README.md

self-hosting-tamil-book

Book about self hosting in tamil language

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#+title: Easy way to self hosting #+author: Thanga Ayyanar

Introduction

What is Hosting ?

What is Self Hosting ?

Minimalist self hosting, why?

Is this the only way to do it.

Chapter 1: Preparing the device

Choosing the distro

Debian/Ubuntu

• CasaOS

Proxmox

Installing essentials

SSH

Things to note in android

SSH

Security

Firewall

Fail2Ban

Chapter 2: Docker/Podman

Do you need docker for selfhosting

Portainer

Watch tower (Container)

• Keeping your containers uptodate

Chapter 3: Media server

What is media server?

miniDNLA

Jellyfin

Samba (You can use samba to share media)

Chapter 4: Sharing folders

Samba

NFS

Chapter 5: Syncing folders between devices

Rsync

Syncthing

• To expose in local network
• $HOME/.local/state/syncthing then find port 8384
• Change 127.0.0.1:8384 to :8384 (colon is important)
• ref:
  • https://forum.syncthing.net/t/solved-changing-listening-port/69/5
  • https://docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html

Chapter 6: Image gallery

Static image gallery generator

Dynamic image gallery generator

Immich, photoprism

Chapter 7: Documents & Notes

Next cloud

• Your knowledge base
• Medical documents
• Scanned documents

Chapter 8: Finance

Ledger/hledger/beancount

paisa

FireflyIII

Chapter 9: Task management

Next cloud

Task warrior

Org mode - GTD (for Emacs users)

Chapter 10: Downloader

Aria2

• Integration with yt-dlp or youtube-dl

Transmission

Chapter 11: Version control

Git bare

Charmcli - ssh git

Cgit

Forgejo or Gitea

Chapter 12: Monitoring services

Uptime kuma

Netdata

staus-ng

Chapter 13: Notification service

Ntfy

Gotify

Chapter 14: DNS and Ad-Blocking

Dnsmasq

• https://www.imaginaryrobots.net/posts/2022-01-26-full-network-adblocking-with-dnsmasq/

Pihole

Adguard

blocky

Gravity

https://github.com/BeryJu/gravity

Chapter 15: RSS Reader

Tiny tiny rss

• Also support integrating with newsboat

Miniflux (go based)

Chapter 16: Library

Calibre

Chapter 17: Password manager

Password store

vaultwarden

Chapter 18: Encryption

Veracrypt

GPG2

Chapter v: Dashboard

Cooking our own

Homer or other

Chapter w: Backup

Refer chapter 5

Use docker or ansible

Chapter x: Reverse proxy

Ngnix reverse proxy

Caddy

Haproxy

Chapter y: Exposing to the internet

DDNS

Tailscale

Cloudflare tunnels

Private VPS

Chapter z: Misc

• Tools or software which are niche

Hosting static pages

Light httpd

caddy

• You can also try our apache2 or ngnix

Automation

• Rabbit hole of its own
• software based
• IOT based

Ansible

Tracking progress

• Activity watch
• arbtt (haskell)
• Timetracker (Rust)
  • https://github.com/phiresky/timetrackrs

Laminar - CI/CD

IRC bouncer

Quiz app

Wake on lan

• ref
  • https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-send-wake-on-lan-wol-magic-packets.html

Troubleshooting & Tricks

Auto start programs in ubuntu

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/48321/how-do-i-start-applications-automatically-on-login#48327

Check if service is running

- lsof -i :port -S
- netstat -a | grep port

Shutdown over ssh

• sudo poweroff

Bonus

PARA

JBOD

• Hard disk

Finishing thoughts

• Hope this will kick start your journey in self-hosting.
• The dream self hosting setup differs for person to person.

Reference

• https://landchad.net/
• Reddit - Selfhost, homelab

Drafts

Creating bridge for hypervisor / Virtual machine