Good luck! I did the same recently. I wrote my own blog system, though. I can share it with you, but I’m not sure it’s the best for anyone else, there were some shortcuts taken given I did not intend to share it.

You can check out my blog and let me know whether you want to try it: https://chrastecky.dev/ (or federated: !programming@chrastecky.dev, !3d-printing@chrastecky.dev, !gaming@chrastecky.dev).

It’s a cluster of workers where everyone can generate images/text using workers connected to the service.

So if you ran a worker, people could generate stuff using your PC. For that you would gain kudos, which in turn you can use to generate stuff on other people’s computers.

Basically you do two things: help common people without access to powerful machines and use your capacity when you have time to use the kudos whenever you want, even on the road where you can’t turn on your PC if you fancy so.

Try running an AI Horde worker, it’s a really great service!

It’s such a classic, I say it every day to myself when I wake up.

You can use https://schedule.lemmings.world/ to automate the posts. Or, given the community we’re in, you can selfhost it!

This week I’ve been doing some work on my GOG Downloader to finally back up all my GOG stuff when I buy new disks, that’s pretty much it for my selfhost/homeserver stuff this week.

I only ever used SSH, so I don’t know.

IIRC, that’s exactly it. You can either use their GUI (which is not half bad) or you can use the docker command in the terminal after you install the package.

The easiest would be using docker, you can set up the container to always restart, that way it will be started automatically on NAS restart.

You can also download node.js from the Synology software center and manually add a cronjob to run after reboot, but the docker way is probably the best way to go.

IIRC, you can’t control to which port it’s bound which is not that useful.

As others have said, you have bound your host port 8080 to container port 9090 and then you use caddy to reverse proxy to container port 8080, which doesn’t exist.

As for DNS, it’s just a translation system - you send a domain, it returns its IP (for A or AAAA), everything else is done on server. So your current setup works.

Yes, you can deactivate the port, if you’re not gonna use it on the host, you don’t need it. Since you’re connecting via the internal network, you’re not using the bound ports.

As a side note, use some firewall and disable everything but 80, 443 and 22, you should not leave other ports open, especially if you’re binding all the ports in docker like that.

And perhaps make it a good habit to bind ports to 127.0.0.1 by default, that way no one outside the local server can access them. You can do it like this: “127.0.0.1:8080:9090”

Depending on how much you want to donate, you could also pay for a server somewhere. For example Hetzner hosting starts pretty cheap. That way you can self-host without having to host it on a physical machine.

Honestly, you already have the image locally if you’ve pulled it.

I guess not everyone treats their PC as an ephemeral storage, huh? I don’t trust anything that’s available only locally to survive.

I use Proton Mail for my primary domain and then addy.io for redirects to it. It costs $10 a year or something like that and it’s all I actually need.

Replying to emails is as easy as just hitting reply, the only thing that’s slightly harder is sending entirely new email (as in not replying) but even that can either be remembered, or the special email address copied from the addy.io app.

Avahi basically broadcasts to the whole network “hello there, my name is some-cool-domain.local”. When you request that address, your router checks if someone broadcasts that name and uses their IP if so.

Yes, indeed, it’s your local timezone.

store all of the documents, desktop, downloads, etc. on a couple computers

Why use SSHFS for that? I recommend using Syncthing, it’s great for synchronizing stuff across multiple PCs (local and remote).

You need to host your domain somewhere, meaning some DNS provider needs to be the authority on what gets routed where when someone accesses your domain.

The provider will give you a list of nameservers when you make the domain part of their DNS.

I don’t know if there are any that are free (if you don’t also buy a domain from them), so you’ll have to check on your own. You can also self-host a bind9 server and do your DNS there.

Ah, I’ve only ever seen it in combination with a tunnel, so I assumed it’s part of that.

It makes a tunnel through to you and links to that.

True. But pretty much the same applies for dynamic DNS services, except you have to trust your dynamic DNS provider.