I have my own home-server and it’s not really a problem maintaining it as I’ve been through a steep learning curve. Now I have a friend who has an ancient Synology and it is always causing terrible problems for him.

If I were to set up a little server for him with docker services running things like immich and syncthing etc, would this be set and forget enough to not cause problems for him? Ideally he wants his own cloud so relatives can store and share files, photos, and possibly movies too. He isn’t the most tech savvy, but he knows his way around Windows and PC’s generally. He doesn’t live that close so I can’t be at his if anything went a little pear-shaped. I could however ssh into it at least.

Is this feasible or practicable? Or would he have to learn Linux and Docker et al.?

  • thekrautboyBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    would this be set and forget enough to not cause problems for him?

    Let me check my crystal ball… hmm yes, maybe.

    Maybe you should consider putting a simple to use “OS” like /r/CosmosServer or CasaOS on that little server, so even he could do basic things with it like update a container. But also make sure you have a reliable remote option over SSH for example.

    Nothing is 100% foolproof.

    • CantaloupeFortyOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes, I have no doubt it could be tricky, maybe not even possible at all. However it could maybe be doable with the correct setup.

  • chin_waghingBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My view is skewed as I run k8’s at work, but I have a single node k3s cluster and have all my things on there, and honestly I forgot about it until now

    • CantaloupeFortyOPBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Is that because of the quality of the setup or you have a bad memory? /jk

      Good to know setups can be hands-off to a degree.

      • chin_waghingBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Am I allowed to answer both?

        A simple docker-compose stack would probably do everything you need