themachine

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No i mean instead of OpenVPN i would recmmend you look into using Tailscale. If you want to fully self host it then you can run the open source control plane calles Headscale instead of relying on Tailscale’s (the company) free service tier om their own control plane.

  The Tailscale client and server are also open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll always have bots knocking on your doors. In general keep the doors locked and you are fine.

  I highly recommend trying tailscale with headscale over openvpn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a somewhat native file editor in nextcloud but for your needs I would recommend setting up integration with either OnlyOffice or Collabora (LibreOffice). I am currently using OnlyOffice and while my utilization isn’t much or often it seems to do what it should without any fuss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t had any issues whatsoever.

  I’ve done nothing special regarding security and have it exposed to the public internet. I intend on having fail2ban look at its logs but I’ve not yet set that up (entirely out of laziness).

  If you want to be very secure I would recommend having it entirely behind a VPN. I personally use tailscale+headscale for my internal only services but like I said I have Nextcloud publicly exposed as I want to be able to access it from potentially any device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Searching advice for selfhosting critical data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as the “what you want” stuff goes, Nextcloud can do all of it and I use it for exactly that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not correct. A VPN would be one method but you can also just expose the service to the internet in a number of ways and accomplish the same thing Plex provides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. You have to expose your server to the internet in some way bit you don’t have to set up some sort of VPN. There are plenty of people who will tell you how awful of an idea it is but if you make smart choices it’s not a big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to build a Mini ITX PC for my home server, where do I start?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should build the hardware around what your compute requirements dictate. A NAS needs little in the area if compute power but Minecraft could be a little demanding. Review the Minecraft server requirements and build based on that. Or build to Max out your budget and get the best you can up to that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sharing Jellyfin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just expose it to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Nextcloud document service setup would you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OnlyOffice has been working fine for me though I’ve not used it in serious capacity.

  I initially started with Collabora but for some reason I couldn’t get it working. This is surely not an issue with the product though and entirely my fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use the wifi then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework Laptop 12 is now available for pre-order for €569 and up (but not in the US)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are either of those brands designed with the same level of user serviceability in mind?

  The main drive for framework is how easy they are to repair or mod along with their varying degrees of modularity (such as their swappable ports).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antivirus en Linux – ¿Lo necesitas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he’s a blog spammer. Sure the question is valid but his “article” is just links to various youtube videos. The blog itself has zero substance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antivirus in Linux – Do You Need It?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not like there’s much to read in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Potential upgrade⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Set up what you want on what you already have and if your workload is more than your hardware can handle then upgrade.

  Overall most of what you rattled off isn’t too resource heavy but 12gb of memory isnt exactly a lot and i dont know what your minecraft server will eat up.

  Alternatively look up the recommended minimum specs for each of your desired applications and add up the needs.

  Additionally if this isnt going to be a headless system and you want a desktop gui that consumes resources as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can you boot a server if someone tries to connect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds more or less to be exactly what I’m doing with NPM currently. I don’t see how it’s easier to configure as all I did was fire up the NPM container, log in, and add my host targets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can you boot a server if someone tries to connect⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whats wrong with NPM?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me selfhosted, I'm in over my head!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its just a computer, nothing more. You would do exactly the same thing as you would on a desktop or vps.

  No you do not have to plug in both power cords but if both aren’t plugged in it may blare an alarm. If so plug in the other or just remove the redundant PSU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encrypted backups to the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for restic. I have additionally started using autorestic with it and have been happy how it operates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start as a beginner⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I constantly hear this but I just want to be the counter argument here.

  Self hosting email is not the impossible tasks that people make it out to be. It is on the more advanced side of things though if you are hosting your primary email that you rely on.

  I’ve been hosting my own email forany years now and have had no issues whatsoever but I also have years of experience and know how email works better than many that have no interest in such.

  I would NOT recommended starting your self hosting journey with email but I will never discourage people from doing it.

  Take your time. Ask questions any time you don’t understand something. Be ready to learn a lot and design a solid plan for disaster recovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Times Heals All Wounds" and "This Too Shall Pass" may be true, but the time window doesn't have to happen during your lifetime.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this reference!