From Syno to Yuno

Discuss
1

Hello,

Owner of a Synology NAS, it is with pleasure that I rediscover, a little by chance to tell the truth, Yunohost.
What a joy to see the evolution that this distribution has taken.

For several months, I have been a little bothered because Syno prevents me a little from doing everything I would like.
So, I would like to try the Yunohost experience again with real hardware and not Raspberry.

For this I have an HP Proliant Gen8, with a Xeon and 16GB of RAM.
The most blocking point: I have 4 hard drives of 2TB mounted in RAID 5, and I would not like to lose the data they contain.

I also have 3 hard drives connected by USB that I want to mount at startup, but that is not the problem.

In terms of services, I have quite a few needs:
I use Emby for my media library. I imagine I can switch to Jellyfin.
I have 2 domain names at OVH. Can I set up 2 sites on port 80 of the same machine with 2 different NDDs?
On these domain names, I have subdomains for a forum, test sites, etc. I imagine that subdomains are not a problem, right?

For the forum, if I can easily export the data, is there a tool like PhpMyAdmin to import my data into a Flarum instance?

For my sites, I have to install several versions of PHP on Apache AND Nginx. Is this possible (for example on docker)?

For storing photos and viewing (albums, etc.), I imagine that NextCloud Photos does the job.

Big question: Does Yunohost provide a native system to do RAID 5? I admit that I don’t know much about it, and I don’t want to format my disks without knowing if the RAID performance will be good or not.

If someone can guide me, all information will be welcome.

Thanks :slight_smile:

1 Like
2

Rewelcome

That’s a little bit outdated, the last release is 7 years ago.

I have 3 domains, one of them has 20 subdomains. Depending on the apps, you can install multiple apps on the same domain or one app on a dedicated domain or subdomain. All of them are available from the same machine.

There is already phpmyadmin packaged that can be installed on a path (domain1.com/phpmyadmin)

What are the apps? Custom?

That’s handled by the system

YunoHost uses nginx

Yes it can, though there other options like immich, photoview, photoprism.

I think that’s handled by the system (debian) not specifically yunohost

You can add a small disk for yunohost to boot from and mount your other disks

You have to design your view of how you need your server to be.
As stated above, add a small disk for the system and mount the data disks. You can mount /home of your YunoHost on the data disks so the app data will be stored on the larger disk. But, it would be better to let it as it is until you master the ecosystem.

Good luck

1 Like
3

Hi, thanks for your reply.

7 years

2022, but yeah it’s a long time. But it works

Ok I understand. Not the problem here :slight_smile:

Yeah I saw after my post. Can I manage all apps with it ?

Yes, many custom and Flarum, maybe others

Limited by Debian, then only one PHP version.

Maybe I’ll have no problem with that. With a lot of apps, Yunohost may be a very good solution. I imagine I can use Docker to install others apps who arent included.

So I have to see how manage my RAID 5 storage. I think I’am not the first linux user who wants use RAID :wink:

Thanks for your reply.

1 Like
4

No, multiple php versions (7.4 - > 8.4)

Yes, and you can also use incus (already in the yunohost catalog). You can also add them to the wishlist

1 Like
5

I almost have the same hardware as you. Using proxmox as main OS with an LXC for yunohost and a VM for the NAS could be a good choice as it offers many advantages.

1 Like
6

Probably for the same reason I discovered 299ko :wink:

2 Likes
7

it’s my fault :joy:

8

I’m not comfortable with LXC, unlike Docker, which I use more regularly.
But why would installing Proxmox and Ynh on a VM be a better choice than installing Yunohost baremetal?

I think I should try installing Yunohost on a hard drive (without RAID), and configure my RAID 5 on my /home.
Are there other flags to set on large storage?

9

By having Yuno on a VM (or an LXC) you can easily create backup and restore in case of damage without affecting the NAS managed by another VM (openmediavault for example). And you can share folder you want between them (VM with LXC for sure). Personally, having all my entire NAS on a system connected to the internet was a security matter.

2 Likes
10

The system will benefit from ssd performance. In the other hand, data can be on hdd

1 Like
11

Yeah I understand. It’s look difficult ^^
Thanks for that.

System will be on SSD and datas on 3.5 HDD of course, it’s a mistake.

Thank you

2 Likes
12

What type of synology ?
If it manage Virtual machine Manager, you can try to install it on a VM in the NAS and try ?

2 Likes
13

Yes it manage virtualisation, but I would like to remove Syno to be free of them.
If my server is down right now, I ll be forced to buy another Synology to get my datas, and it’s not a good solution for me