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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Please not these posts again This thread is pinned for a reason: lemmy.world/post/60585
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman or rootless docker?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Podman
- rootless by default
- daemonless
- integration with systemd, made even easier by podman-generate-systemd
- no third-party APT repository required, follows the same lifecycle as my LTS (Debian) distro
- podman and docker command-line are 100% compatible for my use cases
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Static site generator for an idiot who doesn't want to learn a new templating language just to have a blog?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
www.sphinx-doc.org + pradyunsg.me/furo/ theme + myst-parser.readthedocs.io markdown parser + sphinx-design.readthedocs.io extensions.

Just drop all your markdown files in a directory and run sphinx-build. Highly customizable but also works out of the box
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excluding shorts from Youtube RSS feeds in FreshRSS, regardless of #shorts in the title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

You just have to find the channel_id buried in the page source

I use this Firefox addon for that: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/youtube-rss-finder/ - really useful
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Store (and access) old emails⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wrote this ansible role to setup dovecot IMAP server. Once a year I move all mail from the previous year from various mailboxes to my dovecot server (using thunderbird).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Results comparison 8B parameter LLM x Gemini⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Interesting post, but what does this have to do with selfhosting? This is not /c/llm
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latest Macrium Reflect Version (X) will be a Subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hostee storage for Gmail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I wrote this ansible role to setup dovecot IMAP server. Once a year I move all mail from the previous year from various mailboxes to my dovecot server (using thunderbird).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server Monitoring software recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I use the Netdata agent (with cloud features disabled). Easy installation, FOSS, 0 configuration required, tons of metrics.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tryong to figure out the best way to set up a self hosted matrix server.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I wrote my own ansible role to deploy/maintain a matrix server and a few goodies (element/synapse-admin). If you’re not using ansible you should still be able to understand the deployment logic by starting at tasks/main.yml and following includes/tasks from there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

host maps

It does require a beefy server (rendering tiles is CPU/RAM-intensive, storing pre-rendered tiles is expensive on storage) It should be doable on limited hardware if only a small area.

I think the better move would be keeping/distributing a local copy of the OsmAnd android APK and a few maps for the app. Because you’ll not be able to provide map access to people from your server if the Internet/local fiber/phone network is down - this way everyone can have their own full copy of the map.

I’m not sure about the method to extract map data from the app storage directory though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just download a copy of a recent wikipedia dump. You can open it in the Kiwix desktop application (work fine even on an old laptop), the android app (though I’ve never tried opening a full 100GB dump with a phone, not sure if it would work well), or install the kiwix-tool package and serve the .zim file with kiwix-serve (wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-serve). You’d also probably want a reverse proxy/usual basic web server/security setup around that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What self-hosted services can help during a crisis or emergency? This is for those affected OR those who want to help⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Second this, always have a device preloaded with Kiwix and one of the wikipedia dumps. A new vesrion is uploaded every few (~6 months). The full English wikipedia dump with images (low-res versions only though) is only 103GB.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox on Laptop, Network Setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
libvirt/virt-manager is a nice VM management tool.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experience with IONOS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Their cheap 1-6€/month VPS offers are actually fine. Not much to say about it, it just works.

awesome-selfhosted.net is hosted on a Ionos VPS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab Organization⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
- ansible playbook for automated/self-documenting setup
- for one-off bugs or ongoing/long-term problems, open an issue on my gitea instnce and track the investigations and solutions there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker email server to host mail archive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

allows my mail clients to connect via IMAP to view and search emails

dovecot will be able to handle this part. This is what I use as a mail archive (once a year, archive all mail from the previous year from various mailboxes to my self-hosted dovecot instance). I wrote this ansible role for it.

downloads new emails via IMAP

As others recommended, imapsync should be able to handle that part.

downloads new emails via IMAP

These tools are simple enough to install and manage (one package, one config file), Docker is not needed. If you really need it to fit into your docker-based setup, build and maintain your own images.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little tool for quick work stories⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What’s your existing setup? For such a simple task, check if any of the tools you use currently can be adapted (simple text files on a web server? File sharing like Nextcloud and text files? Pastebin-like? Wiki? …). Otherwise a simple Shaarli instance could do the trick (just post “notes” aka. bookmarks without an URL). I use this theme to make it nicer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted employee time clock?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I would never recommend Odoo anymore, given how painful it is to upgrade from a major version to another. Their answer to it is basically “yeah, some complex migrations need to be done, just send us a copy of your database with highly sensitive company data, pay us to do the migration and we’ll send it back to you”. Yeah, lol, no.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to RaspiCheck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
- monitoring: github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin?tab=read…
- sending commands: github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
- rsync + basic scripting for periodic sync, or
- distributed/replicated filesystems for real-time sync (I would start with Ceph)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for cheap hardware upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I agree that desktop/ATX tower PCs are the most useful form factor, you can stuff all your old junk hardware in there and offer it a second life without much investment.

However with current electricity prices buying more power efficient hardware can be a better medium-term investment. 1kWh bills at 0.2516€ currently where I’m at (~EU average price), assuming an average power consumption of 50W this gives you (50×24×365)/1000×0.2516=110€/year. At this rate a 200€ investment in hardware would pay for itself in 2-3 years.

Buying a <100€ setup is not worth it for general purpose servers in my opinion, it will either be underpowered or power hungry.

My current solution is to to run all my services in KVM (libvirt) VMs on my beefy desktop computer which is already on most of the time anyway. Best of both worlds.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox server monitoring⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Netdata can also expose metrics to prometheus which you can then use in Grafana for more advanced dashboards learn.netdata.cloud/docs/…/prometheus
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Apps on Kubernetes?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I just don’t have that much time to spend on initial implementation and upkeep

Well k8s is a poor choice of platform for you :D
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDD spins but OS doesnt see mountable disk⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
lsblk also show block devices and is prettier than looking directly at /sys/class/block
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation for outgoing-only SMTP server⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

github.com/chriswayg/ansible-msmtp-mailer/…/14 While msmtp has features to alter the envelope sender and recipient, it doesn’t alter the “To:” or “From:” message itself. When the Envelope doesn’t match these details, it can be considered spam

Oh I didn’t know that, good to know!

The proposed one-line wrapper looks like a nice solution

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation for outgoing-only SMTP server⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

You can definitely replace senders with correct mail addresses for relaying through SMTP server that expect them (this is what I do):

# /etc/msmtprc
account default
...
# Replace local recipients with addresses in the aliases file
aliases /etc/aliases

# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
webmaster: root
www: root
ftp: root
abuse: root
noc: root
security: root
root: default
www-data: root
default: myaddress@gmail.com

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Migrate from nextcloud photo backups to immich?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t mind him. He’s always there ranting about who knows what whenever software he dislikes is mentioned. Easiest method to summon him is to mention Nextcloud and Proxmox in the same sentence.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Running DNS server in Docker⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Usually you would have a second DNS resolver configured in /etc/resolv.conf (or whatever name resolution config system you are using, resolvconf, systemd-networkd, etc). The system will fall back to this resolver if the first resolver fails to respond (and/or replies NXDOMAIN, I’m not sure. The exact order and fallback conditions may vary depending on which system you use). This can be another dnsmasq instance, a public DNS resolver, your ISP’s resolver, etc. This allows at least basic DNS resolution to work before your dnsmasq instance comes back up.

I would also add automatic monitoring for dnsmasq (either check that the service/container is running, or check the TCP connection to port 53, or check that DNS resolution is working for a known domain, etc)