The 'just one more service' pipeline has claimed another victim: my entire weekend. What was your gateway drug into self-hosting EVERYTHING?

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨melonhusk@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

started with a simple media server, now i’m running my own mail, calendaring, document storage, password manager, vpn, monitoring, and probably half a dozen other things i’ve forgotten about. my wife just asks if “the internet is working” now, not ‘is netflix down’. it’s glorious, but also… a lot. anyone else go from zero to homelab hero in record time? what kicked off your journey into the self-hosted abyss?

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HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Folks, we’ve received your reports. On the surface, it seems like a good faith attempt to start a discussion. This user isn’t breaking any rules. Please use your votes to determine the fate of their posts.

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kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So you’ll do this add all the services thing, then transition to refining the quality. Hosting email, then working on spam prevention and webmail. Setting up Jellyfin, then getting live TV recording working. Increasing security on the above with fail2ban, VPN, VLANs, virtualization, let the currents of self hosting carry you where they may

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Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
pihole…

Then it got expensive for me.
But it’s fun :)

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Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What in the AI generated bullshit spam are your posts? You’ve made like 5 to this community in the past day. Stop it.

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- irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  meh, probably smoked a bowl and got chatty. Happens.
  
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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Probably about the time BBS became more popular. I guess there was arpnet, and all these nets, mostly for science, academics, or governmental. Then they essentially rolled it all into one and viola! The internet was born. (It’s a bit more involved) I’ve hosted BBS, forums, chats, irc, a fully licensed/automated internet radio station with live shows with requests et al, <deep breath> services, websites, you name it.

Unfortunately, my brain is shit now, and I’ve forgotten so much. So, sometimes I have to re-learn on a cyclical basis. Plus, the technology is moving now at such a blinding speed, what I did even 5 years ago is old school. Needless to say, I keep copious notes. Somebody is gonna go through all my stuff when I’m gone and think ‘What the devil? This looks like some weird kind of manifesto in some sort of long forgotten code.’ LOL

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- ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I have to start to learn how to automatically create notes. I’m starting to forget how my systems work together, too. Fortunately when I research something I do it the same way every time so I come up with the same result, then go to implement it and find all the scripts etc that I forgot about that do that job.
  
  I hate the “Microsoft Recall” idea, but damn, I need something like that with an AI to keep it indexed and searchable as it relates to my activities. All self-hosted, of course.
  
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  - irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Can relate. When I get to going on something, I have to force myself to pause, write the shit down, and proceed on. Then after the session, I’ll review my notes and insert any addenda that needs to clarify a certain point or problem I had that I fixed. It’s a process for sure, but for the most part, I can stand up a Linux server, with firewalls, defenses, docker containers, et al and be ready for production in about a solid day’s work. So, notes are paramount and I lean on them heavily. Then, after everything is buttoned up, I save the raw notes in a labeled sub-folder that gets backed up to multiple stores such as /projects/takeovertheworldproject/. Finally I transfer that to Trillium, which is searchable.
    
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null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Minecraft server on a laptop. Life has never been the same since.

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