(ish) laptop that I run most of my self hosted stuff on, but it really doesn’t have a ton of storage. Then I try to avoid hosting lots of torrents on my main rig. I’ve got a single board computer I’m planning to turn into a NAS/seedbox, but I need to pick out drives for that. Very tempted to pull for like 2, 20Tb drives that are clones of each other for redundancy, but the combined $800 is, needless to say, holding me back.
As far as Jellyfin goes, yeah. I’ve mostly ditched Spotify now thanks to Finamp and getting back into bandcamp and stuff. Trying to support artists directly where I can. I just last night finally got nginx and Tailscale playing together so I have full on URLs for all my services without ever exposing them to the internet.
Honestly, you can probably find 4 refurbished >=10 TB hard drives for less than $800. 12 - 16 TB is the price-to-performance sweet spot for refurbished drives I believe, as data centers are starting to upgrade to 18 TB and beyond.
And since you’re limited in resources (I mean who isn’t) I wouldn’t recommend mirroring. You lose half your capacity after all. I’d probably go with 4 drives in RAID 5 for single drive failure redundancy with 75% capacity. Look up RAID if you haven’t heard about it yet, it’s really cool.
(Note that RAID 5 is often discouraged due to risk of multi-drive failure which would wipe out all your data and long rebuild times. I still consider it fine for home server usage with few disks and non-critical storage. If your data is critical go with RAID 1 - i.e. mirroring/duplicating instead. Even then more drives is better than fewer drives imo.)
If you have small amounts of critical data you could also setup a small RAID 1 array with 2 ~1 TB SSDs (which would mirror/duplicate them). But remember: https://www.raidisnotabackup.com/
Take my RAID advice with a grain of salt though since I’m running unraid OS like a filthy casual which - well, as the name suggests - has its own redundancy implementation. In my defense: I didn’t have much experience with Linux at the time of setting it up. Still - my 36 TB NAS (48 TB with parity drive :3) is 50% filled already. Storage fills up so fast!
Also, for larger-ish artists that don’t allow you to purchase their music (which is most for some reason), I recommend sailing the high seas ;). I still need to set up Jellyfin (+ Lidarr) for music though, right now I’m manually synchronizing all my music libraries.
I’m doing pretty much the same with my services. Except I’m using WireGuard. And NginxProxyManager because nginx scares me. But other than that it’s the same!
Yeah I gotta move to wireguard at some point, or the self hosted version of Tailscale. I just like the UI what can I say.
I am also getting music through “other” means. Namely SoulSeek, which I’m loving. I’ve got another source I’ll link once I’m off the train home.
I do know of the whole Raid system, but never explored it. It’s on my list of things, probably sort of parallel to Proxmox on the list. I think those are both things I will learn at the same time and will probably be my next big project.
Nginx also scared me for a long time. I tried it a while ago and could not figure it out for the life of me. Then recently I had a friend learn it pretty well for their work, and then we sort of collaborated on getting it playing with Tailscale.
I always forget the second hand datacenter drive market exists. Like ngl second hand drives spook me a bit conceptually, but data center drives are designed for longevity, so that makes me feel better about it. Will definitely look into it.