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What's your self-hosting success of the week?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by shark@lemmy.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Greenbeard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
gergolippai@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The truest answer :)
lime_red@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I cannot claim the same.
Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I managed, without ever trying, to convert a friend to swap to Linux about a month ago.
Today I’m driving over to give him my old old server so he can start self hosting. He’s super keen on getting started.
So not my success, but ours? One more person joins the community today!
shark@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
I’ll go first: I got setup XMPP (Prosody) for the family.
Also, less this week (cheating a little), but I’ve setup all my services with SSL (self-hosted root CA), domain names, and (finally) a dashboard (Heimdall.)smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.
Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.
On the other hand though, voice and video calls have worked flawlessly.
shark@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
Nice, same! Was also really positively surprised by how great the Android app(s) for XMPP feel.
We’re on iOS and I wish I could say the same. Looking at the Android apps makes me very jealous.
Only thing not working yet for me is group chat creation. Oh well. Maybe this weekend.
What server software are you using? I went with Prosody and it felt pretty easy to setup the muc module for groups, but, on the other hand, I haven’t gotten around to voice and video calls.
Eldaroth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nice, had my XMPP server now running for a couple of weeks, not many users on it so far though. But my highlight of the week was managing to get the slidge whatsapp bridge with Prosody running, so I at least don’t have to use the official app anymore for all those people who resist to get off of it.
fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2 weeks ago
this is a great thread! this should be a recurring one
thelocalhostinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Decided to buy a raspberry pi, it arrived, I installed pihole on it and put it into my dad’s house, all in a few days. Biggest win: I just took action and did it, instead of researching, brainstorming and writing down stuff for weeks and then never execute.
lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I deployed ntfy and traefik, and adapted a few composes to use it.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 weeks ago
I plugged in an NVIDIA gpu in my server and enabled ollama to use it, diligently updated my public wiki about it and now enjoying real time gpt: OSS model responses!
I was amazed, time cut from 3-8 minutes down to seconds. I have a Intel Core7 with 48gb ram, but even an oldish gpu beats the crap out of it.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
In that same vein I got an AMD Pro V620 32GB off ebay and have been struggling to get it to POST on my x570 motherboard, but I finally tried it on my old ASUS b450-i with a Ryzen 5 2400GE and with a few BIOS setting changes it fired right up.
Now I need to figure out what I’m doing wrong on the x570 board so I can run the V620 combined with my 9060XT for bigger models
sharkaccident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What GPU and model you use?
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 weeks ago
NVIDIA Corporation GA104GL [RTX A4000] (rev a1)
From lspci
It has 16gb of VRAM, not too much but enough to run gpt:OSS 20b and a few other models pretty nice.
I noticed that it’s better to stick to a single model, I imagine that unload and reload the model in VRAM takes time.
stochastic_parrot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I survived another week without using LLM in my self-hosted servers.
Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I finally buckled down and built a music server. I had a ton of FLAC from before sources but never found the right software stack to make it a good replacement for the typical streaming services.
It took about a month of beating/breaking/resetting and removing unnecessary software. In the end it was way simpler than I originally thought and required very minimal resources.
philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
All of my apps are running without issue. First time in months
nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
I had enough time to install sort of pihole.
shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’m curious what alternative to Pi-hole you set up. (I’m planning on installing Pi-hole soon but wanna hear all my options)
Hule@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have used Adguard Home before. I found it to be very similar to Pi-hole.
I never tried Technitium.
Currently I use Pi-hole with unbound.
AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It may not really be selfhosting but, managed to get a live USB with persistence so that i don’t need to carry a laptop around
Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 weeks ago
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AP WiFi Access Point CA (SSL) Certificate Authority DNS Domain Name Service/System Git Popular version control system, primarily for code IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol for email IP Internet Protocol SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (‘Jabber’) for open instant messaging k8s Kubernetes container management package
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shrek_is_love@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
good bot
billbasher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I solved my no display issue on my server. I couldn’t even get the BIOS on output. After taking the entire thing apart and testing all the components it turns out my Tv broke itself with a firmware update and couldn’t receive input on any of the HDMI ports…
123@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Name and shame the brand?
billbasher@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
LG OLED ~2019. Nintendo Switch video wouldn’t even come through, which is how I figured it out
clif@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Reinstalled Dropbear for remote LUKS unlock after a SSD failure.
SSD failure was two weeks ago or I’d say rebuilding the server from backups and further polishing my Ansible playbook.
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Building to this week. A few months ago, I was given a broken nas. I took it, thinking I’ve at least got 16TB of storage if it won’t work. Fixed it. Saw the software includes docker, and then saw it has just 2GB ram and before I installed anything it would complain about low memory. Got 16GB, and installed it last weekend.
Spent the week installing and setting up Immich, navidrome, and integrating my other server running arrs.
qbus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
16gb. So you got a $300 nas
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Pulled 8 out of an old laptop, and bought 8 for about 30€.
kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Managed too get stoat working over I2P.
aksdb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Finally took the time to setup Woodpecker CI to replace Drone. Also finally linked it not only to my self hosted gitea, but also to github, so I can automate a few builds there as well.
In the process I also learned, that I can set up a whole bunch of pods in a single kube definition for podman/quadlets, which allows me to have a much cleaner setup. Previously I was only aware that you can define a single pod with multiple containers. It makes sense, but it never occurred to me before.
parzival@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
Started running arr stack, started running music assistant, improved home assistant dashboards, and fixed uptime tracker
IratePirate@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Discovered and got psittsa up and running, a cool little project that combines Piper (TTS engine) with a web frontent that allows users to copy-paste text or URLs and to either stream the audio from the browser or download it as mp3. Apparently it even does clean-up of old files behind the scenes.
kossa@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
In recent weeks samba became unstable for using external storage, finally came around this week to use sshfs instead. Seems stable for now, all I could ask for 👌
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Samba is great, but it’s hell when you need multiplatform support… I have some weird fruit thing going one to support MacOS :/
I can’t remember why, but I gave sshfs a try but stayed why samba.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I dockerize FileHunter: github.com/ikidd/file-hunter-dockerized
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Setup my audiobookshelf server successfully. Also, just realized that the Synology NAS that I’ve had running for a couple of years now without really using it much, can be mounted onto my Debian server, that I use a lot, as a mass storage and will work just fine. Mind blown. I now have plenty of storage after struggling for a while. Lmao.
shark@lemmy.org 2 weeks ago
Set up my audiobookshelf server successfully.
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Do you put ebooks in it too, or just audiobooks and podcasts? I’ve been using BookLore for my ebooks, and really like it – I just wish it was a little faster.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Strictly audiobooks. Mostly for my wife because that’s all she listens to. For me, it is 90% ebook on my kobo and 10% audiobooks. Only when I’m doing something around the house or driving do I listen to an audiobook. I’ve also built my own android ABS client that I made to my liking.
Bienenvolk@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Finally got the time to set up OpenCloud. It is a pain in the ass to wade through their convoluted clusterfuck of compose files, but it is worth it! Sometime next week I’ll refactor my current deployment. If I deem it fine, I might post it here for others to reference.
sharkaccident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Opencloud was a weird experience for me. Getting it started was great and having all of the options and features available led me to build it bigger than I initially planned. The downfall was it became too slow with everything I wanted to do with it. Could have been my hardware but it became unusable.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Looks like it just have to be like that with all open source projects in this space with a name ending in “cloud” ;)
Bienenvolk@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Oh yikes! I’ll see how it goes.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Absolutely nightmare to set up, especially with OIDC, but once it was finally up it was such a night and day difference from Nextcloud. Worth setting up for sure
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The nextcloud AIO instance that hadn’t been working since September suddenly started working after I updated it. This was all after their forums did fuck all to help except tell me to get gud. I knew the problem wasn’t on me or my config and I feel so vindicated
bobslaede@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Have you had a look at opencloud? Not many addons, but simple-ish cloud drive and docs and such. Does not use many resources.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I have an instance running, but haven’t had a ton of time to dedicate on getting it the way I need it. I need a calendar that is accessible anonymously via the web for people to know my availability. File server, CalDAV, and CardDAV I was able to get separate solutions for.
Restaldt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I got fedora installed on a refurbished win11 laptop and finally got jellyfin working in my new house after i moved 1.5 years ago.
Kodi got me by in the dark times but its nice to have episode progress saved and being able to resume from any browser on my local network.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Klox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m redoing everything I have from scratch. This week I have FreeIPA set up from OpenTofu + Ansible configs, and enrolls most of my other servers against FreeIPA. I am still migrating TrueNAS to use FreeIPA’s Kerberos Realm for auth, and I need to chown a lot of files for the new UIDs and GIDs homed in FreeIPA. After that, I’m setting up FreeRadius for auth to switches, APs, and Wifi. And then after that, I’m back to overhauling my k8s stack. I have Talos VMs running but didn’t finish patching in Cilium. And after the real fun begins.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My servers are up