this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2023
1696 points (94.1% liked)

linuxmemes

20483 readers
944 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
1696
Oh no ... (jlai.lu)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
338 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I wouldn’t expect running a publicly accessible server on the internet to be easy or a great idea for someone not familiar with the OS they’re using. Great way to learn, though.

[–] Bakkoda 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I've got a proxmox cluster and I've been using Linux for decades but I wouldn't dare host something that a LOT of users are going to access. I don't know nearly enough about netsec and I can guarantee my vlan practices probably aren't perfect, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I have a solution for you. Just don't have your Internet facing things on the same /24 as your home stuff. Why vlan if you can just separate them by network and switch.

Or: just do it anyways. I learned most shit after everything broke. Not before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And how do you learn, then, from this project, if people are shitty about your questions?

I'm a sw engineer. I've been doing every kind of application management, development, and systems design for 25 years, nearly all of that in Linux, and I still need things answered about running apps in proxmox. I'm not coming to a Lemmy community for those answers, I'll tell you that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I haven't tried to get community tech support on Lemmy, so I wouldn't know what it's like firsthand. If people are really that difficult, sure, that sucks. But it sounds like the person asking needs to work on more fundamental linux skills than something specific to running a Lemmy instance, and the internet is full of information about that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I get that, but here we are. It's something I want to do. I've been at it for 6 months and I've managed to get the site working twice, but am still struggling with SMTP. Digital ocean blocks smtp and send grid breaks the site.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

SMTP in general is a pain to configure. I ran my own mail servers for a while and finally gave up and used a 3rd party service. Too many problems with antispam restrictions, and things like I’d finally get it configured, upgrade postfix or whatever and then it would all be screwed again.