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Welp, that’s not the direction I expected my search to take… Learned something new today.

Haha heck no, at least not in my case. It’s not impossible to just stumble on the domain. An infinite monkey sorta thing.

I get frequent login attempts from Google servers too. I got the impression they offer a SaaS service some script kiddie uses to attack home assistant installations.

Make sure passwords are unique and activate incorrect login bans.

For backups, I have my usual local copy, but I also have technologically befuddled parents who I “help” with a server running Pi-hole (and other security), their local backups, and we each host remote backups of each other’s servers. Works pretty well for us.

As for heat, I mostly use low power equipment, but moved some docker containers to a more powerful server that only warms up when accessed.

I lost a raspberry pi for a couple months. Just couldn’t find the darn thing. It was working fine serving away.

Turns out it was in the basement. I forgot I moved it to be closer to my tilt Hydrometer.

I used to name systems after Star Trek ships, but switched to Farscape characters ages ago. Now I’m doing more practical names based on function.

Oh thanks! I didn’t have the group_add.

I finally got around to installing Jellyfin. Still trying to get hardware transcoding working. I think I have it set up, but it still wants to use the CPU. I’m thinking permissions but I ran out of time.

Fun project.

I use Intel too and had a heck of a time getting things working with portainer. Turns out portainer only worked with Nvidia (at least the version I used when I set it up). If I spun up the container via terminal, it worked.

I think a newer version may have added compatibility because I don’t remember jumping through hoops with Immich.

It’s the oldest, but not the most powerful. Not everything I host sees a lot of activity. But things like Plex/Jellyfin/Immich found their own hardware with better GPU support, and serious A/V or disk intense processes have a full spec PC available. There is also a remote backup system in place so a couple containers are duplicates.

Server 1: 5 containers Server 2: 4 containers Server 3: 4 containers Server 4: 61 containers

Basically if a container is a resource hog, it gets moved somewhere with more resources or specialized hardware.

I had an Ubuntu system ate itself Christmas Eve at 1am. I think an update pooched some folder permissions and wiped the firewall settings.

It started with “Huh, the network drives won’t mount”, progressed to containers failing to start with “hardware not found” GPU-related errors -oh yeah, I still have to check that and make sure it is working- and yadda yadda… 13 hours later I got services back up and running.

Oof, today I slept in until 10. Ahhhhh…

Man, I wanted my Zoraxy migration to go smoothly, but it’s been stubborn as hell for me. 80% of my services transfered well, but a couple docker containers don’t like it and never got letsencrypt wildcard dns up and running; always an error. Still working on that in my spare time.

Yahoo! Congrats to the Immich teams and developers!

Bingo. I’ve used Synology for ages and while they dont last forever, I get a lot of use out of them and re-buy them usually with an upgrade in mind.

But the new hard drive policy broke that cycle. I don’t put up with that. I replaced one with a UGreen NAS last month. It’s too early to tell how I feel about it. Docker is there and containers spin up pretty easily. Rumor has it there is hardware support for video encoding too, though I haven’t gotten around to testing it.

Even though there are some cloud services like remote server management, proxies, and 3rd party integration, I do actually have to run the software myself on my hardware. Hence, self hosted.

I have the same sensors, but on many windows. If I have windows on either side of the house open simultaneously and there is a favorable temp difference outside vs inside, an automation turns on an air exchange fan. If they are closed, I use advanced heating control

I get what you are saying, but in the case of the internet, you need an IP address to connect rather than simply exist with a computer. Someone needs to know where to send the data.

There are however free connections: unsecured neighbors wifi, city wifi, hotels, and even busses/trams. Lots have limitations to hogging bandwidth though.

First thing that comes to mind is a mechanic’s stethoscope.

like this

Edit: basically 8adger’s screwdriver trick but I have one in my Kit of Resourcefulness™

That’s the route I took too. NAS for storage and simple docker containers, Minipc for compute/GPU.