Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?

Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

With the recent discussions around replacing Spotify with selfhosted services and the possibilities to obtain the music itself, I’ve been finally setting up Navidrome. I had to do quite a bit of reorganization to do with my existing collection (beets helping a ton) but now it’s in a neatly organized structure and I’m enjoying it everywhere. I get most of my stuff from Bandcamp but I have a big catalog from when I’ve still had a large physical collection.

I’m also still working on my docker quasi gitops stack. I’ve cleaned up my compose files and put the secrets in env files where I hadn’t already, checked them into my new forgejo instance and (mostly) configured renovate. Komodo is about to get productive but I couldn’t find the time yet. Also I need to figure out how to check in secrets in a secure way. I know some but I haven’t tried those with Komodo yet. This close of my fully automated update-on-merge compose stacks!

I’ve also been doing these for quite a while and decided to sometimes post them in !selfhosting@slrpnk.net to possibly help moving a bit from the biggest Lemmy instance, even though this community as it is is perfectly fine as well as it seems.

What’s going on on your servers? Anything you are trying to pursue at the moment?

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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I’m setting up a yunohost machine for my brother as a birthday present. I got him a domain good for 10 years, and installed nextcloud and Jellyfin with some home videos digitized from our parents’ vhs tapes.

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sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
What is beets, hobbits?

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Kaldo@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Just got a domain and started exposing my local jellyfin through cloudflare, mostly wanting to listen to my music on my phone when i'm outside too.

I followed some guides that should make it fine with cloudflare's policy, video doesnt work when i tried it but otherwise its been fun despite me feeling like im walking on eggshells all the time. I guess time will tell if it holds up

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- Batman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Some things which have caused issues for me:
  
  File permissions
  
  Video/audio format (264/aac stereo is best for compatibility)
  
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  - Kaldo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh file permissions are a nightmare to me, I thought I managed to get it sorted but after i installed lidarr, it alone suddenly can't move files out of the download location anymore. I even tried to chmod 777 the data folders and nothing. I dont think I quite have the grasp on how those work with docker on linux yet, it seems like those arr services also have some internal users too which I dont get why would they.
    
    Wdym with the formats, is this referring to transcoding? I kept those on defaults afaik
    
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A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nothing new, just peacefully chugging along hosting my blog, calendar and contacts. Still long-term searching for a photo storing & sharing (gallery) solution.

Oh, and I need to renew my SSL certificate soon. I don’t like Letsencrypt. Everything EU-based, I’m not going to start making US-based contracts.

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- RandomlyRight@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Did you have a look at Immich yet for photos?
  
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gaiety@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Considering switching my Forgejo to a Tangled.sh knot. Their easy self hosted CI option is appealing

but mostly itd be easier to collaborate than opening sign ups on my instance of forgejo

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- tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Forgejo is developing ActivityPub support, so eventually we’ll be able to collaborate across forgejo instances :) I’ll have a look at tangled as well
  
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- HelloRoot@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That looks super interesting. Just yesterday I was reading on radicle.xyz for similar reasons.
  
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confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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- tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  How did you approach the logging?
  
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  - confusedpuppy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.
    
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BingBong@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m trying to find a reasonably priced used rack mount computer to move all my containers to. I have a rack in my house but measuring the depth between posts only gets me around 17.5". Recently deployed paperless-ngx and decided it would be too much to add onto my poor little NAS which hosts everything else so its deployed on my main computer and I want to avoid that strategy.

Challenge is that being new to rack servers and all of this (the NAS was a great intro box) I’ve got a large learning curve ahead of me.

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- tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Are you using the rack already? Many people are opting for 10" racks for their homelabs these days. There’s 3D printable enclosures for many thin clients and mini PCs. Minilab is the go-to term. This is mine if you’re interested
  
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  - BingBong@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Already have the rack and it hosts most of my items (router, switch, raspberry pi rack, NAS, PS3 apple TV). Honestly other than the raspberry pi rack and the router, the rest are just using shelves anyways. I need to find a good, non-bulky way to take the enclosure fan and switch it on when temps get above a set point. What I’ve done in the past with an arduino is way too bulky.
    
    I love your idea and its funny you mention the mini PCs and thin clients. As I look at prices I’m more and more leaning towards just another shelf and using mini PCs.
    
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machiavellian@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I am at the very beginning of my journey taking those first baby steps. As I don’t yet understand all the sysadmin stuff, I’m treading rather carefully to avoid making unfuckable mistakes.

I recently switched to Void on my daily driver so it has been a bit of a trial to get used to a new OS and configure it correctly. Nevertheless, it’s been a great learning experience.

Alongside it I’ve downloaded OpenWrt on my router and begun to configure it as well (still need to deal with the Wireguard and Unbound config).

For the actual server I managed to secure an old Dell Optiplex. In the near future, I plan to flash it with Libreboot and then install Debian or FreeBSD (apparently great ZFS support) on it. Though I’ve still no idea whether I should use Proxmox and how I should format my drives (one 500GB SSD and 4TB HDD) for maximum effiency and for the possibility of later easily upgrading my storage capacity.

When I’ve finally past these steps, I plan to selfhost music services, as well as few other basic services. My goal at the moment is to replace Spotify for my whole family. But it’s still a long way to go.

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frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m in planning for upgrading my NAS. It has a 10Gbps fiber connection, and my main workstation does, as well. My goal is to be able to saturate that with both read and write speed. Timeline is 6 to 8 months out.

Budget in the range of $2000-3000. Currently doing RAID1 on a pair of 18TB disks. I usually want to double that with each upgrade, but there’s some leeway on there.

I think my best option is 6 NVMe sticks on RAID6. 8TB sticks would give 32TB of usable space. Not quite double, but close enough.

I would like easy hot swap capabilities. Unfortunately, it looks like the only option for that would be Icydock, and those are expensive. The other way is to go down to SATA drives where relatively cheap 2.5" hot swap bays exist, but a setup that can saturate 10Gbps writes with reasonable redundancy would be even more expensive.

Need a motherboard that has a pair of 16x slots. One needs to be a GPU for Jellyfin transcoding. Also need a 4x slot for a 10Gbps sfp+ NIC. With two NVMe slots on the mobo, this should be workable without going to Threadripper or Epyc chips and such–idle power consumption sucks on those. Totally giving up on hot swap here, though.

There are 8tb NVMe sticks that are priced close to fit in this budget range. I had found one Samsung stick that, according to Amazon price trackers, was around $300 in the recent past (can’t seem to find it now). A lot will depend on tariffs, of course.

One surprise is that a Kioxia CD6-R u.3 drive at 15.36TB goes for $1150. 4 drives on RAID10 would be a workable space upgrade. That setup would be out of budget, but not as much as I would have expected. Referb deals or future price movement might put it in range.

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
What’s the best ACME server?

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