Self Hosting: It's like being a prepper for the cloudpocalypse

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That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Matt Zerella posted:

I think I saw someone expose radarr and sonarr completely unprotected wondering why their server went apeshit with all these mysterious movie adds. Made me laugh in horror.

I just wish services supported SSO for more than just opening up pages because Authelia is fantastic and Ibracorp have a few very good videos on it. Google even provides a good SSO service but a lot of these apps don't support it for auth.

Christ....

"why am I being raided for child pornography?"

# ¿ Nov 18, 2021 18:34

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 21:18

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I know it's a bit offtopic for the thread but we're talking about it anyways already.

I am still getting my head around most networking stuff and I'd like to be able to occasionally remotely access my Unraid NAS at home. So it seemed that setting up Wireguard (as mentioned above) on it would work but one of the 1st things for Wireguard to run is to enable UPnP.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/84226-wireguard-quickstart/

How is that different from opening up a port on the router? Am I just not understanding some basic thing or?

From reading here and elsewhere I was all "Ok I don't need to set up a reverse proxy on the NAS and dont want to open up any ports so instead I should VPN to it, ok Wireguard... opens a port... :confused:

"

Sorry if this is super naive.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2021 17:14

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Thanks very much all that really cleared things up for me.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2021 18:51

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Anyone have a self hosting option for podcasts? I know it sounds goofy but I got poor stability using them through Plex, as the app would not run without restarting on my very new / pristine android phone for more than 20 mins at a time meaning I always had to restart and scan around to find where I was at etc in the episode.

I've tried Stitcher, Spotify, AntennaPod and 2-3 other generic podcasting apps and they all seem to be poo poo either loving up bluetooth stuff or just unable to do simple playlist stuff properly. Kind of amazing how bad an audio player app can be in 2021.

Anyway, anyone got anything they like for self hosting audio that's not just a music streaming service?

# ¿ Dec 30, 2021 18:39

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

I suspect there's going to be a lot more people wanting to do self-hosting, since Google announced that they're shutting down the G.Suite free tier.

This is a guide on how to self-host email on FreeBSD using postfix as an MTA, dovegot as an MDA, solr as full-text search, rspamd for spam filtering, sieve for scripting/sorting inboxes, and it even includes DKIM, SPF, and DMARC.

I don't know what's what with google renaming lots of different things over the years. Does this mean that a regular gmail account is going to become a paid service?

# ¿ Jan 20, 2022 13:20

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Scruff McGruff posted:

No, this is just for people using the G-Suite for Business service, regular personal Gmail accounts fall under their "Google One" product and aren't being changed.

Thanks, I thought that was the case but tbh I haven't kept up at all with the name changes, rebranding etc.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2022 14:05

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

How does a VM for Windows game streaming work?

# ¿ Jan 24, 2022 15:04

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Warbird posted:

You�re a BSD fan, we know you can�t help it

# ¿ May 13, 2022 23:59

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Oysters Autobio posted:

If I'm a complete luddite who barely even knows how servers actually operate or what a DNS is, but am really interested in learning so that I could get a Raspberry Pi and setup a PiHole, and maybe plex, could anyone point me towards a good roadmap guide to what I should be learning/reading and where?

Usually I feel comfortable just diving into megathread in a new area but I'm not a computer toucher in my day job so feel a bit of my depth here. Learning to setup my own possible game servers sounds fun too, but I want to start super small

I was where you are a few years ago. I'd suggest just starting with one thing, read up on it and do it then move to the next. Basically take it in small chunks or it's very confusing/ overwhelming.

Build your own pihole is a good start. https://privacyinternational.org/guide-step/4341/raspberry-pi-setup-and-run-pi-hole

# ¿ May 17, 2022 10:38

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Nitrousoxide posted:

Easiest way to do it is to probably just install docker on an old pc, and then install the docker container for pihole. It'll work on any device that way.

Yeah that's prob the easiest to obtain workaround.

# ¿ May 17, 2022 17:04

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

We've probably covered something like this so please feel free to point me backwards in the thread if already well covered. Searching on this gets a bit saturated with not quite relevant results or multiple ways to probably do what I want so hoping for some preference guidance.

I have 2 different google drive accounts 1 personal that's capped at 1-2tb and 1 work account that's unlimited. I have an Unraid NAS at home as well with storage room to spare. I have a network wired desktop and a wifi laptop both running win10 that need access to at minimum the personal google drive data.

What I'd like to do:

Have google drive files physically stored on the NAS, have that storage location mapped as a network drive that my windows machines can access. What is the best way to accomplish this?

Perfect scenario but not necessary if too bothersome to implement:

Do the above but have 2 separate drives mapped for each google drive account and also allow a wifi connected macOS laptop to have similar access.

What say you thread?

e: read/write speed isn't too critical, I'm not going to be streaming videos from this, its mostly spreadsheets, large DNASequence data file stuff and a lot of word processing stuff, papers figures etc for grant and article writing.

e:2 what I've found so far was either using Rclone https://forums.unraid.net/topic/75436-guide-how-to-use-rclone-to-mount-cloud-drives-and-play-files/
or Rsync https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oG7gNCS3bQ

Not very sure on the differences between these / is either fine or are both inferior to something else I don't know about etc.

That Works fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Mar 24, 2023

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 11:58

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

If I can't make it work with Google drive for option 1 at least I'd be willing to do some kind of other cloud backup solution (box, dropbox etc) as long as I could get a few TB of storage there. That would give me 2 physical storage spaces (the unraid NAS and another old desktop I have with a large storage drive sitting on it).

Basically I want to plug in a laptop and just use a mapped drive from the NAS (that is also cloud mirrored) for all my google drive stuff as moving things on and off it via the web browser is far too tedious for when I am working on writing papers while designing figures and doing data analysis and formatting etc.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 19:05

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

cruft posted:

Do you mean rclone? Did rsync ever work with drive?

The YouTube i linked uses rsync for drive i think?

# ¿ Mar 24, 2023 23:06

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I run the tailscale plugin on my OPNsense firewall/router and can get into the home network via subnet that way. Works good so far but just need to figure out how to tell tailscale to not turn itself on when its back on the home network.

# ¿ May 11, 2023 11:16

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Whew glad I went with OPNsense when I was building my own router a while back.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2023 16:25

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

cruft posted:

Well, that hurts. But you're probably right. I'll stop posting here.

Id appreciate it if you kept posting its interesting

# ¿ Jan 14, 2024 16:56

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Matt Zerella posted:

is another thread really needed here because one poster got annoyed?

Evidently

# ¿ Jan 15, 2024 01:40

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Nitrousoxide posted:

With the tachiyomi apocalypse that's going on right now (though it's kind of getting sorted out) I decided to give komga a shot. I got it up and running with Komf (for working out the metadata for the manga) and a docker image for fmd2 to download the manga.

It works pretty well, though fmd2 is the real weakpoint in this setup as it's held together with a ball of twine and a vnc server and some sketchy rear end rsyncs to work around lovely wine interactions with docker mounts.

On the plus side though komga does have bidirectional syncing with its plugin for the tachikoma forks, something I've long wanted to keep my multiple devices in sync without having to restore backups every time I swich devices so that's a plus.

Anywhere on SA talking about this? Infrequent tachiyomi user and curious about what�s going on

# ¿ Jan 17, 2024 15:32

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Oysters Autobio posted:

Yeah ignore my last post, it just dawned on me that I was approaching this whole thing as if this was just another PC I would switch peripherals on to operate on.

Is a NAS literally just a machine with booted up specialty OS thats designed natively for media sharing and remote operation?

"Specialty OS" is optional but not mandatory, many of the mainstream OS's could be used to run a NAS as well. Some of the specialty ones focus around either optimization for minimal hardware requirements, or for utilization of random stacks of drives like Unraid.

At its heart the bare minimum for a NAS would be to run a storage drive or drives, attach to a network and function as an accessible drive to other devices.

Some people have their NAS just doing this function only, which is nice for very minimal power / lower hardware requirements. Others, because this is a device you will typically always leave on, use the NAS as a home server for other uses as well through things like having it run a separate VM, or using dockers etc to run other functions and services.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2024 16:38

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 21:18

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Matt Zerella posted:

I think it sucks that you feel you need to quarantine those posts to that thread when they�d be perfectly fine here.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2024 00:55

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