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If you can make this use some PCI path to the drives, and support 2.5" laptops or SSDs, then you're on the same journey to a better story.
Radaxa have a vertical chassis, with a fan. It runs the fan a LOT. I suspect driving disks is hot work.
I'm looking for something like this, but cheaper and for 3.5" drives. USD$250, plus shipping to Australia puts that just too high for what it offers. I own Synology NASs, but adding an expander for that is expensive. (AUD$800) The ODroid-HC4 looks promising, but their 'toaster' case design for it is awful, leaving the drives exposed and unable to put two atop each other. Ideally what I'd like is: - 1-2x 3.5" SATA dri…
After further poking around, I see that if one ponies up one's email and follows the (surprisingly dark-patterned) [0] "Sign Up & Customize" button [1], one can see the whole catalogue of planned PiBox hardware. It looks like you'd want the currently-unreleased "Box 2" -- assuming you could swallow the presumably still unpalatable shipping charges. [0] OK, I get that these guys want to gauge interest as precisely as…
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> Edit: specifically, Tailscale uses their own proprietary relay servers, and if you don’t want to use them you can’t use tailscale. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is incorrect [0]. You can use your own relay servers [0]. However, Tailscale only uses the relay servers as a last resort. Most of the time, the connection will be established directly between the peers. If you're able to configure port forwarding on your router as anothe…
I find it hard to model the flow of this stuff and it can be hard to get a sense reading through the product offerings, maybe I can ask and you'll know enough to give me an overview? Currently I run a server on a digital ocean box I access via a custom domain with a let's encrypt cert (too much detail about this setup is here: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/06/urbit-on-the-cloud.ht... ). It'd be cool to have thi…
If my understanding is correct, you want this server to be publicly accessible, i.e. by anyone, not just you or a limited, well-defined set of people. If that's the case, you don't need Tailscale, which can be seen more like a VPN.
If you don't have CG-NAT (meaning your home router gets a public, routable IP) you can probably set up port forwarding to your Mac and some script that would update your DNS entry if your IP isn't static.
If you DO have CG-NAT, or for some other reason you cannot forward any ports, you'll have to use something external to at least route the traffic. I've glossed over your link, so this may not work, but you could look at proxying your traffic with Cloudflare. Look up cloudflared. If that doesn't work, then yes, something like wireguard between your DO VM and your home Mac could work.
All in all, I think this is more or less a classic "home server" setup, so you should be searching for "hosting a server at home" or similar.
I'm looking for something like this, but cheaper and for 3.5" drives. USD$250, plus shipping to Australia puts that just too high for what it offers. I own Synology NASs, but adding an expander for that is expensive. (AUD$800) The ODroid-HC4 looks promising, but their 'toaster' case design for it is awful, leaving the drives exposed and unable to put two atop each other. Ideally what I'd like is: - 1-2x 3.5" SATA dri…
After further poking around, I see that if one ponies up one's email and follows the (surprisingly dark-patterned) [0] "Sign Up & Customize" button [1], one can see the whole catalogue of planned PiBox hardware. It looks like you'd want the currently-unreleased "Box 2" -- assuming you could swallow the presumably still unpalatable shipping charges. [0] OK, I get that these guys want to gauge interest as precisely as…
It's pretty clear (to me, at least) that they're trying to see what people want (and even helpfully give the expected price points for the various options) in order to decide what order to design and build things, and I'm more than happy to help give that information, as well as give them my email address so they can tell me when the thing I want is going to be available.
I guess I just don't see what your objection is to their flow. The only improvement I could see would be waiting to ask for an email address until the end instead of the beginning, but I don't see that as being all that huge. And honestly I see that as sorta worse: it feels dark-patterny to get people to engage with you (in this case, by putting the various hardware option selections first), and then after they've invested the time, require an email address to make that time worthwhile.
Interesting. Usually my critique for products like this is something along the lines of "great, but how are you going to access your data from the internet?" Typically the answer to that is you need some sort of tunneling service like ngrok to get around port forwarding, CGNAT, firewalls, etc. I maintain a list of solutions here[0]. The problem with most of these services is that they're targeted at developers and ar…
This is exactly the goal - a box that anyone could buy, plug-in, click a few buttons, and get an on-the-internet service (like PhotoPrism or Plex) ready to roll. Bonus if they can easily control access, invite friends, and also if it's totally open and hackable - as much a learning platform for technology as a plug-and-play box-for-media. That's the vision anyways!
I’d love it if they focussed on improving the UI and sharing aspects rather than pushing their media and weird default requirement for internet access.
I’d happily pay more for the path I want.
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I have no idea how Tailscale works, but it always does. I used to have a bastion host that I'd ssh into to access my home network. Now I just startup Tailscale and connect.
I just forward 51820 UDP on my router once, and use Wireguard. It always works.
It’s some black magic.
Interesting. Usually my critique for products like this is something along the lines of "great, but how are you going to access your data from the internet?" Typically the answer to that is you need some sort of tunneling service like ngrok to get around port forwarding, CGNAT, firewalls, etc. I maintain a list of solutions here[0]. The problem with most of these services is that they're targeted at developers and ar…
i have a systemd cron job (timer) that runs miniupnpc every couple minutes to ask the router to set up firewall rules that a box needs. for now i still manually update my home's dns records whenever there's a power outage and therefore new ip address. but i'll be building something dor dynamic dns soon enough. but a couple boxes also ssh into a vps, and forward their own ssh ports to the vps, so i can jump into them…
Then I just altered the IP on connection. It actually changed very rarely but until I learned of better ways, I liked it.
I'm looking for something like this, but cheaper and for 3.5" drives. USD$250, plus shipping to Australia puts that just too high for what it offers. I own Synology NASs, but adding an expander for that is expensive. (AUD$800) The ODroid-HC4 looks promising, but their 'toaster' case design for it is awful, leaving the drives exposed and unable to put two atop each other. Ideally what I'd like is: - 1-2x 3.5" SATA dri…
I see a Synology 5-bay NAS on Amazon for around $700. The PiBox 5 plus an 8GB CM4 w/32GB eMMC runs less than $350. Even though I'd expect the performance of the PiBox to be less than that of a Synology NAS, I will gladly pay half price for something decent that runs an OS that I can update essentially forever and manage how I see fit.
[0] Luckily I've managed to build and flash a modern kernel and install Debian buster on it, since support for its hardware has been upstreamed, but I imagine this is the exception, not the rule.
I recently did something like this myself with an RPi 4 and an external drive over USB to replace Google Photos (with PhotoPrism). For tunneling (and custom domain) I used cloudflared which works surprisingly well: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared . I wrote about it here: https://domh.dev/blog/replacing-google-photos-with-photopris... That being said, I love that someone is working on making this stuff easie…
Cloudflare Tunnels is currently my recommendation for most people. Not only is it free, it will also manage DNS records and HTTPS for you very easily. My main concern is that when it comes to self-hosting photos and videos, that's against the TOS for Cloudflare's free tier. If enough people start using it I assume they'll crack down. Bandwidth isn't free.
But I am also not sure why I'd want to expose my photos and videos to the internet. Just use a VPN of some sort.