Ask HN: What do you self-host? • Hacker News Board

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

#121

Post by tnsittpsif » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:09 AM UTC

mavidser wrote: post #60

I reworked my servers a while ago to host literally everything through docker, managed via terraform. All web-services are reverse-proxied through traefik At home: loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus syncthing tinc vpn server jackett + radarr + sonarr + transmission jellyfin samba server calibre server On a remote server: loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus syncthing tinc vpn ser…

How much do you spend on the remote server on a monthly basis? Also, what's the hardware you use for the home server?

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

#122

Post by Santosh83 » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:09 AM UTC

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.

If you don't have it locally, you don't have it at all. Repeatedly streaming video & audio over the Internet is not only wasteful of bandwidth but also prone to connection quality issues and of course arbitrary takedowns by the content provider. If you purchase media you should have the right to remove DRM and have at least one local copy and one backup copy for your personal use.

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

#123

Post by pickdenis » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:09 AM UTC

drakenot wrote: post #94

captn3m0 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or stacks look so similar, it’s creepy. Thankfully, not running sync thing now.

What do you use instead?

Not him, but I'm gonna use this as a chance to plug unison[1]. I've been using it for more than a year now to keep files synced across more than 3 computers and it works flawlessly. It gets a tad slow to start propogating changes if you have too many files and a weak server (around 150k files, server has an Atom N2800), but it's not more than 15 seconds.

One nifty thing is that you don't need to run unison on the server ever, just have it installed. I have systemd units that I enable on my client machines and that does all of the syncing; unison connects to the server with ssh and does all the work there over that.

[1]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html

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

#124

Post by input_sh » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:10 AM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #22

Bums me out when I see people putting so many resources into running/building elaborate piracy machines. Plex, radarr, sonarr, etc... (you note some of these services but /r/homelab is notorious for this) Here’s my home lab: https://imgur.com/a/aOAmGq8 I don’t self host anything of value. It’s not cost effective and network performance isn’t the best. Google handles my mail. GitHub can’t be beat. I use Trello and Not…

As soon as I find a DRM-free way to purchase my shows/movies/books, I'll be glad to do so. Until then, yarr.

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

#125

Post by danielparks » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

Postfix, Dovecot, Amavis/Spamassassin, Bind, NGINX.

So, mail, DNS, and a few web sites. I’ve been running something like this for more than 15 years now.

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

#126

Post by rvdca » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

rukuu001 wrote: post #47

Syncthing as a Dropbox alternative I keep looking at hosting my own mail server, but get scared off by tales of config/maintenance dramas.

If you are afraid, I have been really surprised by the ease of setup of a NixOS instance : https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver

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

#127

Post by jtthe13 » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

Not much: Plex server, and Pi-Hole in a docker.

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

#128

Post by yogsototh » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:19 AM UTC

On a scaleway (about 20€/month):

- my websites with nginx

- IRC (ngircd)

- ZNC

- espial for bookmarks and notes

- node-red to automate RSS -> twitter and espial -> pinboard

- transmission

- some reddit bots manager I’ve written in Haskell+Purescript.

- some private file upload system mostly to share images in IRC in our team

- goaccess to self host privacy respecting analytics

At home, Plex.

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

#129

Post by mosselman » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:26 AM UTC

javitury wrote: post #120

I run a small sever with node-red. Right now I use it to scrap university websites looking for PhD paid scholarships. Also, I use it to find flats when I need ro.

That flats thing sounds cool. Do you have anything written up or available somehow where I can read up on it? Or would you care to elaborate here?

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

#130

Post by sdan » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 7:28 AM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #103

mavidser wrote: post #60

I reworked my servers a while ago to host literally everything through docker, managed via terraform. All web-services are reverse-proxied through traefik At home: loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus syncthing tinc vpn server jackett + radarr + sonarr + transmission jellyfin samba server calibre server On a remote server: loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus syncthing tinc vpn ser…

Was it hard to set up Firefox-Sync/Send? Last I checked, self-hosting these was undocumented and difficult.

It's not hard when you use Docker. Just spin it up and then use Traefik to route.