I want them available 24/7, even if I decide to distrohop and wipe my PC at home.
If it were me, I'd get another machine as a dedicated homeserver and distro-hop on your pc.
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I want them available 24/7, even if I decide to distrohop and wipe my PC at home.
If it were me, I'd get another machine as a dedicated homeserver and distro-hop on your pc.
The homeserver doesn't have to be fancy. We're running all our stuff off a Dell Vostro from 2012 we got for like $30 on Craigslist. (It did need another $30 replacement PSU though. And it has 8GB RAM and a 500GB SSD which is nothing to sneeze at for a machine that cheap and that old.)
I recommend Forgejo over Gitea, and you definitely need an AI scraper blocker like Anubis in front of it as otherwise they will kill your VPS rather quickly, as these AI scrapers absolutely love to scrape code forges.
Many thanks for mentioning Anubis!
I also recommend forgejo over gitea. I'm running forgejo and I love it.
For your reverse proxy, look into pangolin. It combines proxy with wireguard tunneling and auth. So you can set up access controls on a service by service level. It's great. I use it and love it. No affiliation. Just really happy with how it works.
For a reverse proxy I can recommend pangolin. Single sign on, pin password and also private services that you can access via a tail scale betbird like app.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| PSU | Power Supply Unit |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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this sounds like a good setup
i do everything from home using vlan/proxmox/nixos/podman
yours sounds better i reckon
I recommend managing it through Dokploy.
And put crowdsec in front of it to block attacks.