I had another look at updating my Cloudflare domains using dynamic DNS, and found that it is very easy now compared to a few years back.... I think 2018 was the last thread I found on it.
Anyhow, super simple.
Start by creating a new API key with DNS update permission.
Using a current Ubuntu.
apt install ddclient
Follow the instructions.
@gjacobse said in Getting Domain Information / Owner:
@travisdh1 said in Getting Domain Information / Owner:
@gjacobse Try the source, ICANN.
Site seems to use Domains By Proxy, part of GoDaddy,.... maybe,..
ICANN is literally the source of truth so far as internet domains are concerned.
https://www.icann.org/
The domains I'm responsible for always reflect the correct information there.
Hopefully the one you're looking at isn't behind a privacy screen, most are these days.
While I was attempting to look up how to backup a Proxmox host to a remote Proxmox Backup Server over Zerotier, all the instructions I found were very complex. While those instructions are true if you want to route an entire network, it is very easy to get a single Proxmox host and single PBS server connected over Zerotier.
As an example, this is my Managed Routes section of Zerotier with a working backup job.
@gjacobse said in Recommendation for home WiFi router:
@JaredBusch
the UniFi Express 7 looks pretty decent in capacity and features - and likely a contendor replacement for the UniFi Lite Router I have since my NTG days. Has that really been ten years ago now?I will say I sort of feel that they seriously missed the mark in the design. Seems that USB-C has to be shoved into everything - but seriously - why!!??
They could have easily put the PSU into the unit and only had the AC power cable. True, the unit shouldn't need to be moved once in place. But,.. really? Get real - Just because USB--C can do so much, doesn't mean that you need to use it everywhere - especially when all you are suppling is 5v. Incorporate the whole thing and it'll be a better format.
That said,.. I'm still likely to move to something like it or this in the future.
I had a location with a UniFi Lite router that died around a year ago. Upgrading to the UniFi Express doubled their throughput with QOS enabled. Went from 300MB download to 600MB. Upload is limited because of the cable connection.
xByte.com is my first choice, especially for production compute.
If it's not mission critical or for a home lab, check out these next two.
Stallard Technology, stikc.com
ServerMonkey.com
I'm in agreement with Scott here. There is a very short list of options, and Nutantix is not one of them.
Proxmox would be the primary choice (the backup server is really easy to work with as well), and XCP-NG if Proxmox can't be used.
Migrating from a VMWare to Proxmox is also really easy. I did a trial at a former work place.
@dave247 said in Moving off VMware Hypervisor to something else - need input:
@scottalanmiller just out of curiosity, could you provide any arguments against using Hyper-V?
We are 99.9% Windows PC & Server shop where I work so naturally some might suggest us using Microsoft's Hyper-V. I have used it a handful of times in the past but it didn't seem very user friendly and seemed to have issues at the time, granted it was over 8 years ago.
There are reasons why not even Microsoft runs the entirety of their cloud services on their own platform.
@dave247 said in Moving off VMware Hypervisor to something else - need input:
Another question: when I was researching Proxmox, someone mentioned that it doesn't fully support shared block storage currently. It was basically stated that Proxmox and others haven't come up with an equivalent to VMFS for shared block storage yet, so they are typically leveraging LVM to partition off portions of disk for each VM limit access to those regions to a singular host at a time.
I had looked at this comparison matrix which shows that Proxmox does fully support shared storage, so I'm unclear on the exact specifics and if it really matters in my situation. We basically have an iSCSI storage controller for VM storage and then our ESXi hosts for compute (mentioned in my original post).
All I really care about if we move to Proxmox is that we can store VMs in our storage controller and use the hosts for compute, similar to how we're doing it with VMware today.
The short version is, those people don't know what they're talking about.
Those are two completely different things, with next to no similarities. VMFS is a shared filesystem (better compared to something like Gluster.) LVM is a volume management layer that a filesystem sits on top of.
@scottalanmiller said in UNRAID: Did it improve since 2017?:
@gjacobse said in UNRAID: Did it improve since 2017?:
Co-worker came
UNraid was a scam. Now they just resell stuff. No value.
This.
As with all NAS type systems, you're really better off managing the storage yourself. NAS are really only for those that don't know enough to properly manage storage for themself.
The only thing I've had problems with when using double NAT is some phone systems get very very cranky.
Other than that, just the normal downsides of not controlling your own external access.
I've seen this mentioned in a number of places recently, and it sounds like a good option to enable SSO. The open source/free version has useful features.
I just got it installed tonight. All I can say about it so far is that it is an easy install on Ubuntu Server using Docker. I'd imagine the Kubernetes version is also an easy install.
Just wondering if anyone else has used it and what you think of it if you have?
