What's up, selfhosters? - Sunday thread
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i just transitioned from a dedicated pfsense machine to openwrt LXC container in proxmox machine
the idea is to have 2 or more openwrt instances in different proxmox machines for some HA routing to my self hosted subnet(s)
going well so far and i think i know a lot more about routing (ha). openwrt is pretty great though.
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I just setup a local llm with open webui and lm studio using qwen 2.5 coder 7b as the model, gonna test it this week.
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No experience with most of that stuff, but I would also try to avoid powerline. Tried it and had pretty bad performance.
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What exactly is it supposed to bridge?
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That's a massive project that I would like to one day embark on myself. I'm in a ranch with a basement so it should be a breeze. Ha, not! Good luck!
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I've recently setup an recipe archival project using tandoor, I'm working on converting all my grandparents fading old as dust cooking recipes from their misc handwritten cursive notecards to digital.
Setup was uneventful but it took a little research to figure out how to use a remote postgres server, turns out the app doesn't give an error when it can't connect to the server, it just fails to run
Have to say the actual program itself is absolutely absurd and how they choose their permissions, it breaks all conventional and took quite a bit to get used to.
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What are they reinventing the wheel from, proxmox or something like that? I should take a peek at something else just to see how they compare
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I can only assume it'd be a bridge for Nextcloud Talk.
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I haven't tried any of those honestly. My previous setup was just a Raspberry Pi running docker with portainer GUI, and nginx pointing to one service. It took me at least a month of dealing with errors, and I got burned out when I could never get geo-blocking or fail2ban working.
I stumbled across Cosmos when the dev posted about 0.16 release and the main draw for me was integrated reverse proxy, geo-blocking, anti-bot/ddos, and automatic updates. I have only run into a few hiccups setting it up and the discord is pretty active so my issues had either been solved before or someone answered me quick
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Oooo can you tell me more?
I have a UPS and it's connected to and communicate with my Synology, but the NUC could also benefit from a safe shutdown in case of power outages. -
I used mostly this, but had to customize it a bit I think to get things working right. NUT feels like a super finicky system, but in the end it does work. My biggest issue right now is that it only reports a new status update to Home Assistant every few minutes, so the actions don't really get a chance to trigger before the server shuts down. It also shuts down with the UPS at way too high of a percentage remaining, so I need to figure out how to make it wait just a little bit longer before the power down. It wants to power off like < 2 minutes after the power goes out...
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Set up pi-hole on my network and I’m realizing it clashes with my VPN on my desktop and private relay on my Apple devices lol. Progress everywhere else though?
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I'm trying to figure out why truenas scale refuses to auto start virtual machines... Other than that everything's smooth atm
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This may sound dumb or be helpful so I'll toss it in just in case:
Depending on when they're built, a lot of houses' RJ-11 phone jacks are actually using CAT-5E. If you're lucky, they're individual runs and not daisy-chained!
The way they set up the runs here is weird though, they're cat-5E but we have no fancy junction box. It all runs to some hatch on the side of the house presumably for telecom/satellite TV installers.
So it was cool finding out there's already capable infrastructure in the walls, but you gotta replace the wall jacks with RJ-45 and then the next trick is figuring out a switch that can handle a garage that could get to 100ºF + in summer...
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That's definitely one of those things I found bizarre and awful yet...entirely unsurprising. I can see how selling that data probably sounds like such a lucrative edge to marketing companies.
how did we as society come to accept this?
By not establishing ethical
lineshigh-voltage containment fences on the advertising industry quickly enough, and letting them convince us "this is just how business works", when their entire existence is about finding the scummiest ways to hack free will for profit. -
I don’t have any backups.
Horror story, stranger. Oh no!
If this is stuff that you can't afford to lose like family pictures, music library, or 90's memes or something, I've had decent luck with iDrive for my offsite backups. 4TB relatively cheap, works with Linux (using some Perl scripts they made), and you can define your own encryption keys so not even they can see your stuff.
They've usually got a crazy cheap deal to start with on their homepage or if you look around, for the first year. So maybe that could be helpful until you get some other storage.
(I think we pay $100 a year now for 4TB)
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Now that I bought different hardware for the cosmos server and my Pi is free I should check out proxmox and unraid though just to compare
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I have a family member across the country that wants to break from Google and really isn't the type to self-host themselves, and I connect to my self hosted NextCloud solely through TailScale.
NextCloud permissions seem easy enough, but I'm researching how to add them to my Tailnet safely to avoid potential compromise of my network if something happens to their system.
Presuming this involves ACLs, which look intimidating, but I'm doing some research on that.
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Correct!
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Is exposing it to the internet not an option? Boarding more family members on could be cool.
