#selfhosted

[ffmpegofficial]

hey just a tip. if you want a streaming service-like set up for your ("legally acquired") media, DON'T use jellyfin to host it. And ESPECIALLY don't use it with kodi to have more power to theme and change the feel of it. I would hate it if you did that. That would be terrible. Wink Wonk.

[bored-bi]

turns out setting up a minecraft server on the homelab was a mistake because now im just playing minecraft

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[rootresident]

Self Hosting

I haven't posted here in quite a while, but the last year+ for me has been a journey of learning a lot of new things. This is a kind of 'state-of-things' post about what I've been up to for the last year.

I put together a small home lab with 3 HP EliteDesk SFF PCs, an old gaming desktop running an i7-6700k, and my new gaming desktop running an i7-11700k and an RTX-3080 Ti.

"Using your gaming desktop as a server?" Yep, sure am! It's running Unraid with ~7TB of storage, and I'm passing the GPU through to a Windows VM for gaming. I use Sunshine/Moonlight to stream from the VM to my laptop in order to play games, though I've definitely been playing games a lot less...

On to the good stuff: I have 3 Proxmox nodes in a cluster, running the majority of my services. Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, Calibre Web Automated, etc. are all running on Unraid to have direct access to the media library on the array. All told there's 23 docker containers running on Unraid, most of which are media management and streaming services. Across my lab, I have a whopping 57 containers running. Some of them are for things like monitoring which I wouldn't really count, but hey I'm not going to bother taking an effort to count properly.

The Proxmox nodes each have a VM for docker which I'm managing with Portainer, though that may change at some point as Komodo has caught my eye as a potential replacement.

All the VMs and LXC containers on Proxmox get backed up daily and stored on the array, and physical hosts are backed up with Kopia and also stored on the array. I haven't quite figured out backups for the main storage array yet (redundancy != backups), because cloud solutions are kind of expensive.

You might be wondering what I'm doing with all this, and the answer is not a whole lot. I make some things available for my private discord server to take advantage of, the main thing being game servers for Minecraft, Valheim, and a few others. For all that stuff I have to try and do things mostly the right way, so I have users managed in Authentik and all my other stuff connects to that. I've also written some small things here and there to automate tasks around the lab, like SSL certs which I might make a separate post on, and custom dashboard to view and start the various game servers I host. Otherwise it's really just a few things here and there to make my life a bit nicer, like RSSHub to collect all my favorite art accounts in one place (fuck you Instagram, piece of shit).

It's hard to go into detail on a whim like this so I may break it down better in the future, but assuming I keep posting here everything will probably be related to my lab. As it's grown it's definitely forced me to be more organized, and I promise I'm thinking about considering maybe working on documentation for everything. Bookstack is nice for that, I'm just lazy. One day I might even make a network map...

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[track-maniac]

I will literally dunk on web developers all day long then get home and spend 4 hours adding funky little buttons to my webbed site

I even made a few of my own 88x31 buttons, this is my favourite:

CC0 btw, do whatever you want with this one

[virtueisdead]

finally completed the culmination of several months of work. im very proud of myself; i am now hosting my own website off a baremetal server in my home. i am also running librex on it, available to the public, and plan to self-host some more useful tools on it in the near future. ill do a more lengthy blog post on the process on my actual blog in the near future as well. the website is a available here. this is definitely not anything impressive to anyone with any real experience, but ive spent the past several months teaching myself everything required to do this from the ground up. i built a computer from scratch, i chose and installed a linux distribution and installed it, i configured an apache webserver from scratch and set up everything required to work on it remotely... blah. this took a long time to figure out from the ground up so i think i have the right to be proud of myself lol

[rijaja]

I am a terrible parent (admin). I set up my server before going on vacation for two weeks. I enabled remote access to keep operating it. I thought it was fine because my ip usually doesn't change but there were roadworks or something, which temporarily cut my home internet, and now I can't find my server.

I made a big ping sweep but it's not there and now I feel terrible. I didn't set up automatic dns updates. I didn't even set up automatic emails yet. How will I take care of a human if I can't even take care of a metal box.

[nando161mando]

And this is why you don't host a #Plex #server in the #cloud. I totally saw this coming.

#selfhosted #piracy #CloudHosting

[sugar-shock]

I used to just print out the recipes I liked to do, but recently my husband found an open source service you can host yourself: Mealie

If you have a bit of experience with selfhosting and Docker, it's really easy to set up. Once that's done, you can import recipes from websites and blogs, save them in your own library and – something I find very useful – adjust any ingredients or steps. Because more times than not I slightly change something after the first few times of cooking a dish, but I always forget to write it onto the printout so my husband can benefit from my findings. With the page open while cooking, I can just add or remove things on the fly.

Another cool feature we haven't tried yet but want to is preparing meal plans for the week. Because there is nothing more exhausting than "What do we eat tonight?" every. Single. Day.

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

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[bored-bi]

ok actually i found out that not having my laptop (getting my keyboard replaced) means i forget like half the ports of the things i host. so i made a lil dashboard. its running Homepage [^] and i set it up so it shows all my nodes, virtual machines, and lxc services. screenshot coming later, i have to edit out some stuff due to an nda

[rootresident]

My RSS Obsession

I pretty recently (as in a few months ago) set up my local dashboard using Glance, which is a great project by the way, and decided to get some RSS feeds onto it. I have a few feeds for local news and some tech blogs and such, but my real interest is art. I follow a lot of artists, too many to even keep track of. Logging on to Tumblr to post this I was presented with the amazing work of yuumei-art.

And so, with the motivation of getting as much rad artwork on my dashboard as I can, I have begun the journey into RSS feed wrangling. If you're not familiar, an RSS feed is essentially an online news bulletin. The feed publishes a list of 'articles' which a client can reference to find the content. Normally a site would need to publish its own feeds, like Tumblr where you can add /rss to anyone's blog url, but there are tools to generate feeds where there aren't any (this will be the core of this post).

The Challenge

If you use, or have used, RSS then you know that whether a site offers an RSS feed is pretty hit or miss. Generally if it's a blogging site it will have one, but beyond that it's decreasingly common. And when you start talking about images and social media? Almost non-existent. That's where some neat tools meant to create RSS feeds come into play. I'll get into the details shortly, but the gist of it these tools scrape a web page in order to extract content and then generate an RSS feed of said content. The biggest hurdle in this endeavor, as you may have gleaned, is that the majority of social media sites have some form of anti-bot protections. And what is web scraping if not the pinnacle of bottish behavior? Well, that honor may in fact go to AI, but we're not here to talk about that.

My Solution

Emphasis on the 'my' as there are several good tools out there, and many more ways to combine them. My journey begins with fruitlessly looking at online services for RSS feed generation and being utterly disgusted by the exorbitant prices they charge for very few feeds. Perhaps were I not the way that I am a measly 5 feeds would be plenty, however I currently have 25 for art alone.

If it were not obvious, I did not settle on any of these purse-hungry online services, so I turned my attention to selfhosted solutions. In hindsight, it's somewhat odd I didn't start there considering the amount of time I sink into my lab, but frankly it didn't take long to arrive there anyway. The two projects which made it into deployment were RSSHub and rssBridge, winner gets to stay. They are essentially the same thing, however RSSHub doesn't have a GUI for getting feed URLs. Both offer various plugins/extensions for many different sites, including Twitter, Instagram and Bluesky, which were my main focuses for following art accounts.

Initial Strategy

I started with Instagram as that is where the majority of accounts I follow lived, however I quickly discovered the hell that Instagram puts you through if you're suspected of being a bot. It took me several days of fighting in vain before I gave up and followed these accounts elsewhere when possible, and simply mourned the loss of the rest.

I added each feed to Glance, which as I mentioned is quite a few feeds, and once I got everything working (with the addition of an image proxy, and abandoning rssBridge) I was quite happy for some time. Frustratingly, Glance took some significant time to load all of these feeds, and it refreshes feeds fairly often which meant that a new tab took up to 30 seconds to be useful. This is annoying, but I was happy enough for a few months.

Refinements

After several months of being mildly annoyed each time I needed to wait for my dashboard to load, I decided to do something about it. To their credit, Glance made some updates to try and improve the performance, however my veritable buffet of feeds was still too much. Enter FreshRSS. What I needed all along was a feed aggregator to act as a manager and middleman for Glance. Now FreshRSS is responsible for watching my feeds and pulling the content, and then serving them to Glance. This also means I can configure Glance with one feed per category, and as I add new feeds to FreshRSS it will automatically get picked up in Glance as well. Since all the feeds are served to Glance as a single feed it massively speeds things up, and it also helps keep things reliable.

I mention reliability because sites like Twitter often rate limit you if you make too many requests in a short amount of time, and since Glance requests updates quite often this means I would periodically lose some feeds. FreshRSS both limits refreshes to once per hour and keeps the feed content, meaning any feed is only updated once per hour. This can be changed, but I find it works well for my purposes.

That is pretty much my current setup: anything that doesn't offer its own feed gets pulled using RSSHub, which uses an image proxy to load any images (this helps get around security settings that can prevent getting images properly without it), and the content is saved and reshared by FreshRSS, which only keeps 1 month's worth of articles.

Final Thoughts

I left out a lot of the finer details, such as social media tokens and cookies for RSSHub and usage details, but that's not really the point here. If you're willing to put in the effort and feel like you're going crazy, why not get into extremely convoluted and overly complex systems for looking at cool pictures? Or if news is more your style, kill-the-newsletter is a great tool for getting RSS feeds from email newsletters.

[track-maniac]

Anyone want to convince me not to switch from Apache to nginx? I'm tired of needing a master's degree in networking to make the config work like I want it to

[veuhoffblog]

BookStack: Installation einer Open-Source Wiki-Plattform für Debian 12 und Ubuntu 22.04

In dieser Anleitung zeige ich euch, wir ihr auf eurem Linux Server mit Debian 12 oder Ubuntu 22.04 die Open-Source Wiki-Plattform Bookstack installieren könnt. Die Installation ist dabei von mir in leicht verständliche Schritte unterteilt worden. Einer der größten Vorteile von Bookstack ist der, dass die Wiki-Plattform leicht zu installieren und relativ einfach in der Administration ist...[Weiterlesen]