I’m local first - stuff I’m testing, playing with, or “production” stuff like Jellyfin, Forgeo, AudioBookshelf, Kavita etc etc. Local is faster, more secure, and storage is cheap. But then some of my other stuff that needs 24/7 access from the internet - websites and web apps - they go on the VPS.

I just do one Docker container per LXC. All the convenience of compose, plus those sweet Proxmox snapshots.

Is there a reason not to use Tailscale for this?

When I switched to webdev, I dropped $20 on a system admin Linux course on Udemy. I highly recommended this approach.

Forgejo - actively developed open source. It’s what powers Codeberg. Easy to set up and manage with Docker. I moved to it from Gogs and skipped Gitea after reading about the forks.

It is only resolving for devices in the Tailnet. Kuma is checking they are all up, and this Ansible playbook is checking they have all their updates. I wouldn’t have thought that was an unusual arrangement - and it’s worked perfectly for about a year till about three weeks ago.

Yes, this.

Thanks yes - that’s exactly what I needed.

Thanks - this is exactly what I needed.

Yes - we’re “I’ll let you use my electricity for your computer thing” friends, not “I’m okay with seeing your printer on my home network” friends.

Kavita is for ebooks - it’s not perfect, has some weirdness with series sometimes because of it’s manga heritage.

For me, AudioBookShelf is the clear standout for audio books, and I ended up going with Kavita for ebooks.

I have it in a git repo, broken down by the nodes and vps names. In each of these folders is a mixture of Ansible playbooks, docker compose or just markdown files with the descriptions. Some is random stuff - my VPS allows the export of the cloud firewalls as JSON for instance. All the secrets needed by Ansible are in an Ansible vault, the rest in KeePass.

Yep. Glad he’s got a system that works for him, but as a solo dev I love my Forgejo. I self host it, (so no Trust issues) and if you’ve hosted any other services before, the setup is a simple Docker compose - so I’m not sure I accept the Heavyweight argument either.

Great comprehensive answer. The only thing I might have added (at the risk of confusing things) is that Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting (with Forgejo), so a sort of open source GitHub

It got enshittified. I went to use it one day and it wouldn’t work without creating an account.

Same - As an Insomnia refugee, I thought “Oh no, not this again” and felt foolish for evangelising it.

I like data, I like tech, I like investing large amounts of time and energy to self-host things that muggles would not bother with.

I mean, yes, I could. But I’m committed to the #selfhosted life where I spend hours building unnecessarily complicated systems to make my life easier in small ways.

I’m starting to think my commitment to the Apple ecosystem and my desire for self-hosting are at odds.