A VPN is what you want, not VLANS that is used to segment parts of the local network. not to get your friends in too your local network.

A simple and easy to use solution is wireguard easy.

I would say Seagate Exos or Western Digital Ultrastar.

I know that their are great integrations on home assistant to monitor servers. Then you can make your own dashboard as you wish

Frankly i found the Gentoo handbook much easier to follow then the arch wiki at the time I tried both. Just compiling everything takes a while to do.

Might want to take a look at a dedicated backup tool like Borg. It will keep all the proper permissions and file attributes in the backup.

You can try to see which mounts get exposed with

showmount -e IP

To see if the actual shares are working.

Perhaps urbackup? It is suited for multiple different platforms and supports multiple users. I don’t know of it can be hosted on k8s as I am not too familiar with that yet.

Unless you use Gentoo of course

Also need a router that allows for VLANS as well. Otherwise you can not access the other network when your home. As you need routing between the VLANS. Or you can use a L3 switch.

Yes kind of but it is not strictly allowed and can be considered piracy. Their are some tools for this available on github that can save songs as mp3. Then you can play them in any audio player you like. If you want to know the name of one of those tools just send me a DM.

To add to that. With ZFS raid everything is done with software so their is no hardware lockin.

Also might want to add tty. it is very useful and in someways part of the basics.

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Honesty I found gentoo more easy to install then arch. Mainly because the Gentoo handbook is soo good and is in laid out in a good order. Compare that to the arch wiki that has a ton of sub pages and redirects. Which is just a load harder to follow.

PS. This is before their was a guided installer for arch.

I looked at headscale but as far as I can tell their is no active directory or SSO integration. Which is very unfortunate.

They can also make playlist for them self. And hey as a bonus they might discover other songs they like.

If you are afraid of being ddosed which is very unlikely. Cloudflare has free ddos protection. You can put some but not all things behind their proxy.

Also instead of making things publicly available look in to using a VPN. Wireguard with “wireguard easy” makes this very simple.

VLANs do not make you network magically more secure. But when setup correctly can increase security a load if something has already penetrated the network. But also just to streamline a network and allow or deny some parts of the network.

Might want to change the title a bit…

I never said bleeding edge wouldn’t work. But bleeding edge comes with its own complications that might not be suited for a newbie

Why not use a combined library if I may ask? This would be similar to things like Spotify or tidal but then self hosted.