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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 farisjarrah »

anderspitman wrote: post #21

If you're interested in self hosting I keep a list of ngrok-like tunnel proxies: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

That's very cool, I've seen many requests for an open source self hosted ngrok around here. I'll take a deeper look at this a bit later. Good stuff, and thanks for the contribution!

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by nsomaru »

xwdv wrote: post #16
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.

I would build a homelab if I knew exactly what I should be self hosting? Photos? A blog?

I’m starting with a NAS for my music and select media so I can get off Spotify and Netflix.

After that it a GPU gaming server that will train ML models for me too. The NAS will store datasets.

Finally, maybe next cloud.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by elago »

dnpp123 wrote: post #18

I'm pretty sad this project never lifted off. The talk at its origin is now a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOEMv0S8AcA

That talk was inspirational, as was the follow up ~10 years in progress video that came up next. I'm going to give FreedomBox a try. It is sad that I've never heard of this until now.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by nebulon »

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?

Cloudron also has a full email stack ready to go, however you are totally right about the residential IPs. They are basically all blacklisted by default, which is also why we had to add easy relay-provider support.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by lgdishwasher »

I read my ISPs terms of service (the biggest ISP in Australia), and it specifically says you can't host servers on your residential connection. They expect you to buy an extremely expensive small business service to do that. I would assume this is the same for many ISPs, and I think it is terrible.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

lgdishwasher wrote: post #29

I read my ISPs terms of service (the biggest ISP in Australia), and it specifically says you can't host servers on your residential connection. They expect you to buy an extremely expensive small business service to do that. I would assume this is the same for many ISPs, and I think it is terrible.

Telstra? Yeah, they're about as consumer unfriendly as it's possible to be. I went out of my way to avoid paying them any money a few years ago, including moving my workplace (>10 branches around Australia) off Telstra comms infrastructure and onto a competitors whilst also saving about 30% per year.
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