Ask HN: Just got a brand new server, what do I do first?

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  • Jellyfin

    The Free Software Media System

    - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin (Media management)

  • Outline

    The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

    I've been long wanting a playground to host my own e-mail, website, media and miscellaneous utilities to break free from subscriptions and "free" services which are data hogs, but due to extrenuating circumstances, paying for and maintaining a server has just been too much of a monetary and temporal investment for a broke college kid.

    After a bit of research I came across Oracle's Free Tier (https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/faq/) which offers a LOT, and in my eyes seems like the perfect test-bed to try out homebrew before I invest in my own DIY VPS at home.

    Currently thinking of setting up the following:

    - https://www.getoutline.com/ (Notion alternative)

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  • Radarr

    A fork of Sonarr to work with movies à la Couchpotato.

    - https://github.com/Radarr/Radarr (Movies)

  • vaultwarden

    Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

  • wildduck

    Opinionated email server

    - https://wildduck.email/ (E-mail)

    Even though I have self-hosted things individually (eg: my Ghost blog on a RasPi connected to my home WiFi), something which I've always been concerned about is the separation of all these services, since they must have APIs and access rules. What's an ideal way of setting up a multi-service server like this, and what security policies should I implement. Additionally what are some must haves that you have running on your servers?

    I understand self-hosting is a huge labour of love, and I have no qualms in investing time/effort learning :)

  • borgmatic

    Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

    Oh yes, thank you! Thinking of using https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ for my server backups and https://github.com/immich-app/immich for my photos and videos. Any x-platform solutions you may be aware of?

  • immich

    Self-hosted photo and video backup solution directly from your mobile phone.

    Oh yes, thank you! Thinking of using https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ for my server backups and https://github.com/immich-app/immich for my photos and videos. Any x-platform solutions you may be aware of?

  • InfluxDB

    Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.

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