What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? - eviltoast

I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I’ve got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

  • Drudge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Quick question, don’t want to highjack the thread. This looks interesting, but I don’t understand why I couldn’t just install it on my regular laptop running fedora. Why does it need it’s own server?

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      1 year ago

      Well you can install it locally and get the web interface via localhost, but if it’s a proper server you can access the news from your sources from anywhere and you can also use 3rd party apps in your phone to get a different interface via the API

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        1 year ago

        FreshRSS is just a PHP app so you don’t even need a VPS - you could even install it in a regular shared hosting account.

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        1 year ago

        Do you have any recommendations for 3rd party apps? I did a quick search but couldn’t find any apps built for FreshRSS

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        1 year ago

        Oh ok thanks. I do like the idea of access from anywhere… I’m guessing a VPN would be needed on the server and phone? Or is this a whole big thing?

        • chrono@apollo.town
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          1 year ago

          Check out tailscale, the best tool ever to access a server without opening ports or doing hard stuff

        • med@sh.itjust.works
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          It depends on how secure you want to get with it. You could just host it with any of the hosting providers and have it public - or you could have it behind a vpn on that server

          If you were hosting it at home, you’d likely want to restrict access to behind a vpn. No sense advertising your network is any more interesting than it needs to be