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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling for that to be effective they should be spread-out and not appear one after another though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. The fist section about cloud service providers is a bit weird to me. There are providers which “keep my best interests in mind” as part of their business model, backblaze would be one. Their whole idea is to provide a good backup services. Encrypting my data before transit also doesn’t make me worried that it will be accessed by them or any of their employees because they will only get some garbled mess.

  Compare that to google, another cloud service provider. Their business model is to make money by selling me ads (foremost), they do that by gathering as much data as possible. Here all my answers would be negative.

  This puts me in an awkward spot where I nearly every time answer with “Neither agree nor disagree”, because there is more to it and not because I don’t have an opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you document your Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole deployment is done via ansible, so the ansible source is my documentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  postmaster@domain is always fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What CI/CD tools are you guys using? I have Forgejo but I need a simple way of running automation.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using Concourse CI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting minecraft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really only downloading the executable and java, starting it and opening the required port. See the official documentation for instructions.

  If you want to get more involved there are some convenient docker containers which automate some stuff:

  • one for running the server
  • a proxy
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prioritizing de-clouding efforts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks good, I use a lot of the stuff you plan to host.

  Don’t forget about enabling infrastructure. Nearly everything needs a database, so get that figured out early on. An LDAP server is also helpful, even though you can just use the file backend of Authelia. Decide if you want to enable access from outside and choose a suitable reverse proxy with a solution for certificates, if you did not already do that.

  Hosting Grafana on the same host as all other services will give you no benefit if the host goes offline. If you plan to monitor that too.

  I’d get the LDAP server, the database and the reverse proxy running first. Afterwards configure Authelia and and try to implement authentication for the first project. Gitea/Forgejo is a good first one, you can setup OIDC or Remote-User authentication with it. If you’ve got this down, the other projects are a breeze to set up.

  Best of luck with your migration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minecraft server and reverse proxy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are minecraft reverse proxies, so, yes, a http proxy will not work, but the general idea is still viable and doable with very little effort.

  Set up a few domains all resolving to one IP. Run itzg/minecraft-router and use that to proxy the traffic to different servers based on the domain.

  Also, they don’t even need a reverse proxy, but just resolve the domain name to the IP (in the simple case of one domain name per I0). That can be accomplished by hosting their own dns server, editing the hosts file or just pointing a public dns record at the private ip address, which will only work in their network,l.