So I recently tried out OpenCloud and the experience has been... quite smooth. Easy to setup with docker compose, the webui is minimal and blazingly fast. The keycloak sso integration is pretty neat, too.

Went with nextcloud for the past few years and has been through all sorts of issues, constant crash and database corruption, and it's laggy as hell. Now I just want something simple, fast and reliable, and OpenCloud seems to do just that.

The major downside is lack of mobile and desktop apps (for now) , but it looks pretty promising to me. Have anyone else gave it a try, what are your thoughts?

I wrote a minimal iOS app called PocketServer (~1MB in download size) for creating multiple persistent local HTTP/WebDAV servers that can actually run in the background, simultaneously.

The WebDAV Server is Class 1 (Basic), compatible with WebDAV clients like CyberDuck (GUI & CLI).

There are already iOS apps for local HTTP/WebDAV servers, the reason I wrote PocketServer:

- Background HTTP/WebDAV servers that keep running even when you switch apps or lock your phone screen.

- A lightweight app you can download even on slow connections (1MB is 2 minutes on 2G) and dead simple to setup.

- Ramen for next month. Already covered, so maybe for the month after next.

Available on the App Store.

Pricing: core functionality is free, with no ads. You only need the Pro upgrade ($2.99 one-time purchase, no subscription) for extra customization.

Hey all,
I’m trying to move away from Google Photos and Dropbox and host things myself. Ideally looking for something that can:

• Auto-back up photos/videos from my phone
• Do some kind of face/scene recognition
• Sync files between devices
• Have a clean, easy-to-use web UI
• Be accessible remotely (securely)

I’ve looked into PhotoPrism and Nextcloud so far—wondering what others are using and how it's working out for you. Any tips or things to watch out for?

Thanks!

Hi all. Trying to decouple our house from so many US based services and hopefully setup more control running ourselves.

I’m testing out ebook servers. Well actually we want to setup ebook and comic servers but we think we might have to run separate ones.

So far Komga seems to be the best for comics but ebook management is basic.

So we have Kavita and Calibre-web automated setup. Kavita seems ok but needs a particular setup for the folder structure.

Calibre web seems the best I think? Which do you prefer?

But for all these, you need smtp to setup the send to e-reader setup that my wife wants. What’s the easiest way to do this? I have proton mail but only plus so I don’t get smtp. Is there shutter good service?

Also I need to tag our books better. Is there a good mass tagged or is it best to do in calibre desktop?

REDDIT DISCLAIMER 👹

Edit 17.04.2025 14:43 CET

Since I’ve received now several comments about the tag structure. Images like traefik will link directly to their own docker image. You don’t have to use 11notes/distroless:traefik, this layer is meant if you want to build your own image. To use distroless and rootless Traefik simply use 11notes/traefik:3.3.5 which has its own repo

I’m honestly fed up with all the bad security practices that float around on this and other subs in regard of container images. So, I decided to start converting my already rootless images to distroless.

Why should you care about any of this? Well, container security is just like any other IT security, it should be done according to best practices. A lot of image publishers have zero of that. They aim for ease of use and don’t bother about the attack surface of the images they publish. They simply can’t be bothered to invest the time and effort in trying to create something that works and offers the best security possible. If you do care and you would like to switch and image you are already using for a more secure one, then I hope I’ve already created such an image or I can create one for you. Keep in mind that not every application can be converted to distroless, but most can, and if not, they can at least run rootless, unlike our s6 friend used by some people. Here is a brief overview of the main repo, you find the source at the bottom as well as all my other images (almost 100 so far).

SYNOPSIS 📖

What can I do with this? This image and its different layers can be used to build a distroless boiler plate for your application. Simply add the base layer and any additional layers (tags) with the stuff you need to run your application. All binaries are statically compiled and do not depend on any OS libraries or clib. The base layer contains Root CA certificates as well as time zone data and the user configuration for root and docker. Additional layers (tags) with statically compiled binaries are:

• 11notes/distroless:curl - curl
• 11notes/distroless:dnslookup - dnslookup
• 11notes/distroless:lego - lego
• 11notes/node - node (11notes/distroless:node for quick spin or build layer)
• 11notes/adguard - adguard (11notes/distroless:adguard for quick spin or build layer)
• 11notes/adguard-sync - adguard-sync (11notes/distroless:adguard-sync for quick spin or build layer)
• 11notes/nginx - nginx (11notes/distroless:nginx for quick spin or build layer)
• 11notes/traefik - traefik (11notes/distroless:traefik for quick spin or build layer)
• 11notes/distroless:tini-pm - tini-pm
• 11notes/distroless:cmd-socket - cmd-socket
• 11notes/distroless:socket-proxy - socket-proxy

Each tag has sub tags like latest, stable or semver, check the tags available for each binary. If you need more binaries, open a PR or feature request. Some of the images have their own dedicated container images to run the applications within, simply check the link for the source and explanation on how to use them.

These images are meant as direct competition to very popular images which come with almost no security in mind! You can also check out my not-yet distroless images which are all rootless.

SOURCE 💾

• 11notes/distroless

Hi everyone! I tried a few self-hosted cloud IDEs and wrote an article about them. VS Code via code-server, Jupyter Lab, JetBrains Gateway, and Zed are included.

I have excluded coder.com. It is a great option, but it was a bit more involved to set up, so it feels more like a company-wide tool than something you would want to deploy quickly for a solo project.

Let me know if something is missing. I'd be happy to include it in the overview.

https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/unsaas-your-stack-with-self-hosted-cloud-ides-9cb41d7ea924

Hey everyone!

Thank you all for the amazing support Papra has received, you guys really motivated me to keep working on this, it feels great to see people interested in the project

Today, I’m excited to announce the release of Papra v0.3! This is the first major feature release since the initial beta launch.

For those who are new here, Papra is a minimalistic document management and archiving platform (similar to Paperless-ngx), designed to be simple, intuitive, and accessible to everyone. Think of it as a digital archive for long-term document storage.

New features in v0.3 include: - Auto-tagging rules: Define per-organization rules to automatically apply tags to documents based on their content and filenames - Folder ingestion: Automatically import files from a folder on your server (lot of you asked for this) - Upload status popup: A new status popup to show upload progress, completion, or any errors. - Improved trash management: You can now manually empty the trash directly from the UI - And various other improvements and bug fixes

I’ve got plenty more features and ideas in the pipeline, so stay tuned for future updates!

The links:

• Announcement blog post: https://papra.app/blog/papra-03
• Github repository: https://github.com/papra-hq/papra
• Live Demo: https://demo.papra.app
• Self-hosting documentation: https://docs.papra.app/
• Discord community: https://papra.app/discord

Feel free to try out v0.3, provide your feedback and/or suggest new features, I'll be trully happy to hear from you

Thanks again for all your support!

Sorry for the scattered information.

My uncle died in a motorcycle accident last night(please skip the condolences, I appreciate it but I have heard them 4500 times today).

One of the significant issues I am going to run into is he ran the email server for me, my mom, my grandparents, his sister in his basement. Everybody uses this as their primary email and is going poof would be problematic.

As the former second and current smartest tech person in the family, it has fallen on my shoulders to not let this become a problem.

What the hell do I need to know/do? I am across the country and am flying out Monday and will have 3 days to grab whatever I need but I do not have physical access to the hardware until then. The web version I use is through roundcube. I looked at my settings through my email program and its a SMTP Server. We do all login with out full emails but on his domain. So if my email is isolatedhippo@oogabooga.com I go to mail.hisdomainheuses.com to login with isolatedhippo@oogabooga.com as the username

I'm in the process of getting rid of an old sFTP server and would like to just spin up a basic website to serve the files so we can download them without having to setup an sFTP client. My only "complex" part is I need to require authentication, preferably via SAML / SSO but a basic username/password would work as well.

Ideally it wouldn't even need real webpages and we could just go to files.mydomain.com/filename.exe, be prompted for a login (or SSO'd in), and then file would just start downloading.

I already have a Proxmox server running, so a VM or LXC is preferred as opposed to a 3rd party hosted solution.

Is there something already built for this purpose or a guide that someone can point me to?

Hi - I am on Synology. I am trying to get Mealie installed using https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-mealie-v1-on-your-synology-nas/

After i install I cannot connect. I notice that the container for Mealie is unhealthly. The error it shows is:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/mealie/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 174, in _new_conn conn = connection.create_connection( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/opt/mealie/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 95, in create_connection raise err File "/opt/mealie/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 85, in create_connection sock.connect(sa) ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/mealie/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 703, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/opt/mealie/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 398, in _make_request conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw) File "/opt/mealie/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 239, in request super(HTTPConnection, self).request(method, url, body=body, headers=headers) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1338, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1384, in _send_request self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1333, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1093, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.12/http/client.py", line 1037, in send self.connect() File "/opt/mealie/lib/python3.12/site-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 205, in connect conn = self._new_conn() ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hey everyone,

A little while ago, I shared ProxTagger, a simple web UI I built for bulk managing Proxmox VM/Container tags thru the API.

Just pushed a (small) update to ProxTagger adding Docker support for easier deployment. This is part of ongoing efforts to make the project more accessible for everyone.

What's New

• Docker images available at Docker Hub
• Includes a sample docker-compose.yml for quick deployment
• Configurable PORT via environment variable

Should be easier to test or deploy.

Always happy to have some feedbacks or feature requests !

Edit: added a small description of the project

Not having a lot of hope for this one but I thought I'd ask.

Do you know any webmail client with IMAP capability and really good search? By "good" I mean able to search recursively down subfolders, reasonably fast, and hopefully also capable of some advanced criteria, like being able to match at least To/From/body.

For context: I have a backup of all my email synced continuously to a dir on my server. Currently it's about 6.5 GB in 60k files (plain text email format, one message per file). I've managed to slap an IMAP server on top of that dir and it serves the whole thing as a big mailbox, with the accounts as folders at top level and then everything in each account.

I'm currently using that archive from a desktop email client (Claws Mail for Linux) which can do advanced search very fast so I'm kind of spoiled. But I'd like to be able to access and search the archive when away from my desktop.

I don't need the client to send email or function as a real mail account, just to be able to browse an IMAP server, search for messages, and display emails properly (including ability to download attachments).

I’ve been juggling a bunch of residential projects lately and it’s getting messy keeping track of estimates, invoices, and client messages. I found https://contractorplus.app the other day and it looked pretty useful, lets you send invoices, track expenses, even manage subs and clients from one place. I’ve only been testing it for a bit but it’s been smoother than my spreadsheets so far.
Just wondering if anyone here has used it long-term or found something better? Open to other tools too, just trying to stay sane with all the moving parts.