Selfhosting

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!

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. 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 ;)

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

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. 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.

Hey Selfhosted,

I want to start self-hosting my content and I'm looking for something that feels as easy to edit as Notion.

In most wikis you have to hit 'edit' first which stops me from just fixing small things quickly and taking my own notes.

What are some 'wikis' with the notion like editing experience?

I've tried several different guides and scripts and always ran into issues. This was the first one that actually worked rather well for me so if anyone is running into issues, give this a try!

I've got readarr set up, and would like to get a frontend going, what, if any, ebook readers are people using?

With Gandi hiking their prices and doing some shady stuff on top of that, I'm on the lookout for a new domain registrar.

So far, the alternatives I've checked out are:

• Porkbun: solid, but limited list of TLD's, missing a few I need
• Cloudflare: cheapest, easy to use platform, but they require you to set them up as authoritative DNS provider, which I'm not ok with.
• NameCheap: mixed reviews, not so cheap anymore

It seems quite hard to find a decent, no-BS registrar with ok prices. What are your recommendations?

Bonus cookie points:

• privacy-focused
• EU-based
• supports less popular country TLD's (e.g. .ro)

Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware. Also check out: - Homebrewserver.club [https://homebrewserver.club/] - XMPP chat [xmpp:hbsc@muc.lurk.org?join]