entirety of my network to a third party tool that I don’t know that well.

Understandable.

But I’m not very comfortable giving 100% access to Tailscale to my internal network

Out of curiosity, why are you uncomfortable with Tailscale?

Interesting. What kind of limits are there? For instance, I probably have archived well over 50k links/articles. Are there import/export options? Being federated and designed to be a share/colab platform, are there options where certain links remain private? I mean, most people probably don’t want to see all my tentacle porn. /s I’m down to to help in beta testing if that is needed. Currently I run Readeck & Linkwarden, but those are not share/colab apps. What are you using for tagging…AI or is it up to the instance owner to properly tag?

What kind of security measures are you running with a public facing website?

I think for now, I will just be a part of what is already here. Maybe later I may entertain the idea.

I can definitely sing the praises of Proxmox. One of the three businesses I run from home uses a piece of software called BlueBeam. Feature for feature, I’ve not been able to find an opensource alternative. So I spin up a Windows VM with Proxmox for BlueBeam. I also run quite a few of the helper scripts, tho I am really keeping an eye on that. There seems to be diverging opinions among the devs on how things should operate. I also run a couple of small AI projects on Proxmox, so yea…it gets a work out. For what Proxmox can do, I was honestly surprised that the community edition was free. That’s an awesome piece of software.

This one always makes me giggle and think of this.

Do you have persistent IPtables then?

counters that periodically reset,

Yes, reading comprehension on my part. Doh!

homepage

I liked Homepage. Very customizable, very well presented package and the UI is nice. I know, if you are running the *arr stack, it does a lot of interfacing with those apps. Not exclusively the *arr stack as it can interface with ProxMox to show how many VMs you’re running and load/CPU etc.

Samba was not designed to be containerized.

There are some things that shouldn’t be containerized even tho they can be. I can see the benefit of a user wanting to containerize everything…it’s one neat little package. I look at on a case by case basis. For instance, Caddy I installed on bare metal instead of a container even tho there is one for Caddy.

That’s one I haven’t tried. I’ve probably tried most of the other dashboard offerings and decided to go with Homarr. I do like the monitoring aspect of Glance, tho I use NetData for that kind of monitoring. But yeah bro, looks great!

Well, I’ve always been aware of Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix, et al, but I really never explored them until now. I have been at Reddit now, since week one, and over the years I have really grown tired of the bullshit that goes on there. Lots of great subs especially selfhost and homelab, and some music subs, but you have to wade through all the crap to get to some good information.

Hmmm well, I am a cannabis enthusiast. LOL And I’m quite familiar with the dark regions of the intertubes.

Holy shit I hope my brain can process new tech at that age like you

I love technology man. I always have since days of reading old Popular Mechanics and Popular Science mags. Here’s some of what I self host.

Looking back on my post, I didn’t mean it to sound like I was throwing shade on the community. Bear with me. I understand fediverse, I dig decentralization, it just might take me a little while to firmly grasp the Lemmy concept. Like there are loads of these like lemmy.ml et al, and there seems to be a selfhost, or home lab something on each of them. All I wanted was a place where all the cool kids hung out at. LOL

Well thanks. I feel fortunate to be alive. My first computer was an Altair. Then the Timex/Sinclair, the TI, then just about one of each until some semblance of base line was established and not 20 companies producing propriety devices. It’s been a wild ride. I’m also a mediocre musician of about 65 years and the technology still blows me away every time I sit down to my DAW and controllers.

Sorry to have taken your ‘OldHead’ status from you. lol

Install a Linux Mint flavor. Mint is a rock solid platform that just works on 99% of the computers out there, and there is even a 32 bit if you are on a sllloooooow laptop like mine. The best way to learn Linux is to use it. You, more than likely, have been using Windows all your life, and while modern day Linux has some of the same looks to it: Icons, taskbar, et al, it’s quite different under the hood than what you are used to.

If you foresee setting up a server, then you are going to have to learn how to set up your server, secure your server, monitor your server, and all these things take experience. Experience takes time. Servers take a lot of administering and securing. There are thousands of bots just waiting around the periphery of your server, salivating, at the prospect of a fresh meat starting up. So you’ll have to learn how to keep the good stuff in, and the bad stuff out. Just keeping the bad stuff out is a constant vigil. These modern bots are very capable and can do cve vulnerability scans, scan attack surfaces, any little crack in the armor to get a foot hold in.

So, after you learn your way around a Linux desktop, then need to study up on how to set up and secure a server. What software to put in place to do security, using no root login, ssh keys, a long list. If you get stuck on something or just want to bounce some ideas off of someone, I’m no guru but I’m willing to share what knowledge I have with you.

Awww man. I hope you didn’t think I was questioning you. I was just curious and I never knew that or would have guessed. I learned something. Thanks.

I have made a very concerted effort to block all ads from my network. I don’t want to see them, but more importantly, I don’t want their scripts, cookies, and crud on my network. This is my data created by my labor. Now my labor is mostly clickety, click, click, but it’s still mine and I reserve the right to do with my data as I see fit. I have a huge problem with corporations using my data to bolster the potential profits to their investors and themselves, while not giving me due compensation . Corporations buy out other corporations, not necessarily to bring their products into the purchaser’s catalog, but to get eyeballs on their stolen data.

hmmmm. Wouldn’t you have to remove the Debian kernal and use the Proxmox kernal? Sorry, not trying to be obtuse, I just have never installed Proxmox ‘on top’ of Debian. I always opted for the clean install.