dleewee

@dleewee@beehaw.org

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dleewee,

Worse plug how? You can buy DP cables without the locking mechanism.

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Sync to Nextcloud....without Nextcloud

I’ve been on the hunt for a Google Keep replacement and the most obvious choice is Quillpad. However it can only sync with Nextcloud and that functionality is somewhat broken. For example, if I create a To Do list in Quillpad, I can of course check the boxes as items are completed. I can do the same in the Nextcloud instance...

dleewee, (edited )

Let’s dig into performance a bit. Your gen8 server i believe is using E5-26xx CPUs which is plenty of power for speedy performance in Nextcloud. You mentioned upgrading the CPUs and RAM so should be good to go.

  1. Ensure application files are stored on a SSD. I have seen significantly poor performance in Nextcloud when it’s running fully from HDD storage.
  2. Data storage is fine to remap to HDD storage. If running with docker this is as easy as:

volumes: - /HDD_storage/nextcloud/data:/var/www/html 3. Make sure to run Mariadb/MySQL for the database as opposed to SQLITE. 4. Ensure REDIS is used and working. This will cache and speed up the UI.

With all of that working correctly, Nextcloud is very performant on my comparable Dell R720.

Edit, I see below you are on a microserver. I think all of the above still applies but I don’t have any experience with that hardware. I would still expect it possible to perform well on that device.

dleewee,

No problem at all! I was reluctant to comment as it seemed that you weren’t interested in pursuing Nextcloud any further, but went ahead with my comment because I initially had very poor performance when using the basic container running with SQLITE.

I will admit that I had sync issues with a notes program when putting the file on Nextcloud. Some apps just aren’t compatible with that storage paradigm it would seem.

Thanks for the thoughtful replies and good luck on your search!

dleewee,

Would love to hear the highlights of what PenguinCoder did to remediate things.

dleewee,

The article is misleading by leaving out critical details about the amount of energy actually used in the test.

That said, progress is progress.

dleewee,

A few things may be going on.

The errors seem focused on the tls certificate, which caddy tries to automatically provision.

First, in your caddyfile, “my.server” should reflect the real address used for access. Something like “jellyfin.my-domain.com”. This is important for the tls certificate to be generated correctly.

Once updated, pull out a cell phone, turn off wifi (use LTE/5G), and verify it can connect to your site. This makes sure you can access from outside your home network.

Once confirmed working, try again from your home network. Most likely the page will timeout. This will be due to DNS pointing you back to your own network, which can cause trouble. This can be solved several ways. One is by adding a static DNS entry which points to the IP of your caddy server. You can do this on a per system basis in the hosts file, or at the lan level with you DNS server or router, assuming it allows you to add a custom DNS entry. I do this with my Mikrotik router.

That should get things working internal and external.

dleewee,

Per Caddy documentation, port 80 is also required, and now I suspect the not serving that port is causing Caddy to fail to issue you a tls certificate.

Try adding a simple text response like this (warning, formatting may not be perfect due to typing on mobile). Also setup a port forward on your router to your caddy host on port 80.

my-domain.com:80 { respond “Buzz off” }

Hopefully this will kick off the tls registration and then get your site on 443 working as well.

dleewee,

Document everything. Found a useful link that helped you configure something? Copy the link. Finally got your proxy working right? Save the config. Even just make notes of how you set things up.

Refine and build you notes along with your knowledge.

Eventually, consider keeping all your config files in a self-hosted repository like Gitea.

Oh, and when stuff breaks it’s probably DNS.

dleewee,

What about orange juice on cereal? I was skeptical, but a bit of web searching turns up some small percentage of the population actually chooses that life.

dleewee,

It's been ages since I ran into a site issue, using both desktop and mobile Firefox. Not saying it doesn't happen, but seems that issues are very few and far between these days.

[Help] How can I use a VPS to protect my home's ip?

I have a nextcloud instance being hosted from my home network. The URL associated with it points directly at my home's IP. I don't want to host the instance on a VPS because disk space is expensive. So, instead, I want to point the URL at the VPS, and then somehow route the connection to my home's nextcloud instance without...

dleewee,

I have done this before by setting up a Wireguard VPN link between my home server and a VPS, and then running a reverse proxy (such as Caddy) on the VPS, which basically forwarded web requests to my home server. This works well for most things, although there was a definite performance hit by routing traffic through the extra hop.

By using the VPN connection, you wouldn't even need to open a port on your home network which is a great starting point for security as well.

dleewee,

Only the host acting as the VPN "server" needs to have an open port. In my setup, I made the VPS the server and my home server a client. Thus I had no open ports on my home network, only on the VPS.

dleewee,

Practically every recommendation I've seen on buying a domain is either:

  • PorkBun
  • CloudFlare

These two use very straightforward pricing, with no gotchas.

dleewee,

I see no reason you couldn't. Just change the listen port on the nginx config to something other than 80 (so it doesn't conflict), then tell treafik to send traffic to that port. Disclaimer, I'm not well versed with treafik, but have worked with several other reverse proxies to know the general idea.

dleewee,

Firewatch is great! Since you liked that, also check out Life is Strange: True Colors

Reddit has permanently suspended my account for supporting Lemmy.

I have been supporting Lemmy recently a lot and made posts about Lemmy that got big reach. Today, sadly the reddit account through which, I moderated a lot of subs and spent time on, comes to an end. The reason was because I spammed according to reddit, but the reality is that they have censored me because I was hurting Reddit....

dleewee,

Self-hosting is exactly what guarantees it wouldn't happen on Lenny.

dleewee,

I could envision a 2nd class of server, running something like OAuth/OIDC, which handles the authentication into any Lemmy instance (or better yet, any ActivityPub based instance).

This server would also be self-hostable, and provide only authentication services, so it would be rather lightweight. But would help reduce the load on the content servers.

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