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Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by rvense »

ekianjo wrote: post #149
Polylactic_acid wrote: post #101

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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.

Agree, the pi is way too low power to handle nextcloud comfortably. In the same price range, it's much better to buy a used NUC (even with a celeron!) compared to the beefiest Raspberry Pi 4 out there.

TBF I think this says more about Nextcloud than the Raspberry Pi. I also suspect it can be helped with some setup - I imagine the difference between disk I/O performance is going to be greater than the CPU differences if you're comparing a Pi4 to a recent-ish PC.

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Post by Symbiote »

outworlder wrote: post #73
h4l0 wrote: post #25

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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.

We need legislation against this as the "discount" isn't at all obvious.

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by milankragujevic »

Symbiote wrote: post #220
milankragujevic wrote: post #218

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In general in the Balkans there are cable ISPs (biggest one owned by United Group for example) that give out CGNAT IP addresses to all residential cable users. You can buy a static IP address for a 5€/mo, but it's a painful procedure with bureaucracy for some reason. On mobile networks, you are assigned a CGNAT IP address per cell base station per device, and they are then all mixed into a few public IPs. There are n…

Do those ISPs with CGNAT also provide IPv6?

No, and they have no excuse.

The cable ISP recently switched to a DOCSIS 3.1 network in certain areas, and almost all customers have a modem/gateway that has IPv6 support perfected (IPv6 is quite an old thing, would be weird for it not to work properly now - on the CPE side), but nope, they don't want to.

They don't like their users being able to host content, given the fact they make it extremely difficult to pay for a static IP and get a modem or have your gateway switched into bridge mode (the newest models have had that removed from firmware, and the ISP downgrades you to 3.0 speeds if you want bridge and pay for a static IP). I am not sure why, but the whole company is extremely antagonistic to the idea of a user having a public IP address of any kind.

Mobile carriers do not support it either, and have no excuse at all, given the modern LTE Advanced networks they have deployed, with VoLTE, and the modernized core infrastructure by Huawei to the highest standards of the 4th generation of networks. Except IPv6 of course.

This is the same in most Balkan countries and in other parts of the world.

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Post by homedrive »

anderspitman wrote: post #204
homedrive wrote: post #165

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HomeDrive ( https://www.homedrive.io ) is plumbing exactly this! We are currently only hosting Nextcloud, but we plan to support more apps and custom dockers. It is as easy as plugging the box into the home router. There are still many features to implement, but we are working towards "easy self-hosting at home", and looking for early adopters.

How would you compare yourselves to KubeSail, mentioned above? Why limit it to specific software, rather than simply port mapping?

HomeDrive features plug-and-use, with no system maintenance required. We target not only developers/hackers, but also end-users who would like to have a small server at home, to host their own data and services for their digital lives. As a result, HomeDrive also maintains the OS to be reliable and secure, which is why we picked the hardware. We are investigating supporting more hardware, such as raspberry pi's.

KubeSail feels like a more accessible k8s+docker apps to me. I am not sure what security model KubeSail is assuming for the operating systems it is running on (or does it assume the OS is out of the scope?). Also KubeSail seems to target mostly developers/hackers.

Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

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Post by sdfhbdf »

anderspitman wrote: post #197
eat_veggies wrote: post #189

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Cloudflare argo tunnels are exactly what you're looking for https://developers.cloudflare.com/argo-tunnel/quickstart

I'm aware of argo tunnels. Unfortunately: * Argo smart routing is 5 USD/mo + 0.1 USD/GB. The 5/mo is fine, but the data charges could add up quickly for something like Plex. * CloudFlare doesn't sell domains.

> CloudFlare doesn't sell domains

They do have a domain registrar intermediary [1] announced two years ago [2]. It's in cooperation with dount.domains and has competetive pricing. It could be counted as they do sell domains.

Not affiliated with them in any way.

[1]: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/ [2]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-registrar/

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Post by tomovo »

cguess wrote: post #131
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 think we need something like Namecheap + CloudFlare + ngrok, designed and marketed for self-hosters and federators. You simply register a domain and run a client tool on each of your machines that talks to a central server which tunnels HTTPS connections securely to the clients. PageKite ( https://www.pagekite.net ) is what it sounds like you're looking for. It'll set you up with a url, SSL, and a tunnel in about…

That PageKite pricing slider is really great. https://pagekite.net/signup/?more=bw

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Post by sairamkunala »

cguess wrote: post #131
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 think we need something like Namecheap + CloudFlare + ngrok, designed and marketed for self-hosters and federators. You simply register a domain and run a client tool on each of your machines that talks to a central server which tunnels HTTPS connections securely to the clients. PageKite ( https://www.pagekite.net ) is what it sounds like you're looking for. It'll set you up with a url, SSL, and a tunnel in about…

and there is inlets too https://github.com/inlets/inletsctl

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Post by encom »

t-writescode wrote: post #154
encom wrote: post #124

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I wanted to do that, but I had a look at Pi Hole and ran away screaming. Instead of proper packaging, they have a 3000 line install script they want you to pipe into Bash. I went a saner route, and used dnsmasq and a blocklist[1] updated nightly via cron. Dnsmasq in turn queries Stubby that talks to uncensoreddns.org via DNS-over-TLS. Boom, DoT on my entire LAN. [1] https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists

Run it in a docker container

That solves nothing.
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