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It requires you to configure your motherboard for WoL as @Mobius mentioned. I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that from the web interface tho, as you have to send a UDP broadcast package, and I don't think there's any API for that in browsers. Something like a small program on your computer, or an app on your phone should do. I haven't used this, but it seems like a neat app for the purpose https://github.com/herzhenr/simple-wake-on-lan As for how to enable WoL in your motherboard, it varies from board to board. You can try and google "Wake on lan <motherboard name>" and see if there's some guides, or if you need help, feel free to poke me with the motherboard model, and I'll try and look it up 🙂

It's definitely fun. I'm looking forward to HexOS being more mature / having more easy to install apps. I'll be re-doing the HexOS install some time in the new year, when I get 3x4TB NAS drives, so the current install is just a temporary playground. I'll be moving my nextcloud onto it, tho that will mean I don' t have that off-site anymore. Will have to solve that with a buddy backup I think.

I would say that, depending on where you live, you may want to consider the costs of electricity, and if it'd makes sense in the long run to run something newer. Depends a lot on where you live, and what you find fun about playing with these things tho 🙂

Ahh yeah good point. Didn't think about that! 🙂

Hi there. I recently built myself a homeserver, with the intention to get off of my rented VPS. In connection with that, I set myself a goal of a cheap, power efficient server, that could run a few hosted services like IRC clients, paste-bins, url shortener, and a game server or two. I set myself a power budget of 50W, without HDDs (didn't intend to add HDDs before HexOS released) and settled on the following build: Ryzen 5 8600G: IIRC they're repurposed laptop silicon, so I figured they'd be very power effecient. 32GB RAM mATX motherboard with 2 m.2 slots 4 sata ports 2.5 gbit NIC Seasonic 550W PSU I built this in my old Fractal Define XL R2, and put it in my hobby-room closet. I use it to run Proxmox, where I then run a NixOS guest, that runs all my micro-services (as well as nginx reverse proxy). I under-volted the CPU, and eventually ended up with a 26W idle power consumption, with 80W peak when running a factorio-SE server. After a bit, I decided to add a UPS, and unfortunately the model I ended up using adds another 10-15W of idle consumption, which is pretty terrible. (APC BX500MI) Adding two old 2TB HDDs I had laying around. I started playing with HexOS a bit. Initially I was having some issues getting HexOS working. It failed to initialize the two used HDDs, but didn't give any good error messages about it. After some googling I eventually figured out that erasing the disks in the parent OS (proxmox) and re-doing the setup worked. After I got it running, I set up immich, and I'm so impressed with how 1-click easy that was. Adding a reverse proxy config to my nixos server, and BAM I had a google photos replacement. All in, I'm still under my 50W idle goal, and I've had a lot of fun. Network wise, the server is on a separate VLAN that only has internet access, with some exceptions for inter VLAN traffic. I also put a Pi4 PiKVM in there, so I can access it and it's BIOS remotely. Oh, and the UPS has already saved the server, because for some reason the power monitoring plug decided it was time to turn off. I blame me doing something wrong in home-assistant. I should probably replace that with some power-monitoring only solution eventually.

Dang that Aoostar looks neat!. I understand wanting to wait for 1.0 for important data, but why RAID2Z in a 4-bay NAS? Why not just raid10 then? Is it because you potentially could move to a bigger case/server in the future and expand the pool?