lainon's server

Hello dear Lainon, do you have servers? If so, what do you use them for? Personally, I have a small soykafbox that runs NAS, Jellyfin, Minecraft server & Pi-Hole

Just a raspberry Pi 4 8GB for now but I want to get more once I get a bigger place to live. I've been adding docker containers and I'm honesty just surprised my pi can still run everything. It's mostly just messing with devops stuff with some quality of life services. - portainer - pi hole - gitea - syncthings - Jenkins

right now i have two rpis running alpine linux; one is facing the outer web, the other is not one facing the web does wireguard, http for a file dump, irc bouncer, dns, git one not doubles as a soykafty ftp/http storage server and 24/7 radio, which the other pi has nginx pointing to >>64442 how's the speed on that? every time i tried to throw docker into the mix it slowed down to a complete crawl even with just 4 or 5 containers if the server with docker would've been rebooted i would have to wait 5 minutes before all of my services were up, while right now it takes 10 seconds for all of my services to be up

>>64476 For my workloads its fast enough that I don't think about it. Restarts are very infrequent so it doesn't really matter to me but all my services seem to be up in under a minute. At one point I did try syncing a large music library and that slowed to a crawl and I ended up killing that project after a day. That being said I get really distracted with YouTube and Twitch as is so it's probably a good thing I can't have a local media server eating up my free time. Sometimes it feels more comfy to have hard limitations like that on your projects.

Currently running a 6th-gen (((Intel))) PC as a server, ~8tb running SMB, Jellyfin & qBittorrent. I used to run Alpine Linux, and I am now using Windows Server.

>>64434 I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. I use it for testing software that I wrote. I also plan to use it learn SQL. I think a Raspberry Pi would be great for IRC as well (you could either use ZNC or just tmux+irssi). I might also use it to learn asm from what I have read, the ARM thumb asm sounds great. >>64442 >docker containers Kind of offtopic, but how to actually learn to use Docker? Is there some good tutorial somewhere you could link pls?

>>64434 I have a rockpro64 running slackware. What i am running includes my website my mail server nfs and soon irc matrix xmpp

Yeah, currently just one server on old PC. 1. Some handwritten web-chat. 2. Linx-server 3. Local TinyIB as a journal/diary 4. RSS Bridge + tt-rss. 5. Pi-hole 6. Searx For a long while I wanted to make a "good" file server/seedbox, but currently can't order anything because of fuarrrking war. Also local stores have virtually x10-20 prices.

>>64434 >>64442 >>64564 i must ask why do so many people run pi-hole I had horrible experience with it (maybe I don't use it correctly) it didn't block ads on all sites (mainly didn't block ads on nsfw soykaf) all websites suddenly tried to warn me that I am using adblock (didn't happen with ublock) and overall it just felt weird... could it be that I use it wrong? or maybe I have my expectations wrong? what are you experiences with pi-hole?

>>64561 I really want to start running my own mail server but im too scared of someone trying to attack my entire computer grid through it. how do you make sure your mail server is actually secure and safe?

I had a manga server on my raspberry but I kept unplugging the power chord instead of powering off the proper way and now the sd card seems corrupted. At least I can't boot because of kernel panic and I can't modify the contents since it's in eternal read-only mode that seems impossible to change. I guess I deserve this

>>64569 What do you mean it's in 'eternal read-only mode', does it have one of those switches on the side of the sd card? I'd think you should be able to recover the system somehow.

>>64566 >could it be that I use it wrong? Yes, you didn't add any block lists besides what was provided it seems. >or maybe I have my expectations wrong? It says itself that it won't get every advertisement but it is great at blocking ads and tracking domains on devices where it can. However sometimes this can break certain services. >what are you experiences with pi-hole? Great, it blocked ads on just about everywhere it needed to and ublock would remove the frames that wouldn't load on browsers. The only thing it couldn't block ads on was YouTube apps and streaming services but why do I even need to use these to begin with?

>>64566 didn't like it so i just setup dnsmasq with a cronjob to automate creating the hosts file and telling dnsmasq to read it

I have a Raspberry Pi that I use as an I2P relay. I intend to run a small mailing list later on, but first I have to finish writing a script for this purpose.

>>64567 the email server it self only works of imap and smtp so you cant gain server access, do have a strong password and setup certs, its p secure. also lukes smith email script is p good

How do I use keyboard, instead of mouse, to select the area I want to screenshot with scrot?

>>64587 shoot, wrong thread, I'm sorry

>>64434 does someone know why my rpi4 fuarrrks up the SD card every 6 months or so? I used to use it as a server, but because of that it's gathering dust now (not that it wasn't before, but still)

>>64596 My rpi 1 did that. I think it had a loose connection to the specific SD card I used (full size, not micro sd), because it eventually got to a point where I would have to hold the card in for it to work. My rpi 4 hasn't ever corrupted a card for the ~2 years I've had it. Granted, it doesn't really write to the card since it's just a kodi install looking at a network share.

>>64571 No switches. Can't mount it or modify it in any way that I tried on linux. Can't format either

I have a small rack in my basement with a couple servers. Multiple stuff running on it, and I've got about 100 TB of storage. >>64571 >>64832 It's a common thing for flash devices to do when errors are triggered to prevent further damage/unrecoverable files. I've had it happen to several micro SD cards

>>64875 >It's a common thing for flash devices to do when errors are triggered to prevent further damage/unrecoverable files. Is there a way to just format it and make it usable again assuming that the hardware isn't fuarrrked? fsck can't do anything since its read only

>>65423 It's like an e-fuse. Once it's tripped there's no going back

>>64567 >>64584 luke smith's email scripts is valid at least when I used it. I also ported my mail server to the OpenBSD stack which setup you can try here https://draft.websteading.net/smtpd/

>>65423 >>65443 cant he copy the data over to different SD card? if its still readable

good sirs i finaly set up xmpp, gnu social v3 is what im going for next

On the one hand, my self-hosting has gotten a little out of hand. On the other hand, my fascination with image based services got my my job. Most of my services have been really stable though, and I would miss any one of them if they went away. On my unraid server: - Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Jackett/NZBhydra/NZBget/deluge for downloading soykaf - Kavita/Navidrome/Jellyfin/Audiobookshelf for consooming books, music, movies and shows, and audiobooks - tubesync for archiving youtube videos to watch through jellyfin (over 3T of videos downloaded so far) - ZNC - Nightscout (blood sugar tracking for diabetic floss autists) - Mongodb/mysql/postgresql as backends for several images - Calibre / musicbrainz picard if I have to do any hardcore library management (usually spun down) On VPS servers I have: - One server that runs a chan that never took off - One server that hosts a docker-compose stack running the following (some of them are being transitioned to better image setups so offline for now): - A hugo blog - Logseq - Radicale - a git repo with git-arr for repo visualization - A ttyd instance that for now just displays a message as a file in GNU nano (I plan to later learn to make curses programs in lisp and make this a curses display as my landing page for my personal site) - Searx - nginxproxymanager to tie it all together I also have a raspberry pi running homeassistant (it doesn't virtualize well) which controls all the lightbulbs in my room currently (9 bulbs currently) and some automations revolving around them. In the works, I plan to automate the humidity of my room as well as my hydroponics setup in the basement. I have three more raspberry pis that I'm going to possibly make a cluster out of because k8s is really clapping my cheeks at work. On my wishlist: - A matrix server - Jitsi or another screensharing solution - A unified login through Authelia so everything can logged into at once (although this raises other implementation issues regarding app logins like the subsonic protocol and the jellyfin app which some friends use on smart TVs) (don't tell me to use LDAP that setup is a mess) - Video feeds for my automated plant setup - Tools for browsing my movie library to pick something to watch using the sonarr/radarr API which I plan to write myself - Maybe a better irc bouncer than ZNC - An imgur replacement

I run a VPS as well as a Rasperry Pi at home. VPS: - Website/Blog - Soju - Firefly Raspberry Pi 3B+: - pihole - Wireguard (not working) >>64476 >one facing the web does wireguard Do you have a good article on how to setup wireguard on a home network? I set mine up, but it doesn't actually connect. Public/Private keys are set properly on each peer, UDP ports are opened and forwarded from my router, dynDNS is setup, too, yet it still doesn't work :( >>64502 >I used to run Alpine Linux, and I am now using Windows Server. I'm curious: what made you switch to Windows Server of all things? >>64503 >>67152 >ZNC I ran ZNC before but ultimately threw it out the window for soju, an alternative IRC bouncer implementation, used by sourcehut for their chat.sr.ht bouncer service, as well as being developed by emersion, a sourcehut employee. It's very easy to set up: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/soju >>64569 >I kept unplugging the power chord instead of powering off the proper way and now the sd card seems corrupted. Alpine Linux is able to be deployed to RAM, circumventing writes on the sdcard altogether unless you opt-in to write something to it. You may unplug the power chord instead of powering off the rpi the proper way all you want then :) Also, no more writing too much to the sdcard since every write happens in RAM by default. https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_local_backup

Surprised so many people use a raspi as a server. I used one for a short while as a discord bot and felt like it was too weak for that at times. I suppose it's better than no server. I use a mini pc to host pleroma, simplytranslate and librex I am thinking of building a nas server so i can stop whipping out the HDD USB adapters everytime ai want to transfer/access something. >>64564 Sorry to hear about those circumstances Imageboard as a journal sounds interesting, I won't lie sometimes I struggle to vent in a journal because I've become used to the way one writes and posts on an imageboard.

>>67161 >Surprised so many people use a raspi as a server. I used one for a short while as a discord bot and felt like it was too weak for that at times. I suppose it's better than no server. It isn't that weak. For a long time, I was running raspberry pi with minidlna and a few bots. The big thing for me was to make sure to use ffmpeg to bring the videos down to an easier to handle size, it didn't like 1080p over the network. Plus there was the issue of size.... I had about 80K files just for videos, with about 120K audio files, and I have three Roku devices accessing it.

>>67162 is there a certain raspberry model that's best? and where can i buy it, the website still says they're out of stock

>>67163 I just have a stock of them that I bought a long time ago until they started using them for warfare. The rpi3 b+ wasn't the worst, but I had some great results for the rpi4 (4gb).

>>67163 NTA but I've been buying mine secondhand if it's not an auction and it's priced reasonably (aka not scalper prices). You have to be very fast though You'd be surprised at how many people buy them, realize they're not tech savvy enough to use it, and resell it because "it's broken" when it's not

Have a few vps’ run misskey, mail, xmpp, searxng, owncloud, some not interactive websites.

>>67152 How to do keep track of all your ports? Just through UFW, and NGINX configs? How do you decide if a service should go on a VPS vs self host?

>>67159 >soju Thanks for the rec, I'll give it a try one of these days, I'm still messing with my IRC setup in general. ZNC's message history management is somewhat wonky. I tried to setup a docker image for pounce, but the person who wrote pounce did it in BSD and something about how they setup the TLS cert generator doesn't work and I couldn't be bothered to push further >>67201 >How do you keep track of all your ports I don't configure nginx via config files anymore. I use nginxproxymanager pretty much everywhere, which has an easy to spin up image and has an intuitive web UI for handling all that. It also keeps al my certs up to date for me. When it comes to networking and cert management I am a complete smoothbrain and just want the easiest solution, which is not my usual M.O. >How do you decide if a service should go on a VPS or self host? Mostly, if it uses few resources and would be embarrassing if it went down (blog, git repo viewer, etc), or if it involves weird custom written stuff (logseq has to go through a kind of nasty setup involving a python script to update its soykaf from my org-roam setup because it's not strictly speaking compatible with org-roam) I put it in the VPS stack. I did do a typo there though, Searx is actually on my unraid server. I put radicale on the VPS because I don't want to not be able to recover it remotely I guess if I'm on vacation or something and there's a powerout in my neighborhood. There are probably other things that should be migrated to a high availability solution but I can't really be bothered. I also kept the server for that chan on a VPS because I was unable to successfully dockerize it at all. I think I used lynxchan to set it up, which is a program with a somewhat baffling design to me

>>67207 >M.O.? >>67207 >nginxproxymanager Dude, this is amazing, thank you for mentioning it!! I don't care about knowing nginx, I just want to release my sites already. It's been 2 weeks and docker and nginx are still giving me blue balls. This seems like it will help. You sound smart and very high energy, like one of those skinny grad student types. What's your favorite thing you host? What's your most used thing you host? Most used by you.

im running a server off an old computer with - jellyfin - wireguard - calckey - webserver - qbittorrent

>>67213 Is calckey any fun? What is it like?

>>67212 >M.O. Modus operandi, I just meant that looking for an easy graphical program to get me out of text configuration is not my usual approach, but god damn do I hate networking nginxproxymanager effectively deleted my least favorite setup steps lol. Especially the certificate management stuff. That stuff is always annoying to setup reliably. >What's your favorite thing you host? I'd love to have a more interesting answer, but my piracy setup is what really gets me off. Newsgroups are an incredible way to download, I often use it as a network speed test. DL speeds are like 100 Mb/s sometimes, and no nasty letters from comcast. I spent so long fine tuning it. Basically, I use sonarr and radarr to track my downloads, name my directories, keep track of things I want but don't have (and search for them on a scheduled basis), and once in a while run a mass update that searches everything to see if it can find higher quality versions. Sonarr is fed by jackett, which I use to set up torznab feeds (which are accepted by sonarr/radarr) from about 5 different torrent trackers. Sonnarr/radarr also can accept my 2 newsgroup aggregators as sources when searching, and I have a whole heirarchy setup. Prefer a file from nzb that is 1080p and in mkv format. If that's not available, search for a torrent in in 1080p in mkv format. Then nzb 1080p in another format. Then torrent 1080p non-mkv format. Then go down a grade and start again. It's really nice I use NZBGet as my newsgroup downloader and deluge as my torrent downloader, and have configured both to download to a separate drive for temporary storage during download and then do post-processing elsewhere, which speeds things up so much. If I want to download something that's not a movie/show or search all 7 of my preferred sources simultaneously, I have them all set to NZBHydra (which can search torrent sites as well) and just do the huge search there. From there it's a button press to send the file to NZBGet or deluge. All this effort to maintain a bunch of normal ass folders containing media in a nice organized way, which I point jellyfin at. Jellyfin also has a folder the youtube downloader points at. It's beautiful when it all works together, and most of the kinks are ironed out at this point.

>>67227 I haven't heard of most of this stuff cus I just find magnet links and dunk them into my local qbittorrent-nox site. Let me get this straight... >find torrent site X >place it in Jackett >tell Sonarr to search for Pirates of the Carribean 2 in 1080p through the Sonarr UI >Sonarr relays this request to Jackett >Jackett searches torrent site X Maybe a chart would help explain this. Is Usenet really worth it if you have to pay for it? Only knowing about torrenting, thinking about paying monthly isn't very appealing to me

I always wanted to have my own home server, it's annoying trying to send other people in my house large files or have them come to me to put something from my yarhar'd game and movie collection onto a USB. But I've never had the money or hardware to do it. :(

>>67165 My brother bought one just to stream anime and movies and I had to help him set it up (read: do it all myself). I wish I could afford one.

>>64434 I got a handful of VPSes and use them to create an IP based network. https://dn42.dev

>>67243 Damn, I've never though of doing this. It would be pretty fun to tinker with, deploying apps to multiple nodes, syncing files, implementing high availability. I'm actually trying to get away from services, to minimize my expenses. I don't like paying Python Anywhere $12 a month just to host websites. How much do you pay for VPSs? Any recommendations?

>>67237 >Jackett searches torrent site X Basically, yeah. Jackett is a very small program that does a very small thing, and it's not strictly necessary. You could setup connections to the torrent sites in sonarr / radarr directly if you wanted. But, I use the same torrent sources in sonarr / radarr / nzbhydra, so it's a little easier to maintain the connections in one place instead of three. Not that I have to update them that often. >tell Sonarr to search for Pirates of the Carribean 2 in 1080p through the Sonarr UI You could do that, but more commonly I would press the 'search for file' button (or it might do it automatically) and it would do multiple searches trying to find a file that matches the best criteria that I've defined. Maintaining these kind of quality profiles is one of the more important functions of sonarr IMO, especially since it's smart enough to download a lower quality if that's all that's available and keep searching for upgrades and manage that for you without being interacted with much

My PC is my server. I run (behind a reverse proxy of course): Jellyfin Nitter Invidious Hugo Blog Navidrome Authelia Calibre-web [redacted] Shoko Always looking to run more stuff.

i have a 40TB FXP box for movie rls

>>67265 Can you mention how this worksm >world is allowed to get through your ufw on port 80/443 >traffic gets to your reverse proxy >traffic is delegated to apps ?

>>67301 >Reverse proxy sits at port 80 >You visit jellyfin.yourdomain.com >all subdomains of yourdomain.com redirects to your ip address at port 80 according to your registrar settings >Your request to jellyfin.yourdomain.com therefore goes to your reverse proxy >Your reverse proxy says "the referrer for this request is jellyfin.yourdomain.com. I am configured to route requests from that referrer to port 8096 on some machine on the local network" > You are routed to port 8096 on the approriate machine

I run plex and apache on a rock pi I think booting from an sd card leads to many problems with pis so I use nvme ssd. Before, my sd card would fill with logs causing plex transcoding to fail And pi-hole on a ras pi of course >>64566 Pihole can't replace ublock unfortunately but pihole for example blocked the popups on my smart tv web browser.

>>67302 Do you use nginx auth? Or use the jellyfin sign in

>>64434 Yes, 3 servers, I use it to host privacy related services and upload soykaf to internet And one server that is from one friend but we use it generally to have control of our own data Pretty comfy See: aHR0cHM6Ly96emxzLnh5ei9pbmRleC1lbg==

>>64434 Sure: https://tinfoil-hat.net https://git.tinfoil-hat.net https://wiki.tinfoil-hat.net https://tube.tinfoil-hat.net a nextcloud ZNC fiche

>>67309 can you post the links to your services?

>>67318 Is it there... Open your eyes

>>67319 see what? I don't know what the string is afaik it' s no gpg key and no onion

>>67320 >== It's base64 mate Just decode it

>>67317 Oh hey, I remember your site from years ago when I was looking for fringe blogs to follow via RSS. Seems like your site has changed a lot, did you not used to have a blog?

>>67334 I had a Blog, but I decided to take it down, since I don't really have much to say, besides my psychosis. But I don't feel comftable to have it up anymore, since it's really private information

>>64434 >If so, what do you use them for? To save a picture of your mum

>>67346 I'm not >>67334 but I recognize you. You're my German sysadmin buddy but you probably don't remember me. I finally started using PGP email so I might email you again some time. Please respond.

>>67359 What do you use for PGP soykaf? I discovered Kleopatra and it's awesome. No command line soykaf and signs stuff for you

>>67359 Hi, I repied to you, happy to hear from you

Is there any cheap and decent VPS hoster that can be paid in monero? I want to host an imageboard without the annoying detail that I might be held responsible for its contents if I don't moderate it 24/7 so an anonymous way to get a server would be necessary.

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>>67468 Thanks but 15 € / month for > 1 Core > 1.5 GB RAM > 15 GB Disk > 1.5 TB Traffic isn't really cheap in my opinion

>>67466 you can get a cockbox, they are a little cheaper than njalla but they are all out of stock now. it's from the same guy that does cock.li, do with that information as you wish. https://cockbox.org/

>>67466 What about taking the moot pill and self hosting with a reverse proxy? A proxy and your electricity bill should be cheaper than one of these $15/month solutions.

>>67477 I've never seen them not sold out unfortunately >>67478 My internet connection is quite unreliable, I have outages one or two times a week.

currently just have an orange pi zero 2 set up with pihole. I want to set up another server for running a couple low resource things and storage for a back-up. Not sure if i should buy a cheap old pc or some more pis. Dont have much physical space

>>67165 >>67242 >Wish I could afford one When did Pi's get so expensive? I remember buying them for like $50 a few years ago.

>>68687 Ever since the chip shortage they started to sky rocket in prices on non official 3rd party sites. Though, if you look on their website thru their official 3rd party, a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B can go for 50$ (at least on PIshop) so... uh. i'm confused has you are.

I've got an old dell server PC that I dabble with different things >2 xeons >32 giggles ram >some 8 gig GPU It can handle just about anything I could ever think of.

i use an old 2009 netbook and it does the job better than a raspb. pi it's x86_64, so, more software available, and with 7.5w TDP it's good for a server machine. even better, the battery acts as a UPS. I use it for running a local tomcat instance for a local webapp + mysql database, on void, and it does the job pretty well. i've been considering maybe underclock/undervolt the cpu but the BIOS is pretty limited :/ For those that remember, i was the Lainon that made the netbook thread some years ago, i'm still using that same machine :D

>>64442 >>64476 >>64561 What is the appeal of using sbcs for hosting? If you want computing power buying recycled desktops beat them by alot. Cooling is also difficult since theres not standard solution. SD cards are so inconsistent. Is that worth it just for low energy or is there more?

I am using my desktop that stays up 24/7 as a server to run the following: - A web server for accessing my files remotely and hosting a website. - An IRC bouncer - A MPD instance for streaming music - A deluge daemon for seeding torrents - A Wireguard VPN for securing the above services

>>70438 >even better, the battery acts as a UPS. You might want to test that theory. Keeping the charger plugged in 24/7 destroys the battery.

>>70441 Not these anons but I like using SBCs because of the size factor. I know nowadays there's things like thin clients but sometimes you just need something like, really fuarrrking small. I wouldn't use them for as many services as those anons are running though because of like you said, cooling is difficult and overtime the heat is probably gonna kill it.

>>70441 I just had to buy a pi for a class several years ago and figure I'd get some use out of it instead of letting it collect dust.

>>67152 >Jitsi or another screensharing solution you could setup an rtmp/hls server with nginx and hls.js. it runs about 10 secs behind realtime buts its super convenient.

just 1 cheap vps for hosting: - minetest server. for playing with friends. its a nice world. - a webserver with nginx and bashlog. for microblogging about the minetest server, however, im planning writing about broader things.

i just use a vps to host a website and a gemini capsule

>>67245 I have snatched a good deal on black friday, a low spec VPS is around 8 bucks a year, but that's if you know where to look and/or have people that know these promos. In general, I pay around 25-30 euros a year, and yes, I prefer yearly payment. DN42 is really fun with your usecase in mind, you can manage to try out anycasting without the hassle of paying an IP space and other clearnet BGP stuff that's behind a paywall. The community is big and helpful.

>>64434 I have a feralhosting slot with rutorrent, plex, and openvpn installed and a hetzner slot with webhosting, nextcloud, and vaultwarden.

I have a Helios4 NAS running Armbian. It also runs a transmission-openvpn Docker container. I stream media from it to an Odroid C2 plugged into my TV. Aside from that I have a PC Engines apu2 running OpenBSD as my router. My ISP uses vlan tag 0 to let you get online, so that disqualified pfsense since the FreeBSD kernel can't handle that nonstandard tag. Took a week to figure that out...

I recently bought a printer without wireless support, then put CUPS on an old raspberry pi with a wifi dongle. Now I have a wireless print server. It's not much, but it was quick, easy, and pragmatic.

I have probably thousands of dollars in NUCs and various Pis. I use two of them :) But they were all parts of cool projects once upon a time.

>>67159 >Do you have a good article on how to setup wireguard on a home network? Did you try pivpn? I installed mine pretty easily with it.