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Taking a break from this subreddit... (alien.top)
 

I had to delete my previous post about what we hosting control panels are being used by those who also have webhost businesses.

I just can't spend the next 20 days trying to explain

  1. Data Centers Exist
  2. How SMTP works
  3. That webhosting has a very high profit margin
  4. No sane person hosts a business server in their basement. See point 1.
  5. How to get off blacklists
  6. Hosting a website or email is not the same as giving someone full access to your server.
  7. How shared hosting works.
  8. And and and

I've been in the hosting business for 19 years. It's a good income. And it's what got me interested in having a homelab and selfhosting as a hobby. It's also what got me into using Linux as a daily driver.

But too many people here are so narrow minded and have zero concept of the existence of anything outside their own home lab.

I just wanted to find out, from those who ALSO run hosting servers in actual data centers (which do exist despite what you heard Alex Jones tell you). I just wanted to know what was other people's choice of hosting panel.

I might come back at a later stage but I can't deal with this level of intellect that I have encountered tonight.

Cheers, I'm out, and thank you for all the fish.

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Is anyone here running a public hosting server? (alien.top)
 

I am just wondering, how many of you also have your own public hosting server (or servers) that you use to sell web-hosting and mail hosting etc?

If so, which hosting panel are you using?

Should we be concerned about data security and user privacy of Terramaster brands NAS from China in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you are concerned about privacy, then your only choice is Open Source on your own hardware.

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Using Gitea (selfhosted) to do daily backups of other selfhosted servers. (alien.top)
 

Hi All

I have a selfhosted Gitea server, and I use it for a lot more than coding. I even do management of document history for my business. I love it.

What I would like to do, is use it backup specific folders on other servers in my homelab.

Say for example my webdev test server: I would like to daily back up /etc/ /var/www/one.example.com/ /var/www/two.example.com/ etc etc

Now my knowledge on Gitea, and Git as a whole, is relatively limited to clone, add, commit, push and pull.

If I setup a user for the server, then insert the ssh pub key. I would like to know, how from the terminal (via SSH to the server), I can create a new repo for folder /var/www/one.example.com/ and then do an initial commit, so that the .git folder is created locally in /var/www/one.example.com/.git/

Then I can set a cronjob to do my daily backups, but still have the magic of full file history.

Also, can you configure a Repo to only keep changes back for say 90 days? (Space saving in the long run).

I know there are a lot of ways to do this, but I have a very good reason for using Git, mainly, it streamlines restoring files at any point in history, and also if I need to fork a website I am developing, I can do it in Git with ease.

Plus it allows me to add other users to a repo for example, and allows us to do branches etc.

Currently I am backing everything up using a script I wrote, and I have a dedicated bare metal that is handling that. I get a .tar.gz for the last 7 days, the last 5 sundays and the last 3 months (1st). But this is starting to take up a lot of harddrive space.

Any advice would kindly be appreciated.

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When an 18 year old buys a mainframe... (alien.top)
 

This video was very entertaining to watch. I even turned to my wife and said she should be happy I don't take my hobby this far...

https://youtu.be/45X4VP8CGtk?si=xlhROmg9tY8tlsr4

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Anyone using OpenBlocks? (alien.top)
 

I want to play with it and see what it can do... but I would prefer to run it as bare metal so I can really get my hands dirty and mess around with things.

Anyone else making use of it... any pointers and advice. Has anyone managed to get it running bare metal?

My test server is an AMD 64 bit dual core HP Mini Server with 8GB RAM.

What I would like to do is develop custom web apps as well as apps for Android and iOS. AppleTV and AndroidTV would be really super as well.

I've been coding since 1987 so I am confident I can pick it up rather quickly.

Online Dashboards in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

These are not live updated, but I sometimes have one up and use a browser plugin to refresh the page every 30min

https://www.die.net/earth/ https://www.die.net/moon/

I think the source code on how the images are generated are open source. Maybe you can download the source code and make a live page or four.

Cloudflare in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

VPS is not an option at the moment, as the amount of storage I need makes it prohibitively expensive. I have a 2TB WD Black drive with all the user files. My clients share very large files with me. Some of the art files alone can go into the 10s of GB for a set.

My mate has 1000mbps business fibre to his house. He is happy to do a RP for me, as this is the only way I can make this work.

We doing the server move this weekend. Holding thumbs it all goes well.

Cloudflare in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Granted, and all the answers I got in this post have been very valuable to me and I have learned a few things... whether you are hosting for personal or for business. Selfhosting is when you host it yourself rather than get SaaS or paying a sysadmin to do it for you. Either which or, you still learn a lot along the way.

Cloudflare in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This move is not about "self hosting". They are two services that my clients connect to. Where I am now, with the dodgy power, my clients are complaining that they cannot access the servers. I can not afford to store this much data in a datacenter, so this is the next best way.

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Cloudflare (alien.top)
 

Are any of you selfhosters using Cloudflare?

I want to make a server visible on port 80 and 443 from outside, however port 80 and 443 is currently used for another server.

I know we can reverse proxy but I have a reason why I am not using reverse proxy for this.

I have been told that I can connect to cloudflare like a VPN type of link. But going through their website I don't find much useful information?

Is this possible or is it just rumors? If possible, what is the product offering to utilize?

Be honest: Are you doing SelfHosting just for the sake of it - or do you have apps, that really improve your daily life? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Started as a hobby with an old i5 laptop (sans keyboard and screen), running Jellyfin. I wanted to learn more than just using Debian as a desktop.

Now my home lab consists of...

  • 2x PiHoles (synced using unison and entr)
  • 2x Jellyfin (1 for my use as a media server and 1 on a Unifi Cloudkey, which I am using for another little pet project).
  • 2x Nextcloud (1 for my business and colloborating with clients on the various projects I get from them, and 1 I am modifying to build myself an online school)
  • Gitea
  • My own software to do round the clock transcoding of videos using a GPU including videos I create myself in Kdenlive or Shotcut.
  • My own software to do managed downloading of content from a well known website
  • Transmission
  • Unifi (not on Unifi Hardware, the hardware was more useful for my other project mentioned above)
  • Calibre-Web
  • My own software to do daily incremental archives of my various production servers in the cloud.

I love selfhosting at home, and I recommended it for anyone who wants to learn.

Yes, I have fudged up a few times and had to nuke and start again, but with each time I get better and better at what I am doing.

I am now planning on moving my Gitea and the main Nextcloud instance into the cloud, as my poor little fibre line is not coping with the traffic.