Submitted 6 hours ago by weastie@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I mean anything that is not hosted in your house. For example, dynamic dns, some type of ddos protection, off-site backups, external oauth provider, etc.
For my homelab:
For things that I host externally (i.e. not part of my homelab):
I just use a domain name through name cheap, which includes ddns. I cant think of anything else that I do at home that isn’t taken care of locally.
Email and offsite backups (as 3rd copy of data, encrypted
Fast Mail DNS because I moved my domain over there for email. Problem is that it doesn’t have an API for DNS updates, and that makes it bad for DynDNS. There are some web scraping libraries out there that can work for it, but those can easily break any time FastMail changes their interface.
For now, I’m just using the fact that my IP doesn’t change that often, and living with the fact that I’ll have to manually update it at some point.
Basically just the bare minimum
Uptime monitoring and notifications
Mind sharing what service you use for it? Paid or free?
A small application I wrote myself, hosted on the free tier of pythonanywhere.com
For personal stuff, i use an external email, and borgbase for backups (highly recommend them if using Borg or restic).
Cloudflare tunnels - it used to be dynamic dns, but the ISP blocked ports 80/443, so I switched to tunnels.
External DNS on the Gl-Inet router, included with the product
Goodcloud, from Gl-Inet (included and really nice to have another way to get to it)
for the home self-hosting, that's pretty much it.
For the (coming soon TM) fediverse apps in Keyboard Vagabond, add in S3, cloudflare CDN
poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
An external email host. Life is too short to deal with frustrating email issues.
mspencer712@programming.dev 5 hours ago
I’d recommend looking again, as I think that advice is becoming dated. Greylist and DKIM make spam prevention super simple, ironically because the centralization of email towards Outlook and gmail has trained pretty much every sender to follow the rules or your email doesn’t go through. And then Greylist catches the rest, because spammers don’t come back and retry after a few minutes.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
The problem isn’t incoming spam, but rather not being able to send to the larger email providers because of arbitrary spamfiltering on their side.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 hours ago
Same :( admittedly I never tried, but it’s the one thing everyone recommends against.