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Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

#22
Running on my NAS at home:

* GitLab (GitHub + CI/CD replacement)

* FreeNAS (Storage server)

* Nextcloud (Dropbox replacement)

* Syncthing (Dropbox replacement, Nextcloud did not work properly on my android phone)

* In progress: Kubernetes cluster (just for fun, RKE + rook.io)

* My own notes/wiki/task tracker I will release real soon now (TM)

Thinking about setting up Gitea + Drone.io, GitLab is just too heavyweight for just using it as git Hosting + CI/CD.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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I setup Redmine, Gitolite, and Jenkins when I started working at a company a few years ago. They worked great and we had a couple of python scripts to make everything fit nicely together (git commit keywords to resolve issues, etc). Then one day someone decided they needed "reports". We ditched our working system and paid a bunch of money for the Atlasssian suite. To this day I still miss our simple, functional, and…

Atlassian software can be so disappointing. We are running Confluence on GKE, and it was such a chore to properly containerize it.

We also use RedMine (running on GKE) and that was a breeze to setup and deploy.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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post #22

Running on my NAS at home: * GitLab (GitHub + CI/CD replacement) * FreeNAS (Storage server) * Nextcloud (Dropbox replacement) * Syncthing (Dropbox replacement, Nextcloud did not work properly on my android phone) * In progress: Kubernetes cluster (just for fun, RKE + rook.io) * My own notes/wiki/task tracker I will release real soon now (TM) Thinking about setting up Gitea + Drone.io, GitLab is just too heavyweight f…

Out of curiosity, how was your experience with RKE? Is it as smooth as advertised?

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

#25
Personnaly, I have built a "self-hosted" stack around the following services:

* Seafile (file hosting/synchronization/sharing/history)

* SoGo (a webmail that work with existing IMAP and SMTP servers and exposes an Exchange API)

* Matrix / Riot (matrix is a chat server, Riot is the web client)

* Jenkins 2 (Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment)

* FreshRSS (RSS aggregator)

Authentication is managed by a single LDAP service (openldap).

I also plan to test/deploy:

* Peertube (video hosting)

* Mastodon (micro-blogging)

My next goal would be to distribute this stack on more than one server, in order to improve availability.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

#26
For our company, we use:

- Gitlab and Gitlab CI

- Zulip chat(moved from Mattermost)

- Metabase for data visualization(will be adding InfluxDB soon)

- Self Hosted Sentry(error reporting): Sentry is linked with Gitlab and Zulip for alerts

- Taiga: project management tool

- OpenEDX: a beast :)

We are Python(Django) based ourselves and love that we can tinker with many of these tools as they are too Django based.

At personal level, I use:

- Mailinabox: Self hosted mail

- Nextcloud: For file syncing, contact management, calendar and tasks, notes.

I have also looked at Perkeep several times(even set it up two times) but couldn't include it in workflow. Especially mobile file syncing.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

#27

I setup Redmine, Gitolite, and Jenkins when I started working at a company a few years ago. They worked great and we had a couple of python scripts to make everything fit nicely together (git commit keywords to resolve issues, etc). Then one day someone decided they needed "reports". We ditched our working system and paid a bunch of money for the Atlasssian suite. To this day I still miss our simple, functional, and…

> We tolerate Confluence but the fact that the JIRA and Confluence have their own, annoying flavor of markdown, which is different from Bitbucket's flavor

How do they justify this? It trips me up every single working day of my life. The products look identical so all I see is a text box on a white site with blue accents and I inevitably start writing the wrong markdown.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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I can't really see what perkeep is or does form the cursoray look. As far as self hosted goes, I do everything. Nextcloud, wekan, confluence, iredmail, web host, /nginx, Hugo, openeats, suricata, etc... If I can't self host it, it's not a contender for me. Anything I want to use, I need to be able to control and host. I don't have a rocket chat, but I do participate in a trusted version that I know the other party se…

I've considered going self-hosted a lot of times, for several "everyday use" services. But there are always two things that make me hesitate:

- Cost. My needs are small so in practice I can stay in the free tier of most services.

- Availability/Reliability work. All the maintenance burden would now fall over me: data backups, network failures, etc.

Could you comment on these points, from your experience? (also whatever other concerns you may want to point out about self-hosting services)

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

#29
At home;

Emby-server for my home media library.

APU OpenBSD router for my outer-most internet router at home.

Unbound LAN resolver with a number of upstream unbound instances at different VPS providers.

Libvirt hypervisor for personal projects.

Synology DS411slim NAS and one homemade with emby, I'm wanting to replace the homemade one with FreeNAS mini though because I'm not happy with the HW in it.

At work I've setup, or helped setup;

Owncloud for internal file sharing and to clients.

A couple of gitlab instances, one for internal dev stuff and one for a client.

A homemade password pusher.

In-house developed monitoring system.

Really this list could go on forever so I'm going to stop here. Having worked for 7 years at my current position with setting up various open source solutions.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

#30
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea self hosted git service. They provide a prebuild statically linked binary. We use it for some time now and it's just beautiful. In my opinion the nicest self hosted git to date. Also the development is very active and new functionality is added continuously.
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