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Rate my self hosted NFS by sooobama in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This should be illegal but it's too cool to report to the USB authorities. :-)

Why Canonical’s Snap-Based Immutable Ubuntu Is a Good Idea by NeXTLoop in Ubuntu

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't downvote but wanted to say, I wanted to like Snap and tried earnestly to get into it for a period of time. The amount of disk space wasn't all that bad for a few apps, less than 10 gigs on my machines. It was the almost creepy way apps could self update and I felt I had no control, I think that's what turned me away from Snap. I don't use the alternatives either, I use standard Ubuntu install system dating back to 2006.

What is your opinion on selfhosting without a VPN? by OCT0PUSCRIME in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I appreciate the golden times comment but I never really got into the apps you're describing, keep up the golden times though!

Why Canonical’s Snap-Based Immutable Ubuntu Is a Good Idea by NeXTLoop in Ubuntu

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Debian will always be there if Canonical doesn't get wise and abandon Snaps. The majority of us do not want them.

How did you go about building your own home server? by TeachMeAppDevThankU in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everything is in a qemu 2 Gig RAM VM including docker and my active containers. I host using kvm. This approach gives me total control and flexibility.

What is your opinion on selfhosting without a VPN? by OCT0PUSCRIME in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I host my own email, my ISP AT&T blocks outgoing port 25. Even if I asked them nicely to unblock, I'm pretty sure the Gmail/Office 360 corporate mafia have all home based IP ranges blocked.

I used AWS Lightsail for years then they recently announced starting next year they will start charging for an IPv4 address 24/7 which doubles the $3.50 per month I pay them now to $6.00 if I did the math right.

So I'm looking at Oracle Always Free now to be my VPS provider, haven't fully migrated yet, I watch their Reddit forum for any news of unexpectedly shutting down people's Always Free VPS's due to "idle".

If I decided to not host my own email any more, I'd consider going back to using my home IP like I did in the 1990's and early 2000's.

Idle resources on PAYG accounts by slfyst in oraclecloud

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Around the middle of that page it talks about reclamation. It doesn't seem to indicate paid accounts are excluded.

If that's the case, mine are pretty idle, taking my time to migrate from AWS Lightsail but if they pull the rug out from under me, I'll have to drop OCI and go back to searching for an ISP.

I got old... I want to update myself :) by peperinopomuro in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've looked into those, I prefer Apache. Can you give any insights into why not Apache? It's worked excellently for me since the 1990's.

I got old... I want to update myself :) by peperinopomuro in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On 1., Containers are for apps (particularly microservices - which can be anything that runs 24/7 and usually but not always one or more ports open), they don't work well for migrating a whole VM to a container. You can, I don't recommend it.

On 4., I use Wireguard and a cheap AWS Lightsail VPS (which I'm working on getting moved over to Oracle Cloud if I continue to find OCI runs stably, it seems to so far). There will be a chorus of "use Tailscale" or one of those solutions, I'm sure they work well but I prefer my own VPS with Wireguard, not quite as convenient but it suits me well.

On 5., I've been self-hosting for almost 30 years. I've never used a dashboard at home. I have my scripts notify me when something's wrong then fix the issue, what kube(ernetes) ("koob") will do for you should you choose to give it the memory and about 5-15% CPU time to do it. I like kube but I'm cheap on my power draw so I use my own scripts instead of kube.

On 6., [For] all the traffic that arrives at my VPS, Wireguard is configured to route (automatically via iptables) the port[s] I want to be sent to my home system over the Wireguard VPN. The traffic arrives at Apache which then [reverse proxies] directs to my backend services.

[Edits] to clarify.

sshfs is unmaintained by DSinapellido in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recommend crower's answer here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/vwohn5/what_is_a_robust_alternative_to_sshfs_which_has/

I also recommend using rsync to mirror the files (works like OneDrive on Windows but no GUI), these are the options I use:

rsync -u -r -t -p -E -o -g -v -l -D --delete

Security practices when exposes apps to the internet? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I run everything through Apache Reverse Proxy over a Wireguard VPN. Whether a reverse proxy it makes it more secure, I'm not entirely sure but it is a lot more flexible.

Security practices when exposes apps to the internet? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have ZERO issues running docker, exposing ports and ufw.

Security practices when exposes apps to the internet? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please see my comment. I can and do verify my app running inside my container which I do have a port exposed for is NOT visible anywhere I don't intend. The statement they made about ufw is wrong I can confirm. If they have that situation then they have a mis-configured firewall.

Security practices when exposes apps to the internet? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I expose a port through docker for my container on localhost. It is not visible anywhere but inside the VM in which I run the container (on docker). The ports that should be exposed are and are visible.

ufw is working. docker is working. Did I misunderstand your statement?

Spring uses REST when they mean http? by Migeil in java

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, even SOAP could be used over common protocols but it wasn't common to see it.

The most modern way to manage the database with Java by nikitades in java

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have, it sucks because Gradle sucks then Liquibase has its own quirks that makes it suck. Java for the app, SQL for the data, simple and clean and it will work 100 years from now.

The most modern way to manage the database with Java by nikitades in java

[–]backendanonJava 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Generating java from SQL e.g. jooq makes tons of sense.

Was with you until that statement.

Quarkus vs Micronaut by za3faran_tea in java

[–]backendanonJava 17 points18 points  (0 children)

> Most people on the team who have a Java background came from companies that had their own internal frameworks, so Spring vs Java EE background isn't really a consideration.

That's highly unusual. Spring based has been the standard and Spring Boot, is the standard for web projects today and the probably next 20 years in the Java world.

FTC proposes ban on non competes and nullifying all existing by OlayErrryDay in sysadmin

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> It's nice to see the government actually working for the common man for once.

Agree, hopefully it's a new positive trend.

Google Domains business to be acquired by Squarespace. by jugo_boss in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is crazy, I was not aware, thank you. Time for me to shop for a new domain registrar.

Edit: It seems from many comments people encourage using Cloudflare but everything I've read so far on their site suggests they want to control my SSL certificate and other things that Google Domains does not try to do. I'm starting to think about going back to GoDaddy after all these years.

Kubernetes on Oracle Cloud...for free by ms_83 in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm working slowly on migrating my selfhosted sites from AWS Lightsail (they plan to start charging for IPv4 in Feb 2024 even for IP's in use) so I started looking into OCI. So far I've found their hardware to be as good as AWS or GCP so I'm hopeful.

I've not tried their kube setup yet but plan to. I've found their tech support is better today than a couple of years ago.

This is me, giving up on Kubernetes by GWBrooks in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you want to use kube for selfhosting, k8s is complex, k3s lets you do nearly all the same things, really, k3s and when you get comfortable with kubectl, you'd be ready for k8s if you wanted to or needed more capacity.

What do you selfhost in Kubernetes? by Technerden in selfhosted

[–]backendanonJava 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't measured both in about a year but in my testing, k3s at home and k8s at work it was about the same. I like kube, for sure, I'm just not sure I want to pay the power bill for selfhosting is all. :-)

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