Geekzone: technology news, blogs, forums
Guest
Welcome Guest.
You haven't logged in yet. If you don't have an account you can register now.


View this topic in a long page with up to 500 replies per page Create new topic
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
SirHumphreyAppleby
2838 posts

Uber Geek


  #3206800 15-Mar-2024 17:05
Send private message

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.




freitasm
BDFL - Memuneh
79141 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator
ID Verified
Trusted
Geekzone
Lifetime subscriber

  #3206801 15-Mar-2024 17:07
Send private message

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.





Please support Geekzone by subscribing, or using one of our referral links: Samsung | AliExpress | Wise | Sharesies | Hatch | GoodSyncBackblaze backup


restecp

238 posts

Master Geek

ID Verified
Trusted

  #3206805 15-Mar-2024 17:15
Send private message

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.



Lias
5579 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified
Trusted
Lifetime subscriber

  #3206807 15-Mar-2024 17:19
Send private message

SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

CCTV (BlueIris - Windows)

 

 

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





I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.


Lias
5579 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified
Trusted
Lifetime subscriber

  #3206808 15-Mar-2024 17:22
Send private message

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)





I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.


MaxineN
Max
1761 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified
Trusted
Subscriber

  #3206882 16-Mar-2024 07:29
Send private message

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.

 

I use quic. They're a great ISP for techies. Use my referral I get money off my bill! You can get the setup fee waived too via this code when you order! R177510EBNVXP


systemd
29 posts

Geek

Trusted

  #3206890 16-Mar-2024 08:25
Send private message

MaxineN:

 

......

 

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.


 
 
 

Backblaze Unlimited Backup. World’s easiest cloud backup. Get peace of mind knowing your files are backed up securely in the cloud (affiliate link).
MaxineN
Max
1761 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified
Trusted
Subscriber

  #3206954 16-Mar-2024 12:26
Send private message

systemd:

 

MaxineN:

 

......

 

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.

 

I use quic. They're a great ISP for techies. Use my referral I get money off my bill! You can get the setup fee waived too via this code when you order! R177510EBNVXP


Handle9
11267 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted
Lifetime subscriber

  #3207034 16-Mar-2024 23:24
Send private message

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

freitasm
BDFL - Memuneh
79141 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator
ID Verified
Trusted
Geekzone
Lifetime subscriber

  #3207039 17-Mar-2024 00:05
Send private message

Handle9:

 

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.





Please support Geekzone by subscribing, or using one of our referral links: Samsung | AliExpress | Wise | Sharesies | Hatch | GoodSyncBackblaze backup


michaelmurfy
meow
13217 posts

Uber Geek

Moderator
ID Verified
Trusted
Lifetime subscriber

  #3207041 17-Mar-2024 00:53
Send private message

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.





Michael Murphy | https://murfy.nz
Referral Links: Quic Broadband (use R122101E7CV7Q for free setup)

Are you happy with what you get from Geekzone? Please consider supporting us by subscribing.
Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.


freitasm
BDFL - Memuneh
79141 posts

Uber Geek

Administrator
ID Verified
Trusted
Geekzone
Lifetime subscriber

  #3207049 17-Mar-2024 08:04
Send private message

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.




Please support Geekzone by subscribing, or using one of our referral links: Samsung | AliExpress | Wise | Sharesies | Hatch | GoodSyncBackblaze backup


davidcole
6020 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

  #3207051 17-Mar-2024 08:16
Send private message

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.




Previously known as psycik

Home Assistant: Gigabyte AMD A8 Brix, Home Assistant with Aeotech ZWave Controller, Raspberry PI, Wemos D1 Mini, Zwave, Shelly Humidity and Temperature sensors
Media:Chromecast v2, ATV4 4k, ATV4, HDHomeRun Dual
Server
Host Plex Server 3x3TB, 4x4TB using MergerFS, Samsung 850 evo 512 GB SSD, Proxmox Server with 1xW10, 2xUbuntu 22.04 LTS, Backblaze Backups, usenetprime.com fastmail.com Sharesies Trakt.TV Sharesight 


Handle9
11267 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted
Lifetime subscriber

  #3207052 17-Mar-2024 08:18
Send private message

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

 

 

 

 


wipash
20 posts

Geek

ID Verified

  #3207383 18-Mar-2024 09:40
Send private message

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

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
View this topic in a long page with up to 500 replies per page Create new topic





News and reviews »

Logitech G522 Gaming Headset Review
Posted 18-Jun-2025 17:00


Māori Artists Launch Design Collection with Cricut ahead of Matariki Day
Posted 15-Jun-2025 11:19


LG Launches Upgraded webOS Hub With Advanced AI
Posted 15-Jun-2025 11:13


One NZ Satellite IoT goes live for customers
Posted 15-Jun-2025 11:10


Bolt Launches in New Zealand
Posted 11-Jun-2025 00:00


Suunto Run Review
Posted 10-Jun-2025 10:44


Freeview Satellite TV Brings HD Viewing to More New Zealanders
Posted 5-Jun-2025 11:50


HP OmniBook Ultra Flip 14-inch Review
Posted 3-Jun-2025 14:40


Flip Phones Are Back as HMD Reimagines an Iconic Style
Posted 30-May-2025 17:06


Hundreds of School Students Receive Laptops Through Spark Partnership With Quadrent's Green Lease
Posted 30-May-2025 16:57


AI Report Reveals Trust Is Key to Unlocking Its Potential in Aotearoa
Posted 30-May-2025 16:55


Galaxy Tab S10 FE Series Brings Intelligent Experiences to the Forefront with Premium, Versatile Design
Posted 30-May-2025 16:14


New OPPO Watch X2 Launches in New Zealand
Posted 29-May-2025 16:08


Synology Premiers a New Lineup of Advanced Data Management Solutions
Posted 29-May-2025 16:04


Dyson Launches Its Slimmest Vaccum Cleaner PencilVac
Posted 29-May-2025 15:50









Geekzone Live »

Try automatic live updates from Geekzone directly in your browser, without refreshing the page, with Geekzone Live now.



Are you subscribed to our RSS feed? You can download the latest headlines and summaries from our stories directly to your computer or smartphone by using a feed reader.