DetachablePianist

DetachablePianist , 21 days ago to Selfhosted in Alternatives to CloudFlare?

If for personal access only, ZeroTier might solve your use case.

DetachablePianist , 1 month ago to Privacy in Need help figuring out bookmark management

+1

DetachablePianist , 2 months ago to Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System in How to forcefully burn in subtitles, always?

You can use a tool like Handbrake or ffmpeg to burn titles directly into your videos, but you'd have to re-encode the files. Perhaps not what you actually have in mind?

DetachablePianist , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in UDP Tunneling solution recommendations

You might try ZeroTier. You'll each need a tiny client app, but its super easy to install and setup, and extremely secure. Free to use with up to 25 devices.

DetachablePianist , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Looking for Cloud Storage Replacement, but I don't like NextCloud

Yeah, they provide a "Flow" section where you can setup firewall-like rules to control your flow of traffic. You can configure rules that say, allow ssh to a specific server, but only from a specified devices, while allowing ssh, https and smb to another server from any device, blocking all other TCP traffic. UDP is a little weirder to control, but there's a decent tutorial with example configs.

I hear about TailScale a lot, and I know its super popular in the self-hosting & linux communities. I haven't used it myself though, so can't offer a comparison vs ZeroTier. I found ZeroTier refreshjngly easy to use and install on client devices, so haven't had reason to look elsewhere yet.

Anyway, have fun with your endeavor!

DetachablePianist , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Looking for Cloud Storage Replacement, but I don't like NextCloud

I just finished building a cloud solution leveraging an AWS EFS (elastic file system), a secure ZeroTier mesh, and a simple EC2 instance (vm) running Samba (or just sshfs/scp/sftp if multi-user file locking isn't needed). EFS does have some pretty big limitations like the fact users can't be in more than 16 groups (because it behaves like an NFS mount), and it lacks xattr and ACL support. Still, if you can work around these shortcomings you can build a very secure, surprisingly speedy cloud filesystem. Largest expense is the EFS, but after 30 days infrequently accessed files automatically move to slower storage, which is way cheaper. ZeroTier is an important piece of the puzzle, making your security and encryption a breeze. This allows you to run SMB over the internet without actually exposing any services. Connections are only made through your ZT mesh, which is highly secure.

DetachablePianist , 3 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in Self Host Intranet Email

It provides a web interface for mail (and other useful services). You configure it to send outgoing messages through SMTP, qmail, Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, take your pick for the back-end.

DetachablePianist , 3 months ago to Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. in Self Host Intranet Email

Have you looked into self-hosting NextCloud or OwnCloud?

DetachablePianist , 5 months ago to Selfhosted in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

I used to make clocks with the platters and give them to friends and family. Michael's used to sell inexpensive clock mechanisms that looked really cool against the platter background. I haven't seen them lately, but I'm sure someone sells them online.