Instead of paying for a raspberry Pi you could just get a OpenWRT device. You can get the router equivalent of a rust bucket since chances are you are not using the Wireless portion anyway.

Linux doesn’t have drivers like Windows does. The kernel either supports the hardware or it doesn’t.

Better to use iostat

zpool iostat

What’s the benchmark on the disks? Are these SAS drives?

Why wouldn’t you just use DNS on your router

I would do a single instance of Pihole. If you need HA there are ways to do that. If you need something more switch to a proper DNS service.

It wasn’t refactored. It was totally rewritten

That doesn’t mean it is actually good though

What’s the config file look like?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-resolved

resolv.conf is usually set by systemd network manager. You should change the setting in /etc/systemd/… (Idk I forgot the full path)

What do you mean by not working? What part of the network stack is the problem? Can you ping any IP addresses? Start with a local device and then move to public IPs. If that works check DNS.

Edit: it sounds like DNS is borked. What happens if you do a full restart?

That’s just for files though. I’m looking for calendar and contact management as well

What DNS resolvers are being used?

I might switch to AIO. Maybe podman if I get inspired. Bare metal is just way to hard to maintain. I could automate it with Ansible but at that point I might as well use containers.

I like that they are using Go instead of Php

Yeah I just need to clean up my install so it isn’t so bogged down.

Keep in mind that OpenWRT isn’t really optimized for particular hardware. It is designed to run on anything which means it doesn’t have a lot of recovery options for bad updates and configurations. It isn’t terrible but if you interrupt power during a flash you can bork the system.

It isn’t to crazy to install

I wouldn’t trust his guides personally. He has some hot takes and more importantly he isn’t someone who really knows the Homelab/self hosting landscape.

If you are looking for guides I would find channels that have done series on whatever you are interested in there is plenty of quality material.

To start off here is what I would do.

First, get a wireless router that is capable of running OpenWRT and then get a switch to accompany it.

Next go to eBay and buy 3 used workstations. They don’t need to be fancy and you can always upgrade them later. You need 3 for later.

Next find some storage. You can find decent Sata SSDs for pretty cheap. If you are looking to store something bigger like a movie collection also pickup some larger drives. With the extra drives make sure you buy a sata or SAS pcie card. This is because you need a dedicated controller to passthough to a VM.

Once you have all that you can start installing Proxmox. You probably want a raid 1 configuration so that you can replace a disk without downtime. The reason I say three devices is because you need 3 machines to get consensus in the cluster. When consensus is lost affected devices go into what is called fencing which is where it freezes all VMs and operations to prevent split brain from happening.

Technically this is probably a bit overkill but I like having a solid base for experimentation and flexibility. Doing it right from the get go will mean that you have more power down the road.

For actually hosting stuff I would use docker compose inside a VM.