That’s definitely its focus, but if you want a very simple store it does support payments: https://ghost.org/help/ecommerce/

If you’re willing to accept JavaScript I’d recommend a Ghost setup. Pretty good platform once it’s set up and easy to selfhost. Not sure you’ll find a platform without JS for your use case tbh.

I have two of the U6 lite APs and they cover my whole house perfectly. They’re POE but I just got a cheap POE unmanaged TP-Link switch for now.

I use yarr as well but forked it to use postgres as the database instead of sqlite: https://github.com/jgkawell/yarr

Yeah there’s a bunch of them out there. I’ve had one running for a while now. Don’t have the specific model but it’s something like this: https://a.co/d/2v5M3U3

F-Droid apps typically lag behind GitHub releases because their build pipelines are different. So in this case the latest version (which supports the freshrss API) isn’t available on F-Droid yet.

I don’t know of anything built for that purpose but you could use home assistant dashboards to pull it off pretty easily if you already have an instance set up.

The solutions you’ve mentioned aren’t exactly equivalent. Proxmox is a hypervisor while Docker Swarm and Kubernetes are container orchestration engines. For example, I use Proxmox in a highly available cluster running on three physical nodes. Then I have various VMs and LXC containers running on those nodes. Some of those VMs are Kubernetes nodes running many Docker containers.

I highly recommend Proxmox as it makes it trivial to spin up new containers and VMs when you want to test something out. You can create and destroy VMs in an instant without messing with any of your actual hardware. That’s the power of a good hypervisor.

For orchestration, I would actually recommend you just stick with Docker Compose if you want something very simple to manage. Resiliency or high-availability usually brings with it a lot of overhead (both in system resources as well as maintenance costs) which may not be worth it to you. If you want something simple, Proxmox can run VMs in a highly-available mode so you could have three Proxmox nodes and set any VMs you deem essential to be highly-available within the cluster.

For my set up, I have certain services that are duplicated between multiple Proxmox nodes and then I use failover mechanisms like floating IP addresses to automatically switch things over when a node goes down. I also run most things in Kubernetes which is deployed in a highly-available manner across multiple Proxmox nodes so that I can lose a physical node and still keep (most) of my services running. This however is overkill for most things and I really only do it because I use my homelab to learn and practice different techniques.

I’ve been running Teleport for a while now and it’s been great. It can even manage access to things like Kubernetes clusters which is fantastic in my use case. I’ve been using their free community edition and no complaints so far.

Thanks for the link! I’ve been running Proxmox for years now without any of the issues like the previous commenter mentioned. Not that they don’t exist, just that I haven’t hit them. I really like Proxmox but love hearing about alternatives. One day I might get bored and want to set things up new with a different stack and anything that’s more free/open is better in my book.

If you have any issues or questions feel free to DM me here. I’d be happy to help out :)

I’ll let folks with more security experience dive into your specific question, but another option is to host your website on something like Github pages (using a static website generator like Jekyll) and point Cloudflare at it. That way you don’t need anything pointed at your local network, get the uptime of Github, and still benefit from your own domain name.

That’s what I’m doing with my own blog and it’s been great. Github provides the service for free but if they ever charge for it I’ll just start hosting it locally.

This is what I do though technically it’s a container on Proxmox. Otherwise I’d recommend one of the LibreComputer boards. The Le Potato one is solid and cheap though also over kill for just a PiHole.

A “free” option if you have some PC hardware lying around is to run OPNsense/pfSense instead of buying a dedicated box. I say “free” since it will use more power and require more time to configure and manage.

Alternnatively, I ran one of TP-Links AX consumer router/AP combos for several years and it was solid. Even had an OpenVPN server built in. I can look up the exact model if you’re interested.

I really like my UDM Pro, but you can also run OPNsense on off the shelf hardware.

That’s fair. Pihole is not the most efficient service, but it’s crazy easy to set up and maintain. I’ve thought about doing something leaner but haven’t wanted to bother switching things out.

Pihole is a big recommendation for me! It really changes the way you interact with the web. Home Assistant as well. If you’re at all interested in home automation it’s fantastic.

If you’ve got an interest in privacy I’d recommend playing around with hosting SearXNG. And a new service I’m playing with is Immich. Think Google Photos but locally hosted, free, and open source.

A really interesting alternative to the “profit at the expense of all else” model is a worker coop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_cooperative

I really hope these make a resurgence.

For reducing power consumption (and thus heat), a simple improvement could be just switching to a headless Linux install instead of Windows. It’ll run much more efficiently for homelab workloads.

Since you already have a UDM, I’d suggest just a simple port forward to expose your Minecraft server to the public internet. Yes, it will expose you to risk of attack by having anything public from your network, but as long as you keep your Minecraft server up to date you should stay covered security-wise pretty well. I’d suggest setting up a cronjob to restart the Minecraft server and check for updates every 24hr to make sure you’re always up to date.

I second the call out on these Rosewill cases. For the price they’re pretty solid.

Also, you’re right about the Rosewill rails, they’re terrible (source: I bought them and regret it).