I had a laptop server back in the day. I took the battery out just because it was one less thing to worry about. YMMV. At the very least, there are ways to cap the charge level on the battery, tho I have no experience doing that. Perhaps others may chime in if that is a route you choose.

I take back everything I said then. OP, just disregard the old head mumbling on about the past.

I’ve read blogs that talk about video streaming/TOS issues. Personally, I have had no issues. Just figured I’d throw it out there.

"As long as the media is not being distributed publicly or cached on Cloudflare’s network, and you are only using Cloudflare to proxy encrypted traffic to your own origin server, this is acceptable use. Community thread quote ~ 2025

Cloudflare distinguishes between protected internal endpoints versus public-facing content delivery. The former is generally acceptable on free tiers when combined with Zero Trust authentication. There have been no updates to the TOS since this was posted:

…so, my guess is that it’s still in effect unless superseded by an update. However, it seems arbitrarily enforced searching reddit for data. Again, just a cautionary comment.

Jellyfin and Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust might present some problems. Yes, it will undoubtedly work, however, streaming video through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust is against the TOS. Now, I suspect that if you had one user, you’d probably slide by. 10 users streaming large video files at a sustained rate would probably raise a red flag. I stream audio through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust and have had no issues, tho I am the only user. There are other alternatives to Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust such as NetBird, ZeroTier, Headscale, or Tailscale. Just something to consider.

Cloudflare tunnel has a bad relationship with streaming video

From their standpoint I can understand why, tho if you had just one user you might be able to get away with it. When you have 10 users streaming large files at a sustained rate, that eats up some bandwidth. However, I stream audio from Navidrome daily and I’ve had no issues. I am the only user of my network.

I rage guit my email server long ago. True, as evidenced in this thread, there are some who successfully run their own email server and that’s awesome. I am quite jealous. I too gave up, but I went with a small EU based company. It’s no frills, just the basics. I don’t send/receive a lot of email, so I don’t need all the bells and whistles. If you’re de-googling your life, you don’t have to specifically run your own email service. I do hear a lot of positives about MailCow tho.

Sweet! I wish I could game. So many intense graphics games with deep plot lines etc. I love technology…most of the time.

Yeah, I can do that. I just wanted to understand why it work sometimes but not others.

It’s been a few minutes since I’ve run Caddy, and like I mentioned, I don’t own a QNAP. So, I’m just spitballing.

So… I started “Self hosting” wolf/games on whales this past week from my laptop

Sweet! Family first. I am unfamiliar with ‘Games on Whales’. What all can you play?

When I start Caddy with a docker compose file,

So, I’ve never owned a QNAP product running QTS nor have I run Caddy in a Docker container before, but I am assuming it looks something similar to this:

networks:
  proxy-network:
    external: true

services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy
    container_name: caddy
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
      - ./config:/config
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile:ro
    networks:
      - proxy-network

Have you tried changing the port #:

    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 4443:443

ETA:

I’m fairly new to selfhosing

Welcome to the club bro. You’re in the right place.

• I’ve always felt that if you are soliciting recommendations for self hosting equipment, why not ask self hosters? I would say that 99% of all equipment threads that get posted here are directly related to beginners or even seasoned vets, asking 'what kind of equipment world I need to run ‘xxx stack’. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a thread where the OP was building his next gaming machine asking for recommends.

• The whole gatekeeping about the strict definition of ‘self hosting’. Self hosting is a huge conglomeration of different approaches. Sometimes, especially with beginners, outright buying a proper piece of equipment to use in your residence might be problematic, or cost prohibitive. However a small, $30 USD/year VPS might fit for getting your feet wet, or even on into the future. In past lives I have started, modded, forums. I used to be a mod at reddit for quite a while of a good handful of subs like De-Google/De-Amazon/ all the De-(corporate services). I seriously despise gatekeeping. I think we can all co-exist whether you have a full blown rack in your closet that dims the neighborhood lights when you power up, a small VPS, an RPi, or a repurposed disposable vape-server (which was pretty doggone impressive).

I honestly haven’t seen too many completely off topic threads started here. There are a few. There was the Anonymous recruiting thread, a lost Lemmy with children down on his luck, and a few others. However, for the most part, people who bypass reddit and navigate all the way to Lemmy c/selfhosting are pretty much within the realm of selfhosting.

I believe in being encouraging and positive, even if the topic of discussion is something I’m not really kosher with. We’re all, I’m assuming, fully autonomous adults capable of making our own decisions…and living with them.

djdupriest.org

Interesting. I like rifling through someone’s blog even tho may not have an immediate use for the data contained in the blog. You never know. Might stumble on something that will be useful later on.

A VCR…wow! I haven’t seen one of those even at a yard sale in decades. Friend of mine and his family went out to a yard sale way back in the day, found a box of Disney videos, thought ‘A nice entertainment value watching Disney movies on movie night.’ Well, most of them had been taped over with some of that boomer porn of the 70’s. Somebody wanted a bit more spicy Disney experience. Luckily they had the presence of mind to review said box of VHS tapes before deploying them on movie night.

You must do a lot of VHS digitizing for a set up like that. Or was this just a ‘Wonder how hard it would be to…’? kind of project.

but I agree on the LUKS post

How about we don’t and just say we did. That was embarrassing. However, I am happy to report it went smooth No runs, no drips, no errors. So I did learn something.

Gotcha. Thanks

That’s got to about the most straightforward thing I’ve heard on the internet in a very long while, and <clears throat nervously> and from a mod. No disrespect intended, at all. It’s quite respectable. You say ‘light touch’ and ‘people being able to regulate themselves’…have…you…met these people? I kid, but I’m sure that’s where the TOS comes in which is forthcoming or am I just being stupid again and overlooked it? I mean, I see rules

Respectable stack as well. At any rate, good to meet you. Thank you for your clarity.

I can’t help you so I’m going to rant about something not related.

Genuinely got a chuckle from me.

Watching the thread because I’ve recently been toying with the idea of using Dokuwiki as a place to store all my selfhosting notes.

Let’s hope this results in a better community for the selfhosters here.

Wow! I just noticed that. Shit moves quickly on the tubes. Welcome our new overlords!

Yeah, same. I mean, anonymous people, on a global basis have done some good things, and we can’t over look some of the bad that have been perpetuated as well. However, I never really got the whole shtick. The whole ‘expect us’ specter is thick with Hollywood drama. The whole persona of a hooded ‘anonymous agent’ in a dimly lit room, setting at a bank of monitors, announcing ‘I’m in! Enhance!’ is just a little too much.

Yes, we should conduct our lives online and offline in a private, secure, and as anonymous manner as possible, Yes we should protest governance that steps out of line or becomes over reaching and oppressive. But I think that can be accomplished without donning Guy Fawkes masks and invoking the whole persona that has been dramatized around anonymous.