Here's a full write-up on the first year of my Home-Lab: https://piefed.social/post/1002037

Since then I've now added networking and a self built 10" rack, I was undecided between MikroTik and UniFi but ended up going UniFI and I'm quite happy.

Building the 2020 Aluminum profile 10" server rack was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot of lessons along the way like:

• Cutting perfectly straight with a hacksaw is a bitch and nearly impossible (or at least for me) would not recommend.
• Buy a table saw or have them pre-cut
• Tapping threads yourself is a lot of fun, and I would recommend doing it yourself, worked perfectly every time.
• Bolt length and head size matters, even 1mm matters (that's what she said)

It's jankey I know, but I love it and it's a lot less Jankey than when everything was just on my desk

Next step for me would be to buy a 3D Printer (Sovol S6 Plus Ace) and print custom racks for everything

Shout out to https://www.motedis.com/ for the Aluminum parts, they can cut and tap all the parts to your desired length if you don't want to bother with that, but that's half the fun (and frustration)

What are you up to? Hitting any walls, enjoying tinkering, or is everything going smooth?

I almost finished my forgejo-komodo gitops workflow, but I'm hitting issues with file ownership in the stacks deployed by Komodo. I can't find the time currently to dive in deeper, but I swear I am this close! :)

Recent talks about RSS are making me thinking about finally replacing my barely maintained Selfoss with FreshRSS, but I'm not in a hurry. I've been adding some nice blogs lately and removed some sources with too much output for my liking and now I actually read most of what's coming in.

Looks quite promising.

I've only just realised this is an active community (thanks Sept25 Community Highlights) and am very excited to see what you all are up to and interested in. As a brief intro to my setup: https://spsoul.blog/what-i-self-host-and-why/

The one thing I haven't quite worked out is backups. I know all about 3-2-1, but that's a lot to setup for a little free homelab like mine. All I'm interested in is having a daily or weekly backup just in case my hard drive gives out . I don't necessarily want to setup an entire RAID right now or pay another company to handle it, unless it's relatively painless. What's the simplest setup you'd recommend for a novice like me?

I've been running a home server at home running CasaOS for a few months now. I use a wireguard vpn to remote in to use Jellyfin on my phone etc. Basically i want to know if there's a way i can both hide my public IP (such as using a conventional vpn for torrenting) while still being able to remote in to my server?

I've been thinking of running running all my network traffic through my server and setting up some sort of firewall too, but I'm fairly new to this as this was originally just a project I did out of spite after getting rid of Spotify. I'm fairly green when it comes to networking and servers, but I'm otherwise pretty good with computers and can muddle my way through most things.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/42275946

Upgrade your Framework laptop motherboard, and use the old one in a 3D printed (or store-bought) case as a mini desktop PC, set-top box, Proxmox box, NAS, etc.

What's up, selfhosters? After accidently posting this in !solarpunk@slrpnk.net last week, here's a new try. I usually post these in !selfhosted@lemmy.world but want to spread a bit to not concentrate on the mega instance too much.

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found. Maybe even solarpunk related? In the last thread, someone posted their bird-listening setup, which sounded super cool.

I set up Pinepods recently, which is a selfhosted podcast player with web interface and device sync. I've been looking for a selfhosted pocket casts for years and was super excited to see Pinepods becoming a thing and am enjoying it since setting it up. The dev has also been asking for beta testers for mobile apps recently.

RSS bypasses the tech bro nonsense and they can’t do anything to stop it! The broligarchy love to talk about “democratising” tech. That is code, not very subtle code, for you “participating” under their control. The web doesn’t need false governance. The web is decentralised and RSS strengthens the web.

Also this blog is ridiculously good looking. I'll probably share some of the forgejo articles soon as I'm going through them.

I'm about to set up a new git forge for my own stuff. Most forges already have the basic functionality I want (nice ui for merge requests etc).

What I'm looking forward to is federation. Create a Pull request for a repository hosted on another instance without needing to create an account over there would be a game changer.

• Gitea had some plans but I don't see anything happening since three years in their dedicated forum
• Gitlab has a dedicated epic but some official said it's not a priority last year
• Forgejo has a roadmap and a Federation section in each of their montly reports (latest). However, the roadmaps mentions that Federated PRs are in the far future.

From this it seems that Forgejo is the only one activetly working on Federation.

Anything I'm missing? Anyone involved in any of those willing to tell me more? Especially if all of them are working in a similar direction where not only decentralization but also federation (e.g. between Gitlab and Forgejo) is possible?

On a side note, I found the ForgeFed project which is an ActivityPub extension, not sure if any of the forges wants to implement this. Their example forge Vervis is not reachable.

Since nothing is perfect, I'd appreciate review of this guide explaining how to self-host, for a beginner or an advanced user for some topics. Anyway, what do you think?

https://si3t.ch/ah/

Hi, so I've ended up bagging myself a big supermicro server. I'm wanting to try out a little bit of everything with it, but one thing I really want is to be able to have services that haven't been used for a bit to stop or sleep. And then to wake up again or start up on request, rather than me having manually stop and start services. Is that a thing?

I know of portainer and whatnot, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on this.

I'm planning on putting debian on it i think (unless someone can convince something else is better suited - i usually use arch on my personal devices btw 😜)

Also i know some basics on raid but I've only ever messed with raid0 with usb drives on a pi. I have 8 bays but 2 are currently vacant. What is the process of just adding an extra drive to a raid, or replacing one that already exists?

I've been using hetzner for a good long while now. When I switched over to them, I think they were the cheapest around, but it seems loads of other companies are popping up offering dirt cheap VPS's these days. I'm now considering a migration.

Is anyone here using a different provider? Would you recommend? Are there any I should definitely avoid?