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

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On this note, I've got a few services I'd like to setup locally. I'm curious if I could set them up in a Docker-like fashion, where it's super easy to manage the individual container image - and then run it on some type of home "cloud". I debated reaching for Docker Swarm, but I'm curious: What might be the easiest way to achieve this? Running a Kube cluster is insane for my needs, I imagine I'd be perfectly happy wi…

You can run a single node k8s setup.

Is k8s worth it on just a single node if you aren't prototyping or learning for a larger setup?

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

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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…

Oh man, I have the same shelf from Ikea, never thought of using it for a couple rack-mountables. I like the look!

I was wondering about that shelf. It is the perfect width.

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

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“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…

Hmm. I get other people to build my car, grow my food, generate my electricity, extract and refine my petrol, clean my water, I've rented cars, I get others to fly planes for me that I don't own, I use trains others drive and own.

I do everything for little to nothing in my life, and there's no reasonable default as to where the line is other than a cost/benefit comparison.

For my for many years owning a car was far more expensive than renting or getting taxis when needed. Owning a car absolutely would have been an expensive hobby, and the same is true for many in cities.

Having a personal server is exceptionally cheap. I had a VPS unnoticed recently I'd forgotten to cancel which cost about 10 dollars per year. That's about one minimum wage hour where I live. If you mean literally a personal server a raspberry pi can easily run a bunch of things and can cost about the same as a one off.

It's time, and upfront costs of software. If I want updates, and I do (security at least) I need some ongoing payments for those, and then I need to manage a machine. That management is better done by people other than me (as even if they earned the same as me they'd be faster and better) and they can manage more machines without a linear increase in their time.

So why self host? Sometimes it'll make sense, but the idea it should be the default to me doesn't hold. Little needs to be 100% in house, and sharing things can often be far more efficient. Software just happens to be incredibly easy to share.

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

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# 2GB linode instance ($10/month) nginx mailinabox (email, nextcloud) gogs 6 static websites 3 (dumb) little personal web-projects selfoss mumble openvpn # rpi-3 at home osmc (kodi) + 8TB of raided HDDs nginx chorus-2 in kodi publicly available (behind htpasswd) updated w/ dynamic DNS a nightly cron job rsyncs the from the linode instance # another rpi-3 in garden shed 8TB of raided HDDs nightly cron of the other rpi…

Curious, why the other rpi-3 in the garden shed? Is that for "off-site" backups?

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

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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…

I'm curious about why you're using lxd. Is it just that you wanted to try something different from Docker and its rivals? Or is there a reason you think lxd is better for your setup? For a service per container, I figured minimal, immutable containers, rather than containers running full distros, would be better.

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

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I built a setup called TinyDataCenter on a RasPi and run it hybrid with AWS and S3FS for unlimited media storage. On it I built iSpooge Live to host and syndicate my livestreams to YouTube and Twitch, and built some ffmpeg scripts to turn videos into HLS and playback with adaptive rate via VidroJS. Also on it is my portfolio site and in progress are imported copies of all my social media archives like Twitter and IG. Auth happens via JWTs from Auth0 but I’ve an email magic link system to bolt in soon. There’s an xmpp server that isn’t integrated yet. Email is hosted 3rd party but I may try email in a box. The theme is decentralized with syndication. This has been going on and live streamed to regularly for about 2 years. All mybdcripts are open source, same username on GitHub.

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

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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…

If you take a broader lens, having a private vehicle is an expensive hobby for the rich.

And most people actually do outsource their jobs. They are employees rather than working for themselves…

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

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post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It more generally burns me out that we as a society still feel it is necessary to construct and reinforce so arbitrary an apparatus as copyright to substantially stymie the tremendous potential information exchange of computer networks. Of all the ways to try to promote creativity in the 21st century, making information distribution illegal by default and then using force of law to restrict said distribution unless a…

>it is necessary to construct and reinforce so arbitrary an apparatus as copyright to substantially stymie the tremendous potential information exchange of computer networks. It makes sense when you consider that information is generated in the first place for an incentive, and that incentive is only possible when copyright guards it. People are more than free to create public information if they choose to do so (and…

US copyright laws have been proliferated around the world. Copyright was originally intended to be a limited-time monopoly which allowed consumers the ability to trust creators and creators the ability to share without worry that their idea would be stolen by other businesses. It was never intended to limit the rights of consumers, it's been warped into that by Disney which rewrote the laws to protect Mickey. Copyright as it is goes against the very purpose of creation preventing any new works from ever being created.

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

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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…

I use Plex. It virtually exclusively contains rips of blu-rays and DVDs that I have bought. I do not consider this piracy. I do not think format shifting is unethical. I do think DRM is unethical.

Listen here, just because you bought a piece of plastic doesn't mean you own what's on the piece of plastic. It's like a car, just because you bought a car doesn't mean you own the steering wheel it the seats.... Oh wait.../s
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