Ask HN: What do you self-host? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by minimaul » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:23 AM UTC

As much as I can, currently:

On colo’d hardware:

- off-site backup server (Borg backup on top of zfs) - this is a dedicated box

- a mix of VMs and docker containers - mostly custom web apps

- email (it’s easier than you think)

At home:

- file server using zfs

- Nextcloud

- more custom web apps

- tvheadend

- VPN for remote access (IKEv2)

- gitlab

- gitlab ci

Also run an IPSec mesh between sites for secure remote access to servers etc

While my workplace uses AWS a massive amount, I still prefer to run my own hardware and software. Cloud services are not for me.

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

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Post by hendry » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:23 AM UTC

FreeNAS + voidlinux nuc running grafana + prometheus.

Tbh I run hot and cold about self hosting since after work, I really really want to be able relax at home.

Not wonder why the hell my nuc hasn't come up after a reboot. Or why is it so hard to increase the disk space on my FreeNAS https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/upgrading-storag...

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

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Post by emit_time » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:30 AM UTC

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…

Have you considered moving from tinc to Wireguard?

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

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Post by snagglegaggle » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:39 AM UTC

tbyehl wrote: post #40

In colo: nginx Plex Radarr / Sonarr / SABnzbd / qBittorrent / ZeroTier -> online.net server FreeNAS x2 Active Directory At home: nginx vCenter urbackup UniFi SDN, Protect Portainer / unms / Bitwarden Wordpress (isolated) Guacamole PiHole InfluxDB / grafana Active Directory Windows 10 VM for Java things L2TP on my router Everything I expose to the world goes through CloudFlare and nginx with Authenticated Origin Pulls…

vCenter but no hosts? Why VMware stuff?

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

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Post by whycombagator » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:42 AM UTC

ricardbejarano wrote: post #20

On my home server (refurbished ThinkPad X201 with a Core i5-520M, 8GB of memory, 1TB internal SSD sync'd nightly to an external 1TB HDD) I run a single-node Kubernetes cluster with the following stuff: * MinIO: for access to my storage over the S3 API, I use it with restic for device backups and to share files with friends and family * CoreDNS: DNS cache with blacklisted domains (like Pihole), gives DNS-over-TLS to t…

> * CoreDNS: DNS cache with blacklisted domains (like Pihole), gives DNS-over-TLS to the home network and to my phone when I'm outside

I would be _very_ interested in a write up/explanation of this set up

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

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Post by shostack » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:43 AM UTC

CarelessExpert wrote: post #52

At home: TT-RSS + mercury-parser + rss-bridge + Wallabag to replace Feedly and Pocket. Syncthing + restic + rclone and some home grown scripting for backups. Motion + MotionEye for home security. Deluge + flexget + OpenVPN + Transdroid. Huginn + Gotify for automation and push notifications. Apache for hosting content and reverse proxying. Running on a NUC using a mix of qemu/kvm and docker containers.

What sort of things do you use Huginn and Gotify for?

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

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Post by platz » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:43 AM UTC

For my bookmarks, I self-host Espial, an open-source, web-based bookmarking server. https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

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

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Post by masterfooo » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:49 AM UTC

emit_time wrote: post #63

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…

Have you considered moving from tinc to Wireguard?

I use both, and one thing I found that is sucky about WG is that it does not work well with the Windows firewall. I need to give full permission to an app to be able to access ip addresses routed by WG. Tinc does not have this problem.

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

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Post by mavidser » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:52 AM UTC

emit_time wrote: post #63

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…

Have you considered moving from tinc to Wireguard?

Yes, I've been meaning to give it a go for a while now. Couldn't use it initially because of (then) lack of availability on BSD.

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

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Post by bluedino » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 3:52 AM UTC

I bought a used Lenovo P50 for $450, added another SSD, it has 48GB and an i7 so it's overkill.

VMware ESXi, with VM's for Squid, DNS, MySQL, Nginx, Apache, basic file server, Gitlab, and one that's basically for IRSSI

Strongly considering just moving everything to Debian with containers for everything, easier to manage than VM's.