Bitsii VS awesome-selfhosted

I just can't do it, using Bitsii, I get to download all the stuff and DuckDns, but when on the setup page i need to enter an account for itsii, the site doesn't load on any of my devices, i tried something else but i doesn't work.

Of course - first you install Bitsii Bridge. If your network is a "residential ISP" style arrangement and you have UPnP enabled on your home router and it has a public IP "on the outside" you are good to go at that point from the network perspective. If not you can also setup a bridge instance on a vps (including a free google cloud instance) and the Bridge can expose ssh via an ssh tunnel on the vps which will tie back to your local ssh instance. Once you have the bridge setup you can tell it to forward a port into your ssh service (or other services)

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Well - my project Bitsii Webcam might be an option as it doesn't try to do real time video - it takes snapshots (to compressed image files, which it can roll hourly into an mjpeg). Likely needs a lot less bandwidth than solutions that want to send you video - might be OK on your slow connection...

Cloudflare is a nice way because it gives you a "free dynamic dns to a domain you own" option. You can sometimes do this with other registrars that have api's but cloudflare is pretty easy and is supported by different ddns clients. Taking a step back - this is assuming it's not hosted on a vps or something with a fixed address? If the latter you can potentially just add a dns entry (a record) at your registrar (most give you free dns hosting) to your webserver address. If your webserver does not have a fixed address you can enable cloudflare with a "free" plan, tell your registrar to use cloudflare's name servers, then use cloudflare dynamic dns to set it (you can also set cloudflare to a fixed ip - but it's probably not worth bothering with cloudflare unless you need the dynamic dns). If you want something that wraps this up with let's encrypt certs, etc, you could try my project - it supports this cloudflare-your-own-domain configuration I'm suggesting here....

My Project - Bitsii Bridge is meant to be exactly this - easy for inexperienced folks to get started with. It doesn't support all of the software options of the others - partly because it's limited to ones that seem to have a low-barrier to entry technically speaking, and also because it's new :-) If you decide to try it out let me know how it goes...

So this is one of the capabilities of my project Bitsii Bridge - spoiler alert, the Files UI is a little rough but it let's you (and others) up and download pretty much any file over the web, you can just create accounts for folks and add shared folders, all from the ui. Runs on windows/mac/linux/pi, will setup ssl/let's encrypt and put itself on the internet from a typical home connection with upnp. It also let's you install a webdav server but then it isn't all in the web ui - you have to tell folks now to connect up webdav (but then it's in their native file manager on pretty much any os, so possible option...).

You can do this (pretty easily) with Bitsii Bridge (disclaimer - my project) - it actually runs the nginx instance locally, not on the vps, and uses an ssh tunnel to the vps to open the connection on the internet. Mostly, this is easier :-) it has the disadvantage of not allowing nginx/web apps to know the real remote ip, so I've been thinking of adding a mode where the proxy runs on the vps - but haven't yet. Depending on your needs that may not matter a great deal...

Bitsii Bridge does this automatically (and setups up nginx reverse proxy and let's encrypt ssl) - you give it your account, cloudflare api key, the domain, and the name for the dns entry, and it will create and maintain it (includes the dynamic dns functionality...)

None of these lists ever seem to be as fleshed out, up to date, or well organized as https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted , though imo any more attention on the self hosted scene is awesome. We're now self hosting everything at my co-op, and it's a dream. Saves us money, provides learning opportunities, potentially is getting us work (managed hosting providers asking if we can be a devshop for their clients, for example), and lets us give back to the FOSS community as we uncover bugs.

We use:

* Matrix / Synapse for comms (slack alternative) (managed hosting through etke.cc)

There are a ton of resources about HW aspects of home labs for beginners but not so much for what to run on them and why. There are lists like https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted but they are confusing for absolute beginners like me. Are there any good SE project guides you know?

This[1] seems like a well maintained repo.

And thank you for the pointers, we'll try to get ourselves added here :)

[1]: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

I've always felt like FOSS as a philosophy has been tangled up in trying to participate effectively in capitalism, when that was never really the point, nor really very possible unless you're lucky, nor really worth it. The origin of FOSS as I understand it from reading books like "Hackers" is from people that were mad that access was being restricted to systems and code from people that really wanted to use these systems and code, and hack them, and learn from them. I recall that one of the things Stallman likes to brag about from that time is not related to FOSS at all, but instead successfully decrypting a bunch of passwords, emailing the decrypted passwords to people, and recommending they instead set the password to an empty string instead. It was about keeping access to the system Free as in Beer.

I suppose some have argued that FOSS represents a Public Commons in the way that fields and wells and physical markets used to, but none of those things survived capitalism, so I don't see why a technological commons should be expected to either.

For me I've been thinking lately that perhaps those interested in FOSS should instead consider how we can use FOSS to detach ourselves from needing to participate in global capitalism at all. Is there FOSS technology we can use to liberate people from things they need to spend money on right now? An example could be the Global Village Construction Set: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ a set of open source designs for things like hydraulic motors or microcombines or steam engines that you can build on your own, usually not for cheap, but for far, far cheaper than you could buy from John Deere. Here's another cool project, some guy has just been building things like solar panels and basic circuit boards on his property from very base components for years: https://simplifier.neocities.org/

Some other FOSS liberation examples:

Combining a tool like Jellyfin with Sonarr, Radarr, and etc, can liberate people from their 5 different media subscriptions. Or at least they can still buy DVDs and put them on Jellyfin to have the convenience of streaming with the media library of their own choosing.

Deploying Matrix or another FOSS communication tool can let organizations have enterprise-level communication software without paying HUGE seat-based license fees to corporations like Slack.

In fact there's many ways to liberate yourself from paid SaaS in this list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted at my co-op we self-host and deploy all our services for this reason, it saves us a TON of money.

I don't have many other examples to mind because this is something I'm actively still researching. Friends in Venezuela though especially tell me how FOSS technology can liberate in ways I wouldn't expect here with my 64gb RAM machine with the latest processor, that I can easily replace components on on a whim. Such as how they can keep all their broken down machines pieced together from junkyards running pretty ok on various linux distros, and how they can sell creative work using free tools like gimp (no, really) or darktable. Like as not they'll just pirate software, though, but apparently FOSS often runs better on shitty hardware.

Anyway my long term plan is to find or build more and more things that let people just not spend money on things anymore. That could be by making it easier to not have to throw things away anymore, or building tools to replace proprietary ones, or, idk, other ways I haven't thought of.

Dashboard in what sense? Is this what you had in mind or no?

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#per...

I often skim through various "awesome lists" (e.g. [1]) and communities interested in open source apps like r/selfhosted [2]

[1] https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

1. https://nextcloud.com/ https://proton.me/drive https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#fil...

2. Download all data locally then upload elsewhere.

3. https://help.dropbox.com/security/privacy-policy-faq#7.-How-...