Selfhosting

Hello, I'm trying to host my own kbin instance. Mainly for fun and to see if it will work but also because that kind of is the point of federation.

I managed to get it up and running and I can search for other magazines and they turn up in the search but are completely empty and do not fill up with content after some hours. Also wenn I click subscribe I get an error 500. I followed the admin guide and I think the problem is my reverse proxy but I don't know how to get around it. Does anyone have experience or maybe knows some place where I can direct some questions?

Thanks!

Apologies if I'm off base here, but I have two issues I'm trying to solve and unsure where I should start - whether these are two separate issues to solve or if I should get something that can do both.

Needs:

1. backup and safely store photos and videos from Android phones (in a raid array so it's redundant storage).
2. monitor a set of 2 exterior cameras and a) throw a notification onto a phone when there's movement b) without giving footage or thumbnails to an external server.

About me:
I'm tech literate enough to Google things and copy/paste or troubleshoot based on what worked for others, but I'd like to avoid having to learn to code or run command lines. I have young kids and don't really want to have to spend a whole lot of time on this to get it to work or walk my spouse through how to use it.

Options considered:
1a) a Synology product seems like the lowest barrier to entry, but the risk seems to be less ability to fix and potentially more risk of unrecoverable data (GN did videos about this). 1b) multiple hard drives on a PC - works but would suck if my PC fries. 1c) multiple external drives - seems wonky and easier for something to fail. 1d) all of the above and hope it somehow works.
2a) Eufy looked like a good option (local storage and push notifications), until the recent scandal. I am not interested in having pics of little girls on a server somewhere, even if it is only outside pictures. 2b) a wired camera connection - however I'm not going to know if anyone is doing something sketchy unless I know to review the footage. 2c) Synology has an option - however there are the issues mentioned above and I'd also need to drop $400 for the cameras, $200 for the station, and a couple hundred for the drives. 2d) make my own mini comp - however more likely for wonky stuff and higher power draw over the long term.

Any suggestions on where to go from here?

Depending on how much you self host, you may find it hard to keep track of your devices' host names. So what are your naming conventions to keep track everything? Some people stick to descriptive names, others pick themes, like Greek mythology.

Personally, I use Japanese emperors. I've made it all the way to Seinei. Luckily I still have some breathing room to add more services and servers. Much to my wife's chagrin. :)

What is the service you are hosting, which in your opinion is underrated?

I'm trying to find new tools to add to my lab. Enlighten us!

Ps: I'm aiming for unknown tools, so Pihole etc. are out ;)

FOR SALE: Synology RT2600ac Wi-Fi Router

HOW MUCH: $100
CONDITION: Excellent – all antennas and ports work, perfect cosmetic condition, inc. original power adapter
WHERE: United States
SHIPPING: Free in the continental US
WHY: Nice device, but doesn't fit my needs as well as I'd hoped.
SPECS: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RT2600ac

Send me a message at @bratling

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Community newb here: Is it acceptable to post personal for-sale items here? Or is that considered spam? I am retiring a nice Wi-Fi router and would like to find it a new home instead of making more electronic waste. And this seems like a community where someone might want it.
Thanks!

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Hi everyone, me and my friends are thinking of making a Telegram bot to use GPT-4 as one of us has access to the API.

We're not going to release the bot to the public (only use between us), however we'd like the bot to run 24/7 so it's accessible whenever one of us needs it. Sadly we can't host it ourselves as neither of us is able to get a Static IP and has a free machine to run 24/7.

My question is, are there any recommended hosting providers (if it's free even better) where we could host our telegram bot on? Thanks!

I need some help figuring out elastic search. My end goal at the moment is to get the full text search owncloud app working. They are both in docker containers (docker compose). I am able to input my url in the owncloud settings (http://es01:9200) and hit setup index. After that it does not index anything or I think pass on anything to elasticsearch at all. Which leads me to my second thing. Cant figure out how to use kibana to help debug anything. I have no idea if owncloud is trying to send any data to elastic. It currently just says "0 nodes marked as indexed, 0 documents in index using 225 bytes".

Here is my compose file. Kind of a hodge podge mix of things from the web to get it to even start 😅.
docker-compose.yml
.env

Stumbled across this on lemmy.world. As we are defederated, reposting here.

I've recently played with the idea of self hosting a LLM. I am aware that it will not reach GPT4 levels, but beeing free from restraining prompts with confidential data is very nice tool for me to have.

Has anyone got experience with this? Any recommendations? I have downloaded the full Reddit dataset so I could retrain the model on this one as selected communities provide immense value and knowledge (hehe this is exactly what reddit, twitter etc. are trying to avoid...)

I recently upgraded my TrueNAS server to a Synology. While TN has served me well, I don’t have the time anymore to administer it.

I’m now using the opportunity to redo my whole home lab - after years that has become quite a mess.

I’ll retire my old TN appliance as it requires too much energy and is quite bulky. I’m remaining with 1 NUC and a second knock off NUC with slightly lower specs but 2+ LAN ports

What would you do with that Setup? I’ll probably run Proxmox on the NUC and have the second one as a backup, however this one can connect directly to the NAS with a dedicated connection through multiple LAN ports.

I’ll mostly run containers and a few VMs (Git, Pihole, Backup Services, …). My Synology supports both but I’d like to keep things separate. My infrastructure is taken care off, I won’t host pfSense or similar.

I haven’t looked into best practices recently and would like to learn new technologies as Ansible etc.

How do you automate your installations and updates? How does that go together with containers and VMs? Proxmox or maybe plain Debian/Fedora/…?

Thanks for sharing!

I just bought a "new" homelab server and am considering adding in some used/refurbished NVIDIA Tesla K80s. They have 24 GB of VRAM and tons of compute power for very cheap if you get them used.

The issue is that these cards run super hot and require extra cooling set ups. I was able to find this fan adapter kit on eBay. But I still worry that if I pop one or two of these bad boys in my server that the fan won't be enough to overcome the raw heat put off by the K80.

Have any of you run this kind of card in a home lab setting? What kind of temps do you get when running models? Would a fan like this actually be enough to cool the thing? I appreciate any insight you guys might have!

So, couple years ago i started to learn about tech, programming and self hosting services thanks to redditors ( not reddit the evil corp ), and found lots of communities where they pointed me to good resources but then ended up allocating more time to learning programming to switch career into that field and finally got it.

As a passion and private needs I had set up couple of small servers for testing, but never ended up being able to actually expose them publicly in a secure way

I found some "beginner level" tutorials, but to be honest, it still was quite hard to understand.

Where can I found even lower level resources or any chat group or discord group for literal illeterates like me??

I know i can do my own research as I did for programming, but that was for landing an actual job, this is mostly for personal need, so i really cannot allocate much time into studying so much while I also have family duties and improving my coding skill for the current job

Thanks a lot

I work at a small business ~20 people and we're looking for a self hosted solution to our resource planning software. We have a huge variety of job scopes, skillsets, equipment, and technicians. The owners have a hard requirement for self hosting due to the variety of clients we work for who want to know their data stays within our own country.

We also want to integrate it with QuickBooks desktop, make custom invoices (some clients stipulate a specific invoice format just for them), and also making dispatches.

What are some good options?

Dynadot is by far the worst register i ever moved, I only moved because Google domains was going to die and make everyone go to squarespace that makes you pay $20 a year to own the domain. Things you will not have when transferring to dynadot:

1. No server name
   There isn't any, the default also doesn't work (Just look it up) and yes anyone with experience will tell you that your old name server will no longer work. This means no DNSSEC and no working website.

2. Fake Free SSL
   The SSL only works for "Dynadot DNS", I don't know what that means. Everyone has problems with it.

3. DNSSEC requires name server
   Remember that name servers don't exist in Dynadot, that means this feature is never going to work for you. Your website is weak.

4. Forum help is old has 2005
   That's right, you will get random old answers from 2005 and not help help because Dynadot never gives straight answers.

5. Website builder is just a copycat of google site
   Not really worth your time using it and very restricted Email service.

I hope anyone who reads this will consider not using Dynadot, I spent many days with no answers and it's all because Dynadot was not clear on their restrictions. I will move my domain the moment the 60 days are up on day one.

I save and backup all the photos on a Synology NAS instead of using one of the online providers. However Synology Photos doesn't have good search capabilities. So I built a project to search through the images using natural language captions, and found that it works really well.

I have published the project publicly with a GPL-3.0 license - synology-photos-nlp-search. Anyone is welcome to use and contribute to the project.

It was really cool to see that I can try two search terms like food and eating, and the embeddings model would understand the difference and provide relevant images for both.

The project runs the model and stores any model-related files locally, so besides downloading the model and necessary python packages, there are no API calls being made to any outside services. I have containerized the application to make it easier to deploy and use. That said, some programming experience might be needed as it's not an open-and-use application.

This is my first major project that I am publishing, and would welcome any feedback for improvements from the community.

Is there a speedtest tracker docker that doesnt use ookla? Been using henrywhitaker3/speedtest-tracker and it's clearly dead since all tests are failing and the issue board is mentioning the same behavior.

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I really like this: https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/webtop-2-0-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop

As a user of both, #KasmWorkspaces (Community Edition) and #ApacheGuacamole, I can tell that indeed the #kasmvnc has better performance for browser-accessed #Linux desktop. XRDP has been great with Guacamole, but for the reasons listed in the article it is not as great when watching videos over a browser accessed desktop. For Windows desktops I did not see a performance difference between #Guacamole and the #Kasm RDP option, likely because RDP is a native protocol on Windows.

Anyway, if you are interested in Browser-based computing give it a try.

Note: While both Kasm and Guacamole work great on desktops, laptops, tablets, low-spec laptops and VR Headset browsers, neither is yet a great option on small-screen mobile devices.

Also, while KasmVNC and the KASM and LinuxServer docker images are open source, Kasm Workspaces itself is not Open Source, but they do have a #Selfhosted Community Edition available for free, and they do use some portions of Apache Guacamole in their product. - Apache Guacamole is completely Open Source and free, backed by the Apache Foundation.

For those that don't know, rabb.it was a site where you basically had a chatroom and a virtual pc that was shared to everyone in the room. It was used to get together and watch youtube/plex/netflix/whatever together, and everyone was able to control the browser on the virtual PC. I don't even think you needed to have an account to join a room, but it's been so long I don't remember anymore.

So I'm looking for something like that, just a virtual PC/browser + chatroom that people can join and watch/control, ideally without even needing to make an account. Does something like that exist?

Hey Selfhosted,

I want to start self-hosting my content and I'm looking for something that feels as easy to edit as Notion.

In most wikis you have to hit 'edit' first which stops me from just fixing small things quickly and taking my own notes.

What are some 'wikis' with the notion like editing experience?

I'm currently trying to package /kbin for the YunoHost system, and I already have a preliminary version over here. However, I'm stuck in a few implementation details, namely:

• YunoHost expects the package to have a stable tarball release every so often. /kbin is evidently a rolling release, as there are no tags and no releases in the repository.
• YunoHost's tools are mostly based on GitHub, unfortunately. That means that the script used to automatically fetch a new release from the repository would only work if the source code was hosted on GitHub itself, not on Codeberg.
• Several items (the .env file, Composer, Symfony, Redis, Doctrine to configure the database, Yarn, RabbitMQ, Supervisor, and the initial configuration of user and password) require a certain amount of manual intervention which I still haven't figured how to build.
• The Nginx configuration recommended by the developer uses a sub-folder "/public", whereas the default Nginx template expects the application to run directly from root (or to reconfigure it, but the documentation doesn't quite explain how to do so!)

Can somebody with enough experience on the building process help me with those issues?

We've added a new, and hopefully improved, dedicated forum for our community

I've tried several different guides and scripts and always ran into issues. This was the first one that actually worked rather well for me so if anyone is running into issues, give this a try!

I'd like to be the owner of my own data. I don't know if my data at kbin.social is available for download or something.

Is there a recommended or official Kbin/Lemmy docker image? I am aware of Lemmy docker set-up guides. But I am thinking more like the Linux server offerings that will be maintained by a team.

How is everyone syncing photos/videos from andriod phones?

Also what are people using to manage/view/arrange the photo collections?