You may have noticed a few of my posts here, I am very interested in self-hosting and what advice can you give to a newbie? maybe some literature, video, I don’t know~

  • @anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
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    59 months ago

    My Debian Hypervisor do have a DE (GNOME) to be able to easily access virtual machines with virt-manager if I mess up their networking, my Debian VMs run CLI only though.

    Regarding your last section I agree strongly - I only expose my vpn with no other incoming ports open. You also don’t need to invest in a domain if you do it this way.
    I don’t mind helping my friends install their openvpn client and certificate and it’s nice to not have my services bombarded with failed connection attempts.

    • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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      29 months ago

      My Debian Hypervisor do have a DE (GNOME) to be able to easily access virtual machines with virt-manager

      Well I guess that depends on your level of proficiency with the cli. I personally don’t want a DE running ever, in fact my system doesn’t even have a GPU nor a CPU that can do graphics.

      With that said, do you know about Cockpit? It provides you with a very light WebUI for any server and has a virtual machine manager as well.

      I don’t mind helping my friends install their openvpn client and certificate and it’s nice to not have my services bombarded with failed connection attempts.

      Yes I know the feeling ahahah. Now you should consider Wireguard, it’s way easier and lighter. Check out the links I provided, there’s a nice WebUI to provision clients there.

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        29 months ago

        Cockpit
        I do know about and use Cockpit with said virtual machine manager but I mostly use it as a shutdown/boot/restart app in my phone and a convenient service monitor and log viewer when troubleshooting.

        Wireguard/OpenVPN
        I really should try out Wireguard sometime but currently OpenVPN is fast enough for my bandwidth and I was already proficient with setting it up before Wireguard.
        The WebUI definitely looks useful.

        • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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          29 months ago

          I do know about and use Cockpit with said virtual machine manager

          So… no need for a DE :) Wireguard is so damn good, even if you manual setup it’s just easier.

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              19 months ago

              Well, it’s not just about RAM. A DE comes with dozens of packages and things that get updated, startup delays and whatnot.