innercitadel

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[–] innercitadel 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I run 4 websites on my one VPS, and 2 websites on another more restricted cloud container service. Three wordpress, one DICOM server and viewer (radiology image database), one moodle, and one complex git mediawiki setup. Plus some sandbox stuff. Get about 10,000 unique views a day in total across all sites.

I don't know enough about network security to run that safely nor how to get great uptime at home as I run it all single handed and my day job has little to do with computers (am a medical doctor). I do expose some docker apps to the internet that run on my home server but they are only used by friends and family.

When I've needed temporary simple static web pages I've used jekyll on github pages and found it great.

[–] innercitadel 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah OK, I might have assumed wrong then that running a server on ARM is a little trickier. Never done it. Only ever used nginx for my websites on my VPS. Don't want to deal with the security and uptime headaches of running my websites on my home server.

[–] innercitadel -4 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Hosting personal websites on your own hardware is such a pain, and I would imaging doing it on a rpi would be even more of a pain than on x86 architecture. If at all an option I'd recommend hosting on something like github pages or better still on a VPS.

[–] innercitadel 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the two OPT ports isn't working but could be user error. I was thinking of setting up LAGG through the two OPT ports in the future, so that may not be possible, but probably overkill for my use case anyway. But otherwise it boots and works fine. What about from a security standpoint for coreboot vs intel bios?

[–] innercitadel 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mid 30s, healthcare worker but I suppose I'm a tech enthusiast. Use windows on work computer due to needing a few windows only programs for work, Unraid on my NAS, and Ubuntu on my VPS. So I guess 1 and 3 are true and half of 2.

[–] innercitadel 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh cool. I'm going to try the temp sensors. Thank you!

[–] innercitadel 2 points 1 year ago

I installed ducted air con and instead of having a separate system for ventilation, for cost effectiveness I routed it from the outside through the air con system. So the aircon pulled the air from both the return vent in the house (90%) and from the outside (10%). You only need a small amount of mechanical airflow from the outside to reduce moisture levels. And had another vent hole with cover on the soffit for future but not ducted into the air con.

[–] innercitadel 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What is something simple to start with if getting into HA? I already have a NAS.

[–] innercitadel 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have an unused Pi4 4GB model lying around, I might try run HomeAssistant on it. Sounds like a fun project.

[–] innercitadel 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you have any old x86 computers lying around?. I am running a NAS serving a dozen docker containers and a VM on an ancient 4th gen intel cpu. I never got into the home assistant stuff but maybe I'll also give it a go! I use PhotoView to share photos with family through CloudFlare zero trust tunnel.

[–] innercitadel 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Positive pressure is definitely not as good. But if you plan ahead you can always modify into a balanced system later. In my last house when I installed positive pressure I also added an additional vent in the soffit in case I wanted to turn it into a balanced system in the future. But the positive pressure solved the condensation problem so didn't end up upgrading to balanced. You could also do balanced without mechanical heat recovery.

Maybe as an experiment try blow a fan pointed out an open window and see if it makes any difference to the humidity?

[–] innercitadel 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Oh that's a slightly different thing I think. It is referring to ventilating the attic with the outside. Not ventilating the attic with the living space which is what the DVS/HRV thing is. Ventilating the attic with the outside is generally a good thing for various reasons. I might have messed up the terminology. But I don't think attic ventilation between the attic and outside will solve your problem.

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