Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?
confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
I feel like my little Pi server is set up nicely now. At least I’m at the point where I’m not concerned about technically maintaining it. It’s as secure as I want it to be and I’ve tweaked my maintenance scripts slightly to avoid any unexpected issues.
I tried installing snikket but I couldn’t figure out how to get it to work with my Caddyfile using my current wildcard domain cert configuration. I’ll try again another time when I’m motivated again. It’s a low priority to me.
The last changes I made were adding logs and making them accessible to myself. So far they are all boring and predictable. Which is good news. It’s also nice to see that I’m the only person accessing it. The bots haven’t found my little corner of the internet yet.
Right now I’m taking a break from self-hosted stuff to work on my gardens and two artsy projects. A wooden carving for a friend’s birthday and an overly complicated shell script that has no real purpose. Although I’ve learned lots from it already so it’s not a complete waste of time.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 8 hours ago
How did you approach the logging?
confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
Since my logs barely move, I just made aliases to where the logs are so it’s quick display and scan them within the terminal. I’m basically just viewing the system logs, fail2ban log and Caddy’s log so it’s fairly quick and simple for me.
The only change I’d like to do is change the output of Caddy’s log file so it’s not a long single line of information per output. I’ll have to do a bit more reading on that so I know what information I want to keep and how I want to visually organize it. At least for the moment, I am familiarising myself with what I am looking at and am slowly figuring out what information is relevant to me.
I like to keep my systems as simple and lean as possible which seems to strongly reflect my general approach to life. I find that kind of interesting.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 hours ago
If you like, check GoAccess on the Caddy Files. You can watch them through that instead of less/cat/whatever to see a nice Dashboard. It helps getting a better overview IMHO.
confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 minutes ago
It looks interesting and seems like it would be easy to set up. I’ll play with it and see how I like it. Thanks for the suggestion