It took me some time to learn Docker, but it's so elegant that as soon as You learn it - it works like a charm.
I thought I'd bring my skill forward and create HA cluster with Kubernetes (I was so excited to run my small WordPress blog in HA mode). I've chosen K3s for simplicity. That'd be cool I though and it actually was, for brief moment. It was amazing feeling - starting an application, scaling it and seeing how it spreads across all nodes with single click of the button. Persistent storage with Longhorn was super easy to setup and I was really optimistic.

Reasons - I've quit the idea:
It's not all that easy as i though. To scale WordPress , for instance. You can't just change replica values to 3 of the WordPress database, it won't work. So You'd need separate storage redundancy solution for database, otherwise Kubernetes cluster makes no sense. Networking is more complicated, but not that bad to tackle it, at least in a simple way and having external reverse proxy / load balancer.

Quite a gap: Sad that there is quite a big gap between Docker and Kubernetes. I've tried Docker Swarm, but I could not even find easily configurable persistent storage solutions (It's a single line command to install Longhorn on Kubernetes). Otherwise (without proper storage solution) - I could just spin two identical apps in two different hosts and load balance them externally, good enough for home environment and make sure to backup stuff to my NAS.

Wanted to have a sleep: after couple of times, finding myself in front of Kubernetes Dashboard past midnight. Even though tackling with Kubernetes is very interesting - I've realized I can't sacrifice other things for it. I have my day job and family to take care of. In addition - it's so interesting, that it's bad for You social life.

General thoughts:
If You have not yet become a grumpy family guy - go ahead and play around with as many tools as possible at Your home lab. In future - You simply won't have that time. And who knows - You might find Your new career path.

I'm looking to ditch streaming services and self host. My plan was to use meshnet for accessing remotely once I have a music library big enough to make it worth cancelling Spotify. What is the best way to build the music collection (legally)? Is there a way to purchase digital copies of albums or tracks that can be stored anywhere and anyway I want or would it be a manual process of ripping physic copies? Either option is fine by me

Not sure what to do next. I'm building a home setup to test various LLMs and gain hands-on experience with custom built gear. I want to run Llama 3.1, Hermes 3, Qwen 2.5 Coder

My specs:

- Intel Core i7 13700
- RTX 4090
- SSD NVMe 1TB

Any other options I should be aware of? And how much did you invest in your current setup?

I wanted to make a static informational website for a small niche hobby of mine. I'm currently using google sheets and it's not quite as user friendly as I'd like, since the people using it usually aren't that tech savvy. I'd be shocked it got more than 10-15 visits a month, but I do expect somewhat consistent use. I like the idea of self hosting and learning the process from start to finish, but I don't want my ignorance to cause a bigger headache than it's worth.

Additionally, if the answer is "yes but with contingencies" I'd love to be pointed in the right direction. Even if it's just a simple "go learn about XYZ first". I have absolutely no idea where to start in regards to security.

Edit: Thanks so much everyone. I'll likely go with Cloudflare Pages/GitHub for now while I learn more about self hosting. I definitely have quite the list to work through now.

And is there a list of what's available for each image?

Hey everyone,

I'm on the lookout to replace my Nextcloud galeries with something more bespoke closer to a Google Photos alternative, and I'm concerned about the Immich license change, have you guys tried Ente ? It seems to be very similar in features but I wanted some opinions on it.

So currently I running my website on wordpress.com using premium account and its asking me to pay extra for an upgrade to a business account for me to add a custom template which I want to buy from a 3rd party side. Also I can't even add plugins without upgrading.

I am planning to transfer my domain and hosting. Got a lot of recommendations to use GoDaddy.

But I need a professional advice on which is the best place I can transfer my domain and also has the flexibility of customising my website and also add plugin without breaking my wallet

Hey folks! 👋

I've been running my homelab with Nginx as a reverse proxy for quite a while, using self-signed certificates for local domains. While this setup has been working perfectly fine, you know how it goes with homelabs - there's always that itch to try something new and learn!

Recently decided to give Caddy a shot and documented my experience in this blog post. The main changes were:

• Switching from Nginx to Caddy as the reverse proxy.
• Moving from self-signed certificates to automatic SSL certificates via Cloudflare.
• Using actual TLDs instead of local domains.

The migration was surprisingly smooth, and I'm really impressed with Caddy's straightforward configuration syntax. It's definitely more concise compared to Nginx (though I still have a soft spot for Nginx's flexibility).

I'm curious about your setups: - What reverse proxy are you currently using? - Have you ever switched between reverse proxies? - If you did switch, what challenges did you face during the migration?

Would love to hear about your experiences and maybe learn some tips and tricks I haven't discovered yet!

Hey guys ! I’m looking for a self-hosted advent calendar, if possible…is there such a thing out ?

I am setting up a headscale self hosted instance. It is my ip going through duckdns (example.duckdns.org) and I am trying to get the duckdns domain certified to use https. However for some reason the autocert doesn’t seem to be working, and I can’t find the output logs. If possible how would I be able to get autocert to work or do I just need to create my own certificate

(In addition whenever I connect to my listening port through the public ip and the port 8080 it says sent a http request to an https server and when I explicitly use https it says couldn’t establish a secure connection)

Jellyfin 10.10.3

 services: jellyfin: image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest container_name: jellyfin environment: - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 - TZ=Etc/UTC - DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/intro-skipper/intro-skipper-docker-mod 

Lyrics:

• Which clients support song lyrics?
  • Lyrics are shown on the web player but not on Finamp (0.6.25)...

Intro Skipper:

• Doesn't work on Android when using integrated player.
  • But it works when I set "Video Player Type" to Web player, but then everything is transcoded.

Any ideas?

I am using Maintainerr to clean up my media on my Plex server over time, and it works perfectly. Recently, I installed Watchlistarr, which makes requesting movies and shows from the Plex watchlist really convenient.

The issue is that when Maintainerr removes a file, Watchlistarr adds it back because it's still in the watchlist.

Has anyone managed to find a way to make both apps work together?

Need help finding an app for scheduling teachers with children in a child's home. Something like timetabling at school, only on a smaller scale. The idea is that the children's home has several children who require classes with specific specialists (such as a speech therapist, psychologist, etc.). The children's home has received funding to organise such classes and a prerequisite is that a report is provided on the hours worked with the children. Usually, specialists are flexible and activities take place largely spontaneously, but a report is required.

Specialists are available on a weekly basis at specific time slots (may be different each week) and they conduct activities with the children. Each class can be individual or group. A list of specialists' hours and each child's occupancy with classes each week is needed. The report does not have to reflect the actual dates of the classes, but it is important that classes cannot overlap (for the same professional or child). It's mainly about the report, but such an app would also help tutors to plan activities to be more thoughtful.

I was asked to help prepare something like this. At first I thought I could do it in Google Sheets, but I failed. I searched the internet for existing solutions but to my surprise found nothing.