Jason2357
@Jason2357@lemmy.ca
- Comment on VPN server on router or within home network? 3 days ago:
Yeah, basically. It does bundle wireguard so that it can reverse proxy services over that. That’s probably what you were thinking of.
- Comment on VPN server on router or within home network? 3 days ago:
Pangolin Is a reverse proxy for TLS/https. Headscale is the self hosted Tailscale.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 5 days ago:
I have Tailscale (actually headscale) set up on all my devices and the performance is good enough I don’t turn it off when I’m home and on the same lan as my server. The connection is p2p so it’s just a little encryption overhead. When I travel to other networks like my mobile network, or various corp wifi networks, it continues to try to get a p2p connection. Only sometimes corporate wifi networks block p2p and the traffic round trips through my VPS. It does take a lot of load off the VPS compared to the old way with openVPN. It also continues to work “for a while” if the VPS is down.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 6 days ago:
Exactly. Plex could have been “profitable” in the sense that revenue covered infrastructure and paid a handful of full time employees, but that’s not what VC money needs.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 6 days ago:
If you are using wireguard from the VPS to your home server, it buys you nothing more. If you have mobile devices connecting directly to the home server, Tailscale will let them connect directly in most cases, which is nice.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 6 days ago:
I’m willing to recommend Tailscale because I run headscale and it does basically everything a selfhoster needs. When the free version is passable, it’s harder to enshitify the commercial version.
- Comment on My WordPress workflow: WordTsar (a WordStar clone), Markdown and (optionally) iA Writer 6 days ago:
Wordtsar looks fun. I may try it out. I feel like converting to markdown and then using a plugin to push it into Wordpress is maybe just the precursor to going full-on static site generator ;)
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 6 days ago:
I used phi3:mini-4k for tagging all my bookmarks and don’t think it was any worse than a big model for that kind of job. It will run on a 10 year old cpu and a few gb of ram.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 6 days ago:
Yeah, I don’t bother sorting and organizing old files/bookmarks/whatever. Automatic tagging and full-text search solve that need. I try to keep recent stuff organized nicely though.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 6 days ago:
And you can put a secure note in there that has all the instructions necessary for them to access anything they might need (either by taking that note to someone skilled enough to follow the instructions, or by making it dead simple enough for them to just extract everything to an empty external ntfs hard drive in a simple file hierarchy).
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 6 days ago:
I found that going back to bookmarking (and subscribing to RSS) is the best way to pull away from the algorithm-feed-trough of the social media websites and SEO bullshit. As I got more and more bookmarks of interesting sites, and found lots of feeds to subscribe too, I found I naturally gravitated away from the corporate web. It’s a requirement now if you are interested at all in indie-web type stuff, forums for esoteric hobbies or software communities, or personal web pages of interesting people -those things just don’t show up on search engines or social media anymore.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 6 days ago:
Does it still count as “self hosting” if one of your backups uses something like restic to push to b2 or hetzner storage boxes? It’s not consumer point and click.
I have one copy going there, and one going to a $50 thinkstation usff connected to a single external hard drive. It’s not raid, but if it dies, it just gets quickly replaced while I rely on the hosted backup.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 1 week ago:
NAT punching and proxying when a p2p connection between any 2 nodes cannot be achieved. It’s a world of difference with mobile devices when they always see each other, all the time. However, headscale does all that.
- Comment on Good experience with neko remote browser 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s what you are doing with ssh tunnels and remote browsers. If you want separation, they can put your computer in their router’s DMZ (demilitarized zone), so it doesn’t have access to their devices. Additionally, If you use the Tailscale IPs (or host names) instead of their local IPs on his network, they won’t ever change.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. EBay and Amazon have a certified refurbished thing with warranties for a little more money, or monitor local classified sites if you can inspect them. I’ve bought a couple off Kijiji here in Canada, which is a bit like Craigslist and Facebook marketplace. The sellers didn’t advertise that they were a business selling off-lease stuff, but you can tell by the number of laptops they post.
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 5 weeks ago:
Find out if there are any corporate off-lease machines being sold in your area. USFF machines are frequently used as mini desktops or point of sale computers then sold off for peanuts when warranties are done. Especially look at i3-8xxx generation, as they don’t support windows 11 fully.
- Comment on Why is everyone using Tailscale? 1 month ago:
Thanks, I like it. The downside is that the VPS can see the content of my services, so it’s no good if you don’t trust the VPS provider, or if the content is too sensitive to allow that. I think it’s a good trade-off for my usage though. Performs well. One of the services I proxy is a rpi serving images downloaded from weather satellites. Connecting directly to the pi is super slow, but the proxy caching makes it 100% faster.
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel Alternatives 1 month ago:
I use a $2 VPS in Quebec that proxies my home stuff over Tailscale. It uses Caddy and does the TLS encryption and caching. It has the providers DDOS protection, plus I have configured the firewall to have some further protection.
It could also just directly forward TLS packets over any sort of VPN if you didn’t trust the VPS provider or wanted to reduce cpu load.
- Comment on I cooked some food cubes. 1 month ago:
Make a big flat pancake of batter and use a cookie-cutter?
- Comment on Why is everyone using Tailscale? 1 month ago:
The VPS is a $2 instance and very under powered, however it has a dedicated static IP and some Ddos protection. The basement computer is powerfully and capable of providing various services, but I don’t want any trouble with my home IP address. Tailscale let’s the VPS see the home computer securely.
- Comment on Why is everyone using Tailscale? 1 month ago:
I use both. Caddy on a VPS that reaches into my Tailscale network and proxies services hosted on a computer in my basement.
- Comment on Selfhosting static site behind two routers? 1 month ago:
Either DMZ on the first router, or bridge mode on the second.
- Comment on I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files? 1 month ago:
Your opinion is a hard-learned lesson here. I only recently figured that out. The Nextcloud “app store” is just too tempting.
- Comment on I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files? 1 month ago:
I use both as well. They server different purposes. When my wife wants to take a quick scan of a paper document and archive it instantly, or have pictures auto-upload, or open and edit a document we worked on a year ago, all on her IPhone, the Nextcloud client works great. When I want to keep the files in my home directory, including some big, regularly changing files, instantly synced between computers and hosted VMs, Syncthing is amazing. I also add Syncthing shares as an external source in Nextcloud, so I can open those files on my phone as well. As others have said, Nextcloud works fine, provided you don’t start installing all sorts of “apps” you don’t need -stick to the basics.
- Comment on Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost? 2 months ago:
I see you have a bunch of good answers now, so I’ll ask; if you are comfortable self hosting, why not consider a VPS? Yes it can be a little bit of maintenance, but it’s very minimal and you get far more flexibility and the ability to further develop those selfhosting chops.
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 2 months ago:
I use sendgrid as my outgoing smtp relay to avoid ip reputation issues you mention. You still have to configure your dns settings for spf and dkim pointing at their servers instead of yours. Their free tier is 10x the email I’ll ever send so it doesn’t cost anything. There are a few companies in this space with free tiers. It works, but it isnt Gmail level deliverability. I still get spam binned occasionally.
- Comment on Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots 2 months ago:
This is signal detection theory combined with an arms race that keeps the problem hard. You cannot block scrapers without blocking people, and you cannot inconvenience bots without also inconveniencing readers. You might figure something clever out temporarily, but eventually this truism will resurface. Excuse me while I solve a few more captchas.