I’ve never had so much fun self-hosting. A decade or so ago I was hosting things on Linode and running all kinds of servers for myself but with the rise of cloud services, I favored just giving everything to Google. I noticed how popular this community was on Reddit/Lemmy and now it’s my new addiction.
I’m a software engineer and have plenty of experience deploying to AWS/GCP so my head has been buried in the sand with these cloud providers. Now that I’m looking around there are things like NextCloud, Pihole, and Portainer all set up with Cloudflare Zero Trust… I feel like I’m living the dream of having the convenience to deploy my own services with proper authentication and it’s so much fun.
Reviving old hardware to act as local infra is so badass it feels great turning on old machines that were collecting dust. I’m now trying to convince my brother to participate in doing hard-drive swaps on a monthly basis so I have some backup redundancy off-site without needing to back up to the cloud.
Sorry if this feels ranty but I just can’t get over how awesome this is and I feel like a kid again. Cheers to this awesome community!
EDIT: Just also found Fission and OpenFaaS, selfhosted serverless functions, I’m jumping with joy right now!
Haven’t looked into it too much other than running wireguard to get around CG-NAT. How hard is it to deal with SSH certificates when setting up your own hosting?
Managing certificates is fairly easy with let’s encrypt and certbot. Just get a free subdomain from duckdns and give it a try. The only thing I wish I knew earlier is, that you don’t need the whole snapd thing to install certbot, like they tell you in the official Dokumentation, but can just install it from the debian repository (and I assume the same goes for Ubuntu)
How do you get around CG-NAT with wireguard. I dont know much about that, but when ISP enabled CG NAT on my service my wireguard stopped working. I fixed that by asking them to turn it off, but would be nice to know whats workaround. Duckdns was running all the time in docker container, but didnt work with CG NAT
I had to do a fair bit of googling but it was something like https://www.vultr.com/docs/set-up-wireguard-vpn-on-ubuntu-20-04/
This guide was also great: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
Basically I got a $6 a month vps (with $250 credit for some reason) and configured it to be a tunnel to computers on my network that ran Web and community radio stuff.