perishthethought

Because if they flew over the bay, they'd be bay gulls.

From their site:

Instantly launch your favorite internet appliance with just a click using Cloud Seeder, our open-source server appliance platform for everyone, or use your skills and manually setup a home server lab. With IPv6rs, you will have the external IP you need to self host on your home computer or mobile device.

$10 a month, or $60 for a year, or $80 for 2 years.

Seems they give you an externally routable IP6 address, and then make that route to your home network, where you still have to run the server. They do have an app which is meant to make it easier to install podman containers for whatever service you want to run. For some reason, they call those "appliances". Not a fan of that word.

Before anyone jumps in to say, "Pffft. I do this now for free" - this isn't aimed at you then, is it? It's aimed at making it possible for less technical people to self-host some of their digital life, which is a good thing in general, in my mind. Kind of like how Linux needed more user-friendly distros for the masses to increase adoption. Good on them, I say, and good luck.

Remember when the web didn't suck?

I found the last bug in my program!

Hello y'all! I have my personal (static) website / blog running on netlify out on the public internet. Netlify, in case you're not familiar, is not a traditional web host, so I can't add databases or anything else like that on the server itself. Right now, that site has zero analytics / visitor tracking and I've decided I want to fix that. I want to know how many people visited my site and which pages they looked at. I am NOT looking to monetize anything though, to be clear.

I want to self-host that analytics service at home, on my home server, but I need two things, please:

1. Recommendations for which app to use. I've checked out Umami and Plausible and they both look good for my meager purposes. But please - let me know which app makes sense for a personal web site with low-ish traffic. Is there something simpler I could do?

2. Help getting the reverse proxy set up so my public web site can send analytics data into my home server. I would prefer this to be entirely under my control, so no CloudFlare or Tailscale, for instance. Is Caddy an option? I get really confused really quickly about this level of networking, to be clear, so maybe I just need a really plain-English guide to handling this sort of thing?

Thanks for any / all ideas! Y'all so totally rock!

ETA: A little more info about Netlify and why I can't install or use tools other traditional web hosts might offer.

** SECOND EDIT**: Thanks to @[email protected] for the goatcounter suggestion, I am trying that out now for the analytics side of this. Getting it set up was easy and free, using their server. (I know, I know...) If I still like the app after the next couple of weeks, I will move it in-house and self-host. That gives me a couple of weeks to figure out my second issue above, how to have my public web site make requests to my self-hosted, behind the firewall/NAT service. Yay, more learning!

I had an issue recently with getting FileBrowser to run and while researching that, I found this tool which creates a docker-compose.yml file from a docker run command. It worked well for me, so I am passing it along to you all. I hope someone else finds this helpful.

(Not my tool / site, to be clear)

A little girl wanders outside one night and has a close encounter with a flying saucer that shows its hostile intent by stealing her balloon. It’s seventeen years later and they’re back. This time with more than balloons on their mind, this time they abduct her mother.

Watch it on YT for free - No country restrictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnKS_C8wAhw

1. In Outlook, enable your out-of-office message, set it to start right now.
2. Click Save.
3. Immediately see a pop-up asking if you want to turn that off.

WTF Microsoft? Who would ever do that?

I suppose someone might have turned it on for the wrong dates, but 99.99% of the time this is just annoying.

Not to defend this as an institution or anything, but if you and your partner do anything special, what is it?

(And yes, I am fishing for ideas haha)

His performance was ribbiting.