In the What are YOU self-hosting? thread, there are a lot of people here who are self-hosting a huge number of applications, but there’s not a lot of discussion of the platform these things run on.

What does your self-hosted infrastructure look like?

Here are some examples of more detailed questions, but I’m sure there are plenty more topics that would be interesting:

  • What hardware do you run on? Or do you use a data center/cloud?
  • Do you use containers or plain packages?
  • Orchestration tools like K8s or Docker Swarm?
  • How do you handle logs?
  • How about updates?
  • Do you have any monitoring tools you love?
  • Etc.

I’m starting to put together the beginning of my own homelab, and I’ll definitely be starting small but I’m interested to hear what other people have done with their setups.

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    I use a cloud VPS at a state-owned datacenter in Vietnam (the army indirectly runs it). All things considered, they’ve been actually quite good, I’ve been a customer for several years now. Ping from my home or workplace is very low (under 10 ms). I get 4x vCPU / 2GB RAM, and 40GB storage (most of my self-hosted stuff is pretty lightweight).

    Most of my self-hosted stuff is just plain packages, but I wanted to learn to use Docker and Ansible for Lemmy. Other services I sometimes run are an MQTT broker, and a few databases for logging data.

    Logs go to /var/logs (there aren’t many). I update software manually and often-ish. I’ve tested, but do not regularly use orchestration tools.

    I’ve considered hosting at home, because a symmetrical fiber connection is ridiculously cheap here. The only reason I don’t is because I need to have a VPS for client work anyway, so I may as well just use that and save the $$$ paying for a static IP at home.