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One of the signs that someone has a #homelab at this address? A box labeled 13 x 1.8TB. Yep. I #selfhost and am upgrading some storage, plus getting some spares.

They’re 10K RPM SAS drives. I hope they aren’t 520-byte formatted, though they probably are. Takes ages to format 13 drives to 512-byte blocks.

And another Server migrated over from Hetzner to @netcup . Again, absolutely flawless and working great :-)

Services now migrated to Netcup:
- Uptime-Kuma
- BIND (secondary authoritative DNS for my zones)
- Forgejo (Git forge)
- Personal Website
- Librespeed (Speed-Test Node)
- Bsky PDS (Personal-Data-Server for BlueSky)
- Atuin (Shell-History Sync server)
- Anubis (Anti AI Crawler protection)
- Authentik (SAML/OIDC SSO Server)
- Wallos (Subscription tracker)
- stepCA (x.509 PKI CA)

Running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (aarch64) with Podman and behind a traefik reverse-proxy. All containers managed via Systemd and quadlet files (/etc/containers/systemd/*.container)

Services remaining on Hetzner:
- OpenShift lab
- Mastodon burningboard.net
- Ansible RHCE Lab/Learn environment
- freeIPA/IdM Server and Red Hat Satellite

Step by step getting my (vast) infrastructure sorted and onto energy-efficient ARM servers at Netcup :)

#linux#homelab#lab

Hallo ich bin #neuhier und melde mich, weil etwas teilen möchte.

Als alter ITler möchte ich ein Skript teilen, dass dem (Home-)Admin das Leben erleichert, wenn wieder mal ein "curl" oder "wget" bei der Verifizierung eines Zertifikats (#SSL / #TLS) scheitert.
Das kommt nicht so oft vor, deswegen hatte ich immer vergessen was zu tun ist, wenn es mal wieder so weit war.

Das Script prüft welche Zertifikate fehlen, lädt sie herunter, so dass man sie ggf. in die Liste der CAs (certification authorities) aufnehmen kann. Wie das geht, steht in meiner dazugehörigen Doku.

Vielleicht einfach mal sehen, ob ihr es brauchen könnt.

Natürlich #opensource, beschrieben auf github.com/himbeer-toni/UserSc, da wäre dann auch ein Downloadlink.

Würde mich freuen, wenn es jemandem hilft!

#opensource #programming #debian #linux #RasPi #sysAdmin #git #github #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting
#opensource #foss #homelab #homeserver #software #raspi #RasPi #sysAdmin #TLS #SSL #certificates
@digitalcourage
@linuxnews

Scripts for Linux user's ~/bin/ directory. Contribute to himbeer-toni/UserScripts development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHubUserScripts/fetch-missing-ca.md at main · himbeer-toni/UserScriptsScripts for Linux user's ~/bin/ directory. Contribute to himbeer-toni/UserScripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

👨‍💻 Over the years, I’ve learned a lot from trial, error, and a few coffee-fueled rabbit holes while setting up all my self-hosted services. ☕⚙️

Now I’m wondering… would anyone be interested if I started sharing tutorials?

Could be:
📝 Blog posts
🎥 Video walk-throughs
📦 Docker setups
🛠️ Reverse proxy tricks, identity management, and more

Everything from “click here” beginner guides to advanced stuff like SSO with Authentik or federated Matrix!

Let me know what you’d like to see — and if there’s enough interest, I’ll start posting! 🙌

#SelfHosting #FOSS #OpenSource #Homelab #Fediverse #CloudSovereignty #TechEducation #ActivityPub

Here’s a (very non-exhaustive) list of services I currently self-host across my own hardware and data center deployments:

☁️ Cloud Storage – Synology Drive-based, hosted on enterprise-grade Synology servers
📸 Synology Photos
📆 Synology Calendar
📇 Synology Contacts
🔐 Authentik (SSO / identity management)
🐘 GoToSocial (Fediverse presence!)
🧾 Invoice Ninja
🔗 Kutt (URL shortener)
📰 Ghost (blog CMS)
🌍 Wordpress
🎓 Moodle (online learning)
💬 Matrix (w/ Element)
📅 Cal.com (booking system)
📷 Immich (photo/video backup)
🎥 TubeArchivist (YouTube archiving)
🎙️ Jitsi (video conferencing)
🧠 Tdarr (media transcoding automation)
📈 Uptime Kuma (monitoring)
📺 PeerTube (video hosting + federation)
…and many others in testing or on the roadmap 🤓

Some of these will soon be publicly available to others — privacy-respecting, ad-free, and powered by love for open infrastructure. ❤️

If you’re into self-hosting, the Fediverse, or building a digital home you truly own, let’s connect! 🧵

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #FOSS #ActivityPub #OpenSource #Homelab #SysAdminLife #CloudSovereignty

Intel nuc 13, 12 Kerne, 16 Threads, 64Gb RAM, 1TB ssd mit #proxmox als neues #homelab, weil mein Synology DS923+ den Anforderungen nicht mehr genügt. Unglaublich, was heute in so einer kleinen Dose drinsteckt. Da kann ich locker 10-12 VM drauf laufen lassen!

In China knapp 650 EUR, in Deutschland nur der Body um die 1000 EUR. Freue mich schon auf Inbetriebnahme. 🤩

Thinking of adding some LED strips to the Antec LanBoy Air case I was just posting about.

I'd love a soft orange glow inside — something to match the case (industrial feel) and perhaps even react to CPU or system activity.

Has anyone done this on a headless setup before?

• USB-powered?
• Molex/SATA LED strips?
• Zigbee/HA integration?

Would love your ideas — trying to keep it functional and cool, but not too RGBy 😂

I really, really like #Restic, but sometimes it doesn't like me. This morning I found one of my backups had a bit flip, or error in transmission, from a little while ago. The repair tooling for restic is... bad. Best I found I could do was to delete 2 weeks of backups of a specific host, which is unfortunate. Worst part about this is that I never would have discovered that I had a corrupted pack file if I wasn't doing a repo copy for off-site backup. Guess I should schedule a weekly --read-data check of a multi-TB repo :(