workshops/slides/selfhosting/selfhosting.md

Selfhosting

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Why should I selfhost?

• Privacy
• Security
• Freedom
• Can be cheaper
• To learn

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Hardware

• Any PC can become server
• Mini PC
• Single board computers (RasperryPi, etc.)
• Desktop
• Enterprise

Storage

• More than one hdd
• SAS vs HDD vs SSD vs NVMe
• RAID, RAID controllers

CPU

• Xeon
• Rizen

UPS and APC

Backups

Network

• Router
• Switch

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Software

Linux containers (LXC) vs Virtual Machine (VM)

Server Managers

• Proxmox
  • static ip on install
  • raid
• XCP-ng

Container and Managment

• Docker
• Kubernetes (k8s)
• Portainer
• Lilipod

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Network

• Pfsense
• OpenWRT

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Security

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Services

• Dmz Services
• Proxmox comunity scripts

Popular

• Home assistant
• Jellyfin
• Adblock
• LLMs
• Libredirect

Tools

• Nginx and SSL
  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Caddy
• VPN
  • Wireguard
  • Open VPN
• SSH
  • disable password login
  • ssh jump
  • local port forwarding

Dashboards and analytics

• Dashy
• Homepage
• Grafana

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Licences

• Copyleft
• Permissive

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