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

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

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Post by mavidser » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 8:16 AM UTC

captn3m0 wrote: post #81

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…

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

Yeah, I too have noticed that. Haven't seen a lot of terraform usage for personal services.

What are the issues with syncthing?

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

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Post by reificator » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 8:52 AM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #30

saagarjha wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plex can and is often used for hosting content that you own the rights to.

Sure, in the same way that BitTorrent can be used to download Linux ISOs :)

I pull in about two batches of 5-30 torrents every month or two for content I paid for on Humble Bundle.

People who use bittorrent legally do exist, or at least there's one of us.

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

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Post by Youden » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 8:56 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.

I want a single platform that allows me to conveniently access all the media I want to consume, now and for forever. There's no other way to have one, it's that simple.

Sure I could buy DRM-laden stuff from some online store but there's no guarantee I can access it forever. I could buy a bunch of Blu-Rays or DVDs and stick them on a shelf but that's not convenient. I could pay for a subscription service but not a single one has anything close to everything I want to watch.

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

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Post by Youden » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 8:58 AM UTC

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)?

Depends on the size of the collection. You can get a small (1-2TB) dedicated server for ~$5/month these days. When you get bigger you're looking at something like 64EUR/month for 40TB.

Personally I have a home server which has minimal monthly costs. I just buy disks every now and then.

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

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Post by carc1n0gen » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 8:59 AM UTC

I host my blog on a raspberry under my desk. At some point I'll Get around to moving my gitea instance there too, which is currently on digital ocean

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

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Post by mackrevinack » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 9:00 AM UTC

kissgyorgy wrote: post #136

Wallabag! It changed my reading habits: https://wallabag.org/en

ive been eyeing that up for quite a while now. being able to it run on an eink reader seems like a great idea. ive set up the email-an-article-to-your-kindle thing a few years ago but it's still too much effort.

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

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Post by RulerOf » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 9:04 AM UTC

sdan wrote: post #36

I host a bunch of docker containers plus Traefik to route everything. It runs on a cheap GCP instance (more on this here: https://sdan.xyz/sd2 ) Overleaf: https://sdan.xyz/latex A URL Shortener: https://sdan.xyz All my websites ( https://sdan.xyz/drf , https://sdan.xyz/surya , etc.) My blog(s) ( https://sdan.xyz/blog , https://sdan.xyz/essays ) Commento commenting server (I don't like disqus) Monitoring ( https://sda…

It’s a relatively popular choice but I’ll ask you about it...

I see a lot of people putting their home stuff behind CloudFlare, but when I reviewed their free tier, I didn’t actually see any security benefit to outweigh the privacy loss, and I didn’t see that covered on your blog post.

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

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Post by danielovichdk » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 9:07 AM UTC

Windows 2000 ISS 5 FTP SQL server 2000

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

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Post by Youden » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 9:08 AM UTC

I used to have things in a colo but now I have fiber at home, just about everything is on a single giant machine, complete with graphics card for a gaming VM:

  VM management: libvirt (used to host gaming PC and financial applications)
  Container management: Docker (used to be k8s but gave up)
  Photo gallery: Koken, Piwigo, Lychee
  Media acquisition: Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet, NZBHydra
  Media access: Plex
  Monitoring: InfluxDB, Grafana, cAdvisor, Piwik, SmartD, SmokePing, Prometheus
  Remote data access: Nextcloud
  Local data access: Samba, NFS
  Data sync: Syncthing
  WireGuard
  Unifi server
  IRC: irssi, WeeChat, Glowing Bear, Sopel (runs a few bots)
  Finance: beancount-import, fava
  Chat: Riot, Synapse (both Matrix)
  Databases: Postgres, MariaDB, Redis
  Speed test: IPerf3

I also have a seedbox for high-bandwidth applications.

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

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Post by nerdponx » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 9:12 AM UTC

mavidser wrote: post #134

nerdponx wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Sync's docs were a bit outdated, yes. Had to spend some time to get it up and running. The config I ended up using - https://0bin.net/paste/gnWY4+Tn-jZ2UMZm#RgQfZ3uD7MIlK7nWKLLX... It's deployed on docker, proxied through traefik.

Thanks, hopefully I can get this working myself.