Tor exit node, Lemmy instance.
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
57 points (100.0% liked)
Selfhosted
38789 readers
368 users here now
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Weirdly for extremely similar reasons
Yes these. Essentially anything that an unidentified user could push data to that would land me in regulatory trouble. I would want to host these things, but I don't want to become a distributor of anything that would get me a search warrant.
Anything that the family uses. Because when I cease to exist, my wife isn't gonna take over self-hosting! So e-mail, chat, documents etc.
You know, I never thought about that
I hadn't either until a few years ago. It's something worth considering.
Dealing with the digital afterlife of a hacker - The Daily Dot
The main challenge was Michael’s tech footprint: His Gmail, Twitter, personal domains, rented servers, hosting business, home servers, and a huge collection of Apple tech.
“It was tough for Beth because she got home and she had a brand new phone and couldn’t even get on the Wi-Fi,” Kalat said. “Michael had done everything. Beth is very smart—she’s a scientist—but Michael had handled everything. A friend had to come over to reset the Wi-Fi password.”
Bitwarden has an option called emergency contact.
The emergency contact can request access to see all the saved passwords. If I don't deny the request then the request is automatically approved after X days.
I feel like this would cover most of the issues in the article.
I told my wife when I die, she's just going to have to throw it all away and start over.
We have separate email accounts and she knows how to get into my Keepass, so she should be able to get into whatever she needs to. I now have a daughter who is becoming interested in how these things work, so I'm hoping to slowly start training/handing off to her.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Password manager like Bitwarden. I'd rather they take care of it for me. The consequences would be too great if I messed it up.
Smart move, unless you really know what you're doing and have redundancy. When I first made the switch from Lastpass to Bitwarden I had tried to host the vault myself instead of using the cloud version, which worked fine right up until the moment I had a server outage and lost access to all my passwords.
Eh, the clients all cache your vault. It shouldn't be a huge issue for it to be down even for a few days.
But I do upload encrypted backups of the server every 6 hours to cloud storage
load more comments
(1 replies)
Bwoa, you can easily take json backups. It is pretty safe imo.
Oh man, that's actually really good advice! I recently switched to Vaultwarden, but you're right: If my server goes down, I can't even restart it, because the password for my account is in there! Damn! Close call!
Well with bitwarden/vaultwarden you can have a copy of your entire vault on your phone or computer or both... so even if your server was totally dead, you'd have access to your passwords. Solid backups is a must, I follow the 3-2-1 rule on super critical systems (like vaultwarden) and test that you can actually recover. Something as simple as spinning up a VPS, testing a restore, testing access, see if that could work in a pinch until you get your server back online, then tear it down. Linode is very cheap for this kind of testing, it'd only cost you a few pennies to run a "dr" test of your critical systems. Of course you still want to secure it, I'd recommend wireguard or tailscale instead of opening access to your DR node to the internet, but as a temporary test it's probably fine if your running patched up to date versions of docker, vaultwarden, and I'd always recommend putting a reverse proxy in front like nginx.
Usually the password are also stored locally.
I can definitely access all my passwords offline with bitwarden
Hosting an email server is pretty sure a magnet for half the Chinese IP range.... So I would refrain from hosting that myself.
I figured email would be a common theme. I’m just starting to dip my toes into all of this, so an email server is not on my to-do list (and may never be).
Google and other large scale providers have intentionally made it very difficult to self host your own email. It’s generally not considered a wise move these days and is very difficult to maintain.
load more comments
(8 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
I did host my email, but the problem wasn't the spam but the bigger email providers. Best case was my mail was marked as spam. Worst case was that I was blocked until I jumped through hoops. Email hosting is unfortunately broken.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(5 replies)
Mail, Bitwarden and Joplin. Too important stuff for my Raspberry Pi setup.
Second. I used to self-host Bitwarden. Then I realized it'd be too devistating to lose all my passwords, even with backups. So I moved to their cloud service and paid for my families accounts too.
Joplin tho, Joplin stays on the server with no backup. I should really, really make a backup this weekend.
I am hosting bitwarden myself (on a VPS) and I am not that concered about losing my passwords, because every device syncs all passwords locally regulary so that you don't need internet to access them.
So to loose all your passwords not only do you have to loose your bitwarden server and all the backups, you also have to loose access to all your bitwarden clients synchroniously.
I really want to use Bitwarden and I pay for the premium as well, but it's starting to bother me that a lot of basic stuff is missing despite years of user requests.
- An Auto-fill UI for the web interface
- Credit card auto-fill
- A way to refresh from the auto-fill menu on the Android UI
I just tried Proton Pass (I have unlimited anyway) and it's not better, but at least they seem to be working on these.
all the features you listed are available though?
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
Bitwarden actually. I was really split on this but ultimately I trust Bitwarden, the company, to run a secure server than myself.
Who has time to track CVE's and react to them in a timely manner? I don't. If something happened, I probably don't have the infrastructure or know-how to even realize I had been breached.
- My own search engine (a meta search engine like searx-ng would be fine though)
- a tor exit node, because don't want to deal with the legal hassle (i run snowflake on multiple machines though)
- a SMTP relay (recieving email is easy. Sending email is a pain in the ass)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Backups. Cloud services like Backblaze B2 are so cheap for the durability they offer, it just doesn’t make sense for me to roll my own offsite solution with a Raspberry Pi at my parents’ house or something. Restic encrypts everything before it leaves my machine.
Password manager- it’s too important and it’s the thing that has to work for me to recover when I break something else. I’m happy to support Bitwarden with a few bucks a year.
Email- again, it’s mission critical and I have a habit of tinkering with things and breaking them. And it’s just no fun. The less I need to think about email, the happier I am.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Email. Way too complicated and lots of maintenance. Not to mention it you mess it up, there are huge downsides.
load more comments
(3 replies)
A public Matrix server. Its just a never ending black-hole of ever increasing storage requirements and the software is too buggy to not become a maintenance hassle.
I do run a Synapse server for bridging purposes, so I am not just talking in theory.
XMPP is safer and lighter anyway
Minecraft. When I started out it was fine but when I began to get regular visitors I got DDOSed for days on end and people poking me for ssh access. Never again.
load more comments
(2 replies)
A social media platform where you can post or view images. I don't wanna deal with CSAM.
I tried getting a music setup to work, but I couldn't find a good solution for generated playlists with new song recommendations. The self-hosted music service just can't add songs it doesn't have yet, so it's not really feasible. Plus I still have a very cheap YouTube Music subscription from the GPM days.
load more comments
(3 replies)
A video hosting service. I cant be bothered collecting and storing all that media.
I did this for a couple of years and it became such a major hassle I just closed my server and told everyone to go get their own subscriptions. 30 terra-bytes of data deleted!!
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
not complicated or hard, just don't care enough: music, spotify is fine, especially on the family plan.
I don’t self-host Nextcloud. I have a cheap cloud instance running it and it’s essentially my off-site backup for important documents. I don’t put just anything up there but I live in New Orleans so I feel like I should assume my home server won’t necessarily be online when I most need insurance documents and shit like that.
load more comments
(1 replies)
@[email protected] I would say in retrospective, email, but it is too late now.
While I do have self hosted backups, I also have offsite, paid copies as well, not sure if that can be considered "self hosting" though.
Email was one I figured I would get an answer for. I know plenty of people do it, but I’m not sure if I’d trust myself to do it right.
The paid offsite backups just seem like a good idea. Some might have the ability to also self-host that, whether it be in a friend/family members home, but if that isn’t an option, paying for a service could save your ass some day.
Email was one I figured I would get an answer for. I know plenty of people do it, but I’m not sure if I’d trust myself to do it right.
It's not even about doing it right. It's a PITA to manage when big players can just decide to block your server and then you'll be jumping trough hoops with Microsofts spam filtering program and whatnot just go get your messages trough. It's got very little to do if you've managed things right on your end, random issues with delivery just pop out of the thin air and it's your job to monitor it, swear by your mothers name to the big players that you'll play nicely and hope that their robotic overlords are satisfied with your time and effort.
And if you host email for anyone else it gets exponentially worse. I've been doing it long enough that apparently my server has a reputation now so those cases aren't as frequent as they used to, but they still pop up now and then and it takes time to figure it out with no other reward than the issue goes away, until it returns without any way to really know why.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Mail server, but mostly because deliverability in this day and age is a nightmare. If you're some one off running your own mail server in 2023 be prepared to deal with many headaches around IP reputation.
view more: next ›