I got the same cpu , as part of a hp Z420 workstation I picked up for $250. Added 32 gb ecc memory and able to easily run about 25 containers with plenty of resources left over for VM or two.
Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
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Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#242Just want to point out that docker bypasses ufw, so binding to 0.0.0.0 might not be as safe as you think. Best think to do is not expose any ports at all and have your proxy connect to the container’s internal port.
Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#243This all seems quite complicated. Wouldn't it be easier to use Amazon Lambda or similar service. Spend your time creating and optimizing the applications instead of the infrastructure. I've known people who built their own boat and also built the engine for the boat. And it's a great hobby which gives you a great sense of accomplishment. But, if you just need to get some fishing done, buy the boat with the engine alr…
Lambda has it's own set of complexities and concerns. It's also not a good fit for his use cases.
Now, a containerization service like Fargate would fit his use case better since he is using containers.
However, cloud services come with their own complexities and the principle problem they solve (horizontal scaling) doesn't apply to his sites.
Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of interest, what is the email server? Your server's EHLO wasn't very revealing.
It's an old thing that I should probably not mention for opsec reasons since, honestly, it probably can get pwned (I would be surprised if no intelligence agency has a 0-day for it), and I keep thinking I should switch to linux-based solutions, but it just never floats to the top of my todo list. It's also a fairly big operation since I'd have to coordinate the switchover with some people and I have no idea how to go…
> my favorite email server software is a Windows GUI thing
> [list of features]
hMailServer it is?
And regarding SMTP replacement... for personal uses I moved to Fastmail years ago. It does everything listed except "control domains" - but does it in a reseller account (so you can have the control too). Of course it's all costs money, so...
Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again, both NVMe modules are likely to fail simultaneously when used in a RAID-1 mirror on the same chassis, controller and PSU, under the same workload, especially if they are the same model and age.
I'm not sure this issue is significantly worse for SSDs compared to other drive types, except once they get really old and are close to EOL as defined by the amount written, though I'm happy to be proven wrong if you have some references where the theory has been tested. If you are really worried about that, perhaps artificially stress one of the drives for some days before building the array so it is more likely to…
Just add an event to calendar for $date+1y:
"Replace one of SSD/NVMe drives in $server because I'm afraid of simultaneous failure (and probably still didn't configured backup for this server)"
Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
A few months ago, I made an offer of $100 in one of the freelancing websites, for someone to set-up something like your configuration on one of my Digital Ocean instances. I asked for a few more apps to be installed (git, svn, etc). There were no takers :-) I think a web site/service which lets you choose "apps" and spawns a VPS instance would be very useful and profitable (Think "ninite for VPS"). I started to work…
Doesn’t DO itself have “apps” ? Also see Cloudron. Not cheap but I’ve heard that people are very happy with their service. Basically you self host their “app as a service” platform so to speak. Kind of like a super polished Sandstorm, but totally different sandboxing technologies (believe Cloudron uses Docker but not sure if they still do—- and I believe Sandstorm used Kenton Varda’s cap n proto technology which prob…
I used to be a Sandstorm user but yes it was abandoned. Have been a Cloudron guy since the start and have been very happy with it.
Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#247Easy setup with: - traefik (nginx proxy with auto letscencrypt) - portainer (docker container management) - fail2ban (basic security) - logwatch (server / security stats by mail) - munin (server stats) - restic (cloud backup) - unattended-upgrades (auto install security updates) - apticron (weekly info) - n8n (automatisation for e.g. quick info via telegram, if something not work) Run every app that you want in your…
How do you deal with backing up the data/“disaster” recovery? (I out disaster in quotes because we’re talking a about home servers so not mission critical data but still pretty annoying to lose.
Not OP, but I've been tinkering with the idea of having a raspberry pi w/ an ext hdd stashed at a friends or parents place and do something like an rsync over wireguard for super important stuff.
Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Me too. Yesterday I was trying to add a second app (3 docker-compose services) to one of my 5$/mo droplets and it started impacting and slowing down the other app. Debugging was harder too and could affect both... Perhaps at some point I'll try it again.
Sounds like your server may have been swapping? Disk IO is notoriously bad on most VPS so make sure to disable swap and setup oomkiller. In the case of a small VPS, containerization overhead is also not negligible: you may consider to setup everything natively (to your VM) to counteract that.
Yea, that makes sense! Ty
Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an old thing that I should probably not mention for opsec reasons since, honestly, it probably can get pwned (I would be surprised if no intelligence agency has a 0-day for it), and I keep thinking I should switch to linux-based solutions, but it just never floats to the top of my todo list. It's also a fairly big operation since I'd have to coordinate the switchover with some people and I have no idea how to go…
> my favorite email server software is a Windows GUI thing > [list of features] hMailServer it is? And regarding SMTP replacement... for personal uses I moved to Fastmail years ago. It does everything listed except "control domains" - but does it in a reseller account (so you can have the control too). Of course it's all costs money, so...
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Re: Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
Traefik is great, but their documentation is awful IMO. I moved to Caddy which I prefer currently.
To be fair, Caddy's docs aren't great either. Last time I tried to deploy it to give SSL to something that didn't have it, took me 2 hrs to figure out the docs enough to get it working.
What could make the docs better? What solved your problem?