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Monolithic setup vs dedicated devices (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Being a noob and all I was wondering whats the real benefit of having a monolithic lets say proxmox instance with router, DNS, VPN but also home asssistant and NAS functionalitiy all in one server? I always thought dedicated devices are simpler to maintain or replace and some services are also more critical than others I guess?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Orphans are just dangling objects, are they not?

I'm only using the Unraid Docker GUI to send me utilization alerts and notify me when my images are egregiously out of date. I saw someone trying to author a compose file using the GUI once and I closed the window before the headache started.

I'm not paying $3/mo. Where'd you get that idea? I think I paid $20 for a license like 6 years ago.

I picked Unraid because I had a bunch of disparate HDDs sitting around and their filesystem intrigued me. (0 data loss after 3 drive failures so far.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Fair enough. I think it's bad to invent new words for "stopped container", though. And there should be a way to re-start them.

Yeah, the container creation GUI is a mess. The $3/month thing is a new thing they started for new customers this year. https://unraid.net/pricing

Not a big deal for grandfathered users, but I think its important to consider as a new customer, as you won't even get security updates without paying the subscription fee. Even for vulnerabilities like the CVE-2024-21626 Leaky Vessels vulnerability.

The raid is nice, but it can be kinda clunky adding/removing drives sometimes and I've managed to accidentally destroy an array when I was playing with it. I think you can get identical features using LVM, but obviously it's nice how Unraid does it all for you in a GUI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think it's bad to invent new words for "stopped container"

You're not wrong!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The cheapest option Is the monthly one for no security updates, there are still regular pro and higher plans which are one and done, no grandfathering