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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If I've learned anything in the 30 odd years homelabing and running a SaaS application, it's that you need to learn the basics of the command line. That will help you master running anything on a nix server.

But must new homelabers are only able to use a gui, so unraid is the best way to get into running stuff with the least effort.

I keep thinking a homelab 101 course would help those new to homelabing get going without a gui.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Oh hi I picked up Linux for the CLI and shell and the UI for me has nothing to do with it.

    There is no easy way to break into the scene and unraid is a one stop shop. So you want to set up a few little projects on your own? It's learning containerization, learning networking and NAT, figuring out filesystems (and shares and share locations) and backup strategies, how to integrate with VPN, deployment strategies and templates (think Ansible, docker compose, make scripts, etc). There's a shitload to know and not a "for dummies" place to learn it.

    Considering the "easy" first project of ARR suite + jackett, integrate with transmission, and integrate with jellyfin or Plex: this is not a couple hours of work if you've never done it before. With unraid it's probably one video tutorial and less than an hour? Idk I haven't done that one yet. But it's a common request.

    There are a lot of things that need to hang together for a good homelab to work, and unraid for me has made it so I don't have to spend all my time doing plumbing and background work to try a project and see if I even want to use it.

    I would absolutely do a 101 on self hosting, but it seems everybody has different priorities on what to host and how so it's probably not cut and dry to implement.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    The course would be more of a 'how do you use the terminal and where to find help'

    As a lot of the requests I see are the result of not having good experience on the command line, once you can use a terminal the world is yours to command

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