6 posts tagged with "self-hosting"

Circumstances forced me to move all my self-hosted services to a location that does not depend on my living place. Someday, I hope I'll have all that hosted at home again, but now I want to describe my path of setting up a Proxmox VE on a Hetzner dedicated server together with Proxmox Backup Server and Tailscale with backups on Backblaze. This could look like a trivial task at first, but I faced some issues and obstacles I want to document here, for me to remember and for others to be informed.

I want to warn that this is not a full step-by-step guide. It is rather notes on the process and steps I followed.

Nothing is eternal, especially the relevance of documentation. I think help.ubuntu.com is an absolute winner, holding the largest number of outdated and irrelevant pages. But that's not a topic for today's post. One of my Proxmox cluster nodes can't power itself on after the outage. But it supports wake-on-LAN, so I decided that another node could power it on. And the simplicity of this task was overrated by me.

I'm not surprised people prefer Tailscale over WireGuard. Did you see the WireGuard quick start guide? Did you try to connect using this guide? Anyway, I have a VPS on Hetzner I wanted to connect to my local network through a secure tunnel. Tailscale is nice, but why set up a new infrastructure when I have one inside my UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra?

There is a UPS monitoring through NUT configured in my Home Assistant. So I decided my Home Assistant could shut down my homelab servers on a low UPS battery.

There is a lot of automation you can do with this data, but today I want to write up a short guide on how to safely get the information from the UPS connected to your NAS via USB into the Home Assistant.

Do you want to know how and where RandomPlace is hosted? Or do you just want to know how to host a Ghost blog on your Synology NAS? I'm here today to answer both questions.