That’s fair, I was half asleep when I wrote it so probably the half that controls word rate was in that half that was still offline.

I started my descent into the depths of self hosting with an old phenom II black PC, I bought a bunch of HDDs and put them in a RAID 10 via mdadm and eventually learned my lesson about not using LVM on my Linux for my storage management. Having volume flexibility has helped immensely there.

I can echo some people’s recommendation of portainer though be careful as if you want to get into multi device docker management portainer has some limits on what you can do for free. I upgraded to their pro tier using their free promo for 3 instances, but then had 2 mini pcs dumped on me by my brother in law, which took me to 4 managed nodes which exceeded their latest limit.

I have since switched to dokploy managing my docker swarm, so considering this platform decision early can save some growing pains, dokploy also has built in management for traefik so it is pretty slick though I have been maintaining my own nginx proxy by hand(not even npm, just nginx and a bunch of service config files).

I definitely recommend pi.hole, something like AMP or crafty controller or some such if you want to host game servers on it still, duplicati is a nice web interface for creating timely backups of things, and supports a variety of cloud storage(I currently offsite to a backblaze B2 storage bucket which is AWS S3 compatible).

Blue iris I think is something I saw passed around recently for security cams, all the Arrs are pretty easy to setup once you get one of them setup. My one drive replacement ended up being own cloud, as I fought with nextcloud getting it setup the way I liked so had to pivot.

Link warden is a tool I have used for archiving websites and creating a shareable bookmark collection. Audiobookshelf and Calibre(plus calibre-web) make a decent way to manage audio and ebooks.

If you are sharing this server and its services with others I highly recommend getting some kind of SSO setup, I ultimately picked Authentik for this, it has great integration documentation for most popular services, now my family can access all my services without having 22 different passwords.

Outside of those recommendations I can recommend checking out some sites like selfh.st for some inspiration on the kinds of services you can run and figure out what your needs/desires are and do some A/B testing on some that operate in the same space to see which ones fit your needs better.

I can also say looking at the greeting pinned post in this community is pretty good as well to get some ideas. I posted my most recent list of services in there(though it is now 2-3 services behind since I am addicted and growing).

If your old gaming pc rig has a decent GPU in it you could also consider running Ollama and open-webui and host your own personal agentic AI. I really feel the sky is the limit when it comes to self-hosting.

Edit:added much needed paragraphing to my monolithic post so that they are better services with looser coupling.

A boy untreated for ADHD detected by 3rd grade teacher flounders and is entirely cringe for 90% of their childhood, transitions into the goth subculture in a tiny Ohio town, brainwashed by his parents who are dog whistle racist republicans who never vote, joins the military, incrementally improves their worldviews while still struggling with ADHD and associated psychological traumas that lead to being released from service just a few months after September 11th, joined by girlfriend soon to be wife the now man refuses to return home and sets down roots with his love and learns tough lessons about “bootstraps” ultimately breaking the brainwashing. A heart warming and tear jerking movie continues on as genetic issues the wife had become more evident and impactful as well as in both of their sons in addition to to mental health struggles the family makes things work despite everyone being in various states of unwellness. One man’s determination to keep hope alive and provide for his sick family. 6/10 unbelievable drama

Hey all, I’ve been slowly building services on my server over many many years, starting with running a minecraft ftb server, to where I am now, which is 1 primary system(providing the network filesystem) and 2 auxiliary minipc systems my brother in law recently donated. I moved from Docker to Docker Swarm after getting those MiniPC’s and enjoying the added compute. Currently my swarm is running:

• PiHole x2 - AdBlocking and Local DNS Management
• Wg-easy - for Wireguard VPN Management
• nginx - for reverse proxy servicing
• authentik - for Authentication and SSO
• Duplicati - for cloud backups(pointing at backblaze buckets)
• Guacamole - for RDP services
• Grafana+Prometheus+Node-Exporter+Cadvisor+AlertManager - for aggregation and system monitoring
• Gatus - single pane of glass monitoring of services(might remove it now that I’ve started using Grafana)
• diun - monitoring docker image versions and notification
• Bookstack - Personal Knowledge Base system
• Linkwarden - Collaborative Link Sharing and archiving
• Fasten Health - Local Health Records Storage
• SnipeIT - personal asset management
• Affine - self hosted cloud notebook
• Actual - Budgeting Software
• it-tools - for swiss army knife utilities
• kitchenowl - recipes and grocery lists
• Reactive resume - for resume building with AI empowered editing
• Onetimesecret - for burn after reading secret sharing(using it for distributing credentials to my family)
• Searxng - Local Search Aggregation
• Homarr - Personal Dashboarding
• Home Assistant - Smart Home Management
• N8n - Automating codeless workflows
• Ollama and Open-WebUI - personal Agentic AI
• AudioBookshelf - Audiobook streaming and Management
• OwnCloud - local file sharing and storage
• Plex - Video Streaming
• BitMagnet - DHT network sniffer
• syncthing - for transporting data between local and remote systems
• the *Arrs - for acquiring content
• Docspell - for digitizing and storing important documents
• picsur - for local meme storage
• Calibre+Calibre-web - for Ebook management
• Crafty Controller - for Minecraft Server Management
• RomM - For Emulation and ROM Management.

As I go about my day I’m always looking for new and interesting containers to run, and then scrutinizing if they fill a need, replace an existing service with a better version of the same service, or if it’s better off not implementing, then I pull them down. this has been a great experience in devops learning and the longer I work on the server the more best practices I put in place and the more I understand why corporate clouds have some of the practices they have. I look forward to poking around in this community looking to help and to find new containers to accrete into my platform.

Starburstius sounds a bit wild

Yeah most roles I have done have required that kind of checkup but usually the only parts companies have to say is start date, end date and eligible for rehire, and as far as I’ve seen you basically have to do some criminal shit to get classed as entirely ineligible for rehire

Any of the major banks consider breaches as cost of doing business at their scale compared to smaller banks. My bank prides itself on never having a breach, and it is insufferable to develop code for, but I guess it’s the price of security

As someone who had to support resold Hughes net networking I can tell you that satellite internet is great at downloading large bulks of information, otherwise you run into a problem of physics, adding 88,000 miles of round trip to your internet connectivity(1 hop to space then back to Hughes network gateway on earth, then back to space and then to you) are going to be super latency, gaming is not recommended nor is streaming, it can also be hella spotty as any weather events at your location or at hughes(which I think is in North Carolina?) will impede the line of sight needed between the dishes. I’ve never heard a good experience with satellite.

Everything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.

Yeah what’s worse than 1 task list to manage? 2 task lists in different platforms

Yeah that sounds about right, the ServiceNow config at my work also feels like a house of cards, I also feel like I lose at least an hour of work anytime I have to interact with the damn thing

I feel this so hard hell just looking for tasks assigned to me can be a challenge. And my workplace uses SN for everything, so we got STRY tickets for our agile development which we then create CHG tickets to deploy with CTASK tickets to associate with other teams when we need their help in a deployment which is almost all of them. Writing up a change is easily a 30 minute exercise in frustration

Haven’t gotten to play with that one, but it looks clean.

I would prefer Jira over ServiceNow, my previous job had jira and it ran smooth, ServiceNow is just a clunky mess

In my experience if you have a toxic boss you clash with, and HR is unwilling to deal with the problem then they are complicit, which is a far too frequent scenario, if at all possible it sounds like a new job would be the best option for your mental health while you talk to a therapist about the situation to find coping tools in the meantime

At my office always waiting for gitlab runners and kubernetes to get my instances up, takes sooooo long

I imagine my mother was chucking any that looked off or more likely cutting off the parts that were bad and using the rest.

Main one is cucumbers, after my generous neighbors in my childhood gave us 2 large paper grocery bags of cucumbers and my mother used them in everything for the next month I was done for life, can’t stand them raw, but I will eat pickles all day.

The other would be raw tomatoes, the seed slime is not good for my autistic mouth

Did anyone here use the L shift +O shorthand for load? I feel like I never see it mentioned anywhere

Sneakernet was great back then