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What else should I self-host? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Today I set up my old laptop as a Debian server, hosting Immich (for photos), Nextcloud (for files), and Radicale (for calendar). It was surprisingly easy to do so after looking at the documentation and watching a couple videos online! Tomorrow I might try hosting something like Linkwarden or Karakeep.

What else should I self-host, aside from HA (I don’t have a smart home), Calibre (physical books are my jam), and Jellyfin (I don’t watch too many movies + don’t have a significant DVD/Blu-ray collection)?

I would like to keep my laptop confined to my local network since I don’t trust it to be secure enough against the internet.

edit: I forgot, I’m also hosting Tailscale so I can access my local network remotely!

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How safe is it to self host something that you open up to the web? I've been thinking about a keepass self host, but I need it to be accessible from anywhere... I'm just really worried what that does once you open up your local server to the world

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you want to expose a container based service just for yourself over internet, you can -

If you have static IP4 or IPV6 - Setup Wireguard VPN on your homelab/server, and wireguard client on client devices[1].
If you are behind NAT or CGNAT - either Cloudflared Tunnel[2] or Tailscale[3].

In either scenarios, you need to setup firewall of your server to allow connection from LAN to port of your docker container/services. By default you should set your firewall to block all incoming request from anywhere except LAN.

I'm personally using Cloudflared Tunnel, but planning to migrate to Tailscale.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-wireguard-on-ubuntu-20-04

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

[3] https://tailscale.com/