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Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by firloop »

ransom1538 wrote: post #51

If people are showing off a lab. My lab always sparks a conversation. I wanted to prove I could beat twilio's texting rates. https://i.imgur.com/gKknrJn.jpg

I've done something similar. I used to have a few Raspberry Pis with 3G modems attached to them, with prepaid SIMs that had "unlimited" SMS plans.

It actually did work for a while. The problem that you run into is that carriers rate limit the number of texts per minute that a particular phone number can send (this is a problem with Twilio too, but in that case it's much easier to spin up a new number).

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by StavrosK »

ransom1538 wrote: post #58
SparkyMcUnicorn wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Care to share more details? Interested in the software stack, and what you use it all for. This is really intriguing. I'm currently running a SFF machine as a server, and thought about adding some Pi devices to play around with a local kubernetes cluster.

It was a fun project - but I wouldn't use old cellphones. Having these old cellphones plugged in all day - basically just made the batteries enlarge and broke the casing. But you can get old android phones for nothing -- even cheaper than a raspberry pi.

Don't they work with the batteries removed?

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by pbk1 »

whalesalad wrote: post #12

Sweet! Here's my homelab - https://i.imgur.com/QS0o4ni.jpg - I should self host an about page, too. - Netgear Cable modem - Edgerouter ER4 - 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network. - Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server - TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear. - 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host. - ESXi is pretty ligh…

Can someone ELI5 why PiHole is preferable to an in-browser blocker like AdBlock Plus?

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by whalesalad »

pbk1 wrote: post #63
whalesalad wrote: post #12

Sweet! Here's my homelab - https://i.imgur.com/QS0o4ni.jpg - I should self host an about page, too. - Netgear Cable modem - Edgerouter ER4 - 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network. - Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server - TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear. - 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host. - ESXi is pretty ligh…

Can someone ELI5 why PiHole is preferable to an in-browser blocker like AdBlock Plus?

It's a single chokepoint for all DNS traffic on my network. So I do not need to configure any device or application to use it. For instance, my piece of crap Roku stick benefits from all the same ad blocking that my mac, iphone, etc... do.

There is also a lot that goes on outside of your browser. It blocks tracking logic embedded inside other things, too. For example, my TV cannot phone home to Samsung anymore to tell it what I am doing.

You can get really wild with firewall rules to truly prevent any DNS traffic from escaping your physical network.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by OJFord »

pbk1 wrote: post #63
whalesalad wrote: post #12

Sweet! Here's my homelab - https://i.imgur.com/QS0o4ni.jpg - I should self host an about page, too. - Netgear Cable modem - Edgerouter ER4 - 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network. - Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server - TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear. - 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host. - ESXi is pretty ligh…

Can someone ELI5 why PiHole is preferable to an in-browser blocker like AdBlock Plus?

Some not very technical reasons:

1) Run once, use everywhere. (Including devices without a browser, like an Android/Apple/'smart' TV.)

2) iPhones.

3) Configure alongside rest of networking, not clicking buttons to manually sync within browsers of the same type.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by zeckalpha »

pbk1 wrote: post #63
whalesalad wrote: post #12

Sweet! Here's my homelab - https://i.imgur.com/QS0o4ni.jpg - I should self host an about page, too. - Netgear Cable modem - Edgerouter ER4 - 8-port POE Edgeswitch, powers the nanoHD AP in my hallway and acts as the backbone of the network. - Raspberry Pi 3 as a dedicated pihole DNS server - TPLink 16 port switch serves all the 'lab' gear. - 2x R720's. One is off, the other is a VMWare ESXi host. - ESXi is pretty ligh…

Can someone ELI5 why PiHole is preferable to an in-browser blocker like AdBlock Plus?

Pi hole blocks at the DNS later, so non-browsers are also affected, e.g. IoT devices.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by OJFord »

VBprogrammer wrote: post #46
megraf wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Assuming you're not trolling, here's a decent intro: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/introduction

Not trolling, I had no idea. Obviously I got it was basically a home server setup but I couldn't see where the term came from.

I don't know where it comes from, but the distinction's basically 'when a home server becomes home servers', or at least becomes a hobby, as opposed to just setting up and forgetting a Pi-hole once or something.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by Cerium »

chrisco255 wrote: post #2

I haven't self-hosted a website in a long time. Do you still need a static IP in order to do so, or do you have some kind of service that updates the IP? How does it interact with DNS?

In my experience the only time Att or Comcast change your IP is when there is a power outage. I have had to manually update the DNS record for my home computer only once in the last 3 years.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by DictumMortuum »

jjice wrote: post #37
DictumMortuum wrote: post #13

Nice! I have a raspberry 2b+ with several services: ldap, syncthing, gitea, cups server, minidlna, torrent server, NFS, nginx for PHP stuff like phpldapadmin, phpmyadmin, nextcloud, etc. I realized that I don't need a public IP. I set up zerotier on all my machines and pointed a subdomain that I own to that IP. OK, other people can't visit it, but I rarely need them to. It's perfect, but nextcloud is slow :( Maybe an…

If you wanted it to be publicly accessible in the future, I think you can rent a cheap VPS (DO Droplet) and set up a VPN, and then connect to that VPN on your Pi. Then you can have Nginx on the VPS and reverse proxy to any services you'd like.

I've been monitoring what VPSs are an option. I'd like to have something faster, because it'll be cost-effective, but I don't want another headache.

Re: Self-Hosted Homelab Website

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Post by Constant-fly34 »

zeeg wrote: post #20

Looks awesome! I went down the homelab-ish rabbit hole recently myself and it was probably the most fun I've had in a long time on a project. My goals were more about hosting a bunch of IoT stuff internally (sensors, cameras, etc), but I wrote up a bit about at least the rack/equipment here: http://cra.mr/my-journey-into-home-automation/ At some point, I'm hoping to dive a bit deeper on the software side, which was a…

Awesome! Love it.
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