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My Homelab Setup

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Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by tokyobreakfast »

akerl_ wrote: post #38
PunchyHamster wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terms making defined sense aid in conversation. Why do you need to dilute the term? There is nothing wrong with your NAS running 3 apps that you press update once a year not being called "homelab" but just "a NAS"

> Why do you need to dilute the term? Nobody is diluting anything. This person posted the setup they have in their home. It’s their homelab. It’s not diluting any terms for them to call it that. Their setup is just as much a homelab as somebody else’s 48U rack. It’s just a dick move, and against the rules of the site, to see somebody’s earnest post about their tech setup and post a shallow dismissal about how their s…

Quit whining, you know damn well the bar for a typical "Show HN" has been raised to the point of being irrelevant these days, this post is a perfect example. This is not a home lab.

I'm happy for the OP and that it works for him. That said:

The equivalent of Joe Bloggs installing Linux onto an old laptop is neither curious nor interesting, let's not pretend it is because feelings.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by buckle8017 »

Get yourself a custom domain and just use subdomains. Nothing says a public dns server has to return public ips. Bonus you can get https certs with certbot and dns challenge.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by Prabhapa »

use cloudflare & cloudflare tunnels for exposing your apps over internet via custom domains. Its free of costs. Tailscale only allows 3 devices i suppose. If we have more devices to be able to connect to , then cloudflare is the best .

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by akerl_ »

tokyobreakfast wrote: post #131
akerl_ wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why do you need to dilute the term? Nobody is diluting anything. This person posted the setup they have in their home. It’s their homelab. It’s not diluting any terms for them to call it that. Their setup is just as much a homelab as somebody else’s 48U rack. It’s just a dick move, and against the rules of the site, to see somebody’s earnest post about their tech setup and post a shallow dismissal about how their s…

Quit whining, you know damn well the bar for a typical "Show HN" has been raised to the point of being irrelevant these days, this post is a perfect example. This is not a home lab. I'm happy for the OP and that it works for him. That said: The equivalent of Joe Bloggs installing Linux onto an old laptop is neither curious nor interesting, let's not pretend it is because feelings.

This isn't a Show HN, and also I think you mean "lowered" given the tone of your post.

It's also been on the front page for most of the day on its own merits. It's clear you don't like the article. The guidelines are clear that you're expected to either engage constructively or just move along.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by zem »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #118
acidburnNSA wrote: post #14

I have something like this, in the same case. I have beefier specs b/c I use it as a daily workstation in addition to running all my stuff. * nginx with letsencrypt wildcard so I have lots of subdomains * No tailscale, just pure wireguard between a few family houses and for remote access * Jellyfin for movies and TV, serving to my Samsung TV via the Tizen jellyfin app * Mopidy holding my music collection, serving to…

For anyone considering this, it's not a good plan to do it this way, if you have any family members relying on these services, you have to kill them all every time you reboot your workstation. It's really not great to mix destop and server like this. (speaking from experiance and I really need to get a separate box setup for this self hosted stuff)

> if you have any family members relying on these services, you have to kill them all every time you reboot your workstation

yikes!

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by simondotau »

nerdsniper wrote: post #122
c-hendricks wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do I edit the hosts file of an iPhone?

You don't have to if you use mDNS. Or configure the iPhone to use your own self-hosted DNS server which can just be your router/gateway pointed to 9.9.9.9 / 1.1.1.1 / 8.8.8.8 with a few custom entries. You would need to jailbreak your iPhone to edit the hosts file.

I have a real domain name for my house. I have a few publicly available services and those are listed in public DNS. For local services, I add them to my local DNS server. For ephemeral and low importance stuff (e.g. printers) mDNS works great.

For things like Home Assistant I use the following subdomain structure, so that my password manager does the right thing:

  service.myhouse.tld
  local.service.myhouse.tld

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by m463 »

linsomniac wrote: post #9

>Because all of my services share the same IP address, my password manager has trouble distinguishing which login to use for each one. In Bitwarden they allow you to configure the matching algorithm, and switching from the default to "starts with" is what I do when I find that it is matching the wrong entries. So for this case just make sure that the URL for the service includes the port number and switch all items t…

or just use the same password for everything. ;)

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by tgrowazay »

Prabhapa wrote: post #133

use cloudflare & cloudflare tunnels for exposing your apps over internet via custom domains. Its free of costs. Tailscale only allows 3 devices i suppose. If we have more devices to be able to connect to , then cloudflare is the best .

Tailscale is free for up to 3 users with up to 100 devices

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by timwis »

predkambrij wrote: post #129
linsomniac wrote: post #9

>Because all of my services share the same IP address, my password manager has trouble distinguishing which login to use for each one. In Bitwarden they allow you to configure the matching algorithm, and switching from the default to "starts with" is what I do when I find that it is matching the wrong entries. So for this case just make sure that the URL for the service includes the port number and switch all items t…

One cool trick is having (public) subdomains pointing to the tailscale IP.

This is what I do. Works great! And my caddy setup uses the DNS mode to provision TLS certs (using my domain provider's caddy plugin).

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by Pooge »

zem wrote: post #135
VladVladikoff wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone considering this, it's not a good plan to do it this way, if you have any family members relying on these services, you have to kill them all every time you reboot your workstation. It's really not great to mix destop and server like this. (speaking from experiance and I really need to get a separate box setup for this self hosted stuff)

> if you have any family members relying on these services, you have to kill them all every time you reboot your workstation yikes!

Yeah I can't imagine killing my family members every time I'm shutting down my computer
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