junialter

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Looking to change OS because the one im using its not stable in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] junialter@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Linux but neither Fedora nor Ubuntu I would suggest. Fedora is not a good fit for server I believe and Ubuntu the worse Debian.

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Alternative to pi-hole (alien.top)
 

I've tried multiple times to run pihole in my network. I really like it because it has nice features like

  • colorful statistics
  • IPv6 support
  • individual filters that can be mapped to the different source IP ranges
  • adblocks of course

There are two things that really annoy me though.

  1. I'm getting weird kind of timeouts. Sometimes huge parts of my devices become unresponsive because pihole doesn't seem to be responding. I've increased the rate of how many queries to process in a minute but that only helped partially
  2. It doesn't come with a sync mechanism. Yeah I know there are third party solutions and I tested both, but after some time they stopped working very well.

So what I'm asking you guys is if you know a good dns cache that I can run and maybe keep in sync config-wise via Ansible. Other than that it should be able to filter ads and other custom lists of course.

Thanks in advance.

ntfy is a great tool. What do you use it for? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] junialter@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried it and it was nice but ultimately I switched to apprise

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Super simple webshop (alien.top)
 

Hi,

I'm searching for a webshop system that is extremely simple. I don't want all that payment providers, plugins, statistics stuff.

Just a system where I can put some products online, where user can register to make a buy and with a basic system to mark the status of an order (new, in progress, payment received). You get the idea.

Maybe an old version of OScommerce? What comes to your minds?

Why is starting with Self-hosting so daunting? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] junialter@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I strongly suggest to not only read articles on the internet but get decent books and read them carefully. It will fill in plenty of gaps you have now and in a blink of an eye self-hosting will become a smooth and fun experience.

I have been self hosting for like 20 years and I must say it has never been easier to bring up a service and make it secure as well.

Good network understanding is key, forget about IPv4 it's dead. If you engineer new stuff, concentrate on IPv6. Also a good book or two about Linux, it's the platform to go for the next decade. If you're still hungry dive into containers and container orchestration.

Most importantly, keep experimenting. I'd say 80%+ of my empirical data comes from my own experience.