Selfhosting Sunday - What's up?

[tk420@lemmy.world]

Docker compose. I had a plan to ease into docker, I slipped and fell in the fucking pool. So far I have AdGuard Home and Heimdall working. Some WireGuard variant is next, followed by moving grafana and Prometheus over.

So far so good…..internet blogs, videos, etc have been not great, seems things have changed since dropping the version in your yaml file. All in all, I think the direction I’m heading in is good. Time will tell.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I went with Tuta because it's my backup if everything else goes wrong. If my house burns down or my VPS shuts down my instance (e.g. billing fail, IP block ban, provider goes under, etc), I don't want to lose access to my email.

I use a custom domain for it, so if I ever need to, switching to a different provider should be as simple as swapping some domain configs.

It's relatively inexpensive too at €3/month when paying annually. I wanted two domains (one for personal, one for online stuff) and didn't need any of the other stuff Proton has, so Tuta worked.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Docker compose is great! Good luck!

I've been moving from docker compose to podman, and I think that's the better long term plan for me. However, the wins here are pretty marginal, so I don't recommend it unless you want those marginal wins and everything is already in containers. IMO: Podman > docker compose >>>no containers. Docker compose has way better examples online, so stick with that until you feel like tinkering.

[tk420@lemmy.world]

I really like the idea of containers, it def solves my problems of running multiple services in the host OS. I’d like to build my own containers to pull the few “bare metal” services I’ll have outside of docker. Anyway, I’ll keep podman in the back of my head.

One thing I’m already happy I did was create a docker directory and having sub directories keep all of my container volumes separate. Should make backing things up easier as well.

[Guest]

I’m trying to figure out a basic CRM for my local sports club. I use docker to self host a voting platform called RALLLY that we use a lot and enjoy. If people can recommend a CRM I’d give it a go today. I tried a platform called twenty yesterday but couldn’t get it off the ground

[kata1yst@sh.itjust.works]

Ollama + OpenWebUI also can do this.

[randombullet@programming.dev]

My ISP blocks all outgoing ports. Maybe I'm not trying hard enough but anything I try port forwarding ends up getting blocked.

Minecraft and port 80 are the 2 I've tried and they've been unresponsive

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

I think so.

It is LXD + KVM, so way more and finer tune control on lxc instances. It can run OCI images as well, so for docker instances with only a few configs and no persistent storage, it is actually quite handy. For docker instances that need pretty complicated compose files, I just run docker inside an lxc for now, until I figure that out.

[non_burglar@lemmy.world]

Side question, but where are you hearing this about incus?

I'm wrapping up 9 years of using proxmox and I have very specific reasons for switching to incus, but I this is the third time I'm fielding questions in the last month about incus.

[cyber@feddit.uk]

I'm considering going this route - just to hide my (static) home IP.

What's the rough sizing I'd need for a VPS? I'm guessing the smallest possible, but with the best / unlimited data usage?

[darkmetatron@feddit.org]

I will look into that too, thank you for the suggestion

[sixty@sh.itjust.works]

Found out that docker volumes are important after restarting my server

[ethancedwards8@programming.dev]

That’s a mistake you only make once!

[invertedparallax@lemm.ee]

Meh, made it a few times.

Some images treat volumes differently .

Looking at you, nextcloud.

[Guest]

I read a lot. LOL I might not understand it all, but I read TBs of articles and stuff.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

That really depends on your use case. I use very little transfer because most of my usage is within my LAN. I set up a DNS server (built in to my router) to resolve my domains to my local servers, and all the TLS happens on my local server, so it never goes out to the VPS. So I only need enough transfer for when I'm outside my house.

Here's my setup:

• VPS - WireGuard and HAProxy - sni-based routing
• router - static DNS for local services
• local servers - TLS trunking and services

My devices use my network's DNS, but if that fails, they fall back to some external DNS and route traffic through the VPS.

VPSs without data caps tend to have worse speeds because they attract people who will use more transfer. I think it's better to find one with a transfer cap that's sufficient for your needs, so things stay fast. I use Hetzner, which has generous caps in the EU (20TB across the board) and good enough for me caps in the US (1TB base scales with instance size and can buy extra). Most of my use outside my house is showing something off every now and them, or accessing some small files or uploading something (transfer limits are only for outgoing data).

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, containers are great! It's really nice knowing exactly which directories to move if I need to rebalance my services onto other hardware or something.

Most of my services are on my NAS, so I have this setup:

• /srv/nas/<folder> - everything here is on my RAID, and offsite backups look here (and exclude certain directories to save on cost
• /home/<user>/containers - my git repo with configs, sans passwords/keys
• configs w/keys live in my password manager

Disaster recovery should be as simple as:

1. Copy my data from backup into /srv/nas
2. Clone my container repo
3. Copy env files to their respective locations
4. Run a script to get things set up

I use specific container versions, so I should get exactly the same setup.

I'm going to be reinstalling my NAS soon (boot drive is getting old), so we'll see how this process works, though I'll skip step 1 since I'm keeping the drives.

[Guest]

This is the home lab creed: You do with what you have. Before I accumulated a bit of equipment, I've used laptops, RPi, minicomputers, at one time I had a cluster of Wyse thin clients bootstrapped together.

[kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com]

Setting up HW accel on Jellyfin was a bit more manual than a single checkbox. You have to tell it which codecs it should HW decode and encode. I had some issues with it so left it off for now

[silmarine@discuss.tchncs.de]

Finally got around to trying what @[email protected] recommended me to troubleshoot my scanner sending to FTP. And I got it working! Thanks chaospatterns!