I am considering rebooting my homelab project I started years ago and never got around to doing. I tried fussing with Proxmox but I don't know if I'm smart enough for all of that! I want to turn this old gaming machine into a box that sits in the corner and behaves while I'm off living life. I don't want to fuss with configuration files, learn Traefik, or really deal with command line at all despite being moderately comfortable with bash. I want simple, easy, and functional, I want to stop spending hours banging my head against a wall and actually get this thing done so I can move on.

Things I need:

• Expose services to the internet via reverse proxy and or VPN

• Connect my 24 TB NAS as primary storage for all of my apps

• GPU acceleration/passthrough for AI-related apps (NVIDIA)

I want to run basic apps like Home Assistant, Nextcloud, Immich, maybe some game servers on occasion. I am just a dude who just wants to get away from big tech, not a server wizard.

4 hours ago, FARITRIA said:

a box that sits in the corner and behaves while I'm off living life. I don't want to fuss with configuration files, learn Traefik, or really deal with command line at all despite being moderately comfortable with bash. I want simple, easy, and functional

I mean if that's really what you want you don't self-host, you pay for commercial services who take care of setup and maintenance for you without you having to do anything.

Self-hosting's always gonna need some learning, initial set up work and regular maintenance/fixing of stuff that breaks, it's inevitable. The more services /complexity the more attention needed obviously.

But yeah that's what many of us do, it can do all of that.

Edited May 18May 18 by Kilrah