Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
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Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#2Looks good for moving away from the widely used centralization services (CF/aws for DNS, google for email, etc), my only question is how this is #1 on HN with 12 points.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#3Looks good for moving away from the widely used centralization services (CF/aws for DNS, google for email, etc), my only question is how this is #1 on HN with 12 points.
Probably because it was posted 25 minutes ago.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#4Their default Prosody config looks pretty nice; having an easy way to deploy a local chat service that has reasonable defaults like stream management, carbons (messages you sent are mirrored across all your clients), history, and HTTP-based file sharing is really nice.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#5Imagine could get away with running this on 1G with light usage/load? Also don't see webmail here, but imagine shouldn't be too difficult to add (I don't have much exposure to the OpenBSD landscape).
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#6Heads up you should probably never host your own email on the same server as your web/worker servers if you’re worried about IP leakage. Your IP is exposed on outbound mail. Using SMTP services like SendGrid won’t help, either.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#7Heads up you should probably never host your own email on the same server as your web/worker servers if you’re worried about IP leakage. Your IP is exposed on outbound mail. Using SMTP services like SendGrid won’t help, either.
What's the problem with leaking your IP address? If you host a website or any kind of API there, your IP is public anyway?
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#8Probably is trivial but I figured I'd ask anyway.
A one click "email" server which allows you to receive emails from anywhere but only send emails to addresses on the current server. If I don't send emails, I don't need to worry about people not being able to receive my emails, right?
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#9Looks like this is similar to other self hosting projects like FreedomBone and NextCloud. It's great to see more tools to take back control over our data.
Re: Dank-selfhosted: automated deployment of email, web, DNS, XMPP, ZNC on OpenBSD
#10I would not put all of this on the same machine.
Edit: To clarify - if one line of code is fd in any of the daemons you’re running you’ll lose everything.
Practice defense in depth.
Minimize the damage possible.