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Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by ehnto »

vermilingua wrote: post #108

On a bit of a tangent, hopefully not an inappropriate question: What do you all spend on this sort of thing? Whether hosting remotely or on local hardware, what would you say is the rough monthly/annual cost to move your Netflix/Spotify/etc equiv to a self-hosted setup (excluding own labor)?

~80 AUD a month for two VMs. One hosts a Tekkit server.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by jlgaddis »

bpye wrote: post #89
NewDimension wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a static IP at home? How does your cloudflare setup work?

I've done similar. You firewall your home network to all IP's other than Cloudflare's. You can use a Cloudflare provided certificate for HTTPS - they will MITM and use a trusted cert for outward connections. You can update Cloudflare DNS records via their API - the typical dynamic DNS tools work fine. It works well. I've always been unable to pull this off completely as I always want a way to SSH into my home network…

> ... want a way to SSH into my home network ...

IMO, using a Tor hidden service is a (damn near) perfect solution for this.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by wildduck »

nodejs nginx apache2 postgresql mysql nextcloud jvm/rhino/ringojs mattermost wekan wikimedia nextERP nodejs WebRTC signaling server, nodejs pushing notification server, STUN server, mumble Asterisk git Haraka etherpad

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by jasonkester »

S3stat, Twiddla, Unwaffle, the Expat site, and a dozen other old projects all still run on a single box in a Colo.

it costs about $800/month for the half cage and all the hardware in it, when you amortise it out. And there's plenty of performance overhead for when one project gets a lot of attention or I want to ad something new.

Pretty much the only thing I use cloud computing for is the nightly job for S3stat, because it fits the workload pattern that EC2 was designed for. Namely, it needs to run 70 odd hours of computing every day, and gets 3 hours to do it in.

For SaaS sized web stuff, self hosting still makes the most sense.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by bpye »

tbyehl wrote: post #106
bpye wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've done similar. You firewall your home network to all IP's other than Cloudflare's. You can use a Cloudflare provided certificate for HTTPS - they will MITM and use a trusted cert for outward connections. You can update Cloudflare DNS records via their API - the typical dynamic DNS tools work fine. It works well. I've always been unable to pull this off completely as I always want a way to SSH into my home network…

> I always want a way to SSH into my home network Guacamole (sorta) gives me that. If CloudFlare or nginx or Guacamole have problems then I'm hosed... but I work from home so remote access isn't a huge concern. And I've got nothing terribly "household critical" at home, just the PiHole needs to be running to keep everyone happy. I do wish that PiHole had an HA solution. I've been tempted to set up a pfSense / pfBlock…

That's not a terrible solution. I've just been looking at possibly forwarding SSH over WebSocket - then I can put that behind CloudFlare. Latency would however suffer.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by input_sh »

vermilingua wrote: post #108

On a bit of a tangent, hopefully not an inappropriate question: What do you all spend on this sort of thing? Whether hosting remotely or on local hardware, what would you say is the rough monthly/annual cost to move your Netflix/Spotify/etc equiv to a self-hosted setup (excluding own labor)?

~30 euros for an external dedicated server, and for the home stuff it's mostly a one-time fee for a NAS (+ an occasional hard drive replacement).

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by Jaruzel »

0x0aff374668 wrote: post #116

Why are so many folks here running media servers? Are you really streaming your own video / audio libraries, or is there something else it is useful for? I'd be rather shocked to learn people still store digitally media locally.

I do. I have over 1,000 CDs losslessly ripped on my media server. I stream these around the house into good quality amps and speakers, and also down convert them to mp3 for portable devices. I don't like being held hostage by streaming services who one day may suddenly remove all the music that I like just because not enough people are listening to it. That'll never happen to my CDs - they are mine and no-one, bar a burglar, can take them away from me.

I also used to have all my DVDs ripped onto my media server, but I never really watched any of them, so now they are just gathering digital dust on some offline disks.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by Jaruzel »

Hyper-V host:

    Active Directory (x2)
    Exchange Server 2013
    MS SQL 
    Various Single Purpose VMs providing automation
    Debian for SpamAssassion
    Debian for my web domains
    Custom SMTP MTA thats in front of SpamAssassin and Exchange
Raspberry Pis:

    TVHeadEnd
    Remote Cameras
Plus a Windows Server hosting all my files/media.

I used to self-host a lot more, but have been paring back recently.

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