Oh no, you!
I’m far from an expert, but I’ve been using Hetzner for close to 20 years at this point. Both their VPSes and the actual rent-a-server.
I skimmed the article and I didn’t notice anything blatantly bad in the approach. So they have my approval.
+1 for rdiff-backup. Been using it for 20 years or so, and I love it.
By living in the middle of fucking nowhere. I haven’t locked my front door in over a year.
Why not go truly selfhosted and build your own? Any PC + JBOD + ZFS, then add whichever services you need. NFS or SMB should get you a long way.
Plenty of guides out there on how to achieve this.
I started hosting stuff before containers were common, so I got used to doing it the old fashioned way and making sure everything played nice with each other.
Beyond that, it’s mostly that I’m not very used to containers.
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Are you able to ask your ISP customer service to set up port forwarding for you?
At minimal you want HTTP (Port 80) but you probably want HTTPS (443) as well. If you’re hosting DNS as well you will need port 53 too.
Have those ports routed to the “inside” IP of the machine you want to use, and the rest of it is basically just setting up the webserver (and possibly DNS) to serve your domain.
NB: While on the phone with your ISP, ask them what the DHCP lease time is. Ideally you want a static IP for your setup.
Ok, so I must’ve misunderstood the question, because to me it seems OP already has all the necessary ingredients to bake this dish. And yet, the vast majority of comments recommend various 3rd party services which is the complete opposite of selhosting.
Fire up nginx/apache2, and all good, no? What am I missing?
They can be. Some motherboards come with one built in. But in most cases it refers to its own PCIe card, such as one of the many models from LSI Megaraid.
The advantage of this is that it can have a small capacitor bank (or a proper battery) to provide emergency power so that if something stupid happens such as motherboard failure, the raid controller will use this power to cleanly write to the disks.
EDIT: I just remembered one such stupid situation at work where a motherboard died and then the entire system blacked out, including power to the drives. I spoke with my vendor since data loss and corruption carries a hefty price tag in my field. They told me not to worry - The data could sit in the buffer for ages, as the capacitor bank was there to handle things like this. Turned out that upon restoring power, once the array was online again, the write buffer will be written to disk. No CPU or motherboard required - the controller took care of it. This was especially handy since it took a little longer to find a replacement board.
Ooh, I did this a while back, except it was hardware Raid5 to Raid6. Turns out one of the servers in a cluster were, for some reason, set up with 11 disks in raid5 + hot spare, except for raid 6 on all raids on all servers. Took me embarrassingly long to realize why storage space was as expected despite one disk being reported as not in an array.
Storcli and a nice raid controller makes thinks like this easy, as long as you grab enough coffee and read the storcli syntax while taking notes to build the full command string.
Honestly, more than just Hillsborough survivors should call for the same. I’m not even British, and even I know how scummy The Sun and it’s editorial staff is.
The generally don’t containerize things because I’m too old and crusty, but segregating over several users is basically how it’s been done for ages, and while it may not be particularly useful in your case, I consider it a reasonable best practice that costs you nothing.
bash setup/config/PS1 is your friend here. I frequently find myself with a myriad of terminals between a bunch of usernames and servers at work, and setting up a proper prompt is key to help you keep track.
My bashrc makes my prompt look like this:
username@hostname:/absolute/path
$ inputgoeshere
… with color coding, of course. Yes, I use a multiline prompt. I somehow never saw that before using ParrotSec despite being a bash user for 25 years. I modified the ParrotSec default to suit my needs better, and I like it:
I pasted my PS1 config here: https://pastebin.com/ZcYwabfB
Stick that line near the bottom of your ~/.bashrc file if you want to try it out.
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Those are directory listings. They are the default in apache2 (maybe others as well… I only know apache2), unless disabled or disallowed in the configs (enabled and allowed by default). If the directory you’re accessing such as http://192.168.123.123/somedir/ does not contain a default file, such as an index.html, the directory list will be served instead.
It’s way too late at night for me to give an in-depth answer, but I just wanted to let you know that if you plan on adding drives over time, you might want to check out running the disks in JBOD instead of RAID and the use ZFS to create the storage volume. Redundancy supported, and you can add disks whenever you need more space. The disks don’t even have to be the same size.
Thank you. I help where I can.
I was considering something similar for my Volvo 940 about around 2010. The idea was that I’d install a touch screen as an infotainment system where I could see stuff like OBD2 data and navigation.
While not having a functioning speedometer for a little bit (later fixed), I used my phone to see the GPS speed with the screen flipped so I could get the speed on the windshield like a HUD in some modern cars. The plan was to do something similar integrated with the home brewed infotainment.
It annoys me that I never went through with it, because so much stuff of what I’d drawn up became standard for “fancy” cars later.
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Plus, if you end up accidentally locking yourself out of your own system: boot access means root access (Secure your IPMI/iDRAC, folks!)