oranki

@oranki@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why docker⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Portability is the key for me, because I tend to switch things around a lot. Containers generally isolate the persistent data from the runtime really well.

  Docker is not the only, or even the best way IMO to run containers. If I was providing services for customers, I would definetly build most container images daily in some automated way. Well, I do it already for quite a few.

  The mess is only a mess if you don’t really understand what you’re doing, same goes for traditional services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin and backblaze b2⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely, a Hetzner storage box is going to be so slow you will regret it. I would just bite the bullet and upgrade the storage on Contabo.

  Storage in the cloud is expensive, there’s just no way around it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨worth selfhosting immich or similar? what about backups?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a good blog post about the real cost of storage, but I can’t find it now.

  The gist was that to store 1TB of data somewhat reliably, you probably need at least:

  • mirrored main storage 2TB
  • frequent/local backup space, also at least mirrored disks 2TB + more if using a versioned backup system
  • remote / cold storage backup space about the same as the frequent backups

  Which amounts to something like 6TB of disk for 1TB of actual data. In real life you’d probably use some other level of RAID, at least for larger amounts so it’s perhaps not as harsh, and compression can reduce the required backup space too.

  I have around 130G of data in Nextcloud, and the off-site borg repo for it is about 180G. Then there’s local backups on a mirrored HDD, with the ZFS snapshots that are not yet pruned that’s maybe 200G of raw disk space. So 130G becomes 510G in my setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do y'all actually host?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this stage I’ll probably just mirror my stuff from GH. I have a feeling they’ll be doing something stupid soon, forcing people to look for alternatives.

  Would be nice to collaborate with others, but getting started is hard when you don’t have enough free time.

  It seems Gitea has basic CI + package registries now, that will be plenty for my needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do y'all actually host?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nextcloud, Synapse + bridges, Adguard Home, Uptime Kuma, Home Assistant. Thinking about spinning up Gitea, Forgejo or Gitlab again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wireguard runs over UDP, the port is undistinguishable from closed ports for most common port scanning bots. Changing the port will obfuscate the traffic a bit. Even if someone manages to guess the port, they’ll still need to use the right key, otherwise the response is like from a wrong port - no response. Your ISP can still see that it’s Wireguard traffic if they happen to be looking, but can’t decipher the contents.

  I would drop containers from the equation and just run Wireguard on the host. When issues arise, you’ll have a hard time identifying the problem when container networking is in the mix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to run everything with Pis, but then got a x86 USFF to improve Nextcloud performance.

  With the energy price madness last year in Europe, I moved most things to cloud VPSs.

  One Pi is still running Home Assistant, hooked to my heating/ventilation unit via RS485/modbus.

  I had a ZFS backup server with 2 HDDs hooked up over USB to a Pi 8GB. That is just way too unreliable for anything serious, I think I now have a lot of corrupted files in the backups. Looking into getting some Synology unit for that.

  For anything serious that requires file storage, I’d steer clear from USB or SD cards. After getting used to SATA performance, it’s hard to go back anyways. I’d really like to use the Pis, but family photo backups turning gray due to bitflips is unacceptable.

  They are a great entrypoint to self-hosting and the Linux world though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you prefer for a self hosted calendar?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though you said “isn’t Nextcloud”, I’d still say it’s perhaps the simplest solution.

  You can disable most the other apps and set calendar as the landing page. If you don’t use the other features, the resource usage is very low, just a cron job that does basically nothing. I don’t think disabling the default apps has much effect on the footprint, by the way.

  Calendar, contacts and notes are why I still self host nextcloud. Just remember to pay/donate to Davx5, they’re one of the projects that need to keep running!