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

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Post by ge96 »

Vendan wrote: post #125
ge96 wrote: post #118

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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 n…

Windows rdp is 3389, but really, anything can go on any port up to 65535. The common ports like 80 and 443 are just there as "it's common to use these for services, so you don't have to put in http://google.com:80" . And there's no real "enabling" them, it's just a question of if your firewall allows it, and if you have something actually listening. Also, websocket is just a protocol upgrade slapped on http/https, so…

Yeah the 3000 I just recalled that with a tutorial on socket.io I did a couple years back.

Yeah my bad in the RDP, you know I messed up on that. Was trying to get around firewall rules, I edited the registry and changed the port for it... Could not get back in. This was one of Amazon's windows servers, and I mounted it as a volume to another one and could not access the registry to change it back so yeah... Locked myself out haha.

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

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Post by ge96 »

DrPhish wrote: post #129
ge96 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 n…

I have a long history of having my family use Linux. I'm a Debian guy myself, so I've always either used Ubuntu or basic Debian. I run dwm on any machines that I put X on (very few, honestly). I started my Dad on Ubuntu around 2008, and he hasn't used anything else since. Shortly thereafter my Mom, then my Sisters. Most recently my Step-mom, and Grandparents have gone to Ubuntu. When I got some castoff laptops from w…

Man that's cool and you save yourself buying windows licenses.

I'll have to check that out no-ip, so you install openssh server to SSH int their computers? Yeah I like that feature myself too lazy to get up and use the dev desktop.

That's my hope regarding Linux that it's safe, using virtual box and Linux.

Haven't heard of Sugar notebooks.

Yeah I used to run Linux Mint, then Debian, then Ubuntu mostly because of their good driver support, a few times I've had laptops with Debian installed and they couldn't connect to WiFi right off the bat. Then i3-wm because my computers are generally garbage. At least now both my desktop/laptop have 8gb ram. Could go higher maxing out chrome tabs.

Anyway thanks and for the info on the ports, I have used netstat before it's intimidating haha, so many at least when I checked on my windows laptop if I recall right.

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

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Post by ge96 »

jlgaddis wrote: post #127
ge96 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 n…

Take a look at /etc/services on your Linux box for some hints or Google something like "IANA well-known ports" for a list of "registered" ones.

Thanks for the tip

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

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Post by atmosx »

DrPhish wrote: post #105
ge96 wrote: post #92

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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…

Sounds like a full time job to me. I mean, I'm getting paid, to monitor less than this...

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

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Post by tmikaeld »

wut42 wrote: post #130
tmikaeld wrote: post #128

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How is your experience with online.net when it comes to dedicated?

Pretty good! I've had boxes that got more than 4 years uptime there. Hardware is solid, network is nice (at least for EU), and when it come to the price: it's the best ones. Support is fast and always reactive as well.

Thanks for the input, I've got all servers at OVH at the moment and support is, well, ~3 days.

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

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Post by wut42 »

tmikaeld wrote: post #135
wut42 wrote: post #130

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Pretty good! I've had boxes that got more than 4 years uptime there. Hardware is solid, network is nice (at least for EU), and when it come to the price: it's the best ones. Support is fast and always reactive as well.

Thanks for the input, I've got all servers at OVH at the moment and support is, well, ~3 days.

Yeah, I'm not surprised. I've stopped using OVH around 5 years ago for this and other stuff (they changed prices and options of an offer while already subscribed). My day job company is still using them but we're moving to Online because the support at OVH really, really sucks.

Also their network is less stable than Online's.

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

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Post by johnx123-up »

tiangolo wrote: post #29

Everything with Docker: https://www.docker.com/ Rancher (to control Docker stacks, set up HTTPS with Let's encrypt, etc): http://rancher.com/ GitLab (git repositories): https://about.gitlab.com/ Rocket.Chat (internal chat): https://rocket.chat/ Sentry (production code error handling): https://sentry.io/welcome/ Metabase (DB analytics and graphs): http://www.metabase.com/ Mailu (email server): https://github.com/Mailu…

Late, but thanks for the list. Mine is:

- GitLab as an alternative for GitHub https://about.gitlab.com/

- Restyaboard as an alternative for Trello http://restya.com/board

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

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Post by johnwaynedoe »

jancborchardt wrote: post #74
captainmuon wrote: post #66

Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but Nextcloud (or Owncloud): https://nextcloud.com/ It's basically self-hosted Dropbox, with clients for all mayor Desktop and Mobile OSes. I set it up for a little team project. Just one account, and a shared folder where people with a password could upload. I think we will move to individual accounts at some point. But it supports much more. It has a calendar similar to G…

Nextcloud designer here, thanks for mentioning and good to hear you’re happy! :) Everyone is welcome to contribute at https://github.com/nextcloud/ :) And in case anyone is in Berlin, we’re having our annual conference at the moment! https://nextcloud.com/conf/

Thank you! I was not ready to make the jump to self hosting my own Dropbox alternative until I saw what a polished program you and your team put together. Great work!
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