Yes that, don’t run a full desktop. Run the raspian light image.

My homelab was once 10 raspberry pis all networked up as a big mess.

It ok, but you will need an external signaling server to make it work over NAT. Also it’s only good for a few in video chat as the load peer to peer.

I would echo that, I’ve been a generalist computer whatnot for over 10 years. I have had to learn to network, virtual network with VMware. Manage Linux servers, then virtual servers. Switch from VMware to aws and understand basic terraform, with ansible learning as well.

Where I work we are on ansible repo 3 I think, as we have matured in how we use it and what works and what doesn’t.

When homelabing, you get to be all the things a big company would have job roles for.

I use nextcloud, the builtin photos app is pants. But memories is amzing

oh, I do need to look at the docker install. I have only every run it from a server with php on it, Im not going to be much help I dont think.

How do you run nextcloud?

Some issues are like that, you fix the issue presented and find more issues to fix.

I do it for a day job and have had issues that I can’t explain as anything more than restart a service and now it works, I also run my own kit and have had the same type of issue.

Will do when I get home

you need to use deb822 as the repo module, like this

- name: Setup deb822 formatted repositorie
  ansible.builtin.deb822_repository:
    name: php
    types: deb
    uris: https://download.docker.com/linux/debian
    components: stable
    suites: "{{ ansible_distribution_release }}"
    signed_by: https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg
    state: present
    enabled: true
  when: (ansible_distribution == 'Debian' and ansible_distribution_major_version >= '13')

I do, but need my laptop. The bit you need to fix is adding a new deb repo, will try and post tomorrow now

Your issue could be a missing index, check the admin settings page and see if it has any advice.

I also found that my files_cache table was missing an index from way back, I had to empty the table and create the index. But the speed boost was insane, it went from painfully slow to almost instant.

I run nextcloud, but I do use other apps. Like contacts and calendar, the news app and even the whiteboard.

But I run it like the work servers I manage, I still don’t understand how so many find running nextcloud so difficult.

You could have a look at OVH and see if they have an image, whats your budget?

if your after alternative to CLoudflare DNS, I can recommend OVH for both domain name and zone, they have API so you can get certs for both internet facing stuff and internal domains

I dont use cloudflare at all, so I didnt notice. I do see a lot of recommendation’s to host behind Cloudflare, so if they have a problem you do too

For large server estates it makes things a breeze to manage, that and semaphore.

Just a reminder that you can host on a group of pis and still have all that good stuff, it won’t be as fast as x86 stuff. But spread the load and things can be quick.

Yes you do need backups of import data, but you don’t need to have data backups and images backups. If you can rebuild the host the data was on thats fine.

I did run my homelab on about 9 pi’s, all connected like spaghetti. If the NFS pi fell over it took out the lot.

So yes you can use pis as a homelab

Do you maintain all that stuff?

Like patch it and back it up?

If not then your doing it wrong!

I started running everything I could, but found the upkeep a pain. Didnt use most of it.

So I now only keep hosted stuff I use, if I don’t access it once it’s running then it goes in the bin.