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Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by krono »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #90
krono wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scaleway asked me for a copy of my Dutch passport too which I refused, and then they limited the services available to the long-time active business account this was for. Neither their docs or two separate support agents I spoke had any information on why it was necessary, where the copy would end up, how long it would be kept, etc. which seemed very fishy and is totally illegal. This was about a year ago.

You sure this wasn't a spear-phishing attack instead of a legit request?

Yeah the verification process initiation including document upload all went through the account control panel. The account audit log also contains records related to the incomplete verification process, and there's a permanent banner telling me to complete the thing too.

Appreciate you asking though

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by gen220 »

jtode wrote: post #53
jerf wrote: post #18

If you're worried about costs, I run Nextcloud locally in my house, and just deal with the fact it's not externally available. Everything syncs when it is in the house, which is just about always for the laptops and pretty often for the cell phones, and when it is out and about it just doesn't. It all works out. I have a backup process running on it, but back up disk space is a lot cheaper than live disk space attach…

In my case, I want it everywhere. I operate from a permanent deficit of attention, and I store all of my musical reference material in Google at the moment, because one thing I do always manage to have with me (so far) is my phone, so if someone calls for a song that I don't have memorized I can very quickly pull up the chart no matter what. I've tried making binders, I've tried every suggestion anyone could possibly…

You can run dyndns yourself if your dns provider has an API (e.g. cloudflare). Mine is a ~10 line bash script.

Basic idea is `curr_ip=$(curl ifconfig.me | grep smth)`, then `curl -X POST https://your_dns_provider?dn=vpn.jtode.com&new_ip=$curr_ip`.

Run it as a cron, on a schedule that's kind to your IP identification service and kind to your personal SLAs around uptime (mine's set to every 5 minutes).

Verizon changes my home IP every couple weeks, by my latest log check. No need to pay for dynamic dns.

Self-hosting is a long journey of solving such trivial problems. But it's pretty rewarding when it all fits together. :) Good luck!

I have a setup like the one you desire. Some of my services are port-forwarded to the public internet (i.e. the ones with a login screen) behind a local nginx instance. Others are only available on a "local" network, i.e. at home or via a VPN tunnel advertised at secret-vpn.{}.tld.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by doublerabbit »

jtode wrote: post #94
hereforphone wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They took away FreeBSD VPSs so I left. I'm happy at Vultr now.

I'm curious what keeps you invested in BSD. I'm not a hater or anything, and in fact I have some experience, my last Sysadmin job involved a network with almost exclusively FreeBSD servers and I had to do some fast learning on their spin. It was objectively great, but eventually I migrated everything to Linux in order to make things more accessible to the people coming over from Windows servers, and I didn't find tha…

For me, why I have all my servers in colocation running FreeBSD. Is for the reason that it's not Linux.

Even though I am Linux Engineer by job title, I've lost the sticky from the adhestive that Linux used to give me. It feels now more of a pressured big-corp grab then an OS that made game-changing moves. It's made it's comfort zone.

I am cynical and that when one thing gets popular I tend to shift. So when FreeBSD becomes the next glory, I'll probably jump to Solaris or something; that and bHyve.

That hypervisor has never let me down. With ZFS Snapshots and bHyve writing directy zvols, is just too tasty to turn down.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by jtode »

ryandrake wrote: post #93
geuis wrote: post #89

Linode. I've been a customer for almost 15 years. Has never served me wrong.

Another vote for Linode. Everything I need, Multiple domains, E-mail for all family members and a buddy's business E-mail, and light web hosting run on a $5 Linode running basic vanilla Debian, exim4, dovecot, lighttpd. Word of caution: If you're doing this to achieve resilience from the risk of big tech canceling your accounts and making your life difficult, moving to a VPS doesn't fully solve it. You're now at risk…

Bottom line, I plan to treat the rented presence the same way one treats a container - there will be persistent storage of all config and storage data elsewhere, such that the server can be abandoned and stood up somewhere else with no more data lost than whatever doesn't come in during standing up the new server. If I can manage it, I will encrypt all stored backup data before writing it to the bucket/block store, that seems like a reasonable target. Even rot-13, or whatever is the binary equivalent, will discourage lazy noses.

As far as backups, I have many terabytes of ZFS blocks here at home, and all cloud backups will be replicated back here. I wasn't actually aware of tailscale so I think that's going to be integrated into things pretty deeply lol.

I'm not planning to run my own email at all, just make sure that all my old emails and all my future emails end up stored on a server I control (ie. my zfs server at home, plus whatever redundant ones I might also have in the world).

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by rr888 »

> I want to get all my email history backed up somewhere other than gmail's servers on an ongoing basis.

I thought I wanted this, then realized I really can live without all the old emails. Once you decide that you're left with photos and that's about it, which makes archiving easier.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by fullstop »

hereforphone wrote: post #63
kirbyfan64sos wrote: post #6

Gonna give another rec to DigitalOcean, we use it for work as well and haven't had any major issues.

They took away FreeBSD VPSs so I left. I'm happy at Vultr now.

I still have my FreeBSD droplet running there, maybe I should look at moving to Vultr or just migrating the services on that droplet to Linux.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by tr81 »

rr888 wrote: post #115

> I want to get all my email history backed up somewhere other than gmail's servers on an ongoing basis. I thought I wanted this, then realized I really can live without all the old emails. Once you decide that you're left with photos and that's about it, which makes archiving easier.

Not only that really old emails can be liability. When searching through my gmails, I come across some truly stupid emails that I sent or received.

Lately, I am purging all emails older than 10 years, unless there is a reason to keep them. True it doesn't delete those emails on the other side but, at least, it reduces the chances of any accidental exposure on my side.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by martin_a »

Volundr wrote: post #104
martin_a wrote: post #96

I'm running Nextcloud on a shared webhosting and have mounted a Hetzner storage box as external storage into it. That comes down to around 7 €/month for hosting costs, which I find fair. I'm using the Nextcloud Android client, which could be better but does its job, to sync photos from my phone to the cloud. That can also be configured quite nicely to have specific folders for uploads, that should help you with keepi…

I let Hetzner run NextCloud for me https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share It's an amazing value.

That's even easier, indeed.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by t-writescode »

preya2k wrote: post #42

Don't expect too much from Nextcloud – it will not be a 1:1 replacement for commercial services from Google, Microsoft, etc. Prepare to spend much time debugging, configuring, reading tickets, etc. If you only want files and Cloud office, consider using alternatives like Seafile[1] or the new OwnCloud rewrite in Go called OCIS[2], which are MUCH more stable than Nextcloud. [1]: https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ [2]: h…

This does not reflect my experience at all. If you're using Unraid, there are common packages for it; and, if you're like me and don't trust those, you can run the NextCloud All In One Docker container to get it set up.

You can also run the NextCloud All-In-One Docker container just on a regular linux box and it'll work, as well. It is a central manager for a collection of docker containers that it starts up. Works great. I definitely encourage NextCloud.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by lrvick »

I dropped all GAFAM services. Nextcloud, Gitea, Matrix, Sonarr, Lidarr, Radarr etc can cover it all. You will have to put in a little work to self host these, or a little money to have someone else host them, but now you are paying with time and money instead of your privacy and identity.

If you are into self hosting swing by #!:matrix.org

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