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Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

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Post by adastra22 »

mayankchhabra wrote: post #74
eightysixfour wrote: post #55

In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism: 1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the pla…

Thanks for the taking the time to try Umbrel out, great observations! 1. Re crypto apps, I figured some additional context may help. Before our today's release, Umbrel was a self-hosting OS primarily geared towards Bitcoin node users. Today, we migrated the Bitcoin node to the Umbrel App Store and took the last step in our transition to becoming an app-agnostic general purpose OS. So expect to see a lot more non-Bitc…

You should add an ability to turn off tor access if you don’t currently have it for sure. But why make it opt-in?

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

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Post by francislavoie »

mayankchhabra wrote: post #74
eightysixfour wrote: post #55

In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism: 1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the pla…

Thanks for the taking the time to try Umbrel out, great observations! 1. Re crypto apps, I figured some additional context may help. Before our today's release, Umbrel was a self-hosting OS primarily geared towards Bitcoin node users. Today, we migrated the Bitcoin node to the Umbrel App Store and took the last step in our transition to becoming an app-agnostic general purpose OS. So expect to see a lot more non-Bitc…

Re 3, that's why you need to run a DNS server in your LAN, like pihole or adguard or coredns. And don't use .local, use .home.arpa instead, or use a DDNS domain like DuckDNS and make it resolve to your LAN IP with your DNS server. And use Caddy (shameless plug)

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

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Post by eightysixfour »

mayankchhabra wrote: post #74
eightysixfour wrote: post #55

In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism: 1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the pla…

Thanks for the taking the time to try Umbrel out, great observations! 1. Re crypto apps, I figured some additional context may help. Before our today's release, Umbrel was a self-hosting OS primarily geared towards Bitcoin node users. Today, we migrated the Bitcoin node to the Umbrel App Store and took the last step in our transition to becoming an app-agnostic general purpose OS. So expect to see a lot more non-Bitc…

Thanks for the response!

1. Makes sense, looking forward to progress there.

2. Excellent. I’d consider one of the Wireguard VPN servers be prioritized as well.

3. I wouldn’t use mDNS for it, I would either require and integrate the PiHole configuration or come with a DNS server as well (leaning towards PiHole here). I’d suggest long-term planning on integrating DNS/DDNS and LetsEncrypt. I use a combo of a DDNS container for CloudFlare and a wildcard DNS generated by nginx proxy manager.

4. I’d go for one “simple” CMS, like Ghost, and one fully featured, like WordPress.

5. Will check it out.

6. Appreciate it being an option, I’ve signed up for the mailing list to get a notification when it is available so I can make another run at it.

Great work and I appreciate the engagement.

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

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Post by wmf »

woojoo666 wrote: post #80
Hamuko wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you suppose that would happen? You need some kind of hardware to self-host.

I didn't say cheap, though that would help of course. But people aren't opposed to buying hardware if the UX is worth it (see: Apple). And I do think it could be worth it if installing services was as easy as installing apps on your phone. No signup process, and data can be shared between services. I'm imagining something like Synology NAS with it's apps [1], but with more user submitted services, and better connecti…

Helm is probably the closest at this point but it only has two apps. https://thehelm.com/

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

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Post by MacsHeadroom »

mayankchhabra wrote: post #74
eightysixfour wrote: post #55

In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism: 1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the pla…

Thanks for the taking the time to try Umbrel out, great observations! 1. Re crypto apps, I figured some additional context may help. Before our today's release, Umbrel was a self-hosting OS primarily geared towards Bitcoin node users. Today, we migrated the Bitcoin node to the Umbrel App Store and took the last step in our transition to becoming an app-agnostic general purpose OS. So expect to see a lot more non-Bitc…

Please keep Tor access opt-out!

Encouraging usage of privacy enabling services by default is good.

Re: Show HN: Umbrel – A personal server OS for self-hosting

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Post by francislavoie »

pbronez wrote: post #76
eightysixfour wrote: post #55

In the middle of building a self-hosting setup at home so I went ahead and installed this to give it a trial run. I generally like the interface and think it is a nice take on making self-hosting easier, but I have some pure stream of conscious criticism: 1. There sure are a lot of crypto apps. I'm not vehemently anti-crypto, but it is missing some "obvious" applications and full of those, so I'm curious what the pla…

#5 is very interesting to me. I use (and paid for!) Unraid. It’s generally quite good. Their Community Apps plug-in scratches the same itch as the Umbrel App Store. I run several community-maintained of services with it, but it is… unclear… how to spin up your own image. From what I can tell (and I might be dumb) you can’t really run a Docker image on Unraid unless you: 1) write an XML file using an undocumented sche…

Yeah, that's my biggest gripe with Unraid. Give me a way to write my own Dockerfile without having to SSH into the server! As an OSS maintainer of a project that supports custom builds with plugins, this is basically necessary for some users to use our project.
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