Selfhosted

what's maintenance? is that when an auto-update breaks everything and you spend an entire weeknight looking up tutorials because you forgot what you did to get this mess working in the first place?

I’m building services out for my family as things enshittify. Moved the family over to an immich instance, run a family blog on Wordpress (working on rolling my own since it’s over complicated and with all the Wordpress shenanigans…), plex (lifetime account, works for now). I have a number of self-built projects as well, a “momboard” like system that is integrated with my Wordpress blog for access and control, a pi based backup server that lives at my friends house and nails a VPN connection to my router and I’m playing with Meshtastic as an offline communication system for my kids scout troop when we’re camping without cell signal. Lots of home automation with home assistant as well.

I host it all on Debian servers, raspberry pi’s and esp32 devices (Meshtastic and home automation). I used to run kubernoodles but it was more complicated than needed and for my use case, docker, ansible and bash scripts manage it all just fine.

I started hosting audiobookshelf since Jellyfin was pretty clunky for audiobooks.

Maintenance day is when I log into my server once every 3 month because I forgot it (as everything is working fine).

But I just discovered OpenSuse microOS, while looking at the docs for my laptop Thumbleweed, and now I want to try it with no real reasons. Maybe it is just an excuse to buy a new Raspberry pi.

I just set up wanderer and workout-tracker. Along with installing gadgetbridge on my phone, I now have a completely self hosted fitness/workout stack with routes, equipment tracking, heatmaps, general health metrics like HRV, heart rate, etc through my Garmin watch, without having Garmin Connect installed. Awesome!

Heya! I’m looking to get into self hosting. Any recommendations on good beginner tutorials or resources?

I got a new job, and the group chat is on WhatsApp, so I'm looking into running a Synapse server with a bridge to it. I really don't want to have to use Meta's apps on my phone.

From what I've read so far, it seems like it's going to be the most convoluted install process I'll have encountered in my self-hosting journey. I'm excited to tackle it, but also a bit overwhelmed. Which is why I've been putting it off :P

Migrating from proxmox to incus, continued.

• got a manually-built wireguard instance rolling and tested, it's now "production"
• setting up and testing backups now
• going to export some NFS and iscsi to host video files to test playback over the network from jellyfin
• building ansible playbooks to rebuild instances
• looking into ansible to add system monitoring, should be easy enough

Lots of fun, actually!

Pinepods 0.7.4 is out! So as the Dev I'm going through new issues and knocking them out. Smart playlists, oidc logins and notifications on release are all a thing now on the self hosted podcast platform! We're nearing a v1 release with features on par with some of the big time podcast apps.

I want to host a personal dashboard with weather forecast and upcoming appointments. I couldn’t find anything that fits my needs so now I‘m building my own.

Currently trying to step up my game bv setting up kubernetes. Cluster is running, but I am really struggling getting the combination domain name, let's encrypt and traefik, but without a cloud load balancer, to work. I feel like I went through most tutorials available, but it seems each one is missing a crucial part. Gonna invest some more hours today...

I've started to setup Authentik this weekend. My goal is to learn more about SSO and have one account for most of my selfhosted services.

I have had success with a monthly reminder in my google calendar. Sometimes I skip it, but I have been updating and keeping everything nice and tidy much more frequent than I used to!

switched my server from i7-870 (my ex-workstation) to Pentium G6405 (got it free). switch went without a hitch, debian with a ton of docker services (jellyfin, servarr, pihole, radicale, etc.), 8 GB RAM only. although it's a quadcore to dualcore switch, no performance issues. I know there are better options out there, but I don't spend money unless I really have to.

Fumbling around with k3s to get my toes into deploying a Kubernetes cluster from scratch for the first time ever. No real long term usage planned, just some testing to gather experience.

Been messing around w/ podman, and after hours of slamming my head against the wall, I decided Seafile isn't worth it. :) It launches a bunch of stuff inside one container, and I just couldn't figure out how to get that to work w/ quadlet (worked fine w/ podman kube play though).

I got forgejo set up and now I'm looking into setting up runners so I can finally migrate off hosted gitlab onto my own forgejo instance.

Some other things I'm planning on doing this week:

• migrate existing services to podman quadlet from docker compose - will make each existing service into a pod and play w/ pod networking
• set up technitium - tested it locally and it worked well, so just need to move it and configure it; hope to use it as the primary DNS for my house
• set up owncloud ocis - there's a new POSIX FS option, which was my main hangup when I last looked into a nextcloud alternative (I only need storage + collabora)
• probably some kind of dashboard, because the number of services I host is getting a bit long

If I get time, I want to install openSUSE MicroOS onto my NAS and start migrating everything to it (from openSUSE Leap). I really like the idea of an immutable base OS, and my NAS is already 90% containers (pretty much just Samba left). I need to fix some permission issues anyway (keep having to chown my videos so samba and jellyfin can work together), and this should make things a bit more obvious.

I'll probably also start a blog about my self-hosting journey, because the info around podman is kinda sparse, especially when it comes to quadlet.

Edit: got OCIS working, but it was a bit of a pain. Starting that blog really sounds like a good idea...

I'm working on my first kubernetes cluster. I'm trying to set the systems up with NixOS. I can get a kublet and a control plane running. But I'm getting permission errors when trying to use kubectl rootless on the system running the control plane. I think I figured out which file i need to change, now I just want to record that change in my configuration.nix.

hosting everything as usual sir

I run everything off my gaming rig, so maintenance is kinda already a part of it.

I just don't really look forward to the day I need to reinstall :p

I need to migrate off Docker Desktop for Windows and Storage Spaces but I fear the process will be difficult due to my data volume and the stupidity of Windows. I should never have gone Windows, but I wanted to use Steam Big Picture off the media PC and didn't want to deal with getting that functional on Linux.

But Docker Desktop for Windows keeps crashing WSL and bricking the network devices randomly, and also continuously grows memory consumption until the machine reboots. Piece of shit.

Had the intention of making a hidden TOR website version for all my websites but I'm sick

After just about a month of hosting some things on a Raspberry Pi 4, I think it's about time to work on repurposing this mini PC that hasn't been doing much the last few years and keep growing my services.

To that end, can anyone point me to a good, thorough guide to getting going with Sonarr? I installed it, but then realized I needed to add a client and Prowlarr and I feel like I just started in the middle.

Spring break so nothing this weekend. I need to figure out backups and then common passwords/logins for my family.

Just found Redirecterr and set that up, but that’s just for me since no one else seems to use Overseerr.

Purchased a new to me EOL enterprise switch that will enable me to expand my network while replacing existing hardware that is limited. It also enables me to move to 10G networking woot!

I got a Matrix server set up with conduwuit but the problem is that none of my friends are on there so I don't use it. The one friend I made the damn thing for so we could chat just started going through a bunch of personal stuff so now it won't be used for a while. FML.

This week I realised my Mastodon instance was severely out of date because I was using nix flakes and didn't autoupdate but now that's been fixed 😄

I'm integrating my Mac mini (running Asahi Linux) into my server setup. It's slow going as I also have to move some data around so I can repurpose some hard drives.