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and welcome back to another ibra call video what a pleasure to have you all here thank you for coming
in and checking out the channel today a massive massive massive thank you to all the subscribers
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supporting the channel as well by being a member and to everyone in our Discord who's contributing
to our great Community we really thank you as well something that a lot of people have been
asking about in the comments especially from our last video which you guys seem to have loved you
know seeing the new build seeing all the different stuff we've done with it provided your own ideas
and and ideas on chassis and even feedback on the actual Silverstone chassis that we use if
you didn't if you didn't see that video be sure to check it out because we went into some great
detail on building a server with ATX components you know those consumer computer parts and how
you can repurpose them into you know I say this in quotation but a Enterprise server to serve you at
home now on that server we set up unrate and so today I was going to take you through our unread
setup show you where it's at what I've done with it what I haven't done with it and it's going to
lead us into the next video that we're going to be doing in the next few days I'm hoping in the next
week it'll be out for you guys but basically this video is just going to chat about where
our unread server is now now that I have it in a nice calm space you know I'm not really messing
with it at the moment I'm happy where it is and I think all of you self-hosters can agree it's hard
to find a spot where you feel happy with where something is and you're not messing around with
it every day but once you get there you know it's really nice to be able to say the server is just
so self-sufficient I don't have to mess around all the time so let's just jump into it so what
you're looking at is our Osiris server this is the guy that's living in the chassis that I showed
you in the last video so we're on the home page and you can see we're on underage 6.12.3 latest
stable release big changes from the previous unread versions but I must say the transition
was very smooth there's a lot of new features and improvements especially in the UI front
you can just see how clean it is the ability to move stuff around has been incredible so if I just
uncheck that you know unlock it you can just move stuff around which I think is really beneficial I
think it's one of one of the very big improvements I've enjoyed out of this version from the unread
team so well done guys really really like what you've done here and the ability to just switch
them around on the Fly is Handy especially for those who'd like to fine-tune their their UI the
benefit there's obviously huge well server's not doing too much at the moment it's not
working very hard we've only got one stream that's currently running as you can see but usually uh we
get a tour what do you reckon I reckon we get to about eight to ten streams at some times and This
Server doesn't even stress honestly it's not even stressed so you can see I've gone with the very
kiss approach keep it simple stupid very clean very simple and I've been working with a client
lately guys that if you if you don't know we are starting to do some one-on-one work if you need
that extra help with something specific and and you want to use our time you can book us email us
at support.io and we'll book a time with you and we can help you out but I've been working with a
client lately one of our subscribers and you know I've helped him clean up his server a little bit
but he's got ways to go still and I showed him my server just as an example I'm not saying my
service perfect but I can definitely show you my server from a cleanliness point of view it's not
too bad right it's pretty pretty straightforward it's pretty clean you can see exactly what's
happening on it without being too stressed and carrying a lot of baggage you know from your
previous builds and that's the best part about building a new server or rebuilding a server is
the ability to improve on what you had before and just realizing how much extra baggage you might
have accumulated over the years so this server's been up for five days and that's because I
recently just you know updated it but um otherwise the server's been completely stable I've had no
issues whatsoever pretty happy with it one of the main things I'll show you if I just switch over to
our main tab is I've improved my cache capability so I've got two terabytes of cache it is much
better in terms of the overall speed I've found a good balance between how long it sits on the cache
and how long it goes to the array and having a two terabyte amount of space has been really good
I think I would probably recommend that moving forward maybe not for everyone but definitely for
me that seems to be a good sweet spot I haven't had to update any disks but one thing I did learn
in the process is shares settings you know I thought I knew everything about shares which
I obviously didn't because one of my shares for the media location wasn't configured correctly the
automatically split directory setting wasn't configured correctly so what it meant was my
disk you can see in this disk here it's corrected itself now but that got down to about 50 gig free
or less actually and it bottlenecked the disk now that had ramifications down the line because I had
a lot of other things that were trying to happen at the same time once I corrected it it balanced
itself out and started using the other disks the way they were supposed to and we'll touch on that
now so let's go over to shares and this is what shares look like in version 6.12 so they've done
a great job of making things a little bit easier to understand because previously in older versions
there was a lot of comments about how exactly does the share settings work what does Private
mean what does cache only mean or case yes sorry they've changed a lot of that around so now just
at a quick glance you can actually see what what's what's happening so updater storage cache simple
as that we know that it's going to stay on the cache that's what we've set it to backups it's
going to go on the cache first and then it's going to go to the array uh isos it can be on the array
and then move to the cache media on the cache and then eventually the array that is a much clearer
way to look at it compared to the way it used to be now if I click on updater here and we have a
look and you can see now in minimum free space we can actually set a percentage so previously it
was just a size uh now it's a percent well which is really good then you've got your settings so
primary storage they've changed that wording around like I said primary storage where do
you want the primary storage to go after that the secondary storage where do you want that to be and
the move I will do its thing now we also have more settings with the Mover action and if you're using
the move a tuning plug-in you know lots of updates there worth revisiting as well if you haven't been
using it we've done a video ages ago I know it's a little bit outdated now but a lot of the plugins
that we're using in unread I'll show you that here today anyway what we're using for plugins
users nothing special there for us today but if we go to settings have a look at this so we've
kept it pretty slim here pretty lean and there's a reason for that my methodology which I explained
in the last video was this server is going to be just unread it's going to be El Nas it's not going
to be our VM powerhouse it's not going to be our container Powerhouse I don't want it to do any of
that stuff anymore that that is gone now if I want to run those things I'm going to run them on a
different server you know that serves a different purpose keeping it Purpose Driven means I can
focus on what it's actually supposed to do as its primary use and not over extend its capabilities
so something worth visiting is the docker settings I know a lot of people have commented on where
you should probably keep that and one of the best changes I've made is changing the default update
of storage location so on mine I've set it to directly go to the cache now this this avoids
having to hit the share and letting the share do the work signing where it needs to go I already
know that the updater is a cache only location so why not just set it as the default I'll show you
why that benefits us once we get to the docker tab back in settings maybe some other stuff might be
handy to know is our user utilities so we've got our backup and restore now the old version's gone
this is a new developer who's taken it on big props to them and please support the developers
here if you enjoy anything we'll show you and you come into our plugins and again nice and clean not
too much going on not over the top we're trying to keep anything that's you know up to date and
is regularly being updated as well Dynamics one probably doesn't need an update but might be worth
visiting and seeing if we can we can probably get rid of those as well if I just scroll down some of
the handy ones I've found is Plex streams pretty cool little plug in there and it'll just display
streams on your dash home uh here in unread we scroll up a little bit more and you'll see
some of the other Dynamics ones which are very handy and disk location I find very handy as well
over to our Docker tab now you'll notice my Docker folders my fancy Docker you know organization
folders are gone and that was because it broke in the latest version of unread I'm not sure if it's
been updated yet I'll have to revisit that myself but I decided for now I'll just leave it off I
don't have that many containers all I've done is organize them in in order of you know importance
and start a procedure and I've kind of just left it at that and you can see I really don't have
that many containers especially compared to a lot of people out there all you can see is nginx proxy
manager our tail scale for our VPN we've got cloudflare they're running our tunnel Plex and
remember this is order of dependency so I try to start them you know my networking stuff is coming
up first next is Plex and then all the stuff that supports Plex comes after so we've got our media
automation tools here we have our Prowler and then we have our requests so overseer tortuli
Plex Mana manager and a couple of the other apps there as well now Notifier is probably one of the
most important and I have a big update on that which is going to be our next video coming out in
the next week to help set up this all of our media automation stuff and Plex in one go and it's going
to be using the trash guides okay so that's going to be our next video I will show you all that
um and everything I learned out of having to do this again to help speed up the process the
other thing you'll notice is we're using the trash guides recommendations which we've done
a video on before be sure to check that out if you haven't but if you look at our shares here
you'll notice a bit of a trend they all follow a very similar location this allows us to take full
advantage of our trash guides recommendations and the atomic links that we get so by having
them like this out our transfers are instant as soon as a file has completed its download
it's instantly in the location that it needs to be for something like Plex to pick up so you'll
notice a little bit of a trend where they all kind of point in the same location here and
there and that's by Design I'll explain that in the next video though for this video something
worth noting is again because we change that default location if you haven't done it yet
it's worth having a look into changing the app data location to the cache like I have now if
you go to apps and go to previous apps you should be able to reinstall them this way so if you hit
that reinstall it'll take you your latest settings that you've used to install it and put it back on
okay but just make sure you back up anyway just in case so anyway there's our containers nothing
too crazy going on there like I said I'm trying to keep it real simple VMS I don't run any VMS
on This Server we've got our app store pretty straightforward as well and you'll notice that
a lot of new apps have been coming up under the Uber Corp repository name that's thanks to stern
bear one of our admins he jumps in and creates these templates for us most of the time and gets
them out to you guys to try so big thank you to stern bear really appreciate you doing that for
the community we'll probably do a video here on xeroxy very soon but we thought we'd put it out
just for you guys to have a play with and see what you think so feel free to drop some comments on
that if you do have any uh tips on that one we've got the Plex streams plug in here showing up like
I was telling you so that comes up here for us and it also comes up on our dashboard so just here
and the other one is the disk location so obviously you guys know we have a big chassis now
takes up to 20 discs so I went ahead and started using this uh plug-in so that we can keep track
of where these discs are in our physical array if I look at the front of my server I know exactly
what disk is in there and if I don't know it gives me some really cool abilities if you go to Trail
locations and I hit locate what it's doing right now flashing the read light on the disk on the
chassis itself on the front so I can actually just physically look at it and I know exactly where one
is supposed to be now I know where one is because I've already set this up but when you're first
setting it up it's not going to be in this order it's going to be in any of these it's going to
look like this so that just helps you locate them and organize your trays you know so if I
had to pull something out I can set the purchase date how much warranty it's under any additional
comments change the colors and then go from there so that's probably another one actually I highly
recommend as well the stats plugin that comes from our Dynamics plugins and you can see it's
pretty useful just to give you a quick snapshot of what's going on your array system stats as
well how that's handling things next is you come into this the tools section here you'll find some
you know pretty basic stuff here there's nothing too exciting most of the stuff's in the settings
though I mean the docker settings is really important how much you set up here what kind of
format you want it in you know all very important stuff the default networks so yeah guys that's
where the server is at the moment it's doing a fantastic job our automation tools are doing their
doing their job doing what they need to do getting stuff on there nice and quick our arrays managing
itself pretty well temperature seems really good I've got no complaints about the chassis except
one thing one thing and I did see some comments online on how to resolve it it's a lot louder
um I think it's probably self-explanatory but being such a big unit it does produce a little bit
more noise being in an office that I'm actually working out of which I'm recording this video
in right now it's a it's a little bit louder and that adds a little bit of a challenge if you know
not used to it I think I've gotten somewhat used to it now the only time that it kind of shocks me
is when I actually have to shut the server down and you realize how quiet it is without it on
or if the temperature goes up in the room by a significant amount like I've got the heater on
the fans will obviously spin up as well and to address that pretty simple a lot of people have
just gone and gone and nocture fans that fit into the chassis you know brought that noise right down
and that's something I probably will do eventually I just haven't got around to it but that's where
we're at with the server I hope to answer some of your questions that I've been getting on the last
video some people asked about electricity I would say electricity costs went up I would say five
percent using This Server Chassis but something very important to note is that I'm not using all
my discs yet so I'm not using 20 discs flat out okay if that if that was the case would be having
a different conversation but right now I only have about three discs with content actually on
it that's actively used and at any one time maybe only one or two of those discs are being used at
the moment but that'll change over time the more content we get and it's spread over different
discs you know obviously we're going to have a bit of a different problem but um hopefully that
gave you a bit of an idea on how you can set Yours up and if you do have more questions drop them in
the comments so I'm happy to answer them for you um and like I said if you want some one-on-one
help reach out to us and we'll book some time together and help you out maybe your server is
absolutely perfect and if it is send us a message I want to know about it because there's probably a
lot of stuff we can learn from you as well that's about it guys hope you enjoy that like I said I'm
looking forward to pumping out a new video with Notifier we're working with the developer Mitsuwa
over on our Discord and our chatting with trading with him to get a new video on Notifier for you
which I think you'll really enjoy it's going to make your automation Journey a little bit
easier the new format of the Notifier website is Ace and one of the best things that's just about
to drop is the ability to not have to open any ports to allow it to communicate with your client
on base I'm going to explain all that in the new video but keep an eye out it's going to be really
exciting until next time guys hope you have a good day we'll see you in the next record video
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