Finally think I got everything installed on my Raspberry Pi 4 that I want there, thankfully.
I’ve been trying to document my journey with selfhosting this time better than previous attempts, as far as writing down what worked and didn’t work. It’s coupled with me trying to write little explanation guides for my partner about what service does what, and how to use them. They’re really excited to actually use them, but I want to get the guides done first, which has been a challenge.
Kinda surprised Grimmory is taking up so much RAM but if it becomes an issue I’ll put it on my other, beefier server. It was the last service I was struggling with, because every time I would upload a book, something would go wrong. An example being that one time I uploaded a book and it went into every single folder after, then deleting one copy deleted all the copies.
Admittedly, I’m not terribly well experienced so it was probably an issue on my end. Still learning!
Speaking of, my next project to tackle is overhauling my more powerful server and what it’s running. Since I use a split setup where I store media on my NAS, I’ve had difficulties with databases hating that aspect. Now that I know a bit more than I did when I started, and I have nowhere else to ask (thank you for having this community, by the way, it seems a lot more newbie friendly than some others) I was wondering if I could map the database of a service to be on the server itself, while having the media mapped to my NAS? From my research, I think this is possible, but I’m not 100% sure.
Hope everyone else’s experiences are going well!
First, thank you much for suggesting BookOrbit! I actually just installed it because I was having a lot of issues with Grimmory making dupes of books in every folder and couldn’t figure out why it was doing it. Haven’t had any issues with BookOrbit and I really like that it’s got achievements. Plus, the less RAM usage is nice.
I’m using docker and docker compose files! Thank you for answering, the last time I took a crack at selfhosting, I really felt lost and screwed a lot up, so I wasn’t sure if that was even possible.