So, let me be exactly clear here: WE ALL MAKE CONCESSIONS.

It’s not trolling at all. You stated you got into self hosting because you wanted opensource and you want to retain all of your data. I’m asking you to share your homelab set up. A lot of people would be genuinely interested. The point being, all the gnashing of teeth is a duplicitous argument. If you truly do as you stated, then I’m wondering how you search a global internet from your homelab that indexes it all.

I think new accounts that show up to shil their app should be banned.

What if the new account user, who is working on a product that integrates with what the vast majority of selfhosters run, just found Lemmy? Lemmy selfhosted doesn’t exactly share the same popularity as say Reddit. It doesn’t just roll off the tongue. I had to vigorously try to find Lemmy before I got here.

I want to be in control of my data and own it. Closed software is the antithesis of that

So, please do share how your homelab has indexed the entire global internet, so you can use your 100% selfhosted, 100% open source search engine? I’m very interested. I’ve always wanted to run a search engine that is not tied to someone else’s.

Even if you change the ROM in your Android phone, guess what? The ROM still relies on closed-source vendor blobs from the manufacturer that come with the stock firmware and most often are required to make your ROM do what it do. I would say that the vast majority of people screaming about closed source and how they own their own data, yadda yadda, yadda, when it gets right down to the brass tacks, somewhere, they rely on something that is not FOSS. It’s a rather duplicitous diatribe.

Why? Nothing about self-hosted is FOSS-only. There’s a big overlap, to be sure, but this knee-jerk reaction to paid and closed-source apps doesn’t help anyone.

Oh thank you! A reasonable, sane, voice.

thats free labour. charge for your product? pay your testers. pretty damn simple.

It’s not free labor FFS! You get to keep the product. YOU ARE BEING PAID!

In this context: https://lemmy.world/post/48453617 I think it’s just fine.

OP is not asking anyone to buy their product. OP is not shilling their product. OP is asking those who run the *arr stack, and who are interested, to beta test the product, and in return, the beta tester gets the final product for free. This is how beta testing works. Where else would be a good place to have people beta test a product that integrates with what the majority of selfhosters run (*arr stack in this instance) than in a community of selfhosters?

• Do c/selfhosted members run the *arr stack? Yes, probably the vast majority of them.
• Does OP have a product that integrates with the *arr stack? Yes.
• Is OP asking you to buy his product. No. He’s asking you, if you are interested, to beta test a product, and in the end your reward is to keep the product you helped beta test.

This is not an outlandish or usual scenario.

what if google or meta or microsoft did the same thing

Microsoft Insiders beta test Microsoft products continuously. Google does the same. It’s not a new concept. Honestly I don’t know what sets some people off. Not interested? Use that little scroll mechanism on your mouse. It really is that simple.

and they get the paid product for nothing in return.

Ding! So, to answer @Mordikan@kbin.earth 's question, yes…the beta tester is being paid. This is how beta testing works.

You are asking people to QA a commercial product for you. Are you paying them? This is a job advertisement.

I beta test things all the time that otherwise are paid commercial products. I do a lot of beta testing for BetaBound. In fact, I was one of the fortunate ones to beta test the roku when it first started. This is not unusual, to ask people that are willing, to beta test a product. Currently I am beta testing a ‘rumba’ type floor sweeper. Can’t go into details because of non-disclosure. Usually, after the beta test is over, you are allowed to keep the product.

why would I need something other than what’s there by default?

Security in depth for me. I tend to be a little heavy on security: https://lemmy.world/post/43533409

But I’m so much slower on the command line

I feel that, and it’s understandable. I seriously doubt that even Linus Torvalds knows every command and sequence off the top of his head. However, it would seem to me that at some point, the GUI will not have the options you need to deploy xyz app, and you’re going to have to use the cli. I keep a ‘note pad’ on my dashboard full of commands because my brain is shit and this helps me as much as it may seem rudimentary. LOL The list goes on for quite a ways past what is visible in the screen shot.

In that vein I always encourage users to take prolific notes. You’ll never remember everything you did 6 months from now. So, write down everything during the deployment, then distill the notes into what actually worked, and include them in your 3,2,1 back up scheme.

My 2p. Best of luck. Do share your journey.

I’m not sure what order to do those steps in: DNS servers, buying a domain, getting certs, configuring reverse proxy.

You have a lot of avenues and approaches available to you. Caddy has been a mainstay for some users. Setting up Caddy with letsencrypt is fairly straight forward. Traefik, Pangolin, Nginx, HAproxy are good candidates. Pangolin being a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy. You could also go with the Cloudflare Tunnel/Zero Trust route. You will have to have a domain name that you can change the nameservers on to the ones Cloudflare assigns you. Most people get a cheapo domain name from NameServers or Pork Bun. From there, you install Cloudflare Tunnel/Zero Trust on your server, and connect to your Cloudflare account. The beauty of Cloudflare Tunnel/Zero Trust is that you don’t have to fiddle with opening ports and such, other than port 22 to admin the server. Cloudflare takes care of all of that.

I’m not sure what OS to put on it.

I run Ubuntu Jammy server, but there are other options. Is it imperative you have a GUI? I realize that the CLI can be daunting, but it is quite effective. I guess you could have a desktop OS to serve up services tho I’ve never done that. I’ve always just used the minimal server install of Ubuntu, then add whatever I needed later. As far as an OS recommendation, I’m a fan of Ubuntu. Mainly because that’s what I started with so I know how to drive that bus fairly well.

Lemmies don’t like paying for things. All things must be free. If I were running the required stack and I found it useful, I’d have no issues paying someone to use their product. As it is, I don’t run the *arr stack so it’s not really in my wheelhouse. I will say tho, your app does look very polished and professional.

<NY accent> You tawkin’ to me? I kno’ you ain’t tawkin’ to me! LOL I am about as far removed from an IT guy as I am a brain surgeon.

BookOrbit

Never heard of it. Looks pretty sharp.

Calibre Web Automated is what I use. Works well.

Give it a go man. What’s the worst that can happen? …you have to drop back and do some studyin’. That’s pretty much how I learn. Read, Do, Fuck it up ad nauseam until it clicks, then I write that shit down.

Sorry I’m so green, gotta start somewhere!

We all started at green. No shame.

So, yes OP is using Docker. Once you install Docker on your server, you ‘spin up’ the docker container using the Docker compose file:

https://github.com/NovaCode37/Prism-platform/blob/main/docker-compose.yml

…and the associated .env file that houses all your environmental variables:

https://github.com/NovaCode37/Prism-platform/blob/main/.env.example