If you are hosting your own videos then you really don’t need to spend that much money on storage.
Note that if you are self hosting then you can control who can use it (only by you and/or other people).
If you are allowing other people to upload their video, then yes, storage is going to be a problem.
Solving this issue is not trivial
Self-hosting?
Anything other than rolling release, as stability matters more when you are dealing with server setup. So, Ubuntu LTS, Debian should be good fit.
My 12 years old Alienware M14x R2 [1] is doing great as a homelab. I have the following services running on rootless docker container:
So far, I managed to utilized around ~6 GB out 16 GB RAM. Throughput wise, it is doing great (over LAN and over Tailscale).
If you have any old laptop unutilized, you may try to repurpose it as one of your homelabs.
You are most likely using Cloudflared together with pi-Hole.
You may want to check-out AdGuardHome (open source) which has out-of-the-box DOH support.
I’m running SearxNG as rootless docker container on my homelab for nearly 2 years now. I have connected it to Internet via VPN.
Use a reverse proxy like Traefik to access your services via subdomain like paperless.yourdomain.com.
The advantage of that approach is you will be connected to Traefik on port either 443 or 80 (based on your Traefik setup). Most firewall will allow connection to port 443 or 80.
docker-ce v29 update somehow messed up my homelab so badly that I had to downgrade to v28 to restore my system.
Self hosting essentially stores all of your data on your hard drive, but it also allows access to that via local network (while at home) and over internet via secured tunnel (e.g. Wireguard tunnel, Tailscale) while away from home.
Thanks for the info.
I have Miniflux[1] self-hosted, and it offer its own PWA[2] app that runs on both iOS and Android.
[1] https://miniflux.app/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app
Is it a docker based solution? If yes, can you please let me know if you faced any specific challenge in setting it up?
and a lot of random external drives
Somehow it rings home :-)
I disagree with everything
That’s alright. You’re not forced any way to accept my opinion. And, the same applies to me as well.
but let’s focus on the quote here. It’s not that simple! I might use the software, and I would be interested in a new release if it had something exciting. But a lot of releases do not.
Each of us have our own use case that may not align all the time. For example, I’m quite interested in literally every release of Nextcloud, Firefox,Flatpak, Docker, Invidious, Redlib and Nvidia (partially) open source driver, based on my own use case. I might not have the same level of interest in other OSS products.
Level of “Interest in a software” is a subjective matter.
The very fact that “software X version Y released!” is posted here signals to me that there’s something special that you are reacting to.
The fact that an open source software, I’m interested in, is getting regular updates, and not getting abandoned is quite special to me.
It’s clear to me that you are just release dumping here though
Again, Thanks for your opinion.
It contributes to the noise of the community, in my personal opinion.
Just to be clear, unless there is a specific rule enforced in this forum, your opinion and my opinion are equally valid.
(And in my experience, lots of people agree.)
You don’t need to drag other in, just to prove your argument. Your own opinion should be good enough.
We are welcome.
Firefox since v1.0.1 RC :)
Thanks for your opinion.
Sharing release log is not all about what “I” find as interesting. It is rather a notification to all other users of the software that a list of new features or big fixes are now available.
Not all of us are actively tracking release cycle of tools we use.
Each of us have our own use cases. What I might find trivial, another person who frequent this forum might find really helpful.
If you are not interested in the same software or not intended to use it or not using it currently, feel free to skip the post.
Granular control of permissions which was not possible earlier. The main aspect of sandboxing is access control. More granular it is the better.
All except few are routed via VPN.
Hosted on: Raspberry Pi 4B + Alienware M14x R2