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Sure, in the same way that BitTorrent can be used to download Linux ISOs :)
I pull in about two batches of 5-30 torrents every month or two for content I paid for on Humble Bundle. People who use bittorrent legally do exist, or at least there's one of us.
4 Ubuntu 16.04 servers:
- Nginx/PHP for Wordpress - MySQL - Redis - Mail
Planning to expand the the Nginx/PHP servers to at least two, and add load balancers. All certs are provided by an Ansible script using Lets Encrypt (yuck).
At home:
Proxmox running on two homebuilt AMD FX 8320 servers with 32GB each, with drives provided by FreeNAS on a homebuilt Supermicro server with about 10TB of usable space (on both HDDs and SSDs)
Ubuntu 16.04 Servers:
- 2x DNS - 2x DHCP - GitLab - Nagios - Grafana - InfluxDB - Redmine - Reposado - MySQL
Other:
- Sipecs
All set up via Ansible.
Next will set up a Kubernetes cluster (probably as far as I’ll get with containers).
“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…
So, that would be interesting to note who here is in the EU self-hosting w/ their symmetric, low-cost, high-speed ISPs, versus the US, paying $600/mo for a 5 year contract for 10/10 Mbit DIA setup (anecdote).
(edit: forgot to state country, Slovenia)
I live in a stable first-world democracy. Or, since it seems to be getting less stable recently, maybe a better way to put it is: I participate in a stable global economy. If "the cloud" catastrophically fails to the point where I lose all of the above without warning, I will likely have bigger problems than never being able to watch a favorite tv show again.
I wonder if this exposes two kinds of people: those who value mobility, and are more comfortable limiting the things that are important to them to a laptop and a bug-out bag, and those who value stability, and are inclined to build self-sufficient infrastructure in their castles.
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I'm trialling k3s right now. https://k3s.io/
I've seen it, never tried it. The thing is, I don't use Kubernetes for convenience or because I need it, I use to learn it. I was just fine with Docker Swarm before switching, but I wanted to learn Kubernetes as a valuable skill, and I know no better way of learning something than using it every day. And the thing about Kubernetes distros is that they usually all apply a new layer of "turning Kubernetes' complexity i…
k3s is not very far from the fundamentals. It's really just "one binary" instead of many for the space savings/ simple deployment.
That said, consider Kubernetes in Action by Manning. I'm about 75% done now, was a great help, and I'm continuing with k3s after doing it.
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.
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> * CoreDNS: DNS cache with blacklisted domains (like Pihole), gives DNS-over-TLS to the home network and to my phone when I'm outside I would be _very_ interested in a write up/explanation of this set up
There you go! Essentially, this setup achieves 5 features I wanted my DNS to have: - Confidentiality: from my ISP; and from anyone listening to the air for plain-text DNS questions when I'm on public WiFi. Solution: DNS-over-TLS[1] - Integrity: of the answers I get. Solution: DNS-over-TLS authenticates the server - Privacy: from web trackers, ads, etc. Solution: domain name blacklist - Speed: as in, fast resolution t…
Relying on streaming providers, cloud email services, etc., has left me in a very foul mood lately and I feel like I need to take back control. My biggest trigger was when I purchased an actual physical audio CD (this year; because NONE of the popular streaming providers offer the album), ripped it to FLAC, and then realized I had no reliable/convenient way to expose this to my personal devices. I used to have a very elaborate setup with subsonic doing music hosting duty, and all of my personal devices were looped in on it. This was vastly superior to Spotify, et. al., but the time it takes to maintain the collection and services was perceived to be not worth it. From where I am sitting now, its looking like its worth it again.
How long until media we used to enjoy is squeezed completely out of existence because a handful of incumbent providers feel its no longer "appropriate" for whatever money-grabbing reasons?
“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…
"self-driving" ones car may become the common parlance before we die
“No self-drive. Only taxis.”
— The Prisoner, 1967