Which kind of command/apps you always wanted to self-host but you never bothered doing so because it's "overkill"?

bladewdr , 11 months ago

Nothing is really too much.

I have too much hardware to swap out to go 10G networking or I totally would.

The point of my homelab is for me to learn and break stuff in a safe environment, so if that leads me down a Kubernetes rabbit hole at some point so be it.

wgs , 11 months ago

So many things !

• torrent tracker (to serve what?)
• IRC server (I’m alone!)
• Matrix server (ok, I tried this one… But I’m alone)
• An SSO server (definitely overkill)
• CI/CD system with vmd(1) (even more overkill!)
• A package repository for binaries I build
• A distributed package building system
• …

The list goes on and grows everyday haha

johntash , 11 months ago

• Irc server - …you can create your own bot net!
• sso - single set of credentials for all your apps it’s pretty nice, especially if you have even one more user
• package repository - also useful for caching yum/apt/docker repos for a bunch of vms to use

wgs , 11 months ago

To be fair I do have an IRC server, but it’s just to goof around with the protocol.

SSO is nice I’m theory, but I’m the only user and I don’t have much authenticated services.

And package repo, I wanted to build one for my own package manager, but I don’t use it much in the end.

DigitalPortkey , 11 months ago

Tailscale completely negated and desire I’ve ever had to run any kind of proxy or VPN. The setup tool all of 30 seconds to make an account, and then like 15-20 seconds per client. I set it up once several months ago and I completely forgot about it…it’s just quietly working in the background, completely transparent to me.

bladewdr , 11 months ago

I only rolled my own Wireguard VPN because I wanted to learn how things worked on the backend - I’ve suggested Tailscale to many other people, its just a really well designed product.

It’s astonishing to me how much they’re giving away for free.

conrad82 , 1 year ago

Email. I want a local email server where I can move old emails off the internet for archiving.

But the number of components going into email servers made me stop… I already have caddy reverse proxy, but finding out how to use it for a email server… I didn’t even get properly started

vegetaaaaaaa , 11 months ago

local email server where I can move old emails off the internet for archiving

If you need it for this, and only this, the setup is actually very simple, you just need an IMAP server like dovecot github.com/nodiscc/xsrv/tree/…/mail_dovecot

mohKohn , 11 months ago

being extremely lazy, you can use Thunderbird

zahel , 1 year ago

What does reverse proxies have to do with NASA?

It really ain’t complicated.

Cqrd , 1 year ago

This. Install nginx proxy manager and it’s so incredibly easy to get started.

redcalcium , 1 year ago

I always want to self host my own search engine, but alas, I’m not a billionaire.

Smoofus , 1 year ago

SearXNG might be worth a look