Is HexOS suited for this?

[kingojh]

Hey, so I am a bit new to servers. I want to build a NAS and hope that I can do the following with it:

• Photo/video backup. For myself and maybe a friend with his own library. Was looking into photoprism with photosync. I guess it would be 2 photoprism libraries in this case.
• Maybe something for high quality music, where I can place everything and stream from it
• Host 2 websites, I guess this is like running 2 linux based VMs simultanously?

Can HexOS do this without too much manual work? I can code, but my background is as a front end game developer, quite different. I have implemented back-end integration systems though, just never anything back-end itself.

 

[Mobius]

42 minutes ago, kingojh said:

Photo/video backup

yes, usually people use immich here but photoprism should work too
If your friend is on the same network as you it should plenty easy for them to back up stuff as well
if they are on different networks, you would need to setup something like a reverse proxy for them.

42 minutes ago, kingojh said:

Maybe something for high quality music, where I can place everything and stream from it

this can work, just the ease of it is pretty variable. I believe this can be done easily with plexamp but some features are locked behind a paywall.
It does get a bit harder when you try to do this outside of plex

44 minutes ago, kingojh said:

Host 2 websites, I guess this is like running 2 linux based VMs simultanously?

absolutely no idea, not something i have done myself or even looked into.
hexos is going to get built in vm support in the future.

47 minutes ago, kingojh said:

Can HexOS do this without too much manual work? I can code

at this time outside of plex and immich setup most things are done manually via the truenas interface
in the future more apps are planned to be able to install in 1 click

[PsychoWards]

You can use something like Navidrome for Music Streaming, since you need a reverse proxy anyway this can be setup quite easily to be reachable over the Internet and is not behind a paywall.

[kingojh]

Thank you! I will look into Immich. Seems a bit easier. Plex also makes sense in that case with plexamp. Need to figure out the site hosting though, even how much performance this is.