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YunoHost

There are numerous projects which have attempted to create this. https://sandstorm.io/ was the biggest one but as far as I can tell its largely unmaintained and most of the apps are outdated https://yunohost.org/ probably has the best "just works" experience but I didn't like that it wasn't using any kind of containerization which has caused them issues with shared libraries like PHP being difficult to update. As well as security concerns about one insecure app giving access to the whole server. Ultimately the problem is just extremely difficult / high maintenance. And no one wants to pay for this work.

#Control Panels #Cloud Computing #Hosting 73 social mentions

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PhotoPrism.app

PhotoPrism[1]+NextCloud is a potential solution to the Picasa problem. I run them on my personal NAS. The devops experience is fine -- I can wrap up PWAs for all the devices (PCs and phones) in the family. Need to set up a few systemd timers to synchronize data, build indices and check for PhotoPrism app updates but that's not too bad. Docker makes deployment super easy. The user experience, hmm, modern, minimalism, tolerable. Modern = it knows about iPhone live photos and all sorts of photo metadata; has machine learning for classification. Recognizes faces. etc. Minimalism = just a viewer, no photo editing (Picasa photo editing and the ability to put an album together into one picture totally rocks) Tolerable = meh classification precision, slow geotagged map (dreaming of Picasa + Google Earth), NextCloud iOS autoupload constantly breaks (you want non-iCloud cloud on iOS and you're not a megacorp huh? Good luck) etc. Conclusion? It has been a decade since Picasa is gone. I'd expect a lot more improvements to happen, but in reality, the best thing we have now is just that. Some good, some bad, some ugly. [1]: https://photoprism.app/.

#Open Source #Photo Organization #Automated Tagging 153 social mentions

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FreedomBox

Nobody is talking about the freedombox? https://freedombox.org/.

#Control Panels #Cloud Computing #Cloud Storage 22 social mentions

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Sandstorm.io

There are numerous projects which have attempted to create this. https://sandstorm.io/ was the biggest one but as far as I can tell its largely unmaintained and most of the apps are outdated https://yunohost.org/ probably has the best "just works" experience but I didn't like that it wasn't using any kind of containerization which has caused them issues with shared libraries like PHP being difficult to update. As well as security concerns about one insecure app giving access to the whole server. Ultimately the problem is just extremely difficult / high maintenance. And no one wants to pay for this work.

#Cloud Computing #Control Panels #VPS 27 social mentions

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ente

#Photos & Graphics #Photo Gallery #Cloud Storage 69 social mentions

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Cloudron

Can recommend https://cloudron.io for those looking to get started with self-hosting and don't have a whole lot of time figuring out how to install/update a variety of apps.

#Control Panels #Hosting #Server Management 16 social mentions

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Portainer

Self-hosting is something that we should be constantly iterating on making easier; it's really the path forward for privacy centric folks. The main challenges are managing workload scheduling (SystemD is complicated for a layperson). Networking is another challenge; for instance, if you wanted <i>all</i> or <i>part</i> of these services to remain offline or on a Mesh VPN there's a lot of knowledge required. There's some projects trying to tackle the workload orchestration piece; CasaOS (https://www.casaos.io/) being one of my favorites but there's also Portainer (https://portainer.io). TailScale and and ZeroTier are great for Mesh VPN networking, where you may need to run some workloads in the cloud but want them networked with your home applications (or just to keep them offline). They also allow you to access applications running on a home server that doesn't have a static IP. Cloudflare Access is okay; I haven't tried it because it deviates from the mesh VPN model significantly.

#DevOps Tools #Containers And Microservices #Kubernetes 34 social mentions

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Hacker News Search

If you're trying to frame the problem in your mind like that, I suggest doing an HN search like https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=self-host&sort=byPopularity&type=story to give you a good idea why people self-host.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1920 social mentions

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DigitalOcean Marketplace

Digital ocean too [1], my non-tech brother uses this for spinning up WordPress/e-commerce sites [1] https://marketplace.digitalocean.com.

#Application Builder #No Code #Mobile App Builder 9 social mentions

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Radarr

But running docker, with multiple images that should interact withanother and with the public and it now it gets complex. "Just docker run" is not always the answer Look at Radarr: https://radarr.video/#downloads-v3-docker It's nice that they give tipps about pitfalls, but there are more than this and a step by step tutorial would also be good. Often times you have to google and search 10 reddit posts. Thinks like digitaloceans tutorial work best.

#Video & Movies #Movies #Download Manager 77 social mentions

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mailcow

#Email #Self-hosted Email #Email Service Provider 82 social mentions