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In the What are YOU self-hosting? thread, there are a lot of people here who are self-hosting a huge number of applications, but there's not a lot of discussion of the platform these things run on.

What does your self-hosted infrastructure look like?

Here are some examples of more detailed questions, but I'm sure there are plenty more topics that would be interesting:

  • What hardware do you run on? Or do you use a data center/cloud?
  • Do you use containers or plain packages?
  • Orchestration tools like K8s or Docker Swarm?
  • How do you handle logs?
  • How about updates?
  • Do you have any monitoring tools you love?
  • Etc.

I'm starting to put together the beginning of my own homelab, and I'll definitely be starting small but I'm interested to hear what other people have done with their setups.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I bought the below Supermicro server, setup Proxmox on it and installed it in INAP Dallas through a provider that sells 1U rackspace(dedicated.com) for $100 a month.

https://www.newegg.com/supermicro-superserver-6017r-tdt-4x-bay-rack/p/2NS-000A-0GW77?Item=9SIACSJFE58733

I have a /28 class block of IPs(wish I had gotten a /27) and use Wasabisys, a S3 clone, for backups. Proxmox handles firewalling, container backups and so on pretty easily. To lock down access a little more, I run OpenVPN on an AWS micro instance and use that public IP as the only IP that's fully open on the firewalls for things like SSH and the Proxmox webUI. Monitoring is my weakness at the moment. I could setup Nagios on AWS, but I'd prefer something a little more lightweight as AWS instances are a little pricey.