I dunno why but I’m worried that casaos is holding me back from doing greater things I guess? I’m pretty new to self hosting and I discovered casaos from a Minecraft server setup tutorial of all things and it’s been great for me so far and does pretty much everything I need it to do, but I feel like I don’t really have a full understanding of what I can do outside of it, and I don’t really hear many people talk about casaos so I’m like worried it’s just not very good I guess? I’m just looking for ways to improve really.

For reference I just use my server for Minecraft on the occasion, a self hosted obsidian live sync, adguard, and in the future plan on hosting nextcloud. Casaos seems great for that and maybe it’s perfectly fine but I’d just be interested in being more knowledgeable I guess, and aware of any ways to improve.

  • Willdrick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    A few years ago I got a laptop with a busted video output, installed CasaOS and that kicked off a learning experience that continues to this day. I’m now running a 2 node proxmox deployment with several LXC containers and a HomeAssistant VM. I self-host most of my stuff for me and my family.

    If it wasn’t for CasaOS, I’d probably had tried proxmox and fled in horror of the difficulty to grasp what it’s doing.

    Also IIRC Casa now uses proper docker-compose exports, while I was using it, it was a self-rolled json file you couldn’t really import on other platforms. So enjoy Casa, and when you feel like it’s hindering your learning or desires, jump to portainer and import your stuff with just a few clicks.

    For reference, here’s some of the stuff I’ve been hosting:

    • NextCloud AIO for document syncing across machines, backups and contacts/calendars/todo via DavX5 on android devices

    • immich replaces google Photos so I don’t have to ever “solve” a storage issue for any family member getting those googleOne popups

    • HomeAssistant is still a rabbit hole on it’s own, but I love tinkering and automating stuff

    • Paperless-ngx solved my download folder always full of random invoice PDFs as well as referencing documents and manuals

    • Jellyfin is not only on my main TV but also my hifi music source for mobile devices and standalone speakers

    • Portainer makes it super easy to spin up game servers for me and my friends in a few clicks

    • PiHole+Unbound makes surfing the web bareable again

    And a bunch more I use on and off, like NetAlertX to map and check on my network stats, Navidrome for older devices (like iPad2) music streaming, etc