Servers & Networking

I am looking at updating my email stack after a number of years and am wondering what to do for anti-spam. Is Spamassassin still the best option, or is there something better nowadays?

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Hello all, I am attempting to self host piefed on a vps server running Debian 13 in docker with nginx proxy manager. I am at the step where I build it from source, and whenever I do it I get a ton of permission denied errors. I know the instructions said to chown 1000 the previous step, which I did but it still doesnt work. Thanks for the help.

I’ve been running nextcloud for my family and some projects about two years now and while it’s allright when it’s not breaking, I’ve had it break twice during upgrades and once outside of an upgrade. Getting back to running again during upgrades may require that I have two instances running one after the other - which is just too much to deal with for me, I’m anxious everytime a new update arrives, even though my system does backups and updates mostly automatic (yunohost).

Trying to set Headscale up in a Debian VPS.

I have a Netbird account I have tested and used to remotely access my network, and I plan to keep that account restricted to just me. Netbird has a free tier that’s limited to 5 users/accounts and 100 peers (devices). I recently set up a Minecraft server on my Proxmox so I can play with a group of friends, but I obviously need more than just 4 accounts. Has anyone ever made a second account to share with multiple people? If you did, did you have MFA also turned on?

My partner and I have accumulated a lot of memes and a lot of family photos over the years. I would like to host these so they are accessible via various devices. I’m doing the memes first and once I figure out the software better I’ll move on to vacation photos. I had no problem getting Immich and Photoprism up and running. Both are very impressive programs, but both also are missing the ability to search/filter/sort by star rating. A lot of my memes and vacation photos are rated in their metadata as I never delete anything, I just rate the worthwhile ones higher so I can filter the junk out if we’re showing someone the album. My visitors don’t need to see all 10 distant dolphin pictures, just the good one where it’s jumping out of the water. :D

I’d like to set up a local coding assistant so that I can stop using Google to ask complex questions to for search results.

Hello, I recently switched from nextcloud news reader to freshrss and I was wondering wich is a good iOS client reader to match up? I installed NNW but since I came from Nextnews which was great (but works only with nextcloud) I feel a bit uncomfortable… of course, that may be just a matter of time… Thanks in advance !

It’s the first idea I had when it came to making sure login on my server is secure. Instead of having a small password that relies on my fallinble memory and may be also guessed in a not-completely-rodiculous amount of time.

With the official app no longer updated (i don’t trust the forks), i’m looking for alternatives for 2 way sync between my Android phone and my Linux server. I’ve tried nextcloud a long time ago and the experience was very bad. Are there any new tools that i can use?

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Anyone using Revolt as a Discord alternative? What has your experience with it been? Do the voice chats work reliably? What about screen sharing? Is it easy to use? What hardware do you host it on? What about moving people over from Discord to Revolt?

I’ve been running Immich for about 6 months now, and it’s smooth and stable.

Hello people, I recently rented a vps server from OVH and I want to start hosting my own piefed instance and a couple other services. I am running debian 13 with docker, and I have nginx proxy manager almost set up. I want to set up subdomains so when I do social.my.domain it will go to my piefed instance, but how do I tell the machine to send piefed traffic to this subdomain and joplin traffic (for example) to another domain? Can I use nginx/docker natively for that or do I have to install another program. Thanks for the advice.

Hey there selfhosted community.

[EDIT: Apologies for missing rule 3, my question is quite hardware focused. I will post any future follow ups elsewhere]

edit: spent all day tryimg to make this work, in the end i got rid of the opnsense services, unbound and dnsmasq, and brought dhcp over to tDNS

I am slowly setting up my home environment. I was looking at ways to access my services from my mobile device. I know a lot of folks set up Traefik but I have a Unifi System and that has Teleport. I have tested it on my mobile device and I can connect to local devices that are not opened to the internet. I am curious if people have used this as an alternative and how it worked out.

I have been using a NAS running TrueNAS for a couple of weeks now. From the App GUI for setting up Docker containers, which I genuinely despise, to the removal of SMART tests in the new version, I don’t think this was a good call. So I’m thinking I might as well DIY it, although if you believe that may be a questionable idea, feel free to mention that!

Before you scream at your screen, I am aware this setup isn’t ideal, to say the least, my Self-hosting has been composed of a laptop with a usb carry with a 2.5 1tb hard drive. I recent made up my mind about getting a couple 4 tb server hdd (heard barracuda are relatively silent) to run software raid 1, since I can’t find a budget double bay carry (that I can purchase locally) I’ve decided I’ll get a couple 3.5 inch usb cases and get a splitter to run the power from just just one brick.

I only download 1080p unless it’s something like LOTR that I’ll splurge on space for. A comedy doesn’t need spectacular visual fidelity.

Sup. I have proxmox configured to start a Jellyfin LXC whenever the host (re)starts. However, the /dev/nvidia* devices do not appear until I manually run nvidia-smi (probably anything nvidia* would would work) on the host, so the autostart is failing. Any ideas why I would need to run something likenvidia-smi first to get/dev/nvidia* devices to show up?

Hello!! Some recent technical problems on my family’s NAS gave me a big scare and finally pushed me to figure out a way to back it all up. I’m asking here specifically because I really don’t know where to even starts because of the fact I’ve got just under 50 terabytes worth of data stored in a 7-disk RAID-5 and would prefer to keep it cheap. What are your suggestions?

I wasn’t sure if this was the best place to post this. A series of events happened and I recently changed up my home network.

Can anyone share their experiences of running a NAS with ZimaOS or similar software vs just using Debian?

I generated 16 character (upper/lower) subdomain and set up a virtual host for it in Apache, and within an hour was seeing vulnerability scans.

I just like the ring of these two words. Like civil disobedience against opression… I consider self hosting to be the epitome of these actions, in the context of global corporations “ruining” every “product” (be it: privacy concerns, data brokers, pushing AI into products, etc.) Hence, the concept that arises when these two words come together: Cybernetical Disobedience, is the greatest motivation (imho) to spin up some containers, be it searxng, vaultwarden, syncthing, or arr stack. All comes with some rebellious ideation behind… Do any of you feel like me?

By hijacking I mean redirection .

I used to self-host because I liked tinkering. I worked tech support for a municipal fiber network, I ran Arch, I enjoyed the control. The privacy stuff was a nice bonus but honestly it was mostly about having my own playground. That changed this week when I watched ICE murder a woman sitting in her car. Before you roll your eyes about this getting political - stay with me, because this is directly about the infrastructure we’re all running in our homelabs. Here’s what happened: A woman was reduced to a data point in a database - threat assessment score, deportation priority level, case number - and then she was killed. Not by some rogue actor, but by a system functioning exactly as designed. And that system? Built on infrastructure provided by the same tech companies most of us used to rely on before we started self-hosting. Every service you don’t self-host is a data point feeding the machine. Google knows your location history, your contacts, your communications. Microsoft has your documents and your calendar. Apple has your photos and your biometrics. And when the government comes knocking - and they are knocking, right now, today - these companies will hand it over. They have to. It’s baked into the infrastructure. Individual privacy is a losing game. You can’t opt-out of surveillance when participation in society requires using their platforms. But here’s what you can do: build parallel infrastructure that doesn’t feed their systems at all. When you run Nextcloud, you’re not just protecting your files from Google - you’re creating a node in a network they can’t access. When you run Vaultwarden, your passwords aren’t sitting in a database that can be subpoenaed. When you run Jellyfin, your viewing habits aren’t being sold to data brokers who sell to ICE. I watched my local municipal fiber network get acquired by TELUS. I watched a piece of community infrastructure get absorbed into the corporate extraction machine. That’s when I realized: we can’t rely on existing institutions to protect us. We have to build our own. This isn’t about being a prepper or going off-grid. This is about building infrastructure that operates on fundamentally different principles:

Im interested in starting to self host and ive seen that people use old computers, but Im wondering if these specs are overkill:

I’ve got two domain names set up for work and personal email, but I’m absolutely drowning in unread emails, around 4,000. Most are those annoying notifications like “Your security code is xxx,” “Your parcel has shipped,” and requests to rate my experience.

Hello everyone,

I am looking for a solution to collaborative PDF editing (mostly annotations). I already have a Nextcloud installation with Office for several members so it would be great if it could be integrated, but it is not necessary.

Hi guys!

Hey guys, I was wondering if any of you have experience running their services on a Lenovo ThinkCentre, specifically a Lenovo ThinkCentre M70Q Gen1? From what I read they can be quite efficient when it comes to idle power draw.

I bought a refurbished Lenovo M720s computer last summer to use as a homelab at my house. I loaded True Nas onto the internal SSD and swapped out the HDD drive that came with it for a 10tb drive. I also threw a 500gb drive in the M.2 slot to use for applications with True Nas.

So only one small question/wonder at the end but I guessed this might be useful written down experience for anyone who is planning to do the same.

I’m thinking about running FreshRSS on my local Linux PC, but my computer isn’t on all the time.

So, I’m part of an org that operates two podcasts. One is hosted on Podbean, the other Libsyn. They’ve both just put their prices up (with no extra features or increase in space or bandwidth) by almost 50% so we’re looking to move.

Hi everyone, I’m looking for help with a WireGuard routing issue on my GL.iNet router.

I am looking for a router, and OpenWRT came up. I was looking at their table of hardware and the ASUS RT-AC3100 seemed like a good option, as its cheap used, (~$40 USD) and supported by the latest OpenWRT version.

Hi all, I’m playing around with LVMs to expand data storage and I’m looking at what would be required to transfer those drives to another device, all the steps I can find require exporting the volume group and then importing on the other device. But what would be the case if your boot drive were to fail, and you needed to move the drives without being able to export the volume group. Can you just do an import with a new device, or are there other steps required to do so?

In an effort to make the homelab more environmentally friendly, I have started to explore ways to conserve energy consumption. I always see a lot of considerations for choosing equipment that sips power, but other than avoiding enterprise power hogs and very old equipment, I don’t see a lot of advice in how to tame the server(s) you may already have.

I am fairly new to Lemmy and was thinking of getting an account on one of the “big” servers to get the full experience, but then I figured I could do exactly the same thing as with my GoToSocial and other services: run my own instance.

I’d like to host this on the Ubuntu Linux box in my home office and put a camera in my living room. Would like to be able to monitor the camera from an iPhone, and have it auto record on motion detection.

I’d like to set up my identity and authentication service for my self hosted applications but it is not a beginner friendly subject.

I’m looking for a self service type page that allows me to sign in and download new certs.