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I’m still having trouble with it and I’m currently traveling. My analysis so far points to my vps provider being at fault.

I tried doing long term diagnostics, which effectively pinged through the tunnel every 5s and that make it work constantly and perfectly. So maybe some energy saving sleep stuff, which ends up breaking the tunnel?

Same but nftables and also crowdsec.

Also I had some trouble with the wireguard tunnel dropping lots of packets, which resulted in my services not loading 50% of the time. I did a lot of suggestions at the same time so I’m not sure which one fixed it but here is a list in case anybody has similar troubles:

• lowering MTU
• routing ipv6 through the tunnel as well
• rewriting nftables rule order
• …

(will update after work, notes are at home)

The better options do cost twice as much

Yeah thwre are a lot of better options for lots more money. But I don’t have that kind of money.

I need lots of RAM for as cheaply as possible while also being low-ish on the power cpnsumption. There is for example old server hardware on ebay that has 64GB or more RAM but draws like 300W idle. And it’s not even that much cheaper to buy. Like I said for me, a 40W difference is about 100$ per year, so anything lower power than my current server will eventually pay for itself.

I would have gone with amd or intel or whatever, but I didn’t find anything in that price range.

How expensive was your NAS when you bought it and how expensive is it now and how much RAM cause I need a lot.

I tried selfhosting a game server and it was laggy as hell on 8GB RAM. Then I ran it on my laptop that has 32GB and it ran fine and all friends were able to play. Was consuming aboyt 25GB (but still may run with less)

But I’m not gonna run my laptop as a server because it is fully glued and I can’t take out the battery without destroying it.

Another tool I looked into requires at least 16GB RAM.

So maybe for your usecase it’s fine. But for me, I can’t do half the stuff I want cause my cluster server has low RAM nodes. Even though it has 32GB in total (4x8)

So what would you buy for 600$ that has 64GB RAM?

Asking cause I could not find anything.

they seem to ship their own kernel, but I’ll try when it arrives later today

I feel like people are sleeping on the Minisforum MS-R1 as a good value home server PC

For $600 the Minisforum MS-R1 gives you 64GB DDR5 ECC, 12 cores, dual 10GbE, a real PCIe 4.0 x8 slot, M.2 NVMe, Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO, and actual UEFI boot. It runs Debian and Proxmox/KVM.

I’ve read that the CPU is trash compared to intel/amd in performance and in TDP, but you can’t build a mini pc/server on intel/amd right now for thaf price with that amount of RAM.

Even just buying the 64GB ddr5 RAM as sticks will be like over 800$…

In the low budget range you can go with a Pi 5 16GB which is now ~$300. Add PSU, case, NVMe HAT, PCIe HAT and you’re at $500+. It’s way too expensive for what you get, compared to spending a bit more and going with minisforum.

Yeah you can get old used boxes with that amount of RAM for maybe the same price, but they’ll such 200W and electricity is expensive where I live.

My current pine64 soquartz cluster draws 52W and over the past 5 years it has been dying node by node and I can’t run anything more demanding on it (like game servers or local AI). It cost me about 600$ back then with 5x blade + nvme + soquartz module, a poe switch and a case with fans. Kinda seems like a bad deal now, I’m stuck with all the docker swarm issues and the bad cpu cores and max 8gb ram per node.

Maybe i’m biased and trying to justify my own purchase … let me know if I’m wrong about it being good value.

for me personally, Firefly III works much better and it works with importing from my bank