What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread
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Since it's winter and I mostly don't want to leave my house, I busted out an unused Raspberry Pi 4b a couple weeks ago. Started with CasaOS and AdGuard. Have now added a few other services including Navidrome to serve up a lot of local-area music for myself and friends. Got a Cloudflare tunnel set up, then some authentication through CF as well. And finally secured a static IP from my ISP. This is the farthest along I've ever gotten with any of this and it's been going great. Nearly every hurdle I've encountered I've been able to work through.
Two things causing me grief today though:
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I also have Nextcloud hosted on a VPS and I cannot get to the point of running occ commands. First it wasn't found, then no php cli, then just errors. I gave up.
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I'm using Homer because it's just so simple, but the theming and CSS is driving me nuts. Sure, I can change colors, but will this little bar in the neon theme change from 4em to 100% for me? NOPE. Override fonts? Nosir. All good though.
Try the WebOCC app in nextcloud apps.
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Highly suggest putting Caddy on a machine, forwarding port 443 and 80 to caddy, and then letting it do your reverse-proxy stuff. Register a domain name, give it your IP address, and then tell caddy that 'immich.yourdomain.bleh' goes to port 78789 and plex goes to 'media.yourdomain.bleh' port 89898 -- Caddy handles all of the TLS stuff, handshaking, you name it - so you can have secure sites with proper certs.
Then make sure those things are isolated from your home network through vlans if your router supports it.
You can get fancier with it using a tailscale and getting some datacenter IP to forward into your network
Thanks for the advice, I didn't know a reverse proxy was what I was setting up though I've seen that term all over. I think Caddy is likely in my future but I already have basic access to my home network through a Wireguard tunnel for now so I was hoping dnsmasq could solve for my case without getting too fancy or exposing any ports. I think I should probably try to learn about reverse proxies more generally to figure out the next steps forward.
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I set up DNS challenge with Let's Encrypt with Caddy, and now I don't need to forward anything to it if I don't want to.
DNS challenge so you can get a wildcard cert? Or is it still per domain? I haven't looked recently but it seemed difficult but I'd like to avoid transparency log installs where I can.
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DNS challenge so you can get a wildcard cert? Or is it still per domain? I haven't looked recently but it seemed difficult but I'd like to avoid transparency log installs where I can.
You can do both (not sure how wildcard works through Caddy though), I did it per domain. I prefer doing TLS trunking per device, hence no wildcard.
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I spent half a dozen hours this weekend trying to get Proxmox running on a 2nd hand laptop, but I can't get it to run without sounding like a jet engine. The machine did fine when I ran Mint and used it as a laptop - but even after blacklisting the dGPU and forcing all the CPU cores to powersaving, I'm still making heat like crazy.
Plan B is to put Mint back on it and install podman and see if fan noise is a problem then. But I'd rather have podman running in an unprivileged LXC.
Hmmm you might be able to first install Debian 12 and make sure the fan control works properly, then just install the proxmox application inside of that
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_12_Bookworm
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Hmmm you might be able to first install Debian 12 and make sure the fan control works properly, then just install the proxmox application inside of that
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_12_Bookworm
Good call. That's plan be now.
Thanks!
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Finally got my lemmy instance fully updated.
Been improving my backup scripts in advance of adding backup to a server.
Updated servers and other services.
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I upgraded immich without breaking everything. That's always reason to celebrate.
How exactly does stuff get broken?
Never rly had a problem bumping up the version in docker. The only issue has been the playstore version taking longer to push updates sometimes for the mobile apps. -
Many issues this week:
- Broke external-dns on my kube cluster because I updated my Pihole to v6
- Thinking of a way to expose a game server externally (usually used CF tunnels for specific services, but couldn’t get it to work cause it’s TCP/UDP and not HTTP traffic)
But at least i got my Velero backups working on an private S3
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Had a hard drive fail my main zfs array. First time I have experienced a disk failure so it was a bit worrying. Thankfully I had added an additional drive to expand the array so I was able to quickly rebuild to that drive. Currently shopping for a replacement. From now on I think I will keep a cold spare just in case this happens again. I just wish hard drives would stop increasing in price.
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I finally moved from reddit to Lemmy. maybe a 3-4 hour set up time to get it all working lol.
Cool! Which installation method did you use?
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
My pihole exploded yesterday, all my fault. A couple of years ago, I created a script called via cron to update pihole's services every other week. This was great, until now when it updated to v6 at 4am. To make matters worse, I neglected to automate raspian updates, meaning it was very out of date, and was no longer compatible with pihole-FTL (thinking back, I thought I automated it too, but I guess not).
I took an image after creating a pihole "teleporter" backup, and began formatting. In my lack of caffeine and focus, I missed that my teleporter file was corrupt after I had successfully wiped the SD card. Thankfully I had that image as I was able to mount it and retrieve my blocklists via sqlite, otherwise I would have had to start from scratch.
One good thing that came out of it (for my taste, anyway) was that I swapped the OS on the pi to fedora. No more debian around here!
Tomorrow, I plan on setting up some backup automation for my pi, as it's the only machine missing backups at this point.
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
I'm in the process of doing an initial restic sync of my primary storage to B2 as offsite backup and while I'm at it finally got around having a look at resticprofiles to simplify my restic backups on all my systems. Highly recommend it as it reduced my mental overhead of doing regular backups quite a bit!
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
After having upgraded my Pi-Hole to v6, for some reason yesterday it started to not recognize any of the blocklists. So, I resetted it and now it works.
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Realised my jellyfin lxc had a maxed out bootdisk yesterday, haven't been using it for a while. Luckily I have decent backups setup so I was able to restore a backup from late January when it wasn't filled yet. A quick library rescan and everything was up and running again.
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Almost forgot before going to bed but I feel bi-weekly is a good rhythm for this.
Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.
Pihole 6 broke my DNS (dnsmasq), and since I had a fw rule in opnsense to only use pihole's DNS, and deny public DNS access, it was an early rise for me
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I'm a new selfhoster and reached the limit on what my DS923+ can handle after setting up an Immich instance (on top of qbitorrent, radarr/sonarr, plex). So I picked up a mini PC this week and migrated the Immich stack over (pointing to an NFS mount for the NAS!) and now it's running super smooth
Now I'm hype to move over more services and eventually start separating out media services from mission-critical stuff like photos when I have another machine handy.I wanted to set up local domain resolution for my devices in order to stop having to visit sites with the local 192.168.1.x IP, so I started following some guides to run dnsmasq on the mini PC (Ubuntu Server) and add entries to /etc/hosts. It was pretty easy to get working OK, but for whatever reason the DNS doesn't seem to be working on a fresh boot. My local workstation can't ping the custom DNS entries for my devices until I
sudo systemctl restart dnsmasqon the mini PC, after which everything works fine, which leads me to believe it's some weird boot order problem? I'm trying not to screw with it too much before bed, but hopefully I can figure out what's going on this week.If you want to have domains assigned to local IP addresses, you can also use Pihole as a local DNS! It's a very nice tool for adblocking on network level anyways, can only recommend it.
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I spent half a dozen hours this weekend trying to get Proxmox running on a 2nd hand laptop, but I can't get it to run without sounding like a jet engine. The machine did fine when I ran Mint and used it as a laptop - but even after blacklisting the dGPU and forcing all the CPU cores to powersaving, I'm still making heat like crazy.
Plan B is to put Mint back on it and install podman and see if fan noise is a problem then. But I'd rather have podman running in an unprivileged LXC.
Did you check Mint recently? If it's been a while, it could also be dust buildup at the fan.
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Pihole 6 broke my DNS (dnsmasq), and since I had a fw rule in opnsense to only use pihole's DNS, and deny public DNS access, it was an early rise for me
Damn... DNS issue early in the morning... What a nightmare
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Good call. That's plan be now.
Thanks!
I would run Debian from a stick and install Proxmox with the installer and not on top of Debian unless you have to. While the latter works, I found some settings around network interfaces to differ between the installation methods which caused me problems here and there.
