Self-hosting

I have been thinking about self-hosting lately. I've built and maintained my own simple websites, I've played a bit with raspberryPi and other boards, so I have some general idea. But I have just found out that I can not use my shared hosting to host a fediverse instance (or is there anything out there? My provider offers a Softaculous install of Hubzilla but it doesn't work). So I've looked into VPS, and into self-hosting at home. I'm concerned that the learning curve for managing one's own server might be rather more than I want to have to deal with right now. Is there a good tutorial or overview for half-dummies like me, so I can better gauge if this stuff is for me?

I'm looking for a customizable, resource-efficient Mastodon fork. Bonfire? Rebased? Or go non-Ruby, like Pleroma (nah), Misskey Calckey, indeed, Lemmy (hui)? Any experiences?

This is part of an endeavour to host w/ a RaspberryPi & solar power. It will be a device to mess around, test, and share experiences.

Potential features:

• tweaking network traffic in various ways
• media options: off, auto compression, auto delete
• monitoring server metrics, energy flow, sharing data through a bot
• auto-off when battery low, sad emoji

Re-posting this from Mastodon w/ minor edits, because Fediverse and potential cross-interaction. I probably should have posted here first and then shared the link on Mastodon, but it's a Mastodon question, so I did it the other way around. Still not sure what's the best way to do this though.

If there's interest I edit the post to include the server specs.

I was looking for a simple TUI to easily find some stuff in the Lemmy database and this seems to fit the bill.

Integrates well with Forgejo/Gitea via Oauth2 logins as well.

Hey lemmy self hosting crew,

I've been setting up the arr suite via docker this week in my downtime and I configured sonarr and qbittorrent in docker containers routed through a gluetun vpn container. However, I mapped my download file location to my NAS, which is not behind a VPN. Alternatively, I could set it to my server machine's ~/Downloads folder, but again, afaik, this is not "within" the container's filesystem, it's just mapped to it via the docker-compose file, right?

Which brings my question, if I'm downloading to either of these locations, can my ISP see this occurring? Thanks everyone!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/387998

Curious if it is powerful enough to run more than a couple of light weight services on it.

The backend can be self-hosted via this: https://c2fmzq.org/

We wrote a guerrilla manifiesto

I have an old OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 4 Bay Hard drive RAID Enclosure (1st generation) but I can't get it to be recognized by a computer. Mostly trying with linux over usb.

I've been thinking about maybe removing the electronics in it and just using it as an enclosure. It holds 4 drives nicely with a fan. Any thoughts about what I could use, I'm fine with just a USB interface. I don't need fast data access.

EDIT: other hardware I already have that could be useful:

• 1 - Intel NUC NUC5i7RYH
• 1 - Intel NUC NUC6CAY
• 2 - PINE A64+ 1GB

I am currently looking for a SBC with a USB 3.0 interface for a network attached backup solution. Do you have any recommendations beside the rpi4?

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Hey Everyone!

I'm new to this whole Lemmy/SLRPNK.net world. However I am a seasoned old-timer when it comes to having a computer constantly on in the corner of my house doing things. I came to visit this community and thought I’d throw my 2c out here for any potential new people who come snooping around.

In the world of self-hosting, there are like 100 things you can do, everything from a smart home, to a multiple rack mount server setup. I am here to introduce any new people to a concept that I think should be getting more attention. After I heard about the spike in new sign up’s after Netflix pulled their no-password sharing shenanigans, I thought hey, people must not know that this is an option. Self-hosting a media server might be the most simple, yet biggest rebellion against this culture of constant targeted consumption.

Yes yes, I know that most of you long time nerds have had home servers for years, but what about the people who don’t?

So.. What is it?

Think of Netflix, except you get to decide what is on it. No fees, no rules, no taking things off. You can watch stuff from your phone on the train, or even get your mother-in-law that show she’s been struggling to find.

How can I have all these cool things at my fingertips? Well, you’ll need two things.

1. A home server of some kind. If you already have one, excellent! If not, this is unfortunately not a guide on how to get started with self hosting, but a raspberry pie (or one of the alternatives, rockpie, pine64,orangepi) or any old computer, yes even a laptop, is a fine place to start. Give it the OS the manufacturer recommends. If you want more than that,I am sure the many lovely members of this community would love to help you out.

2. A media server software.PLEX, Emby, or Jellyfin are your “real” options. Plex is robust, mostly free, and constantly gets updates. Emby is a fork of plex that happened before the devs started to get greedy and make a premium tier. Jellyfin is the fully free open-source alternative. All three will have apps for your smart TV, or phone. (although plex supports the most, eg xbox, playstaion, Samsung tv, lg tv’s, android and ios)

Now that you have your server, follow the setup guide given by your app of choice, and put some media on your server. You can use a USB, or some kind of remote connection to do this.

Where do you get your media?

Most Blueray or DVD purchases will give you a code inside to get a digital download. Personally, I have no issues with encouraging you to sail the high seas. However for those wanting to walk the straight and narrow, many libraries offer the ability to rip VHS content to digital... and well, CD/DVD drives aren’t hard to find.

Now run yourself a bath, grab some wine, and watch that obscure 1990’s anime in peace, knowing that no woke or conservative mob will every be able to stop you from enjoying ~~jiggle physics~~ Dragon Ball.