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I have recently gotten into it.

My general IT skills have risen and the barrier to entry has fallen enough to the point even a doofus like me can have their own server for media, hosting webpages, etc.

I'm looking to transfer stuff from the "cloud" (under the control of techbro dickheads) to a physical box I can see. Already working on transferring google photos to immich,etc.

Anybody else into this?

Btw, I really miss the old forum scene. Hunting for information through mostly unnecessarily long youTube videos, discord (search kind of sucks), etc. is a massive pain.

Not all the time, but I self-host a Foundry VTT server for remote D&D games with my friends who've moved away. I only put it up when we're actually playing, though, for obvious reasons.

Rogue 9 wrote: 2025-04-23 10:46pm Not all the time, but I self-host a Foundry VTT server for remote D&D games with my friends who've moved away. I only put it up when we're actually playing, though, for obvious reasons.

What are you using? I signed up for Unraid (got a lifetime membership before they discontinued selling those).

I just run it straight off my PC. I trust everyone involved and the link to join is never public so I have no issue opening the relevant port.

Rogue 9 wrote: 2025-05-07 07:41pm I just run it straight off my PC. I trust everyone involved and the link to join is never public so I have no issue opening the relevant port.

With so many douches on the internet and my own paranoia, I ended up with a cloudflare tunnel to Nginx Proxy Manager on my server which then directs to the relevant docker.

Not sure how strong that is.

I've been thinking of setting up a couple of things just for a few friends. I'm behind a CGNat, but I was thinking of working around that with a Cloudflare tunnel.

Totally agree. Self-hosting puts you in control and avoids sketchy cloud providers. For media, Jellyfin and Immich, for websites, use lightweight servers like Nginx or Caddy.