I’m trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it’s better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.

Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?

  • tristan@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 年前

    Congrats on your new slippery slope haha

    ike I fire up a docker image which plays music (if that’s even possible?) it has to have access to the disc, sound drivers, maybe interactive stuff etc on the host PC right?

    So the main things you’ll want to read up on for that are mounts. Mounts will let you attach files and folders from the host computer into the docker container that it sees as if it’s inside the container.

    A lot of docker apps will run a web host, so instead of accessing them like a normal application, you load up the website that’s located at the IP address, and the exposed port. Then just like running Netflix or anything, it already has access to local sound and video devices through that

    This also means that you can open them up to other computers/devices on the home network… so your phone could load it up and play music or your windows PC could, and it’s all served from that docker container

    If you’re interested in hosting media, you could look into Plex or jellyfin, they are media servers that can stream self hosted videos, music and photos over the network.

    There’s a lot of other options that are more specific, and what’s right for everybody else might not be right for you so it’s worth playing around with various options

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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      1 年前

      Running docker on my phone, now that seems crazy cool, but also obvious when you think about it (why didn’t I think about it 😁).

      I’m collecting my little 55€ Think Centre this lunch (6500T 8GB/256GB), we’ll see what it will be used for but I guess dockers will sure play a part!

      Cheers!

        • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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          1 年前

          All too slow! My new job is taking a fair share of time, but I project getting back on track in a month or so. But I already have my Lemmy server, and I’m building a little “slow game” multiplayer with action points in python, so I’m not totally exhausted :-)

          So how’re you doing?

          • tristan@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            1 年前

            Yeah life tends to get in the way of hobbies like that… as for me, I started the Linux foundation certified systems administrator course recently but only got a little into before my health went down and a few other things, but hopefully can get back into it soon

            • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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              1 年前

              So how’re you doing? Are you on sick leave (IDK where you live but lots of Americans(and lots of Americans on Lemmy) have huge problems with health problems, I mean over the problem itself)? A cheap Linux box can provide plenty of amusement if you like those kind of things!

            • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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              1 年前

              So how’re you doing? Are you on sick leave (IDK where you live but lots of Americans(and lots of Americans on Lemmy) have huge problems with health problems, I mean over the problem itself)? A cheap Linux box can provide plenty of amusement if you like those kind of things!

              • tristan@aussie.zoneEnglish
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                1 年前

                I’m from Australia and on disability pension. And yeah, I have 3 Linux boxes to play with haha