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forwarding port 22 safe?
  • First of all don't expose a machine on your LAN unless it is very well locked down especially with respect to ability to access rest of LAN. To simply access home LAN set up home VPN that has the access instead of opening up a port as powerful as ssh. If you open ssh then put it at some other port than the well known 22 and make it accessible by authorized key only. I would further limit where this ssh can be accessed from using firewall rules.

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    If you could start from scratch what would you do differently?
  • What is wrong with a Synology NAS or TrueNAS? Plenty of apps for photos on or using such.I am falling in love with NextCloud for many things reasonably integrated together. Can definitely self-host that and share it or parts of it with others and collaborate with them if you like.
    Dockerize all the things. That and/or kubernetes. I hear nice things about Proxmox in home labs but haven't got around to messing with it.

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    Taking a break from this subreddit...
  • What I know is that I have vastly more compute and disk at home than I can afford to run in any cloud. So it seems a shame to not use it - perhaps with a cloud front end and secured connection to the home equipment.

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    [Poll] What do you use for remote service access?
  • If you guard the machine well via firewall you can simply Let's Encrypt for SSL via AAAA records to the public IPV6 address of one of your home machines with nginx reverse proxy.

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  • What do I lose if I self-host Redis?

    How many features of Redis Enterprise are Enterprise only or can I get them with some pain points if I self-host in my own home-lab? Much of what I find in search is about various managed Redis or Redis Enterprise plans. For many of those you are actually paying a lot for inferior cloud servers or one HELLUVA LOT for resources equivalent to those in my home office. Which is a bit crazy-making.

    I would love Redis self-hosted on one of my home machines and accessible to a home machine exposed to the internet on 443 but tightly fire-walled.

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    Best GPUs for self-hosted AI?
  • A 4090 is good enough for running many models. You probably want an A6000 for larger ones. But many models that don't fit in your VRAM can be scaled down without much loss of effectiveness.

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    What should I even self host?
  • Well, YMMV may vary and seems to from the above. But for me self-hosting, especially on home machines, is largely about privacy and reduced cost as well as learning. Google in particular will hover up all data possible and profile you to hell and back selling the results. I used to use Dropbox and a higher price plan to get their [dubious] encryption and so on until I realized I could meet all my needs and more data across multiple machines with a NAS or NFS among other solutions.

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