Minimised Ubuntu server I think only wants like 2.5gb of space and cuts out a lot of things you'll never use

If you're only using it for Plex and nothing else, it probably won't make a lot of difference which you use.

My old setup was Ubuntu running Plex as an install.. if you just run a server without a gui, it's like 3 lines to install Plex

I also have a pi as a portable setup running the docker version which works pretty well but I don't think it will handle hardware encoding very well, but I could be wrong

My current setup is 3x Lenovo m920q (soon to be 4) all in a proxmox cluster, along with a qnap nas with 20gb ram and 4x 8tb in raid 5.

The specs on the m920q are: I5 8500T 32gb ram 256gb sata SSD 2tb nvme SSD 1gbe nic

On each proxmox machine, I have a docker server in swarm mode and each of those vm all have the same NFS mounts pointing to the nas

On the Nas I have a normal docker installation which runs my databases

On the swarm I have over 60 docker containers, including the arr services, overseerr and two deluge instances

I have no issues with performance or read/write or timeouts.

As one of the other posters said, point all of your arr services to the same mount point as it makes it far easier for the automated stuff to work.

Put all the arr services into a single stack (or at least on a single network), that way you can just point them to the container name rather than IP, for example, in overseerr to tell it where sonarr is, you'd just say http://sonarr:8989 and it will make life much easier

As for proxmox, the biggest thing I'll say from my experience, if you're just starting out, make sure you set it's IP and hostname to what you want right from the start... It's a pain in the ass to change them later. So if you're planning to use vlans or something, set them up first

Tronixfix does a number of those videos, and sometimes they do a lot to clean it and make sure it's good, other times they don't even blow the dust out

They are still doing it. I'm still waiting for dead island 2 to come to steam because it's a 1 year timed exclusive on epic

It's not even a named commenter.. just "one commenter said..."

Tailscale also has the funnel option to open up a single service to the outside world without needing a reverse proxy and has its own ssl certificates

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I second Lenovo tiny. I have 3 x m920q with a gigabit switch and total combined power draw is about 53w

It's an ongoing fee. The initial fee is raised by 3 times, and if the property is empty for more than 6 months of the year, they are charged twice the fee (so 6 times what the fee currently is, which starts at $13200aud and is up to $105600aud depending on the value of the property)

This means it will cost tens of thousands of dollars up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, each year, to leave it empty over half the year

9800 reviews so far and only 15% positive

Not sure this would entirely replace portainer for me since that manages multiple machines, but I am keen to play with this