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I was trying to troubleshoot a home networking issue, and I plugged my laptop's Ethernet cable into the second bridge port. I thought it would recognize that the device wasn't a router and assign a local IP address behind a firewall. [Nope. Windows was assigned an external one. ](https://files.catbox.moe/55gisl.jpg) I suppose now I have the option to have my self-hosted services hosted on a different IP address. Kinda scary that my isp just allows unknowing customers to expose their equipment to the net If you're wondering, yes, I did change the IP addresses before posting this
As I'm sure some of you noticed, very shortly after Ernest posted the update to KBin that allowed for abandoned magazine adoption, I took over this magazine. After a quick flurry of activity kicking the former moderator and owner who hadn't logged in in over 3 months and using a spammer as some target practice for my shiny new ban hammer, I haven't done much aside from contribute a pair of crossposts. It's been quiet, which is totally okay of course. There are other great Threadiverse selfhosted communities I hope all who are interested have already found. But I'd ideally like to find a niche for this community to fill. My small contribution back to the community at large I've been benefitting from for over a decade now. Do any of you have cool ideas? We could do themed days, giveaways, weekly posts, a wiki, a matrix server, whatever really. Or we could simply update the sidebar to redirect to other selfhosting communities. Any and all ideas welcome!
Good conversation here. I migrated from Duplicati/B2 to Kopia/B2, happy with it so far!
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Not your typical selfhosting, but a very cool use case.
For those who enjoys craving a bit of a "nerdy feel" to your daily routine, have at it. Just slap this bad boy on any raspberry pi 4 with a touch screen, and enjoy your pseudo-reality at the cost of "almost nothing". Steps on how to run it are included in the link @ title as always. * Pros: \- Isolated, does not run as root, ready to use, no need to go through lengthy installations * Cons: \- You have to type something to use it. Have fun.
I have a QNAP NAS which uses RAID 5 across 3 HDDs. There are lots of good videos online for setting up RAID (even DIY solutions using linux), but how do I know when there's a problem and what's the typical way to maintain it? I'm guessing that these systems log an indication somewhere that a disk is about to fail, and when I see that log entry I should power down the system and replace the disk with one of the exact same size. Is that right? Edit: I have found a good overview here: [https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OhzrPInWMyo](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OhzrPInWMyo) In essence, he's saying: 1. Enable a recycle bin feature so that accidentally deleted files can be recovered. 2. If the device itself (not the disks) fails, one option is to replace the device and insert the disks in the same order as before. But there's a chance that the disks were corrupted by the failing device, in which case the next point is what you need. 3. EXT4 is a common filesystem format with QNAP and specialised recovery software can help you recover information from the disks. He demonstrates Hetman RAID recovery. You will need to connect all disks simultaneously though, so if you don't have enough ports for this you'll need to get an adaptor of some kind. 4. If just a single disk has failed, then in theory you should just be able to replace it, but there can be complications, which he discusses at 6:37 in the video (the video is just 7:51 duration). 5. RAID is not a backup. Please backup your data too.
Hi Selfhosted, I'm looking for the best recommendation to replace spotify for music on the go and at home. Currently at home I use moOde for multiroom audio and spotify connect to play music, my wife also casts to it using airplay. I then just use the spotify app on android when out of the house. I already have a large music collection but I am not sure of the best way of making it accessible. Any ideas?
I know what most will say, I'm not supposed to be connecting to my home servers from my work computer. I get it. I currently use Dex on my Samsung phone to have remote access to my home systems which I connect to my work laptop but run into some bugs here and there. Is there a more efficient way to have encrypted remote connections to my home system? I was considering seeing if I can route VPN traffic through a split tunnel to my home network through a specific interface on my windows laptop that connects to a Hotspot while maintaining LAN connection to my work environment.
Looking for creative ideas, and feeling xkcd.com/910 strongly here
Good Morning fellow nerds, I'm setting off on a journey to self-host a small Matrix server for my direct relatives and wife to use instead of whatsapp. Can you guys recommend any resources or communities before I start purchasing hardware? This will be a private server only used by 5-10 people mostly from their phones. What should I have into consideration? Pic unrelated [\#selfhosted](https://kbin.social/tag/selfhosted)
Hey! Im the founder of Formbricks ([here is our repo](https://formbricks.com/github)) and we'd love to make self-hosting as EASY as possible! We're providing a Docker image and are now looking into One Click Hosting for Railway, DigitalOcean, etc. What is important for you to make self-hosting seamless? Which platforms do you want us to offer OneClick Hosting for? Thanks for your insights! Johannes
Hey! Im the founder of Formbricks ([here is our repo](https://formbricks.com/github)) and we'd love to make self-hosting as EASY as possible! We're providing a Docker image and are now looking into One Click Hosting for Railway, DigitalOcean, etc. What is important for you to make self-hosting seamless? Which platforms do you want us to offer OneClick Hosting for? Thanks for your insights! Johannes
I'm considering getting back to self-hosting again, but I remember a problem I never quite figured out. My first services were a gemini server and lighttpd server and these were easy to set up, very satisfying and continue to work well for years. I also have FreshRSS and Calibre-web running well here. But as I try to add more, sometimes instructions would include apache settings that clashed with the apache settings for something else. The instructions assume I don't already have apache installed and can just apply any settings I want. Another issue, the new service might take over the domain, becoming the default service for the domain. I'm assuming that this is a port issue but I don't know. Then there were docker containers. Some used docker compose while some did not. One that I just couldn't get working was Nextcloud, which I wanted to host surveys from. They won't answer my support questions on their community hub unless I set up SSL though (which I don't plan on doing). Does anyone have general advice on these issues? If it's just part of the difficulty of self-hosting, then maybe it's not for me. Too much time and energy was getting spent on it. Thanks!
Yesterday I followed the docker guide for setting up a new KBin instance. Some parts of it are working, but it seems like it's not federating properly. What does work: * I can create new local magazines and threads. They show up in my feed. * I can search for magazines/communities on other instances and they are added to my magazines list (well about 90% anyway) * I can (un)subscribe to those communities What does not work: * If I visit those magazines from my instance, there is no content. Visiting the community on it's home instance shows new content since I subscribed to it on mine. * Searching for my user from something like Mastodon yields no results; however, I can search for and find my kbin.social account. * I cannot access my newly created magazine from the kbin.social instance * (This is probably unrelated) Since I made my admin accout using the `kbin:user:create` command, I cannot create any other users with it. Any ideas on where I can look to resolve this? This reported issue sounds a lot like my situation: [https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/73](https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/73)
For the last 6 months or so I've been working on Pinepods. I have never been able to find the perfect self-hosted podcast app that I wanted to use. podgrab's player is rather lackluster and misses a lot of features that I would like. With Pinepods you can play, download, and keep track of podcasts you enjoy. It allows for searching new podcasts using The Podcast Index or Itunes and provides a modern looking UI to browse through shows and episodes. In addition, Pinepods provides simple user managment and can be used by multiple users at once using a browser or app version. Everything is saved into a Mysql database including user settings, podcasts and episodes. It's fully self-hosted, and I provide an option to use a hosted API or you can also get one from the podcast API and use your own. There's even many different themes to choose from! Everything is fully dockerized and I provide a simple guide found below explaining how to install Pinepods on your own system. It’s also super easy to import podcasts from any app using OPML files. There's also lots of modern features like MFA, self-service password resets, and some Podcast 2.0 functionality (more to come) In addition to all that, I've built a client version of the app that can connect via API to your home server over something like a reverse proxy or tailscale. Pinepods just had is on version 0.3.1 with all the basic functionality implemented. Currently, you're likely to experience issues, but I certainly invite pull requests or opening issues if you have the time. You can also get setup assistance on the discord server. I invite you to try it out! Check out the official site here: https://www.pinepods.online/ Github here: https://github.com/madeofpendletonwool/PinePods Discord Server: https://discord.gg/bKzHRa4GNc
I want to self host my own kbin instance. But dream host (my current host) doesn't let me do postgresql unless I get a dedicated server (very expensive). And I don't want to put it on my home machine because I want professional hosting. So what are my other options? And what are you all doing? Are there preferred hosts?
I have a PC I have installed Portainer on, with various docker services (home assistant, jellyfin, etc..) with an ISP supplied router fixing various device IP addresses and reaching out to dyndns. I really want to move everything over to HTTPS connections by supplying certificates, tls termination, etc . The issue I have is self signed certificates mean I have to manage certificate deployment to everything in the house. I figure I need to link a domain to the DynDNS entry and arrange certs for the domain. However I can't make the link function and everywhere wants \>£100 to generate a certificate. How are people solving this issue?
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If you want to host your own genealogy tree all options were (are) fairly janky. Gramps.js is the best options in my opinion. Why now? They finished core features that let you manage the tree fully online. Gramps started as a desktop java app... and that desktop app works but synchronizing it is mess. The Gramps.js repo started using same data structures just new UI and finally they added delete function finishing CRUD bigo. This means you can use the web app without ever using desktop app and since it is all hosted everybody who cares can contribute ~~without~~ with less of a risk of corrupting all the data. Cons. I think gramps.js is still incredibly janky (you have multiple objects that are handled independently for a single record i.e. family and person) and the maintainers priorities are bazar (implementing delete 2 years after starting the project and adding UI niceties like maps and alternative graphing views...) Importing. If you have your genealogy on some site somewhat curated you should be able to export most of the core information and import into Gramps.js (pictures can be an issue). For the import you may need the desktop app to convert to correct format (desktop app still has a lot more features and if you need to do merges I recommend using it ).
The Google Photos feature of finding photos of a specific person in your collection by their face is the key feature my wife really loves. Is there a self-hosted tool (ideally Synology NAS compaible) that gives similar functionally I could have more control over how it's using/analyzing our photos,, rather than needing to trust Google with our family photos just for that feature?
Hey self-hosted community! I thought I'd pose this question to you all as you seem to have a lot of experience with hosting things on limited budgets with usually a single person administering! I am volunteering with a small rural news organization that operates in my home country. They do rural news for people living in villages and they give people (particularly women) in these villages the opportunity to be reporters. It is a really cool organization that empowers people in these villages through journalism. When they hire a reporter they give them an android-based smartphone and a handheld microphone. The reporters will shoot selfie-style reports, interviews and b-roll in the field and then file the video back to the main office where the videos can be edited. Currently they use whatsapp and signal which has worked decently well but both platforms compress the video a lot so the quality is degraded by the time it is received. What they need is an easy way to transfer the original video files (usually mp4 h264) over spotty rural cellular networks. Do you all have any recommendations for protocols or platforms to use? This is an organization with a very limited budget. I was thinking some kind of SFTP server that I could maintain remotely but I do not know if the clients are very robust against network dropouts and also are they easy enough for someone who has grown up in a rural village to learn. I have some IT skills but never tried anything like this. A secondary issue they have brought up is when the field reporters do file their video in, it is increasingly difficult over time to keep everything organized. The filenames will be something like YYYYMMDD\_XXXX.mp4 and the editor has to do a lot of work to organize and rename the files. I know there are MAM (Media asset management) softwares out there but from cursory googling it seems like a lot of the solutions out there are really built for large organizations that can pay a lot of money for the hardware/software. Is there any software that could automatically file away these videos possibly based on who is sending them or maybe the if the metadata has location data in it? Any advice would be welcome!
I have a synology NAS where I backup my photos to. What would be the most cost effective way to encrypt and back up this data without having to purchase another NAS and install it at a family member's house. It would be about 5 TB and would not touch the data unless my NAS completely takes a crap.
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Hey all I wanted to show off my new project, webmesh. It's yet another solution for creating WireGuard mesh networks/VPNs between multiple hosts. It differs from others in that there is a controller-less architecture that maintains the network state on every node via Raft consensus. This allows for any node to become the "leader" should one go away. More infoz in the README and on the project website: [https://webmeshproj.github.io](https://webmeshproj.github.io) Excited to hear any feedback :)
I'm hoping to find a build list for a general home server/NAS. The goal is to have a server capable of running 2-3 VMs along with a handful of containers, act as a Plex server, and act as a NAS for media storage. The VMs will be game servers so probably on the beefy side. Plex will need to transcode but never likely more than 3-4 simultaneous streams at most. Budget isn't too important within reason, my general preference is to go bigger than needed to future proof myself a little and give a cushion for changing needs. I'd like to keep the build \< $3000 if possible. I have no preference on specific hardware or OS so long as the end product can perform well and meet my needs. I'm also not opposed to buying something premade if there something out there that might fit the bill. Really appreciate any insight, thanks! EDIT: Should add I'm also not super concerned about noise, this will be located in an out of the way closet so it shouldn't be an issue.
Hello, I'm trying to host my own kbin instance. Mainly for fun and to see if it will work but also because that kind of is the point of federation. I managed to get it up and running and I can search for other magazines and they turn up in the search but are completely empty and do not fill up with content after some hours. Also wenn I click subscribe I get an error 500. I followed the admin guide and I think the problem is my reverse proxy but I don't know how to get around it. Does anyone have experience or maybe knows some place where I can direct some questions? Thanks!
Apologies if I'm off base here, but I have two issues I'm trying to solve and unsure where I should start - whether these are two separate issues to solve or if I should get something that can do both. Needs: 1. backup and safely store photos and videos from Android phones (in a raid array so it's redundant storage). 2. monitor a set of 2 exterior cameras and a) throw a notification onto a phone when there's movement b) without giving footage or thumbnails to an external server. About me: I'm tech literate enough to Google things and copy/paste or troubleshoot based on what worked for others, but I'd like to avoid having to learn to code or run command lines. I have young kids and don't really want to have to spend a whole lot of time on this to get it to work or walk my spouse through how to use it. Options considered: 1a) a Synology product seems like the lowest barrier to entry, but the risk seems to be less ability to fix and potentially more risk of unrecoverable data (GN did videos about this). 1b) multiple hard drives on a PC - works but would suck if my PC fries. 1c) multiple external drives - seems wonky and easier for something to fail. 1d) all of the above and hope it somehow works. 2a) Eufy looked like a good option (local storage and push notifications), until the recent scandal. I am not interested in having pics of little girls on a server somewhere, even if it is only outside pictures. 2b) a wired camera connection - however I'm not going to know if anyone is doing something sketchy unless I know to review the footage. 2c) Synology has an option - however there are the issues mentioned above and I'd also need to drop $400 for the cameras, $200 for the station, and a couple hundred for the drives. 2d) make my own mini comp - however more likely for wonky stuff and higher power draw over the long term. Any suggestions on where to go from here?
Depending on how much you self host, you may find it hard to keep track of your devices' host names. So what are your naming conventions to keep track everything? Some people stick to descriptive names, others pick themes, like Greek mythology. Personally, I use [Japanese emperors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emperors_of_Japan). I've made it all the way to Seinei. Luckily I still have some breathing room to add more services and servers. Much to my wife's chagrin. :)
What is the service you are hosting, which in your opinion is underrated? I'm trying to find new tools to add to my lab. Enlighten us! Ps: I'm aiming for unknown tools, so Pihole etc. are out ;)
### FOR SALE: Synology RT2600ac Wi-Fi Router ### HOW MUCH: $100 CONDITION: Excellent – all antennas and ports work, perfect cosmetic condition, inc. original power adapter WHERE: United States SHIPPING: Free in the continental US WHY: Nice device, but doesn't fit my needs as well as I'd hoped. SPECS: [https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac](https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac) Send me a message at [@bratling](https://hachyderm.io/@bratling) [\#selfhosted](https://kbin.social/tag/selfhosted)
Community newb here: Is it acceptable to post personal for-sale items here? Or is that considered spam? I am retiring a nice Wi-Fi router and would like to find it a new home instead of making more electronic waste. And this seems like a community where someone might want it. Thanks! [\#selfhosted](https://kbin.social/tag/selfhosted)
Hi everyone, me and my friends are thinking of making a Telegram bot to use GPT-4 as one of us has access to the API. We're not going to release the bot to the public (only use between us), however we'd like the bot to run 24/7 so it's accessible whenever one of us needs it. Sadly we can't host it ourselves as neither of us is able to get a Static IP and has a free machine to run 24/7. My question is, are there any recommended hosting providers (if it's free even better) where we could host our telegram bot on? Thanks!
I need some help figuring out elastic search. My end goal at the moment is to get the full text search owncloud app working. They are both in docker containers (docker compose). I am able to input my url in the owncloud settings ([http://es01:9200](http://es01:9200)) and hit setup index. After that it does not index anything or I think pass on anything to elasticsearch at all. Which leads me to my second thing. Cant figure out how to use kibana to help debug anything. I have no idea if owncloud is trying to send any data to elastic. It currently just says "0 nodes marked as indexed, 0 documents in index using 225 bytes". Here is my compose file. Kind of a hodge podge mix of things from the web to get it to even start 😅. [docker-compose.yml](https://jareds-mac-mini.tail53633.ts.net/owncloud/s/PiQpBOLljmjnduV) [.env](https://jareds-mac-mini.tail53633.ts.net/owncloud/s/VfEIrz2SkgHGwoL)
Stumbled across this on lemmy.world. As we are defederated, reposting here. > > > I've recently played with the idea of self hosting a LLM. I am aware that it will not reach GPT4 levels, but beeing free from restraining prompts with confidential data is very nice tool for me to have. > > > > Has anyone got experience with this? Any recommendations? I have downloaded the full Reddit dataset so I could retrain the model on this one as selected communities provide immense value and knowledge (hehe this is exactly what reddit, twitter etc. are trying to avoid...) > >
I recently upgraded my TrueNAS server to a Synology. While TN has served me well, I don’t have the time anymore to administer it. I’m now using the opportunity to redo my whole home lab - after years that has become quite a mess. I’ll retire my old TN appliance as it requires too much energy and is quite bulky. I’m remaining with 1 NUC and a second knock off NUC with slightly lower specs but 2+ LAN ports What would you do with that Setup? I’ll probably run Proxmox on the NUC and have the second one as a backup, however this one can connect directly to the NAS with a dedicated connection through multiple LAN ports. I’ll mostly run containers and a few VMs (Git, Pihole, Backup Services, …). My Synology supports both but I’d like to keep things separate. My infrastructure is taken care off, I won’t host pfSense or similar. I haven’t looked into best practices recently and would like to learn new technologies as Ansible etc. How do you automate your installations and updates? How does that go together with containers and VMs? Proxmox or maybe plain Debian/Fedora/…? Thanks for sharing!
So, couple years ago i started to learn about tech, programming and self hosting services thanks to **redditors** ( not reddit the evil corp ), and found lots of communities where they pointed me to good resources but then ended up allocating more time to learning programming to switch career into that field and finally got it. As a passion and private needs I had set up couple of small servers for testing, but never ended up being able to actually expose them publicly in a secure way I found some "beginner level" tutorials, but to be honest, it still was quite hard to understand. Where can I found even lower level resources or any chat group or discord group for literal illeterates like me?? I know i can do my own research as I did for programming, but that was for landing an actual job, this is mostly for personal need, so i really cannot allocate much time into studying so much while I also have family duties and improving my coding skill for the current job Thanks a lot
Dynadot is by far the worst register i ever moved, I only moved because Google domains was going to die and make everyone go to squarespace that makes you pay $20 a year to own the domain. Things you will not have when transferring to dynadot: 1. No server name There isn't any, the default also doesn't work (Just look it up) and yes anyone with experience will tell you that your old name server will no longer work. This means no DNSSEC and no working website. 2. Fake Free SSL The SSL only works for "Dynadot DNS", I don't know what that means. Everyone has problems with it. 3. DNSSEC requires name server Remember that name servers don't exist in Dynadot, that means this feature is never going to work for you. Your website is weak. 4. Forum help is old has 2005 That's right, you will get random old answers from 2005 and not help help because Dynadot never gives straight answers. 5. Website builder is just a copycat of google site Not really worth your time using it and very restricted Email service. I hope anyone who reads this will consider not using Dynadot, I spent many days with no answers and it's all because Dynadot was not clear on their restrictions. I will move my domain the moment the 60 days are up on day one.
I save and backup all the photos on a Synology NAS instead of using one of the online providers. However Synology Photos doesn't have good search capabilities. So I built a project to search through the images using natural language captions, and found that it works really well. I have published the project publicly with a GPL-3.0 license - [synology-photos-nlp-search](https://github.com/abhineetgupta/synology-photos-nlp-search). Anyone is welcome to use and contribute to the project. It was really cool to see that I can try two search terms like *food* and *eating*, and the embeddings model would understand the difference and provide relevant images for both. The project runs the model and stores any model-related files locally, so besides downloading the model and necessary python packages, there are no API calls being made to any outside services. I have containerized the application to make it easier to deploy and use. That said, some programming experience might be needed as it's not an open-and-use application. This is my first major project that I am publishing, and would welcome any feedback for improvements from the community.
Is there a speedtest tracker docker that doesnt use ookla? Been using henrywhitaker3/speedtest-tracker and it's clearly dead since all tests are failing and the issue board is mentioning the same behavior. [\#selfhosted](https://kbin.social/tag/selfhosted)
I really like this: [https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-2-0-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop](https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-2-0-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop) As a user of both, [#KasmWorkspaces](https://kbin.social/tag/KasmWorkspaces) (Community Edition) and [#ApacheGuacamole](https://kbin.social/tag/ApacheGuacamole), I can tell that indeed the [#kasmvnc](https://kbin.social/tag/kasmvnc) has better performance for browser-accessed [#Linux](https://kbin.social/tag/Linux) desktop. XRDP has been great with Guacamole, but for the reasons listed in the article it is not as great when watching videos over a browser accessed desktop. For Windows desktops I did not see a performance difference between [#Guacamole](https://kbin.social/tag/Guacamole) and the [#Kasm](https://kbin.social/tag/Kasm) RDP option, likely because RDP is a native protocol on Windows. Anyway, if you are interested in Browser-based computing give it a try. Note: While both Kasm and Guacamole work great on desktops, laptops, tablets, low-spec laptops and VR Headset browsers, neither is yet a great option on small-screen mobile devices. Also, while KasmVNC and the KASM and LinuxServer docker images are open source, Kasm Workspaces itself is not Open Source, but they do have a [#Selfhosted](https://kbin.social/tag/Selfhosted) Community Edition available for free, and they do use some portions of Apache Guacamole in their product. - Apache Guacamole is completely Open Source and free, backed by the Apache Foundation.
For those that don't know, rabb.it was a site where you basically had a chatroom and a virtual pc that was shared to everyone in the room. It was used to get together and watch youtube/plex/netflix/whatever together, and everyone was able to control the browser on the virtual PC. I don't even think you needed to have an account to join a room, but it's been so long I don't remember anymore. So I'm looking for something like that, just a virtual PC/browser + chatroom that people can join and watch/control, ideally without even needing to make an account. Does something like that exist?