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Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by bmitc »

derkades wrote: post #52
bmitc wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters I get. Ah, interesting. I have been considering finding a solution like that. How do you like it? Are there other alternatives you considered?

I used paperless for a while but ended up just saving pdfs to directories instead. I can find what I need without fancy OCR features by organizing and naming files sensibly. And I am fairly certain this will still work in 40 years, while paperless, or even Linux, might no longer exist.

That was sort of the approach I had been planning on going for (manual scanning and putting it in directories that get cloud backed up). I have a pretty good scanner app on my phone, and so just scanning after opening the mail for some important document or invoice, uploading to the document storage, and then shredding seemed to be pretty low fanfare.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by karlshea »

coolspot wrote: post #57
karlshea wrote: post #56

- Bind for internal DNS zone - Pi-hole on 2 Raspberry Pi 4s - Chrony stratum 1 NTP from GPS on a Pi, my OPNsense router redirects all NTP traffic to it. - Emby (like Plex) - Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr/Transmission with VPN/SABnbzd for collecting lots of little boxes that fall off trucks. - Calibre-web - LibreNMS - Omada/UniFi controllers - Home Assistant - Tailscale Almost all Dockerized now but it didn’t used to be. One…

> Pi-hole on 2 Raspberry Pi 4s Is this for redundancy? How does this work?

Yes. They both have the same initial configuration, and DHCP hands out both IPs.

They both in turn talk to the two bind servers for recursive resolving.

(I got extremely irritated at my ISP’s DNS years ago which is why I was running bind, but now I keep it running behind Pi-hole for an internal domain name I started using because having bind running made that easy)

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by amir734jj »

Two PCs:

- First one

in the basement, no monitor, connected using WiFi running docker-compose: websites, WireGuard, Socks proxy and etc

- Second one

In my room, with monitor, connected using LAN + multiple external hard drives plex, qbittorrent

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by karlshea »

mypastself wrote: post #59
karlshea wrote: post #56

- Bind for internal DNS zone - Pi-hole on 2 Raspberry Pi 4s - Chrony stratum 1 NTP from GPS on a Pi, my OPNsense router redirects all NTP traffic to it. - Emby (like Plex) - Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr/Transmission with VPN/SABnbzd for collecting lots of little boxes that fall off trucks. - Calibre-web - LibreNMS - Omada/UniFi controllers - Home Assistant - Tailscale Almost all Dockerized now but it didn’t used to be. One…

I thought I was too hoity-toity for it, but I ended up gradually dockerizing most of the applications on my home server. It’s just so convenient.

Really made doing Ubuntu upgrades or clean installs way less of a chore. Some of that software requires an insane collection of packages, like Mono for Emby. And there started to be conflicting version issues with Python/PHP for awhile too.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

I have always wanted to do the home lab server thingy. I started long back with a few computers[1] in the attic of my first Office. I graduated to a simple wooden rack[2] with routers, storage, and cables. Recently, at the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, I got a durable 24U server rack[3] for a throw-away price from a friend as he had to shutter his Startup. I even asked myself, "Does it come in Black?" I spent about 30-min or so a day for a few weeks just spray-painting it black.

I had all the plans and started tinkering - a few old Laptops as servers, Pi-Hole, and a 2012 MacMini to serve media to the family members, etc. Unfortunately, this is a very addictive hobby and may rival or even more than photography. I have stopped playing with any additional (wrong focus for now) experiments. A few of my friends have seen and knew about my hobby, so I have been on the receiving end (free) of older laptops and quite a bunch of Raspberry Pis[4]. Btw, many companies seem to be gifting Raspberry Pis to their team members to encourage to tinker or something in that line!

So far, only some basic operations work. Internet Load Balancer + Bonding, Backup of photos (since 2001), replication of a local copy of Dropbox, a simple media storage, syncthing replicating copies my development environment and files.

Yes, one-day, that one-day will come when I can just keep playing with these. I even had the led strip (now removed and back to my defaults) light up when I was in the zone. :-)

1. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2onquaoc4ob7mpm/F360559208.jpeg?dl...

2. https://www.dropbox.com/s/w0gf6mq8s4dze7g/IMG_1825.jpeg?dl=0

3. https://www.dropbox.com/s/21hsrj7k5e5t687/IMG_0003.jpeg?dl=0

4. https://www.dropbox.com/s/uhnknwutlgvre9s/IMG_1112.jpeg?dl=0

All: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kumyb9accyae1g9/AACAOt9a8VEnUHLpC...

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by unhammer » 

    - nginx (personal web pages)
    - weechat (irc bouncer)
    - syncthing instance (so there's always one online for my laptop or phone to access)
    - gonic (simple navidrome/subsonic alternative without the web UI)
    - backups (my own rsync+snapshot scripts since I found borg etc. too involved)
    - some uptime checkers (simple cron jobs + msmtp for sending email), and various one-off scrapers and scripts

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by Msurrow »

derkades wrote: post #50

- Router in VM - Main workstation in VM with GPU passthrough (saves power by not having an additional machine running) - Nextcloud for files, calendar, contact sync - Joplin server for notes sync - Samba NAS for me and everyone else who lives in the house - Occasionally one or more Minecraft servers for friends - Jenkins CI for my open source projects - Mail server (using the ISP's mail proxy for outgoing) - qbittorr…

Thanks for the Joplin mention. I’ve been looking for a secure, gdpr compliant and preferably selfhosted note app for some time! Bingo, I guess

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by cpach »

tunnuz wrote: post #54
cientifico wrote: post #3

In a cloud server (hidden from the public) www.keycloak.org - auth mostly for outline www.getoutline.com - my personal "notion" nginxproxymanager.com - to proxy things Wireguard - remote access and interconnection between zones cockpit-project.org - to manage VMS github.com/coder/code-server - To remote develop 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters…

How do you keep the server hidden from the public?

One option is to use Tailscale or plain Wireguard.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by apeters »

cientifico wrote: post #3

In a cloud server (hidden from the public) www.keycloak.org - auth mostly for outline www.getoutline.com - my personal "notion" nginxproxymanager.com - to proxy things Wireguard - remote access and interconnection between zones cockpit-project.org - to manage VMS github.com/coder/code-server - To remote develop 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters…

Even though I sold mailcow and stopped working on it in the past months, it warms my heart SO MUCH to see people using it. :) Really, thank you.

I have some ideas for a proper successor which would be much more scaleable, modern, flexible and would be more focused to use existing transports for piggybacking mail. A fully and safely encrypted mail storage as well as a cool interface to invite for encrypted sessions etc. Smtpd and imapd using modern Python modules.

—

Providers found out it was easier to block private senders instead of developing good filtering mechanisms. I kind of understand this decision, but spammers simply abuse services like Sendgrid or create spam accounts on MS.

So… nothing really changed in regards of spam. We just lose actually *wanted* mails or have to look into the Junk folders more often, all while newsletters get on the priority lane.

That makes me unsure about developing anything in this regard. :(

André

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by pjc50 »

cientifico wrote: post #3

In a cloud server (hidden from the public) www.keycloak.org - auth mostly for outline www.getoutline.com - my personal "notion" nginxproxymanager.com - to proxy things Wireguard - remote access and interconnection between zones cockpit-project.org - to manage VMS github.com/coder/code-server - To remote develop 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters…

You can run pihole in the cloud? That is very useful information.
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