That’s precisely the intent behind the feature.

What advantages would this have over Obsidian, which is already all local unless you explicitly make it not so?

Unraid has been so simple for me. Really pleased with it.

I’m “techy”, but not in a tech career. By that I mean I’ve always been casually interested in tech, and enjoy building my own PCs, and am usually the one people come to for tech help, even if I just end up googling it for them haha.

Got into hosting through Home Assistant and Foundry VTT.

I haven’t been running it for too long, as I just started putting this together a few months ago and took a while to decide. No issues with downtime though. Updates have been super easy with Unraid so far.

My answer may not be quite as helpful for you, as you said you are a software dev and would probably pick up the more advanced options easier than me.

But for me, I was asking extremely similar questions to you a few months ago (still my only post on Lemmy, lol). I ended up trying unraid, proxmox, and truenas.

I went with unraid and have no regrets. It’s been super easy and I now have the all in one server box I’ve wanted for years.

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And Mac users, and Windows users that don’t use that software…

Have also had good experience using namecheap for years.

If you are messing around the inside of a desktop pc, you are already more of a computer person than the average person.

I understood like four of the words in your comment so I’m going to go ahead and assume that solution is too advanced for me.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Scale was probably my number two so far, but I read a lot of good things about Unraid. I think I might try both and see which one I like working with more.

Because I want them both accessible at the same time.

Because I play two weekly games.

I don’t want to use the synology anymore, I’m interested in building my own system from previous parts with better performance. I don’t have a very great synology right now and also want more drive space.

I don’t know, that’s why I’m here for advice lol. I’ve never had to tackle “which OS?” before.