Hi ~bitdweller! Good to see you. ~bartender? A stout, please. Thanks!

Self hosting, you ask? Oh well. I do have a small system that is up 7x24h. It serves dhcp, dns, ntp, mqtt, smtp and imap, apt (apt-cacher), git (nginx/cgit), gemini (agate), mqtt, influxdb and grafana for nice graphs of environmental data, and even a much neglected nextcloud instance. Sounds like a lot? Well, not really. Accessible from the planet wide network are only 2 things: the gemini capsule as a onion service, and ssh access via a hidden onion service. And the gemini server has a publicly accessible copy on sourcehut.

Is that still "self hosting"? /me takes another sip.

I have toyed with the idea to setup another small system to serve as a family chat/messaging/picture-exchange server using freedombone/libreserver. But it has not become a reality, more so since I'm without a smart phone. /me stares a long while out of the window into the rain, that has washed away most of yesterdays snow. On the other hand, if I don't offer this family service, there is no chance for them to even try out alternative, self hosted services. I'm the "strange uncle" already "who is afraid of google", as they phrase it. But since I'm not on whatsapp or similar, I don't even hear much. Apparently email is too old fashioned and slow.

So yes, I do self host for myself and my wife. But that's about as far as it gets, I think.

For the records: the small system is a pcengines.ch APU2.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Bad Beatles joke in three... two...

Help me if you can I'm feeling like hosting a glass onion service.

~bitdweller wrote (thread):

Oh this is interesting! ~bartender, please, another beer. I'd like a pilsen now, and if you have somwthing with a hint of lemon, I want that!

I have never heard of the APU2 or pcengines, I'm not the most verses in this area. I'm using Rpis because that's what I know, also because there's more tutorials and guides around, a bigger (specific) community, more accessories and related hardware, at least more for me to find.

You self host a lot of things. So you're running your own email server? Does that work OK for you? Email is too critical for me to self administer and host. I move and travel a lot and, sometimes I won't have a permanent house to have the server on.

I'm thinking of having some stuff available on the onion network as well, so I won't need to mess with routers or tunnelling. Thats5a great idea, thank you :)