What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday!
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I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?
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.
This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it's been a very nice endeavor.
Finally upgrading my Plex server from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04! I've been putting it off out of habit, as I always wait for the *.1 releases but I've done several of these for clients and every single one went flawlessly. But I still waited it out.
Also thinking about switching my Ext4 mirrored softRAID to ZFS... Since Ubuntu has the only acceptable ZFS implementation outside of UNIX proper (Ubuntu's is in-kernel, everyone else uses kernel modules, which i hate). But that's going to be extra work I may not be in the mood for. But damn would compression and deduplication be nice! So still maybe
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I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?
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.
This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it's been a very nice endeavor.
Yesterday i managed to successfully host a simple html safely (its more of a network test)
The path is nginx->openwrt->router to internet
Now i only need to:- backup
- set up domain (managing via cloudflare)
- set up certificates
- properly documentbthe setup + some guides on stuff that i will repeat
and then i can throw everything i want on it
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All of those should be fine, the main caveats w/ Linux are:
- anti-cheat games generally don't work - there are exceptions, and this is a limitation by the developer, not Linux
- Windows-only software can be iffy - e.g. photoshop and whatnot
- using an NTFS drive on Linux can have surprises - don't mount your game lib on Linux, just redownload
Blender works perfectly fine, gaming on Steam and Heroic works well, emulators work well, and while I don't know anything about Linux music production, I know there are software options available.
Anyway, I recommend buying a separate disk and trying Linux out. That way you don't touch your current Windows install while messing w/ stuff.
Good to know, thank you for the tips!
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What should I do next?
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Set up peertube in a proxmox, difficulty: My hosting provider doesn't allow 443 or 80, I have cloudflare working for other things but I think this invades their TOS
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Set up immich in a proxmox. Difficulty: I need regular backups off site and it's going to be pretty large.My wife is a professional photographer.
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Set up my Coral TPU with frigate replacing my aging win10 blue iris.
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Finally upgrading my Plex server from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04! I've been putting it off out of habit, as I always wait for the *.1 releases but I've done several of these for clients and every single one went flawlessly. But I still waited it out.
Also thinking about switching my Ext4 mirrored softRAID to ZFS... Since Ubuntu has the only acceptable ZFS implementation outside of UNIX proper (Ubuntu's is in-kernel, everyone else uses kernel modules, which i hate). But that's going to be extra work I may not be in the mood for. But damn would compression and deduplication be nice! So still maybe
That is one thing I still need to do, upgrade my Ubuntu server from 22.04 to 24.04. laat time I tried this I noticed many python packages were missing or failing. Reverted to the backup. Maybe now is the time to do the switch and iron out the crinks that may be left after.
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What's the big benefit of moving to IPv6 for a LAN? Just wondering if there is any other benefits over addresses? My unifi kit can convert us to IPv6 but I'm hesitant without knowing what devices it will break.
Copying from an older comment of mine:
IPv6 is pretty much identical to IPv4 in terms of functionality.
The biggest difference is that there is no more need for NAT with IPv6 because of the sheer amount of IPv6 addresses available. Every device in an IPv6 network gets their own public IP.
For example: I get 1 public IPv4 address from my ISP but 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. That’s a number I can’t even pronounce and it’s just for me.
There are a few advantages that this brings:
- Any client in the network can get a fresh IP every day to reduce tracking
- It is pretty much impossible to run a full network scan on this amount of IP addresses
- Every device can expose their own service on their own IP (For example: You can run multiple web servers on the same port without a reverse proxy or multiple people can host their own game server on the same port)
There are some more smaller changes that improve performance compared to IPv4, but it’s minimal.
My unifi kit can convert us to IPv6 but I’m hesitant without knowing what devices it will break.
You don't usually "convert" to IPv6 but run in dual stack, with both IPv4 and IPv6 working simultaneously. Make sure your ISP supports IPv6 first, there is little use to only run IPv6 internally.
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Finally upgrading my Plex server from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04! I've been putting it off out of habit, as I always wait for the *.1 releases but I've done several of these for clients and every single one went flawlessly. But I still waited it out.
Also thinking about switching my Ext4 mirrored softRAID to ZFS... Since Ubuntu has the only acceptable ZFS implementation outside of UNIX proper (Ubuntu's is in-kernel, everyone else uses kernel modules, which i hate). But that's going to be extra work I may not be in the mood for. But damn would compression and deduplication be nice! So still maybe
Wait, you mean you host plex servers for clients? Or that you work with Ubuntu in general?
And for the ZFS thing, it doesn't really matter if it's in-kernel or something else, at the end of the day, they all work the same.
I'm using zfs on my arch machine for example, and everything works just fine (dkms). And zfs is super easy in general, you should definetly try it -
I am also struggling with off-site backups. Mainly because I don't have a cheap and regular way of doing it.
You could have a friend to them for you, and viceversa.
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Total noob to Docker (desktop for windows) and I'm just trying to figure out how (and where) to add a config to my Navidrome image or change lines on the image itself, to point it to my music library and create admin login credentials (ಥ﹏ಥ) If I can accomplish that then I eventually want to try Immich or NextCloud afterward.
I want to switch to Linux but I'm not sure where to start! I want to
- play current-gen games (graphically speaking) on steam, as well as
- lots of retro games with Launchbox/RetroArch
- do 3D modeling in blender, and
- produce music in a free DAW.
I don't know if any of those factors impose restrictions due to software/hardware differences (or if that even makes a difference), but I want to move over everything I can into a linux environment
If you're messing with docker, I suggest you use WSL and 'normal' Docker, as Docker for Windows it's confusing (at least for me). Ah, and try using docker compose instead of docker, it makes everything so much clearer.
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You could have a friend to them for you, and viceversa.
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I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?
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.
This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it's been a very nice endeavor.
Looking to install Immich, BitDefender Password Manager and YouTube downloader on the NAS this week.
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Copying from an older comment of mine:
IPv6 is pretty much identical to IPv4 in terms of functionality.
The biggest difference is that there is no more need for NAT with IPv6 because of the sheer amount of IPv6 addresses available. Every device in an IPv6 network gets their own public IP.
For example: I get 1 public IPv4 address from my ISP but 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. That’s a number I can’t even pronounce and it’s just for me.
There are a few advantages that this brings:
- Any client in the network can get a fresh IP every day to reduce tracking
- It is pretty much impossible to run a full network scan on this amount of IP addresses
- Every device can expose their own service on their own IP (For example: You can run multiple web servers on the same port without a reverse proxy or multiple people can host their own game server on the same port)
There are some more smaller changes that improve performance compared to IPv4, but it’s minimal.
My unifi kit can convert us to IPv6 but I’m hesitant without knowing what devices it will break.
You don't usually "convert" to IPv6 but run in dual stack, with both IPv4 and IPv6 working simultaneously. Make sure your ISP supports IPv6 first, there is little use to only run IPv6 internally.
Very helpful thanks for digging out up for me.
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how is your experience with it? I'm considering setting up audiobook shelf as well.
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If you're messing with docker, I suggest you use WSL and 'normal' Docker, as Docker for Windows it's confusing (at least for me). Ah, and try using docker compose instead of docker, it makes everything so much clearer.
try using docker compose instead of docker, it makes everything so much clearer
It's absurd how right you are — I just figured that out and everything suddenly works perfectly
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I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?
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.
This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it's been a very nice endeavor.
I wrote myself a new python script for a palworld server I run. Wanted to figure out a generic way to track active connections without running something in front of the daemon. That's easy to do for TCP, but since UDP has no concept of an established connection, the regular tools wouldn't work. Realized I could use conntrack to get the linux firewalls connection tracking data, which works outside of tcp/udp concepts and maintains its own active connection state based on timeouts, which is what I was gonna do anyways. Now I can issue SIGSTOP/SIGCONT to keep buildings from degrading on the server when nobody's online to deal with it, along with saving the cpu resources of an empty game server. Rather niche project, but I figured I'd publish it anyways. https://github.com/sugoidogo/pausepal
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Ah sorry to hear that. Did you find something better that works for you? I'm open to suggestions
OciContainers just added rootless mode for podman.
I was planning on playing a bit more with it but I'm quite busy and haven't fount the time recently.
For the time being I run everything as rootfull since I don't expose stuff directly through the internet.I might repond here if I don't forget once I've experimented a bit more.
