I dunno why but I’m worried that casaos is holding me back from doing greater things I guess? I’m pretty new to self hosting and I discovered casaos from a Minecraft server setup tutorial of all things and it’s been great for me so far and does pretty much everything I need it to do, but I feel like I don’t really have a full understanding of what I can do outside of it, and I don’t really hear many people talk about casaos so I’m like worried it’s just not very good I guess? I’m just looking for ways to improve really.

For reference I just use my server for Minecraft on the occasion, a self hosted obsidian live sync, adguard, and in the future plan on hosting nextcloud. Casaos seems great for that and maybe it’s perfectly fine but I’d just be interested in being more knowledgeable I guess, and aware of any ways to improve.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    CasaOS is fine, but the downside of tools like it is you don’t really know what’s going on under the hood, so if/when something breaks it may be really hard to fix.

    But if it works for you I don’t see a reason to change. Just make sure you’ve got reliable backups following the 3-2-1 rule.

      • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        It’s basically the minimum level of redundancy you should have for storing important data.

        3 total copies, 2 different types of storage, 1 of them offsite.

        Backups also need to be tested like twice a year or so, do a restore as a test (full if you can, but partial is something at least) and make sure the data is what you expect.