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Post by charcircuit »

Nextgrid wrote: post #13
dijit wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess that depends on where you live, I have almost the same upload vs download speed on my ISP Bahnhof in Sweden. Proof: https://www.speedtest.net/result/14437484691.png I am always worried about someone deciding to DDoS me though.

To be fair, they can do that just fine regardless of whether you’re running externally-available services. Most untargeted, low-effort DDoS relies on filling up all your bandwidth with spam traffic, not exploiting some layer-7 vulnerability in an application you host.

Who does untargetted layer 3/4 DDoS? Why would an attacker waste money booting a website that gets 0 visitors?

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Post by tweetle_beetle »

margorczynski wrote: post #30
unixhero wrote: post #24

Self host with vps Use cloudron.io for provisioning Profit

It looks like a proprietary, closed-source solution so not sure if that's such a great idea in the long run.

Maybe not in the long run, but more reliable than community created scripts which may or may not be: up to date, migrate data correctly, etc. They all suffer from it, but it's especially the non-Docker ones like Yunohost that seem to be worse in my experience.

Anyway even if Cloudron goes under, you still have your own data on your own machine if youve set it up like that.

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Post by powersnail »

triyambakam wrote: post #70

> 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.

To my non-native speaker ear, “a lot” indicates the strength the emotion (“very upset”), while “kind of” is a defensive wording indicating lack of objectivity or surety (“not saying it’s objectively annoying, but it does upset me”). It shows up a lot, in my experience, when people are talking about something anecdotal or subjective.

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Post by j45 »

novok wrote: post #80
stonewall wrote: post #68

I self-host literally everything (email, calendar/contacts, VOIP, XMPP, you name it) from by basement with used 1U servers from eBay and a cable internet connection. It was probably more hassle than most people would want to bother with to get it set up. But, with everything up and running, there's very little maintenance. I probably spend a few hours a month tinkering still, just because I enjoy it. I use a stack of…

How much power does it take? I've realized with some services it's cheaper to use it than the electricity and hardware cost.

For homelab or self hosting, Power per watt is my favourite measure now.

Depending on your need (many apps just idle most of the time) a usff pc can make an excellent proxmox server.

Check out a Lenovo m920q, Dell Optiplex 7060, HP EliteDesk or ProDesk 800 series. They are easy enough to bump to 64G of ram and stack up as you need. The 8700T cpu is a desktop grade in a small shell and watt footprint and also has vpro and hyperthreading.

It’s not a rack server but it’s easy enough to add a Mac Studio/Mini soon enough for crunching.

I have spent too much time with full rack server gear and using it a can seem like a matter of preference before need. It’s heavy, hungry, noisy, and my better half didn’t like when I brought the leftover data centre stuff home.

The USFF boxes are near silent and sip electricity.

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Post by j45 »

triyambakam wrote: post #73
stonewall wrote: post #68

I self-host literally everything (email, calendar/contacts, VOIP, XMPP, you name it) from by basement with used 1U servers from eBay and a cable internet connection. It was probably more hassle than most people would want to bother with to get it set up. But, with everything up and running, there's very little maintenance. I probably spend a few hours a month tinkering still, just because I enjoy it. I use a stack of…

Very inspiring and thank you for sharing. I run GrapheneOS too but I haven't set anything up like a Wireguard VPN. What is the rough idea of how that works?

Try installing algovpn it’s pretty much a turnkey wireguard installation, lots of tutorials on YouTube.

I would advise against setting up wireguard manually.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by j45 »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #3

> Email newsletter tools: Old or new, your pick Am I wrong to think that most businesses/people pay for Mailchimp because getting your e-mail actually delivered into the inboxes of your target audience/customers is non-trivial? aka, you're going to end up in "spam" otherwise? I find it hard to believe that you can "free-ly" send e-mail to, say, 100,000 e-mails and actually have it get delivered at a high rate? I woul…

A dedicated IP address can be warmed up to deliver email well enough but it can take some time.

A mail server software like mdaemon can quickly handle the heavy lifting of improving deliverability. It’s a small price for the deliverability. I’m just a former user of it.

It’s ok to use an external email provider for outgoing email delivery.

ESPs (email service providers) are handy because they can separate outgoing transactional emails from marketing ones to ensure deliverability.

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Post by digitallyfree »

novok wrote: post #80
stonewall wrote: post #68

I self-host literally everything (email, calendar/contacts, VOIP, XMPP, you name it) from by basement with used 1U servers from eBay and a cable internet connection. It was probably more hassle than most people would want to bother with to get it set up. But, with everything up and running, there's very little maintenance. I probably spend a few hours a month tinkering still, just because I enjoy it. I use a stack of…

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 pull Also while bandwidth costs less in the cloud compute and storage is much cheaper if you host it locally. If you want a server to host your public website, do it in the cloud. If you want a file server for local use the price and performance benefits quickly overweigh the power cost. There also is the additional factor of having the equipment/data 100% under my control, which is very important to me.
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