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russelo
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  #3207522 18-Mar-2024 14:23
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Why did you start this thread?!!  Now I have to spend so much time installing and playing with these apps. 🤣

 

Here's what I have running at the moment:

 

 

  • Adguard
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Traccar
  • Bitwarden
  • Frigate
  • Home Assistant
  • IT Tools
  • NGINX Proxy Manager
  • Paperless
  • Plex
  • Portainer
  • Guacamole
  • Node Red



DamageInc
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  #3207524 18-Mar-2024 14:30
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russelo:

 

Why did you start this thread?!!  Now I have to spend so much time installing and playing with these apps. 🤣

 

Here's what I have running at the moment:

 

  • Adguard
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Traccar
  • Bitwarden
  • Frigate
  • Home Assistant
  • IT Tools
  • NGINX Proxy Manager
  • Paperless
  • Plex
  • Portainer
  • Guacamole
  • Node Red

 

An observation - 1st person that has listed Adguard. Most other lists in this thread have Pihole. Yesterday was tossing up whether to install either.

 

Is there a reason people prefer Pihole over Adguard?




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  #3207525 18-Mar-2024 14:36
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Handle9:
And email hosting is cheap

 

 

 

it really isnt.  sure for one or two users, maybe. you have a family of 10, yeah.. nah email is friggin expensive. 



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  #3207526 18-Mar-2024 14:41
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reven:

 

Handle9:
And email hosting is cheap

 

it really isnt.  sure for one or two users, maybe. you have a family of 10, yeah.. nah email is friggin expensive. 

 

 

If you look further afield than the main players, there are quite a few inexpensive options.

 

This is a one man band, but I've been quite impressed with what he (Scott) has built...

 

https://purelymail.com/

 

Basically, $US10 per year, fair use.

russelo
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  #3207529 18-Mar-2024 14:53
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DamageInc:

 

An observation - 1st person that has listed Adguard. Most other lists in this thread have Pihole. Yesterday was tossing up whether to install either.

 

Is there a reason people prefer Pihole over Adguard?

 

 

 

 

I did a quick research years ago before installing it and for some reason, what I've read geared me towards Adguard Home than Pihole. 

 

Currently, Adguard just works for my need. I will probably try Pihole one of these days.  

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  #3207532 18-Mar-2024 15:12
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DamageInc:

 

russelo:

 

Why did you start this thread?!!  Now I have to spend so much time installing and playing with these apps. 🤣

 

Here's what I have running at the moment:

 

  • Adguard
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Traccar
  • Bitwarden
  • Frigate
  • Home Assistant
  • IT Tools
  • NGINX Proxy Manager
  • Paperless
  • Plex
  • Portainer
  • Guacamole
  • Node Red

 

An observation - 1st person that has listed Adguard. Most other lists in this thread have Pihole. Yesterday was tossing up whether to install either.

 

Is there a reason people prefer Pihole over Adguard?

 

 

I actually messed up and forgot to add in my LXC's. I run Adguard as well (will update my original post). 

I run both PiHole & Adguard with PiHole being the primary DNS and Adguard the secondary. 
I don't remember why I took this approach. 

It seems to work well though!

 
 
 
 

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  #3207533 18-Mar-2024 15:13
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russelo:

 

Why did you start this thread?!!  Now I have to spend so much time installing and playing with these apps. 🤣

 

Here's what I have running at the moment:

 

  • Adguard
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Traccar
  • Bitwarden
  • Frigate
  • Home Assistant
  • IT Tools
  • NGINX Proxy Manager
  • Paperless
  • Plex
  • Portainer
  • Guacamole
  • Node Red



Hahaha apologies. Truthfully it was to get more of an idea of how others are running their homelabs. 

Mission accomplished I rekon

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  #3207647 18-Mar-2024 20:23
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SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

reven:

 

it really isnt.  sure for one or two users, maybe. you have a family of 10, yeah.. nah email is friggin expensive. 

 

 

If you look further afield than the main players, there are quite a few inexpensive options.

 

This is a one man band, but I've been quite impressed with what he (Scott) has built...

 

https://purelymail.com/

 

Basically, $US10 per year, fair use.

 

 

Zoho is AUD$18 a year per user. Aliases are free. It's not a big cost for completely reliable email.

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  #3207923 19-Mar-2024 11:45
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This is my recently built home private cloud infrastructure. A 3 node hyper-converged OpenStack/Ceph cluster with 10G-ring network.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each node is the same, but detail is only shown for one. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm up around 30 VMs so far but I think I need to branch more into containers because VMs are a bit heavy for a lot of my work loads. 

 

I'm using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code against OpenStack and Ansible for deployment automation. 

 

Each Node

 

  • Hp Elitedesk G5 Small Form Factor
  • Intel i7-9700 (8 Cores)
  • 64GB DDR4 (Expandable to 128GB)
  • Broadcom Quad 1G NIC
  • Intel X520 Dual 10G NIC (SFP+)
  • 256GB SATA SSD (OS)
  • 2TB Samsung 980 Pro NVME (Ceph OSD)
  • 2TB Samsung 870 EVO SATA (Ceph OSD)
  • 1 spare SATA and 1 Spare NVME for expansion

 

 

Full write up here

 

 






 

Help me build a better way of doing politics in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

 

 

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  #3207974 19-Mar-2024 11:48
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mcraenz:

 

This is my recently built home private cloud infrastructure. A 3 node hyper-converged OpenStack/Ceph cluster with 10G-ring network.

 

 

Where did you get that Vent in the drawer? I for the life of me have been unable to find any for my comms cupboard. 

Super jealous your setup looks great!

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  #3207984 19-Mar-2024 12:09
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Cheers! Vent 500x80mm from Ali express:

 

Vents Perforated Sheet Aluminum Alloy Air Vent Perforated Sheet Web Plate Ventilation Grille Vents Perforated Sheet (aliexpress.com)

 

~$14NZD landed. Unbelievably, it arrived straight and in perfect condition. And better quality than I expected. 

 

Also got some aircon filter material and a friend laser cut me some acrylic filter frames that sit behind the vent. 






 

Help me build a better way of doing politics in Aotearoa New Zealand

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Shop now at Mighty Ape (affiliate link).
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  #3208265 19-Mar-2024 22:48
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After some thought on monitoring - and since I already use New Relic for Geekzone, I've decided to find a way to monitor the Synology NAS - following these instructions: Easily and free monitoring Synology using New Relic Infrastructure and Docker : r/synology (reddit.com)

 

 

 

 




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  #3223908 29-Apr-2024 09:15
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Been self hosting for a number of years, always off a single physical box - old desktop.

 

Current specs are i5 6500, 16GB, 1x 500GB SSD, 2x 4TB HDD.

 

System plugged into UPS which also has the router and ONT connected to it. Gives about 20mins run time and allows clean shutdown of the server.

 

Running Windows 10 as core OS, sometimes with VMWare Player running 1 or 2 VM's.

 

Have run email and website from home previously, but keeping on top of it was annoying, and also when my mail server did an update it removed one of the security settings and my system got abused majorly (took quite a few months to clear my name :D ). Also run various game servers for friends as we wanted them - 7 Days to Die, Unturned, MineCraft etc

 

Currently have the following running :

 

Torrents (Qbit)

 

Plex

 

Calibre Web

 

RunTipi (VMware system, hosting UptimeKuma)

 

Tailscale

 

Veeam (backing up my personal docs etc to NAS)

 

 

 

Think thats it.... 




XPD / Gavin

 

LinkTree

 

 

 

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  #3225254 1-May-2024 22:00
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I have now started docusealco/docuseal: Open source DocuSign alternative. Create, fill, and sign digital documents ✍️ (github.com) as Docker too.




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  #3225259 1-May-2024 22:04
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I’ve got Immich running and moved all my photos out of Google Photos and into it. It’s a pretty damn nice alternative.

It’ll be nice to cut the cord with 200GB of storage on Google photos.

The whole library is backed up to backblaze so we preserve an offsite backup.

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