DaTingGoBrrr
@DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world
- Comment on Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy 3 days ago:
I got started self-hosting using a small Lenovo Thinkcentre and an HP EliteDesk. Both are available to purchase for around 100 dollars on ebay. I have installed Proxmox on both of them. Proxmox is an operating system built on Debian Linux and is used to host containers and virtual machines. It has a great WebGUI to access the server.
Using Proxmox I have set up a Pelican container for game servers hosting, I run my own personal wiki, I have PiHole, Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf and a lot more.
To access your things out of home you can use a VPN to connect to your own network or open ports in your router. I only had to open port 80 and 443 to expose my reverse proxy to the internet and then I use the reverse proxy to route the traffic internally to the correct port and project. I also purchases a domain name and now I can use jellyfin.mydomain.com or wiki.mydomain.com or whatever.mydomain.com to access each project I self-host. It’s very convenient!
Trying new projects is super easy and if you want to remove something then just delete the container. No old leftovers will stay on the host system. There are also community scripts available to make hosting even easier. It will install and configure the containers for you.
- Comment on I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification 3 days ago:
This is great! Thank you for sharing
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 weeks ago:
They also mention it on the wiki page but I could see fractals and different patterns when I closed my eyes while on shrooms.
- Comment on Valve announces three new products: the Steam Frame, Steam Machine and Steam Controller 3 weeks ago:
I am at least getting two controllers but the steam frame and the steam machine looks super cool too!
- Comment on waiting for steamdeck to install my non-steam game 3 weeks ago:
It could also be a reference to the fact that Steam Deck can now install and download games while put in sleep mode. It’s in the latest Preview and Beta release of SteamOS.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 4 weeks ago:
The dot com bubble 2.0 is on the horizon
- Comment on A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1 5 weeks ago:
It depends on the project/container. Some containers run Debian, some Alpine, some Ubuntu. I mostly rely on the community scripts from here and use the defaults.
community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
I guess everything that supports containers, QEMU and KVM is compatible to use as a guest OS in Proxmox.
- Comment on A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1 5 weeks ago:
Yes, as I said it’s a debian base. But Proxmox is built for servers and using it to host and share containers or virtual machines is super simple. Especially with the community helper scripts that can set up different self-hosting projects within minutes with minimal tinkering.
- Comment on A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1 5 weeks ago:
Personally I would recommend Proxmox. It’s a debian based distro for hosting containers and virtual machines
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 month ago:
Lmao are you okey? Is your brain working? Keep getting scammed by cloud hosting if you want to. I will keep using my home server and spread the word about how easy it is to host a home server and how much of a scam a VPS is.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 month ago:
When the majority of people talk about self-hosting they specifically talk about hosting a service on your own hardware. Not a rent on someone else’s computer…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Self-hosting_(web_services)
www.openproject.org/…/why-self-hosting-software/
Even Lenovo knows this shit…
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 month ago:
Sure, you could say that since you put the service on the VPS. But you don’t own the server and host it on your own hardware. Which is what the person you replied to was talking about. Why would you even point out that hosting on service requires special knowledge if you find hosting in a VPS and at home equal?
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 month ago:
Once could say it requires special knowledge to host a service in the cloud too. The extra step I had to take was to open port 80 and 433 on my server and install nginx to forward the traffic to the right container on my local network since I only have one public IP. It took me minimal research to figure it out.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 month ago:
The point was that self-hosting is not hard if you do it the right way. You claim it’s very hard and requires specialized knowledge. I don’t think it’s much different than hosting in the cloud.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 month ago:
I got started self-hosting last week when I got ahold of a smal Lenovo ThinkCentre. I installed Proxmox on it and if I want to self-host something I just spin up a container or virtual machine on the Proxmox system. It’s so much easier than installing self-hosted projects on bare metal. And if you want to change things around then just disable or delete the container/vm and let Proxmox stay clean. If one container breaks the rest of the system will still function.
I could easily host Lemmy from home with Proxmox and a reverse proxy with my current setup. I am not going to because I am not interested in moderating a platform and all the responsibility that comes with it, but it’s very possible to do.
- Comment on You mean there's a better way‽ 1 month ago:
Lmao we’re in a shit posting community. I don’t think you need to take that person seriously. I take it as a joke
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 1 month ago:
The last time must have been when Valheim released. That shit got me hooked. Now I am waiting for the Deep North biome to finish development before I play it again.
Now that I think about it the last time was when Schedule 1 released.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 months ago:
I have never seen a cat beg another cat for food. I have seen plenty of cats beg humans for food. I am pretty sure cats are smart enough to realize we are not cats. For one, we have hands we can use to open doors and give pets
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 months ago:
The problem has originated because he changed the lisence resulting in older versions being the only way to ship duckstation.