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pibox-os
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I don't want to host services (but I do)
About my business? Sure! It's at https://kubesail.com and we sell our hardware at https://pibox.io :)
Our best feature is that the website will detect if you're on the same network as your machine and if so, offer "local" links instead of remotely proxied ones. That way non-technical users dont need anything fancy. On top of that, the "local" urls still get valid HTTPS certs for free, so non-technical users dont get any scary browser warnings.
We started out as a way to make self-hosting easier for corporations, but the users who joined our community were mostly home-hosters, so we leaned into that! Jellyfin is now our most popular app.
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Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server?
I built a small business around this idea (particularly your last sentence about it evolving quickly), so I can’t not promote https://KubeSail.com and our hardware at https://pibox.io
That said, I use an old workstation as my home router and server. It’s worth the power bills in saved subscription cost alone. Much more relevant is how much of my time I spend on it!
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Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here?
We make tiny Linux servers packed with real devops tools (but also sporting a somewhat-easy-ish-to-use UI) for home-hosting and self-teaching: https://pibox.io - works great with Jellyfin!
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Ask HN: How can a total beginner start with self-hosting
There are several projects designed to help you self-host your own services.
Proxmox[0] is mentioned by a few folks here. It's mostly a hypervisor. It's good if you have a "big" server and want to split it up into VMs for various needs. It doesn't have any concept of an AppStore or service catalog. I think this is too low level for what you're asking.
Unraid [1] is probably the easiest way to turn an arbitrary computer into a useful server. You install the OS on a thumb drive and it runs from there. It provides network storage services out of the box, can host VMs, and has a solid catalog of packaged services in their Community Applications plug in [2]. These are packaged in weird obscure way that I tried and failed to figure out. I've run this on an old T410 for a couple years and it's been pretty good. Not as flexible as some other options, but quick to get going on the basics. You can see this in their storage system... you can easily add arbitrary disks to your pool, but parity options are limited. My biggest complaint is that it's hard to spin up your own docker images, especially if you don't want to mess with Docker Hub.
TrueNasSCALE [3] is my next platform. It's an iteration on the very solid FreeNAS/TrueNAS and ZFS. It handles containers and containerized services as first-class citizens using kubernetes, but also includes KVM so you can do virtual machines. Like Unraid, it has a healthy app library over at TrueCharts [4]. Unlike Unraid's weird XML manifest, SCALE uses Helm. Nice.
coolLabs [5] is sort of a self-hosted Heroku alternative. I just discovered it on HN the other day [5a] in that context. It looks pretty neat. It has some pre-packaged services already [6] but seems to lack any concept of a community-curated service package repo. It seems to be mostly focused on helping you deploy applications you develop yourself. I don't think it gives you network shares, for example. Still, it could be a great choice to throw onto the VPS you're wonder what to do with. [7]
Kubesail [8] is a k3s-based self-hosting operating system. It's designed to help you run basic web services as easily as possible. Where Unraid assumes you have an old computer laying around, Kubesail will sell you a PiBox [9] to get you up and running. (You can also bring your own hardware). The have a nice AppStore and have put particular attention into the photo use case you mentioned - they emphasize support for PhotoStructure [10].
Cloudron [11] was mentioned by a few other comments. I haven't dug into it, but it does seem to have an appstore as well.
[0] https://www.proxmox.com/en/
[2] https://unraid.net/community/apps
[3] https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/
[5a] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077118
[6] https://docs.coollabs.io/coolify/services/
[7] https://docs.coollabs.io/coolify/installation
[8] https://kubesail.com/homepage
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Carbon Footprint of Unwanted Data-Use by Smartphones
I am using https://yunohost.org, but https://pibox.io/ looks like a cool setup that takes care of some of the more difficult things such as tunneling and backups.
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Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
The few times our hardware had reached the front page have basically made our startup viable. It was only two days ago, but https://pibox.io
We figure HN is one of the toughest crowds. If we can make a hardware product y’all don’t completely dislike - we’re on to something!
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Energy efficient way to store frequently used files on NAS?
PiBox - CM4 with proper 2xSATA (for which you might have to wait a few months)
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PikaPods open source alternative
We run KubeSail which is free to use, and all of our featured apps are tested and tuned to run well on a https://pibox.io. Our dashboard isn't open source, but nearly everything else we make is, including the YAML configs which are used to spin up the apps themselves. Hope this helps!
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Any Kubernetes provider you could recommend me?
If you’re interested in a piece of hardware I’d say just use an old PC and install k3s. I also build and sell tiny raspberry pi kubernetes clusters at https://pibox.io if you’ll excuse the ad. Either way - a set of VMs or old PCs or a couple Pis is the way to go for a home lab and for getting hands on.
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Get a permanent home for all your self hosted apps like NextCloud, Plex, and Photoprism. Powered by Raspberry Pi
Actually all of your questions are excellent and I’ve been adding them to the “FAQ” section of https://pibox.io as I answer them :)
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- Need advice about running a photo server for family
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Yet another "photo gallery/management" question
Hi there! Check out lychee! Its simple, supports dropbox, and is really easy to setup. If your having problems, try our product easypanel. We got a template to get it setup for you, in a matter of seconds. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me or reply here.
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Google photos alternative
PhotoPrism is a good option something you've mentioned above in your OP, along with NextCloud Photos (I've never used this). Piwigo, Lychee, and of course Synology Photos is pretty popular.
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Simple media server with thumbs
https://lychee.electerious.com/ seems to be working well for me
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Synology Photos is utter bullcrap
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Hi, I got directed here with this question !
Also try out: https://lychee.electerious.com/
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What are some alternatives?
PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨
Piwigo - Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!
Zenphoto - The Zenphoto open-source gallery and CMS project
librephotos - A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.
Chevereto Free - Community/Personal Image Hosting
PiGallery 2 - A fast directory-first photo gallery website, with rich UI, optimized for running on low resource servers (especially on raspberry pi)
Photonix - A modern, web-based photo management server. Run it on your home server and it will let you find the right photo from your collection on any device. Smart filtering is made possible by object recognition, face recognition, location awareness, color analysis and other ML algorithms.
UberGallery - An easy to use, simple to manage, web photo gallery written in PHP.
Gallery CSS - CSS only Gallery
Photoshow - A free web gallery in PHP with drag-n-drop support
Photoview - Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers [Moved to: https://github.com/photoview/photoview]
Photo Stream - Self-hosted, super simple photo stream