Have I went overboard? Any suggestions? Or help? I travel a lot and don’t have a lot of time when I am home to setup and configure.

I’m using Cloudron on Linode for some things because I have StarLink and haven’t figured out how to connect via internet to my LAN yet. I can use VPN with the router but it seems wonky.

2 NAS

2 Raspberry Pi’s with DNS servers

Raspberry Pi with HomeAssistant

Separate NVR for cameras

Several Docker containers on one of NAS

A Raspberry Pi with DietPi. a 1TB attached drive and Docker Containers.

Cloudron on Linode for when I’m away from home.

  • key
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    211 year ago

    Using IP and port to connect? Definitely not going far enough yet!

    • @thanatosOP
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      How else would I? Not exposing it to the WAN and with StarLink, VPN is the solution. Though not a network guy either.

      • shnizmuffin
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        81 year ago

        Subdomains with traffic routed through a reverse proxy listening on 80 and 443 (HTTPS everything with certbot SSLs) with a dynamic DNS client updating your DNS provider whenever your IP address changes.

        • @thanatosOP
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          01 year ago

          I don’t think that works with Starlink (CGNAT)

          • @[email protected]
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            IIRC you can use DNS challenge behind a CGNAT, but you still wouldn’t be able to access the system remotely. But you could use Tailscale for that, or Headscale on your VPS. You could also put a wireguard server on your VPS.

      • key
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        31 year ago

        Private DNS within your Lan and your choice of proxy to remap ports

  • Big P
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    181 year ago

    Honestly if you haven’t the time to troubleshoot issues you might struggle to keep all of those up and running

    • @thanatosOP
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      11 year ago

      The NAS stuff has been running almost a year now. Even had enough time to migrate it from the 220 to the 923. I said I didn’t have a lot of time, not no time. ;p

    • Scew
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      01 year ago

      Why I haven’t delved back into any persistent self-hosting yet.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I would recommend Tailscale for connecting to the home network. You could run it on each box if running it on the router is wonky.

    • ferret
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      71 year ago

      Zerotier also works well and is more flexible in my experience

  • @bulwark
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    Looks cool dude. Have you tried using Traefik on docker? You can name your service like https:// homeassistant.thanatos instead of 192 .168.1.1:8080.

    It’s pretty cool and it can even handle SSL certs.

  • @ChrislyBear
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    51 year ago

    I had UrBackup running for 6 months+. It wasn’t reliably backing things up, configuring it to be accessible via Internet is almost impossible, adding clienta is a hassle and the config isn’t very user friendly.

    Furthermore I got the inpression, that it’s backups aren’t reliable; restoring files without UrBackup might be impossible.

    That’s why I’m now back at a incremental rsync backup script. It’s reliable, you can just restore things by copying them back via ssh and it uses a lot less space (!!!) than the UrBackup backups.

  • @chanunnaki
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    51 year ago

    Overboard? If anything, you haven’t gone far enough

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    You’ve gone overboard when you’ve had experience with most of the software on the awesome self hosting lists

  • @urvy
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    21 year ago

    For VPN, PiVPN is super easy to setup and use. I dont even have a static IP with my ISP but it works like a charm with DynDNS, I use no-ip but there are plenty of options.

    • @thanatosOP
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      21 year ago

      I actually went and messed with openvpn again and got it working great with the router.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    TeamViewer is really nice when you’re on the road a lot. That way if you need to hop in and change something, you can do it from pretty much anywhere.

    • @rambos
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      231 year ago

      TeamViewer is good until they decide its not personal use anymore. Better go for AnyDesk or even better RustDesk if you need remote desktop. But why not just wireguard or tailscale?

      • @SheeEttin
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        Or when the platform gets compromised and they refuse to admit it and blame the customers instead

      • @please_lemmy_out
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        Yup, if you just use a couple different IPs in a given time they will arbitrarily mark you as requiring a license.

    • @ChrislyBear
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      Nah, use Mesh Central 2! It’s free, you can self-host it and using a little agent you can connect to any machine from it via console or even via a desktop interface without bothering with VNC etc.

      https://www.meshcommander.com/meshcentral2