I started with an old and half-broken laptop. Keyboard war busted.

Worked fine for months, then choosed to upgrade because I started hosting jellyfin and the laptop was unable to transcode on the fly…

You are fine with whatever hardware you have lying around… You can always grow later

Keep an eye for energy consumption tough… Too old stuff might be less efficient running 24/7 depending on your kW/h cost.

Do you really need a container for Samba?

I see the benefits of containers, but a use would be overkill.

Then you have issues with telegram, because I sure get a confirmation code each time I login on a different device, on telegram…

Have you hidden or silenced telegram chat on telegram?

I use mautrix telegram (the python bridge) and just works fine.

What is the issue you are facing? Any errors? Why cannot you login? It worked at the first try for me.

Conduit is abandoned, use conduwuit. I self host it with many bridges with good success.

WebDAV is cool. You can access you files from tons of apps natively, specially on mobile.

I used to run a strip down Apache for that, but AList is much easier to run.

Linux From Scratch rulez!

Migrate from Nix to Linux From Scratch!

Authelia doesn’t seems to follow the “free tier / paid tier” approach of other solutions, and doesn’t seems to have a commercial company backing it. While i have nothing against monetizing your work, i tend to prefer solutions that don’t rely on a commercial partner behind that could start an enshittification strategy sometime in the future or worse.

Authelia gave me a better feeling.

Of course, i might be completely wrong. And, as i wrote, i never tried other solutions before Authelia, which fitted my bill immediately.

No, I started with authelia it seemed to better fit my ethical choices.

Ease, any feedback is welcome. Pm me if you prefer.

Authelia.

Learn it, its worth while.

Nice and easy. I set it up on the server itself, no container.

See https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=selfhost%3Asso and https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aauthelia

My pet project.

Mostly to remember what I did and why. But also help others, and offer a different view on the self host approach (Gentoo, no systemd, podman rootless… ).

And to have fun, mostly.

Started with authelia. True, the learning curve might be steeper but for such a critical security wise component, well worth to invest into.

Simply love authelia so far. Documentation is great and detailed, but you need to study and understand.

Honestly, well worth it. I wouldn’t go quick on something like that just to install it faster then risk some breach.

I use dokuwiki to document everything (mostly)

https://wiki.gardiol.org/ in case it could be useful to anybody.

Never had an issue. But I installed them all using my distro package manager, so no hassle with volumes and links.

Useless post. Please delete.

Or add some description.

Ha, home has been traditionally always on a separate drive. That’s the reason why root user has the home under /root and not /home/root, so that it can login even if the home drive didn’t Mount.

As a curiosity, even /usr was traditionally on a separate drive and that’s why critical binaries and libraries where under /bin and /lib while all non critical stuff under /usr. It is called “split-usr”.

Nowadays /usr is always on the same drive as root, and we moved to a “merge-usr” approach where stuff under /lib and /bin is a symlink into /usr/lib and /usr/bin.

Because when HDDs where 50mb in size, even that small binary file counted as big :)

Thanks for the clarification. So I go on bare metal, but probably in op case was not the case.

I have a real server at home and I rent a real server (which I often incorrectly call VPS).

What do you mean? I have only heard that phrase meaning not in a container or VM. But I am not a native speaker.

Install a reverse proxy like caddy, but on your server bare metal not container.

Also, expose port 443 not 80, and put a SSL certficate.

Can at least ping <my domain> from server and from home?