Smaller update today just cause I felt like I should write something light as I'm progressing in my building of the site.
I've been pretty lucky to start corresponding with someone else who has a really cool site! Won't name them yet just cause I haven't asked. It's been nice getting to hear from a stranger in this weird land of personal websites, especially someone who has been at it for a bit longer than I have.
I have been waiting on an order of parts from Ebay for my server. I'll write a more in-depth article later but basically at first the server was just kind of running proxmox, portainer, and I was setting it up to host a Minecraft server! However, I realized that because of the way that RAID works I wouldn't be able to easily turn it into a NAS without having at least 3 drives at the moment of mounting the proxmox image. So I kind of put it on hold in my closet for about 3 months. I've finally gotten the 3 WD Red 8Tb drives I wanted, which I waited to buy second hand because the goal of the project from a hardware standpoint was always to do it with cheap or free components. For example, I got 32Gb of old DDR3 RAM from my friend who still had his old gaming computer somewhere in his parent's basement. It was nice that I could just buy him dinner for the sticks instead of paying some stranger for old RAM. I digress, the point of this is to say the last thing I'm waiting on is hard drive sleds because I don't exactly want to just toss the hard drives into the old computer case loosely. Unfortunately, ebay being ebay the shipment got delayed twice and now won't arrive until Sept 5th! I'm getting a bit antsy and I really hope my enthusiasm and motivation don't waver, as they have before with all the random interests I hyperfocus on.
My plans for the server remain similar. I want it to:
- Run Proxmox, headless in my closet
- Run a minecraft server using a secure DNS setup
- Run Jellyfin for storing and streaming all my legally aquired Linux ISOs
- Be a toy to play with and launch random crap on to see what sticks
As I somewhat promised in my about page I'm going to try to document the progress of the server as best I can. At the very least, it should be funny to see all the mistakes I will inevitably make.
Last note: I'm having some CSS frustrations that are making me wonder if I should have started with a static site builder or something because it annoys me so much that the grid view in the music page has this weird extra space at the bottom of each album art even though I have aspect-ratio:1 set and all the other random pseudo-element tricks I found online just seem to completely break my grid. Here's hoping my list view is a bit easier to make and I can ensure I have a decent lightweight sorting implementation cause if not, I may lose motivation to manually log the 400+ albums I have rated on a google drive sheet.
Also hoping to join a webring and add some buttons!
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