A shoutout to the unRAID team for making remote server management so easy!

[Hoopster]

The combination of the unRAID UI/Docker/Plugin system, built-in WireGuard (or the MyServers plugin) and IPMI on my server motherboards makes remote management of the server and its contents ridiculously easy.  

 

One of my unRAID servers is powered on 24x7 and the other is off until needed; powered on via User Scripts for specific purposes or via IPMI manually when I need to do something with it.

 

I have been away from home for 12 days now and have accessed media on the server and done a few maintenance tasks several times now remotely, including powering on the "off" server and updating it to 6.10.0 rc8  It is so easy that it would be easy to forget I am not home. 

 

Of course, there are ways other than IPMI to remotely power on a server, but IPMI sure makes it easy via an HTML 5 web interface. 

 

I was doing some remote management from my laptop when a friend asked what I was doing.  When I explained it and showed him how I was accessing my home servers, he was dumbfounded.  He considered himself technically literate but was astounded how easy this all is.  Hopefully, I sold him on unRAID as well. 

 

 

Edited May 15, 2022 by Hoopster