I thought the subreddit might find this interesting. I came across this thread on X:

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1856450468945506615

After a ridiculous back-and-forth with the Grocy developer (who called me "stupid AF" after I deleted a post on Reddit [A question with a one line answer that probably wouldn't have helped anyone else] and continued to insult me, I decided to look back at Tandoor and Mealie instead.

So my question to you all is: What are your developer horror stories in the Self Hosted world?

Conversely, are there any apps that are so good that you are willing to overlook a difficult, vocal developer?

Hello everybody, Daniel here!

We're excited to be back with some new updates that we believe the community will love!

As always before we start, we’d like to express our sincere thanks to all of our Cloud subscription users. Your support is crucial to our growth and allows us to continue improving. Thank you for being such an important part of our journey. 🚀

What's New?

🖼️ Custom Preview Image

Allows users to set a specific preview image for links, making them more visually distinctive and personalized.

🎨 Custom Icons for Links and Collections

Thanks to Phosphor Icons, users can now assign unique icons to both individual Links and Collections, each with thousands of unique combinations.

ℹ️ New Link Details Drawer

We added a new drawer to display a full view of Link Details, Preserved Formats, and Additional information.

🛠️ Customizable View and Adjustable Columns

You can now customize what to view and adjust the number of columns.

🔄 Browser Synchronization

Special thanks to Marcel from Floccus, you can now sync your browser bookmarks with Linkwarden using Floccus.

• Floccus GitHub Repository
• Floccus Chrome Extension
• Floccus Firefox Add-on

↗️ Open all Links under a Collection

Allows users to open all links under a collection in a new tab.

🌐 Added many more Translations

Thanks to all the contributors, we now support the following languages to make Linkwarden accessible to a broader, global audience:

• 🇹🇼 Chinese - Taiwan (zh-TW)
• 🇳🇱 Dutch (nl)
• 🇩🇪 German (de)
• 🇯🇵 Japanese (ja)
• 🇧🇷 Portuguese - Brazil (pt-BR)
• 🇪🇸 Spanish (es)
• 🇹🇷 Turkish (tr)
• 🇺🇦 Ukrainian (uk)

👥 Reserve more Seats

Cloud subscribers can now add more seats and invite users who aren’t on Linkwarden from their billing page. Learn more about managing seats in our documentation.

🔗 Editable Link URL's

Users can now directly edit link addresses without needing to create a new entry.

🐳 Smaller Docker Image

The Docker image size has been reduced by around 50%, optimizing storage usage and making deployment faster.

✅ And more...

Check out the full changelog below.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/compare/v2.7.1...v2.8.0

If you like what we're doing, you can support the project by either starring ⭐️ the repo to make it more visible to others or by subscribing to the Cloud plan (which helps the project, a lot).

Feedback is always welcome, so feel free to share your thoughts!

Website: https://linkwarden.app

GitHub: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

Read the blog: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.8

I host an internet radio station for my local town on my server using azuracast. In order to have minimal maintenance but stay relevant and useful, I wrote a script that takes the API from weather.com and creates a weather report for my local area. Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think!

Radio Station (Fair warning. I love christmas, so it's christmas music in the morning and evening right now):

https://mvrc.intellidwell.net

Weather Report Script:

https://github.com/TannerNelson16/radio_weather_report

For people that care about privacy and selfhost as much as possible for that reason, how do you handle offiste backup for some important data such as your private files and photos?

From what I understand it's best to keep some offsite backup in case of floods/fire/etc, but I am curious how everyone do that, for example do you backup your files periodically to zero knowledge cloud providers like Proton/Mega/Sync/pCloud/etc

Or do you encrypt your files (which requires you to safe keep a lot of different passphrases/passwords) before backing them up to any remote storage?

(I'm asking this as I'm backing up something to b2 with rclone crypt, but damn, it is so slow or maybe my *****u is just too old)

I maybe have no right to aks because I’m still learning, but I’m really interested in figuring out how to host a homelab basics workshop with friends. I run a small organization that even has budget for a few pis and other infrastructure and would love to learn with my community. Does anyone have any thoughts or links to resources that could help us learn as a group irl?

I just wanted to check how you guys are accessing your selfhosted services from outside of your network.

Of course many services do offer their own login system - but not all do.

I know this question not very specific as many of you are using a mix of the options.

I'm personally using nginx with authelia. However, many people prefer using VPN or tunnels.

I'm just interested in seeing what you are using.

Hello,

I’ve been looking into using Caddy as a reverse proxy for web app development, but I’m having trouble installing a certificate that the browser will accept. I’m starting to wonder if it's even possible without pointing a public DNS to the development machine. Is the only way to get rid of the browser warning to install a root certificate on each device I’ll be working with? Has anyone had experience with this?

Hey all,

For those of you that do not know this project, I had made some previous posts here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ffqop2/tududi_v019_a_personal_task_management_system/

tududi is a task and project management web application that allows users to efficiently manage their tasks and projects, categorize them into different areas, and track due dates. It is designed to be intuitive and easy to use, providing a seamless experience for personal productivity.

This a big update of the UI layout as well as for the main features. I moved the views from server rendered erb files to a full ReactJS frontend with tailwind CSS support, making it fully responsive.

There are also now Task, Projects, Notes, Areas and Tags management pages among others.

And still, it can be setup with only one command.

If you're into productivity experimentation or you simply want to create some order in your life, feel free to try it.

https://github.com/chrisvel/tududi

https://www.reddit.com/r/tududi/

Thanks!
Chris

Everyone talks about how easy it is to spin up cloud instances for new projects, but I wanted to try something different. I bought an M1 Mac Mini on Facebook Marketplace for $250, set it up as a home server, and launched my project last week.

Figured you all might be interested in some real-world performance data:

• First 48 hours: ~3k sessions from users across US, Europe, Australia, and even a user in Cambodia added some listings
• *****U stayed under 10% the whole time (M1 chip is seriously impressive)
• Memory usage remained stable
• Monthly costs: about $2 in electricity

Nothing fancy in the setup:

• M1 Mac Mini
• Everything runs in Docker containers
• nginx reverse proxy X CloudFlare dynamic DNS
• Regular backups to external drives

Yeah, there are trade-offs (home internet isn't AWS global infrastructure), but for a bootstrapped project that needs time to grow, it's working surprisingly well.

Wrote up the technical details here if anyone's curious: link

[EDIT] we did it! haha this post apparently found the ceiling and the servers now down. Trying to get it back online now

[UPDATE] it's back online! Absolutely bone headed move: made too strict an nginx rejection policy last night

I have some old email boxes that have grown huge over the years. I was thinking of using something like imapsync and would like to have an imap server running locally withthout having to be connected to anything as it wont be sending or receiving any mail.

I just want to get all my emails, sort and archive and once done, pull one last time via imapsync and then mirror the box to the remote account... or something like that.

Ideas? I looked into dovecot, but damn the configuration is overwhelming for newbie.

There's a lot of great video playes that run as a stand-alone software - VLC, SMPlayer, IINA, and many, many more.

Why the market for embedded, browser-based players is so slim? How about rich keyboard integration? Easy picture rescalling, adjusting, etc? How about subtitles integration, with custom file loading, opensubtitles integration, delay customization? All the software that I saw has only play/pause, wonky slide bar and a fullscreen button.

Anybody familiar with a feature rich, browser-embedded video player?

Been searching for a while and haven't quite been able to pin anything down. As the title says, looking for a News Aggregator where I can filter keywords. Some things I just don't want to see (eg. Kardashian). Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

I have implemented crowdsec, with some specific collections like vaultwarden, ssh and nginx, and a firewall bouncer. It works(worked) fine. I recently moved my DNS to cloudflare, and started using their proxy functionality. Does it make sense to still have crowdsec enabled? My guess is that any decisions (such as blocking an IP due to wrong credentials in vaultwarden) will simply block one of cloudflares IPs, right? Should I disable the specific collections and just leave the default crowdsec ones then? Completely disable it? Leave it?

Hi, I use Debian for both desktop and server use. The distro was chosen specifically because I value stability over new features, as I prefer spending little time and effort on maintenance beyond running updates once a week. I have a VPS hosting small websites and internet-facing applications for personal use, and a Pi for torrenting. Recently, I became interested in switching from Debian to FreeBSD or OpenBSD for my servers, because I read that they adhere more to the Unix philosophy, thus apparently simpler and more consistent than Linux distros. I also read the file system they use (ZFS) is somehow better. Beyond those, I'm not sure of any meaningful advantages of switching for my use case. I'm also torn between FreeBSD (probably has more support/features) and OpenBSD (probably has better security). What do you guys think? Sorry if it's a loaded question; I'm just a self-hosting amateur 🙏.

I set up a Synapse server, and put it behind a Nginx reverse proxy, which in turn is behind Cloudflare(not sure if this is relevant) The configurations are as follows:
homeserver.yaml:

pid_file: "/var/run/matrix-synapse.pid"

listeners:

- port: 8008

tls: false

type: http

x_forwarded: true

bind_addresses: ['::', '0.0.0.0']

resources:

- names: [client, federation]

compress: false

database:

name: psycopg2

args:

user: synapse_user

password: password_here

database: synapse

host: localhost

*****_min: 5

*****_max: 10

log_config: "/etc/matrix-synapse/log.yaml"

media_store_path: /var/lib/matrix-synapse/media

signing_key_path: "/etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.signing.key"

trusted_key_servers:

- server_name: "matrix.org"

nginx config:

server {

listen 443 ssl;

listen [::]:443 ssl;

# For the federation port

listen 8448 ssl default_server;

listen [::]:8448 ssl default_server;

server_name domain_here;

location ~ ^(/_matrix|/_synapse/client) {

# note: do not add a path (even a single /) after the port in \proxy_pass`,`

# otherwise nginx will canonicalise the URI and cause signature verification

# errors.

proxy_pass https://192.168.86.118:8008; # This is on a separate machine, so not using localhost

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

proxy_set_header Host $host;

# Nginx by default only allows file uploads up to 1M in size

# Increase client_max_body_size to match max_upload_size defined in homeserver.yaml

client_max_body_size 50M;

# Synapse responses may be chunked, which is an HTTP/1.1 feature.

proxy_http_version 1.1;

}

# listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain_here/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot

ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain_here/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot

include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot

ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

proxy_read_timeout 300;

proxy_connect_timeout 300;

proxy_send_timeout 300;

}

However, when I use Element with only the Matrix HQ room added (and it was added ~6 hours ago, so it should have had time to sync), many requests either 524 (timeout) or 502 (invalid), mostly to the sync and messages endpoint. When I look at the Nginx log, I get lots of the following:

connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream and upstream prematurely closed connection while reading response header from upstream. In the log, the upstream is correctly requesting from 192.168.86.118:8008.

In the Synapse log, there are lots of issues looking up DNS records for various homeservers, and some about a timeout on other homeservers, resulting in a failed request, but I can't find much online about it. Here is an example of the timeout message:

Request failed: PUT matrix-federation://149segolte.dev/_matrix/federation/v1/send/1731465138047: TimeoutError('')

This all results in Element loading for ages, and never loading a single message from the single room I joined. I also am unable to join any other rooms, as it results in it hanging. Both machines have plenty of resources, and aren't even close to using up the available *****U or RAM. It's completely unusable in this state, and I would greatly appreciate help troubleshooting it.

Edit: I should mention I am running synapse via the Debian packages on a Proxmox container (with nothing else running on it), and using postgresql. I didn't take any special steps with postgres, I only created the database and enabled the synapse_user to connect.

I'm aware that these models can be intensive and I'm not sure if my hardware can handle it with a basic setup at home:

• Laptop: Intel Core i3-10110U, 16GB RAM, Intel UHD Graphics 630, no fancy GPU for me
• Storage: 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD
• OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Docker experience: total beginner

Been hearing about these uncensored AI models like AnonAI or Venice. So I'd love to host one for fun. I've looked into some possible solutions like use lower-res models to make the most of my *****U, or use GPU sharing platforms. Would love to learn from ur exp, thanks

I work with a few video game streamers and video producers as a hobby project and I host our raw recording repository. Video files in it are usually 5-10 GB a piece with a few outliers in the 15-20 GB range.

We are doing a lot of short form video content these days and I'm looking for a solution so they all don't have to download an entire clip to pull a 15 second clip from it.

Ideally it would be something like a web-based surveillance tool has, functionality wise - the ability to allow playback on a long video source and provide simple clipping of the video straight from the browser and download the clip to use in their offline video production tools.

I don't really need anything fancy here - we already have a solid upload pipeline in place and I'd ideally just point this tool to look at a single directory, do some basic indexing of the files in it, and present the videos to the user for review and clipping.

As the title says I need to receive ~1 million (and maybe more in the future) emails a day. I then will need to trigger scripts to process these emails. (I can't read that fast). I am presently using SES for this, but that has turned out to be quite pricy ($100 a day). It seems like I can host my own email server, and most of the pitfalls of doing that are related to sending emails, which I don't need to do.

I have done some reading and it seems like there are many email servers (developed in various decades) which offer a variety of features, most of which I don't seem to need. It's unclear what kinds of volume these applications can handle, and what kind of resources they would need.

Any advice or recommendations are welcome. I'm happy to give more details on my requirements if needed.

Hello ! I'm looking for an AI i could use on my PC for coding small projects mostly in Python. Do you guys have any suggestions ? Thank you.

Warning there are some tall-ass images in this post.

A few years ago I got mad enough at the temperature gradient in my town house that I designed and build a bunch of ESP8266 sensors to feed data into an RRD so that I could have some pretty graphs to be angry about as well. (As of this week I have also started logging stats from my UPS and server.) Using the minimum of HTML and CSS I threw those graphs, a map of the previous day's incoming network traffic, and some convenient links onto a homepage that I use on all of my devices. At a glance this tells me if the furnace/AC is working, if my server is having a fit for unknown reasons, and if the local power grid is playing it fast and loose with the voltage and frequency (which I suspect they do).

Clicking the temperature/humidity data leads to a long term data page covering 2 years of data in varying resolution. The gap last fall was when the garage sensor failed and I was waiting for Aliexpress.

There are also long term trends for the server load and UPS but they have only been logging for a few days so there is not much to look at.

Clicking the map on the home page leads to a text file containing a summary of all incoming traffic to apache and ssh. The ssh server is on a high port number and doesn't see much traffic but occasionally a persistent bot will find it.

Everything but my landing page (this animation in p5.js https://old.reddit.com/r/cellular_automata/comments/1djwjbu/waves_processingorg/ with the text "Hey this isn't where I parked my car" overlayed) is behind basic auth or better and I have push notifications set up for every ssh login (even my own), in 5 years I have never had a successful login from an attacker, this is not an invitation, have mercy.

All the data is gathered with python scripts and stored in RoundRobinDatabases or, in the case of network data, digested down into a CSV. The climate sensors respond to requests on port 80 with the temperature and humidity separated by a comma to allow for easy polling. The map is generated by looking up the IPs' information on Shodan then plotting the location data if it was present.

Absolutely none of this is the ideal solution, there are existing projects that cover literally every aspect plus a dozen extra features I could never hope to implement. I wrote as much as I could from scratch just to see if I could, it's more fun to drive a shitty car that you built than one you bought from the dealer.