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Has anyone tried running a Lemmy instance on theirs? I know it wouldn't be a good idea to run one for public use, but I'm curious if anyone has tried just for fun.
I’m thinking about moving my single-user instance onto my lab from DO. Either that or moving to a managed Kubernetes cluster in the cloud (that is prohibitively expensive though)
How did you get it working on DigitalOcean? I tried that and it was such a struggle.
Lemmy? Had to patch the docker config (pushed a patch to the main and docs repos already!)
Oh awesome! I'll try again. Thanks!
You might have to check those repos, I don’t know if the site has been updated.
It hasn't yet, but I see the changes on the repos.
- System76 Meerkat with attached external drive
- Unifi USG/Unifi APs/switches
- RaspberryPI/PiHole
- Emby
- Nextcloud
- Gitea
- Various simple websites
Intel nuc
- homeassistant
- mqtt
- rtl433
- piper
- portainer
- zigbee2mqtt
- esphome
- calibre
- jellyfin
- doods
- pihole
- adguard
- valheim and other game servers Synology nas
- caldav
- redundant pihole
- files hosting
- unificontroller Older thin client
- opnsense with wireguard Unifi Switches and APs
Nice list! I'm curious, why are you running 2 pi-hole and an adguard instance?
(I also run 2 pi-hole instances for redundancy)
- My Raspberry Pi running Alpine, workint as a ~~dust collector~~ home server
- My Ryzen 5625U(from the top of my head) laptop which I use for light gaming and work mostly. Runs Artix Linux
- My beloved Ryzen 3 1200, RX 580, 2 1TB SSDs + 1 240GB SSD + 1 TB HDD. Also runs Artix Linux
I have a relatively small setup, because of space and cooling constraints, but in that setup:
- Generic server with a Xeon E5-2697 v2, kinda old but it's still got 12c/24t, and 64 gigs of memory
- Around 40TB of storage space, of which I'm using roughly 1%. I'm not even a datahoarder, I'm just a storage space hoarder.
Everything I self host runs through Proxmox, either as a LXC container or as a RHEL 9 virtual machine. I also have a RasPi running Pi-Hole for ad blocking.
Lots of Proxmox users here! That's good to see. I'm also running Proxmox after using ESXI in my lab for a few years. Too expensive.
Around 40TB of storage space, of which I’m using roughly 1%. I’m not even a datahoarder, I’m just a storage space hoarder.
Save some for the rest of us, eh?
Sounds like a pretty solid setup!
I'm sure someone from /r/datahoarder is going to be coming along very soon that stored half the internet but I'm sitting at 123TB currently which is already excessive.
Using 80% of that space right now.
Hi! I'm Michael and this is my first lemmyverse post!
An old Lenovo thinkstation with 128Gb RAM, 512Gb SSD (x2), 4Tb SATA (x2) and 2Tb SATA for ISOs and backups. Running proxmox with VMs (Windows Server 2022, Home Assistant, Win 11 RDP jumpstation, OPNSense firewall, unifi controller and a Linux general purpose server). I have a dedicated server also running proxmox with a webserver, monitoring server (openitcockpit), meshcentral server.
Raspberry pi 4 as a backup and motioneye server in my garage.
A couple of other raspberry pi 4s doing things... Including 2 at my caravan running HA, Plex and general stuff.
I have a pretty modest setup. This is just what’s in or on my cabinet rack.
- Old two bay NAS
- New five drive bay server I’m replacing the old NAS with and running local stable diffusion and language models on. I managed to fit my old nVidia 3070 in the rack mount case. There’s no way a card the size of a 3090 would fit
- Some raspberry Pi’s
- Rack mount firewall
- Old Acer monitor, keyboard
- Dumb PDU and an old battery backup that I replaced the batteries on
- An old 802.11ac WiFi router set up as just a WAP, dedicated for home automation
Plan is to set up something like open stack but right now it’s just running unmanaged (orchestrated?) docker containers. I recently learned about ansible so may just automate the docker containers instead of figuring out open stack.
Box I built around a AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, running Ubuntu 22.04 and a handful of qemu VMs (owncloud, pihole, checkmk, etc..) A hand-me-down qnap I keep threatening to put truenas on but haven't yet. A couple libre computer (pi alternative) boards. A couple tp-link managed switches.
On my to-do list are to deploy an old Dell mini as an OpnSense box to replace my router.
Raspberry Pi 4 running home assistant
Intel NUC running frigate and a minecraft server
Custom built PC (i3-10100, 16gb ram, GTX1070 for transcoding. 24tb array with two parity disk, 2x 3tb ssd's in array for docker, os, etc) with quite a lot of storage running Unraid, which is my media server, backup server, and now my lemmy server.
Network is a mikrotik Hex S router and a netgear gigabit switch, with 1gb fiber internet. 2 Ubiquity AP's for wifi in the house.
How do you secure your lemmy instance on your home network? I'm interested in doing it but I'm unsure if a reverse proxy would be good enough security. My other public facing services run behind traefik and authelia, but I figure you wouldn't want lemmy behind any auth for ease of use.
Mostly I am depending on reverse proxy yes.
Otherwise there's not critical data on the box that could cause a problem for me if the server was owned and everything exfiltrated. Worst case if I had to completely wipe the box it would be annoying but not worse then that.
A single MacBook Pro with a Core 2 Duo in, for now.
My main machine is an Optiplex 7070 micro (i5 8th gen, 16gb ram, 500gb SSD + 4TB hdd). I also have a pi 3 + 4tb hdd for backups and a pi 4 for wireguard. I have a few other SFF computers, but I don't have a use for them at the moment.
For services, I host many of the popular ones (nextcloud, portainer, paperless, etc.), but here's 3 I haven't seen mentioned a lot:
- komga (ebook reader, works well with tachyiomi on my tablet)
- kitchenowl (recipes and meal scheduling)
- calckey (activitypub server)
Noice, I've been meaning to setup something like paperless! Calckey looks like a good solution/alternative to Mastodon with an interesting user interface.
I haven't heard of the other two, but I'll definately check out kitchenowl, could use some more meal planning!
Intel NUC with a hard drive for local stuff (*arrs, jellyfin), but nowadays because I plan to go back to full-time motorhoming I fire up stuff on DO, hetzner, AWS, GCS, etc as required. At the moment just a Lemmy and general purpose instance, but I do pop up the odd gameserver I've dockerized on one of these services while playing with friends
Awesome! Yeah, my instances are currently running on DO, but it's pretty expensive hosting in the cloud when you have a lab at home. My internet here isn't very good though, that's the main thing stopping me from moving them on-prem.
Joe's datacenter & hetzner server auctions are good deals if you've got bad internet and want to run your own multiple smaller VMs! Depending on latency in the case of hetzner.
But yeah, hosting at home is always great. I did it for years, but electricity prices began creeping up and I got tired of the maintenance
Yeah, that's true, they do have pretty good prices. I like DO though because it's where I started and they have a DC not too far from me, so latency is very low.
- 3 used MSFF PCs (i5, kingston SSDs, 24GB of ram each). All running proxmox, set up as a cluster.
- 1x Raspberry Pi 4 8GB. Running ubuntu.
- 1x Vultr 2vCPU/4GB RAM instance.
I've got a small kubernetes cluster set up using Talos with 3 controlplane / 3 workers in VMs on the proxmox nodes. The vultr node is also running Talos and attached to the same cluster. Their KubeSpan feature is pretty neat, automatic full mesh wireguard between all cluster nodes.
Traffic inside the cluster flows seamlessly between all nodes, and I can even use it as sort of a proxy server using Cilium's Egress Gateway function.
Meanwhile my Pi4 is running k3s, to host a few services needed to operate the main cluster, such as the Harbor registry operating as a cache and a zigbee2mqtt instance because I have a raspbee2 for a zigbee adapter.
The main reason I'm using K3S even on the single node Pi is because I very much like using flux to manage the deployments on the servers.
Network wise, I've got a USG-3P, one of the newer compact 16 port POE switch. And a pair of UAP-AC-LITE for APs.
Maybe one day I'll get around to switching the USG for something a little more capable. And maybe capable of doing IPS/IDS on my 500M/100M internet connection. But no idea what kind of specs I'd need for that.
Would also like a NAS but... eh.. Maybe I'll just see if i can add more storage to the proxmox nodes and expand the ceph cluster or something.
Actually. Now that I think of it, I should probably diagram that out hmm. Anyone know any good tools for making that?
draw.io is one, I've started using LucidChart (personally) and https://d2lang.com at work for process diagrams.
Raspberry pi 1: pivpn, pihole Raspberry pi 3: home assistant Raspberry pi 4: some leftover docker containers.. move in progress Mini pc (1tb ssd, 20gb ram): arr stack, plex, audiobookshelf, vaultwarden, mealie, photoprism, and some more Synology NAS: 23tb
Documentation is only in my head so far...
I used to run 2 hp proliant servers. One Proxmox and one truenas. Now it's just one old AMD PC running Ubuntu server with some dockers. My electric bill is thanking me. About to move it all to an Intel NUC and downsize even further.
- Little servers - 3 x Pentium D-1508s w/32GB RAM, 2 x 400GB SSDs
- Big server - 1 x Dual Xeon E5-2650L v3 w 128GB RAM, 2 x 100GB SSDs, 2 x 400GB SSDs, 2 x 800GB SSDs, 8 x 4TB HDDs
- Desktop - 1 x Ryzen 5800X3D w 32GB RAM, 1 x 2TB NVMe SSD, RTX 4080
- Cheap TP-Link 10Gbps switch
- Proxmox running across the servers, the 400GB SSDs are running Ceph, everything else in ZFS
- VyOS in a VM for routing etc.., 2Gbps symmetric internet
- Mostly LXC at present, in the process of migrating that to Hashicorp Nomad (running inside VMs) backed by Ceph
On the big server, what do you use the assortment of SSDs for? I get specifically having a good chunk of solid state storage, but im wondering if you're like me and just acquired them over time, or if there's a specific purpose in mind.
Currently running a docker environment from a laptop with the following:
Firefly III - For budgeting
Seafile - For file sync. Was using OneDrive, but since it's not supported by Linux went with Seafile. Works great!
Keycloak - SSO
Cloudflare Tunnel - For connection to my services from outside without needing to forward ports, and to enforce SSO for platforms that don't support it.
PHP Apache - Hosting a few small websites
Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian. Nextcloud, Jellyfin, Citadel, Pi-hole, Webmin.
- Server: AMD Ryzen 5 5600, 16gb RAM, Slackware Linux, Nvidia GeForce 210, and something like 5 or 6 TB of space. Mainly used as a fileserver, but it also hosts my Matrix homeserver, some Fossil repos, and some other stuff.
- Desktop: Core i9-10850K, 64gb RAM, Slackware Linux, Nvidia RTX 3080, I think 2-3 TB of space, 4K monitor. It's a machine I originally got in 2003, and I've just continually upgraded myself in chunks it since then. There might be an original screw or cable left in it still - a real Ship of Theseus thing.
- Laptop: AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, 10gb RAM, Slackware Linux, 500mb SSD.
- Laptop 2: PineBook Pro with Slackware Linux.
- Bunch of Rasberry Pi 4s that are sometimes online, all running Slackware Linux. One's connected to a touchscreen inside of a 3D printed case and powered by a battery.
If you haven't guessed from the above, I use Slackware Linux 😜
I had old laptops until yesterday. I now have a Lenovo P330 Tiny that I'm making my current server. Any tips are appreciated.
- Protectli microappliance running pfsense with all my VLANS/ DDNS/ IDS and OpenVPN to connect home
- Some cheap Tp link 1Gbe managed switch (next on the upgrade list)
- RS1221+ 8 bay NAS with 60TB raw (used to hold media to serve Jellyfin as well as Proxmox VM backups)
- Intel NUC running proxmox (Home assistant/ Jellyfin/ Pihole/ Whoogle, etc)
- TP Link EAP 660HD AP (most recent upgrade, and very happy with it, previously had been using OpenWRT/ Luci on a R7800)
Also hoping to get a server style UPS soon, which reminds me, I have to go check if there's a homelabsales community here :)
In case you’re interested - pfsense has a plug-in that works just like pihole called pfblockerng it uses the exact same format as pihole lists too. I was already running DNS on my pfsense to this made more sense than spinning up a separate machine.
Nice setup, regarding protectli with pfsense, how much throughput do you get with intrusion detection set to on... Was wondering about protectli products and their performance. I can only make use of 1/4 of the bandwidth with my current thin client
I'm getting about ~800-900 Mbps down and ~15 up (a bit more than what I pay for). I did notice that when I saturate the sownly speeds, my CPU will max out and I'll start getting latency spikes to the point where the traffic stops on the network.
After looking into it and adding a buffer bloat rule/ limiter, I'm not having any issues. I guess that's the price of running IDS on 7 VLAN interfaces, but it's getting by. When I go 10Gbe I will definitely pick something a little more capable, but it's great for 1 Gbe
Thanks, I am paying for 1gbs up and down and wondering which Hardware would be good. Which protectli product do you have? I see some heavy price differences
I've got an aging Dell Optiplex microsff running OPNSense as a router on a stick, handling the house LAN. Then a HP Prodesk mini that runs containers on top of Rocky 9.
Free oracle ampere instance running Synapse and Onlyoffice DS for my Nextcloud instance, and Adguard Home (DoT&DoH) to block ads on the go. Not really homelab stuff, but relates closely... Probably going to set up a Lemmy instance on that one too, seems worth it if ARM is not an issue.
Going to try making a RPi 4B 8GiB + FreeBSD + 2 HDD ZFS mirror "NAS", though it's main usage is going to be local backups, mostly just sitting idle. Finding a powered 2-disk USB3-SATA disk housing that stops the disks properly (not with emergency head retract) has been surprisingly difficult. If anyone has suggestions for one, I'd be grateful. Probably going to have to write scripts to issue hdparm commands automatically when necessary.