Hi Everyone,

So, I am very new to self-hosting. A couple of years ago I set up a mini PC running Ubuntu Server with Nextcloud and Jellyfin on my network. Now I think I want to move away from Nextcloud as for me, uploading files to it hasn’t been super reliable and it has been a little slow. It also seems to have a lot of features I really don’t need.

At the moment, I basically use my server just for file storage, plus running Jellyfin. I think initially I went to nextcloud because I wanted a solution that would automatically sync my files to my network storage kinda like onedrive. However, Nextcloud on different systems doesn’t work the same way and I basically ended up just manually copying everything over to Nextcloud and using it like a network drive. At that point, why even use nextcloud then? I would be better off with Sharing a folder using Samba right? Do you think that would be the best fit for my needs? Or should I learn about freenas? Taking a quick look at it I’m not sure what advantages it would have over just a samba share.

Edit: Thanks everyone! You’ve given me a lot to look into!

  • monty33@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    How would you setup a NAS like system through Proxmox? Personally I would not be using zfs.

    • CeeBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I would never use anything other than ZFS. Proxmox is just Debian with a management UI. You can setup disks, volumes, etc, with the web UI. And whatever you can’t do from there you can do via the shell or ssh like you would want other Linux system.