I would say Seagate Exos or Western Digital Ultrastar.

I know that their are great integrations on home assistant to monitor servers. Then you can make your own dashboard as you wish

Perhaps urbackup? It is suited for multiple different platforms and supports multiple users. I don’t know of it can be hosted on k8s as I am not too familiar with that yet.

Also need a router that allows for VLANS as well. Otherwise you can not access the other network when your home. As you need routing between the VLANS. Or you can use a L3 switch.

Yes kind of but it is not strictly allowed and can be considered piracy. Their are some tools for this available on github that can save songs as mp3. Then you can play them in any audio player you like. If you want to know the name of one of those tools just send me a DM.

To add to that. With ZFS raid everything is done with software so their is no hardware lockin.

I looked at headscale but as far as I can tell their is no active directory or SSO integration. Which is very unfortunate.

They can also make playlist for them self. And hey as a bonus they might discover other songs they like.

If you are afraid of being ddosed which is very unlikely. Cloudflare has free ddos protection. You can put some but not all things behind their proxy.

Also instead of making things publicly available look in to using a VPN. Wireguard with “wireguard easy” makes this very simple.

VLANs do not make you network magically more secure. But when setup correctly can increase security a load if something has already penetrated the network. But also just to streamline a network and allow or deny some parts of the network.

Why not use a combined library if I may ask? This would be similar to things like Spotify or tidal but then self hosted.

PXE boot? It must be enable in the bios already. Then you could prep a image and deploy it that way.

For automated backups defiantly. For a one time use I often use just rsync. It is the simplest to quickly use.

I ise about the same. But that is more due to the hardware I got being a bit older. 2 dell R710s 1 R510 and a custom build server. Everything is still 1g. In my case electricity is not a big deal due to solar. We produce much more then we can use our self.

Shouldn’t be necessary. What you can try is run it with sudo just to see if it works then.

Ports below 1000 or something are reserved for root by default.

I suggest to use sftp/ssh with rsync instead. Much more secure then FTP.

If you mainly use containers perhaps OpenSUSE Micro OS is of interest to you. Other then that pretty much any distro will do. I use rocky Linux my self for a few different things.

If you want to try out many different distros virtualization is also a option. KVM or something like XCP-NG with XO or proxmox are great options.

Take a look at K3S if you plan to use kubernetes on a single node.

a small PC with kodi can do this. It can do much more as well.

it depends which device you get. Some routers are much better then others at routing. i think you want to look at the CCR series.