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Any recommendations for my Homepage setup or services to add/replace?
Just speak to me like I’m a dumb person, but what the hell is the point of hosting proton stuff? I’m a proton user and never once has this thought ever crossed my mind. What am I missing out on?
I'm not hosting Proton, these are just links on my homepage. Things I'm hosting have the dots next to them or say (self-hosted) in the description.
1% CPU usages, 50% RAM usage. That checks out.
I'm guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.
I have similar stats on my server. I have ~40 containers running (some are duplicate because I am to lazy to combine all PSQL servers). And since I am the only user, most of them are idle for a lot of the time.
Correct, most of that is ZFS cache. All of my containers are barely using 2-3GB.
Nice setup! I particularly like the kitchenowl deployment - it's such an amazing tool and relatively unknown.
One suggestion: the title header says "Family homepage", yet the page contains admin tools that none other than you will ever use. I noticed that all this "admin clutter" was so off-putting that it kept others from actually using the dashboard. I've therefore created another homepage instance that showcases user-facing services only. It makes the UI much cleaner - and users more likely to actually find the services they may be looking for.
Ooooo good idea. Maybe I'll do that. The categories are collapsible too so I had put admin tools 3rd so on mobile you'd have to scroll passed the rest of it to see admin. That is for the suggestion.
I'm always at awe when people do this for their home like I've been managing infra for almost two decades and don't have even quarter of the things some people install and manage. It looks overwhelming to be honest.
I've been managing infrastructure for over 3 decades and I don't have this.
I have something like homegrown pihole (dnsmasq with block lists) , jellyfin, qbittorrent and nfs/smb share. Everytime when such a post appears there is this irrational desire to create cool monitoring and homepage and homeassistant. Never materialises into anything, after all there is always emacs that requires tinkering if needed. :3
I can recommend Heimdall as a quick scratch for that itch. Not big on monitoring, but a great landing page for almost no effort.
Get crackin'. LOL For me, it's a toss up between Homarr & Homepage. I went with Homarr which can do some of the metrics like Homepage, but Homepage has all the candy.
can you share the config?
How are your backups doing?
I only backup specific folders in my NAS and some of my service DBs. I have test restored some files from Backblaze without issue. With Backblaze you pay for pulls, so I only chose to restore some small files to test restoral. TrueNAS encrypts the data before it goes to Backblaze and then Backblaze also encrypts the data in the buckets on their end, so double encrypted. I don't have another on site copy so not really following the 3,2,1 rule. I figure RAID and an off-site backup is enough for me.
This is such a good way of organizing services. Thanks!
Yeah, Homepage is great.
It is. I've tested a couple other solutions but I've been staying with homepage for a while now. I am satisfied.
The most difficult part of homepage is trying to search if someone else has difficulties/ideas with it, outside of its github issues.
100%, trying to get my local icons to show up was a pain in the ass, turned out to be a permissions issue on the storage. I didn't want homepage reaching out to the web for icons.
I’m in the early stages of figuring out self hosting. This is beautiful
That’s pretty sick, kudos!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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Looks great OP! If I hadn't chose Homar long ago, it would definetly be the one I'd use. Homarr will do some metrics like Homepage. What kind of 3d printer do you have?
I have a Prusa Core One+ that I just got and built recently, don't have anything for it on the homepage. Then the Octoprint is on a Pi 3B plugged into my Prusa MK3S+. I've been trying to sell the MK3S+ because I don't have room for them both, but not getting any takers.
Prusa Core One+
That's a nice one. I was gifted a Raise3D Pro2 Plus. It is very useful around the farm.
How do you find dockge over portainer? I tried it but it uses more resources and i couldn’t individually start/stop apps in a stack. It was all or nothing.
How do you find dockge over portainer?
I've used it briefly, and then went back to Portainer. I had no real complaints about dockge, other than I could drive the Portainer bus more efficiently and it just seemed to fit my flow. There are quite a few here that use dockge tho, so it must be a capable app.
I only recently started using it, honestly couldn't say. I've never used portainer. I just started using dockge because that's what the guide I was following for the arr stack was using. Still haven't finished the arr stack setup yet. I did stand up changedetection with dockge though because trying to set it up in TrueNAS was a pain in the ass when trying to get it to play with playwright correctly.
Are you hosting a calendar?
Honestly I would love to, but getting my family off of all of the other corpo cloud stuff is still a work in progress. Also, I only have VPN access configured currently so when they need to access self hosted stuff remotely they have to remember to turn on the VPN and that seems to be hard for them to remember. I have Tasker configured on my phone so it just auto VPNs when I leave my house. I would set that up for them, but they complain whenever I try to help.
Sounds like you need always on VPN with IP specific routing rules
Unfortunately Homepage only works with ical, for those of us using a caldav server. 😭
That looks awesome.
I want to set up something like this as well, I just don't have that much free time
Any recommendations on getting music and podcasts? I'd like to self host my current Spotify list to dump that service too
Could you point to how you get something like this started?
I run Home Assistant on a RPi4 but have a capable computer I would love to use for self hosting, especially immich.
Look into docker containers in general. If I was going to start from scratch in your position this is what I'd do:
Install a Linux distribution on the computer you plan to use for self hosting. I found Debian with the KDE plasma desktop environment to be pretty familiar coming from Windows. You could technically do most of this on Windows but imo self hosting is pretty much the only thing that a casual user would find better supported through Linux than Windows. The tools are made for people who want to do things themselves and those kinds of people tend to use Linux.
Once you have a Linux distribution installed, get docker set up. Once docker is set up, install portainer as your first docker container. The steps above require some command line work, which may or may not be intimidating for you, but once you have portainer functional you will have a GUI for docker that is easier to use than CLI for most people.
From this point you can find the docker installation instructions for any service you want to run. Docker containers have all the required dependencies of a given service packaged together nicely so deploying new services is super easy once you get the hang of it. You basically just have to define where the container should store it's data and what web port you want to access the service on. The rest is preconfigured for you by the people who created the container.
There's certainly more to be said on this topic, some of which you would likely want to look into before you deploy something your whole family will be using (storage setup and backup capability, virtual machines to segregate services, remote accessibility, security, etc). However, the above is really all you need to get to the point where you can deploy pretty much anything you'd like on your local network. The rest is more about best practices and saving yourself headaches when something breaks than it is about functionality.
Look up some youtube videos on self hosting. For Immich I just mostly followed their guide on their site. Really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.
I honestly don't understand the need for bentopdf. Why is hosting PDF manipulation useful?
You basically get all of the things an adobe subscription would get you for free? Also, I'm on Linux so no Adobe anyway. It all runs in the browser so no need to install software.
How does Bento compare to local tools such as PDFSam?
Yeah, I see the tooling and it seems nice. I've always used the CLI tools and scripts I've built over the years to get this done, but having unified functions in one place is great.
I just don't understand the hosting part... Is there an advantage to having it hosted rather than in a local appimage or flatpak? Maybe I'm misunderstanding the premise....
Well the dev built it to run in a container image. You'd have to ask them why that was their choice instead of making an app that can be installed. The dev is on Lemmy, they've posted before. Shoot them a message.