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

I went all out for a bit with a server rack with a 12 bay hot swap Dell server and a separate application server with a bunch of VMs all hooked up to a fiber connection with no blocked ports, but I just downsized to a 6 bay synology and intel nuc10-i7 since I'll be moving and losing the fiber connection and basement space.

Now I just run most of my docker containers on the synology using the official docker plugin which provides native support for docker compose, with the exception of plex/jellyfin, which run on the nuc that has quicksync for low power transcoding. For internet connection I set up a digitalocean droplet with wireguard and haproxy which reverse proxies port 80, 443, and 22 to the nuc or synology over the wireguard tunnel depending on the subdomain, and the WG connection goes out from the nuc & synology to the vps so I don't need any forwarded ports - hopefully when I move it should just reconnect automatically in the new place without any setup. Kinda like a road warrior homelab that just needs an internet connection.

[–] manwichmakesameal 1 points 2 years ago

Are you me? I'm currently running 2 x R710s with an SA120 stuffed with drives. One R710 handles the storage and provided NFS storage for my other R710 running Proxmox with all my VMs/containers. I've been seriously considering downgrading my hardware to some lower power used former SFF workstations.