Asking into the void: If I want to self-host a Wafrn instance, can I migrate my current account / content or will I have to start over?

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@zrail/116053772428911398

So I think I solved... half(?) the problem. It dawned on me that I can use any machine on a given network to announce an #ipv6 prefix and as long as it has the router lifetime set to 0 no clients will try to use it as a gateway.

Thus, I'm announcing a /64 slice of the /48 I leased from a tiny lxc running on my N100 "critical stuff" machine.

I think for DNS I'm going to just put these addresses in public DNS. The whole point is that they're static and one fewer moving piece is nice. This doesn't solve the "but what if internet is down" problem but I don't think that's super realistic.

Oh one other thing worth mentioning: this /64 is not routed. From the outside it'll hit the blackhole route on my router VPS.

@homelab #selfhosting

@rexana It turns out that if you have virt-manager on your machine, you don't even need virt-install or virsh on your server, you only need libvirtd.service and then you can set up everything through SSH from virt-manager.

I ran into an issue of not being able to start any network on my server due to "address already in use" error but setting autostart and rebooting the server fixed it.

#homelab #selfhosting

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What new self-hosted apps have you found recently that you're really happy with?

#homelab #selfhosting #docker

I now have functional Matrix and XMPP servers running on my own home server. That's the easy part. The hard part is persuading everybody I know to dump WhatsApp and Messenger.

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

Fellow Homelabbers, has anyone of you any experience running an IPv6 only Matrix / Synapse Server and could tell me if there any noticeable limitations apart from homeservers not beeing reachable via IPv6 in 2026?
@homelab @homelab_de #homelab #matrix #synapse #ipv6 #selfhosting

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After years of it being on my todo lists I've finally:
* Setup a minimal nextcloud install (as a VM running on Proxmox) .
* Exported my calendars and contacts from google.
* Imported them into nextcloud and cleaned them up a bit.
* Setup vdirsyncer / khal so I can view/edit calendar events in a TUI as (1970s) god intended.

Nice to have more of my important life information in a tmux session and also, more importantly, out of the hands of google.

#homelab #degoogle #selfhosting #TUI

Immich got really good just in the last little while. Some random geek notes/thoughts, after several hours tinkering (non-geeks, stop reading here):

As to sizing: a Pi 5 with 4GB (better yet, 8 to be safe) of RAM - and the docker container gets its own fast SSD, for storage - could do it. Forget using a Pi 4.

The Good News:

- I'm playing with Immich on a Raspberry Pi 5 in docker, really liking it. It took a long time to import my photos - several hours to do 10,000 photos.

- It's very nice to access from #Android or iPadOS, as there are Immich apps for both.

- It does a local AI facial recognition. I'm giving names to the faces - what a trip down memory lane! That's a rather astounding feature for such an open source app: it's awesome to see pictures which involved certain individuals, all grouped. There's been a lot of controversy around facial scanning by apps lately (the data being silently sent back to the "mothership"). With Immich, the data stays local - doesn't go back to any mothership. No geek contests or says otherwise (and I would hear about it).

- The Rasberry Pi 5 on the backend can keep up nicely - to me being the one user pretty much. Its little fan whirs away, while I do the editing, etc in the app, silently in the other room on the iPad.

- can publish web-accessible Albums online easily. Great for sharing albums to family and friends privately; they're password protected.

- I set up a reverse proxy on a VPS for remote access.

The Bad news:

- had to strip out the videos, before an import. The videos just brutally crushed that Pi to the floor.

- tried uploading all ~300 recent photos from my iPad to Immich. About 100 failed. Many are Jpgs, should have no problem. It does have a protection against duplicates - calculates hashes. Some uploads certainly failed (from the Immich #iPadOS app), which shouldn't have! Just saying: copyparty uploads with ~100% wire speed and *does not fail*. But it doesn't have the photo management goodness which Immich has. Copyparty will do a basic slideshow of a folder of photos. Although it annoys me to say this, I think I'll have to use Copyparty to exfil the photos out of the #iPad's (walled-garden) "Photo Library", then as a second, regrettable hop, use immich-cli (the go-based docker container) to do an import to Immich. I just did a test, comparing copyparty's "up2k" uploader (just used from a web browser like Safari of Firefox), and the Immich app in iPad OS, and there's no comparison. Copyparty absolutely rips Immich away, totally destroying it for bulk upload. I just uploaded over wifi at a steady, sustained 80MB/sec with Copyparty.

#Immich #Copyparty #OpenSource #SelfHosting

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB)
Medien liegen auf NAS, werden nur gestreamt
Nutzung: 1-5 Geräte gleichzeitig, hauptsächlich 1080p
Kein Remote-Zugriff nötig (nur lokales Netzwerk)

#Jellyfin #Plex #Medienserver #SelfHosting #Homelab #RaspberryPi

Frage an die Self-Hosting-Community:

Welchen Medienserver nutzt ihr zuhause im lokalen Netz und warum?

Zur Auswahl stehen bei mir:
• Jellyfin (Open Source, keine Cloud)
• Plex (ausgereift, aber Telemetrie)
• MiniDLNA (schlank, nur DLNA)
• Emby (Mittelweg)
• Kodi (direkt am TV)

Was läuft bei euch stabil und ohne Gefrickel?
Worauf sollte ich achten?

#Jellyfin #Plex #Medienserver #SelfHosting #Homelab #RaspberryPi

I'm thinking about self hosted / community hosted printables / thingyverse lookalikes for sharing models. Does this exist?

How hard would it be to build this as a feature in forgejo? Thinking about a very extended /explore/repos page that can filter repos by a type/tag ("this repo is a 3d model"). I guess it's not possible to organize repos using tags or categories? Plus an integrated stl previewer, which should be easy.

#selfhosting #3dprinting #forgejo

EDIT; update: https://ultracrepidarian.mysteriar.ch/@the/statuses/01KHHD311KGVY36YVK9VA4SCG3

Is anyone self-hosting Loops? Are there any Loops servers that are popular outside of loops[dot]video? Every time I see someone link to a Loops account, it's on loops[dot]video. I actually think Loops is a really cool idea; that's why I would really hate to see a monopoly.

#AskFedi #Fediverse #Loops #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

my #selfhosting started with #PiHole at the end of 2019 when I bought fresh #RaspberryPI 4.

In the next few years there was a lot of different #homelab setups (I'd say around 8-10 "servers"), one of my favorite from those times is Supermicro X9.

Services were launched with #Docker (and compose) via #Portainer.

At 2022 I've tried #Ansible and it was impressive. Pet-project helped a lot with servers maintenance.

Currently I've switched to #NixOS and there is another personal project for that. In current server stack are my old laptop with i7-8750H and 32GB RAM, Synology DS220j as NFS (2*4TB mirror) and RPi4 as #HomeAssistant host

Liberta Cloud has been upgraded to 32.0.6 and you may now use the double authentication (2FA), via e-mail, other devices or via a TOTP application (Aegis, Google Authenticator, etc.) Cheers!

https://cloud.liberta.vip

#liberta #nextcloud #cloud #sysadmin #hosting #selfhosting #floss

Liberta Cloud a été mis à jour en 32.0.6 et vous pouvez maintenant utiliser la double authentification (2FA), via e-mail, autres appareils ou via une application TOTP (Aegis, Google Authenticator, etc.) Cheers!

https://cloud.liberta.vip

#liberta #nextcloud #cloud #sysadmin #hosting #selfhosting #floss

Happy Sunday! What projects did you manage to take care of in your homelab this week?

#homelab #selfhosting

Also, I volunteered to help a friend at work setup his own system with Plex & Immich. Likely to balloon into more.

I think I'm keeping him on OMV & Docker, though. I feel mostly confident supporting someone else in that much.

I'm probably an idiot. But it's the kind of idiot'ing I enjoy.

#selfhosting #docker #plex #openmediavault

I think I can call my transition to Proxmox done.

Assuming that dialing down the host swappiness & giving the Plex LXC some more swap space fixed my freezing in that app... I'm happy with my current situation. Really happy.

Being able to backup my Docker VM to PBS without needing to shut everything down for 30 minutes? It's magic, I tell you!

#SelfHosting #Proxmox