Do you selfhost stuff? If so, what? If not, would you like to selfhost stuff, and what would you selfhost?
For those curious, you can see the specs of my dedicated server and most of the services I self-host here: https://burggit.moe/post/17737
Quite a few things. Awesomeselfhosted is a good resource to start for beginners.
I plan on getting a NAS probably a QNAP TS-464 and moving Jellyfin, sonarr, etc from my PC to it. Also thinking of trying actualbudget and paperless-ngx when I get my NAS.
I used to until recently, but I switched to a cheaper ISP and now I’m behind CGNAT. Ended up moving my tiny website to a cloud server and setting up a VPN on it so I could at least access my machines from outside the house.
Currently just email and Matrix.
If I can’t find a neutral instance that lets me browse both Burggit and the “correct” part of the Lemmyverse, I might try self-hosting an instance and hoping I fly under the defederation radar. But I:
a. am lazy
b. have a feeling that with Lemmy being so new, there’s a lot of config babysitting between frequent major releases, feeding back into (a) 🤣Kudos to you all, by the way.
A few things I host/hosted:
- TF2
- Minecraft vinilla & modded
- Whatever dedicated game server we want to play for a month or so.
- Portainer (Running CLI commands instead feel easier to me)
- TF2 trade/item donation bots
- Plex
- Octoprint server
- Gitlab runner
- A VPN Relay*
The VPN Relay was to bypass the connection limit on my VPN. It consists of a Gluetun container with a Wireguard container in the same network. Bonus is that whatever container I want under the VPN can just be dropped in that network.
Things I might run in the future:
- Gitlab instance
- SentryIO instance
If I ever decide to buy a .moe domain:
- Url shortener
- Img uploader
- File uploader
- Booru
- Catgirl AI bot (why not)
Game servers are definitely something I used to do a lot, still do to some extent, but not nearly as often as I used to, just cause I don’t game as often as I used to.
Octoprint, huh? Do you 3D Print? If so, what printer do you have? I have a Tenlog Hands 2 IDEX 3D Printer, got it on sale and it’s honestly been really reliable, especially once you get it all configured.
I have been thinking of hosting a Img/File uploader, I have a temporary file hosting service. Wanted something more permanent, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. I also wanted to make a booru at some point, but Idk if that’ll ever come to fruition.
I tend to work very slowly when it comes to things I selfhost, I always want to avoid overwhelming myself, so I’ll slowly add new services and kind of focus on the latest service and how it works. Then once I’m comfortable with the latest service, that’s when I feel like I can add another to the list.
I technically have a URL shortener up, but it’s not really public at the moment, it’s public facing, but haven’t really used it publicly very much. Might work on it a bit more in future and get it running for public use.
But, yeah, looks like you definitely have some hosting things under your belt, very cool. I am curious, is there a reason why you went with Plex over something like Jellyfin? Genuinely curious.
I still game often but I don’t have the time to moderate a community. So game servers are really just if a group of friends want to do a MC modpack or something.
I have an Elegoo Neptune 2 that’s been fun to tinker with. It’s compatible with Ender 3 parts, recently replaced the bed with a glass bed. Octoprint has made it easier to start prints without having to physically move a microsd card around. I am planning on LED modding it to light up the print bed, got a buck converter to step-down the 24v to 12v for the LED strip. Just need to spend more time planning how I want to do it before committing to the mod.
I tend to work on things when I have both the interest and energy at that moment. This tends to lead to sometimes large projects done in hours but other or simple projects going months without progress. I also like to aim for projects where I could leave it idle for months-years with minimal maintenance to keep it going.
If I do the .moe stuff, it’d probably be a semi-public thing. I want to do a public thing, but I also don’t want to do the moderation required to prevent it from being abused and blacklisted.
I’ve used Plex for years, LTT was showcasing Plex for self-hosted media. More recently I’ve heard about Jellyfin but I haven’t had the time to check it out. I’ve heard app support for Jellyfin isn’t fully there yet while apps for Plex has a more Netflix-like UI. That just makes it easier for family members to use it without over complicating stuff.
I don’t really selfhost anything since I am really lazy with things like that and other people can do it for me (if it doesn’t cost them anything). ^^
What I most of the time use is:
-a “CDN” which runs on Cloudflare Workers serving Google Drive files where I host stuff for Fansub groups and share files.
-Plex, selfhosted by friendsi selfhost a tf2008 server with bots in it its usually for my own use since tf2008 is kinda dead and vanilla bots dont work (bots significantly increase a games lifespan)
