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This is extremely light - not a bad setup, but I mean.. it's like 1% of typical Homelabs.
It feels like day 2 after you’ve received the new hard drives. It’s nice, modern enough but still a pretty bog standard home machine, not really “homelab” territory yet.
I ended up making my own dashboard app, not as detailed as Scrutiny because I just wanted a central place that linked to all my internal apps so I didn't have to remember them all and have a simple status check. I made my own in Go though because main ones I found were NodeJS and were huge resource hogs.
Neat! > Right now, accessing my apps requires typing in the IP address of my machine (or Tailscale address) together with the app’s port number. You might try running Nginx as an application, and configure it as a reverse proxy to the other apps. In your router config you can setup foo.home and bar.home to point to the Nginx IP address. And then the Nginx config tells it to redirect foo.home to IP:8080 and bar.home t…
You can then set your DNS in Tailscale to that machines tailnet IP and access your servers when away without having to open any ports.
And bonus, if it's pihole for dns you now get network-level Adblock both in and outside the home.
This is extremely light - not a bad setup, but I mean.. it's like 1% of typical Homelabs.
It feels like day 2 after you’ve received the new hard drives. It’s nice, modern enough but still a pretty bog standard home machine, not really “homelab” territory yet.
I'll admit I've still stuck with the original FreeBSD based TrueNAS, and still am kinda bummed they swapped it. So it's interesting to see a direct example of someone for whom the new Linux based version is clearly superior. I'm long since far, far more at the "self-hosted" vs "homelab" end of the spectrum at this point, and in turn have ended up splitting my roles back out again more vs all-in-one boxes. My NAS is j…
Really, we should rename that kind of devices to HSSS (Home Service Storage Server)
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It feels like day 2 after you’ve received the new hard drives. It’s nice, modern enough but still a pretty bog standard home machine, not really “homelab” territory yet.
Why do we need to gatekeep “homelab”?
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 are you using restic, when TrueNAS offers native solutions to backup your data elsewhere?
>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…
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I think most homelabbers default to Caddy and/or Traefik these days. Nginx is still around with projects like NPM (the other NPM), but Caddy and Traefik are far more capable. DevOpsToolbox did a great video on many of the reasons why Caddy is so great (including performance) [0]. I think the only downside with Caddy right now is still how plugins work. Beyond that, however it's either Caddy or Traefik depending on my…
far more capable is an exaggeration I use both, they are by and large substitutable. Nginx has a much larger knowledge base and ecosystem, the main reason I stick with it.
One tricky thing about nginx though, from the "If is evil" nginx wiki [0]:
> The if directive is part of the rewrite module which evaluates instructions imperatively. On the other hand, NGINX configuration in general is declarative. At some point due to user demand, an attempt was made to enable some non-rewrite directives inside if, and this led to the situation we have now.
I use nginx for homelab things because my use-cases are simple, but I've run into issues at work with nginx in the past because of the above.
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Caddy is increasingly popular these days too. I use both and cannot decide which I prefer.
Caddy's configuration is so simple and straightforward, I love it. For sure a more comfortable experience for simple setups