Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

Post by t-writescode » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 1:55 AM UTC

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #101

anderspitman wrote: post #82

The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…

I tried running nextcloud on an rpi. It just doesn't cut it. I had the 4gb model and nextcloud runs but its a horrible experience. You go on the web UI and click a photo and it takes 10 seconds to load. Moved my server to a ryzen 5 based setup and now everything is instant. I'm not sure what the limiting factor on the rpi was because the ram and cpu usage was low. Perhaps it was memory or storage speed.

Post by t-writescode » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 2:01 AM UTC

outworlder wrote: post #73

h4l0 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wasn't aware that my Samsung Smart TV had been logging almost my every action on the TV until I set up a PiHole server. Also, my respect for Apple grew by the fact that only device that wasn't doing loads of telemetry turned out to be my Macbook in the whole household.

> Also, my respect for Apple grew by the fact that only device that wasn't doing loads of telemetry turned out to be my Macbook in the whole household Turns out that modern electronic devices are expensive. If you are not charged up-front, there's a good chance that you are being charged in some other way.

Post by sneak » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 2:04 AM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #122

If you run anything semi-serious please consult this blog post by Jeff Geerling about SD card performance (buy A1 ones). https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-microsd-...

Post by sneak » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 2:06 AM UTC

h4l0 wrote: post #25

_lacroix wrote: post #20

Setting up a pi-hole DNS server for my wifi network was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Horrifying to see what percentage of traffic is on the ad server blacklist though...

I wasn't aware that my Samsung Smart TV had been logging almost my every action on the TV until I set up a PiHole server. Also, my respect for Apple grew by the fact that only device that wasn't doing loads of telemetry turned out to be my Macbook in the whole household.

Post by d1plo1d » Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 2:13 AM UTC

chrios wrote: post #134

anderspitman wrote: post #82

The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…

Use IPv6. It doesn't have the address exhaustion that caused providers to implement CGNAT, and dynamic IPv4 addresses. No need for VPS management, DynDNS, port forwarding, hold punching. You still need public DNS, but you can use public DNS as your internal zone as well (no need for split DNS). You also still need PKI, so maybe setup a reverse proxy for SSL termination with a wildcard certificate.