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Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by jamesmstone » Mon, May 09, 2022, 2:18 AM UTC

colordrops wrote: post #325

jamesmstone wrote: post #322

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That's awesome, would you mind sharing your nix config. I have never used nix and would love to see an example

I'd prefer not to share my personal git repo as it would reveal my identity, but I based it on these: https://github.com/MatthewCroughan/nixcfg https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles https://github.com/georgewhewell/nixos-host https://github.com/ipetkov/dotfiles There's also the DevOS project, which is an attempt to create a base of boilerplate than anyone can use as a start to build a system: https://devos.divnix.com/…

Champion! thanks

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by XCSme » Tue, May 10, 2022, 8:18 AM UTC

  - NextCloud - Dropbox alternative  
  - UXWizz - Website analytics  
  - Percona Monitoring and Management - Database/server monitoring

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by darkwater » Tue, May 10, 2022, 9:14 AM UTC

spion wrote: post #449

darkwater wrote: post #278

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What are the issues you have?

The UI looks great but the UX is terrible

That's like saying "I don't like it".

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by andrewzah » Tue, May 10, 2022, 9:53 PM UTC

darkwater wrote: post #453

spion wrote: post #449

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The UI looks great but the UX is terrible

That's like saying "I don't like it".

I wouldn't say it's terrible but prometheus & grafana have a learning curve for sure.

It's a question of do you want a pull-based architecture (prometheus) or a push-based one (influxdb). Grafana is just a frontend that supports either, although influx also has its own frontend.

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by banana_maker » Tue, May 10, 2022, 9:56 PM UTC

efreak wrote: post #391

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #321

- Filestash: the file manager I made for myself - Dispatch: IRC client - Grafana: to create graphs for all sort of stuff - Gogs: for private git repos - minio: a selfhosted s3 compatible - Apache: to host some files I want to share and a few api endpoint as a dirty lambda alternative - Radicale: for caldav cardav with agendav for webclient - Webmail-lite: for mails

If you're hosting _private_ git repos, why bother with a hosted solution at all? Why not just use ssh remotes?

* The UI is nice to have

* You get features like issues, project wiki, etc

* You can still collaborate/handle PRs easily with other people

I selfhost for the above and just to have a handy backup in case github is down.

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Post by spion » Sun, May 15, 2022, 1:01 PM UTC

darkwater wrote: post #453

spion wrote: post #449

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The UI looks great but the UX is terrible

That's like saying "I don't like it".

I'll give you an example of what I mean.

Let's look at the manual on variables, found at this URL: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/variables/.

Variables are shown at the top of the screen. You would assume that adding a new variable would involve a UI element placed in proximity to the existing variables. However, that's not the case at all. None of the sections in the manual would even tell you where you need to go to do that. The answer: you need to go to the dashboard settings dialog and open the Variables tab.

What about editing the name of an item? Well, that functionality could be anywhere. If it's a variable name, you go back to the "Settings" tab. If it's a query name, you can change it inline. For a panel, you do it from the sidebar. Hurray for consistency.

The UI looks great, but the learning curve is terrible due to inconsistency.