I blocked this community a while ago so I don’t accidentally view/comment on it

I’ve been running my Proxmox in suicide raid configuration for a year now and have only procrastinated this far because I can’t fix my TrueNAS replication tasks… and my proxmox machine is over the 1/2 full mark

isn’t yandex Russian owned?

well it probably doesn’t matter, since corporations are the ones buying it all up and you really can’t intimidate those soulless bastards

I’m in the US so I was able to snag a lot of stuff for like $150 usd off eBay. Though my first home server was actually a mini PC which was only like $100 and is super power efficient, only using like 10-15 watts. The biggest downside though of that is that is only has two NVME slots and no SATA, because it’s a mini PC.

• buy a cheap atx case with >= 4 3.5” drive bays
• buy a mini itx mb with like 4/5 SATA ports or however you want. Btw pcie SATA hbas exist. This future proofs drives. You can also get pcie NVMe adapters or buy a MB with NVMe ports. Mini itx for the power efficiency. Beware RAM limits on some MBs.
• throw a 6000 or preferably 9000 series and onwards intel chip in there. Anything before that will have poor efficiency. Good thing about this is the socket FGA1151(??) is supports a wide range of years
• 16 gb ram min. Believe me. You’ll run out.
• for PSU, go with Corsair. Only buy tested ones with all the original cables. I recommend looking at Cybenetic’s PSU efficiency numbers. I have a Corsair PSU.
• put proxmox on it. Containerize everything if you’re low on RAM or CPU.

This is probably the #1 reason I started using qbit and now use it in my homelab’s docker container.

1337x.to was blocked for me today! Even though it doesn’t stream content. Feels like an “enshittification pincer” is happening right now.

Just use WHOIS protection (which should be free, but whatever).