It’s proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

Thanks

  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I picked unRAID to be able to mix disk sizes. It also requires little maintenance in my experience, so that’s also a plus.

  • smegger@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Unraid is easy to start with when you have no idea what you’re doing. Other stuff often requires more up front work to setup.

    The paid licence is just the cost of the conveniences.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      UnRAID is also great when you know exactly what you’re doing but you do this stuff for work every day and your home stuff you want to be easy and out of the box lol.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You’ve mistakenly conflated the Self Hosted community with the FOSS community. There is a lot of overlap in interests between the two, but the venn diagram of those communities are not at all a circle. UnRAID isn’t an exception to self hosting, it’s a textbook example of selfhosting.

    It’s a similar thing with the SH community and HomeLabbing. All home labs are selfhosted obviously, but home labs are sandboxes for learning, testing and prototyping. A raspberry pi that runs one service your home depends on that you don’t tinker with outside of updates isn’t a home lab.

    • ByteOnBikes@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This was my mistake when I started self hosting a few years ago!

      I went all-in on FOSS. And my God, it was constantly a maintenance nightmare for some apps. Some would break with updates. Some times I felt I was playing wackamole replacing one set of problems with new ones.

      Then I met a swlf-hoster who has been doing self hosting for two decades and he helped he unfuck my stuff by recommending commercial and paid services. And honestly, it was awesome because I’m too old for this shit. I just want working services.

  • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Has a nice UI, let’s me mix and match disks, let’s me host docker containers plus a VM with gpu pass through.

    All basically out of the box. (Ok - Pass through was a bastard) All for a one off price.

    I don’t know if there are other options that let me do all of that, unraid has always been the one mentioned.