A good amount of time has passed since I purchased a Synology DS720+ NAS server, about four years. Over these four years, my Synology NAS server has grown from simply storing large (by home standards) files with the nice extra features of the built-in Synology software to a full-fledged video hosting service, an automated media library, a gaming server, and hosting all sorts of Docker containers. Over the four years of using the server, its modest 10 gigabytes of RAM and not-so-modest 8 terabytes of HDD space began to run out due to increasing demands, and I began to consider purchasing a new, more powerful server that could also meet my needs now and in the near future. When discussing buying a new server with various people, the vast majority of the advice was extreme, and this post is about how I chose a new, more powerful server, an operating system for it, and the overall outcome so far.
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Enough has happened since my last work post (12 January 2025) to make for a very long post where I'll talk about where I've been spending my energy and why it's been so long since I've posted on this blog.
At some point, when the number of deployed docker containers grew, I began to feel that the performance of HDD disks alone was not enough. This was observed in the form of a server management web interface that took longer and longer to open, all my services became less and less responsive, and the server took longer and longer to start and shut down for maintenance. And so it was time for me to buy SSD M.2 disks to create a cache.
Congratulate me, I finally found a new job. On December 23, 2024, I got a job at the YADRO company as a server tester. I have nothing to write about yet, but I can definitely say that my new job is much better than my previous job, even though I stopped being a system administrator. Now system administration has become 100% my hobby again.
Having started looking for an employer for myself again, I once again found something to think about and from what side to observe myself. After all, I don’t know how to monetize myself at all and I don’t even know where to start and how to act. My parents always raised me with the idea that I should always help everyone and be as kind as possible, but they never taught me how I should take money for my work, if this does not concern hired work. If for me everything looks clear from the side of hired work, then how and what should I do if, for example, I want to start receiving donations from streams or want to start making some crafts and I need to get paid for it?
I hope the title is not clickbait (because I am against clickbait).
Yes, I am currently unemployed since August 16, 2024. I made this decision to take a break from my previous job both mentally and physically. Also, after the break, I began to analyze my previous job with a fresh mind and began to take care of myself. Let me clarify right away that I did not start taking care of myself in terms of doing sports (yes, I am quite fat), but I started taking care of myself (or started trying to) trying to restructure my thinking more towards taking care of myself. For those who are interested in reading what I think about my thinking and my behavior, I wrote it down at the end of this post.
Since Discord is blocked, it has become quite difficult to continue to keep in touch with my friends. Now I have figured out how I can continue using Discord, but most likely in the future it may be possible to move somewhere new, but for this push, it is necessary that most of my current friends and acquaintances start using this new service, which I would also not mind using.
On September 12, new sanctions came into force, which once again had no effect. We are still alive, but in fact, it turned out to be quite sad. There was no such purge among the campaigns as I would have liked to see. It would be better if Google responded to the sanctions and really blocked all Russian accounts without deleting the content. Then quite a lot of campaigns would really have collapsed due to unpreparedness for such situations and the habit of sitting on their butts.