I mean anything that is not hosted in your house. For example, dynamic dns, some type of ddos protection, off-site backups, external oauth provider, etc.
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I have a $5/mo vps running caddy over wireguard to get better routing when I’m on mobile.
Otherwise, my traffic goes to my home ISPs hub 600 miles away and back. The VPS is less than 100 miles away and it performs much better.
For my homelab:
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
For things that I host externally (i.e. not part of my homelab):
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Cloudflare R2 (Object storage)
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
What are you paying for BackBlaze and Cloudflare?
I don’t store much on backblaze, so I don’t think I’ve ever spent over 2USD there in a month. As for Cloudflare, I’m able to stay in the free tier.
How much (GB/TB) is not much btw?
I need to get around to backing up via Backblaze
Around 350~400 GB. I compress and encrypt before sending to backblaze.
An external email host. Life is too short to deal with frustrating email issues.
I’d recommend looking again, as I think that advice is becoming dated. Greylist and DKIM make spam prevention super simple, ironically because the centralization of email towards Outlook and gmail has trained pretty much every sender to follow the rules or your email doesn’t go through. And then Greylist catches the rest, because spammers don’t come back and retry after a few minutes.
The problem isn’t incoming spam, but rather not being able to send to the larger email providers because of arbitrary spamfiltering on their side.
True. I kinda dodged that problem by having a personal .net domain that’s older than wikipedia.org. My understanding is that you can raise your domain’s reputation with some work.
Honestly the most important thing I use my domain for is easy-to-delete mailboxes and aliases to give to companies and contacts. That’s just incoming email.
For outgoing, there are services that let you send them an email and receive a report on any mistakes or misconfgurations they notice. I followed the first tutorial I found that didn’t seem like it was just advertising “see how hard email is? Looks impossible doesn’t it? Why not pay us instead.” Ended up being at linuxbabe dot com, run by Guoan Xiao, with part one titled “Build Your Own Email Server on Ubuntu: Basic Postfix Setup”. No links but search engines find it.
Big difference is I use OpenLDAP/slapd, and I put different components on different VMs. Took maybe a couple weeks of free time here and there, but I’m proud to say my outgoing emails seem to be accepted everywhere. Not that I send many, really.
Eventually planning on implementing filtering for terms and conditions updates for long-forgotten sign ups. I would like those to bounce.
Same :( admittedly I never tried, but it’s the one thing everyone recommends against.
I just use a domain name through name cheap, which includes ddns. I cant think of anything else that I do at home that isn’t taken care of locally.
Email and offsite backups (as 3rd copy of data, encrypted
- Tailscale for external access, this is extremely convenient.
- Namesilo for domain (cheap but otherwise not really recommended)
- Bunny DNS (because NPM’s certbot doesn’t support Namesilo). Still looking at their other services, overall it seems nice.
Still looking at an external backup solution like Backblaze or Hetzner
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Basically just the bare minimum
- Email (Zoho, still on their old legacy free plan)
- Backblaze B2 for Restic to store backups on
- DNS for my public domain name (Cloudflare)
- Uptime monitoring for my website (HetrixTools)
hetrixtools is so good!
Fast Mail DNS because I moved my domain over there for email. Problem is that it doesn’t have an API for DNS updates, and that makes it bad for DynDNS. There are some web scraping libraries out there that can work for it, but those can easily break any time FastMail changes their interface.
For now, I’m just using the fact that my IP doesn’t change that often, and living with the fact that I’ll have to manually update it at some point.
Uptime monitoring and notifications
Mind sharing what service you use for it? Paid or free?
A small application I wrote myself, hosted on the free tier of pythonanywhere.com
For personal stuff, i use an external email, and borgbase for backups (highly recommend them if using Borg or restic).
Cloudflare tunnels - it used to be dynamic dns, but the ISP blocked ports 80/443, so I switched to tunnels.
External DNS on the Gl-Inet router, included with the product
Goodcloud, from Gl-Inet (included and really nice to have another way to get to it)for the home self-hosting, that’s pretty much it.
For the (coming soon TM) fediverse apps in Keyboard Vagabond, add in S3, cloudflare CDN
- have a cloud server for public IP to host email server, headscale and coturn.
- hetrix tools for uptime monitoring
- cloudflare for ddos protection etc.
