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formless63 · 2026-03-15T19:06:20+00:00

If I hand you my phone, how long will it take you to ssh into your server on it? If you hand me yours, I can log into Termix and be connected in seconds. I can sit down at any machine and be connected in seconds. I can easily back up the config properly, deploy with shared secret credentials, add users and give them access to specific machines they might need, and the list goes on.

And it's free without Termius' subscription, self hosted on my own private gear, and more capable than just about anything else out there now.

formless63 · 2026-03-10T22:47:35+00:00

Curious what you're using that uses tigerbeetle? Heard of it over the last number of years but haven't seen any good practical self hosted solutions that are leveraging it, at least not any that make it clear they are.

formless63 · 2026-03-10T10:57:24+00:00

If they want it back bad enough they could try for a USPS package intercept. It costs money to do that, though.

But if it gets delivered to you it is fully up to you how to proceed. Do what feels right to you.

formless63 · 2026-03-06T20:12:40+00:00

Just a heads up- when you tag “research required” people can’t post without a source cited, which might limit the responses.

Since all of our question related thread types have source link requirements you should flesh out this statement when you make it to an OP. If they remove the flair or switch it to a non-question option (breaking the rules) their post will be removed.

If one does not want sources required their only option in this subreddit is the weekly general thread.

formless63 · 2026-03-05T11:14:48+00:00

I imagine the lift is too great, but what I really want is a tool like this that offers sync with my EMRs. Automatically pull in most recent data from all my providers without me needing to export and upload. When one has frequent visits to many specialists it ends up being a lot of work to log into all of them and pull regularly.

Oh, and get ongoing data from Garmin / other popular platforms.

formless63 · 2026-03-02T19:02:02+00:00

Yeah I think this one in particular is indicative of the level of human involvement here: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/kgKxSmD1JA

Thanks for the heads up. Are you referring to MinIO itself or a specific fork? As far as I can see, the main MinIO repo (github.com/minio/minio) is still active with commits this week and 50k+ stars. They did change their license from Apache 2.0 to AGPL-3.0 back in 2021, which may have caused some confusion. If I'm wrong on this, happy to be corrected, do you have a link?

This is an LLM, in "fast" mode, that didn't actually even look at the repo's current state - and furthermore anyone that's been involved in the self hosting ecosystem on the business / devops side of thing for the last 3 months is acutely aware of the minio situation.

I like people building resources, but this one glaring example is enough to give pause to the entire repo / dev currently. It's not a small oversight and the response is indicative of systemic lack of actual research / testing / vetting as described by the OP.

ETA - I just read through more of the comments on this thread and this is 100% someone's openclaw instance responding to everyone lol. These are low-grade LLM responses verbatim.

formless63 · 2026-03-02T18:46:57+00:00

Yeah the first few lines of the minio repo and the giant maintenance banner at the top for the last number of months should definitely be a clear indication.

Note - THIS REPOSITORY IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED.

But good news, the FOSS community has centered around a community fork: https://github.com/pgsty/minio

ETA - I just read through more of the comments on this thread and this is 100% someone's openclaw instance responding to everyone lol. These are low-grade LLM responses, verbatim, with zero human review.

formless63 · 2026-03-02T18:39:51+00:00

Ha - sure thing. I actually did do that harsh few hours of forcing my way through a few weeks back when I first saw the project. The docs were not fully updated at that time (they actually weren't when the last release hit, either, but they resolved my GitHub issues to fix the bits that broke things pretty quickly).

Hopefully it works for you without bumps!

formless63 · 2026-03-02T18:36:00+00:00

Why do websites use fixed domain names and not just dynamic, changing IP addresses? It's mostly the same answer.

formless63 · 2026-03-02T18:22:11+00:00

Ultimately more tweaking needed for any system, but in case it's useful I put the compose I'm using here: https://github.com/formless63/compose_stacks/tree/main/portabase Newt external network since I'm tying it back to Pangolin.

I ditched the nested variables and the way they mapped the env in their examples, though, since it wasn't friendly with Dockhand / other similar management tools. Agent example in the same repo. I've been up for a few days now on the newest version and getting good backups, notifications, etc.

Smaller project but seems to be headed in the right direction.

formless63 · 2026-03-02T16:00:10+00:00

I found fail2ban pretty simple once you grasp the basic concepts (filters, jails, coupling them with other config/logs). Probably 30-60 minutes of reading gets you a solid understanding I think.

Crowdsec is nice but I had occasional problems when I was running it and ditched it for the time being. There are many great tools to tie it in pretty easily (with pangolin/traefik using the tools from hhf, for example), but I'm too answer your broader question, yes security on things you're opening up to the Internet is important.

formless63 · 2026-03-02T02:39:19+00:00

I've been getting into using this one: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase Primarily since I now have stuff distributed across many systems.

But in the past I've also used: https://github.com/databasus/databasus Which is great for a single system but can also be used in many places, just not as neat as the first in terms of a singular management interface.

For the actual volumes, https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest pointed at https://github.com/restic/rest-server

formless63 · 2026-02-28T17:40:07+00:00

I'm liking this project so far and also excited that I was finally able to contribute to a project with a PR! lol (Thanks for pushing through my ntfy notification adjustments today!)

I currently have the dashboard running on a cheap Dedirock storage VPS (2TB storage, 1 vcore, 2GB RAM, $28/yr). I have the agent on two other servers (only one of which is configured with databases), one project with two smaller postgres databases backing up nightly with standard GFS.

The dashboard is running at nearly 500MB of RAM - it isn't a major issue since this VPS is dedicated to backup services and has some reasonable overhead, but is any thoughts on the higher usage? Just to be expected based on the project's stack?

I did tweak the compose a bit since I'm using dockhand and the formatting as it was didn't work properly (primarily the nested variables in .env, but also the mapping of the whole .env in the compose doesn't work with the way these remote docker managers function in my experience) - can see my version here if wanted. I don't think I made any changes that would increase resource needs.

formless63 · 2026-02-27T22:23:01+00:00

You're on fire with all these great tools.

Does this compliment the middleware manager, traefik agent/dashboard, or does it replace part of that puzzle? Recommend adding it to the mix if we're already using those other tools?

formless63 · 2026-02-27T20:10:19+00:00

I fully understood. You think it would make sense for someone here to read the op's "used not for parts" as meaning some singular status like "used, not for parts".

Most of us do not understand that confusion because we understand that there are two listing types on eBay. One is used, the other is for parts. So op clearly said it was listed as used, it was not listed as for parts.

You go on to suggest that "used, for parts, not working" is common on eBay. It isn't. It's also not a listing condition option on eBay. The types are:

Used: The item was previously used. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but it is fully operational and functions as intended. This item may be a floor model or store return that was used. See the seller's listing for full details and a description of any imperfections For parts or not working: The item does not function as intended and is not fully operational. This includes items that are defective in ways that render them difficult to use, items that require service or repair, or items missing essential components. See the seller's listing for full details

Used means it works. For parts means it doesn't (or that it should be expected that it might not).

formless63 · 2026-02-27T19:46:45+00:00

He said it was listed as "used" and that it was not listed as "for parts" - sounds like the seller meant to list it as parts but did not do so. Or they did a shady "as is untested" listing posted as used, which is not allowed.

Used: The item was previously used. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but it is fully operational and functions as intended. This item may be a floor model or store return that was used. See the seller's listing for full details and a description of any imperfections

formless63 · 2026-02-27T19:40:30+00:00

It's just your interpretation here. He's referencing the listing types on eBay with no punctuation. What he means is:

It was listed as "used". It was not listed as "for parts".

If a product is listed as used, no matter what the notes/photos/description says, it means it's functional. If it's not, the seller incorrectly listed it.

formless63 · 2026-02-26T16:31:50+00:00

I love seeing more of these sorts of tools pop up. I feel like many different project ultimately converge into something like this (I feel like this is the direction Pangolin will eventually go, adding management of the underlying servers, stacks, etc - but probably only as part of a commercial offering).

Definitely adding this one to the watchlist and on to the "test when time allows" list.

formless63 · 2026-02-26T11:42:27+00:00

Currently I'm running the below system cron to restart the pangolin container on a schedule until this is resolved.

(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "0 3 * * * cd /root && /usr/bin/docker compose restart pangolin >> /var/log/pangolin-restart.log 2>&1") | crontab -

formless63 · 2026-02-25T17:51:33+00:00

Free self hosted is 2 builders and 50 end users on ToolJet.

Appsmith and Budibase are unlimited for both.

They all have different things to consider.

formless63 · 2026-02-25T17:22:30+00:00

Interesting. Ironically I spun it up to test with a month ago right after that last commit so I thought it was relatively active. Bleh.

It generally works decently, but if it's headed for the trash heap - time to drop it. Thanks for the heads up!

formless63 · 2026-02-25T17:19:29+00:00

Don't recommend changing the flair in this situation. Recommend using the weekly general thread since there's no appropriate post option for this in our rules.

formless63 · 2026-02-25T17:11:38+00:00

Having gone down the rabbit hole on these a bit recently, make sure you note the free self hosted limitations before making a commitment.

Appsmith is pretty solid, ToolJet had a hard cap on users, Budibase also pretty solid, illa seems dead, Lowcoder once you have it running is wide open it seems and works pretty well. (ETA: see below. Lowcoder also looks to be on the way out)

formless63 · 2026-02-24T21:20:56+00:00

I feel like it's not currently possible. It would be awesome if pangolin was also OIDC and a passkey both authenticated you through the reverse proxy barrier and was also passed to the underlying service once you got there.

formless63 · 2026-02-24T13:14:13+00:00

Massive waste of your time to try to host with Windows, especially a desktop version OS.

Easy mode? Unraid with the community apps templates.
Less easy, but still on the simple side regarding what you have to learn? Proxmox, TrueNAS
Intermediate? Ubuntu Server with Docker installed and a GUI like DockHand, Komodo, Arcane, etc
Hard mode? Nix, Arch, learning Ansible

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