I am finally making the push to self host everything I possibly can and leave as many cloud services as I can.
I have years of linux server admin experience so this is not a technical post, more of an attempt to get some crowd wisdom on a complex migration.
I have a plan and have identified services i would like to implement. Take it as given that the hardware I have can handle all this. But it is a lot so it won’t happen at once.
I would appreciate thoughts about the order in which to implement services. Install is only phase one, migration of existing data and shaking everything down to test stability is also time consuming. So any insights, especially on services that might present extra challenges when I start to add my own data, or dependencies I haven’t thought of.
The list order is not significant yet, but I would like to have an incremental plan. Those marked with * are already running and hosting my data locally with no issues.
Thanks in advance.
Base system
- Proxmox VE 8.3
- ZFS for a time-machine like backup to a local hdd
- Docker VM with containers
- Home Assistant *
- Esphome *
- Paperless-ngx *
- Photo Prism
- Firefly III
- Jellyfin
- Gitea
- Authelia
- Vaultwarden
- Radicale
- Prometheus
- Grafana
I have a fine backup strategy and I don’t really want to go into it here. I am considering my ecosystem of services at this point.
I am skeptical that this will overload my i/o if I build it slowly and allocate the resources properly. It may be the rate-limiting factor in some very occasional situations, but never a real over-load situation. Most of these services only sit and listen on their respective ports most of the time. Only a few do intense processing and even then only on upload of new files or when streaming.
I really resist throwing a lot of excess power at a single-user system. It goes against my whole ethos of appropriate and proportional tech.