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

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Post by Havoc »

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)?

Home server - nothing recurring. Repurposed an old gaming laptop. Only cost was some USB3 HDD bays. Plus probably extra electricity since I run BOINC on it.

Websites - nothing. Using GCP free server. About to move it to Oracle's free VMs though thanks to GCP's IPV4 shenanigans and Oracle's free offering being better (higher IO & you get two VMs).

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

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Post by mackrevinack »

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.

im making moves to go back to storing music myself. I used to say to myself that couldn't afford all the music I listen to but now looking at the stupid amount of money ive given spotify over the years I'm thinking that maybe I could.

the other thing that is bothering me is that songs keep dissappearing from my playlists every once in a while

people keeping their own movie library makes perfect sense as there are still no services today, that I know of, that have access to all movies a certain person might want, or if they do the service is basterdised by some region lock

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

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Post by sdan »

RulerOf wrote: post #147
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.

Thanks for the read!

1. This is hosted on GCP. Actually was thinking of using Cloudflare Argo once my GCP credits expire so that I can truly self host all this (although all I have is an old machine).

2. For me, Cloudflare makes my websites load faster on pages. Security wise, I have pretty much everything enabled... like always on HTTPS, etc. and I some strict restrictions on SSHing into my instance (also note that none of my ip addresses are exposed thanks to Cloudflare), so really I'm not sure what security risk there may be.

3. How am I losing privacy loss? Just curious, not really understanding what you're saying there.

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

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Post by nc30 »

ricardbejarano wrote: post #43
magicfractal wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you share a bit about your picture gallery?

Sure! Here's the source code: https://github.com/ricardbejarano/pyctures I could set up a demo if you want to. It's a cheap Flask app that scans a given "library" directory for "album" subdirectories, which contain the pictures you want to display. It has a big issue with image size (16 images per page, my phone takes 5MB pictures, 80MB per page is HUUUGE). Thumbnailing would be great. I'm open for PRs ;)! If anyone…

Sigal https://github.com/saimn/sigal seems to do pretty much you have described there. And it is written in python too :)

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

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Post by Fiahil »

Like most folks here, I'm running the pihole/media/torrent suite. Hardware is a Rock64 soon to be colocated with a few Raspberry pi 4. Everything is dockerized and scheduled on k3s. Using kubernetes is a real life changer. I can unplug one of the SBCs and things are automatically balanced and rescheduled. It also makes the whole setup completely portable.

I use NFS on the NAS for the storage unit. It's the only thing I need to backup.

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

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Post by stiray »

I am a bit old school but this fills all my needs.

- httpd

- nextcloud (mostly for android syncing, for normal file operations I prefer sftp). Nextcloud is great but the whole js/html/browser is clumsy.

- roundcube (again mostly imap but just to have alternative when phone isnt available - I havent used it for ages)

- postfix

- dovecot

- squid on separate fib with paid vpn (mitming all the traffic, removing all internet "junk" from my connections, all my devices, including android are using it over ssh tunnel).

- transmission, donating my bandwidth to some OSS projects

- gitolite, all my code goes there

I think this is it.

Everything is running on mitx board, with 16gb of ram, 3x 3tb toshiba hdds in zraid and additional 10tb hitachi disk. FreeBSD. 33 watts.

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

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Post by mavidser »

mavidser wrote: post #133
tnsittpsif wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Remote server's a 20USD/month DigitalOcean droplet with 4GB memory. Though even half of that would also have specified for these services. Home server's a Raspberry Pi 4.

s/specified/sufficed

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

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Post by _b8r0 »

Online:

- Nextcloud

- Mailu.io

- Huginn

- Gotify

- Airsonic

- Gitea

All on a dedicated box. Planning to add password sync, wallabag, syncthing a VPN and a few other features. Other boxes I have run various things from DNS to backup MXes and a WriteFreely instance on OpenBSD.

Internally I host a ton of stuff, mostly linked to a Plex instance.

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