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

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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…

Do you use your main workstation with directly connected display or via some remote technology? My home server is in the basement and I have several low end devices around but haven’t found a way to use GUI applications remotely. Currently I use only TUI ones.

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dividedbyzero wrote: post #350

I've pared things down quite a bit lately; the setup here used to be: - A Mac Mini, a Pi 4 with SSD and 8GB RAM and a Pi 3B+ forming a "multi-room" Kubernetes cluster with the idea that sensors and automation for each room (that had one) could be run locally in that room, including wired sensors, all connected by Kafka running on one of the Pis; that way I could just plug in another sensor and the local pod would kno…

What eInk display are you using and in which case?

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

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Dries007 wrote: post #93

On premise I have: - Fritz!Box 7530 AX (purchased router, connected to fiber endpoint hardware from ISP) - OpenVPN - Dynamic DNS update of domain name - Synology DS220+ (bought new with 2x4TB, running striped/RAID0, uses ~30W under load) - Download center with various RSS feeds - Plex - Primary media collection - Adguard in a Docker container - Google Cloud/... drive sync - Backup target for all non scheduled backups…

Maybe this is interesting for you https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-...

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

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chenxiaolong wrote: post #382

For my router PC, I run vyos [1]. Dinky little 9th gen Core i3 machine, but consumes Everything else is on a separate server running Fedora. I used to run applications inside k3s, but got tired of the constant 10% CPU usage from the control plane trying to keep track of its state. Also didn't like that the containers I used weren't being rebuilt for security updates in packages (eg. openssl). Now, I just use plain ol…

Do you have more information about GPON from AT&T? Here in Germany I have seen only authentication based on the GPON SFP serial number and not with EAP-TLS.

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

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Post by tracer0211 »

Installed on my NUC (all dockerized)

* adguard (i used to love pi-hole but adguard home is better) - ad free LAN

* transmission that runs over vpn - for seeding linux iso

* homeassistant - automate my switches, monitoring

* zigbee2mqtt - zigbee to mqtt bridge

* eclipse mosquitto- mqtt broker for my zigbee devices

* node-red - integrated with home assistant to write some of my automations

* duplicati - backup all the data from all these service and upload to remote storage

* grafana - visualize my network/devices/services stats

* prometheus and several exporters

* nexus repository - to proxy external libraries

* wyze-bridge - so i can view my Wyze cameras in home assistant via rtsp

* tailscale

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Post by eiiot »

- adguard home (ad blocking) - plausible analytics (open-source analytics) - assistant relay (depreciated) - duplicati (backups) - changedetection.io (change monitoring for websites) - ESPHome (control microcontrollers for smart-home) - Homeassistant (home automation) - PiAware SkyAware (flight tracking w/ an additional stick on my roof) - Grafana (monitor the server) - Shlink (url shortener) - assorted other projects (like the backend for a modified version of the late Weather Timeline)

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

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Post by asim »

rft wrote: post #157
asim wrote: post #86

Reading this thread, someone needs to put the home server in a tiny box, preinstalled with all the apps and put a slick user interface on it. I think https://umbrel.com is a thing but it's not packaged with hardware. Something that packages the hardware and software together would be pretty killer. Plug and play. Instant email. All the apps. Easy migration from existing services.

I would love for something like this to become mainstream, mostly from a privacy PoV. But, I think there are just too many different use cases, pitfalls, user problems and limitations. Something like a plug and play box could work for the very small intersection of "technically inclined and understands how to port forward and how to fix minor problems" and "not interested in tinkering with self hosting". As someone e…

Thanks for taking the time to provide such a detailed response. All your points make sense and it's those things that have to be resolved one by one to make anything like this not just a viable product but an actual sustainable business. I do keep coming back to this idea mostly because unlike a lot of people here, I don't want to tinker anymore, I don't want to hand build something from scratch, those days are long gone. I'm happy and willing to pay for something that works and maybe even a subscription for a period of time (think mobile phone contract).

Ultimately as you say privacy is the clear selling point. So much of what's in the cloud is now being exploited or hacked. Obviously the cloud is here to stay and we'll continue to rely on it for a ton of high compute, high bandwidth and high storage needs, but there's so much of what we do on a day to day basis that just doesn't require it e.g let's just say I need to talk to my family, leave notes between us, share sensitive documents, etc. All of that can very much be local in my house. All the things that we do in our physical houses we deem private, the digital should be the same. But we've shifted from the personal computer to public cloud services. There was big benefits but equally there will be huge benefits to going private once more.

I can't say this problem will be solved anytime soon. Someone has to really want to solve the problem for themselves first. I'm hacking on a little toy that might manage DNS, email, web serving, file storage, etc as one binary but I'm not sure it will go anywhere, it's just an experiment.

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Post by ornornor »

teekert wrote: post #162

NextCloud, Home Assistant, Paperless NGX, Minecraft, Caddy for some Hugo sites/blogs, Unify Controller, Vaultwarden, Traefik, Sabnzbd. Used to do WireGuard but now I use Tailscale, AdGuard home and FoundryVTT. It's all docker-compose. I'm thinking of taking some services off the internet using TailScale, some already are just on the Tailnet (Home Assistant and Paperless NGX), all my SSH ports are now only open to the…

> docker-compose

How do you deal with backups? That’s my main struggle with docker.

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

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Post by ohthehugemanate »

karlshea wrote: post #404
ohthehugemanate wrote: post #395

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depends on the details of your transcode: - what's the source/destination quality? - what's the container format? Quicksync doesn't support them all; even the newest gen is missing av1 and VP9 IIRC. But then, the same can be said for discrete GPUs. - what filters are you applying. Many (most?) filters are CPU bound, which will kill you really quick. But for supported formats without filtering, 12g Intel quicksync is…

10th-gen i5 could not handle a single stream with most of the 4k content I tried, even though it was benchmarked as working. So if you're trying to transcode from varying sources I would imagine most people will end up wanting a discrete GPU. If you're ripping your own content and can ensure that everything is set up right so that the integrated GPU can handle it, sure, it will probably work. That being said they cou…

As I mentioned elsewhere, check the details of that transcode you tried. Are you doing tone mapping? That happens on the CPU (even with many discrete GPUs). Is it in a supported container format? Did you validate that the GPU was being used for the transcode?

Other 10th gen I5 users get multiple simultaneous 4k streams going at > 1x speed. Even with tone mapping it should only use like 45% CPU for a single stream.

Unfortunately the difference between software and hardware development cycles means that when you're on data formats that came to prominence in the last 2 years, even the newest hardware may not support it yet.

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

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Post by chenxiaolong »

jum4 wrote: post #414
chenxiaolong wrote: post #382

For my router PC, I run vyos [1]. Dinky little 9th gen Core i3 machine, but consumes Everything else is on a separate server running Fedora. I used to run applications inside k3s, but got tired of the constant 10% CPU usage from the control plane trying to keep track of its state. Also didn't like that the containers I used weren't being rebuilt for security updates in packages (eg. openssl). Now, I just use plain ol…

Do you have more information about GPON from AT&T? Here in Germany I have seen only authentication based on the GPON SFP serial number and not with EAP-TLS.

Yeah，AT&T unfortunately tries really hard to make their customers use the provided routers. For customers on the older GPON network (like myself), they provide an ONT and a router. The ONT will not communicate until the router authenticates with EAP-TLS. The ONT has some additional funkiness, like requiring the EAP-TLS ethernet frames be tagged with VLAN ID 0.

Some folks work around this by using a ONT dumb/unmanaged switch router setup. They'll plug in the provided router, wait for it to authenticate, disconnect it, and then plug in their own router. The dumb switch will keep the link alive from the ONT's point of view. Works well, though it is annoying to have to redo the procedure whenever the power goes out. For the lucky folks whose provided routers are easily jailbreakable, we can extract the EAP-TLS certs and configure our own routers to authenticate directly.

On their newer XGS-PON network, some folks found out that the EAP-TLS isn't even enforced by the ISP's network--it's enforced locally by the ONT. So you can buy your own SFP ONT module that doesn't support the OMCI commands for enabling EAP-TLS, spoof the SFP serial number, and get connected.

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