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Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by doubled112 »

ihateolives wrote: post #179
hinkley wrote: post #168

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For procrastination you have to set yourself up for success. For instance, what if the alarm sent you the product page for the model of battery you need? You order them, silence the alarm, and when they show up you’re reminded you need to change them. Or if that’s a bad time, when the alarm goes off again. I think we’ve only begun to work out how alarms are the wrong solution to the problem and what we need are promp…

Do you have kids? It doesn't work that way. It will never be urgent enough to waste time even for setting up the alarm or prompt. People vastly overestimate free time when you have kids. They somehow manage to eat up every single minute.

A couple of them. They're 5 and 8.

When they were younger, they slept (sometimes) and I didn't. I've never slept much, so I didn't feel like I was missing out on too much.

Last spring I noticed I could finally do things in the daytime again, too. Which is great, I really missed guitar. Suddenly they're interested in what I'm doing too.

Haven't talked either into updating my VM fleet for me, but maybe some day.

I treat my "alerts" as more of a suggested to do list. The things I'm self-hosting are important to us (we all use them), but not critical. Life will go on until I get to it.

I've also learned that "boring tech" is the way to go.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by thr717272 »

ihateolives wrote: post #179
hinkley wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For procrastination you have to set yourself up for success. For instance, what if the alarm sent you the product page for the model of battery you need? You order them, silence the alarm, and when they show up you’re reminded you need to change them. Or if that’s a bad time, when the alarm goes off again. I think we’ve only begun to work out how alarms are the wrong solution to the problem and what we need are promp…

Do you have kids? It doesn't work that way. It will never be urgent enough to waste time even for setting up the alarm or prompt. People vastly overestimate free time when you have kids. They somehow manage to eat up every single minute.

As a dad with more kids than the average around here I feel you.

For me it has improved slightly lately:

I have recently started giving my kids bonus allowance if they let me work the hours I need.

And lately I have also played more card games and board games with them in the evenings.

That said, I am up at around 0400 to start the day and I have already spent 15 minutes on HN so I need to leave now :-)

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by glandium »

PuffinBlue wrote: post #165
glandium wrote: post #149

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A static, public IP address with a good reputation (ie, not on any spam blacklists) Piece of cake /s

It's not that hard to do. Harder for residential address blocks for sure. But if you do all the other things previously mentioned like SPF/DKIM etc then cleaning up an IP address isn't that hard. The only service we've ever had issues with is Outlook as they'll ban whole block for opaque reasons and we just escalate it to the provider and they sort it. We just moved two self-hosted mail servers to new IP addresses an…

There are entire datacenters blocked by some blocklist providers. Like, AFAIK, the OVH ones.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by j45 »

PuffinBlue wrote: post #174
j45 wrote: post #106

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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…

Those are very good options. I considered those for a 3 node proxmox cluster. In the end I went with HP t630's. They're much less powerful, but they're also much cheaper and very small! Dell Wyse 3040 or 5060's are also fantastic options. I liked the t630 because it has a proper sata SSD slot and will take up to 64GB RAM. The power bricks are also quite small too. I'm going to use mine as a home lab testing environme…

Thank you as well for those recommendations. I was looking for some lighter powered and serviceable servers.

As time goes on, for the sake of portability, it seems useful to have one appliance dedicated to the physical house, one for personal/family, and then to the extent of hobby or playing with tech, higher powered servers are useful.

I have been trying to stay with Intel 64 bit to keep things easy but will probably get dragged back towards arm and 32 bit.

Edit: more typos than hn should allow

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by j45 »

Gigachad wrote: post #133
j45 wrote: post #106

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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…

The M1 Mac mini with linux will probably end up being the best self hosting hardware.

Agreed. Support for packages is improving but still not seamless.

Can ram still be upgraded in Mac minis?

The m2 Mac mini is a workhorse. Exciting times.

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Post by wankle »

roxgib wrote: post #143
ryjo wrote: post #120

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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?

I've done it for a couple of years, all traffic comes into the VPS and Wireguard immediately redirects to my home machine VM. I can take the VM down, bring it up on another machine, it calls to my VPS to the Wireguard server, establishes the tunnel and then my email and web are now going to the VM on the new home machine, or whereever in the world I want to bring that VM up. Yet, to any clients hitting my public IP (the cloud VPS), nothing has changed except for a few minutes downtime.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by einhverfr »

At PGConf India, one of the keynotes addressed exactly this topic. The largest stock broker firm in India had made the decision to self-host everything. The CTO made a number of points that I think are missed in this discussion and article, namely:

1. You may think you are a software company, but HR, accounting etc are just as critical to your operations as the customer product. Therefore there isn't really a distinction between core business and non-core business that people like to think, and

2. By self-hosting you ensure you learn the technology and can therefore respond to problems yourself. In an environment where businesses are increasingly on the hook for defects in their services to the end user, that's a good thing.

Obviously hiring knowledgeable people is probably the bottleneck but it is still a cost saver and it is important to create an organizational culture where people can learn the technology on the job.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by cloakedcode »

unixhero wrote: post #32
margorczynski wrote: post #30

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

Used it for 5 years in production, it is a good idea

The original post is about self hosting to get away from vendor lock-in. Using something like this defeats the purpose a little.

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Post by beaukin »

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…

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