K3can

@K3can@lemmy.radio

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative to github pages?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing you want to selfhost, rather than use a hosting service?

  When you say you have your site already, do you mean it’s hosted on a local webserver, or just that you have the files?

  If it’s just the files, you’ll need to choose a webserver. I like NGINX myself, but lighttpd is another option (there’s quite a few options, really, but sticking to a well known option is generally more secure).

  Configuration will depend on the server you choose, but then you’ll put the files into three “root folder” used by the webserver. This isn’t the system root ( ‘/’ ), but a different folder specified as the root of your web page, usually ‘/var/www/html or /srv/www/html’.

  Once the files are in place, you can test the site by using the web browser on another PC and entering the local IP address of the server. If everything looks good, you can set up port forwarding on your router to forward public port 80 to port 80 on the local server.

  Lastly, you will need a DNS provider which will point your domain to the IP address of your router. Assuming you have residential service, you will need to determine whether your IP address is static or dynamic, or if your ISP is utilizing CGNAT. Depending on those factors, you may need to do some additional setup.

  Once it is working, your next step will likely be to set up SSL and port forwarding on 443. That will allow your website to be accessed over https, which is the standard for the modern Internet.

  I have hosted my own website and a blog for a while, and there are definitely some additional steps I would recommend to take, but the above is your basic starting point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I corrupting my data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not. It’s just a GUI for a server.

  It’s a modular GUI, though. The base install allows basic server management: system stats, upgrades, and a couple other bits. However, you can install additional modules to expand the GUI to allow for storage management, ZFS management, container management, file sharing (NFS, SMB), a file browser, VM management, user management, and so on.

  My go-to “NAS system” is just standard Debian with Cockpit and a handful of supporting modules. It gives a nice GUI like OMV, but with all the flexibility and control of a normal Debian install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I corrupting my data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Late to the party, but if you really want a GUI for ZFS, 45drives has a ZFS plug-in for cockpit that works quite well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s called dynamic DNS (it’s the dd in ddclient).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted blog - do I need a static IP address?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I selfhost my blog without a static IP. You just need Dynamic DNS.

  Keep in mind that your outbound bandwidth might be different from your inbound. I get 300mbps in, but only 5mbps out. It’s not noticeable during normal Internet use, but as you start sharing content publicly, limited bandwidth becomes really noticeable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman Quadlets are so cool⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Using them here to run everything. My whole *arr stack is running in a Quadlet pod. Really convenient, especially the auto update and rollbacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What RSS feeds are you subscribed to?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nerd blogs, a couple message boards and Reddit subs, and XKCD, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep track of vulnerabilities?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some tools to help, but things are sort of specific to particular aspects. Lynis for general systems, ntopng for networks, and such.

  For 90% of stuff, though, you can just stick to stable repos and upgrade on a schedule and you’ll be alright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Reverse Proxy for Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a good reverse proxy for a set up using Cloudflare?

  Having a reverse proxy behind your reverse proxy is a little redundant, but should work fine. My preference after trying several was nginx. The config takes a little to get used to, but it has a ton of features.

  is Cloudflare’s proxy really needed?

  Not at all.

  Cloudflare just makes configuration a bit easier, especially if you’re behind CGNAT. I wrote a little about them here: blog.k3can.us/index.php?post/2025/02/Cloudflare-f…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you host on your backup servers?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Host? As in running services?

  Wireguard and the Proxmox Backup Server software itself. Redundancy/failover comes from the server cluster itself, not my backup server.

  As far as the backup content, it “hosts” backup images of my VMs and LXCs, plus /home from my laptop in case it ever gets lost or damaged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Podman or rootless docker?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use podman almost exclusively at this point. I like having the rootless containers and secrets management. If you’re on Debian, though, I strongly suggest pulling podman from Trixie. The version in Bookworm is very out of date and there’s been a lot of fixes since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to run a reverse proxy only on a specific service or port?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, though, you can proxy other services, like Gemini or gopher, through the same proxy for simplicity’s sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you selfhost your own blog/website?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I self host.

  I use nginx as a reverse proxy with crowdsec. The backends are nginx and mariadb. Everything is running on Debian VMs or LXCs with apparmor profiles and it’s all isolated to an “untrusted” VLAN.

  It’s obviously still “safer” to have someone else host your stuff, like a VPS or Github Pages, etc, but I enjoy selfhosting and I feel like I’ve mitigated most of the risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you already know Docker CLI, is there a reason to use Portainer?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine that if your job is making YouTube videos, portainer and other graphical abstraction layers probably make more visually interesting videos than just watching someone type out a bunch of commands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I redirect to a /path with Nginx Proxy Manager?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going to be playing with custom locations and such, it might be worth using nginx directly instead of through the limitations of NPM.