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  • Alone in a tent, that’s a very different definition of self hosting. ⛺🌌

    Joking aside we’re spending a few weeks of camping under a tent and having a Ubiquity access point that covers half the camp site installed in our spot is really convenient to keep the whole family on the home network with Wireguard.

    Even the kids come to ask for piHole on the go. So here we are a few countries away, all connected to my Proxmox server, with a full access to the music library, Jellyfin and our twice-daily SMBSync backups to make sure our pictures won’t be lost.



  • 1999, I think. I did attend a handful of packet radio workshops with a nearby HAM club.

    Tinkered with a WRT54GL router since 2004, running OpenWRT

    Then used SuSE on my work laptop from 2005 to 2010 or thereabouts and was forced to switch back to windows

    My Dreambox 7000 satellite receiver also ran Linux.

    After that it was 2 iterations of Western digital NASes with optware and some hacking.

    Some Cisco/Linksys router with some usb hack as well to get a SSH access.

    In parallel a virtual box VM with Opens use to cross compile my flavour of software to read my weather station data

    Got in raspberry pi in 2017 with Octoprint and 3D printing. I have 3 running.

    Began developing my home automation in Node Red on a Pi in 2018

    I began self hosting in 2019, with a rack of raspberry pi on a DIN rail, nice compact setup.

    Got a third WD NAS, à PI 4 with 8GB ram as a desktop computer

    And finally consolidated everything with Proxmox running on a Aoostar R1, intel N100, 32GB ram, 1TB nvme and the pair of 14TB HDDs from the last NAS in raid1. All services as LXC containers.

    Only VM is a Win11 desktop when I really need one with a remote access. Main remote desktop is a Debian LXC with XFCE, plain basic.

    Last WD NAS got a pair of refurbished 12TB HDD and is used as a cold backup.

    Over 25 years and, yes some Linux.