This week I realised my Mastodon instance was severely out of date because I was using nix flakes and didn't autoupdate but now that's been fixed π
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I use Mend Renovate to keep up with the latest and greatest container images in my private repo.
Finally setup Synology surveillance station and got my local cameras all hooked in with motion events. Very swish.
Attempted and failed to set up some sort of fail2ban between my Cloudflared container and my website I host at home.
I also finally set up Lemmy on my home lab, as well as moving Authelia from Docker to bare metal.
Other than that, Iβve been struggling to find any other self-hosted apps that would actually be useful to me.
I've set up a reverse proxy to try out hosting a few APIs but i'm curious about best practice and haven't found any good way to do it. Anyway, i have them running dotnet 9 on debian, and hosting them on http ports and then reverse proxying to apache that serves them externally with certbot on 443 to some real hostnames. I would really want to host them on https internally as well, but is there a neat way to "cert" them without an internal CA-service? My experience with self-signed certs are mostly that they always force me to trust the server cert in my connection strings, which is also unsafe so i just don't bother. Is it worth working on and which is the best approach here?
Non SSL behind your ingress proxy is acceptable professionally in most circumstances, assuming your network is properly segmented it's not really a big deal.
Self-signing and adding the CA is a bit of a pain in the ass and adds another unnecessary layer for failure in a home network.
If it really grinds your gears you could issue yourself a real wild card cert from lets encrypt then at DNS names with that wild card on your local DNS server with internal IPs, but to auto renew it you're going to have to do some pretty decent DNS work.
To be honest I've scrapped most of my reverse proxies for a nice tailscale network. Less moving parts, encrypted end-to-end.
Thanks! I initially considered going the wildcard route until i saw the workload involved for my host! There does seem to exist autorenewal programs for the largest hosts out there but i'm trying to support my local businesses so it's unfortunately out of of my scope at the moment, but i'll checkout your suggestion and see what tailscale has to offer!
I've been hosting Emby forever (and the requisite software to acquire content π).
Recently I added Nextcloud to facilitate cutting several Google products out of my life. Combined with a few FOSS apps, it's currently doing the job of Drive (storage) and Keep (notes), and I'm planning to move my contacts and calendar this week.
I'm doing that as well (mostly done except some tinkering and optimizations). It's my third time setting up nextcloud, but this time it's for real.
Added extra disks to TrueNAS, got Seafile up and running in a Proxmox VM. Now I'm about to start fiddling with SAS to 4x Sata to get the front drive bays working. Keepin' busy!
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.
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Total noob to Docker (desktop for windows) and I'm just trying to figure out how (and where) to add a config to my Navidrome image or change lines on the image itself, to point it to my music library and create admin login credentials (ΰ²₯οΉΰ²₯) If I can accomplish that then I eventually want to try Immich or NextCloud afterward.
I want to switch to Linux but I'm not sure where to start! I want to
- play current-gen games (graphically speaking) on steam, as well as
- lots of retro games with Launchbox/RetroArch
- do 3D modeling in blender, and
- produce music in a free DAW.
I don't know if any of those factors impose restrictions due to software/hardware differences (or if that even makes a difference), but I want to move over everything I can into a linux environment
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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.
Yesterday i managed to successfully host a simple html safely (its more of a network test)
The path is nginx->openwrt->router to internet
Now i only need to:
- backup
- set up domain (managing via cloudflare)
- set up certificates
- properly documentbthe setup + some guides on stuff that i will repeat
and then i can throw everything i want on it :D
a Plex server.
Looking to install Immich, BitDefender Password Manager and YouTube downloader on the NAS this week.