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

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Post by oarsinsync »

sdan wrote: post #154
RulerOf wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You lose the end to end encryption that you’d get by HTTPS directly to your home instead of proxying via CF, as CF will MITM all of your sessions.

Browser CF, CF source server. Two distinct TCP sessions. Both potentially encrypted, but there’s no E2E encryption anymore.

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

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Post by cyphar »

mwcampbell wrote: post #189
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?

> This is a bit tangential, but to clarify, do you mean that you listen to audiobooks on your TV using Kodi?

Sometimes, though not very often -- I work from home and so sometimes I'll play an audiobook in my living room and work at the dinner table rather than working from my home office.

> Do you also have a way of syncing them to a more portable device, like your phone?

Unfortunately not in an automated way (luckily I don't buy audiobooks very regularly -- I like to finish one before I get another one). I really wish that VLC on Android supported NFS, but it doesn't AFAIK (I think it requires kernel support).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

oarsinsync wrote: post #191
sdan wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You lose the end to end encryption that you’d get by HTTPS directly to your home instead of proxying via CF, as CF will MITM all of your sessions. Browser CF, CF source server. Two distinct TCP sessions. Both potentially encrypted, but there’s no E2E encryption anymore.

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

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Post by oarsinsync »

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 like to be able to view and edit my calendar when I’m offline. This is remarkably often, regardless of whether I’m in London (UK), New York (USA), or some other country entirely.

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

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Post by Artemix »

I self-host the following services:

    syncthing
    nfs server
    UPnP server, connected to my media NAS
    gitea server, for my personal projects
    droneci, linked to my gitea server, for building websites and releases I publish
    A few locally hosted services, such as DevDocs, draw.io or Asciiflow, for convenience.

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

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Post by teddyh »

“Self-host” is such a weird word. Having your own stuff yourself should be the default, should it not? I mean, you don’t “self-drive” your car, nor “self-work” your job. The corresponding words instead exists for the opposites: You can have a chauffeur and you can outsource your job.

I think the problem is entirely caused by the US having absolutely abysmal private internet speeds and capacity. Since you can’t then have your own server at home, you are forced to have it elsewhere with sensible internet connections.

It’s as if, in an alternate reality, no private residences had parking space for cars; no garages, no street parking. Everyone would be forced to either use public transport, taxis and chauffeur services to get anywhere. Having a private vehicle would be an expensive hobby for the rich and/or enthusiasts, just like having a personal server is in our world.

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

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Post by DrAwdeOccarim »

I host everything internal where if I need the resource I VPN in from outside. They all run on Raspberry Pis.

> Resilio Sync for iPhone pictures backups and "drop box" file access

> Transmission server

> SMB share of NAS to supply OSMC boxes on every TV

> Nighthawk N7000 running dd-wrt with a 500gb flash drive attached as storage for my Amcrest wifi cameras

> Edgerouter Lite running VPN server

> Hassbian for my zwave home automation stuff

> A pi with cheap speakers that I can log into and play a phone ringing sound so my wife will look at her phone!

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

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Post by absc »

I have one OpenBSD VM running on vultr with:

- Mail server (OpenSMTPD)

- IMAP (Dovecot)

- CVS server for my projects.

- httpd(8) for my website.

I still need to add rspamd for spam check. But insofar, I received just one spam E-mail.

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

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Post by kraftman »

teddyh wrote: post #196

“Self-host” is such a weird word. Having your own stuff yourself should be the default , should it not? I mean, you don’t “self-drive” your car, nor “self-work” your job. The corresponding words instead exists for the opposites: You can have a chauffeur and you can outsource your job. I think the problem is entirely caused by the US having absolutely abysmal private internet speeds and capacity. Since you can’t then…

Reminds me of "wild" camping. Used to just be called camping...
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