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Dirk , in I'd like an easy install for a lemmy instance
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It's absurdly complex and annoying and lacks proper documentation.

There currently is no sane way to deploy it via docker since it needs half a dozen of different containers and volumes and networks to barely work at all - overwriting/ruining your already existing setup while doing so.

The cleanest would likely be setting up a VM where you set up docker in and let Lemmy do whatever it wants.

haui_lemmy , in I'd like an easy install for a lemmy instance
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Lemmy, although in a very well working state, isnt really deploy ready. The update procedure is a mess, the documentation is less than stellar and accessibility/onboarding for wannabe admins is rough to say the least.

You can find a compose file on github and you will need to make a config file for the instance with your domain and all on it.

A one click install sure is doable but most people who are able to do this quickly are very busy or wont do it for free.

walden , in I'd like an easy install for a lemmy instance

Lemmy is little too complex for a one click install.

Lemmy consists of:

  1. Lemmy
  2. Lemmy-ui
  3. Postgresql
  4. Pict-rs
  5. Probably something else I'm forgetting.

Each one of those has a number of environmental config options that need to be set before running it all. You need a domain name so that other instances can reach your instance. Your database needs a password, Pict-rs needs to know where to store things, etc.

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perishthethought , (edited ) in I'd like an easy install for a lemmy instance

I hear you. I just yesterday tried the docker apporach and gave up after the fourth error occurred during startup. I'll watch this thread and hope for a simpler solutionfor a mere mortal to follow. (Edited)

walden ,

The docker instructions are a hot pile of garbage, unfortunately. The referenced docker compose file, for example, is for installing via Ansible I think. There's another Docker Compose file somewhere in the GitHub which is formatted for regular installation.

NullGator , in Thumb drive heating up

UNRAID is designed to run off a USB drive, they have recommendations on what USBs to buy on their site, might be worth a gander. You should be able to write all the info on your current USB to the new one without having to reconfigure anything.

Untitled4774 , in Easy metrics dashboard for multiple systems?

I use Homepage for something similar to this

codemichael , in Easy metrics dashboard for multiple systems?

Check out Netdata

flubba86 , in Self-hosted diary

Trillium is a full featured configurable and programmable self-hosted note-taking app that can be easily configured to suit the use case you're describing, it does categories, tags, links to other topics etc.

gandalf_der_12te , in Use a spare router as a server
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The problem is that they're not really made for this task, both in hardware and available software. They typically specialize in routing and switching, but have insufficient internal hardware (memory especially) to run a full-blown OS.

So whatever you install on these devices, will probably not give you all the features that you would like to have. (For example, a full linux command line with all the typical programs installed.) Also, it doesn't allow you to use HDMI to connect to a monitor, so there's that. But basic linux things can be done on it, if you figure out how to get to the command line. But it's very limited.

SteveTech , in Make my IPv6 selfhosted service available on IPv4 network.

If you can't get the VPS to work, alternatively there's Cloudflare but last I checked streaming was a little out of their free terms. With it, you should just have to set your AAAA record and make the cloud orange, that way Cloudflare will proxy it, and IPv4 will work. There's also Cloudflare tunnels which lets you host websites without port forwarding anything.

Omgboom , (edited ) in Easy metrics dashboard for multiple systems?

Btop running in multiple ssh sessions lol

Edit: lol you said "easy"

Longpork3 ,

This is actually how I do things when working on remote machines. I have far too many monitors, so dedicating on of them to a handful of btop/nvtop terminals works pretty well.

I admit that it's a less than perfect setup though, and a single program which could handle the remote connections internally and display an aggregate would be nice.

Cupcake1972 , in Use a spare router as a server

Start by looking here https://openwrt.org/toh/

peregus , (edited ) in Easy metrics dashboard for multiple systems?

Question: why don't you crate your own Grafana dashboard? Do you have too many servers?

dataprolet OP ,
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I don't want to configure a whole Dashboard for at least CPU, RAM, Storage and Network for up to 5 hosts.

__init__ ,

You’re likely not going to find a premade dashboard that does exactly what you want, but grafana is extremely powerful if you’re willing to put in the time to learn it. There are ways to visualize things across hosts without having to configure things separately for every host. If you’re using the same mechanism to scrape metrics from each (sounds like you’re using prometheus + node exporter?), this could be as simple as adding a by (node) (or whatever the label name is if it’s not node) grouping to the query on each panel.

nexas_XIII ,

Exactly this. We use node exporter, Prometheus, and Grafana at my place of work to get node metrics across our K8s cluster for CPU, memory utilization, file system space, etc.

You’ll have to do some searching and tweaking of existing dashboards, but Grafana is crazy good

Evotech ,

It's not that bad. Grafana has a lot of features for this.

SquiffSquiff , (edited ) in Self-hosted diary

Zim desktop wiki? I've used it for years. Cross platform, open source, lots of features. Bear in mind that there are a lot of plugins, including one specifically for journaling

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