Containers for home network

[morimorimori]

Don't have to use for hosting. I use it as a cert authority for https on my lan.

 

[xiaofan]

Don't have to use for hosting. I use it as a cert authority for https on my lan.

I understand. This seems to be a popular use case and it is also my intended use case.

But then it seems that I can get around without a Top Level Domain by using DuckDNS DDNS service for now. But I have not finished setting up Nginx Proxy Manager yet.

 

[xiaofan]

Using DuckDNS with Nginx Proxy Manager to get a public SSL certificate that will allow you to create secure connections to all your local resources, getting rid of those pesky, untrusted website warnings.

For DNS, he uses OPNsense Unbound DNS overrides function.

 

[d3adc3II]

Talking about reverse proxy to get SSL cert for ur domain, let me intro GoDoxy.
Imo, its one of the best to use for homelab right now( only lose to the mighty traefik and caddy).
Why Godoxy?
- It natively support Docker auto discovery. So you can just set via label when deploy, GoDoxy will do the rest
- There are other cool features like idle-sleep for containers, and lxc ( yes, it support lxc as well)
- Heathcheck, Geo block, dashboard. Think of it like Traefik , but with friiendly GUI
- Support for multi-node setup.
- Metric, and many other features that you can slowly figure out.

Allow me to demo using my own clip ( In the clip , I showcase full automation: Github commit trigger Komodo to deploy service > Godoxy get it certified based on label, I also show how to easily remove, update, reploy service)
meegoreng.mp4

Correction: sry, labels in the clip meant for my Homepage, by default, Godoxy will use container name as domain name , you can change this via label.

 

[xiaofan]

Actually domain is really cheap thru cloudflare. Somehow .uk is the cheapest of all, only 5.21 usd/yr.

Don't have to use for hosting. I use it as a cert authority for https on my lan.

Okay, just bought one domain (.com) from Cloudflare at US$10.44 (renewal is supposed to be US$10.44 as well). The invoice shows US$11.38, probably due to 9% GST.

The worry is not the small amount of money, but rather the extra time and efforts now that I have my own domain. Say things like Cloudflare Tunnel and other stuff.

And in the end I may also spend on a VPS (not that expensive but require time and efforts). Now I am only using free Google and Oracle VPS and not really doing much. Last time I was using the free Freenom domains to play with Wireguard VPN and SSR/V2Ray/Trojan stuff. I will try to delay this one...

Luckily I am not going into rabbit holes like NAS and Home Automation.

 

[morimorimori]

 

[Mach3.2]

Okay, just bought one domain (.com) from Cloudflare at US$10.44 (renewal is supposed to be US$10.44 as well). The invoice shows US$11.38, probably due to 9% GST.

The worry is not the small amount of money, but rather the extra time and efforts now that I have my own domain. Say things like Cloudflare Tunnel and other stuff.

And in the end I may also spend on a VPS (not that expensive but require time and efforts). Now I am only using free Google and Oracle VPS and not really doing much. Last time I was using the free Freenom domains to play with Wireguard VPN and SSR/V2Ray/Trojan stuff. I will try to delay this one...

Luckily I am not going into rabbit holes like NAS and Home Automation.

if you use a foreign address, no GST.

 

[d3adc3II]

Okay, just bought one domain (.com) from Cloudflare at US$10.44 (renewal is supposed to be US$10.44 as well). The invoice shows US$11.38, probably due to 9% GST.

The worry is not the small amount of money, but rather the extra time and efforts now that I have my own domain. Say things like Cloudflare Tunnel and other stuff.

And in the end I may also spend on a VPS (not that expensive but require time and efforts). Now I am only using free Google and Oracle VPS and not really doing much. Last time I was using the free Freenom domains to play with Wireguard VPN and SSR/V2Ray/Trojan stuff. I will try to delay this one...

Luckily I am not going into rabbit holes like NAS and Home Automation.

Nice, now you consider create 1 glacier storage , backup entire of ur data there , so its 1 archive copy.
Then make another Hetzer storage box for frequent backup and restore
Then make another cloud proxmox backup from remote-backups , its free for first 100GB, so its enough for like 2 VMs or 4 lxc. Its native pbs so backup and restore is natural , just like onprem pbs.

Its cheap , the whole 3 sets of backup should not cost much.
Lets say backup 5TB of data will cost 12usd for Hetzer + 3 usd for glacier.

and if its possible , better dont use Oracle free, sometimes they feel unhappy for unknown reason , they might close free account out of sudden for some funny reason.

Recommend this : https://portal.orangevps.com/store/vps-budget

Cheap cheap, local traffic , got extra premium bandwidth to China mainland in case you need.
Here is the catch: what they give you is a RAW vps , its a plain vps without any protection , no firewall , no monitor tool, no condom , nothing.
So you need to add some protections , security to it urself.

 

[xiaofan]

Nice video from Lawrence Systems.

Associated forum post.
https://forums.lawrencesystems.com/t/toms-docker-setup-simple-clean-and-easy-to-back-up/25904

 

[xiaofan]

Last time I used free trial from major Cloud providers like Google (still using), Oracle (still using), Microsoft Azure, Amazon, Alibaba and Huawei.

Just received the following VPS offer from Alibaba Cloud, US$9.90 per year, 2 vCPU, 1GiB RAM, 200 Mbps bandwidth limit, 30 GiB Storage.
https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/product/swas?_p_lc=1