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  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Linux Prepper - Where to Begin (selfhosting services) FOSS podcastEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I hope it’s alright that I add to this a little.

    What draws me to podcasts are the topics that are talked about but what gets me to stay is the host(s). I heard in your first episode that you do masonry and landscaping. I’d love to hear more about who you are and how you ended up selfhosting. How did a masonry worker find themselves this deep in tech? Thats super interesting. (Please don’t take that the wrong way, I work in construction yet here I am)

    The 3 episodes you have could totally be split up into multiple episodes if you slow down and thoroughly talk about each topic and how they related to your situation.

    You tend to give some hypothetical problems that your listeners might be trying to solve with a few solutions but I want to know what problems you had, how you solved it, and how you might have iterated on that solution and made it better. And in the next episode, what did you tackle next? I want to hear your journey episodically 🙂

    Anyway, I’m subscribed. Good luck

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you handle SSL certs and internet access in your setup?English
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    5 months ago

    i guess you were able to install the os ok? are you using proxmox or regular servers?

    I was. It was learning the Nix way of doing things that was just taking more time than i had anticipated. I’ll get around to it eventually though

    I tried out proxmox years ago but besides the web interface, I didn’t understand why I should use it over Debian or Ubuntu. At the moment, I’m just using Ubuntu and docker containers. In previous setups, I was using KVMs too.

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you have to reboot every time you change your Nix config? That was what was painful. Once it’s set up the way you want, it seemed great but getting to that point for a beginner was what put me off.

    I would be interested to see the config though

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you handle SSL certs and internet access in your setup?English
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    5 months ago

    A few reasons

    1. My partner has plenty of hobbies but sys-admin isn’t one of them. I know I’ll show them how to turn off wireguard to troubleshoot why “the internet isn’t working” but eventually they would forget. Shit happens, sometimes servers go down and sometimes turning off wireguard would allow the internet to work lol
    2. I’m a worrier. If there was an emergency, my partner needed to access the internet but couldn’t because my DNS server went down, my wireguard server went down, my ISP shit the bed, our home power went out, etc., and they forgot about the VPN, I’d feel terrible.
    3. I was a little too ambitious when I first got into self hosting. I set up services and shared them before I was ready and ended up resetting them constantly for various reasons. For example, my Plex server is on it’s 12th iteration. My partner is understandably weary to try stuff I’ve set up. I’m at a point where I don’t introduce them to a service I set up unless accessing it is no different than using an app (like the Homeassistant app) or visiting a website. That intermediary step of ensuring the VPN is on and functional before accessing the service is more than I’d prefer to ask of them

    Telling my partner to visit a website seems easy, they visit websites every day, but they don’t use a VPN everyday and they don’t care to.

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you handle SSL certs and internet access in your setup?English
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    5 months ago

    That’ll be my impetus to learn how to write a script.

    This part caught my eye. You were able to do all that other stuff without ever attempting to write a script? That’s surprising and awesome. Assuming you are running everything on a linux server, I feel like a bash script that is run via a cronjob would be your best bet, no need to ssh into the server, just let it do it on it’s own. I haven’t tested any of this but I do have scripts I wrote that do automatic ZFS backups and scrubs; the order should go something like:

    open the terminal on the server and type

    mkdir scripts

    cd scripts

    nano docker-updates.sh

    type something along the lines of this (I’m still learning docker so adjust the commands to your needs)

    #!/bin/bash

cd /path/to/scripts/docker-compose.yml
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d
docker image prune -f

    save the file and then type sudo chmod +x ./docker-updates.sh to make it executable

    and finally set up a cronjob to run the script at specific intervals. type

    crontab -e

    or

    sudo crontab -e (this is if you want to run the script as root but ideally, you just add your user to the docker group so this shouldn’t be needed)

    and at the bottom of the file type this and save, that’s it:

    # runs script at 1am on the first of every month
0 1 1 * * /path/to/scripts/docker-updates.sh

    this website will help you choose a different interval

    For OS updates you basically do the same thing except the script would look something like: (I forget if you need to type “sudo” or not; it’s running as root so I don’t think you need it but maybe try it with sudo in front of both "apt"s if it’s not working. Also use whatever package manager you have if you aren’t using apt)

    while in the scripts folder you created earlier

    nano os-updates.sh

    #!/bin/bash

apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
reboot now

    save and don’t forget to make it exectuable

    then use

    sudo crontab -e (because you’ll need root privileges to update. this will run the script as root without requiring you to input your password)

    # runs script at 12am on the first of every month
0 0 1 * * /path/to/scripts/os-updates.sh
  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you handle SSL certs and internet access in your setup?English
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    5 months ago

    I’ve run into a weird issue where on my phone, tailscale will disconnect and refuse to reconnect for a seemingly random amount of time but usually less than hour. It doesn’t happen often but it is often enough that I’ve started to notice. I’m not sure if it’s a network issue or app issue but during that time, I can’t connect to my services. All that to say, my tolerance for that is higher than my partner’s; the first time something didn’t work, they would stop using it lol

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you handle SSL certs and internet access in your setup?English
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    5 months ago

    You don’t even have to worry about setting up SSL on every individual service

    I probably need to look into it more but since traefik is the reverse proxy, doesn’t it just get one ssl cert for a domain that all the other services use? I think that’s how my current nginx proxy is set up; one cert configured to work with the main domain and a couple subdomains. If I want to add a subdomain, if I remember correctly, I just add it to the config, restart the containers, and certbot gets a new cert for all the domains