I’ve never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it’s my new addiction.

I’m a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I’m looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust… I feel like I’m living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it’s so much fun.

Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I’m now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud.

Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can’t get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community!

EDIT: Just also found Fission and OpenFaaS, selfhosted serverless functions, I’m jumping with joy right now!

  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the steps!

    I remember steps 4 & 5 were the ones that made me drop the idea. It involved a lot of configuration.

    I will take a look once again, hopefully these have become simple enough.

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      1 year ago

      Np, I would say dm me if you have any questions but I dunno if you can message between lemmy and kbin haha

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      1 year ago

      I set up wireguard vpn and took down all my reverse proxies as it feels more secure and is easier to maintain.

      From what I’ve heard tailscale is a step easier as well. So you could vpn into your network rather than accessing the services via URL.

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        1 year ago

        Yep, good point!

        And yes Tailscale is super simple and beginner friendly, it literally installs and is ready to use in seconds.