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

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Post by itm »

djsumdog wrote: post #170
itm wrote: post #87

I eat my own food: https://github.com/epoupon/lms for music https://github.com/epoupon/fileshelter to share files Eveything is packaged on debian buster (amd64 and armhf) and run behind a reverse proxy.

Huh, interesting. I usually have full copies of my music collection where I need them (512gb microsd in my phone and on the work laptop) but it would be nice to just have a web interface if I'm at someone's house or so they can play off their phone. I think I was using subsonic until they changed all their licensing. One UI question? Is there a reason you left off volume controls? That's something that always annoys…

This is a good question. On mobile, I just use phone buttons to control volume. On desktop, I just use the media keys since I don't listen to something else. But since you are not the first to ask, I can add a volume slider on large devices.

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

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Post by sterlind »

jlgaddis wrote: post #112
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…

> ... want a way to SSH into my home network ... IMO, using a Tor hidden service is a (damn near) perfect solution for this.

aren't jitter and latency still major problems with this approach? plus connection resets, though maybe long-lived flows are more reliable than I remember, and I suppose you could do multipath (if Tor doesn't handle that already, not sure.)

have you made it work? my Tor career ended in college after running an exit node - no visits from the FBI, just got auto-klined from every IRC server since I was on the list of proxies.

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

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Post by p0d »

I run test environments for my saas products, gitlab and nextcloud on a dual core box, hp dc7900, in my roofspace. The os is running of an ssd and there are two old metal disks in software raid.

All my business backups go to the same box. I have a pi and enrypted usb drive copying my backups to my shed from my house.

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

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Post by EvanAnderson »

itm wrote: post #87

I eat my own food: https://github.com/epoupon/lms for music https://github.com/epoupon/fileshelter to share files Eveything is packaged on debian buster (amd64 and armhf) and run behind a reverse proxy.

Both of those projects look great! I could definitely see using both of them. I've been thinking about writing something similar to lms for awhile now.

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

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Post by dmos62 »

zelly wrote: post #85

SSH: for git and tunneling literally everything: VNC, sftp, Emacs server, tmux, .... Docker running random stuff Used to run Pihole until I got an Android and rooted it. Used to mess with WebDAV and CalDAV. Nextcloud is a mess; plain SFTP fuse mounts work better for me. My approach has gone from trying to replicate cloud services to straight up remoting over SSH (VNC or terminal/mosh depending connectivity) to my hom…

I sympathize. My meditations about this lead me to thinking about waste as well.

Why computer at home though? For someone who moves around a lot and doesn't invest into "a home", this would be bothersome. Not to mention it's more expensive, in terms of energy and money. I think third-party data centers are fine for self-hosting.

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

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Post by esotericn »

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…

> The worst part about planning a MS deployment is having to account for software licensing that is done on a per-cpu-core basis.

> Bums me out when I see people putting so many resources into running/building elaborate piracy machines.

These two comments are rather at odds to me.

That said, IME generally the type of person who's big into self hosting isn't a Microsoft guy. I work with MS stuff at work at the moment. The entire thing is set up for Enterprise and Regulations. It's hugely overcomplicated for that specific goal only.

At home I don't care about Regulations(tm). The only reason I can see for someone to bother with it is if they want to train out of hours for a job at an MS shop.

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

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Post by mwcampbell »

cyphar wrote: post #171

I self-host the following at home. Everything is running under LXD (and I have all of the scripts to set it up here[1]): * nginx to reverse-proxy each of the services. * NextCloud. * Matrix Homeserver (synapse). * My website (dumb Flask webapp). * Tor (non-exit) relay. * Tor onion service for my website. * Wireguard VPN (not running in a container, obviously). All running on an openSUSE Leap box, with ZFS as the file…

> It also acts as an NFS server for my media center [...] to pull videos, music, and audiobooks from.

This is a bit tangential, but to clarify, do you mean that you listen to audiobooks on your TV using Kodi? Do you also have a way of syncing them to a more portable device, like your phone?

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

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Post by bluegreyred »

ricardbejarano wrote: post #20

On my home server (refurbished ThinkPad X201 with a Core i5-520M, 8GB of memory, 1TB internal SSD sync'd nightly to an external 1TB HDD) I run a single-node Kubernetes cluster with the following stuff: * MinIO: for access to my storage over the S3 API, I use it with restic for device backups and to share files with friends and family * CoreDNS: DNS cache with blacklisted domains (like Pihole), gives DNS-over-TLS to t…

nice to see somebody using a thinkpad as a homeserver.

I remember comparing low power homeservers, consumer NAS and a refurb Thinkpad and the latter won when considering the price/performance and idle power consumption (<5W). You also get a built screen & keyboard for debugging and a efficient DC-UPS if you're brave enough to leave the batteries in. That's of course assuming you don't need multiple terabytes of storage or run programs that load the CPU 24/7, which I don't. These days a rPi 4 would probably suffice for my needs but I still think the refurb thinkpad is a smart idea.

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