It’s been a while! Let us know what you’re currently working on, what exploded, what cool stuff you found, or just brag that everything is running fine unattended.
I haven’t been doing a lot, renovate auto upgrades for patches and sometimes minor updates work great so far. I got involved in my union to spin up a mastodon server soon, so there’s a new project, but I already run mastodon so it shouldn’t be much of a deal, I just need to get comfortable with the infrastructure. I also set up ntfy but only sent some test notifications and didn’t configure any app yet - planned for Element Chat.
[Meta] I’m not sure how to apply the new tags. In the recent versions of this thread, people sometimes posted about their ollama setup or the like, but I’m not mentioning AI in the post body (except this meta thingy) and it shouldn’t be much of the discussion, but it’s an open post. Maybe curbstickle can chime in to let me know if I should apply one of them.
Finally think I got everything installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 that I want there, thankfully.
I’ve been trying to document my journey with selfhosting this time better than previous attempts, as far as writing down what worked and didn’t work. It’s coupled with me trying to write little explanation guides for my partner about what service does what, and how to use them. They’re really excited to actually use them, but I want to get the guides done first, which has been a challenge.
Kinda surprised Grimmory is taking up so much RAM but if it becomes an issue I’ll put it on my other, beefier server. It was the last service I was struggling with, because every time I would upload a book, something would go wrong. An example being that one time I uploaded a book and it went into every single folder after, then deleting one copy deleted all the copies.
Admittedly, I’m not terribly well experienced so it was probably an issue on my end. Still learning!
Speaking of, my next project to tackle is overhauling my more powerful server and what it’s running. Since I use a split setup where I store media on my NAS, I’ve had difficulties with databases hating that aspect. Now that I know a bit more than I did when I started, and I have nowhere else to ask (thank you for having this community, by the way, it seems a lot more newbie friendly than some others) I was wondering if I could map the database of a service to be on the server itself, while having the media mapped to my NAS? From my research, I think this is possible, but I’m not 100% sure.
Hope everyone else’s experiences are going well!
Check out BookOrbit if you find Grimmory too hefty in the RAM reqs. It uses very little RAM for me. I think it also has import from Grimmory as well.
As for the database Q, if you’re using docker/Podman it’ll be very easy to point the database folder (if included in the image, like Jellyfin does) to your local filesystem and the media to your NAS. Same idea if the container uses a Postgres container, just spread across two containers in that case.
First, thank you much for suggesting BookOrbit! I actually just installed it because I was having a lot of issues with Grimmory making dupes of books in every folder and couldn’t figure out why it was doing it. Haven’t had any issues with BookOrbit and I really like that it’s got achievements. Plus, the less RAM usage is nice.
I’m using docker and docker compose files! Thank you for answering, the last time I took a crack at selfhosting, I really felt lost and screwed a lot up, so I wasn’t sure if that was even possible.