I’ve been selfhosting a while. I run around 15 distinct services in docker containers, all on a single machine with a medium sized disk. It’s a small form factor, and I recently had to add space, so I’ve attached an external USB storage device.
It feels clunky.
At what point does a performant SAN/NAS make sense more than local storage? When did you make the jump?
For me it was when I noticed that some of my photos had been affected by bitrot.
Instarted building my NAS last year, and got caught up in the increased HDD cost, I need two more 8TB drives to get my 32TB Zraid2 going.
I was going to use TrueNAS, but now that they have turned their back on opensource, I am not so sure anymore
Went from TrueNAS to OpenMediaVault and we are quite happy atm. Very reliable, decent documentation, easy to use. We were between this and Proxmox when we switched but ultimately chose OMV for its ease. It’s been at least a year and with ~100 containers running and some friends asking for VMs it would have been useful to be in proxmox, but not a biggie. However, be sure of your usecase and try imagining future needs just to be prepared and avoid more migrations ;)