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

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Post by kixiQu »

I selfhost stuff for fun! Which I'm counting my EC2 instance as.

* Pleroma/Mastodon - I had been using Pleroma, but I'm not happy about a few things, so I bit the bullet to upgrade to a t3.small and am now running Mastodon. I love all the concepts of the fediverse, though the social norms are still being ironed out.

* Write Freely (https://writefreely.org/) at https://lesser.occult.institute for my blog (right now mostly holds hidden drafts)

* Matrix (Synapse) and the Riot.im frontend for a group chat. I'm a little conflicted, because right now the experience around enabling E2EE is very alarming for low-tech users and a pain for anyone who signs in from many places, and if it isn't enabled I have better security just messaging my friends with LINE. That said, I really want to write some bots for it. Group chats are the future of social networking, they all say...

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

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Post by gcj »

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…

I'm sorry to bum you out, but I recently built a Raspberry Pi piracy box and it's amazing :D

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

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Post by ekianjo »

maxerickson wrote: post #218
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…

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…

> having a private vehicle is an expensive hobby for the rich.

Having a car is not a hobby when you live outside of a very dense city center. That's just the tool that enables you to live.

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

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Post by juliusmusseau »

ricardbejarano wrote: post #258
tptacek wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't seem to follow. Millions of end-users get access to the Internet through major ISPs that monitor, log, monetize, and manipulate DNS. I'm on AT&T, and they absolutely do this. The purpose of DoH is to add a privacy mechanism that AT&T, or coffee shop wireless networks, or airplane wireless, or whatever, can't trivially disable. That's why it exists and why it's tunneled through HTTPS. Meanwhile, the reason n…

Nothing keeps an end-user from rescinding it's ISP contract as soon as they ever slightly cross the line of filtering a single packet. I agree in that end-users shouldn't give a dime about DNS privacy, it should be private by default, but it is up to us to promote the correct protocol over the "hacky" one. If DNS-over-HTTPS is superior, then why don't we shove everything down 443/TCP? Or better yet, why don't we get…

My ssh server runs on port 443. That way I can connect to it when I'm on the Tim Hortons WIFI.

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

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Post by ekianjo »

mavidser wrote: post #60

I reworked my servers a while ago to host literally everything through docker, managed via terraform. All web-services are reverse-proxied through traefik At home: loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus syncthing tinc vpn server jackett + radarr + sonarr + transmission jellyfin samba server calibre server On a remote server: loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus syncthing tinc vpn ser…

How do you like bitlbee?

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

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Post by douglascoding »

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…

> * Wireguard VPN (not running in a container, obviously).

I plan to use Wireguard too, so I shouldn't run on containers? Can you elaborate on that?

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