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- Comment on What do I actually need? 4 weeks ago:
Maybe a silly question, but is simply having the thing doing the sailing running on what might be a docker container that only has access to the internet via a VPN connection okay? my friend told me this is his set up
like, logically speaking this seems to be basically fine, since the sailing ship’s data is not visible to the ISP
- Comment on What do I actually need? 4 weeks ago:
“retrieving” from ripping my personal DVD and BluRay collection?
- Comment on What do I actually need? 4 weeks ago:
are you me haha?
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 4 weeks ago:
i assume that’s just for free podcasts?
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 4 weeks ago:
does a wild card cert essentially mean i have use one cert which will cover all my subdomains as well as the primary domain?
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 weeks ago:
Cool.
In other news, Swiss law makers claim opening and reading all mail sent to make sure it doesn’t include the phrase “monty bojangles” is “not a privacy concern”
My point is that in order to block a specific domain, you necessarily need to check it against a list of all legitimate domains being accessed
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 weeks ago:
As in why is a post about VPNs on a self-hosted forum?
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 4 weeks ago:
really? like what? i’ve been using docker completely free and unrestricted - at i think so haha
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 63 comments
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
Here’s my approach to documentation. It’s about habits as much as it’s about actually writing anything down:
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Never setup anything important via naked terminal commands that you will forget you did
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Always wrap important commands in some kind of “setup-xyz.sh” script and then run that script to see if your install worked.
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If you need to make a change to your service, ensure you update your script and so it can be re-run without braking anything
Get into the habit of this and you are documenting as you go
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- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
i second this
i haven’t gotten around to looking into something like terraform/ansible yet, and currently rely on a series of setup.sh scripts and docker-compose files
i have a single master setup.sh at the root of my homelab which basically just outlines which scripts i need to run and in what order in order to get things back up and running from zero
i only user my README.md for any non scriptable stuff (such as external services i rely on such as cloudflare/vpn providers, etc)
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
i mean charitably you could say that your code / architecture should be self documenting, versus having to rely on READMEs / wikis
in effect, if you change the code you are by definition also changing the documentation, since the file names/function names/hierarchy is clear and unambiguous
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
while security might be compromised if an attacker found your documentation, it could equally be compromised by having zero documentation
the easier it is for you to get things back up and running in the event of a data loss / corrupted hard drive / new machine / etc, the less likely you are to forget any crucial steps (eg setting up iptables or ufw)
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 5 weeks ago:
this is basically what i ended up doing to - glad to see my approach verified somewhat ha ha!
but yeah, in general whenever i make a change / add new service, i always try and add those steps to some sort of setup.sh / docker-compose
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 5 weeks ago:
supports podcasts too? what tool are you using to download those? and does ABS handle the sorting/meta data the same way it does for audio books?
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 5 weeks ago:
maybe silly question but does tailscale tunnel operate in a similar fashion to a cloud flare tunnel? as in you can remotely access your internal service over https?
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 5 weeks ago:
i have nginx proxy manager set up all as well, but haven’t worked out the SSL part yet, so all my internal docker services are still on http
out of interest, how did you set up https with npm?
- Comment on How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs? 2 months ago:
why would you realistically need HTTPS on your local network?
- Comment on How and where should I keep backups of system configurations? 2 months ago:
real question though is do you back up your backup server?
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 2 months ago:
Why would Cloudflare warn me against a service they themselves offer? The email authentication is all managed by them
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 2 months ago:
i definitely didn’t have to enter my card details, could my region though
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 2 months ago:
while I agree you have to remember everyone one here is likely way more techie than the average person
the ONLY issue I think non-tech people have with JellyFin is that you have to enter a specific domain/ip address to connect to a server - like I know to us that’s simple but it’s also very unlike how most paid-for streamers operate
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 2 months ago:
stopppp
it’s already dead
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 2 months ago:
So i’ve been trying to set this up this exact thing for the past few weeks - tried all manner of different Nginx/Tailscale/VPS/Traefik/Wireguard/Authelia combos, but to no avail
I was lost in the maze
However, I realised that it was literally as simple as setting up a CloudFlare Tunnel on my particular local network I wanted exposed (in my case, the Docker network that runs the JellyFin container) and then linking that domain/ip:port within CloudFlare’s Zero Trust dashboard
And you can even set up what looks like pretty robust authentication (2FA, limited to only certain emails, etc)
Not sure what your use case is, but as mine is shared with only me and my partner, this worked like a charm
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 2 months ago:
Have you ever tried Cloudflare Tunnels? I think this would solve most of those issues
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 2 months ago:
just cloudflare tunnel it - i set one up the other day and it works super well, proving external access to a locally hosted service all without having to set up your own SsL certs and worrying about exposing private ips or ports
- Comment on Someone help me understand the sonarr to jellyfin workflow 2 months ago:
literally was going through the exact same thoughts as you a couple a weeks ago, tried so many different configurations but the one i found that worked was actually kinda simple
basically they way i did was to run a gluetun docker container, and then in the environment variables pass in the the fact i wanted this to use the WireGuard VPN manager, and then i passed in my Proton VPN wireguard api key (you’ll need a subscription for this)
then once that gluetun container is up and running, you literally just add “network_mode: service:gluetun” to any other containers that you want to use this VPN
can you can even test its working by sending a curl command to an ip checking site from within those containers connected to gluetun
- Comment on Someone help me understand the sonarr to jellyfin workflow 2 months ago:
I’ve literally just set this all up and it’s working now after some tinkering, so here’s what I found out. Assuming you have correctly configured the sonarr/qbitorrent api keys and credentials:
When you make a TV show request in Sonarr, it will automatically add the torrent to your download client (e.g qbitorrent)
qbitorrent will then download the file to wherever you specify (e.g. /torrents/completed)
periodically, Sonarr will scan that /torrents/completed folder, and if it finds the tagged TV show, it will either copy or hard link that video file to your specified media folder (e.g. /media/tv-shows)
JellyFin will do the same, periodically scanning your media folders to see if there are any updates