>Why should I have a homeserver? De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your firends feels good because service to others feels good. Put your Jow Forums skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups, don’t let googlel/applel/microshaft botnet them.
>How should I get started? NAS is how most people get into this. It’s nice have a /comfy/ home for all your data. Streaming your movies/shows around the house and to friends is good feels. Repurpose an old desktop, buy a SBC, or go with cheap used enterprise gear. Lots of options and theres even a flowchart. Ask.
/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a pfsense box and configuring some vlans. Theres always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re godtier already? Setup openstack and report back.
>What software should I run? install gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Emby to replace netflix, nextcloud to replace googlel, ampache to replace spotify, the list goes on and on. Look at the awesome selfhosted list and ask.
>Datahoarding ok here? YES - you are in good company. Shuck those easystores and flash IT mode on your H310. All datahoarding talk welcome.
>Do I need a rack and all that noisey enterprise gear? No. An old laptop or rpi can be a server if you want.
Does anyone here run their own firefox sync server? I want that comfy synchronization between my phone and computer but I don't want to upload my data to the botnet.
Jaxon Carter
I tried but it was broken as fuck
Elijah Evans
I have wanted to do this once before, even found a guide but yeah the conclusion was that it was rough going to self-host.
Still interested so if anyone can chime in and has done so, I'll give it a go in the next few weeks and report back.
Elijah Lopez
I ended up talking to the devs on irc and even they admitted it was horribly broken. This was a couple years ago so things may have changed?
Luis Brown
How can these retards obviously have that shit working on their own servers but be unable to publish a working version? I hate it when supposedly free software comes with some kind of built-in "cloud" functionality but they don't actually let you self-host either outright or out of incompetence.
Chase Roberts
Because what they published isnt what they use in prod?
Logan Richardson
Yeah, that's kind of the point. Either the whole thing is a huge mess that needs a billion random things to work or they are just jewing the users.
Jaxson Evans
Would there be a discernable difference in latency between Moden>Off the shelf Wifi router v.s. Modem>PFsense Router>Switch>Wifi AP? On paper it seems like there really would be.
Jace Peterson
>Either the whole thing is a huge mess that needs a billion random things to work Mozilla is an old enough organization that I would not be surprised to find this situation in a lot of their services. In my career I have found far, far too many companies with successful services whose only fully-functional, fully-integrated system is production, and developers have to code against bits and pieces in any local environment. Staging servers? Not for these guys.
