Run It Yourself

I have a few single board computers at home that I want to try hosting some public facing stuff with, but what's the best way to deal with the fact that my home internet is not on a static IP? Would I have to host my site from a DynDNS domain and hope that when the IP changes, the DNS caches of users expire quickly enough to keep them connected?

I have a Raspberry Pi Zero W that is serving as my Pihole server, but that only uses about 10% of its very underpowered CPU, and I feel like I'm not getting my money's worth. Anyone have any lightweight project ideas I can run on it to use up more of its resources?

Could I run BOINC limited to 50% CPU usage on it or is it too slow to complete jobs on time? Could I maybe seed torrents for popular Linux distros on it without the rather weak Wi-Fi chipset getting overwhelmed and bottlenecking the DNS server?

Currently all my photos/videos are all stored in iCloud. I want to move these to my Nextcloud instance.

The Nextcloud iOS app does have a feature to automatically transfer an entire iCloud library to Nextcloud, but it's broken right now (and has been for several months, see this issue). Unfortunately it doesn't look like the iOS app developers are going to fix this any time soon.

Instead, I downloaded my photos/videos from privacy.apple.com, and I now have them all in archives. But their structure is all all over the place. I don't think I can use a hacked-together script to convert them to a sane folder/file structure because nothing is dated.

For example, I would want a simple structure like /{year}/{month}/{day}/{images}. But the iCloud archive's format is something like /Photos/{images}. Nothing is dated.

Any ideas about what I could do? It looks like my only options are just to have all my old photos in an esoteric folder/file structure, and have new photos/videos properly sorted. But that isn't ideal.

The only other option is to hold out hope that Apple eventually add an option, as they recently added a way to transfer to Google Photos. But I am not expecting them to add support for Nextcloud.

There seems to be a lot of options when it comes to companies to host with. Anyone have a favorite they'd rec to someone or companies to avoid?

Or, alternatively, anyone have recommendations for things to host? Things you're glad your self-hosting or glad you aren't self-hosting?

So I was able to install everything correctly, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do in order for people that don't have my same IP to see my files. I'd like to share my Jellyfin server with some friends so they can see movies there. I've already open the ports, but they can't still access them, I'm using elementaryOS Hera which is built on Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS.

Hi! So I'm using an open source RSS aggregator self hosted alongside my pi-hole.

Anyone know how the basics of making a website go from static to dynamic work? What I want to do is add more RSS feeds from any device on my network and have the changes synced network-wide. Right now though, adding feeds is stored as a local cookie on each device separately.

Here is the repository I'm looking at: https://github.com/sempostma/newsfeeder

Any ideas on how I can store the feeds info on the Pi instead?

The ActivityPub based music server bounces back!

Hello,

Which tools do you use to monitor services that you have self hosted and also to monitor system resources?

openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage (NAS) solution based on Debian Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, RSync, BitTorrent client and many more. Thanks to the modular design of the framework it can be enhanced via plugins. openmediavault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios.

RSS newsreaders allow you to focus on just the quality news you want to follow without the noisy website views with adverts and behavioural tracking. They allow you to consume vast amounts of information without distraction on your mobile phone or PC, with your progress synced.

I'm comparing these two as I needed something that could be hosted at home on a free OpenMediaVault server using easy-to-install docker containers. So yes this could run on a Raspberry Pi, Intel NUC, or larger hardware.

Funny thing is I'm using both still as I cannot declare a clear winner ;-)

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Hello! I tried to install Minecraft server on Yunohost.

But when I try to connect (even locally) it always timeout and I can't connect.

Do you have any clue on how to solve this?

When I run: curl <my ip>:25565

I get result when I do it on the server, but when I execute the same command on another device, it doesn't work. There is a timeout and it gives up.

Do you think this is because my server is slow or have you any clue on how I could solve this issue?

Thanks in advance!

It is written in Python (Flask) with a simple interface.

Licensed under GNU Affero General Public License version 3.

Easy to deploy but you can also use the official instance.

Hi all,

Soon I'll be upgrading my server. I want to make sure the data stored on it is safe, so I've spent some time planning the storage. Here's the current plan.

I'll buy 2x3TB HDDs and put them in RAID 1, using ZFS (the snapshots will be what I use for backups). I'll have another HDD in the server which will store the snapshots as backups.

Finally, I'll have the ZFS snapshots sent to my personal PC as well, which will be in a remote location to the server.

As I understand it, that should check all the 3-2-1 boxes. I'm covered if either of the main hard drives fail, or if either of the backups fail, or if some other damage happens to the server.

Does this all make sense? Any feedback or advice is much appreciated. Feel free to ask questions, also. Thanks.

(I've also posted this on Reddit, but decided to post here too).

I want to use it as an online FTP client for my Raspberry Pi, but it almost seems too good to be true. Any experience with self hosting it?

This project is really cool, if you want to try it out you will have to email them to get some credentials (which is awkward because human interaction) but it's a unique project that started off based off of amiga. It's completely cloud based and self hostable.