Hi, I have a hypothetical question that is probably going to sound very dumb once someone shows me a very simple workaround :

In this situation : there is a properly setup server in house A with a running jellyfin/immich server, and there's a second server in house B for homeassistant.

Is there a way I can use server B to remotely connect to server A to access JF and Immich and stream it via HDMI a TV in house B ?

Thank you in advance

For my Masters thesis project, I'm required to keep a blog documenting my progress, and being the open source/self hosting guy that I am, I decided to host my own WriteFreely instance on my VPS.

The problem is, WriteFreely doesn't support direct image uploads, only embeds. I'd of course like to self host my images for the blog too, so I'm in need of a really lightweight image hosting solution. Things like Immich or Nextcloud are far too much for what I need, I basically just need a password-protected upload interface and the ability to grab the direct links to the images to embed them. I don't need analytics or account management or anything like that.

I know I could transfer images to my server directly via scp or rsync or ftp and host them behind nginx directly, but that's a faff and I'd rather just deploy a container once and be done with it.

Does anyone have any recommendations?

Hello :)

I am trying to set up an encrypted gdrive connection in rclone.

For some reason, it won't upload to gdrive when I use the crypt remote, but it works fine when i use just the gdrive remote.

When I use the crypt remote, it simply created a folder called the gdrive remote name, then uploads everything encrypted to there with a directory called whatever remote name i use for the remote crypt. I'm probably not explaining very well.

/media/drive/drive/docs$ ll

total 19112

drwxrwxr-x 30 osanna osanna    4096 Jul  5 05:37  ./

drwxrwxr-x  3 osanna osanna  4096 Jul  5 05:33  ../

-rw-rw-r--  1 osanna osanna 123794 Jul  4 22:19  106.nClDs-5357-30-32_45.78.43-DpCGpC.EIE

-rw-rw-r--  1 osanna osanna   596291 Jul  5 01:17  11.HE.DKCruHI

-rw-rw-r--  1 osanna osanna  176385 Jul  5 01:17 '120.ozRRVNQCR BNOX.JCAW'

-rw-rw-r--  1 osanna osanna    11444 Jul  5 01:44 '14.nGMBMExw 2.HwL'

-rw-rw-r--  1 osanna osanna   182000 Jul  5 01:17  157.bmEEIADpE.wpnJ

-rw-rw-r--  1 osanna osanna   94588 Jul  4 14:37  163.827663.HFy

-rw-rw-r--  1 osanna osanna     8612 Jul  5 01:13  178.rmAA.FtAF

my rclone.config:

[drive]

type = drive

token = {"access_token":"[redacted]","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"[redacted[,"expiry":"2026-07-05T06:26:08.783447+08:00","expires_in":3599}

team_drive = 

[drivecrypt]

type = crypt

remote = drive

password = [redacted]

filename_encryption = obfuscate

directory_name_encryption = false

The command I'm using is this:

/media/drive$ rclone copy files drivecrypt:docs/

Anyone got any idea? I'm losing my mind here.

TIA :)

I'm big on retro tech (which, sadly, is becoming code for credit bills in a trenchcoat; why did I give all that good shit away :( ) and occasionally think "damn, I should try to get an old C64 or Amiga, specc it up and use it as a daily driver".

Then I got to wondering "do folks still use retro PCs to self host cool stuff?"

So, do folks here still use retro computers for self-hosting- either actually hosting services on the old hardware, or self-hosting lightweight tools specifically for use from vintage machines?

I‘ve got 2 Machines with Proxmox on both installed. One hosts my data and media and runs Services like Jellyfin, NAS,… The other one is a Mini-PC that hosts my Services like Adguard, Home Assistant,…

Whats the best way to Backup the data and configs of those 2 machines? Installing Proxmox Backup Server on each and store the Backups on a seperate HDD? Or would it be better if a move all the services to a single machine and use the second only for backups?

thank you!

Language warning.

Documented my journey backing up my Oracle Cloud server. With their latest changes to always free, I don’t think my instance will last very long. This isn’t a tutorial, there are probably many much better ways to do this.

Hey everyone! Just signed up on Lemmy. I've been running self-hosted services for a while now and looking forward to learning from this community. Glad to be here.

First off, I any of you have been waiting for me to get around to publishing parts 2 & 3 of my SnapCast series, I apologize for the delay. I've finally got my homelab to a state where I can start transitioning my wife over from some of the cloud services we've been using to my self-hosted alternatives. The final push on that was to get backups working properly. Anyways, time just disappeared on me.

So here's those two articles:

Part II

Part III

I've had a whole bunch of infrastructure type articles in progress for months now. I finally took the time to wrap a bunch of them up. Part of the issue is that so much of the content is inter-related that it feels wrong to publish a single article when a whole bunch of the information depends on understanding some other concept that is covered in a different article that hasn't been completed yet.

What am I trying to accomplish here?

As someone who has always considered himself primarily a programmer, I've also had to be "The IT Guy" for decades, and also "The Unix Guy". This meant that I ended up with a lot of practical experience with networking and data centre configuration and planning. I was in charge of configuring the rulebase on a CheckPoint FW1 firewall before some of you were born.

At the same, I never really wanted to do this stuff, but somebody had to, and it had to be done right. But it was all "hands-on", and I would have killed myself before I'd go through the misery of getting something like a Cisco certification.

On top of that, as a programmer I was quite a bit more involved with the business of the company than any of the networking guys we eventually ended hiring. This meant that my role morphed into being the guy that could help the network techies understand how their plumbing was going to be used by the business.

I look at what it takes me to build a homelab, and I realize just how much I lean on the things I learned over decades of being "The IT Guy", and I wonder how hard it must be for people without that kind of a background.

I've read through much of the FUTO article, and i can only think that even that is a hard slog for non-technical beginners. I thought that if I could share some of the things that I've learned about putting together a homelab over the past year or so, while trying to explain the underlying concepts involved, then it might help someone...and it keeps me busy and off the streets.

Back to the article dump...

Next is an article about DNS servers and, specifically, Technitium.

Going hand-in-hand with that, is an article about how You Need a Public Domain.

Finally, an article I've been sitting on forever that talks about the Lenovo M910Q Servers that I have been using in my Proxmox cluster.

In case you're interested, I'm also working on articles about systemd, a Proxmox introduction, resilency and recovery, network security, accessing services, VPN integration and linux basics.

As always, I'm interested in any feedback you may have, including stuff I got wrong or missed out, and whether there's any content you'd like to see. Thx.

I'm looking for some actually working examples of using Flux to deploy at least Immich and Jellyfin with Traefik ingress using Flux CD preferably that use NFS shares for storing data and/or configs, and prometheus monitoring. I've found a few just from searching, but usually it seems like they aren't actually working, just demonstrating something.

Also, what UI do you use for Flux?

Some background: I use k0s with MetalLB and Longhorn and all db storage on a separate postgres server. I've gotten a good repeatable installation of all of that as well as the FluxCD Operator via kOsctl and helm charts which allows me to simply launch k0sctl and provide it a single config that is well documented that deploys all of that across all of the servers. But Flux has been a challenge, especially since I don't really care to learn Kustomize. I already have lots of other things to learn, LOL.

I want to avoid having to use lots of CLI commands that I then have to make sure to document and takes a while to remember all of the issues that can come up and all of that. I'm basically looking for easy disaster recovery. All files and configs are stored on a NAS that is then a single point of all offsite backups. It has worked well with docker, but I want better dynamic distribution of services to take better advantage of the few small servers I have. And docker Swarm ended up being difficult to implement with a lot of applications, and I don't trust Docker not to further enshitify as well as the number of GUIs that support it well is limited, mostly just to Portainer which has been also enshitifying lately. So I've been looking to k8s.

WordPress multisite in selfhosting: one fail, one success

@selfhosted

Starting with the fail: selfhosted site doesn't associate to the official automattic WordPress mobile app; I've (temporarily?) commented the "location xmlrpc.php deny all" rule on /etc/nginx/conf.d/plusbrothers.net'd/wordpress__3.conf

The app correctly generates the "application password" but then returns "impossible to load WordPress site details" (no idea if it's the correct English word).

SUCCESS:
Ulysses and Drafts, two iPhone/iPad writing apps, successfully publish my texts on WordPress posts, as a draft; I can use those and write what I want. I'll try to uncomment xmlrpc deny rule again, then retry.

My goal is to write contents on the app, then finalize it on the site.

OTHER SUCCESS:
site works, both with pure "plusbrothers.net" address and physical WordPress location "plusbrothers.net/wp" - applies to /english as well. Before concretely re-posting old contents and writing new ones, I prefer to have a very solid structure.

I have no idea though, about how vulnerable my website is, hostinger vps YunoHost-driven.

It's been long, long time I didn't work till late in the night, at the moment I'm writing, it's 10 minutes to 3 in the morning!

I promised to my best friend (and content writer) that on July 3rd, the walls of our sentient HIV's house, should have been ready.
And I kept the promise. 3rd July, 3 in the morning, the house stands up. Still dirty, still stinks of building, no possibility to live in it, but at least we won't fall dead with collapsing ceiling.

Blind selfhoster journey continues.

#blind #experience #selfhost #selfhosting #website #WordPress #YunoHost

Hello everyone.

I have been interested in starting to self-host, and I have just been able to set up the first useful thing for myself (apart from a PiHole that I have running).

Since I am very afraid of making security mistakes, I would like to get feedback from you if my setup is secure or not.

The simple use case: I want to be able to back up files from my main computer to a hard disk, without having the hard disk attached to my main computer.

The setup:

• A Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit).
• The Raspberry Pi can only be accessed via ed25519 key.
• I configured a firewall on the Raspberry Pi with ufw to allow only traffic from the local subnet.
• I then use sshfs to mount the hard disk connected with the Raspberry Pi to my main computer.
• I plan to use rsync to back up my files.

Now I need your help: how secure is this setup? Did I make any major mistake? Is there something I could do better?

I'd be happy to get some feedback... 🙂

Hi everyone

Thanks for all the advice on buying a domain. Its a big week for me. Getting on grapheneos, buying a domain, and I also recently started self hosting my contacts and calendar. I love this way of life.

My original plan was to one of the xyz 1.1111b domains for $1 a year but most of the feedback I got said just go with cloudflare. Its a lot more money than I had planned but all the security features are baked in and I feel that's worth the extra money.

Here are my questions. I use the latest version of truenas community

1. How do I connect my domain to my server apps? I've got a series of apps I'd love to he able to access without tailscale and solely use the domain.
2. I have heard the term DNS a million times but don't really understand it. What do.I need to know about DNS to keep security up and stay protected
3. I'd like to let family access my media server, are there any considerations I need to make?
4. How can I use one domain to access multiple services on my server? Do I need to pay extra for subdomains?

Thank you for any advice

Hello again everyone

Please let me know if my posting here is becoming too regular

I tried out the options suggested by you in the last post. I actually got it working which was a really exciting moment for me. I got home from work and starting trying to set up an authentication that only allows my email to get through and ended up getting a Error 1033, i tried to change DNS settings and then got Error 1016.

I tried restarting my browser, restarting my cloudflared instance on my machine but nothing worked at all.

In short, im very lost. Ive tried following along with afew youtube tutorials but it hasnt really worked. Feeling very defeated, this is way above my knowledge level, but hey, i guess everything ive learnt on this selfhosting journey was once way above my knowledge level so theres always time to learn.

If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be appriciated

I also had a question, do you create a new tunnel for each application? Or do you just use a separate route and have them all on the same tunnel?

I am in the process of setting up a virtualized OPNsense firewall on Proxmox on a Thinkcentre 720q. The proxmox host has 3 network interfaces.

• A dual NIC gigabit card where one interface is for WAN and other for LAN, say eth1 and eth2
• Another interface which came with the PC itself, say eth3

PS: I also have a switch for all my other devices.

After some research, I have understood that

1. Passing (pass-through) the NIC to the OPNsense VM is better for performance
2. Passing it through removes the interface from the host OS
3. If passing is not done correctly, you may lose access to Proxmox.

My questions are

1. How do I set eth2 to be the LAN port and also use it connect to proxmox?
2. If I use point #1 (eth2 for LAN), how much will the throughput of eth2 be affected? (My ISP provides me symmetrical 320 Mbps link speed)
3. If I use point #1, will local traffic (traffic handled by my switch) be affected?
4. (Optional/Experimental) Since I have a spare port (eth3), can I use it for special purpose (a dedicated management port which will work even if OPNsense is down)?
5. If I use point #4, my switch will have two ethernet connections from the proxmox host. Will this cause loops and kill my network?

You can answer this selectively by mentioning the question number.

If you have a better idea regarding how to setup OPNsense on Proxmox, please share.

Edit #1: Thank you for all your responses! It seems I have to study a lot. Let me answer a few questions

1. I am not managing workloads for a dozen of people with strict SLAs. I'm just doing it for my family and myself.
2. I understand the point that something as critical as a firewall should have its own hardware. However, I just want to experiment with few VMs on Proxmox. I want to setup Proxmox once and let it be.
3. I eventually want to get into VLANs but that is not a priority right now. My future plan is to integrate this with some Omada access points.
4. I've added a diagram of what I want to do. Please forgive my crude drawing as it's the best I can do for now.

Please let me know if you want some more information

Edit #2: Thank you for sharing your experience with Proxmox and OPNsense. I'm still reading and re-reading all of your comments to check if I have missed anything.

I have made a small mistake of not ordering the dual NIC + angled riser card before the host arrived, so my host is currently idle. When it arrives, and I manage to set it up, I will make a new post and share what i've learnt.

Thank you again!

The other day I was looking for lyrics to a song. I went to a lyrics website and was hit with a wall of ads, despite my pi-hole! I then went to another site that put me into a redirect loop. It got me thinking about privately self hosting a lyrics site. I started thinking that lyrics are just a type of simple static content, and what would be ideal is an application in which you can upload multiple directories of markdown files. Perhaps the directory should be in a standardised .mds (markdown share) format for instance. It would essentially be a zip file with directories of markdown files and a yml file for indicating how it would ideally be displayed. Perhaps with an a-z, or perhaps text-searchable, or both. The styling would be configurable in the app and independent of the mds files completely. Does this kind of standard for sharing simple text or markdown in bulk exist in any capacity that encourages a known file format? I'm aware that static site generators exist, but they seem to be aimed at the creation of documentation, not at sharing it in bulk. I'm imagining easily downloadable recipe books, wikis, lyrics databases. Does this sound like something anyone would be interested in or am I over/under thinking it?

Anywherelan (styled AWL) is a direct peer-to peer-to-peer LAN solution for self-hosting and accessing services remotely without a server infrastructure.

Tailscale connections require an account identity (or OAuth authentication through services run by Google, Microsoft, etc.) I currently use it because it's codebase is open, and there are self-hosted forks (that I have considered as a future fallback), and it is dead easy to set up and use. It "just works."

However, this just popped up on my radar and I'd never seen it before or even heard of this technology. I couldn't find any posts about it, but if it works as promised, this would be a huge improvement in terms of my overall infrastructure. It seems like a somewhat young project with very active development, but the first release goes all the way back to 2022.

Has anyone here tried it? Is it any good?

Hiya, looking the a firewall for my homelab, mostly to experiment but also for a added layer of security. There are just two of us in this household with a few laptops, phones and my servers, so nothing much. Therefore looking for something affordable and not "overkill".

Anyone got any recommendations for this? Also how do you run your opensense/pfsense instance?

Appreciate any tips!

Hey guys, so I have been searching for the different ways to self-host a music-server and don't really know whats the best/most elegant way to go.

I know that there is navidrome and many also use jellyfin for it. Now I have a few questions:

• Are there any good apps for android for navidrome/jellyfin respectively?
• how easy can I add songs to them/do they pull metadata from somewhere (like jellyfin does for movies)
• how do they (or any other options) compare in terms of ease of setup/maintainability?
• do you have any overall recommendations?

Thanks a lot for any tips/recommendations and your help :D

I think I officially have a hoarding problem...

These are for ten years on a 1.1111b xyz domain

Godaddy $17 (unsure if includes protection) Dynadot $11.50 (with whois protection) Xyz $19.90 (with whois protection)

Its all very confusing. I just want to get a domain for my server as cheap as

What is the best way to provide internet access to guests on a Proxmox VXLAN? Is it:

1. One node (host) in the cluster is the default gateway, all traffic is routed through it. Sounds clean and simple but there's multiple layers of jank to get it working, if it works at all
2. Have a guest (lxc or VM) on the VXLAN act as a gateway. Give it two NICs - one on the vnet and another on the hosts bridge (physical lan), route traffic through the second.

My default approach is the first but despite hours of tinkering and forwarding tricks it never works. I'm leaning more to the second but having a dedicated gateway guest seems like a waste of resources - logically the host should be doing it.

And yes, SNAT is enabled 😅