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Cake day: September 24th, 2023

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  • I second this.

    I have a nextcloud instance on pi4 for personal use and love it.

    It’s not good for live transcoding of video, but works great for calendars, file sharing, photo sharing and music streaming.

    I have a 500 gig SSD for most stuff and a 6TB HDD for backups and archiving.

    I use docker compose to map a folder called archive in my instance to the HDD.










  • I was self hosting gitea. It’s great for small projects and all for well over a year…

    But then my filesystem got corrupt and I really learned to appreciate not having to deal with physical infrastructure.

    I have things backed up and all, but I’m short on time and it’s taken a week for me to find time to pull out the drive, pop it into another machine fsck it, pop it back into the server, see that even though the filesystem is repaired and mountable on my desktop, my Raspi cant boot at all. Kernel panics when trying to mount rootfs :( Then pull the drive back out and reburn a new image, copy home folders, yada yada

    It’s a good thing my work doesnt depend on it.


  • Very good points.

    In my case I just need to for a couple users with maybe a few dozen transactions a day; it’s far from being a bottleneck and there’s little point in optimizing it further.

    Containerizing it also has the benefit of boiling all installation and configuration into one very convenient dockercompose file… Actually two. I use one with all the config stuff that’s published to gitea and one that has sensitive data.