Da Server Thread. - It's like being a sysadmin except you don't get paid!

[Coolio55]

All this streaming shit (Steamlink, Stadia) has given me a great idea. I can't leave my PC on at all times but I have an old Raspberry PI 1 model B I never used so I'm gonna use it as a home server to VNC/SSH and X Server into.
(Or I might just buy a newer model, they're pretty cheap)
I'll put some roms and emulators on it and use it as unblocked web access and remote storage. Pretty cool what you can do on the cheap these days!
Low power servers FTW.

Post your server based shenanigans here

 

[BingBong]

I don't know shit about Raspberry PI, but I might look into it. Looks interesting.

 

[cecograph]

I consume all my media over the network, but don't bother running VLC in server mode or anything. I just use sshfs. It's a FUSE driver which uses SSH to mount anything on the other end of your SSH connections. I can then treat my other machines as a seamless part of my filesystem, and play films as if they were local. It used to be flaky as shit, but now appears to be pretty solid.

I have all my email on my own mail server I have running on a VPS. I've got a shitty web server running that I put together, but can't think what to put on it. I also tried Matrix, but trying to do my own user authentication securely (so not having users enter passwords on the client) looked like a pain in the arse.

 

[Give Her The D]

Not a self-hosted server issue (like you probably intended this for), but I have a question about Linode. I noticed I have a huge credit there and figured I'd try them out. Are they any good?

I think I had made a deposit and used a promo code at one time, is how I got it.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

I have a neighbor who's a network engineer. He says that everything is done through virtualization these days, and of that most virtualization is done in VMWare. Then again a lot of the advantage that come from virtualization is facilitated by having many machines. If you're running a single Raspberry Pi server (which the network engineer guy does to get "free netflix") you don't have the power to spare to run an even less capable machine as a virtualization on top. But if you have multiple computers you're running a server from, then it's a good idea to virtualize just in case you need to switch your entire setup over to a new machine.

 

[Coolio55]

Just realized a huge problem. I have a non static ip so anytime I want to access it away from home i have to write it down before I set off (Or set it to post it's current IP to some shared place on the internet).

Not a self-hosted server issue (like you probably intended this for), but I have a question about Linode. I noticed I have a huge credit there and figured I'd try them out. Are they any good?

I think I had made a deposit and used a promo code at one time, is how I got it.

I got no clue about linode, sry

 

[sidekek]

Not a self-hosted server issue (like you probably intended this for), but I have a question about Linode. I noticed I have a huge credit there and figured I'd try them out. Are they any good?

I think I had made a deposit and used a promo code at one time, is how I got it.

I have been using a 5$ linode for 6~ months now with no problems. (synapse, nginx, h@h, etc.)

 

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Just realized a huge problem. I have a non static ip so anytime I want to access it away from home i have to write it down before I set off (Or set it to post it's current IP to some shared place on the internet).

All good. Plenty of Dynamic DNS services around that let you set your PC to update a free subdomain. I've used https://www.nsupdate.info/ for a while.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I have a neighbor who's a network engineer. He says that everything is done through virtualization these days, and of that most virtualization is done in VMWare. Then again a lot of the advantage that come from virtualization is facilitated by having many machines. If you're running a single Raspberry Pi server (which the network engineer guy does to get "free netflix") you don't have the power to spare to run an even less capable machine as a virtualization on top. But if you have multiple computers you're running a server from, then it's a good idea to virtualize just in case you need to switch your entire setup over to a new machine.

He doesn't need to virtualize anything for his purposes, your neighbor is probably talking about making what can be thought of as a RAID-array of servers, so if one explodes the system and by extension the users won't even notice. That and migrating to new hardware was a real game changer.

 

[cecograph]

Just realized a huge problem. I have a non static ip so anytime I want to access it away from home i have to write it down before I set off (Or set it to post it's current IP to some shared place on the internet).

This situation has always been extremely gay. Some folk are saying that with the bigger address space of IPv6, residential ISPs will be more willing to assign static IPs, but I'm not holding my breath. They don't want you serving unless you're willing to shill out for a business account.

 

[Coolio55]

This situation has always been extremely gay. Some folk are saying that with the bigger address space of IPv6, residential ISPs will be more willing to assign static IPs, but I'm not holding my breath. They don't want you serving unless you're willing to shill out for a business account.

Sometimes dynamic is better because it means you can't be IP banned. I know that ISPs get very angry if you run a server though.
IPv6 is strange though. Last I heard the FBI put a backdoor in it although I'm not sure how.

 

[Vecr]

Sometimes dynamic is better because it means you can't be IP banned. I know that ISPs get very angry if you run a server though.
IPv6 is strange though. Last I heard the FBI put a backdoor in it although I'm not sure how.

How would the FBI backdoor IPv6? I would have heard from the people at DEFCON by now if that was the case, right?