SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s)
from irmadlad@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 22:18
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from irmadlad@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 22:18
https://lemmy.world/post/44012666
I’m not sure anyone shares the same glee I feel when I view all the blocked IPs scrolling by in my pFsense firewall. Suricata does a lot of heavy lifting for sure.
What’s your selfhosting guilty pleasure or pleasures?
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Sure, but why? If you’ve a simple router running OpenWrt or something with all WAN ports closed you basically have the same thing.
Maybe it’s a pretty graph/reports thing? I enjoy looking at the pihole dashboard and reviewing top blocked domains. I even look at the top allowed domains and add some to the blacklist.
I too use my PiHole for this pleasurable activity
Look at all the bots and trolls that slammed against my Skynet OpenWRT module… and died.
It really is satisfying. I can’t explain it fully, but there is a sense of satisfaction.
It reminds us we are on the side of The Good.
It is also wonderful schadenfreude to see scammers frustrated.
Why do I like to watch them? Can’t explain that fully, but I also find watching the flows in ntopng to be fascinating. Maybe I’m just easily entertained. As far as why I would run pfsense over OpenWrt or similar, it’s mainly what I know and I can drive the pfsense bus well enough. Back in the day I experimented around with OpenWrt, and it may have improved over the years, but I found it kludgy.
ETA: Also to do IDS/IPS you’ll have to install Suricata, Snort or SoftEther anyways so…
Do check OpenWRT again. These days even a network-ignorant person like myself can point and click to set up guest networks, configure individual devices’ access, adblock, crazy good firewalls, …
Very slick & professional
Mine is seeing the “removed” and “started” when I update all my dockers
Can relate.
Use Watchtower. You’ll miss out on this pleasure though.
I like manual updates, keeps me in the loop
Mine is using a network share to transfer files faster than any USB device we have at home.
…and how do you manage those speeds?
Three important factors:
Watching the bots eat my iocaine poison. Its most of my traffic.
Muuhahahaha!
Tweaking my various Nix configs feels good and satisfying.
… When it works, that is.
I love to fiddle to see if I can improve on some app, service, or configuration of my server just to see if I improve performance, etc. Example: pFsense…great googlymoogly at the options. I kept trying this or that tut, no joy. So I sat down with the manual, and just did what I knew, Then did a lot of reading, and I did find one or two tuts that actually were, I guess you’d say, ‘at my level’. Then I fiddle to see if I can get better performance or to see what one of the thousands of options does. I have leaned heavily on backups from time to time.
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Pushing my commits that trigger my own gitlab runners that build my c++ application across 32 cores/threads homelab server.
A second guilty pleasure would be looking at my grafana dashboards.
Third guilty pleasure is 10gbit/s fiber network at home.
Well, would you look at Mr Moneybags over here. LOL I wish tho. I just have a 1gbit connection.
Crying in 70Mbps copper… 15 upload.
Ahhhh I do like my grafana dashboards.
Waaay out of my field of moderate expertise. Rock it tho!
Gaming with friends and family over Tailscale on my servers; it just works
Do you get a lot of latency with Tailscale?
Why would they? It is peer to peer
Nope! We use it for Jellyfin too which also works great 😸
Cool. I just figured traversing a Tailscale VPN would be yet another ‘thing’ between you and your gaming partners.
Either way you’re just going over the internet. There will be overhead, but not enough to be that big a deal.
@s3rvant @irmadlad oooh "lan" party! nice
We used to need tools like Hamachi back in the days. And it was awful, didn't work and caused me way too much headache
This is the part I really love.