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Looking for advice on getting started with Self Hosting (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24823173

Hi folks, looking for a bit of steer to get off the ground with self hosting. My goals to start with are pretty straight forward:

I want to set up Home Assistant to move my smart devices off the cloud and fully contained within the walls of my home.

I want to set up my own little Pixelfed server for my family's use, along with some other federated socials.

From what I was looking at, I think my easiest route to doing both of these things is with a Home Assistant Yellow (built-in Zigbee and Thread system) with a Raspberry Pi 4.

I've never done anything like this before but I'm interested in learning. If anyone more experienced has any insight or direction, I'd really appreciate it! Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Yes! Mostly having a plan on how to make your service reachable in the internet while keeping the rest of your local stuff shutdown.

Many people recommend cloudflare, but I don't think it's necessary. If you get a public IP from your ISP, it's relatively easy with dyndns. Personally, I have a virtual machine running nginx as a reverse proxy and configured the router to forward port 80 and 443 to that machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Cool! Good to know! Will definitely be back to this post to follow up once I make some prog!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Try to stay away from exposing applications via proxy or port forwarding. Learn how to use Tailscale and use applications via VPN instead. It installs on any pretty much any device, so it's not difficult to keep everyone behind the walls and not leave any backdoors for the barbarians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Op mentioned pixelfed for several people though, is it possible to reverse proxy through tailscale from a VPS or similar? It's probably not suitable to have a service for several people behind a vpn

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