Self hosting book in tamil

[ThangaAyyanar]

I would love write book about self hosting in tamil. The theme of the book will be using software which is easy to install and remove. You can even run in potato machine. I call it Minimalist self hosting.

I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

[ThangaAyyanar]

+title: Easy way to self hosting

+author: Thanga Ayyanar

Introduction

What is Hosting ?

What is Self Hosting ?

Minimalist self hosting, why?

Is this the only way to do it.

Chapter 1: Preparing the device

Choosing the distro

Debian/Ubuntu

• CasaOS

  Proxmox

  Installing essentials

  SSH

  Things to note in android

  SSH

  Security

  Firewall

  Fail2Ban

Chapter 2: Docker/Podman

Do you need docker for selfhosting

Portainer

Watch tower (Container)

• Keeping your containers uptodate

Chapter 3: Media server

What is media server?

miniDNLA

Jellyfin

Samba (You can use samba to share media)

Chapter 4: Sharing folders

Samba

NFS

Chapter 5: Syncing folders between devices

Rsync

Syncthing

• To expose in local network
• $HOME/.local/state/syncthing then find port 8384
• Change 127.0.0.1:8384 to :8384 (colon is important)
• ref:
  • https://forum.syncthing.net/t/solved-changing-listening-port/69/5
  • https://docs.syncthing.net/users/config.html

Chapter 6: Image gallery

Static image gallery generator

Dynamic image gallery generator

Immich, photoprism

Chapter 7: Documents & Notes

Next cloud

• Your knowledge base
• Medical documents
• Scanned documents

Chapter 8: Finance

Ledger/hledger/beancount

paisa

FireflyIII

Chapter 9: Task management

Next cloud

Task warrior

Org mode - GTD (for Emacs users)

Chapter 10: Downloader

Aria2

• Integration with yt-dlp or youtube-dl

  Transmission

Chapter 11: Version control

Git bare

Charmcli - ssh git

Cgit

Forgejo or Gitea

Chapter 12: Monitoring services

Uptime kuma

Netdata

staus-ng

Chapter 13: Notification service

Ntfy

Gotify

Chapter 14: DNS and Ad-Blocking

Dnsmasq

• https://www.imaginaryrobots.net/posts/2022-01-26-full-network-adblocking-with-dnsmasq/

  Pihole

  Adguard

  blocky

Chapter 15: RSS Reader

Tiny tiny rss

• Also support integrating with newsboat

  Miniflux (go based)

Chapter 16: Library

Calibre

Chapter 17: Password manager

Password store

vaultwarden

Chapter 18: Encryption

Veracrypt

GPG2

Chapter v: Dashboard

Cooking our own

Homer or other

Chapter w: Backup

Refer chapter 5

Use docker or ansible

Chapter x: Reverse proxy

Ngnix reverse proxy

Caddy

Chapter y: Exposing to the internet

DDNS

Tailscale

Cloudflare tunnels

Private VPS

Chapter z: Misc

• Tools or software which are niche

  Hosting static pages

  Light httpd

  caddy

• You can also try our apache2 or ngnix

  Automation

• Rabbit hole of its own
• software based
• IOT based

  Ansible

  Tracking progress

• Activity watch
• arbtt (haskell)
• Timetracker (Rust)
  • https://github.com/phiresky/timetrackrs

    Laminar - CI/CD

    IRC bouncer

    Quiz app

    Wake on lan

• ref
  • https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-send-wake-on-lan-wol-magic-packets.html

Troubleshooting & Tricks

Auto start programs in ubuntu

• https://askubuntu.com/questions/48321/how-do-i-start-applications-automatically-on-login#48327

  Check if service is running

  • lsof -i :port -S
  • netstat -a | grep port

    Shutdown over ssh

• sudo poweroff

Bonus

PARA

JBOD

• Hard disk

Finishing thoughts

• Hope this will kick start your journey in self-hosting.
• The dream self hosting setup differs for person to person.

Reference

• https://landchad.net/
• Reddit - Selfhost, homelab

Drafts

Creating bridge for hypervisor / Virtual machine