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Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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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

Weird, the initial traffic when I announced it on /r/selfhosting was bigger than this. Must have gotten in a bad state. Anyway, thanks, it's back now.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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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!

Thanks. It's not quite production-ready, but I do think it offers some unique features. There are reasons I decided to make it even after discovering 20+ alternatives that all do pretty much the same thing.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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

While that's not really clearnet, I quite like yggdasil for that: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2018/07/15/remote-access...

I didn't see it on your list. It isn't clearnet again, but so are others, such as Zeronet :)

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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

While that's not really clearnet, I quite like yggdasil for that: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2018/07/15/remote-access... I didn't see it on your list. It isn't clearnet again, but so are others, such as Zeronet :)

The list isn't exclusively for any particular type of tool, as long as they're useful for self-hosting.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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There's also yunohost which is pretty much along the same lines: https://yunohost.org/

To add to the list there's also Sandstorm: https://sandstorm.io

And it's noteworthy that AFAIK, FreedomBox and YunoHost merely install apps on your server directly, whereas Sandstorm and Cloudron both containerize apps in a more secure environment.

I don't think it's a good idea to install a dozen plus web apps directly on a server, such that a bug in one can compromise the entire server.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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

By far the best solution I've seen is wireguard. Easy to set up, super fast and secure. My little swarm of VMs, containers, and raspberry Pis is all meshed together by wireguard.

The only "hard" thing is that wireguard doesn't port forward automatically, you have to add an iptables rule. Took me 10 minutes to figure out how and now whenever I add a service I simply copypaste previous rules and add relevant ports...

Edit: plus once you set it up you also get to use it as a VPN for your devices.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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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.

i'm always curious what people are training ml models on, and what they use it for?

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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Has anyone here tried using WireGuard as a VPN for selfhosting? It is built into the Linux kernel (starting in 5.4?) and has lots of tutorials. Thinking of using it for my next project.

I use Wireguard regularly when I'm out to access my home LAN where I have some VM's running various things like pihole (DNS server to block ads), mail server, hobby dev server, etc.

Wireguard is very light (cf: OpenVPN) and easy to setup/use- highly recommend using it.

Re: FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home

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

By far the best solution I've seen is wireguard. Easy to set up, super fast and secure. My little swarm of VMs, containers, and raspberry Pis is all meshed together by wireguard. The only "hard" thing is that wireguard doesn't port forward automatically, you have to add an iptables rule. Took me 10 minutes to figure out how and now whenever I add a service I simply copypaste previous rules and add relevant ports... E…

Several of the tools on the list are based on WireGuard, and I think we'll continue to see other useful abstractions over it in the future. It's an excellent technology.

The main reason to use something other than WireGuard today is that it requires root to run, in order to change the network configuration, so you can't use it to tunnel out on machines where you don't have elevated privileges.

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