What’s everyone’s server naming scheme?
Proxmox1-n
[Servicename]-ctr for containers
[OS/arch]-dev dev vms
That’s about it.Is there a guide to set something like this up? I have jellyfin on Ubuntu server and I’d very much like to get something that’s got an interface I can understand.
Hey I’m kinda struggling to get my stuff self hosted. I set proxmox up and now I don’t know what to do with it :D. Any suggestions?
P.s. Vault warden is an EXCELLENT self hosted password manager, highly recommend that as well.
P.P.S Do not make a self-hosted password manager your first project. You should expect one of these first projects to absolutely eat shit for reasons you don’t fully understand yet, and having it be your daily-driver password manager would be a hell of a shitty weekend.
Proxmox helper scripts! These help a lot.
+1 for the helper scripts
Soooo, proxmox is just the base of the ecosystem, it allows you to load a bunch of containers and virtual machines.
If you’re not sure what you want yo host check this page out.
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/lxc
They have a bunch of container templates that are ready to host.
I’ve been trying to replace could services with self hosted ones for me and my loved ones; these are some of my favorites:
- Nextcloud: replaces onedrive and dropbox
- Pangolin: Replaces Cloudflared (a little technical)
- Jellifin: Locally hosted netflix clone
- Game server: Awesome multi game server host, I use it to play minecraft with my nephews, has a ton of games you can host
- Joomla: (or any other CMS) when you mix it with Pangolin, it’s an easy way to host a website
- Netbird: overlay network manager that allows you to join multiple sites/networks as one LAN, it’s great for off site backups and to play with friends and family without having to host anything
- Grafana: Monitoring, data analytics and alerts. It’s like task manager but a thousand times better.
- Yunohost: It’s a one click install user friendly interface to manage web apps.
Wasn’t there some drama recently about Turnkey? I vaguely remember some kind of kerfuffle.
Haven’t heard the gossip, please pray tell.
I may be hallucinating. It’s kind of hard to keep up with everything sometimes. I’ll see if I can dig up something. I wasn’t throwing shade on your suggestion, or trying to inject doubt. It just triggered a light in my brain, but unfortunately, my brain has no recollection except that there was something. Thanks pos brain!
There are a ton of guides out there, but the problem with open source software is that you can make it as yours as you want so every deployment is different. You would be better off doing some googling on what you want to get to, and asking more specific questions. Everyone in the community loves to help, but we need to know how.
Heads up. I think you meant to reply but made a new comment.
I named a lot of my machines hackbox…
Elements of the periodic table.
So what happens when you cluster Na with H20?
Big bada boom
Mine is Final Fantasy summon monsters!
I went with a SciFi ship theme, my main server is VMS-HORIZON (Virtual Machine Ship). The VMs have ship component names like AUDIO-CORE (navidrome) and VISUAL-CORE (Immich).
My Raspberry Pi is named ORBITER, like a orbiting shuttle/satellite, and the VM it has is called BEACON (for Gotify)
You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen. Comet, and Cupid, and Donner, and Blitzen…
Close, LCC. I do have a portrainer instance for docker images, but I like the extra control that San lxc gives you
My name scheme is song names. I listen to allot of folk rock, so some names are hollowmoon or foxlore.
Its a little spicier than anas or pnas
I’ve settled on this idea as a Python developer. I don’t care if I have long names. I care about:
- understanding what it is merely by reading its name
- ability to sort lexically and items be returned in a manner I find satisfying
- uniform string structure, typically delimited by hyphen or underscore (I don’t care which, most of the time)
Names can be long. spark_write_operation_status_failfast is leagues better than some like write_op_stat
Culture ships.
Limiting Factor and Cargo Cult are desktops.
Empiricist and Sense amid Madness, Wit Amdist Folly are a NAS and NUC that runs everything I need
Its a great variety of memorable names.
(And even though Elon keeps naming things after them, he hasn’t fucking read the books.)
I personally name my servers after Rain World iterators and creatures. I fear the day when I run out of names.
Man I wish I spent time actually learning Proxmox, instead dumped everything into a headless Debian VM and called it a day.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters LXC Linux Containers NAS Network-Attached Storage NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers Plex Brand of media server package VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
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