Fair point. My company keeps drives that get taken out of servers for office use. After that theyre recycled.

Damn thats cool! My work doesnt let me take drives old drives. Though we dont use sas drives so that might be why.

I certainly dont mind used drives for mass storage. I was planning to do some kinda raid anyways.

I haven’t gotten any kind of nas setup yet. Trying to avoid buying too much lol but good to know other folks are using sas drives too.

No use for them you say 🤔

I was actually just looking at buying some sas spinning drives for a nas. Found a seller on Amazon thats unfortunately gone before i could buy em but it was a pretty good deal. Where do you buy yours from?

ATnT should be able to tell you for sure. I remember reading about another person facing a cgnat using ATnT on reddit while i still went there so it very well could be.

And fairly easy setup yea. I did mine using a windows pc for testing as i was kinda in between places at the time and thats what i ended up using for jellyfin as well. Just lives on my media pc at the moment. The docs are pretty straight forward.

I recommend that or zero tier which is even more dead simple. Both are good but cloudflare does care about how much bandwidth you’re using so just bear that in mind if you think you’ll use the server for anything else.

Both are vpn tunnels so either should work just fine.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

https://www.zerotier.com/pricing/

Self hosting can get pretty overwhelming but i find that using docs in addition to youtube videos helps a lot. I also recommend giving Linux a go when you feel up to it. It can be a very nice option if you’re working with older hardware.

I’m not super familiar with docker so im sorry im not much help there but i noticed that you mentioned a ATnT router. Are you using them as an Internet provider?

If so, you might have a carrier grade nat which makes reverse proxy like this not possible even if you do get caddy server working. I had a similar situation with my jellyfin server.

I had caddy server working but when i moved and started using a mobile internet provider, i had to use a vpn tunnel like cloudflare or zerotier to get around it.

All this to say, id recommend finding that out so if that is the case you dont spend anymore time on caddy.

Good luck either way.

The more you know! Do you know any guides that go over this? I’d be interested in setting this up.

Edit:

Its apart of thier docs. https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets?q=subnet

That i can’t say. Id imagine no at least on android.

If you dont mind the extra setup, cloudflare tunnels are awesome. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

I prefer this over tailscale as i dont want to have an app i need to access my server.

I started off with pi hole when i started messing around with an old laptop for self hosting. My advice is setup what you think is useful.

To access the server outside your home, tailscale is a great option. Fairly simple to setup especially if its just you accessing the server.

Reverse proxy would be best if you intend to let others acess your servers services often or if you dont wanna mess with tunnels. I settled on cloudflare tunnels because i didn’t want another thing to turn on to acess my server outside my house.

When I didn’t have a carrier grade nat to deal with, i used caddy server for automatically getting ssl certs from lets encrypt and reverse proxy all in one. I really liked that once i got it setup.

Yea I’d say its gonna be a while befote the idea of federated social media really takes off. I think one of the bigger reasons is just ease of use.

The federation aspect of this is kinda confusing when your first hear about and most users just want an easy experience.

Now you can say “oh just join lemmy.world and be done with it” but then comes another issue. Which is “wheres my account in this other instance?” Its not there. And it wont be there until porting accounts becomes a more integrated part of Lemmy and other federated socail medias.

I think those are the biggest things holding it back for now. I think it will catch on as more and more folks become more aware of (and care about) corporations like facebook(meta) or reddit don’t care what you think and will walk all over you for a quick buck.