Mastodawn

After months of procrastination, today I finally took the time to set up an instance of Panoramax in my homelab. The setup was very smooth. Actually, I had booked the full day for it, and by 12PM the instance was publicly available.

At the moment, I'm not accepting contributions (pictures) since I want to make sure everything is running fine before opening to the public.

Kudos to @panoramax for this amazing project!

#Panoramax #homelab #selfhosting #osm

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Strongthany 🧂🧊1d ago

@bustikiller @panoramax considering doing the same, does it have a high storage requirement or what did you have to configure to meet the requirements for that?

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Panoramax

@strongthany @bustikiller

High storage is not required to start, it is a long term issue.

@osm_fr instance started with a bunch of 3TB used HDD, then added some more, then replaced them with 8TB and 16TB when good deals were found on ebay with a current total of 400TB.

The storage bay has 60 LFF trays, and ZFS is used to manage all this, provide redundancy and remote backups.

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Strongthany 🧂🧊21h ago

@panoramax @bustikiller @osm_fr good to know. Thank you for that information. A friend and I are planning on starting one for the Minnesota region and concerned about growing capacity. But I have a number of friends who would be useful resources to pull on for how to build out large scalable storage. So we'll look into that.