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Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by wreath »

nilved wrote: post #25
tchaffee wrote: post #5

I wish I had a success story to tell, but I've increasingly moved away from self-hosting. Whenever something breaks I have to pull myself away from the programming I'm enjoying and go fix it. And if something breaks when I've already had a long day working under a tight deadline for a client, it feels like a disaster.

That's precisely why I self-host. You can fix it yourself. Most people self-hosting GitLab will have a better uptime than GitHub.

I guess you are referring to the recent incidents with Github. At least when Github (or any non-self hosted service) goes down, _you_ don't have to stop doing the task that your user/clients care about and go fix it, you have a whole team dedicated to that, for free.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by zweicoder »

tiangolo wrote: post #29

Everything with Docker: https://www.docker.com/ Rancher (to control Docker stacks, set up HTTPS with Let's encrypt, etc): http://rancher.com/ GitLab (git repositories): https://about.gitlab.com/ Rocket.Chat (internal chat): https://rocket.chat/ Sentry (production code error handling): https://sentry.io/welcome/ Metabase (DB analytics and graphs): http://www.metabase.com/ Mailu (email server): https://github.com/Mailu…

I'm thinking of self-hosting a password manager like KeeWeb but I'm afraid of my own self-hosted solution not being as reliable (downtimes / loss of data). Do you have any precautions against catastrophic failures?

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by brianwawok »

eddieroger wrote: post #19

GitLab. I know it has it's problems in hosted form, but I've stood GitLab up on a Linode about a year ago and have had zero problems with it. Since then, I've grown increasingly dependent on it, starting to use GitLab CI for some basic automation around things like my blog, or managing my Chef environment. I started out by standing it up as a test, and am considering strongly reducing my GitHub footprint in favor of…

I run gitlab in my basement. Takes some hardware to run well but much easier to do locally.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by nikisweeting »

- Bookmark Archiver for keeping local, browsable copies of every important website I visit. https://github.com/pirate/bookmark-archiver

- Webmin for admin and monitoring (better than Nagios imo). http://www.webmin.com/

- Postfix + OpenDKIM for self-hosted email sending & forwarding.

- SFTP/Samba/AFP for my fileserver.

- Ikev2 VPN https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by rhencke »

cormacrelf wrote: post #28

TeamCity ( https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/ ). Seq ( https://getseq.net/ ).

TeamCity is such a wonderful CI tool.

I've tried in vain to find an open-source equivalent that has TeamCity's world view regarding snapshot dependencies and VCS triggers, but so far my search has left me empty-handed. That, plus the wide variety of niceties it bakes in (manually cancelling a build that was running for much longer than usual? It will automatically offer to add a note to that build that it was cancelled because it was hung. Etc.) has made it hard to use anything else. The search continues...

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by OzzyB »

MailInABox [0]

After getting tired paying GSuite/GMail $5/mth per user I figured it's time to get my own email server running again.

Runs on a single $10 Linode instance, pretty easy to setup, super-easy to maintain, does a great job making your emails _not_ end up in the Spam Folder.

[0] https://mailinabox.email

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by JamesLeonis »

zweicoder wrote: post #42
tiangolo wrote: post #29

Everything with Docker: https://www.docker.com/ Rancher (to control Docker stacks, set up HTTPS with Let's encrypt, etc): http://rancher.com/ GitLab (git repositories): https://about.gitlab.com/ Rocket.Chat (internal chat): https://rocket.chat/ Sentry (production code error handling): https://sentry.io/welcome/ Metabase (DB analytics and graphs): http://www.metabase.com/ Mailu (email server): https://github.com/Mailu…

I'm thinking of self-hosting a password manager like KeeWeb but I'm afraid of my own self-hosted solution not being as reliable (downtimes / loss of data). Do you have any precautions against catastrophic failures?

I use Keepass with Dropbox. Keepass keeps the DB file secure with encryption and many rotations, so I'm not afraid of a brute-force on the file itself. It takes 500ms on my beefy desktop to unlock the DB, and almost 3 seconds on my macbook.

Most services are tied to my email, so I have both 2factor auth AND recovery codes that I have stored in a safe place. Additionally I have the Keepass password written down in a safe (separate) place just in case. This is my backup in case I lose access to my Keepass db.

As one last bit, I have Keepass to auto-lock after a bit of inactivity, so I'm constantly retyping that password. This helps me memorize it.

In many ways this keeps me safer. I stay logged out of most websites by default. It can also protect me against terrible password policies. For example, I once had a bank that limited passwords to 8 characters. I had Keepass remind me to generate and rotate that password every quarter just in case. When Heartbleed dropped, I marked all my passwords in red and only changed them back when I updated that website password.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by JamesLeonis »

jlgaddis wrote: post #40
maddyboo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is KeeWeb new? I went through an extensive search for a new password manager a few months ago when I transitioned from macOS to Arch Linux and yet I've never heard of it. I ended up settling on Enpass which is decent but not perfect. KeeWeb looks nice though, how do you like it?

FWIW, I use KeePassX [0] on Arch Linux. I also use LastPass (because $work has an Enterprise account) but I prefer using lastpass-cli [1] instead of the browser extensions. [0]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/keepassx... [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lastpass...

+1 for Keepass. I use it across Windows, OSX, Linux, and my Android phone.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by maddyboo »

jlgaddis wrote: post #40
maddyboo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is KeeWeb new? I went through an extensive search for a new password manager a few months ago when I transitioned from macOS to Arch Linux and yet I've never heard of it. I ended up settling on Enpass which is decent but not perfect. KeeWeb looks nice though, how do you like it?

FWIW, I use KeePassX [0] on Arch Linux. I also use LastPass (because $work has an Enterprise account) but I prefer using lastpass-cli [1] instead of the browser extensions. [0]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/keepassx... [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lastpass...

KeePassX has been on my radar. I think I gravitated towards Enpass because the UI is more similar to 1Password.

I originally used lastpass years ago and I tried it again recently and hate it. I didn't try the cli, though. That would certainly be a better option than dealing with their horrible web app.

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