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My Homelab Setup

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Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by jorvi »

altano wrote: post #142
dewey wrote: post #28

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This is always annoying me with 1Password, before that I just always added subdomains but now I'm usually hosting everything behind Tailscale which makes this problem even worse as the differentiation is only the port.

In the 1Password entry go to the "website" item. To right right there's an "autofill behavior" button. Change it to "Only fill on this exact host" and it will no longer show up unless the full host matches exactly

Not entirely true. It can't seem to distinguish between ports..

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by giwook »

Pooge wrote: post #140
zem wrote: post #135

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> 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

And yet sometimes you just need to pull the plug.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by renehsz »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #188
shiroiuma wrote: post #147

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If you're running ZFS, it's advisable to use more RAM. ZFS is a RAM hog. I'm using 32GB on my home server.

That + full-disk encryption is why I went with BTRFS inside LUKS for my NAS. They recommend 1GB RAM per 1TB storage for ZFS. Maybe they mean redundant storage, so even 2x16TB should use 16GB RAM? But it's painful enough building a NAS server when HDD prices have gone up so much lately. The total price tag already feels like you're about to build another gaming PC rather than just a place to back up your machines and…

1GB RAM per 1TB storage is really only required if you enable deduplication, which rarely makes sense.

Otherwise, the only benefit more RAM gets you is better performance. But it's not like ZFS performs terribly with little RAM. It's just going to more closely reflect raw disk speed, similar to other filesystems that don't do much caching.

I've run ZFS on almost all my machines for years, some with only 512MiB of RAM. It's always been rock-solid. Is more RAM better? Sure. But it's absolutely not required. Don't choose a different file system just because you think it'll perform better with little RAM. It probably won't, except under very extreme circumstances.

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Post by karlshea »

altano wrote: post #142
dewey wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is always annoying me with 1Password, before that I just always added subdomains but now I'm usually hosting everything behind Tailscale which makes this problem even worse as the differentiation is only the port.

In the 1Password entry go to the "website" item. To right right there's an "autofill behavior" button. Change it to "Only fill on this exact host" and it will no longer show up unless the full host matches exactly

Omg thank you, I had no idea they added this feature!

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Post by harrygeez »

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…

not really a solution (as others have pointed out already) but it also tells me you are missing a central identity provider (think Microsoft account login). You can try deploying Kanidm for a really simple and lightweight one :)

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Post by neop1x »

polairscience wrote: post #66
nsbk wrote: post #64

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My off-prem backups are in a Tailscale connected NAS at my parent's house. I'm in the process of talking a friend into having Tailscale configured to host more off-prem backups at his place as well. I'm moving out of iCloud for photo library management and into Immich. I really don't want to lose my photos and videos hence the off-prem backups. Tailscale has been a blessing for this kind of use case

Oooo. That's the other thing I need to figure out, because it's 90% for my photography. How have you liked immich? Have you tried any other options?

I can also recommend Ente. It is pretty polished. Go-based backend using Postgres DB, Flutter-based android version, React-based web frontend (electron for desktop).

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by c-hendricks »

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

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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.

Exactly, you don't. My qualm was with the "hosts file works well enough" claim of the person I responded to.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by embedding-shape »

bjackman wrote: post #159
VladVladikoff wrote: post #118

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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)

You are always gonna have some downtime in a homelab setup I think. Unless you go all in with k8s I think the best you can do is "system reboots at 4AM, hopefully all the users are asleep". (Probably a lot of the services I run don't even really support HA properly in a k8s system with replicas. E.g. taking global exclusive DB locks for the lifetime of their process)

> You are always gonna have some downtime in a homelab setup I think. Unless you go all in with k8s I think the best you can do is "system reboots at 4AM, hopefully all the users are asleep".

Huh, why? I have a homelab, I don't have any downtime except when I need to restart services after changing something, or upgrading stuff, but that happens what, once every month in total, maybe once every 6 months or so per service?

I use systemd units + NixOS for 99% of the stuff, not sure why you'd need Kubernetes at all here, only serves to complicate, not make things simple, especially in order to avoid downtime, two very orthogonal things.

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Post by Groxx »

overfeed wrote: post #173
PunchyHamster wrote: post #115

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Just giving them hostnames is easier. In homelab space you can also make wildcard DNS pretty easily in dnsmasq, assuming you also "own" your router. If not, hosts file works well enough. There is also option of using mdns for same reason but more setup

> Just giving them hostnames is easier Bitwarden annoyingly ignores subdomains by default. Enabling per-sudomain credential matching is a global toggle, which breaks autocomplete on other online service that allow you to login across multiple subdomains.

Seriously? That sounds incredibly awful - my keepass setup has dozens of domain customizations, there's no way in hell you could apply any rule across the entire internet.

Re: My Homelab Setup

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Post by embedding-shape »

pajamasam wrote: post #77
drnick1 wrote: post #54

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Not impressive at all. I run just about as many services, plus several game servers, on a Ryzen 5, and most of the time CPU usage is in the low single digits. Most stuff is idle most of the time. Something like a Home Assistant instance used by a single household is basically costless to run in terms of CPU.

Not costless in terms of RAM though, surely?

Ultimately, basically. I have two servers in my homelab, one that is more beefy, which hosts a bunch of stuff (basically everything parent outlined + ), including a DHT crawler, download clients, indexers, databases and a lot more. It's sitting and using 16GB (out of available 126GB) right now. Then I have another which only runs the security system + Frigate + Home Assistant, it's using 2.3GB out of 32GB available.
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