what internship are you doing?
Level 4 would be using some sort of off-grid decentralized networking instead of the internet?
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it
ooo audiobookshelf don’t mind if I do
I have Synapse(Matrix) on Nano Pi NEO in me CV :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
oh and by the way, back then Synapse was much worse. I created few GBs of swap on microSD to get it installed :>
Indeed NanoPi NEO is a lovely cute board. Who needs 64 bit? :>
2 and 3 are the same and you’re deluded if you think otherwise
The difference between 2nd and 3rd is about 24h
My nextcloud instance is on a managed hosting server and has been for the last 4 years. My homeassistant uses the standard raspberry pi image since I’ve had it for the last 3 months.
(And yes I have to constantly withstand the urge to fully self-host my Nextcloud and reinstall my Homeassistant with a Gentoo base.)
The thing that I hate about self-hosting is that a lot of apps that could just be a plain offline thing are instead being designed to be super bloated server-docker things. Databases are not reasonably portable data formats.
An sqlite database is a perfectly fine portable data format.
Or, and apparently this is crazy these days - I can just use a file that’s in a format appropriate to what I’m trying to do, compatible with the simpler offline app it was made for, and then just use a more general purpose syncing method whether online or sneakernet if I need to do some kind of data transfer - as opposed to accumulating an ever expanding collection of server stacks that are just redundantly doing the same kind of thing anyway while needlessly adding an insane amount of attack surface.
Databases are not reasonably portable data formats.
I mean… if you stick to standard SQL…
This is why my self created apps all use Markdown files instead if DBs.
i uhh yeah host abt 10 containers on an i7 laptop currently. in my small office (kids bedroom) closet. I do also have a 3tb storage available but its what I had … an external wd drive. sigh. i am nbr 3 huh?
Um… Where does the guy in the middle host his shit these days? Asking for a friend.
I use podman + quadlets (just contianers hooked into sysremmd) maintained mostly via hermes and claude so I don’t have to fuck around with nerd shit at home and trouble shoot.
Aim for step 2.5 and be the middle guy but hosting it all on a retired PC in the closet. It’s almost like step 3.
Alternatively, I guess you could use a VPS but those can get expensive quick.
With this sort of thing, I’m always left wondering what I’m missing in terms of the hardware. Like, I’ve been collecting bits and bobs of old hardware for years, but it feels like if I want anything more than an absolutely basic raspberry-pi-level server, I need to buy dedicated hardware. For example, I want to put together a nas, especially since I do have a collection of spare, old hard drives, but would want raid for that. Unfortunately, its rare to find a mobo that has more than four sata ports, and all the power supplies I have available to harvest from other systems are either too weak, or are proprietary, meaning I’m halfway to buying a new PC anyway. Is there something I’m missing, or do others just have more disposable income?
My Nextcloud runs on a basic ass raspberry pi and uses a USB hardware RAID. It fulfills all my NAS needs.
For a lot of purposes, an old slow system is great. Craigslist (if you’re in a country that has it, otherwise use your local equivalent) is a great place to find super cheap old equipment to build server infrastructure from. Thrift shops too, I regularly find old UPSs that just need a new lawnmower battery chucked in to work at my local thrift shop, they charge like $10 for em. Usually found near power strips.
I bought a second hand Intel NUC and put a big harddrive in it (I think only.some models have a slot). Works pretty good.
To piggyback off of OR3X’s comment, I purchased a LSI 9300-16I for my Plex server which will support 16 data/SAS drives with the 4 way cables. They make a 8I version as well that’s cheaper. Power is still something you have to work out though, but that’s a single PSU.
I purchased my unit on eBay for $53 a couple years back. I use unRAID to host everything and would recommend because it’s fairly simple to setup, and works very well with mixed disks and parity. I’ve had 5+ old drives fail over the past few years and never lost any data.
You dont have 11 leftover/trash computers/laptops/harddrives your family dumped on you? Im 26 and ive been given legitimately 16 different computers from my mom, dad, grandparents, and in-laws
Where do you think all the aforementioned hard drives came from? Lol. Its just that so many of the other parts are proprietary/old that I can’t mix-and-match to make something more useful. For a breif period, I had four separate working desktops, and not one had a standard power supply or mobo. I swear all of that should be made illegal.
You can get an PCIe HBA on ebay for $50-60 bucks and will allow you to connect 8 disks to a single system. Look for ones that specifically say they have been flashed to IT mode which will let the host system address the individual drives and enable you to use MDADM for RAID. My “Server” is literally just the old motherboard from my gaming PC with 4x 8TB drives connected to one of those ebay HBAs.
That’s basically what I did, along with the new PSU, but thats still a lot to spend on a hobby/luxury, unfortunately, so I can’t really afford to tinker with it more than that.
“Wow these R730/R740 ear destroying rack servers are super cheap on ebay”
Had an R710 in my bedroom for a few years, do not recommend
No lie, they’re awesome. I’ve got two R720s, and they really aren’t bad. I leave one off. The other runs 4-5 VMs and doesn’t spin loud at all. Lack rack, surplus drives, a refurbed UPS and it just goes.
Only 27 containers? That rookie numbers… You gotta pump those up!
I’m currently sitting at 131 containers across 3 Kubernetes nodes, all bare-metal though, no virtualization.
131 containers seems crazy to me. How many actual services does that translate to? Is it actually closer to 50 services running in parallel on three different nodes for redundancy?
There’s probably also a fair amount of repeated servers that aren’t redundant. Like postgres servers that are single purpose and multiple containers to provide it for an “actual” service.
I just use flash drives to transfer stuff from my computer to the ipad so i can watch in bed lol, keep my music on an mp3 player
Surprisingly those dual-ended USB-A + USB-C flash drives can be pretty decent, especially for stuff like this.
it’s easier to wait like 5 minutes for files to transfer than to maintain a whole wireless streaming setup. i think of it like walking over to the video rental store lol
It’s a peaceful life.
lol at ‘accidental’ beta testers. I tell my family they’re testing my shit
Isn’t that what they’re for?
Stage 3
I’m in stage 2
Me too but now I’m afraid
I’m also in stage 2 but getting closer to stage 3 😂
Same, been there for a decade.
I’m careful about what I want to host because I know I’m the asshole that needs to fix it when it breaks, and password managers that my wife uses are 100% off the self-hosted menu.
Vaultwarden requires Bitwarden to keep on allowing client access. Even if there are FOSS plugins/clients, I still need ot host it between my house and a cloud and it needs to be highly available.
I’ll keep paying for that one.
Same here for pretty much the same reasons
How about a basic ass keepass file that you put on your Nextcloud? I’ve been using that for years and I’m happy with that
Works for me, would NOT work for the wife and kids.
I’ve barely got them convinced to use a low friction password manager. Even the loss of autocomplete on phone would be enough they’d start using browser based secrets.
Stage 2 is ideal. Normie self hosting. Once you figure out docker youre cooked in the pipeline
Stage 4: “I’m done. This isn’t worth it and I don’t actually NEED any of it! rm -rf / it all and wander silently off into the woods. Curl up on a mound of moss and watch all the things that bumble.”
