liliumstar

@liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to self host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  To start small setup a static website behind nginx. This requires you to create a basic website or copy a template, it goes somewhere in your filesystem, in linux /var/www is common. Once you have that, setup the nginx service and point it to that location. You can do this locally then expose it to the net or put on a VPS. Here is a dead simple guide presuming you have a remote server: dev.to/…/how-to-deploy-a-simple-website-with-ngin…

  Once you have that covered, ensure you know how to setup ssh keys and such, then install, configure, and run services. From there, most things are easy outside of overly complicated configurations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any nice playbook or tutorial to host a static website from home?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I happened across this tool to help you create configs, it looks pretty good, easier than piecing together all the parameters separately: www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx Seems like it has directions for certbot and generating dhparams, etc. as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For something like that, you’d want a VPS with 2-4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD. Any less and you’ll start to run into problems when adding bridges and stuff.

  So, it’s really a matter of what deals you can find in that bracket, and if you care about the geographical region it’s hosted in. Usually lowendtalk.com is a good place to start looking at options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pi-Hole question regarding unbound and cloudflared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what you have is fine, and wouldn’t worry about it too much.

  That said, I run unbound with pi-hole, directing the dns queries through a wireguard tunnel. It’s a bit slower, but I do like having my own recursive DNS, especially with news that more and more services are implementing DNS level blocking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Media server client, pihole, emulation, programming or home automation project. You could even prop it up as a standalone web server and make some kinda creative thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Authentication for external sevices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s feasible as long as all the stuff you want to auth supports oauth, oidc, or saml. It might be a bit overkill for your use case, unless you have a bunch of services you didn’t mention. Keycloak has a bit of a learning curve, but works great once you get past that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people use NGINX?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good question. I chose it initially because it was open source and way easier (in my eyes) than Apache. I don’t recall the others being an option at the time, or I was not aware of them. nginx does what I need without complaint, so I haven’t switched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for a good .ca domain host?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately Cloudflare does not do .ca domains. I imagine this is because there are restrictions on who can own one, so it’s probably not worth the trouble for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked out the main feed, OP. Not sure this is going anywhere based on the content I saw. I have no opinion on the site as a technical work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What helps people get comfortable on the command line?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good article. From my observation, there are a few things:

  • Necessity. I’m active in communities with people who don’t use the terminal until it’s an absolute necessity. Like people running unraid, docker, or whatever containerized server. Eventually they need to type commands.
  • The prettiness. Yeah, I run oh-my-zsh. It’s nice having a setup pretty environment. Some people’s only experience might be opening up the powershell default display to run one command… And that is a bad experience.
  • Niche commands/programs. Take ffmpeg as an example. It’s probably the most powerful media tool that exists, but has no official gui. And it’s expansive enough that no GUI really covers what it can do. There are a bunch of other things like this.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted GitHub alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another +1 for gitea. It works quite well and is easy to setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully local nameservice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fairly easy to add local domain names with pihole, so presuming all devices on your network are using it, you shouldn’t have a problem.