Recently, I’ve found myself walking several friends through what is essentially the same basic setup:

  • Install Ubuntu server
  • Install Docker
  • Configure Tailscale
  • Configure Dockge
  • Set up automatic updates on Ubuntu/Apt and Dockge/Docker
  • Self-host a few web apps, some publicly available, some on the Tailnet.

After realizing that this setup is generally pretty good for relative newcomers to self-hosting and is pretty stable (in the sense that it runs for a while and remains up-to-date without much human interference) I decided that I should write a few blog posts about how it works so that other people can set it up for themselves.

As of right now, there’s:

Coming soon:

  • Immich
  • Backups with Syncthing
  • Jellyfin
  • Elementary monitoring with Homepage
  • Cloudflare Tunnels

Constructive feedback is always appreciated.

EDIT: Forgot to mention that I am planning a backups article

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    10 hours ago

    Something really fun I found out recently, when my friend lost all access to his system except for a single WebDAV share by accidentally turning off all his remote admin access:

    If you write “b” to /proc/sysrq-trigger, it will immediately reboot the system (like holding down the reset button, so inherently a bit dangerous).

    He was running Nephele with / mounted as the share, so luckily he just uploaded that file with a single “b” in it, and all his remote admin stuff came back up after the reboot.

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        7 hours ago

        That’s not a vulnerability. That’s intended and desired behavior. It was really useful in this case too.

        I should mention that the WebDAV share is password protected, so only he has access to do that.