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

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Post by interfixus »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #53

I really like fossil [0]. It's an alternative to git which includes integrated bug tracking, wiki, and notes. Definitely suggest giving a try! I'd absolutely love it if the same functionality were available with git/github. [0] http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

Fossil, by the one and only D. Richard Hipp, is a superb, dependable, easily deployable tool. I use it for all sorts of projects. The executable is one file, the repo is another (an sqlite one). Things really don't come any easier than that.

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

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Post by akulbe »

mauz wrote: post #57
OzzyB wrote: post #47

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

I've read that it can be a hassle to host your own mail server. Have you encountered any issues? Or was it a hassle to set it up?

Having been through the "hassle to host your own email server" experience, several years ago, I was very skeptical about doing the mailinabox.email setup.

I was very pleasantly surprised, and have been hosting email for one of my domains on it for almost 4 years now. It was very easy to set up, and has been very easy to maintain.

Highly recommended.

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

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Post by mauz »

akulbe wrote: post #62
mauz wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've read that it can be a hassle to host your own mail server. Have you encountered any issues? Or was it a hassle to set it up?

Having been through the "hassle to host your own email server" experience, several years ago, I was very skeptical about doing the mailinabox.email setup. I was very pleasantly surprised, and have been hosting email for one of my domains on it for almost 4 years now. It was very easy to set up, and has been very easy to maintain. Highly recommended.

Good to hear, thanks for the input.

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

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Post by majewsky »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #36
nilved wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

This has not been my experience - it's phenomenalally cheaper to shell out a few bucks to GH than deal with self hosted self control. Even an hour a month of lost dev time would make it worth it.

Also, thanks to the stupid design decisions of most package managers, you will have trouble getting anything done anyway if github.com is down, even if you just get dependencies from there. If that problem affects you, then self-hosting your Git repo may just add a second point of failure.

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

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Post by captainmuon »

Can't believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but Nextcloud (or Owncloud):

https://nextcloud.com/

It's basically self-hosted Dropbox, with clients for all mayor Desktop and Mobile OSes. I set it up for a little team project. Just one account, and a shared folder where people with a password could upload. I think we will move to individual accounts at some point.

But it supports much more. It has a calendar similar to Google Calendar and I've switched to it. It also has plugins for image galleries, contacts, LibreOffice in the browser, collaborative editing like EtherPad, and so on. I was very sceptical, but it is really well done.

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

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Post by majewsky »

nginx (HTTP), Prosody (XMPP) and uMurmur (Mumble voice-chat) stand out as being very easy to set up (single configuration file, good documentation) and having no failure modes that I'm aware of.

nginx deserves particular mention for handling a HN frontpage crowd on a single-core VM without even blinking.

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

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Post by Alacart »

I run my own git server with Gogs, which is written in go. I set that up 2 or 3 years ago on a 5 dollar DOdroplet and have never had downtime and I haven't SSH'd into it since the initial setup. I use it all day every day for many projects and have had up to about 5 devs regularly committing to it as well. Zero problems, ever.

There's also Gitea which is a fork of Gogs after some contributors became concerned with the bus factor, very slow feature development, and occasional disappearance of the maintainer of Gogs. I haven't use it but that's probably what I'd try first now.

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

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Post by tscs37 »

callahad wrote: post #34
vmp wrote: post #24

Gogs for lightweight git repo hosting, works great, zero maintenance.

I've heard really good things about the community-driven Gogs fork called Gitea: https://gitea.io/

Gitea is quite neat.

The Github Integration makes it easier for people to contribute.

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

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Post by keltvek »

I self host everything I need:

Website: nginx + Let's Encrypt + Piwik (analytics)

Mail: mailcow

IM: Riot.im

Blog: Pelican static site generator

Logs: Graylog

Monitoring: Zabbix

Seedbox: deluge

Music: subsonic

File sharing: Seafile

Contacts&Calendar: Nextcloud

DNS: unbound

VPN: OpenVPN

Git: Gitlab

There is probably more.

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