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Black Friday Hunt, share your best finds in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Most definitely a scam. Website shows a different URL to the domain and the phone number is formatted completely randomly.

my private server capacity for rent in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah no.

Thinking about building something useful for self-hosting in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pointless re-inventing the wheel. Help with some existing project instead. NPM needs some help, few bugs to fix and a little bit of added functionality to make it perfect.

Web content filtering in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

AdGuard Home.

What service one should NOT self host in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Aside from other stuff mentioned here about email. I always assumed I'd become a target for spam that I'd have a harder time filtering out to the point it stops being worth it to have a custom email address.

Can't work out how or why hosting it at home would mean more spam? Your email address gets on a list that gets pulled by spam merchants, hosting it at home doesn't make any difference here.

What service one should NOT self host in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Same with Bit/vaultwarden, all clients grab a copy of the vault from the server when they sync so if the server is offline all clients still "just work".

What service one should NOT self host in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Chances are your router can have a fallback DNS.

Chances are it can't. You can probably set multiple DNS servers (anywhere, not just routers) but they aren't a primary/secondary sort of deal. Most traffic might be weighted towards the first one in a list but you will find traffic still hits the others.

Travelling museum exhibit - tablet video player. in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Build a webpage, host it on the device.

What's the biggest reason you self-host? in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'm going to say sort of all of the above, but not just across the whole board. Some services I host because I want a better service than is available elsewhere.

For example I host AdGuard Home and OPNsense because it's better than my ISP supplied router and I get more out of it so that's better service. I host Immich because I don't want to pay Google to store all my photos when I have a server sat here that's quite capable of doing it so that's cost I guess.

Pastebin with pre-signed URL? in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago

Ask the reddit devs, that's basically how reddit started out!

Do you know of any Android/iOS app that keeps track of the current device IP and allows the user to send the IP via webhook (or anything alike) to a server? in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The correct answer has been given a few times here, split tunnelling.

But your idea is mental. If your IP changes and access is locked down by IP address how do you expect your phone to connect to your server to tell it about the new IP if it can;t access the server due to the fact it hasn't got the correct IP in the allow list?

What is the best duplicate file finder, that preserves my source of truth? in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[–] tech2but1@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well it won't. You either tell it to assume that say oldest is always source and if there are identical files then you get asked to choose.

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Easy docker for someone who "doesn't do docker" (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by tech2but1@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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There are a few things I want to host that are very firmly "docker only" images. I get docker, I understand why it exists but I can't get into it. I have had docker and portainer running in the past but found it cumbersome (portainer updates were a minor annoyance, and updating docker images seemed "wrong") but I can't get away from it.

I happened across CasaOS earlier which sort of looked like something that would help, then looked at alternatives to this and saw someone suggest Cosmo which says it needs installing on docker so I got confused again!

Is there anything that's truly worth using to make installing/managing/updating docker images simple or is it just more complicated in the long run?

For the record I do have ESXi and countless VMs, I find spinning up a VM simple and it suffices for all my needs apart from a couple of specific things (like a Google Photos replacement). I don't really want to learn docker just to use Immich!