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I got fed up installing OpenLDAP for user management, so I made LLDAP, targeting the Goldilocks zone of the article: simple to setup/manage, but powerful enough for most self-hosting needs.
Can something like this be used to host phone books for IP PBX?
I self host most everything through unRAID. I spent a good amount of money getting a good server setup. The only thing I rely on the cloud for is email. I've gone through several iterations of hardware and hard drive capacity over about 7-8 years now. Hard to imagine I'll ever go back. It's not even about the monthly subscriptions, I've spent more on hardware I'm sure, plus my monthly VPN and Usenet fees. It's really…
What are you spending a significant amount of money on hardware? A used PC is ~$50, assuming you don't already have one. Spinning rust is ~$10/TB: https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Ultrastar-HUH728080ALE604-3-5-In... https://www.ebay.com/itm/125797516426 It can be done for less than $100, done well for less than $300.
I also wrote my own container that I use for all my development so I like to keep it snappy for that.
I have about 20TB of platter storage (WD Reds) + parity, and 2TB of SSD cache (an additional 2TB SSD passed into the gaming vm)
It slowly adds up. I started with a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive as storage.
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I disagree with your modern definition. Spam to me is unsolicited commercial emails. All email "ads" are spam. Newsletters I didn't subscribe to are spam. Anything trying to sell me something I didn't subscribe to is spam. You bet I'm going to mark it as spam and I hope it creates trouble for the sender. PS: I assume we all agree scams, "Russian singles", chain letters, "little Jessica is 4 and dying of cancer", etc,…
The annoyance I felt that I was a “good” postmaster and I was punished as a part of being from a tribe of bad postmasters. Google et al. can’t tell the difference when you hit spam. We never bought or sold any email lists, we went out of our way to ensure you wanted to be on the list- we made it single link with no extra checkbox or button to unsubscribe, we emailed only occasionally and above all we did our absolute…
I never thought people did that. That's definitely not spam. It is a one-time interaction confirming an operation you just did. Also not spam: when you buy something and the tracking sends you updates via mail.
Containers, easy to setup SSL, immutable OS's, reverse proxies.
Those things coupled with cheap and power efficient workstations/nucs seem like a very good match, at least in theory.
Then we have the GDPR laws which - also in theory - should be much more tangible when you know exactly where your data is - and backups can still easily be stored in the cloud as long as they are encrypted.
The biggest issue I see is the lack of ECC memory in the machines I mentioned.
And then that this idea goes against the business model of the cloud providers, who have a great deal of control over where we are heading and what we are talking about.
Still I cannot help but think there's a lot of opportunity in that area which seems rather untapped so far.
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How much power does it take? I've realized with some services it's cheaper to use it than the electricity and hardware cost.
I almost certainly don't save any money considering electricity cost. I have a dell r630 for compute and an r730xd that I use as a NAS. Then I have one switch for the rack and a POE switch for the house. Probably 3-5amps total? If I started over, I would probably choose more efficient gear. That said, I don't mind paying for the electricity too much. I enjoy the warm fuzzies of knowing my data lives under my roof.
As for hosting your own apps I found Hetzner VPS or something similar to be very good. Just pack them up into a docker-compose with your CI/CR pushing an image into a repository and you can host a lot of low-medium traffic solutions on a single box with the cost being a fraction of "the Cloud" (especially PaaS). On the box there is a single Nginx acting as a reverse proxy to the exposed compose ports offloading SSL.…
I have something similar, but with traefik instead of nginx. Traefik integrates very nicely with docker using labels, such that the labels configure e.g. domain, path, http-auth etc for the web service running in a container.
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Call me crazy, but for a problem folks seem to imply has had everything, including the the kitchen sink thrown at it... why do I have yet to see a single email that has the unsubscribe button at the very top, front and center, the absolute first thing I see?
It is. It literally is. Whenever gmail, thunderbird or office365 outlook notices a working unsubscribe link in a message, it puts its own unsubscribe link at the top of the message, right next to the address of the sender's email. I’m sure you mean the content of the email, but we dont reach out to double opt-in users or transactional emails with an unsubscribe link, since you chose to be there. The unsubscribe link…
Nope! Just checked Gmail WebView. There is a toolbar at the top with a very prominent"spam" button, and two kebab menus with "filter messages like this", "report spam", "report phishing", but no unsubscribe button.
> which honestly kind of upset me a lot I've seen this language more and more frequently: minimized (kind of) + maximized (a lot) qualifiers. No real insight, just interesting.
Edit: just looked it up and wikipedia has a difinition I didn't know :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollifier
However in the colloquial usage 'round these parts mollifier means to soften or make gentle
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The annoyance I felt that I was a “good” postmaster and I was punished as a part of being from a tribe of bad postmasters. Google et al. can’t tell the difference when you hit spam. We never bought or sold any email lists, we went out of our way to ensure you wanted to be on the list- we made it single link with no extra checkbox or button to unsubscribe, we emailed only occasionally and above all we did our absolute…
> but why the hell are people marking the receipts for things they bought as spam? I never thought people did that. That's definitely not spam. It is a one-time interaction confirming an operation you just did. Also not spam: when you buy something and the tracking sends you updates via mail.
I am certain rising ipv4 prices are dictated by spammers but only availability.
No one likes spam but when you have to send legitimate emails you quickly learn the other side of the problem as well.
I can get things running with little fuzz and it keeps working for the most part.
Now that just means it works for my needs and the connections I need to make.
I have stopped using Zapier because they are far too expensive for my budget.
Now I make do with a few Perl scripts for what I really need and ifttt