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I reworked my servers a while ago to host literally everything through docker, managed via terraform.

All web-services are reverse-proxied through traefik

At home:

    loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus
    syncthing
    tinc vpn server
    jackett + radarr + sonarr + transmission
    jellyfin
    samba server
    calibre server

On a remote server:

    loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus
    syncthing
    tinc vpn server
    dokuwiki
    firefox-sync
    firefox-send
    vscode server
    bitwarden
    freshrss
    znc bouncer + lounge irc client + bitlbee
    an httptunnel server (like ngrok)
    firefly iii
    monicahq
    kanboard
    radicale
    syncthing
    wallabag
    tmate-server

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How much do you spend on the remote server on a monthly basis? Also, what's the hardware you use for the home server?

Remote server's a 20USD/month DigitalOcean droplet with 4GB memory. Though even half of that would also have specified for these services.

Home server's a Raspberry Pi 4.

s/specified/sufficed

..and note rPis don't have error checking memory and have disk errors all the time

Hmmm... With which filesystems?

it's an electrical issue (contacts on SD cards, voltage/thermal spikes, etc.)

Sure. I still wonder and it would be interesting to find out which filesystems is the most resilient under the conditions you describe there.

Prefab system images From Russia With Love, including password managers and surfing proxies, spun up on a VPS operated by totally unknown people (probably remoted to the actual DC from some place with bad water)...security nightmare. When I see Statue of Liberty sticking up out of the water on the shoreline, imma scream like Charles Heston! Need Congress/FTC to set guidelines. In mean time, know that you don't get all the benefits of that stack for "free", you're burning down future hours that will be in disaster recovery mode.

I uhh.. what?

I think it means he does not do any self-hosting.

opposite of correct

Was it hard to set up Firefox-Sync/Send? Last I checked, self-hosting these was undocumented and difficult.

It's not hard when you use Docker. Just spin it up and then use Traefik to route.

Sync's docs were a bit outdated, yes. Had to spend some time to get it up and running.

The config I ended up using - https://0bin.net/paste/gnWY4+Tn-jZ2UMZm#RgQfZ3uD7MIlK7nWKLLX...

It's deployed on docker, proxied through traefik.

Thanks, hopefully I can get this working myself.

I see you're using Bitwarden.

Does anyone have recommendations for password+sensitive-data management?

I'm currently using Keepass and git, but I have one big qualm. You cannot choose to not version-control that one big encrypted (un-diff-able) file.

Vault or Bitwarden are great for projects once they get serious - Unfortunately there isn't a one-size-fits all solution that doesn't suck in one way or another. Setting up vault is fairly non-trivial.

Bitwarden can be self-hosted and it's server is open source (and security audited, for what it's worth). I've used it for a few years or so and I've had no issues this far.

One other alternative to keepass is pass[1].

[1]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

You might like Pass [0] or GoPass [1] which had more features the last I looked at it.

They both store passwords/data in gpg-encrypted files in a git repo. I'm not sure what the state of GUIs/browser plugins are for it, but I'm pretty sure there are some out there.

You can also set up your git config to be able to diff encrypted .gpg files so that the files are diff-able even though they're encrypted.

[0]: https://www.passwordstore.org/

[1]: https://github.com/gopasspw/gopass

Yeah, I like Pass the most in this space, but it doesn't encrypt the index of logins/items that you're keeping. I.e. it's a folder tree of encrypted files, so you can see the sites, logins and other things that I'm using. That's kind of a deal breaker for me, though I'm pondering if I'm being practical, or just overly cautious.

Or stacks look so similar, it’s creepy. Thankfully, not running sync thing now.

What do you use instead?

Not him, but I'm gonna use this as a chance to plug unison[1]. I've been using it for more than a year now to keep files synced across more than 3 computers and it works flawlessly. It gets a tad slow to start propogating changes if you have too many files and a weak server (around 150k files, server has an Atom N2800), but it's not more than 15 seconds.

One nifty thing is that you don't need to run unison on the server ever, just have it installed. I have systemd units that I enable on my client machines and that does all of the syncing; unison connects to the server with ssh and does all the work there over that.

[1]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html

I've been wanting to give Ocaml a try and Unison source code seems to be one of the most popular reference applications for it.

Yeah, I too have noticed that. Haven't seen a lot of terraform usage for personal services.

What are the issues with syncthing?

Now running NextCloud

That is not an issue?

Have you considered moving from tinc to Wireguard?

I use both, and one thing I found that is sucky about WG is that it does not work well with the Windows firewall. I need to give full permission to an app to be able to access ip addresses routed by WG. Tinc does not have this problem.

WG also doesn't do dynamic mesh routing. With tinc, I can have a network path down, and my mesh will find it's way around it. Tinc is slower than WG, but I will take that hit for the benefit of availability. (my preference anyway)

One thing I noticed with tinc is that it does not take advantage of sysctl network tuning. I had to increase the network buffers for that dynamic routing to not make as much of a noticeable slowdown.

    Cipher = aes-128-cbc
    ClampMSS = yes
    UDPRcvBuf = 81920000
    UDPSndBuf = 81920000
    Compression = 0

Yes, I've been meaning to give it a go for a while now. Couldn't use it initially because of (then) lack of availability on BSD.

How do you like bitlbee?

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