the_thunder_god

For a while now I’ve had Grafana hooked up to InfluxDB and Telegraf. Using Telegraf I setup pings to ips along my route to the larger internet, major dns providers, and several large internet sites. I measure response time and packet loss. It has allowed me to cut through the Comcast BS when diagnosing problems with them. I can tell them for sure that the problem is inside their network and is the X hop from my router.

I recently started setting up Grafana over on a different server and I’m using Prometheus instead to monitor more than just the other server I was monitoring. I haven’t yet set it up with that but it looks like something similar is possible with Prometheus based on the small amount of research I’ve done on it.

Bridge mode on the ISP router is what you want. Then it just passes through the internet connection to the internal router on the edge of your network. It’s what I do with Comcast.

Same for me.
-It works well
-my dad (who has dementia) can use it
-It runs even when the net goes down (means my dad is happy)
-Can Transcode for our TV’s with premiere (would rather not have to pay for that)

Have been thinking about Jellyfin…as I like the FOSS angle…and seems like it is gaining a lot of traction in the selfhost community. I host Emby Server on my Unraid server and our nVidia Shields play content great using the Emby app. Going to be investigating Jellyfin when I start to move the rest of my serivces off of Unraid.

Doing what the OP (same result, just different software) or I posted and assigning certificates to secure your local services means you can avoid the HTTPS warning that major browsers will pop up on an unsecure (HTTP) connection. Instead of going to an internal dns name without a certificate or direct to the ip…you assign a wildcard certificate to a domain name you’ve setup on your local dns. You then access that service via the HTTPS protected Domain name, with no warning.

I used Techno Tim’s guide on how to do essentially the same thing with different tools: Cloudflare, Let’s Encrypt, Traefik, and PiHole (for my DNS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liV3c9m_OX8
https://docs.technotim.live/posts/traefik-portainer-ssl/

I know I saw this thread before when I first joined lemmy.world, but I could never get it to come up again while I was there. Only found it again after switching to kbin.social.

That said, here’s what I got running locally (though not all the games all the time, currently only running Satisfactory):

• Unraid on my File server, (purpose built AMD tower with 15 drive bays, only 5 filled for 24TB), gradually moving services off of this

  • Docker Containers:
    • DNS - Pihole
    • Media Center - Emby - Keep it stocked for my dad to enjoy. He has dementia and I’m his Caregiver.
    • Stats Dashboard - Grafana/InfluxDb/Telegraf
    • Wireshark

• Proxmox on my Compute Server (in 27U rack, used HP Proliant Dual Xeon)

  • VM - Ubuntu Server - Management Docker Host

    • Reverse Proxy - Traefik
    • Docker Management - Portainer
    • Huginn

  • VM - Ubuntu Server - Primary Docker host

    • Uptime Monitoring - UptimeKuma
    • Home Automation - Home Assistant
    • Wiki - Dokuwiki
    • Game Hosting - Pterodactyl - Panel

  • VM - Ubuntu Server - Game Docker host

    • Game Hosting - Pteodactyl - Wing
    • File Syncing - Syncthing - For external syncing when I need it
    • Games Hosted:
      • Ark Survival Evolved - Clustered: All Official Story Maps, Ragnarok, Crystal Isles, Fjordur. Cluster syncing is handled through a Pterodactyl Mount.
      • Conan Exiles - The Exiled Lands
      • Satisfactory

• Proxmox on my Old Gaming PC

  • VM - Windows 10
    • Space Engineers (had to have more single core performance)
    • American Truck Simulator Convoy
    • PlayOn Home

Have been in the process of moving stuff off of the Unraid server, in favor of rackmount servers. Right now I just have the one compute server which hosts most of my stuff. I’m working on setting up a new Zimaboard to act as my DNS server on battery backup, and will be moving Pihole off of Unraid sometime soon. I want to also move Traefik off to a lower power device. I used to have a setup where I could keep my Gaming PC online for about 20 mintues on battery backup, allowing me to shutdown gracefully, but due to the new power requirements of the Compute server, I can’t really do that now. So I’m looking for ways to move to lower power devices to host my essential services.

@Eddie I know the kbin dev has been adjusting the federated backend to work better with mastodon. So I think it will all get better, it’ll just take time.

@mike Same boat. I established an account over on Fosstodon during one of the Twitter exoduses. I like the UI more for kbin.social over Lemmy, so I think I’m here to stay. I tried out the federation between the two accounts, and figured out that mastodon really does twitter-like stuff really well. Kbin/Lemmy do reddit-like stuff really well. So I’m planning on just treating them like I treated Twitter and Reddit…as two separate services for different purposes with different UI’s.

My only issue is that I chose a different name when I signed up on kbin.social/Lemmy to match other accounts I have (one of which I recently changed to be in line with the rest), and it’s not what I have on Fosstodon, but I already moved once to a different instance (used to be on mastodon.social), I don’t really want to change usernames on Fosstodon. Frustrating a bit for me, but I’ll deal.