That’s insane. I would consider a ipv4 -> ipv6 cloud hosted haproxy style setup if this was my only option.

i would just ask for an Ipv4 address. I asked Vodafone for one and they just gave it to me for free.

Yes. The left side of the : in the volume is the file on the host. You can see this directory on the host. The right side of the : is where that directory is replicated into the docker container.

All you need to do is to interact with the directory on the host.

You should use volumes over bind. You just move your media into the volume location on the local host and try will show up in docker. You should never need to ssh or sftp into the container.

There is a lot here but I think the most important thing is that docker containers should always be disposable. Don’t put any data into the container ever.

All of your data and configuration should be done in volumes. Local disk to inside the container is all you really need.

By doing this you make updating any given docker container easy as just pulling the newest tagged version of the container. If you are using docker and not podman you can use tools like watchtower to do this automatically.

As for what distro, it depends on your goals. Do you want to learn and improve your skills? Stick with Fedora or Rocky or Debian or openSUSE. I recommend learning the command line as you go, but if you want a nice UI openSUSE has Yast which is a very robust tool.

If you want to just have a home NAS but don’t want to learn that’s a different question. In this case if you’re getting a proprietary NAS anyway you could just get one that supports docker (like synology) and kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/67

The biggest issue is they require your to give them your rights as they pertain to copyrights.

That means even if you submit MIT or GPL licensed code they can just instantly say “we relicense this code as proprietary” and there is nothing anyone can do.

They rejected a bunch of valid PRs. Including the one linked here because the author refused to assigned their copyrights to the Gitea corporation.

Right now Forgejo is a drop in replacement. This article is them announcing that Forgejo will eventually not be one.

Because gitea is fully the victim of corporate capture. Any PRs that make gitea better in a way that would reduce the main corporate “sponsor” profit are rejected.

The company has a conflict of interest with the community and it shows. Forgejo is sponsored by a non profit open source cooperative.

+1 For Seafile. They put out a docker image that works well. It hasthe fastest sync I’ve ever seen and it has good clients.

No problem. It should be wayyy faster than sshfs for the record. Both NFS and WireGuard are best in class tools.

NFS over WireGuard is probably going to be the best when it comes to encrypted file shares without the need to set up Kerberos. Just set up the WireGuard tunnel and export over those ips.

I see two paths that might be fun for you.

1. Building a local home server

Here you set up something like Debian or Rocky Linux with KVM. You set up 3 VMs. These VMs live on the SSD. 30% each with the remaining 3% aka 30GB reserved for the host system.

You then set something up like GlusterFS or CEPH or even NFS all with set up with a 1/3 quota. You then access these in the VMs and have fun. Pretty isolated and secure. The only catch is that everyone has to trust the person who set up the Linux KVM host and the person who’s home the server lives in.

2. Cloud servers

No point of sharing a single machine it would be better for each of you to have your own machine. This being said if you do go this route I think a fun option would be for the three of you to set up and run a Kubernetes cluster.

https://github.com/kube-hetzner/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner

I understand. But do you see what you wrote could be seen as toxic? Intent is nice, but what and how you write really determines the tone of a community.

No need to be toxic here. You don’t need put people down. We’re all learning here together. Hey. We all are all learning more about how reverse proxies and forwarded headers work together right now, including you.

We should aim to be an open welcoming community.

You want to set the appropriate X-Forwarded-For or Forwarded headers in Nginx. The final application server being proxied (if well written) should be able to handle that.

Documentation can be found here. https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/forwarded/

Contrary to that other comment reverse proxies with actual IPs forwarded through them via the appropriate headers are normal and used commonly. Almost 100% so at scale.

Don’t let the wannabe elitists get you down. I personally would not host my production email server at home but self hosting is a learning journey. If you learn how email serves work along with reverse proxies you got it! That’s a win. Hack away.

I use route53 APIs and just directly update the AAAA and A records. Set a low TTL and you don’t really have to worry about any middle men services.

All you need is a simple script.

Strong recommend for Forgejo. It’s a community fork of gitea that’s actively maintained by the community and a great open source nonprofit.

It’s actually a drop in replacement for gitea if you are using that now.

Super lightweight. Super snappy, and it supports GitHub Actions style CI/CD.

I self host everything except maps and email. Maps because it’s just not there and email because even if you set it up perfectly with DKIM and everything your IP can still land on a blacklist. You will spend more time doing blacklist appeals then it’s worth.

+1 For Gitea. Works really well for me. It recently added GitHub style actors so you can use GitHub style CI/CD too!

Me too. I am really looking forward to the tiered storage system. NVME backed by HDDs backed by SMR HDDs. You write to the the NVME drives and in the background bcachefs slowly moves it to the slower mediums.