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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapest 14x4tb NAS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
You’re talking a lot of storage - it might be worth investing in some low-end server hardware. A Dell tower or something, maybe one off eBay if you’re looking to cut costs.

I picked up a PowerEdge T110II a long time ago and it’s been… flawless. Just a simple server with a 4x4TB RAID5. No hardware problems, easy to manage. It costs a bit more - but server hardware is often just more reliable and for a NAS that’s job #1. This server just runs.

I just upgraded the memory in it to 32GB for ~$100USD. Before that it had 8GB. I needed more for restic doing backups. I probably could have gotten away with 16GB but I figured I’d max it out for that price.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your self-hosting success of the week?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This week - Apache Airflow setup to automate running backups (replacing cron).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Some people get into self hosting because they want their data to be their data. They don’t care about the particulars, they just want that peace of mind.

These people are the worst. What they want is fine - but the idea that you don’t need to worry about the particulars is ridiculous.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

I think you could take this arbitrarily far.

This can be said about literally anything. And it’s a “slippery slope fallacy” to use as an argument.

There are “appropriate levels of understanding” I’m advocating for. I’m not even saying “don’t use yunohost” - just understand what the components you’re using do and how they interoperate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts about my (potential) first server?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Also, what can I expect concerning RAID? That is definitely the most concerning thing for me, as I’ve never worked with it.

Generally speaking it’s recommended these days to use a software RAID rather than relying on hardware. If anything happens to that RAID controller you will need to replace it with a duplicate in order to mount your drives. Software RAID is controlled by the Linux OS and would be much easier to recover. There used to be a bit of a performance penalty for a software RAID but these days it’s negligible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s fair - I’ll keep that in mind in the future to be more clear.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Really grasping now aren’t ya?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Er… I’m not - I’m deriding that fact. Do you know what “ignorant” means?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
“Reads like an ad” - see also “simile”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Who gives a shit? I don’t know how to write apps for my phone either, I just click the install button and away I go.

Yeah - I’m the one wallowing in ignorance.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Sometimes people are just passionate about things. Like digital sovereignty.

🙄

Who gives a shit? I don’t know how to write apps for my phone either, I just click the install button and away I go. I don’t have time for a new career. If it weren’t for YNH I wouldn’t be hosting at all. And it’s not for lack of trying. Shit is complicated.

I’m always a little surprised when people are passionate about being ignorant.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It still reads like an ad for yunohost…

I think one of the mistakes many newb self hosters make is thinking of systems in their entirety rather than as components.

“How to install pihole on a raspberry pi” and “how to setup nextcloud on yunohost” are examples. All using very specific tools and very specific steps.

I’m noticing this more and more with documentation for apps where they tell me to use their specific docker-compose file and have instructions to use let’s encrypt in a specific way rather than referring you to let’s encrypt as an option and pointing you at their docs.

People aren’t learning how to use each of these tools and how to be flexible in their implementation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

In part one, I explained why I’m passionate about self-hosting and I discussed what you need to get started on this journey (a VPS and a domain name)

You didn’t need either of those things. This reads like an ad for yunohost.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

12 pages of detailed documentation

Home Gamer: Is this it?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
To create an invite you:
```
# drop into mongo shell
docker compose exec database mongosh

# create the invite
use revolt
db.invites.insertOne({ _id: "enter_an_invite_code_here" })
```
That’s pretty jank.

Also - I’m getting pretty fed-up with self-hosting documentation that assumes very specific environments and goes into detailed configuration for that environment. Don’t tell me how to setup a server and how to enable/configure SSH and setup UFW as part of setting up your software. Just tell me how to setup your software and what ports it uses.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That fuck you mean? You can use these drives for any purpose you want.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Sounds like you haven’t taken the time to properly design your environment.

Lots of home gamers just throw stuff together and just “hack things till they work”.

You need to step back and organize your shit. Develop a pattern, automate things, use source control, etc. Don’t just file follow the weirdly -opinionated setup instructions. Make it fit your standard.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 Black Eggs Surfaced From the Dark Heart of the Ocean—With 'Alien' Creatures Inside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Utter clickbait drivel.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

…it answers from the attached KBs only. If the fact isn’t there, it tells you - explicitly - instead of winging it.

So you’ve made a FAQ with a LLM interface? I could see that potentially being useful for cooperate “let our bot answer your questions” tools.

But the usefulness of AI isn’t just in “tell me a fact”. Like what would your AI give for "what functions would I use in Python to convert a utf16 string to utf8?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Apparently it doesn’t.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting with subdomains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Section 1 says you’re using freedns.afraid.org though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Aye - that’s another reasonable use of the phrase.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ugh really? I haven’t seen that myself but that’s frustrating.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Non-containerized applications. Not in a container. It’s not complicated. Running “on bare metal” sounds cool but it’s a wildly inaccurate description. Containerized applications run on the system natively just like non-containerized applications. So if one of them runs “on bare metal” then then others do as well.

But historically “on bare metal” is used for embedded or micro-controllers where you don’t have an OS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
- Users will stop referring to non-containerized applications as “running on bare metal”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What “other technology” is going to make sure your API doesn’t have SQL injection and bad authentication vulnerabilities?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“Security” is not just “ssl”…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think you should make it more clear in your docs that this is wildly insecure and should be restricted to “tinkering” usage only.

That said it seems like a fun project to write.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about accessing my services from corporate Network⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ssh port forwarding and socks proxying. Unless they block port 22.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
AI is so much faster than reading docs. And you get context specific responses that you can drill into. When used correctly it’s very useful.

This was using it… incorrectly though…