• Presi300@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I recently decided to get more serious about self hosting and gotta say, use TrueNAS scale, just do it, literally everything is 1 click… While it can be complicated, it is most definitely worth it, not just to stick it to big tech, but because some of the selfhosted apps genuinely provide a better experience than centralized alternatives. NextCloud surprised me especially with how genuinely nice it is. Installed it, got an SSL certificate and replaced google services almost entirely in a few hours of work.

    I’ve still got a few things I wanna do which look very complicated… Stuff like a mail server and pfsense (the stuff of nightmares) are among the 1st on my list…

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      1 year ago

      OPNSense is generally pretty easy, more powerful, and more open than pfsense. I started with pf but went to OPNSense and have loved it!

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            I am very much into the nitty gritty of Linux (I use Alpine fyi) the problem is, pf/opnsense aren’t based on Linux…

            And I also don’t really know how to set them up… Yk as routers, mainly because my internet comes through PPPoE and I just cannot for the life of me figure out how to pass that through to a VM. I bound the VM to its own NIC, did everything, did not work…

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              Honestly, I found it really easy. I don’t have a background in IT or anything either.

              What did you find difficult? Setting custom firewall rules is harder to understand, but the general functionality of setting up a NAT and even installing and configuring ZenArmor were super super easy.

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                I already have my own network with stuff and things… it’s mostly just the simple stuff (TrueNAS scale, pihole, wireguard, nextcloud and other things like that). But yeah, outside my mac, I have literally 0 experience with BSD…

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                  yeah, pretty much the same for me, just a little more primitive by nature.

                  I hear BSD is pretty nice since it’s one system, instead of a modular system, it makes the actual functionality of the system a little nicer, as well a improving security quite a bit.

                  I can’t imagine it’s much different than linux, they’re both unix related, and unix shares heavy ties with most unix related OSs these days.