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traefik for automatic LetsEncrypt SSL proxy to expose docker public subhosts

portainer for nice docker mgt ui

discourse for forums wordpress w discourse sso

netdata for health monitoring

pg

actionherojs for microsvcs

simplesamlphp

shinyserver

cocalc for notebooks

looking at nextcloud if i can get libreoffice to behave w ssl

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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I self host everything I can at home, so this list might be a bit too exhaustive, but there wasn't any scope on this ask HN, so... Overall hardware platform: 4 pcengines alix boxes for openbsd router/firewall appliances 3 supermicro Opteron servers with KVM/corosync/Sheepdog/csync2 for hosting all VMs Software: PF + CARP + pfsync + OpenBGPD for routing Unbound + NSD + Bind for DNS SSH/OpenBSD ipsec/apache Guacamole f…

I bet you're not in California. The $.27/KWh we pay here would be a showstopper :)

Not OP, but canceling Youtube Red, HBO Go/Now, and Hulu easily covers the cost of electricity on beefy server. Just depends on your priorities. I consider $10/month (what I pay for my desktop class i7 machine, not GP's setup) to have a place to call home on the Internet (that isn't in the cloud/on hard drive island/somebody else's computer) to be well worth it, and if you're using smaller hardware (eg Pizerow) it costs less in electricity than a cup of coffee in a month.

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Rebuilding the entire toolchain of your language sounds like a colossal waste of time when you just wanted to avoid a few hours per year of developer downtime.

No need to rebuild everything. Simply having the "DLLs" or equivalent checked in or in a maven/NuGet folder backed up would do the trick. Your not just saving developer downtime. Remember that non incident a few months ago? Could be a security issue too.

Edit: npm incident

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That's precisely why I self-host. You can fix it yourself. Most people self-hosting GitLab will have a better uptime than GitHub.

I really want you to produce evidence for that. Everyone I know who selfhosts gitlab has much lower uptime than github.

Since you're looking to collect anecdata, I've had 100% uptime from my self-hosted GitLab instance, which has been online for about a year. GitHub may be on par with that, but it's hard to beat 100%.

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FWIW, I use KeePassX [0] on Arch Linux. I also use LastPass (because $work has an Enterprise account) but I prefer using lastpass-cli [1] instead of the browser extensions. [0]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/keepassx... [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lastpass...

KeePassX stoppet updating, switch to KeepassXC: https://keepassxc.org

That's fine, it does everything I need it to already.

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I really want you to produce evidence for that. Everyone I know who selfhosts gitlab has much lower uptime than github.

Since you're looking to collect anecdata, I've had 100% uptime from my self-hosted GitLab instance, which has been online for about a year. GitHub may be on par with that, but it's hard to beat 100%.

Just curious : don't you apply updates ?

I self host my gitlab and when there's an update it goes down for several minutes (well actually I don't know if it's unusable, haven't tried, but with the backup and the updates, it's long)

I'm the only one working on it, so that's not a problem for me.

Still, it takes time.

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Not original asker How do you secure your publicly accessible IP at home from the web. I see you use static IP's I guess it's no different than renting a sever? You probably have separate networks (local home vs. serving)

Looking at Netdisco I have 12 VLANs. ISP1, ISP2 (from Dad's house across the valley), OSPF backbone, DMZ, LAN, Guest, Cameras, Servers, Japan, Kids, Management and Test. Everything passes thru PF and only exposes services as required. The Guest VLAN, for example, has no way to get to the rest of the VLANs. Camera VLAN can only talk to the DVR software, etc. The important thing with securing my public IPs (as with sec…

Wow thanks a lot for the details this is not my field haha regarding the tech you mentioned in the beginning.

Curious what your family thinks having to run Linux. It's my primary os myself with i3-wm. People usually complain "install apps command line" ui, etc .. whatever Ubuntu being as supported as it is that UI is so slow/bloated IMO.

I have Windows as well but use Virtual box and Linux to access the web if it's not just YouTube/Gmail/regular pages with adblock/uorigin running.

I don't even know how many ports there are on computers, I mean in my experience I've seen up to port 10000, I think you have to enable them? I usually use 21/22/80/443 though I've seen 3000 (websocket), 4200 (angular), 246 or 286 (windows RDP) I don't know...

It's a lot to keep track of web security. OSWAP

Anyway thanks for your time rambled on my end.

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I'm thinking of self-hosting a password manager like KeeWeb but I'm afraid of my own self-hosted solution not being as reliable (downtimes / loss of data). Do you have any precautions against catastrophic failures?

The self-hosted solution I use for this (switched from LastPass) is pass[0] plus syncthing[1]. Passwords are just GPG-encrypted files, so they replicate seamlessly - much better than the "single monolithic database" approach of things like Keepass which is prone to sync conflicts. Syncthing mirrors everything between my desktop, laptop, and phone (and there's an Android app[2] that works with OpenKeychain[3] so passw…

This is exactly the setup I'm using too. Works well, though the whole setup is a little less polished than 1Password which I was using before.

On the desktop I'm using Browsers [1] and QTPass [2].

[1] https://github.com/dannyvankooten/browserpass

[2] https://qtpass.org/

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Single, large machine with 28GB of RAM, Intel i7 @ 4.2GHz running in my bedroom closet, connected to a high-speed 1Gbps/down network. Whole thing runs Ubuntu 16. It basically runs almost every service I use: - Plex. I tried to use XBMC, but Plex just kills it with their mobile app as well so I can just continue watching on the iPad. It's like having your private Netflix. - OwnCloud, a self-hosted Dropbox/Google Drive…

Anyway you can share those post-download scripts with us :)
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