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Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by StavrosK »

lucideer wrote: post #14

I've tried perkeep out but couldn't really figure out its goal or purpose. It seems to be built on a lot of interesting theoretical ideas of generalised storage without an actual current application. In particular there's some talk on their homepage about software archeologists being able to reverse engineer the format easily in future, but that seems a little presumptuous if they don't find a proper use case between…

Yeah, I remember hearing about it (then called Camlistore) a decade or so ago, and I visited the home page and saw "if you're a developer, you can probably get some utility out of it". You'd think that, after ten years, they'd have made something that the average user can at least install.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by icebraining »

j1elo wrote: post #28
PenguinCoder wrote: post #2

I can't really see what perkeep is or does form the cursoray look. As far as self hosted goes, I do everything. Nextcloud, wekan, confluence, iredmail, web host, /nginx, Hugo, openeats, suricata, etc... If I can't self host it, it's not a contender for me. Anything I want to use, I need to be able to control and host. I don't have a rocket chat, but I do participate in a trusted version that I know the other party se…

I've considered going self-hosted a lot of times, for several "everyday use" services. But there are always two things that make me hesitate: - Cost. My needs are small so in practice I can stay in the free tier of most services. - Availability/Reliability work. All the maintenance burden would now fall over me: data backups, network failures, etc. Could you comment on these points, from your experience? (also whatev…

It probably depends on what you're using, but my experience (self-hosting email with exim + dovecot, RSS with TTRSS and now calendar/contacts with Radicale) is that I barely have to touch them after setting them up. I use unattended-upgrades to keep the box updated with security fixes, and every few years there's some new email anti-spam thing you need to setup, but other than that, I don't touch it.

As for cost, I run everything on a $5/month DO box, and it's only using half the ram and barely any CPU. You could run it on an even cheaper VM or even a tiny physical box like a Raspberry. Backups are just a matter of using a tool that encrypts and syncs to some offsite.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by cwoac »

fotcorn wrote: post #39
rhizome31 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, how was your experience with RKE? Is it as smooth as advertised?

The default network plugin (canal) did not work for me (some strange error), switching to Weave fixed the problem. Somehow RKE fails when your ssh-key is added to an ssh-agent, you need to add the "--ssh-agent-auth" flag to RKE to make it work. The rest worked great and fast (~5 minutes I'd say). I am currently looking into persistent volume solutions, Rook.io looks good but is still beta. Ingress is another thing I…

Odd, the default according to the docs is now flannel. Note that that is the default choice _if you ask for network in your configuration_, otherwise it doesn't do any (this caught me out).

Rook is doing OK for me so far, but be warned, the api is seemingly quite volatile at the moment

For ingress on bare metal (I assume that is what you are using), either nginx-ingress (for rest protocols) or metallb for arbitrary ones.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by zaarn »

icebraining wrote: post #48
zaarn wrote: post #42

I run Nextcloud for my data storage, a Mastodon server, Postal for email delivery, Shaarli to store my bookmarks, a selfwritten analytics system to check what devices I should optimize my website for. Additionally a Gitea instance for git repository access and Drone CI for ... CI as well as TinyTinyRSS. An RSS reader I have yet to find a replacement for, stuff like Miniflux and friends all don't have the category and…

Why would you want to replace TinyTinyRSS? It's been rock-solid for me.

There is no direct need to replace it, however, TTRSS feels a bit overkill for what I do, I could work with much less. The UI is also quite annoying to deal with and every update breaks the theme I installed to make it bearable. Additionally the author has been quite rude in reaction to bug reports or simple support questions, so I'm not quite inclined to keep using the software unless there is no good alternative.

The Author also pulled WebSub support for no good reason.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by JeanMarcS »

timlyo wrote: post #13

Syncthing instead of dropbox. Works great for synching music (and only music as I can just sync a single folder) and for replicating important files across multiple computers. I've got it on a linode and across all my computers. https://syncthing.net/

You know you can add several entries, and so several directories with syncthing, do you ?

Me, I’ve got one for all administrative stuff, one for my web WIP, one for my personal photos, etc...

And each doesn’t replicate on the same other servers, as you can choose by entry.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by executesorder66 »

leonroy wrote: post #31

Running similar setups on my home lab and company lab: * VMware VSphere/ESXi * JIRA / Confluence (managing tickets and wiki) * FreeNAS (server facing file server duties) * Synology (user facing file serving duties) * Zimbra (mail server) * pfSense (gateway, dhcp, dns, vlans) * SIPP (SIP endpoint testing) * Elastix (Asterisk PBX/VoIP Server) * Windows Server (DNS, DHCP, file serving) * Openfire (XMPP/Jabber server) *…

Do you use Zimbra at work? How is that compared to using Exchange for example?

Any drawbacks?

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by ptman »

aloisdg wrote: post #11

Awesome list: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

I came here looking for reviews and recommendations instead of a list of everything under the sun where I have to figure out what's good and what isn't

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted solutions are you using?

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Post by thepratt »

chrisseaton wrote: post #27
actionowl wrote: post #17

I setup Redmine, Gitolite, and Jenkins when I started working at a company a few years ago. They worked great and we had a couple of python scripts to make everything fit nicely together (git commit keywords to resolve issues, etc). Then one day someone decided they needed "reports". We ditched our working system and paid a bunch of money for the Atlasssian suite. To this day I still miss our simple, functional, and…

> We tolerate Confluence but the fact that the JIRA and Confluence have their own, annoying flavor of markdown, which is different from Bitbucket's flavor How do they justify this? It trips me up every single working day of my life. The products look identical so all I see is a text box on a white site with blue accents and I inevitably start writing the wrong markdown.

It's got so much worse. Even within JIRA there's 2 different flavours: the backlog preview _new_ updated version, and the old horrid detail issue view version. Annoying doesn't start to describe it.
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