Like others, I started with owncloud but when Nextcloud forked I switched within a year. I haven’t looked back and is working without any issues and is performant.
I don’t really care about the enterprise shit since it’s not being shoved in my face 🤷🏼♂️
The X icon looking a lot like a swastika… didn’t know if intentional or if others would pick up on that. Maybe sub for some other icon?
Yeah that makes sense. I’m hoping it’s just that people have started personal, single-user instances and shut them down and not a larger set of instances going down. I would hope that we would hear more about instances shutting down if that was the case.
After reading through your post for costs, it seems that overall, costs are relatively low, unless the admin/team determine they want to increase the resources or implement additional setups for any reason.
So we’re seeing the MAU increase and seeing a fairly steady decline of the number of servers online. That’s concerning.
I would love to know why we’re seeing such a decline. My guess is the costs of running a service and the time it takes to manage the instance. As instance operators see increased costs for bandwidth, image storage, etc… but without any real form of revenue to offset those costs, I think we’re going to see only the truly dedicated operators continue to run the system the way it’s needed.
I’ve seen quite a few discussions already where users are saying as soon as they see an ad, they immediately delete their account and move… which is their own prerogative. However, outside of donations and potential begging for people to contribute, there really isn’t a business model to be had here.
I’ll continue to research methods to keep server and hosting costs down, but it’s something that we all (public instance operators) need to think about.
How long does it take for that to happen? lol Seems like if an instance is a million activities behind that at some point way before then, Lemmy would stop trying to send activities.
I’m asking for myself too as occasionally I’ll see an instance or two that’s gone down and my instance keeps trying to to post to it…
Man I’m lame.
Used to be {env}-function##
Now it’s {env}-{vlanlocation}-function##
VLAN location such as DMZ, Infra, Jump for jump boxes, IOTSec or IOTInsec, Etc
I wouldn’t say you’re doing it wrong, but a reverse proxy allows you to not only have a specific domain to use and multiple backends, etc… but it also can translate to not needing to have a port open for every single service you run on the backend.
RP’s can certianly be a load balancer, but usually for home lab / selfhosted purposes, we don’t need a load balancer.
I use both WireGuard and OpenVPN to vpn into my home network.
However, it doesn’t matter whether you use a domain or just up… if you get blocked from accessing either / both … you’re screwed. 🤷🏼♂️
You are looking for a disaster recovery plan. I believe you are going down the right path, but it’s something that will take time.
I backup important files to my local NAS or directly store them on the local NAS.
This NAS then backs up to an off site cloud backup provider BackBlaze B2 storage.
Finally, I have a virtual machine that has all the same directories mounted and backs up to a different cloud provider.
It’s not quite 3-2-1… but it works.
I only backup important files. I do not do full system backups for my windows clients. I do technically backup full Linux vms from within Proxmox to my NAS…but that’s because I’m lazy and didn’t write a backup script to back up specific files and such. The idea of being able to pull a full system image quickly from a cloud provider will bite you in the ass.
In theory, when backing up containers, you want to backup the configurations, data, and the databases… but you shouldn’t worry about backing up the container image. That can usually be pulled when necessary. I don’t store any of my docker container data in volumes… I use the folder mapping from host to directory in docker container… so I can just backup directories on the host instead of trying to figure out the best way to backup a randomly named docker volume. This way I know what I’m backing up for sure.
Any questions, just ask!
Somehow, I have never seen this list… and easily over half of those projects I’ve never heard of but could add some great functionality to my home. Thanks for posting it!
I’ll pitch in here… so website dns (porkbun) is configured to point to your home in, great!
2 things need to happen.
Once those are done, in theory, you should be able to access your website outside of your home network using your domain name.
I’ve just started to delve into Wazuh… but I’m super new to vulnerability management on a home lab level. I don’t do it for work so 🤷🏼♂️
Anyways, best suggestion is to keep all your containers, vms, and hosts updated best you can to remediate vulnerabilities that are discovered by others.
Otherwise, Wazuh is a good place to start, but there’s a learning curve for sure.
So you definitely still need a local DNS running. AdGuard Home, PiHole, Technitium, Hell your router probably has a local dns server you can enable and add some entries to it.
But once you setup a dns server, you’ll need to point all network clients to the dns server address so it can start resolving the web address to the ip in question.
I cover most of what services I’m running in my own post looking for assistance recently.
I’m not sure if you ever made your way to following through with this… But the three node system isn’t a bad starting point. However, here’s how I would approach it (similar to how I actually got my start in homelabs and how I do things now)
1 system for your router (looks like you picked a Qotom unit, those are decent), 8-16 gb ram
1 system for proxmox virtualization… run all your services in LXC’s or Virtual machines, as much ram as you can get a get for your system
And 1 system dedicated to storage (truenas or unraid), 32gb ECC ram (personal preference but not necessarily needed even with zfs for home use)
I’d start at https://reddit.com/r/homelab … but since we’re on Lemmy, I’d rather suggest posting on [email protected] (new, but looking to gain traction)
Can confirm, genuinely good service and support at reasonable prices.
Also use Cloudflare as new domain registrar because I use them as DNS as well. I can’t say that I’ve had any problems with them at all.
Thanks mate!