

Cheers, fixed it
Football, tech, and self-hosting mammal. I tinker (and tend to break) servers, follow the birds — the feathered kind — and dig through bits of local history.


Cheers, fixed it


TIL about cloud connected beds.
Fine for me


I mucked around with so many dashboards, homarr, homepage, dashy but settled on glance
Mainly because it’s minimalist and mostly text based. Handles my RSS feeds and anything that I want render I can usually vibe using the custom API widget.
I haven’t switched products but I did go through a process of hardening my containers to a degree. I did find that the hardening is limited by the authors of the software and if they have built their apps with security in mind.
I have always used docker-compose I found that easier to see what needed to be tweaked.
Some helpful links
https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/vulnerability-scanning/
https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Docker_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html
It’s a pretty broad question and part of the adventure is learning what works for you.
I have found https://selfh.st/ a great resource of seeing the art of what’s possible and what is out there
Chatgpt is also helpful especially for fixing your yaml files which seems to be the main config format for most container based projects.
For remote access I have found tailscale the easiest way to access self hosted away from home.
What does your fstab say?
Couple of considerations for you.
Is it a backup or a sync? Sync will sync your deletes and corrupted data.
It’s ideal that you have your USB offsite.
I use restic and have a repo on a USB and a repo on AWS S3