Self hosting ideas

Hi all, im new to self hosting. Id love project ideas/tips from you guys! Using fedora/Redhat software primarily. (Rocky Linux, OpenShift, Podman)(USER WAS WARNED FOR THIS POST, You should always elaborate on your opinions rather than just spilling the soykaf.)

PROTIP: Don't bother hosting if you've got nothing to host. A server is meant to serve things. It should be a place where you provide some sort of useful function to visitors. If you're doing it just for its own sake, then you're going to get bored and abandon it in a couple of months at the very most.

>>91399 Don't listen to this person. You don't need to have a plan just to fuarrrk around with self hosting. Even if you abandon it in a few months, you will still get some useful knowledge. First thing i did on my server was a simple samba share. Then i made a jellyfin server for media. There are thousands of cool things you can self host.

A web site iff you have something you want to share. Email is always useful but a pain in the ass to make work properly. A fileserver with whatever you want. Package mirror.

>>91397 >vpn/vps >email >matrix >I2p/Thor nodes >media server >router (if homelabbing) I mean, the first lain already said it, hosting is for when you have something to host, a server is to serve things.. Also you are not very specific about your setup, what about self-hosting are you even interested in? What's your setup?

thoughts on decentralized social app like twitter but that operates as p2p networks , meaning each account is its own site and also a node or a block in a blockchain?

>>91408 What exactly would it offer that isn't just the WWW? Webmentions already exist.

>>91400 I wish to learn linux system administration/preemptive security

>>91415 What are you working with? What's the equipment you have/you plan on getting? Do you plan on renting a vps or do you have hardware at home you wanna use?

>>91416 Currently I am working with an old laptop that unfortunately only has 8GB RAM. I plan on getting an old desktop with at least 32GB in the future, maybe even a mini pc thats no more than 550. A VPS on linode does sound interesting but ill have to look into it. Right now I want to learn linux and become fluint in the terminal. So i think messing with self hosting is a decent way to do that.

i'm also starting off self-hosting too off of a raspberry pi. i've been tinkering with an irc/mud thingy to try and learn sysadmining and it's probably the most fun i've had with computers in a while there's been something bugging me though. is there any alternative temporary file transfer software i could deploy ala uguu? since i'm on the ARM architecture there's been a bunch of errors building uguu that i can't bother to bear with

>>91418 Write it yourself in your language of choice

>>91420 kiiind of the worst case scenario/last resort right now, i'm lazy and kind of don't like programming

>>91417 >Right now I want to learn linux and become fluint in the terminal. So i think messing with self hosting is a decent way to do that. I mean is it though? For me homelabbing and selfhosting came as a extension of my needs. Setting up a server is indeed a nice project but learning the ins and outs of Linux is easier with a goal in mind (except for learning for the sake of it) Setting up gentoo, slackware of even Debian netinstall (with none of the packages in the installer selected) and trying to get a working desktop environment out of it will teach you more in this situation imho.

>>91418 get a cheap refurbished x86 office computer, it'll let you do a lot more than a pi lenovo m900 tiny is usually a good option

>>91410 1. Basic WWW sites allow corpo-bots to barge in and index your website as is. 2. Closed, "deep Web" sites, on the other hand, *could use* a hub and a volunteer marketing team that's de jure not tied with any of the people who propaply 'ost some hot stuff. Therefore, you need "an easy interface for free" kind of approach (an app that constructs/generates an unindexable template website for the user before the user throws in some s*uff onto it)

I have just set up a personal image board on my LAN using tinyIB to use as a nonlinear journalling/notetaking/brainstorming space. I have diverse interests and it occured to me that the imageboard format is great for jotting stuff down and brainstorming nonlinearly. I can link between posts, easily post things from my phone in bed, build on ideas over time etc.

>>92958 The weakest part of this idea is that imageboards are very clunky for editing posts imo.

>>92959 >>92959 The posts are not intended to be edited and actually that's an important part of the design. You commit to the idea at the time. If you want to change or revise it you respond in the thread

>>92960 That kinda make sense for opinions, but it's not great for structuring things. When some list grows I might want to split it into multiple items, if something turns out limited I collapse it into a single item, etc. Similar to refactoring software. But well, that's my personal preference. If that works for you, good. It's certainly an interesting idea. When I want to preserve older idea but revise/fix it like you described it I use strikethrough, red color or other formatting options. Anyway, think about backups and reproducing your posts db on fresh system if you're going to use this for long.

>>92962 Think of it like a diary/journal. Diaries are not typically revised after the fact. Regarding splitting ideas etc I've only just started using it but I think cross thread linking works well for linking disparate thoughts and emanating non hierarchical structure. I'll need to work out my backup and longevity plan. Right now it's on a raspberry pi on my LAN but I'm aware the SD card for storage isn't great for longevity

A simple starter project is either a self hosted website of some sort, a home file server , or a seedbox on a spare computer. Those are the things that I did when I first got into self hosting

>>91397 I see it like this. You either go the passion way, to do soykaf you feel like you want to do, or you try to mimick industry dtate of the art to self study for sysadmin/cloud/devops. You mentioned redhat ecosystem OP and this is THE industry standard, so if you want it to be more then a hobby, if you wish to at least learn how to "set up linux properly", then for starters go with RHCSA curriculum. Like, challenge yourself to actually git gud at basic things, even most basic soykaf like nginx, shares, etc. It's better to learn this, then the Reddit selfhosted slop. I just can't look at this. People buying industry switches and making proxies so they can share some porn and their college notes. This is a Dunnig-Kruger monument and not "technology" or self-development. Now when you git gud at basic things, you can do fun things. Learn ansible and now you are a sysadmin at company. Implement services for your imaginary users. Do networking too. Before you buy soykafton of gear, do cisco packet tracer. If you want to selfhost a project that's meaningfull to you, you wouldn't ask a question what to selfhost. 100% agreed with >>91399 here. So at least do someying that's industry and good practice relevant and not just intelectuall jerk off for reddit or /g/.

>>91397 What do Lains think about using a raspberry pi for a git server? I no longer trust regular providers cause they will leak sensitive data to train AI. So I thought about hosting one myself. I just wonder though, one of the reasons I put my code somewhere else was because I had trust they will still have it if something goes wrong on my side. Now I wouldn't have that guarantee. Although having a second device which has the code is still nice

>>92995 it's the difference between your computer and somebody else's computer if the other guy has a fuarrrky wucky and loses all your soykaf, you're just as screwed as you would be if your own server's HDDs all die at the same time what I can say is that I've been running a git server off of shucked seagate HDDs that I bought in 2012-ish and abused the hell out of for a while before chucking them in a drawer for six years and I haven't had any issues yet just use raid 1 minimum and you'll probably be fine unless you fuarrrk up on the software side or your house burns down

>>92995 forgejo is pretty great for local stuff if its just for you you might try cgit or just plain git repos in a homedir you access over ssh with no gui raspberry pi is fine but an old desktop may be cheaper