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#3206800 15-Mar-2024 17:05

freitasm:

Because, of all these services, email is the most likely to stop working due to bad IP address neighbourhood, ISP configuration not allowing reverse resolution, etc.

Fair point. My ISP selection was largely driven by my e-mail requirements.

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#3206801 15-Mar-2024 17:07

SirHumphreyAppleby:

freitasm:

Because, of all these services, email is the most likely to stop working due to bad IP address neighbourhood, ISP configuration not allowing reverse resolution, etc.

Fair point. My ISP selection was largely driven by my e-mail requirements.

For many years, early on 2000s I hosted my own Exchange Server 2003 on a Windows Server 2003 VM, with Blackberry connector no less, and also ActiveSync.

Once Microsoft BPOS (later Exchange Online) became available I got out of there. Too many security holes, hard to patch everything all the time, visible on the Internet, ISP IP address, etc.

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#3206805 15-Mar-2024 17:15

Lias:
Timely.. We're just putting the last wall up for my new server room :-)

Currently hosting:

Bitmagnet
Cloudflared
Jackett
Ombi
Petio
Pi-hole
Plex
Radarr
Sickchill
Smokeping
Sonarr
Speedtest
Tautulli
Transmission
Unifi Controller
Wordpress

Epic! Tried Overseerr? I tried Period but it felt so clunky compared to Overseerr.

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#3206807 15-Mar-2024 17:19

SirHumphreyAppleby:

CCTV (BlueIris - Windows)

Oh yeah.. Forgot in this cloud era hosting your own CCTV counts lol.. so I'm also running Milestone Xprotect.

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#3206808 15-Mar-2024 17:22

restecp:

Epic! Tried Overseerr? I tried Period but it felt so clunky compared to Overseerr.

Nah I've just been having a play with Petio because I didn't like Ombi. I shall add Overseerr to the long list of things I plan to add to my environment once I have the server room up and running and my new chassis up and running (and OP thinks he has power bill problems hehehe)

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#3206882 16-Mar-2024 07:29

I'm probably going to get called a mad lady but here's everything:

HP ML110 Gen 9 running Windows Server 2019, it's my Hyper-V host that hosts the majority of my VMs.

We've got TrueNAS Virtualized(with all 6 Intel DC S3610 1.2TB directly passed through to the machine), TrueNAS Scale VM does host a few apps in addition to being my NAS (Homarr, Transmission, LibreSpeed, drawIO, Syncthing)

Several Ubuntu based VMs. One I let a friend have fun with The other is a completely isolated no internet allowed machine where my CCTV footage gets stored(with a small ZFS mirrored pool). Another Ubuntu based VM that does web server duties and used to do network logging tasks(but this is getting moved to a Raspberry PI at some point, just need the time).

And two windows VMs. One is a Windows Server where I do lab work and the other has a GTX 745 passed through for encoding CCTV using OBS and a small script to split clips up(only have one stream and we only need one so keeping it simple). I could give back the host the GTX 745 but where's the fun in that? PCI-E passthrough on Hyper-V was a fun challenge(with the HP ML110 Gen 9 NOT CO-OPERATING).

Have a on site VPN as well via SoftEther with OpenVPN.

Is it jank? Yes

is it crazy? Absolutely.

Does it work? Yes!

Should you try this? No! Do as I say, not as I do!

The future:

The Raspberry PI at some point will get Pi-Hole installed, with looking glass and smokeping in docker- containers. Thinking the Raspberry Pi can also handle the single CCTV stream as well(Then I really can give back the host the 745 and have it do transcoding tasks for some of the content creation work we do).

Also putting more things into dockers and consolidating some VMs.

Ramblings from a mysterious lady who's into tech. Warning I may often create zingers.

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#3206890 16-Mar-2024 08:25

MaxineN:

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We've got TrueNAS Virtualized(with all 6 Intel DC S3610 1.2TB directly passed through to the machine), TrueNAS Scale VM does host a few apps in addition to being my NAS (Homarr, Transmission, LibreSpeed, drawIO, Syncthing)

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Does Hyper-V pass any SMART data from the controller to the guest when disks are directly passed through? I had a similar setup running on KVM, but I wasn't totally comfortable with TrueNAS not seeing "the full picture" so I'm curious to hear if Hyper-V handles things any differently.

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#3206954 16-Mar-2024 12:26

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MaxineN:

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We've got TrueNAS Virtualized(with all 6 Intel DC S3610 1.2TB directly passed through to the machine), TrueNAS Scale VM does host a few apps in addition to being my NAS (Homarr, Transmission, LibreSpeed, drawIO, Syncthing)

......

Does Hyper-V pass any SMART data from the controller to the guest when disks are directly passed through? I had a similar setup running on KVM, but I wasn't totally comfortable with TrueNAS not seeing "the full picture" so I'm curious to hear if Hyper-V handles things any differently.

Unfortunately you give up SMART through this(and trim) but that doesn't stop you from reading it from the host itself.

In saying that, I still see the serials.

It's just a compromise I made when I set it up this way, plus our amount of writes are very low. But we read a lot and if we did end up writing a lot in one go we know the drives will tank it, even without TRIM.

Ramblings from a mysterious lady who's into tech. Warning I may often create zingers.

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#3207034 16-Mar-2024 23:24

freitasm:
SirHumphreyAppleby:

I'm surprised more of you aren't hosting your own e-mail.

Because, of all these services, email is the most likely to stop working due to bad IP address neighbourhood, ISP configuration not allowing reverse resolution, etc.

And email hosting is cheap

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#3207039 17-Mar-2024 00:05

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freitasm:

SirHumphreyAppleby:

I'm surprised more of you aren't hosting your own e-mail.

Because, of all these services, email is the most likely to stop working due to bad IP address neighbourhood, ISP configuration not allowing reverse resolution, etc.

And email hosting is cheap

Correct. At $ 6/month for Microsoft Exchange, I have no reason to worry about running my own server.

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#3207041 17-Mar-2024 00:53

Nice to see some suggestions here!

Here's mine:

Outside of my network either for security, or monitoring:

UptimeKuma (in a VM hosted in Linode)
Wordpress (VM hosted on an Oracle Cloud free instance)
GZUniFi Instance (Still running - but I don't use any Ubiquiti stuff anymore so kinda grandfathered as people switch to USG's)

Inside my network - internet facing in a segregated DMZ. I also make use of Cloudflare Zero Trust Tunnels:

tautulli
Radarr (+ a 4K Only Instance)
Sonarr
Prowlarr
Lidarr
Bazarr (for automatic subtitle grabbing)
sabnzbd
Speedtest Tracker (note, if anyone fires this up limit your tests to at most 1 per hour!)
heimdall (however thinking I should replace this)
CrashPlanPRO (Docker container running on UnRaid - will fully back up my server + a remote Synology to a single account).
Wallos
Transmission
watchtower

I have a 3 node low power Proxmox Cluster (running on 1L type mini PC's) also running a whole lot of things either in VM's or LXC Containers:

Plex
Overseerr (bloody amazing by the way @Lias)
PiHole (2 nodes with PiHole-Sync and some management scripts)
Wireguard
Tailscale Exit Node
Several game servers running in the DMZ (Valheim, 7 days to die)
Postfix mail relay
Nginx Proxy Manager (internal SSL proxy)
Homebridge
HomeAssistant

Misc:
Smokeping (https://smokeping.interwebz.nz)
PiAware / Flightradar24
Meteobridge

I'm also currently hosting The Cheese (a radio station) along with the website on behalf of Grant at https://thecheese.co.nz

And, I'm sure there are other things I've missed.

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#3207049 17-Mar-2024 08:04

Oh, that reminded me. I use my Synology NAS as a Tailscale exit node too, in case I need a secure connection or a way back to NZ.

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#3207051 17-Mar-2024 08:16

I’ve done email before. I’ve tried mailu and mailcow. Both a set of docker containers

Mailcow was the better. Mostly I used it for internal notification emails. And for backing up gmail.

But after the Google workspace will they won’t they charge you I made the decision (cost and other reasons) to de-Google. And took down my local mail as well.

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#3207052 17-Mar-2024 08:18

Most of my services are behind cloudflare zero trust tunnels and running on Unraid.

Home assistant VM

Plex

Jellyfin

Mealie

Tautulli

Overseerr

Radarr

Sonarr

Lidarr

Nginx

Timemachine docker

Backblaze in docker

Unifi Controller

Deluge

Sabnzb

Mariadb

Influxdb

Pihole

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#3207383 18-Mar-2024 09:40

I've got three SFF HP Elitedesk's on the desk beside me running a Kubernetes cluster (on Talos)

On that cluster, I host:

Infrastructure

Flux - for doing GitOps (essentially infra/config as code for Kubernetes)
Rook/Ceph - for storage distributed across the nodes
GitHub Actions runner
Tailscale
External-DNS - for automatically updating DNS records on my internal Pi-Hole, and external CloudFlare DNS
Cloudflare tunnel
Cloudnative-pg - HA Postgres distributed across nodes

Apps

Actual - a YNAB replacement
Atuin - shell history sync
Authelia - SSO for a few of the apps
Bazarr
Bookstack
Cyberchef
Excalidraw
FoundryVTT
Frigate - An amazing security cam NVR, coupled with a Coral USB ML accelerator
Home Assistant
Homebox - Home inventory management, I use it to record serial numbers, receipts, photos etc
Homepage - Like Heimdall, etc.
Immich - Google Photos replacement
Mealie - Recipe manager
Miniflux - RSS reader
Mosquitto - MQTT mainly for use with IoT things that interface with Home Assistant
NodeRED - HomeAssistant automations are pretty much good enough now that I'm going to phase this out
Overseerr
Paperless - Documentation record, also receipts
Plex
Prowlarr
Radarr
Sonarr
Shlink - A link shortening service
Tautulli
Unifi controller
Wordpress
Zigbee2MQTT

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