This is a great introduction to self-hosting, good job OP. As some of the other comments mentioned, discussion about self-hosted security and the importance of back-ups would be good to include. Also, you link to some great resources for discovering self-hosted applications, but it would be interesting to hear some of the software you enjoy self-hosting outside of core infrastructure. As I'm sure you're aware, self-hosters are always looking for new ideas. :)
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#142I love the idea of self-hosting, especially since I keep a number of very tiny websites/projects going at any given time, so resources would not really be too much of an issue for me. What stops me is security. I simply do not know enough about securing a self-hosted site on real hardware in my home and despite actively continuing to learn, it seems like the more I learn about it, the more questions I have. My identi…
Don't expose anything to the Internet. Use a tunneling tool (Tailscale et al) or VPN
I think they want to host public websites.
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#144I am going to continue to stan for dokku for hosting web apps, docker images included https://dokku.com/
Dokploy is really nice
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#145Last thing I need is Kubernetes at home
Exactly, my first reaction was "I should write a blog post about why I still use Docker Swarm". I deploy to single node swarms, and it's a zero boiler plate solution. I had to migrate services to another server recently, and it was really painless. Why oh why doesn't Docker Swarm get more love (from its owners/maintainers and users)?.... Edit: anyone actually interested in such a post?
I'd be interested. Might be a strange question but I'll throw it out there, I seem to have a hard time finding a good way to define my self hosted infrastructure nodes and which containers can run on them, have you run into/have a solution for this? Like I want my database to run on my two beefier machines but some of the other services could run on the mini pcs.
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#146Last thing I need is Kubernetes at home
Exactly, my first reaction was "I should write a blog post about why I still use Docker Swarm". I deploy to single node swarms, and it's a zero boiler plate solution. I had to migrate services to another server recently, and it was really painless. Why oh why doesn't Docker Swarm get more love (from its owners/maintainers and users)?.... Edit: anyone actually interested in such a post?
yes, please.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
Put it on a zfs dataset and back up data on the filesystem level (using sanoid/syncoid to manage snapshots, or any of their alternatives). It will be much more efficient compared to all other backup strategies with similar maintenance complexity.
Filesystem backups may not be consistent and may lose transactions that haven't made it to the WAL. You should always try to use database backup tools like pgdump.
Transactions that haven‘t been written to the WAL yet are also lost when the server crashes or you run pgdump. Stuff not in WAL is not safe in any means, its still a transaction in progress.
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#148I love the idea of self-hosting, especially since I keep a number of very tiny websites/projects going at any given time, so resources would not really be too much of an issue for me. What stops me is security. I simply do not know enough about securing a self-hosted site on real hardware in my home and despite actively continuing to learn, it seems like the more I learn about it, the more questions I have. My identi…
I'm right there with you, except at times I have thrown caution to the wind and made my sites available. My current setup is to rent a cheap $5/month VPS running nginx. I then reverse ssh from my home to the vps, with each app on a different port. It works great until my electric goes out and comes back on the apps become unavailable. I haven't gotten the restart script to work 100% of the time. But, I'd love to hear…
I suppose also no public IP on your home connection?
Because since my new provider only provides cg-nat, I've been using a cheap server, but actually having the server at home would be nice.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
A few days after a remark on hn, while the thread was still active, I received a mysterious package I didn't order from a weird drop shipping service where the original sender is unknown and undiscoverable to you the recipient. It didn't contain anything bad just a single surgical mask (during covid, common valueless item basically). The message was just that they could find my home address. It was a stupid message s…
Hmm, my first guess would have been that you have been a target of "brushing" [1]. In a Reddit thread from 2020 [2], multiple people mention that they received surgical masks they did not order. [1] https://www.bbb.org/article/news-releases/20509-amazon-brush... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/tulsa/comments/hpe8s1/just_got_a_su...
Interesting! I never heard of that.
The package came from a US company in Texas not China. Not directly, the mask could have been made anywhere, but the package did not contain any other mail labels like when you get something from China. And never happened before, never happened again, and was literally only a single mask.
Still, seems to fit anyway because the brushing descriptions do vary in the details a little. My example still fits.
Or maybe it still was the hn guy and this just the method they used because they knew about it.
Anyway thank you.
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#150Still "rsync"ing the result of "hugo build" to a subfolder on a shared webhost. Works like a charm, hope it will do so forever. :-D
I'll eventually set this up to automatically deploy from git, don't worry haha