SniffBark

SniffBark OP , 10 months ago to selfhosted in A way to host Uptime Kuma

I checked out the Free tier and I like it a lot, already created an instance and tested it a little, and I believe it’s more than enough for running Caddy and Uptime Kuma, so thank you very much for this :)

SniffBark OP , 10 months ago to selfhosted in A way to host Uptime Kuma

I run netdata to collect usage statistics etc. directly on my VPS. I don’t need Uptime Kuma for that, because of course I know right away if my server is down or if it’s just a service. I am hosting some things also for my friends and family, and I’d like to have an option for them to check what is going on. Imagine they cannot access a service, they go to the status page and see that it is either a planned maintenance (updating, editing the configuration etc.) or there something else wrong, and they will see exactly when the service went back online. Without externally hosted status page like this, all they would get is an error. This way is much nicer for the non-technical audience.

SniffBark OP , 10 months ago to selfhosted in A way to host Uptime Kuma

I would like to use something open source. For now, I use the free tier of cronitor.io for my two websites and 3 cron jobs, but with that the free tier is all used up and I will have a bunch more services I want to monitor too.

SniffBark OP , 10 months ago to selfhosted in A way to host Uptime Kuma

Thanks, I’ve never heard about it, will definitely check it out!

SniffBark OP , 10 months ago to selfhosted in A way to host Uptime Kuma

I don’t have a problem with using a VPS, I just don’t want to pay for another one in addition to my current one just for this one small thing. Sorry if my wording was confusing, English is not my primary language.

Thanks for the Oracle Cloud tip, I will definitely check it out. So far I tried fly.io but that has weird problems (I can only access the site from Safari on my mobile, from any other browser or device I can’t - even plain ping to the domain name returns service unavailable).

SniffBark OP , 11 months ago to selfhosted in A few questions about selfhosting from a newbie

I immediately started with using docker-compose because I was playing with a “playground” server from my provider and I wanted to be able to move my setup to the “production” server after setting things up. It’s much easier than the long docker run commands some docs suggest.

One question about the UID and GID, I’ve run into some trouble because the official Caddy image runs as root, so I had to set php-fpm also as root because otherwise it was causing problem. So what do you suggest to do with all my containers (I do not mean Caddy and php right now)? Should I run everything as the same UID and GID, or every container with it’s own user?

SniffBark OP , 11 months ago to selfhosted in A few questions about selfhosting from a newbie

Yeah, I love Caddy so much. I’ve only ever used Nginx before, and it was a pain to configure. With Caddy, it’s just a few lines, and the automatic HTTPS is very nice.

Thanks for the SSH port tip, I’ve disabled password auth on all my servers before and only used key auth, but I will move the port to something other for extra security.

SniffBark , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in The more they censor, bigger it gets

Exactly what I was thinking every time I saw one of these.

SniffBark , 11 months ago to selfhosted in Which web server software do you recommend?

I have recently started using Caddy and I love it! FOSS, automatic HTTPS, super easy to setup and works well as a reverse proxy. As your website will not be complex, the Caddyfile would be just a few lines.

SniffBark , 1 year ago to aww in My sad girl trying to get through the cat door

So sad, so cute

SniffBark , 1 year ago to cat in "Do animals even have emotions?" Cats:

He/she looks so in love <3 super cute