Can confirm, solid list for everyone. Only uptime kuma was replaced by beszel in my setup.
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I just learned about Uptime Kuma from this post and spent an hour spinning it up in a container, building my status page, and setting up monitoring for my services and game servers. It's working great so far for me. What do you prefer about Beszel? I'm looking into it now and it looks great too
Uptime is really good for simple uptime, no worries it gets the job done. Beszel does more metrics, like a Prometheus+Graphana combination but simpler to set up.
I tried to setup some kinda self hosted AI image generation last month. I didn't know wtf I was doing and accomplished nothing. Need to give it another try.
@GaMEChld @selfhosted I kinda got this running and I’m here to tell you - unless you’re willing to babysit it through the constant changes and updates and dependency hell that creates, you might be better off just paying for api use at something like https://fal.ai/
Yeah, this is true. I just like to tinker. I already pay for one AI tool for like actual use as a tool in my life. The self hosted image thing attempt was like, hey my next home lab project, let's see how easy it is to just get an image generated from scratch with nothing currently setup! The answer I found was, "you still need more training grasshopper. Much to learn. "
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NFS | Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
9 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 19 acronyms.
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I'm going against the new-age tech grain with this, but... I fucking despise docker anything. I can follow directions fine, it's the troubleshooting that takes too much time. Sure, I'll learn it eventually, but I do IT for a living I'm not coming home to waste my nights also doing this.
I've setup ZimaOS as a massive NAS with Yunohost on anything web-hosted/accessible. A. It's easier with a graphical UI on stuff that's packaged. B. Installing, updating, and most other services are pretty well automated/packaged to work really well. C. When i have the conversations with friends who aren't tech savvy and are overwhelmed, I want to have firsthand knowledge of easy systems that're basic, but powerful, and will help them dip their toes in freedom.
No Proxmox, unraid, no docker stuff, no nested VMs, no more complex setups. While I can learn to troubleshoot and memorize CLI, I'm too old and busy with family and work/commute to deal with problems at home lol. Too much tinkering has poised my wife off to the point she thinks all the self hosted stuff is unreliable. So, I deploy, test, vet basic issues, and if it's too much time or setup involved, or dependencies on other apps, I'm out!!
Too many containers, too many fragile, partial service apps that just feel incomplete. Yuno and Zima (formerly casa) are great!! Others being tested too for fun but at snails pace lol.
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