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Around 2 years ago, I started building my own E-Commerce platform. It started out as a Shopify alternative and now, it's a whole different ball game. It has all the features of marketing automation from Marketo mixed with the backend interface of Amazon.com plus an inbuilt Mailchimp. This means, you can sell a mixture of digital and physical goods online. The whole thing started off as a side project while I was work…
In a similar thread 8 months ago I broke down my self-hosting infrastructure : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106197 Since then I have added a few things, partly from that thread. The big things were hosting Sandstorm.io, which is a complete self-hosted google-apps/office365 type setup that is very easy to use and has great functionality. My entire family uses it for a variety of things that we used to use in…
You mentioned Minetest back then. I had a look at it recently and it seemed like it's not that much fun without mobs. Could you describe your Minetest setup in more detail? I'm sure it can be used to get more fun of it than I managed to.
The whole thing can't be too hard, because my kids running Debian were able to download and install dozens of subgames and mods to their computers and self-host for their brothers. All I had to do was show them how to unzip, move and (if required) rename folders.
The directory that mods are placed in will effect how it is loaded. It would be redundant to write it all out here, so check the wiki [1].
The best place to find out what the newest mods are is the forum [2], specifically the mods forum
For a good game (essentially a modpack) to start with, try Mineclone [3]. It tries to create a Minecraft clone, and is very active. My kids were also obsessed with Lord of the Test[4] for a while
[1] - http://dev.minetest.net/Installing_Mods
[2] - https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=46
In a similar thread 8 months ago I broke down my self-hosting infrastructure : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106197 Since then I have added a few things, partly from that thread. The big things were hosting Sandstorm.io, which is a complete self-hosted google-apps/office365 type setup that is very easy to use and has great functionality. My entire family uses it for a variety of things that we used to use in…
However, as of now I'm hosting:
On a VPS:
- Personal websites (career and hobbies, built on a custom PHP framework)
- Websites for groups/friends (communities, file sharing, built on a custom PHP framework)
- HAM radio contact log (Web based map and historical logging, built on a custom PHP framework)
- Game engine projects and demos (built on a custom JS game engine)
- Network of pi's with webcams doing motion detection (using Motion + custom shell scripts + rsync)
- A server to view those pi feeds on (nginx + custom site on custom PHP framework)
- NAS
- Small "media center" (tried a custom site, now kodi)
- Minecraft server
- A web server to view the world map (nginx)
- Google docs/drive alternative
- (Or otherwise) a shared recipes/shopping/photosharing to use between me, my gf, and/or my family
- DDG/Google/Bing search alternative
- Network ad blocker
- Firewall
- Public transit schedule/map display for my commute
- A safe way view some of my LAN-based tools remotely
Around 2 years ago, I started building my own E-Commerce platform. It started out as a Shopify alternative and now, it's a whole different ball game. It has all the features of marketing automation from Marketo mixed with the backend interface of Amazon.com plus an inbuilt Mailchimp. This means, you can sell a mixture of digital and physical goods online. The whole thing started off as a side project while I was work…
Do you plan to open source it?
My side and pet projects, all on one server: - https://en.openspanish.org (spanish dictionary, still improving) - https://en.openrussian.org (russian dictionary) - http://weeks.michel-helms.de (overview over your life, alpha) - http://nextmovie.co (german movie discovery website) - http://veryinteresting.io - https://finsheets.io (import PayPal/Stripe transactions into G Sheets)
- 4 x Samba4 DCs on various LANs (file server, ldap, krb, dns, ntp)
- Interconnected at VPN hub in London on Linode over wireguard
- "Road-warrior" VPN via ocserv, shadowsocks and strongswan
- Plex
- Nextcloud + OnlyOffice
- 2 x Windows Server 2008 R2
- Postfix/Dovecot/Horde for mail on a Samba DC for fast LDAP
- Private internal family blog
- Simplesamlphp and mod_auth_mellon for SSO, authenticates via kerberos, if not then SSL (my family use smartcards) and finally username, password and TOTP, all verified against AD
- Transmission
- Xen Orchestra (for managing xcp-ng)
- Rockstor (OS for my NAS using BTRFS RAID10)
- django-ca (for PKI for smartcards and internel certs)
- Used to run Citrix XenApp but now aiming for all desktops to be Linux, so looking at deploying ThinLinc
- Asterisk (all our family have FXO adapters on their phone lines, and all phones have FXS adapters, saves on our international phone calls, and all routed over our VPNs)
I'm a student of languages at uni, but I dunno maybe I should do sysadmin or something
What is a reasonable 80-20 progression of most bang for the buck things?
I have a macbook, 2 windows laptops, two wifi routers, and a surplus 1u rack server I picked up after a company datacenter upgrade.
I don't know if that's typical, but I'm sure there are others with a small pile of devices and no idea where to start.
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You mentioned Minetest back then. I had a look at it recently and it seemed like it's not that much fun without mobs. Could you describe your Minetest setup in more detail? I'm sure it can be used to get more fun of it than I managed to.
Modpacks and worlds for minetest are a bit tricky, since you need the right version of all the mods for things to work properly, and sometimes newer versions of minetest break old mods, so there is definitely some manual labour involved in setting up a nice modern server where everything just works. It can be frustrating finding a subgame or mod that you want to use but hasn't been maintained and is broken. The whole…