How’s your stuff doing? Unplanned interruptions or achieving uptime records?
I’m currently sailing rather smooth. Most of my stuff is migrated to Komodo, there will stay some exceptions and I only have to migrate Lemmy itself I think. Of course that’s when I found a potential replacement but I’ll let it sit for a while before touching it again. Enjoying the occasional Merge Request notification from the Renovate Bot and knowing my stuff is mostly up to date.
I’m thinking about setting up some kind of Wiki for my other niche hobby (Netrunner LCG) lore as there’s a fandom one that most people avoid touching and updating but since I likely won’t have time to start writing some articles on my own as a kickoff I’m hesitant. Also not sure which wiki I’d choose as well.
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Late to the party But I’ve been thinking about upgrading my proxmox and finally taking care of my backups in a more responsible manner. Just thinking about it, not actually doing anything yet :)
I finally moved my mail server from Hetzner to my homelab.
Pretty smooth sailing so far. For now I’m using Scaleway for outgoing mails since I can’t set a PTR record here but I might just try sending a few without PTR to see how other providers react.
From my experience using a mailserver with no PTR and an ISP who likes to put their addresses on a PBL, it’s very good. Gmail tends to be the most annoying and wants that PBL listing removed or you’ll go to spam for new recipients, but other than that 10/10. I’d be interested to hear what your findings are if you do test it!
Yes, but that doesn’t help you with the large providers (Gmail, Outlook, …) unfortunately.
@domi No … agree it would’t. My thought was more about helping each other improve deliverability between self hosters - but then overtime a network of self hosted servers that trusted each other might become appealing to Google , Outlook to eventually trust.
Purchased 5 1tb drives to expand my study server. Going from 600GB to 4TB is going to make more complex labs possible.
Chose yesterday late evening as the time to migrate my containers from docker to podman (still rootful). By luck most things work again, except wireguard/qbittorrent
Nice. I’m aiming to go from bare metal to rootless podman managed via quadlets. Networking seems like the difficult part.
What made you want to switch from docker to podman?
Aiming to go daemonless and then rootless for as many containers as possible to minimize attack surface
I recently installed Beszel and really like it but I would prefer not to have to login every time I want to check my systems. Is there any easy alternative?
I would prefer not to have to login every time
I use NetData, with the v3 ‘switch’ on the url. Example: https://netdata.mycoolserver.com/v3. The v3 lets you skip the login process and head right to monitoring observables. Some people may have concerns about NetData, however it covers just about every metric I think one would need, all in one package.
Idk Beszel, but generally you could check if you can increase the session expiration time in the config or put it behind some SSO like authentik
Trying to run a fediverse server on a decade-old Wi-Fi router and encountering some
unexpected issues. Making progress, though.Sounds cool, which software are you using?
Hell yeah!
I updated my Dietpi setup today, because a new version was available. It went very well, and everything works perfectly after a reboot.
and everything works perfectly after a reboot
I always hold my breath whenever I’ve done anything major to the server and I need to reboot.
Right? It’s like a trust fall. You just have to cross your fingers and hope for the best.
I’ve finally setup Netbird instead of Tailscale to VPN to my network. Took some time since I wanted it to work with pocket-id and had some issues configuring everything properly. Runs like a charm now.
I’ve just finished to configure my homelab with wg-easy yesterday to do exactly that. Took me weeks because podman. And now I learn that there was a better way? Oh well…
Working on automating tasks so I don’t have to block out hours of time a week managing everything. Just got watchtower running and going to see how it does before trying out some other automations.
Just got watchtower running and going to see how it does before trying out some other automations.
If you find that watchtower (original) screws up the updates frequently there is a watchtower fork that runs so much smoother. I don’t have any issues with it at all. The original watchtower app hasn’t had an update in 2 years, so it might be something to keep in mind.
I’m actually using this one which seems to be more actively maintained than the one you linked.
Bookmarked! Thanks for that. Learning all kinds of stuff today.
In fact you must use the fork. The old one no longer works with recent Docker, due to API versioning. I found that out last night when I brought up my compose stack and traefik wouldn’t start, because it too needed an update.
no longer works with recent Docker, due to API versioning
I had that issue with Portainer recently. I had to drop back to the previous docker version, and held it until Portainer works through the snag. I didn’t think about original watchtower being affected. I just got tired of having to fix broken updates, and went looking for something better. When original watchtower worked tho, it worked well.
Trying to host stable diffusion to generate some art for my D&D campaign.
I recommend ComfyUI. It makes running everything trivial, and is very easy to learn, use, and extend.
I also recommend supporting artists directly and learning to draw.
Thanks. I support artists when I can for art I intend to share at the table. The AI is just for me to easily reference characters.
There are a lot of opensource virtual tabletop gaming platforms that really look nice. I used to be heavy into D&D back in the day.
Anything as good as Foundry?
Well, Foundry is a standard, can’t deny that. LOL You might want to compare that to Caldron VTT
I just bought aan IP KVM switch for a hundo, now heading to the store foir a case of frosty’s and re-rack my servers to make room.
I dug out an old laptop and installed Yunohost on it. I was so excited until I discovered that my ISP uses CGNAT. I’m trying to figure out what I want to do next.
I am looking at using headscale or just paying the US$10/month for a static public IP from my ISP. If I go with headscale, then it appears that I wouldn’t need Yunohost.
I’m a newb at this so there’s a lot I don’t know yet.
My ISP uses CGNAT but I can ask for a dynamic IP address for free. I sent them an email and got a reply in less than a week. I can also pay extra like 2.50€ per month or something for a fixed IP. I found that quite reasonable.
I’m thinking getting a static public IP might just be the easiest way to go. I have a pretty good ISP. Aside from sticking all the customers behind CGNAT.
Namecheap, and I guess other registrars too, has an API that you can call from your server to update your IP address in their DNS. It’s super easy. No need to pay for a static IP address. At least in my case ei already use my domain for other things.
And since when is the easiest way the funnest way? :P
I don’t understand how that’d work but I’ll look into it. Thanks for the info!
Basically it’s a URL that you call with curl. You can set up a crown job to call every day or as often as you need. The URL contains the domain name or subdomain, you dynamic public IP (not CNAT), and the API token. This way you Domain always points to your dynamic IP.
I think I get it. I’ll look into after I get home from work today.
Smooth sailing for me too, shockingly. I’ve recently added my 26th service to Proxmox - LibreELEC (Kodi), with the very complex matter of monitor passthrough. It’s such a versatile program and it has replaced my Chromecast with more features and side bonuses than I could’ve imagined. Another huge step towards degoogling.
I wish someone would jailbreak the Google home and Chromecast devicea so we don’t have to throw them away in a year when Google abandons them.
Right? My one has developed a nasty case of defective WiFi/Bluetooth chip. I’m convinced it’s a superficial, intentional break. Flashing it could well revert what Google’s doing to it
A recent t480 purchase may replace my second workstation tower, which I think is about to become my most powerful server in the cluster…
So nothing new hosting-wise, but that tower I can shove the spare 12tb and 4tb drives I have and net myself another 30ish TB’s of usable storage, more once I replace the 12TBs in one of my NAS boxes with 18tb or more.
Speaking of which - where the hell do I track prices these days? diskprices.com seems to be a mess of inaccurate pricing and shucks.top can no longer track even half of what they used to. What a mess.
PCPartPicker is your best bet (hint: sort by price/gb), but they don’t really track shucking prices
Honestly with what Seagate has been doing with their externals, shucking is probably best avoided at this point.
That said, yeah, seems like and its not a perfect option either, seems like I’ll have to use multiple sources and just keep an eye out with a daily check or something.
Just installed Owncast, so townsfolk can ride my G-scale Polar Express via an onboard livestream, as part of a revamped lighting and projection mapping festive season show.
While I was at it I also added Kokoro for TTS.
Thought I would spice up Jellyfin for the festive season, so am trying out the Jellyfin Enhanced and Home Sections plugins.
