thibaultamartin
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Comment · 1 year ago
Author here, thanks for the warning! I'm all too familiar with this kind of situation! This homelab is for fun and learning.
I wrote about why I don't (want to) self-host services for others: https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-se...
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not too familiar with it. Why do you want or need ECC RAM for your homelab?
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh lord of the rings, that's embarrassing. Thanks for reporting the typo!
Comment · 1 year ago
Author here, I completely agree. In fact, I even wrote about it: https://ergaster.org/posts/2023/08/09-i-dont-want-to-host-se...
My homelab is my hobby. I maintain it for my pleasure and to learn new skills. We have an infra nerds club with a few colleagues and we're having a lot of fun comparing our approaches!
Comment · 1 year ago
Author here, indeed I didn't install a UPS. I've tried to keep my setup fairly minimal, and I'm consciously accepting that if there's a power outage my services will be down. I self-host exclusively for myself, not for others.
What I don't want though is a power outage putting my server offline while I'm on holidays, and not be able to access my services at all.
My ISP-provided router supports Wireguard, so I can use that to connect to my KVM and send the Wake on LAN packages.
Comment · 1 year ago
Author here, indeed I bought a JetKVM. A colleague had one and recommended it warmly! I'm Very happy with it so far, but my usage has been rather basic.
I've heard that it might be difficult to get one in the US though.
Comment · 1 year ago
That's right, I've added an errata to clarify. Thanks for the heads up!
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for pointing it out! I've added an errata to the blog post
Comment · 1 year ago
I've had similar thoughts and decided not to embed comments on my blog, but to link to social media where people can still give me feedback.
One of the most positive things I've done though is to generate "Comment by email" links at the end of each post. People who reach out directly and only to me behave much differently than people who do performative commenting on social media.
The overall rationale for not having comments on my blog is here https://ergaster.org/posts/2024/03/06-welcoming-feedback/
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you have specific books to recommend?
Comment · 1 year ago
Fair questions.
For the first one, the main benefits of Astro over static html and css (for my use cases) are the ability to include components and enforce the properties that must be passed. A typical example would be [here][0] where I define a layout for the whole website, and then [on each page that uses it](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-conf-website/blob/main/...) I have to pass the right properties. Doable by hand, but it's great to have tooling that can yell at me if I forgot to do it.
Content Collections also let me grab content from e.g. markdown or json and build pages automatically from it. The [Content Collections docs][1] are fairly straightforward.
As for performance issues, I've spent quite a bit of time on the countryside where connectivity was an issue and every extra request was definitely noticeable, hence the value of inlining it (you load one html file that has the css embedded, instead of loading an html file that then tells your browser to load an extra css file). The same can be true in some malls where I live.
[0]: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-conf-website/blob/main/... [1]: https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/content-collections/
Comment · 1 year ago
I can only approve. To me Astro started as "it's just html and css but with includes."
I used it for my personal website, and recently used it when reimplementing the Matrix Conference website. It's really a no-fuss framework that is a joy to use.
Among the things I love about Astro:
- It's still html and css centric - Once built, it doesn't require js by default - You can still opt-into adding js for interactivity here and there - Content collections are neat and tidy - Astro massively optimizes for speed, and the maintainers know how to do it - It had a very helpful devbar to help you visually figure out what easy fix can make your website snappier (like lazily loading images if it detects them below the fold)
For the "optimize for speed" bit, an example is that the css minifier cleverly inlines some CSS to avoid additional queries. The Image component they provide will set the width and height attribute of an image to avoid content layout shifts. It will also generate responsive images for you.
Comment · 1 year ago
Author here, that's a great question. I only host a handful of services on the VPS, including Nextcloud. I was mostly interested in storage, not so much in compute power.
Netcup offered VPS with 1 TB of storage for €30 / month back when I subscribed. The server has always been oversized for my needs, but that was the most financially interesting back then.
I recently switched to another ISP at home that gives me a fixed IP. I decided to move my services at home to shave off the VPS costs. Since I already had a Raspberry Pi 4, I only had to buy a SSD and an enclosure.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is absolutely right, thanks for pointing it out! The post has been updated to reflect that.
Director of Program Development at The Matrix.org Foundation