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

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Post by denvrede » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

Shortlist:

- Apache Tika + Tesseract for OCR of mails - i hate physical paper

- SOLR to index the output of the above mentioned data

- Imaginary (https://github.com/h2non/imaginary) for image pre-processing of the scanned mails / documents. Its much more lightweight than imagemagick.

- Openhab2 for home-automation

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

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Post by neilsimp1 » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 12:03 PM UTC

kungtotte wrote: post #70

fotcorn wrote: post #22

Running on my NAS at home: * GitLab (GitHub + CI/CD replacement) * FreeNAS (Storage server) * Nextcloud (Dropbox replacement) * Syncthing (Dropbox replacement, Nextcloud did not work properly on my android phone) * In progress: Kubernetes cluster (just for fun, RKE + rook.io) * My own notes/wiki/task tracker I will release real soon now (TM) Thinking about setting up Gitea + Drone.io, GitLab is just too heavyweight f…

What sort of hardware are you running? I'm looking to set something up myself, and I like the look of FreeNAS as it sounds like it fits my use case but the HW recommendations are a little out of my budget at the moment.

Check out OpenMediaVault, I'm using it on a low-powered NAS after seeing the requirements fro FreeNAS.

http://www.openmediavault.org/

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

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Post by leonroy » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 12:19 PM UTC

executesorder66 wrote: post #58

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?

Yep, we use Zimbra for company mail. I've only used Office 365 though not Exchange standalone so my comparison reflects that.

Pros for Zimbra are:

It supports Exchange Web Services and ActiveSync so you get complete feature parity for setting up Macs/iOS and other Exchange supporting devices. Makes it as easy setting up users as a full O365 setup.

Licenses are pretty cheap, we're paying I think £400-500 for 25 users per annum.

The web interface is good and has very strong feature support for aliases, mail filtering (O365 filtering is abysmal).

Supports adding External mail IMAP/POP accounts so you can send/receive all your Gmail emails from Zimbra.

It is very standards compliant with excellent IMAP, CalDAV, SMTPS, POP3, EWS, ActiveSync support. No half baked support unlike IMAP on Exchange or Gmail which occasionally does something protocol hostile.

Cons:

Zimbra web interface is not as good as Gmail or O365. It's okay though and feature rich.

If maintaining your own deployment expect some hours put in setting up the usual stuff like SPF, DKIM, DMARC, LetsEncrypt.

Standard support is slow although they do eventually get the issue fixed.

I don't believe Zimbra supports anything like O365's Shared Mailbox feature.

Spam filtering is not great, certainly not compared to Gmail.

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

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Post by kungtotte » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 12:52 PM UTC

neilsimp1 wrote: post #72

kungtotte wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What sort of hardware are you running? I'm looking to set something up myself, and I like the look of FreeNAS as it sounds like it fits my use case but the HW recommendations are a little out of my budget at the moment.

Check out OpenMediaVault, I'm using it on a low-powered NAS after seeing the requirements fro FreeNAS. http://www.openmediavault.org/

Hmm, that looks interesting. How do you like it? My primary use case is for backing up our computers here at home and to more or less host a private cloud so we can unload photos and videos etc. from our phones, and I like to make it as painless and automatic as possible to make sure it actually gets done.

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

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Post by slipwalker » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 12:57 PM UTC

dmytrish wrote: post #41

- Gitea for my git repositories (moved from gitweb); - Syncthing + my own FileShelf[0] as a web interface, instead Dropbox; - Miniflux, a web RSS reader; - IPython notebooks; - Customized Jekyll for my blog + comments powered by self-hosted Isso; - postfix/dovecot + Roundcube for the web mail; - ejabberd (mostly to have notifications from my VPS); - goaccess for the web server statistics, portainer and a couple of FC…

i'm curious, i assume you bought a SSL certificate for your postfix/dovecot setup, myself i'm using one from sslforfree, do you mind to tell where did you got yours ? Recommended ?

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

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Post by slipwalker » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 1:03 PM UTC

pmlnr wrote: post #62

- email: dovecot, postfix (w/ opendkim and opendmarc), bogofilter, rainloop - synthing for file sync - miniflux for RSS - WordPress for friends/family websites - prosody for XMPP - wallabag for bookmarks - centralized rsyslog & collectd - radicale for calendar/tasks/contacts sync - gammu for sms sending

i just started self-hosting my own email ( postfix/dovecot ) for a secondary domain, on a (centos6) VPS. Do you have any blog post detailing your setup ? it seems robust and reliable.

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

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Post by vageli » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 1:04 PM UTC

INTPenis wrote: post #29

At home; Emby-server for my home media library. APU OpenBSD router for my outer-most internet router at home. Unbound LAN resolver with a number of upstream unbound instances at different VPS providers. Libvirt hypervisor for personal projects. Synology DS411slim NAS and one homemade with emby, I'm wanting to replace the homemade one with FreeNAS mini though because I'm not happy with the HW in it. At work I've setup…

What is a homemade password pusher? Is that a method to securely send a password to a colleague or something?

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

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Post by coaxial » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 1:14 PM UTC

amanzi wrote: post #37

I run a whole bunch of different servers and apps in Docker on an old laptop with an i7 processor and 16GB RAM. One of my favourite self-hosted apps is WikiJs ( https://wiki.js.org/ ). It takes a git repository of markdown files and turns it into an editable wiki and syncs back changes to the git repository. I also use InfluxDB with Chronograf and Telegraf ( https://www.influxdata.com ) to collect and analyse logs. I…

How do you keep your docker images up to date? With virtual machines or even lxd containers, you can enable unattended upgrades but not with docker. There is a project (I forget the name) to destroy and rebuild containers with the newer image version, but it doesn't work with images that are built off of others using a Dockerfile.

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

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Post by coreymaass » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

I'd never thought of WordPress plugins as self-hosted apps until I built my WordPress plugin, Kanban for WordPress [1]. It can be thought of as a self-hosted Trello. I've since seen a self-hosted Buffer, Pocket, Evernote, Delicious/Pinboard, all on WordPress.

[1] https://KanbanWP.com

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

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 1:27 PM UTC

Sandstorm.io, and the apps I use the most are Etherpad, EtherCalc, and Wekan, which can all be hosted separately as well. Oh, and TinyTinyRSS, can't forget my news reader app.