Borgbackup to a Hetzner storage box is a great solution for large (> 100GB) backups.

https://www.borgbackup.org/

https://community.hetzner.com/tutorials/install-and-configure-borgbackup/

So it turns out… you can’t connect them anymore… The feature is deprecated

https://docs.cockpit-project.org/cockpit-guide/latest/guide/feature-machines.html

(also, I wanted to just link my response from another user who had asimilar question but for whateVER reasyon, Alx won’t let me??)

So I actually just went to make a guide on this, demonstrating on my ubuntu 26.04 lab vps, and it appears the connect option is not there.

However on my 24.04 lab vps, it’s there. Same with my local 22.04 systems (yes I know I have to upgrade lmao)

I went to cockpit docks and sure enough, the feature is deprecated :( Dang.

https://docs.cockpit-project.org/cockpit-guide/latest/guide/feature-machines.html

It was really cool though while it worked.

Cockpit. Total gamechanger for me. I don’t have to ssh to my boxes individually to see what’s going on. Instead it’s a web UI AND you can connect basically every server you want to one instance.

https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit

That said. For individual servers?

htop/nmon (Get nmon straight from the source! https://nmon.sourceforge.io/pmwiki.php) for a birds-eye sysmon view of things

ps -ef | grep <whatever you're looking for> for investigating stuck/hung/zombie processes

dmseg

tail -f /var/log (or whatever log file you care about)

netstat for net statistics (i think ntop used to be a thing but idk anymore>…)

df -h to look at disk usage

those are all that come to mind right away.

EDIT: formatting and quick explanation of what each tool does

LSI has really good compatibility with TrueNAS and any Linux system tbh.

Wraith is fine. I have mine installed and it’s dead quiet. If you don’t like the noise, you can always get a 15-25$ USD aftermarket cooler, brands like ThermalRight and Cooler Master come to mind.

Your part list is extremely similar to my main home server. You’ll do just fine with the hardware you’ve selected. It is a GREAT starting point.

For context I have been running an AMD 5600g alongside 32gb gskill ddr4 RAM since covid, tho back then it was a 2600x paired with an ancient FirePro for graphics. Boot drive is m.2 ssd and I have 4 hand-me-down enterprise HDDs for storage. (I originally was using whatever spinning rust I already had on-hand at that time, but I have replaced them since)