"self hosted applications" is such a tell-tale phrase in my eyes
(this is not a criticism, btw)
What are your most used self-hosted applications?
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Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?
#282Self-hosting is still way too hard. Running your own Plex server on an old laptop shouldn't be any more difficult or less secure than installing an app on your phone. Folks shouldn't have to understand DNS, TLS, HTTP, IP addresses, ports, NAT, CGNAT, port forwarding, etc in order to run a server application on their own hardware. I think we can build usable abstractions around most of it, while being secure by defaul…
I don't know... most people are too dumb/lazy to install a program using an installer or apk file.
Notice how most of the software listed is free and open source - if the end user can't be arsed to learn a few things, why would the developers go out of their way to accommodate them?
They're just not the intended market.
Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?
#283Self-hosting is still way too hard. Running your own Plex server on an old laptop shouldn't be any more difficult or less secure than installing an app on your phone. Folks shouldn't have to understand DNS, TLS, HTTP, IP addresses, ports, NAT, CGNAT, port forwarding, etc in order to run a server application on their own hardware. I think we can build usable abstractions around most of it, while being secure by defaul…
Docker and Tailscale are all you need. I have all my services in single docker-compose yaml.
Having to use third party repos and trust the uploaders kind of misses the point of self-hosting imo
Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?
#284Over time I've tried to whittle down my homelab and move more of it to Microsoft 365/Google Suite/iTunes Store with mixed results. Currently my must haves are: * Router - pfSense - https://www.pfsense.org/ * Movies/TV/Home Videos - Plex * Minecraft Server - AMP - https://cubecoders.com/AMPInstall * Music - Roon - https://roonlabs.com/ * Automation - HomeAssistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/ * Unifi Controller *…
I really really loved Plex, then suddenly my networks internet connection went down, no biggie I thought, I have my collection on Plex. Plex no longer worked offline at all. Not sure if that’s fixed, but I always saw it as a file server with a UI and webplayer.
Plex also doesn’t let me pay for one premium subscription for the server so my family can watch old family guy episodes longer than 30 seconds on a phone. They each have to buy a subscription.
I still use Plex because so much infrastructure investment to get my parents to use it but honesty I’m not sure I’d recommend it anymore.
It seems someone at Plex decided they wanted the project to finally make some serious cash and started removing functions and moved them behind a paywall (like basic analytics of if someone is currently using it or what they have watched) while shoehorning in bizarre not even B-Movies.
Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?
#285I 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…
You can look at Oracle Cloud. They have a "free forever" plan that looks quite nice (4 ARM CPUs, 24 GB RAM and 200 GB storage).
Wow, what's the catch?
Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?
#286I'm late to the party, but I do have a question. For me, reliability and data backups/recovery play an important role in setting up systems like this. I find that if I think about setting up a self-host solution, my mind goes to, "But what if it fails and you lose all your effort in a theft, fire, flood, or just hardware/data failure?" And that side of my brain would be right: what if that happened? So I guess I'd as…
I can't answer for the author, but I can answer for myself.
First of all, I have a little bit of fault tolerance with using ZFS and ZRaid 2 with 6 disks - so I'm good until 2 disks have failed.
But more than that, everything is backed up offsite using Restic and the JottaCloud RClone backend - the data I don't want to lose is around 4TB (backups from all computers in the house, and SeaFile sync of all mobile devices) so whilst the initial upload wasn't super fast (although not too bad as I've got a 70Mbps upload speed) periodic sync each day is super quick.
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#287How do people feel about Prom/Grafana? I can figure out most things, but I've had nothing but problems with these tools for years. I assume I'm the problem, because I never hear anything but high praise from anyone else. But for me it's pure friction every time I touch them and I can't figure out why.
You could try looking into the Influx stack - I have InfluxDB 2.x running, which has it's own built in dashboarding tool which (I find) has a lower learning curve than Grafana.
Then to feed it metrics use Telegraf.
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#288For me:
Garage: s3 for backups and Docker images
Loft: for managing a small cluster and providing oauth
Rob’s Magic VPN: custom software for managing a VPN and switching to/from the VPN with some routing magic.
Longhorn by Rancher: for providing volumes on the cluster.
Harbor: personal Docker registry using Garage as a backend.
Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?
#289Self-hosting is still way too hard. Running your own Plex server on an old laptop shouldn't be any more difficult or less secure than installing an app on your phone. Folks shouldn't have to understand DNS, TLS, HTTP, IP addresses, ports, NAT, CGNAT, port forwarding, etc in order to run a server application on their own hardware. I think we can build usable abstractions around most of it, while being secure by defaul…
Docker and Tailscale are all you need. I have all my services in single docker-compose yaml.
What's the value of Tailscale in a home network with self-hosted apps?
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#290I don’t know if this counts, because it’s kind of hybrid, but I use Plex all the time. I like the personal flexibility, and my wife is so constantly annoyed that the music library she spent years curating got crunched by YouTube (Google Music at the time). So we have her library extracted from a backup and dropped into Plex. We got a lifetime subscription to stream from our home NAS.