Doing everything BUT my fyp part 1
I started homelabbing! or self-hosting
Are you tired of the overwhelming and uncomfortably intrusive ads that companies are incessantly pushing towards you. Every major tech companies are being sued; if not for monopolising the market, it’s breach of data privacy.123 Also, these companies KNOW that they’re the major players in the market; who else are we going to rely on? So, they charge an exorbitant amount for their services.
I refuse to pay 70 bucks a year just for 100 GB; I can get 1TB or more with the same price.
Thus, my self-hosting/homelabbing journey began. It started with NextCloud, then my own music streaming server. But I was still oblivious to the number of features that Tailscale really has, so I was connecting to my servers in a less secure way (It was still secure since it’s a VPN, but I was exposing more ports than I had to and I didn’t deploy https)
Once the nginx configuration was done, I have a complete cloud server and music streaming server!
There are other things that I wish to change or do - switching to wireguard, using open mediavault as an OS, hosting more servers, configuring remote access, and so much more. But, for now, I think I will just focus on learning the existing tool and optimising them as much as possible.
Todo:
- Learn more about tailscale
- Make my servers fault tolerant
- Make my servers distributed
- Can I have multiple containers across different devices that access the same server?
I definitely recommend everyone to try self-hosting at least once; you learn a lot, and if it’s not for you, just take everything down.