That’s funny! Do you have it connected to Nabu Casa? Or are you connected to your home network via VPN?

You can enable replication, and once you have the VM disk replicated, you can enable High Availability. Open the VM in the webinterface, click “More” at bottom right, and select “Manage HA”.

You can do HA in Proxmox with ZFS replication instead of Ceph. Third device something else as you said. It’s what I’m doing.

Yeah that’s a solid approach if you and your housemates are the only users.

How’s that supposed to work if the other people want to access it “from the Internet”, most likely meaning their mobile phones when not at home? Find out all IP subnets for the carrier?

It’s generally fine to open it up, if your somewhat know what you’re doing. I wouldn’t do it without some protection measures like fail2ban and making sure HA is always up to date.

Nabu Casa, the manufacturer of HA, has a paid option where they take care of publicly accessing your local HA instance. I think that’s a good solution as well. It includes backups on their servers.

Good idea! I don’t know, but I’m watching this thread. :D

Because it clearly is, despite the missing question mark.

Opnsense is only between the servers and the pi, the pi is in the same subnet as our consumer devices and the opnsense (directly connected to the router). The issues are both on the consumer devices and on the server, so the opnsense should not be the direct issue.

Still waiting for my success. Pihole randomly doesn’t answer DNS requests in time, causing a lot of trouble between my services. It’s happening since I switched to dnsmasq in opnsense (which is upstream for my local domain for Pihole), but also for external domains. Can’t nail it down and am this short of reconsidering my whole network setup. It used to work fine for over a year though…

Opnsense dnsmasq is DHCP for my servers and also resolves them as local hosts. (e.g. server1.local.domain) and Pihole conditionally forwards there. Since the issue is also when resolving external domains, it shouldn’t be related, but the timing is suspicious. I also switched the general upstream DNS.

Pihole does have some logs indicating too many concurrent requests, but those are not always correlating with the timeouts.

I know it’s DNS, I just don’t know where yet.

Thanks for the example! The reasons you mentioned were why I wasn’t looking into it more (using it for my local docs as well).

Need? No
Want? Yes

As someone from Northern Germany, I’m obliged to check out MoinMoin!

Thanks, I missed that.

How did you approach finding the proper plugins?

Yeah it seems like it’s doing too much for me.

And with production run I mean produced at the same charge or the like. As those have a higher chance of failure. If you buy two new from the same shop, odds are that they came in the same shipment etc.

The downside is they are more expensive, the louder part is for big servers I think, but not HDDs

And yes, I was talking about used ones, sometimes they’ve got the SMART values listed, sometimes I ask