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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 #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So $15 or $30/month to self-host? What are the benefits?

For me paying $15/$30 a month for the ability to self-host is ridiculous (I'd consider it if it was 10 times less, just for the conenience of 1-click installs). However, when you need to install a more complex app like Taiga, it's often simpler to use the free Cloudron account to do it rather than install it by hand.

Indeed as you mention, complex apps like Taiga are quite time-consuming to package in a way to ensure proper updates for the future. In fact I am right now in the process to iron out the update to Taiga v6 and that price-tag allows us to focus on such things so our users get a smooth experience without missing out on updates (disclaimer, I am one of the Cloudron founders :D )

For sake of our vision we surely would like to make it more cost-effective in the long run, however we are bootstrapped and thus walk a thin line with a focus more on long-term sustainability not just blind growth. (10x cheaper though would realistically even pose an accounting problem with micro-payments or plain transaction fees taking large chunks)

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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I have a feeling that tunneling might just be a better option that creating VPN in enterprise setting. For instance, if you have confluence, jira etc running in your enterprise private network, instead of creating a VPN and asking endusers to connect to that VPN. They could expose each app with a authenticated tunnel. In this way the threat matrix reduces down to the application that is exposed and not whole private network. I wondering if something like this exists.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

#43

I have a feeling that tunneling might just be a better option that creating VPN in enterprise setting. For instance, if you have confluence, jira etc running in your enterprise private network, instead of creating a VPN and asking endusers to connect to that VPN. They could expose each app with a authenticated tunnel. In this way the threat matrix reduces down to the application that is exposed and not whole private…

Perhaps, you're looking for BeyondCorp style networks? https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45728.html

https://tailscale.com and https://cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one come to mind, though there are likely to be several implementations at this point.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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post #6
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. Right now I have a home NAS (on Debian) running HomeAssistant for home automation interfacing and a WireGuard VPN server.

I also have a VPS running a DNS server for ad and distraction filtering (AdGuard Home, I prefer it over Pi-hole for downstream DNS over TLS), another WireGuard VPN server (for more permanent use of the aforementioned DNS server), Etesync for E2EE contacts/calendar syncing, and a Signal TLS proxy for helping users connect to Signal. These services are all specified in Docker Compose files for easier management, although I should adopt an online management tool so I don't need to login over SSH every time.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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post #3

Interesting that they now sell prebuilt kits on new hardware, after years targeting the now-defunct Globalscale Dreamplug. https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/Home-Server/Pionee...

"New"

A lot has happened in the SBC market since - with (for example) Odroid C4 you'll get significantly more bang for not much more buck.

Just an idea if anyoine feels inspired: Organize with Pine64 to make an upgraded version based on their new architecture slated for release this year. With their strong focus on openness it seems like a perfect match to me.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

#49
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's your preferred setup?

Also not the parent. Right now I have a home NAS (on Debian) running HomeAssistant for home automation interfacing and a WireGuard VPN server. I also have a VPS running a DNS server for ad and distraction filtering (AdGuard Home, I prefer it over Pi-hole for downstream DNS over TLS), another WireGuard VPN server (for more permanent use of the aforementioned DNS server), Etesync for E2EE contacts/calendar syncing, and…

Thanks! I'll check out Etesync, I have HomeAssistant already.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

#50
post #24

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

Hey, just discovered boringproxy from your link. Looks like a really slick solution!

Seems to be hugged to death

    Get "http://localhost:36169/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:36169: connect: connection refused
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