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i just moved almost all of my containers (except for my omada controller) to my VM running fedora and podman off my VM running ubuntu and docker. why? i was in a product sales call (being sold to) and didn't have any actual work tasks to do during that time. Now there's an additional VM on the network.
Trying to decide if I'll move omada as well or just shift everything back. I shouldn't have fiddled with the stack while I was bored. A video game or something would've been a better idea.
I recently setup a full matrix server. What I am currently worried about is my server. I am currently shopping for a used dual Xeon server. I am hosting close to 40 docker containers on 2 1 liter PCs with very low specs. I would love to bring it all in house to a single server with a separate NAD which I do have currently holding 60 terabytes of storage space.
Was able to put calibre web on nixos. Still trying to build a package that's not available (piped), but boys is it hard to package java stuff for nixos...
A couple things I've been working on
First, I spun up a larger VPS to consolidate two smaller ones. This time I dockerized almost everything. Still a docker newb, but karakeep, redmine, mbin, lemmy (still deciding which I want), davical. Asterisk and postfix/dovecot are probably gonna stay on the vps root. I'm using zfs and compression. Interestingly, the postgres database that everything is using seems to get better compression than the mail spool.
A couple weeks ago I picked up a NetApp 7 bay disk shelf for $30. It uses fibre channel (AT-FCX) controllers and I've never used that before. I grabbed a $7 FC HBA (QLE2560), a 2m cable and an m2-to-PCIe adapter meant for an eGPU. The idea is to see if I can't get the RK3588 board I'm playing with to see it. I did something similar with a $50 Dell 12 drive bay and my old C6100.
Trying to get the right combo of iptables rules to shuttle traffic from vps to home lab server (as I think I'll need to do once my ISP upgrade puts me behind CGNAT for the first time...
Got it working sorta, but I didn't like seeing my vps private link address instead of the remote in logs.
I installed Jitsi Meet on my YUNOhost server and am very impressed. It works really well and needed basically no setting up after installing.
I have a question on top of my matrix setup. Has any one integrated VoIP? I am trying to bring all communication in house.
I finally bought a tiny PC to replace my aging APU border router/firewall (OpenBSD), so I'm trying to wrap my head around building a router currently inside the network that it will be protecting.
I have Debian installed as hypervisor, Incus, and sticking with OpenBSD for the firewall. pf makes too much sense to me too switch to firewalld. I'll also move the network-related containers off my main lab host once this is up and running.
How the hell do you get Wger working on http only? I always get the CSRF error even after trying their recommendations
Went through and verified that a number of things were backing up and updating correctly. I feel a little less weight on my shoulders knowing things are working as they should.
Finally found what's causing my laptop's DNS servers to change automatically in the background. It was the systemd-resolved FallbackDNS setting. Disabled it in a config and now I can access all my custom DNS names.
I know next to nothing about using the command line, so I’ve been relying pretty heavily on ChatGPT to set my stuff up and so far it has reliably helped me overcome every issue. The problem is, of course, that I often don’t even understand what the issue was in the first place so I don’t even know if the fix that the ai spits out is, let’s say, correct. I don’t really want to become an It expert, I just want to be able to host some services on my own to depend less on corps, is it alright if I continue to rely on the AI? Or do you guys think that I just have to learn this stuff or else I might mess up?
I don’t have great security concerns btw, my ISP doesn’t allow port forwarding, so I access my server exclusively though Tailscale.
I'd encourage learning. The more you understand the better you can control your data and maintain your services. You don't need to be an expert but I'd encourage working towards relying less on gpt.
Most of the stuff will somewhat work, but you'll introduce side effects sooner or later by using commands that might work but are not the proper ones and alter unrelated things. At some point those will likely bite you and you have no idea where it's coming from. I'd suggest to check at least what the commands you are copying are doing.
Weirdness: My Authentik instance had a PostgreSQL upgrade prerequisite in order to update it.
I'd followed instructions 3-4 times completely unsuccessfully and had to keep reverting to backup.
So, I gave up for a couple weeks and left it be in order to get over my frustration.
Yesterday, I followed the instructions again. As far as I can tell, I did nothing different than I'd tried previously and it worked first try and then I was also able to upgrade Authentik.
NOTE: The instructions aren't exactly difficult! So, I don't see how I'd have gotten it wrong!
NOTE: The instructions aren’t exactly difficult! So, I don’t see how I’d have gotten it wrong!
Dude, don't feel pregnant. It took me an embarrassingly long time to wrap my noodle around Caddy. Seriously, I just couldn't grasp what was going on in the Caddyfile. Then, after extensive trial and error, I happened upon one tutorial that changed everything. Now it's so simple for me, but at the time, I felt like a complete dumbfuck.
It's always crazy how that happens sometimes and after weeks of banging your head, everything just 'clicks' when you're exposed to the information in the way that works best for you!
Dude, don't feel pregnant.
Context clues, I assumed this autocorrect was some variation of crazy/bad/dumb? :-D
was some variation of crazy/bad/dumb?
No, no, no. I wouldn't call you crazy or dumb. It was meant as 'don't feel singled out' or 'don't feel like you're the only one'.
Sorry, I didn't mean to insinuate you were being insulting!
"Don't feel crazy/bad/dumb, I've had the same thing happen to me!" is a pretty common phrasing in my region to show sympathy and understanding and I thought that's what you had meant (and it sounds like for your area, 'pregnant' serves the same general purpose!).
“Don’t feel crazy/bad/dumb, I’ve had the same thing happen to me!”
There you go. As far as 'my area' I didn't grow up in the US or any particular area. I grew up around the world and multiculturaly, so there is no telling where I picked that up at. LOL