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What got you into selfhosting and what was the first thing that you hosted?

For me, it was PhotoPrism. I used to be an idiot, and used Google Photos as my gallery. I knew that it was terrible for privacy but was too lazy to do anything about it. When Google limited storage for free accounts, I started looking for alternatives. Tried out a lot of stuff, but ended up settling on PhotoPrism.

It does most things that I need, except for multiple user support (it’s there in the sponsored version now). It made me learn a bit about Docker. Eventually, I learned how to access it from outside of my home network over Cloudflare tunnel. I’m happy that I can send pics/albums to folks without sharing it to any third party. It’s as easy as sending a link.

Now I have around a dozen containers on a local mini pc, and a couple on a VPS. I still route most things through Cloudflare tunnels (lower latency), only the high bandwidth stuff like Jellyfin are routed through a wireguard tunnel through the VPS.

Anyway, how did you get into selfhosting? (The question is mostly meant for non-professionals. But if you’re a professional with something interesting to share, you’re welcome as well.)

jimmy90 , (edited )

NAS, backups, matrix, home assistant, gitea, etc

sunbeam60 ,

A desire to set up a permanent download station that could extremely securely and very automatically keep track of all the Linux distributions (eg I really want to make sure I try every version of Mint Linux and with various arr programs I could ensure that as soon as a new version of Mint shows up, I automatically download it and get it shown in an interface where I can try the new version of Mint Linux. Linux distributions - I just love them!!

SexualPolytope OP ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I too am a fan of various Linux distributions, in different languages and genres.

vividspecter ,

Samba (and later NFS) on a crappy bulldozer-era AMD laptop combined with a set of USB drives as a ghetto NAS, so I could access data from any system without leaving my desktop on 24/7. It worked, but that thing overheated so easily that I had to undervolt and underclock it to get it to run reliably. I relatively recently switched to a affordable Terramaster NAS, and to using containers, and have been expanding pretty rapidly. The whole Reddit situation got me to start revaluating the services I was using. A kind of software/service spring cleaning if you will.

Fermiverse , (edited )

I ran a NSLU2 with custom firmware and a mumble server on it. We used it to talk during online gaming without the need for teamspeak etc.
Played BF3 mostly.

Those where the days

Edit: clarification

ananas ,

I guess it would’ve been a bulletting board system that people used a 14k modem to connect to, one at a time, and it would completely block the phone line.

My parents weren’t thrilled, but hey, we had a message board and LORD running there.

blindjezebel ,

Hi, lurker here: what is/was LORD?

ananas ,

Video demonstration

PipedLinkBot ,

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/watch?v=siCOQ3nV3PA

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

Jardincorenda ,

I loved LORD, I used to spend hours playing that and Trade Wars on a local BBS.

Zer0Rank ,

Jeez, I had forgotten all about LORD! Thanks for bringing back such good memories! I used to play it all the time back in the good ol’ days.

popekingjoe ,
@popekingjoe@lemmynsfw.com avatar

I like to tinker with things, and I had hardware lying around I wasn’t using. First thing I ever self-hosted was very basic: a Terraria server.

Then a Minecraft server.

And then a fully featured and defederated Matrix server with a fully functional telegram bridge, mostly as a test to see how feasible it was. Ran it for several months before shutting it down, deciding to wait for dendrite, since it’s supposed to be lighter.

Haven’t done anything since, but I’ll be looking to build a few more things in the near future.

neshura ,
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Of all the things I have or am self-hosting the Matrix server was the biggest pain in the ass. I seriously hope they streamline that process because as it was it’s too much work for what it does.

purpleball ,

A friend in high school helped me install a counter strike server on linux on an old desktop. From there, I experimented with hosting some forums and an upload script to save files remotely. In the days way before the cloud was a thing. That got me interested enough to start figuring things out and get into it.

CannaVet ,

A vague interest in taking my data away from “Big Tech” led me to get hosting a few years back and use a private email solution professionally hosted. Last year, I bought a pi then went through a breakup and didn’t touch it until recently haha.

I just had to rebuild from scratch but I’m running Flame dashboard, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud, Baikal, and a rickroll server disguised as a Docs app, because I’m a red blooded American. :P (and the boring stuff lol)

Mugmoor ,
@Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Probably Apache? I’ve been running web servers since the early 2000’s.

MajorHavoc ,

Yeah. Probably Apache. Can’t remember what that I was doing, but it almost certainly ran on Apache, and I almost certainly spent 90% of my energy configuring Apache.

tehcpengsiudai Bot ,

XAMPP? I started with that in Secondary School (equivalent to high school)

MajorHavoc ,

I was probably running some weird little Python web CGI dice roller or some such. I spent a lot of time teaching myself the HTTP stack the unnecessarily hard way, lol.

Abrslam ,

I got a raspberry pi and some wd red drives when Google photos went for a pay model. We use it to back up our phones and pc, and to run jellyfin and torrents. It’s not wildly different from doing things on pc, except it’s set it and forget it. Having something always on, reliable, and “just works” makes it worthwhile.

SexualPolytope OP ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I have my mini pc always on too lol.

ThorrJo ,

holy crap, that was … … … … 25 years ago???

I don’t honestly remember the very first, if I had to bet I’d say it was Samba, likely on my 350MHz K6 (later snagged a K6-III+ for this board, fastest Socket 7 chip ever produced) so I could share files with my laptop, a Dell, 300MHz Celeron. Running all Linux at the time, not sure what flavors, although I first encountered a Debian derivative with Corel LinuxOS believe it or not, and have used Debian on servers about 95% of the time forever after.

My first self-hosting on dedicated hardware was a Samba share and DHCP/DNS server, since at the time routers weren’t always a thing, and in fact it was plugged directly into the cable modem … and for a while accidentally served competing DHCP to my neighborhood cable segment, causing intermittent problems for who knows how many users including myself, because the cable company didn’t filter broadcast traffic!!! When I finally found that config mishap, holy shit was it an awkward monkey moment … fix the typo and walk away slowly … wild west days!!

SexualPolytope OP ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Damn. I’m 25 years old lol.

TheHolm ,
@TheHolm@aussie.zone avatar

Heh, I did about same but on FreeBDS. Plus proxy server to share dialup connection around home.

SeeJayEmm ,
@SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org avatar

Me too. I had a FreeBSD box that routed my dialup and ran a transparent caching squid proxy. Had a cronjob for scheduled downloads.

External? Apache and ftp. Once cable was available had an IPsec wan with a couple friends for file sharing and “lan” gaming. Used samba to span the subnets into a big windows workgroup called “biggroup”.

I used to tinker with php alot back then. Made sense to run my own web server.

i_lost_my_bagel ,
@i_lost_my_bagel@seriously.iamincredibly.gay avatar

My first Plex server was an old laptop running windows 8

jetsetdorito ,

Plex on my Pi 3

This is more or less how I started learning Linux too

alvaro ,
@alvaro@social.graves.cl avatar

@SexualPolytope I wrote my own music player, after that I installed PiHole. After that I realized there were much better music players out there :-P

SexualPolytope OP ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I do use a couple of containers written by myself. There are a probably better alternatives out there, but these do exactly what I want them to do, no bloat, and I know them inside out, so I keep using them.

warmaster ,

Plex, then Jellyfin, then it snowballed out of control.

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