SayCyberOnceMore

Yeah, I agree… I want (and have) a NAS… and a separate Server.

The NAS is a NAS, not a TrueNas running my firewall, making coffee and keeping the house warm.

I also agree with OMV for someone starting out. I stuck with it until it got a little too containerised for my own liking and ended up building my NAS out of standard Arch because I now knew what features I wanted.

And my Proxmox is on a passively cooled small, silent, box in my home office. It will be upgraded to Incus on plain Arch one day because, again, I now know what features I want / don’t want.

For OP, try things, break things, try other things… just make sure you have backups 😉

Where’s Prosody in the list?

Yeah, we’re using Conversations and it’s fine for most things.

Will be self hosting prosidy “sooon”… and it’ll all be in-house.

This is good, if they:

• 1. Understand & trust what you’re doing and don’t fiddle with it
• 2. Don’t understand and just don’t fiddle with it

Luckily I have a family member that fits one of those categories.