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Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by SamuelAdams »

colordrops wrote: post #120

My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I've also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven't had to test it yet. Nextcloud - for caldav a…

Hey, super interested in your OPNSense install. I also have a ProtectCLI box. However it currently runs PFSense.

Whenever I try to install OPNSense it fails to load once installed. Maybe there are some initial configuration steps that I am missing? Last time I tried this, about a month ago, internal DHCP addresses were not getting assigned to clients. Troubleshooted for an hour, no results. So back to PFSense I went.

Do you have a guide for installing and configuring the basics? Or something you would recommend?

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Post by jordemort »

number6 wrote: post #158
aquova wrote: post #148

- Home Assistant for controlling variety of IoT devices around the apartment - Node-red - Node-based GUI to supplement Home Assistant - Mosquitto MQTT server - Invidious - Alternate YouTube frontend - Libreddit - Alternate Reddit frontend - Jellyfin - TV/Movie/Music streaming server - Gitea - Private git repositories - Nginx Proxy Manager - What it says on the tin - PiHole - Ad blocking - MakeMKV - GUI frontend to Ma…

Do you have an idea how to redirect all reddit request through libredit?

I use this: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

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Post by btdmaster »

brimble wrote: post #53

Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network. Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix. Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-pro…

Minetest might be that thing for you -- the whole game is a collection of mods, meaning that it's essentially designed to be as easily extensible as possible through its Lua interface.

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Post by acquacow »

nakatu wrote: post #157

But how would one backup their self hosted apps? I imagine a cron job to create snapshots then upload them to a cloud provider. Isn't there a self hosted app for that as well?

rsync to external USB HDD in my case. I cycle two 8TB externals between my home and safe deposit box for offsite storage. I swap them and then do a fresh rsync of all my jails/etc.

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Post by jcuenod »

kretaceous wrote: post #26

I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner. While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now. My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden. What would be a good way to get started? Any sugg…

I bought a second hand Acer chromebox with a celeron and 4GB ram for $15 on ebay (plus another $15 for shipping). It's much more powerful than a pi4 and a lot cheaper too. Plus, it's x86, not arm. I'm running docker swarm on it and using Cloudflare's Argo tunnels.

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Post by Gordonjcp »

api wrote: post #145
wjp3 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chiming in here to concur with your points about MS screwing up how to buy Minecraft. It's an absolute mess.

Everything in Minecraft Java and Bedrock worked fine until we logged into Microsoft's account thing. Now everything is always screwed up. MS cloud stuff is just awful on every level.

Screwed up in what way? I haven't noticed any difference since the account migration.

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Post by BaseballPhysics »

nakatu wrote: post #157

But how would one backup their self hosted apps? I imagine a cron job to create snapshots then upload them to a cloud provider. Isn't there a self hosted app for that as well?

For data I care about, the data is hosted on a NAS that incorporates an encrypted snapshot backup strategy with off-site storage in Google Drive.

Configuration I tend to store in a git repository that I back up.

For the VMs/whatever, I just document the setup and, in the case of a disaster, would just rebuild. It'd be a gigantic PITA, but the data and configuration are the important bits. The rest is just labour.

That said, this is why I don't self-host truly critical infrastructure like email or messaging. Everything I run are things I could live without for a while if I had to.

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Post by brimble »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #167
api wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything in Minecraft Java and Bedrock worked fine until we logged into Microsoft's account thing. Now everything is always screwed up. MS cloud stuff is just awful on every level.

Screwed up in what way? I haven't noticed any difference since the account migration.

Buying the game now requires navigating a couple sites, back and forth, in the correct order, and getting past MS attempts to block seemingly any new account for non-existent "suspicious activity". If you're buying for a kid and make the mistake of not lying about their age, you'll also experience the hell of MS' family account management interface, including having to track down an obscure and not-obviously-related setting to let the new copy connect to any multiplayer server, including local ones. There are, of course, multiple game-related settings screens, because why would it make sense? And only one of them has what you need. Plus you need to visit it in the correct fashion to have it apply to the child account, or else it won't work.

And you'll need to juggle logins to both accounts—the parent account, and the child account—and bounce between them a couple times to get it all working. There's no way normal users are managing to do it successfully.

As for the account transitions, it took me a couple tries to get mine working, and my wife's tried several times and they keep telling her on her MS account(s) that she doesn't own Minecraft and needs to buy it. I haven't looked into it, but I imagine she's missing some non-obvious step. Her experience is likely pretty common.

[EDIT] Oh, another thing I haven't looked into yet: as of a few days ago its started telling my kid they don't own it, and we need to buy it. They fucking definitely do own a copy. No idea what's up with that, and I'm dreading having to figure it out.

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