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FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by ekianjo »

foolinaround wrote: post #2

how does this compare to sandstorm.io?

In my (limited) experience, it all boils down to how well the services actually run in such solutions. Yunohost had many services that were completely broken and not well integrated (to be fair it's really complex to do it well) so the user experience at the end of the day will vary from one to another.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by andrewzah »

foolinaround wrote: post #10
andrewzah wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not the parent, but I use a debian VM inside of a proxmox cluster to run docker services. The config and data services for the various docker images are mounted via NFS, and live in a ZFS pool configured in RAID10. For non-technical users I could see freedombox (or sandstorm.io) being useful, but if you have enough knowledge to manage a vm + use docker-compose, the flexibility is much better.

can you please explain how is this flexibility better? Wont more apps be supported in freedombox? maybe it does not allow plugins?

> Wont more apps be supported in freedombox?

I can support any app that I have either the source for, or a binary. I just write my own docker images [0] if one doesn't exist already on dockerhub, or install the binary directly on a VM or LXC as needed. For example, I set up Jellyfin on its own LXC.

For me, stuff like freedombox/sandstorm directly limit me as I would have to spend time learning their GUI, etc, for no gain. All I need is an ssh session into my docker VM and I can set up pretty much anything I need exactly how I want. This lets me be very particular about services accessing files, networking, versioning, and so on.

[0]: https://github.com/andrewzah/caddy-webdav

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by hanklazard »

Forge36 wrote: post #6
darknavi wrote: post #4

Not my preferred setup but I hope products like this help people get into "homelabbing" and self-hosting more of their stuff.

What's your preferred setup?

Also not the parent. Unraid. https://www.unraid.net

Edit: link

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by clankyclanker »

ekianjo wrote: post #12
foolinaround wrote: post #2

how does this compare to sandstorm.io?

In my (limited) experience, it all boils down to how well the services actually run in such solutions. Yunohost had many services that were completely broken and not well integrated (to be fair it's really complex to do it well) so the user experience at the end of the day will vary from one to another.

I’ve tried it, and it works surprisingly well. They even have pagekite integration if you’re stuck behind a crappy residential internet provider, like any of the main US providers.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by atomicnumber3 »

xupybd wrote: post #14
m00dy wrote: post #7

Email service would be cool to have on this

While I agree I'm not sure about building trust in my home IP. Won't you be flagged as spam?

Many email servers (e.g. gmail) won't even accept email from residential IPs. I have a janky setup where I proxy mail from my home network to my VPS and then send it from there (outbound-only, and only to myself - for notices like "backup started", "backup finished" etc)
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