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Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

I've been looking a lot into self-hosting recently. In my area, it seems that no LTE ISP will give you an suitable connection: they're all either behind a NAT, or behind a heavy firewall.

Now sure, I can rent a VPS to forward traffic to my device via a VPN. But that's not really self-hosted any more.

It seems a decentralised internet is becoming harder and harder with each passing day -- hosting stuff on an rpi at home is no longer possible.

Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

bigChris wrote: post #3

Docker has just been getting too good. Now I’m waiting for someone to create a docker fork where docker has access to the host system directly outside of the VM and shared volumes.

> Now I’m waiting for someone to create a docker fork where docker has access to the host system directly outside of the VM and shared volumes.

They're not VMs, they're containers. And it already supports accessing the host filesystem, see the `--volume` flag.

Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by brentcetinich »

Self hosting is cool, but if you actually want people to find your content my experience is that search engines will penalise heavily your ranking for being hosted off a residential IP that’s is not close to them and likely has a history of being unreliable. Unreliability and slowness both from the network latency and page rendering time (Wordpress doesn’t render so fast on a pi - at least when I tried it) will put you all the way to the bottom. If you don’t care about that then this is just fine, depending on what I am hosting changes where I put it, but stuff I want to be findable I host in cloud front/s3 as static pages and costs about $1 a month.

These are my notes on setting that up http://blog.cetinich.net/content/2020/2020-sphynx-ablog-blog...

Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by destroy-2A »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #11

I've been looking a lot into self-hosting recently. In my area, it seems that no LTE ISP will give you an suitable connection: they're all either behind a NAT, or behind a heavy firewall. Now sure, I can rent a VPS to forward traffic to my device via a VPN. But that's not really self-hosted any more. It seems a decentralised internet is becoming harder and harder with each passing day -- hosting stuff on an rpi at ho…

I don’t think any LTE will give you a public routable address directly (unless you specifically request and pay a boatload for it) you will almost always be behind a CGN https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6598

Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

#15

Post by IshKebab »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #12
bigChris wrote: post #3

Docker has just been getting too good. Now I’m waiting for someone to create a docker fork where docker has access to the host system directly outside of the VM and shared volumes.

> Now I’m waiting for someone to create a docker fork where docker has access to the host system directly outside of the VM and shared volumes. They're not VMs, they're containers. And it already supports accessing the host filesystem, see the `--volume` flag.

They're VMs on Mac and maybe Windows (dunno if it uses WSL).

Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by RealStickman_ »

IshKebab wrote: post #15
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now I’m waiting for someone to create a docker fork where docker has access to the host system directly outside of the VM and shared volumes. They're not VMs, they're containers. And it already supports accessing the host filesystem, see the `--volume` flag.

They're VMs on Mac and maybe Windows (dunno if it uses WSL).

It uses WSL2 on windows.

Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by squarefoot »

ChrisRR wrote: post #7

Step 1 is the most difficult. Buy a Raspberry Pi

For such simple tasks like setting up a web server, Raspberry Pi has become a metaphor for any Linux capable embedded board with networking, a condition that can be satisfied by a huge number of boards, many of which easily available and often cheaper than the Raspberry Pi. A quick search at tme.eu for embedded boards in stock with Ethernet and at least 512 MB RAM returned 30 different products, starting from €35 in single quantity.

Re: Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

destroy-2A wrote: post #14
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #11

I've been looking a lot into self-hosting recently. In my area, it seems that no LTE ISP will give you an suitable connection: they're all either behind a NAT, or behind a heavy firewall. Now sure, I can rent a VPS to forward traffic to my device via a VPN. But that's not really self-hosted any more. It seems a decentralised internet is becoming harder and harder with each passing day -- hosting stuff on an rpi at ho…

I don’t think any LTE will give you a public routable address directly (unless you specifically request and pay a boatload for it) you will almost always be behind a CGN https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6598

IPv6 traffic is also heavily firewalled too (for the few providers that even have it).
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