In the What are YOU self-hosting? thread, there are a lot of people here who are self-hosting a huge number of applications, but there’s not a lot of discussion of the platform these things run on.
What does your self-hosted infrastructure look like?
Here are some examples of more detailed questions, but I’m sure there are plenty more topics that would be interesting:
- What hardware do you run on? Or do you use a data center/cloud?
- Do you use containers or plain packages?
- Orchestration tools like K8s or Docker Swarm?
- How do you handle logs?
- How about updates?
- Do you have any monitoring tools you love?
- Etc.
I’m starting to put together the beginning of my own homelab, and I’ll definitely be starting small but I’m interested to hear what other people have done with their setups.
I use a cloud VPS at a state-owned datacenter in Vietnam (the army indirectly runs it). All things considered, they’ve been actually quite good, I’ve been a customer for several years now. Ping from my home or workplace is very low (under 10 ms). I get 4x vCPU / 2GB RAM, and 40GB storage (most of my self-hosted stuff is pretty lightweight).
Most of my self-hosted stuff is just plain packages, but I wanted to learn to use Docker and Ansible for Lemmy. Other services I sometimes run are an MQTT broker, and a few databases for logging data.
Logs go to /var/logs (there aren’t many). I update software manually and often-ish. I’ve tested, but do not regularly use orchestration tools.
I’ve considered hosting at home, because a symmetrical fiber connection is ridiculously cheap here. The only reason I don’t is because I need to have a VPS for client work anyway, so I may as well just use that and save the $$$ paying for a static IP at home.