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Triton, in Anybody Using Nebula?

I’m using nebula to remotely access the raspberry pi in my home network and it mostly just works. The dual setup for nextcloud might be a bit more tricky, at least if you want to use HTTPS. You’ll probably have to set up a reverse proxy in Nginx for at least one of the routes, since they need different certificates (although since Nebula already authenticates and encrypts your traffic, HTTPS is probably not necessary there).

mhzawadi, in Anybody Using Nebula?

I’ve not seen nebula, that looks a lot like tinc. Iight have to see how hard nebula is to get running.

If your looking for a mesh VPN, tinc is very easy to setup

Lem453, in Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)

Used to have a node 304. Very happy I got a hot swap Roswell 4u case

JustEnoughDucks,
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Have a node 304. Extremely happy with it. Literally unbeatable hard drive and CPU cooler compatibility for its size.

That being said, it only fits 6 drives.

rambos, (edited ) in Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)

For 9 disks I would need to print a bigger case, but this one suits me well for now 😉

clmbmb, in Anybody Using Nebula?

What is nebula?

goatsarah,

@clmbmb @brownmustardminion Looks like some sort of Tailscale clone.

Sanyanov,

But also self-hosted (the central server, i.e. “lighthouse”) and open-source

EncryptKeeper,

Given that Nebula is older than Tailscale, and was inspired by tinc, it’d be more accurate to say that Tailscale is the clone.

PeachMan,
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I wouldn’t call it a clone, Tailscale didn’t invent mesh VPN’s. I believe Nebula is fully self hosted, while Tailscale makes initial connections through their servers. That means Nebula is more secure and private if you’re paranoid, but also harder to set up. They’re also based on different VPN protocols.

Tailscale actually published a surprisingly unbiased comparison: tailscale.com/compare/nebula

daed,

Should probably be pointed out (and I assume the tailscale link does), but Tailscale offers a fully self-hosted option called Headscale also

pluja, (edited )

Tailscale does not offer this. It is a community project. Headscale is not official.

daed,

My mistake! I saw it referenced on the official site and assumed.

dan, (edited ) in Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request]
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It’ll work fine. A NAS is just a PC. Try Unraid if you want a user friendly UI. It costs money but it’s only a one off payment for a lifetime license, and they have a free trial.

Oderus,

+1 for unRAID. I did the same when I got tired of Netflix increasing prices while dropping content. Also got annoyed with my cable because it’s expensive and good content is rare.

Bought a 12th gen i5 desktop on sale and 4 x 10Tb drives and installed unRAID on a USB key.

Easiest thing I’ve done in years and it’s 100x better than Netflix and 1000x better than cable.

pineapplelover,

Or truenas

dan, (edited ) in Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)
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I really like the Node 804 even though the design is quite old - probably close to ten years old now. Fractal Design are still manufacturing it, which is rare for case designs that old.

I recently built a NAS using an 804. I had to fit mine into my server closet which isn’t deep enough to fit a regular PC case, so the 804 fit my use case well.

I’ve only got three drives in it (2 x 20TB Seagate Exos X20 for data and 1 x 14TB WD Purple Pro for security cameras) but I wanted the ability to expand in the future, and I wanted to use a Micro ATX motherboard rather than a smaller one.

A Noctua NH-D15 fits fine, even though the spec sheet says it won’t fit.

000, in Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)

I’m currently using one of the Rosewill rackmount chassis (www.rosewill.com/…/9SIA072GJ92847), fits well in my half rack along with my Unifi gear and HP ProLiant. I probably would’ve gone with something else if I had to buy it though- this was sorta a hand-me-down from a former roommate who didn’t want to take it with him when he left.

conrad82, in Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request]

This is what I do, using proxmox.

I do something similar to youtu.be/Hu3t8pcq8O0 for the NAS bit. Then I have a VM with docker containers for different services

spyd4r, (edited ) in Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)

Fractal Design Define 7

Love fractals build quality

lemmy, in Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner

This is the one I use to host on a vps. No clue on it’s deployability on a pi.

github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

It’s auto installs and updates. Just need to forward the DNS for your instance to whatever domain name you like. It’s pretty straight forward from the documentation.

PeachMan, (edited ) in Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner
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Agree with others here. Ansible isn’t for beginners and neither is a Lemmy instance.

Try some other projects first, maybe some docker containers that involve a reverse proxy.

For example, NextCloud is a very useful thing to set up as a project, but I would say that you specifically need the new Pi 5 with plenty of RAM for that. The Pi 4 doesn’t handle a full NextCloud installation well.

arudesalad,

I have the pi5 with 8gb of ram. Is that enough?

PeachMan,
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Oh yeah I think so. Honestly NextCloud is slow on any platform, so don’t be surprised if you’re not impressed. But it’s a neat project to set up.

jandefris, in Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)

Using a U-NAS NSC-810A. Not the cheapest, but I love having hot pluggable disks with my TrueNAS build.

www.u-nas.com/xcart/cart.php?target=product&p…

ULS, in Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request]

Another option is to use openmediavault.

I haven’t looked at truenas.

Corgana,
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TrueNAS is very good at being a NAS. I used it for some time but eventually moved to CasaOS because it’s better at being a home server.

patchexempt,

I hadn’t heard of CasaOS before; looks very cool. I am currently on TrueNAS and it’s been fine, but I had been running it in a VM because it wasn’t a good fit for running other things along side it. This seems like an interesting solution, thanks!

Corgana,
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

No problem! I really like it!

zerodawn, in Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner

As a self taught self-hosting enthusiast i wouldn’t recommend ansible to a beginner. I know that sounds backwards as absible makes everything easy and does all the work for you but that’s also part of the problem. It would be like jumping behind the wheel of a self driving car without knowing how to drive at all. When (not if) something goes wrong it could go wrong hard and you’d lose the whole instance.

It’s better to start with some other self hosted projects that interest you to get a feel for the process and software like docker then work your way up to bigger things like lemmy. I consider myself fairly versed in the process and lemmy still gave me some issues to set up and my pixelfed instance still won’t federate despite my best efforts. I’m pretty sure i know the issue, i just need to get around to fixing it.

Last thought, the raspberry pi is a pretty impressive little pc for it’s size and price point but you might find yourself quickly burning through resources depending on the number of active users you have and how heavily you use it.

zerodawn,

Learning how to use your pi to run a reverse proxy to a self hosted blogging site would give you plenty of hands on starter experience. Run docker and portainer and mess with docker config files from a webgui to see what work and what doesn’t.

arudesalad,

Could you give somd examples of something to selfhost? I am only really aware of selfhosting lemmy and other fediverse stuff

themachine,

Replace existing online services you use with self hosted ones.

themachine,

Replace existing online services you use with self hosted ones.

zerodawn,

You could set up a dns based ad-blocker like pihole and a vpn like wireguard to tunnel your phone back into your home network so you have ad-blocking on the go, too. That’s a semi beginner protect with plenty of tutorials to pick from.

You could run nextcloud, syncthing, or immich to make your own cloud at home but that might need more than a basic pi setup.

arudesalad,

I actually set up pihole today!

zerodawn,

It’s a great software to run. I like to watch youtube tutorials that explain things step by step so i can understand what happens. If i find a good video i’ll see what other software that channel may have a tutorial on and if that software may interest me.

wreckedcarzz, (edited )
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

So, I’m not new to this (omg it’s been 6+ years now wtf) but I don’t host a lot of stuff, and it’s been pretty easy to poke at; I’ve got:

  • plex
  • minecraft (bedrock and java)
  • freshrss
  • rustdesk
  • home assistant
  • vaultwarden
  • pihole
  • actual (budget software)

Running in docker containers, along with a few of the built-in plug-and-play services on my nas. Of that list, plex, minecraft, freshrss, rustdesk, and vaultwarden were very easy to setup in my situation. Rustdesk is a really good remote control program/service, vaultwarden is a fork of the bitwarden server, and plex was almost comically simple to get going as a media host.

CosmicApe,
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I'm still getting my pieces together for my first server but I'm definitely gonna look into actual!

atzanteol,

I agree completely with self hosting lemmy for a beginner. But disagree completely about ansible.

Learning to script your environment is extremely useful for stability, maintainability, and security.

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