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How do you guys self host? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 2 years ago by psycrow to c/selfhosted
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I've been doing small hosting off and on for a while. Mainly for accessing files at home and the occasional Minecraft server. Not smart, as I've never used a specialized router. I used to use ddwrt, but now it's impossible to flash most consumer grade routers.

id like to learn more stuff about cyber security, host other stuff, maybe host a website, but I'm just a guy who lives in an apartment. I'm stuck with 1 Internet service that claims it will terminate my service if they find me to be hosting anything. They must be semi-lax with that rule, because i haven't gotten terminated for using ssh and cockpit.

Do you guys own a house, or are just fortunate enough to have access to an ISP that will let you host your own stuff?

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[–] styx 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I have a yearly vps subscription with 16GB ram, 160 GB ssd and 8 cores, including 5TB network limit. It is some Lithuanian company (time4vps). I don't have a static ip at home, and if I want to get one I have to pay pretty much the same amount, so why bother?

It has Debian 11, and ufw as the only security measure, together with Caddy as reverse proxying everything so only a handful of ports are open (80,8080, 443, and one for syncthing and one for dot).

I have the following services running:

  • Nextcloud (for office tools, calendar, to do, boards)
  • firefly iii for self accounting
  • technitium dns server for doh and dot with blocking
  • grafana, prometheus and node exporter foe monitoring
  • libreddit for, well, you know
  • searcxng
  • trilium for private knowledge base
  • tailscale for tunneling and VPN
  • syncthing for file syncing and password sync together with keepassxc
  • my personal page, auto updating with github actions over sftp.

I have partially documented most of my work in my blog, so you can take a look if you wish https://mustafacanyucel.com/#blog .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your blog looks nice , how did you made it?

[–] styx 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! It is only css and html, but since my creative skills are no better than a potato's, I am using a designer-made template for css .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I finally found someone who uses Technitium! Can you tell me how good it is compared to PiHole or Adguard Home?

[–] styx 1 points 2 years ago

Hey! I never used Adguard, and I mainly installed technitium to have a private and secure dns-over-https and dns-over-tls server. The blocking is also quite good, it has predefined lists (labeled like "gambling", "scamming", "porn", "ads"..etc. ) that you can select. It also allows to use custom lists. The overall UI is also nice and has good UX.