Does “self-host”, also include purchasing (not renting) the server you’re hosting it on and collocating it at a data center or hosting it from your house?
Self-Host All the Things?
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#142Why isnt this a more widespread business model? DIY is "fun" but streamlining everything for the average household would have a much bigger audience. Offer a linux distro that is customized to provide from a menu of self-hosted services (with as little pain as possible), along with a subscription for support. Could be offered as an extra service by the ISP provider or partners or entirely independent.
Because not a lot of people care about this being a thing, ask anyone outside of HN if they would run Linux and they most likely don't even know what it is.
There's not much upside for anyone using that over free Gmail/Drive/Photos for everyone except a small group who thinks they need to own their Email and Google is evil. It's a fair standpoint, but unrealistic to anyone not deep into the topic.
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#143I 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…
Incredible. The usual response to "should I host my own email" is "don't do it; you'll get hacked." Three questions: 1. Have you heard of this complaint? 2. Do you use a home ISP connection, or a commercial ISP connection? A "home ISP connection" here usually comes with a dynamic IP address; you can't get your hands on a static address without paying a very large amount monthly or getting a commercial connection. 3.…
I have a $4/month VPS that comes with a static IP address. Any reason you shouldn't use that as a proxy to solve the dynamic IP problem?
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#144I love self hosting. Here’s my home setup. Hardware (you don’t need much!) Mini atx tower, 8TB usable storage, Debian, AMD processor, 8GB memory Pfsense Firewall (Tailscale exit node) Plume Wi-Fi (would like to replace, owned by comcast now) Solution stack: Portainer + Docker Compose to manage everything Nextcloud Photo Prism Tailscale (remote WireGuard based access from all my devices. Integrates well with Pfsense)…
That’s a great stack, I have a similar one but also with syncthing.
It’s really impossible to overstate what a game-changer tailscale has been for my setup. Especially the subnet router feature, allowing me to use all my LAN IP addresses remotely. I feel much better about self-hosting applications when I can keep all my firewall ports completely closed.
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#145I 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…
Incredible. The usual response to "should I host my own email" is "don't do it; you'll get hacked." Three questions: 1. Have you heard of this complaint? 2. Do you use a home ISP connection, or a commercial ISP connection? A "home ISP connection" here usually comes with a dynamic IP address; you can't get your hands on a static address without paying a very large amount monthly or getting a commercial connection. 3.…
> 2. Do you use a home ISP connection, or a commercial ISP connection? A "home ISP connection" here usually comes with a dynamic IP address; you can't get your hands on a static address without paying a very large amount monthly or getting a commercial connection.
Weirdly, most of the ISP's I've had on the NBN here in Australia were happy to give me a static IPv4 address for free (and my current one will set you up an IPv6 /56 block, but its beta apparently).
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incredible. The usual response to "should I host my own email" is "don't do it; you'll get hacked." Three questions: 1. Have you heard of this complaint? 2. Do you use a home ISP connection, or a commercial ISP connection? A "home ISP connection" here usually comes with a dynamic IP address; you can't get your hands on a static address without paying a very large amount monthly or getting a commercial connection. 3.…
I have a $4/month VPS that comes with a static IP address. Any reason you shouldn't use that as a proxy to solve the dynamic IP problem?
Nope, that would totally work.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
do you backup offsite? if not, in the event of a fire, your data will live under your "poof!"
I have some automation that does a weekly archive of everything important to a ZFS-based NAS. Home directories are also stored there over NFS, with hourly/weekly/monthly snapshots. Once a month or so, I plug in two separate 5TB external HDDs and run a backup script that rsync's everything to each one (2 is 1 and 1 is none). These are stored outside my home. I should probably get some kind of cloud-based / encrypted b…
> I should probably get some kind of cloud-based / encrypted backup thing going as well. I don't claim that my current backup system is very good.
I recommend Backblaze B2 - $5 / TB, and supports s3's api.
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#148I 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…
I had fun doing this until I had kids.
I have a rack with 10gbe, ups, kubernetes a zfs storage server, multiple vlans, 4 unifi APs & locally hosted controller and all sorts of self-hosted stuff.
My heart breaks slightly as I watch things slowly degrade and break down due to bit-rot and version creep, I now wish I had a synology, flat network and cloud everything possible.
There are days when the kids can't watch a particular movie and I find out it's because a particular kube component failed (after an hour of root-causing) because I haven't touched it in 2 years. I then have regrets about my life choices. Sometimes the rack starts beeping while I'm working and I realise the UPS batteries are due for replacement because it's been 4 years. I silence the alarm and get back to the production issue at work, knowing it'll beep at me again in 30 days. I'll still be too busy to fix it. It doesn't help that in Australia the ambient can get to 45 degrees C pushing disks and cpus to their limits.
Just sharing a different perspective...
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incredible. The usual response to "should I host my own email" is "don't do it; you'll get hacked." Three questions: 1. Have you heard of this complaint? 2. Do you use a home ISP connection, or a commercial ISP connection? A "home ISP connection" here usually comes with a dynamic IP address; you can't get your hands on a static address without paying a very large amount monthly or getting a commercial connection. 3.…
1. Yes, most people will tell you not to host your own email, because its too complicated/difficult to get your mail delivered reliably. A lot of this is FUD. Yes, email is a bit more difficult to get right than say, hosting a web app behind Nginx. It's an old protocol, with many "features" bolted on years later to combat spam. I'm not sure how email is easier to "hack," unless there is a zero day in Postfix or somet…
A static, public IP address with a good reputation (ie, not on any spam blacklists)
Piece of cake /s
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#150The joy and thrills, heart attacks and anger with colocation; I wouldn't want it any other way. I'm proud of my 4u corner of internet space.
Knowing its my data, my hardware and my internet; makes me happy. I just wish IPv6 was more of a thing.