This plus technitium DNS is exactly my approach.

Damn,yeah …it was late…

Around 30TB shares between various providers. Hetzner for servers, Ionos for S3 compatible block storage, Tuxis for PBS, atm still some old backups at Synology and Backblaze,but getting rid of that.

Total cost should be around 120€/month.

I use different things:

• Netbox for the actual hard “inventory” like documentation. What cable goes where, what powers what, what MAC is assigned to what, when did I buy this or that?(The later with an addon). In theory I also have snipe-it,but doing it all in netplan is more convenient.

• Wiki.js for the concept and How-To-Side. Lots of draw.io diagrams (which can be done directly in articles), HOWTOs as a reminder for me, naming conventions, etc. Also some basic inventory information for disaster recovery. (Wiki.js is not hosted locally)

• Vaultwarden for all secrets,passwords, recovery keys, ssh keys,etc.

• Gitea for the most important config files/scripts/docker compose files.

• And last but not least I do backups to Mdisc Blue Rays every few months. These include the documentation, the most important files (knx project for example), etc. and are stored at a different location (bank safe). There is also an detailled explanation in both my wifes and my own will how to access these so if something happens the kiddos or someone taking care of them can gain access.

Enough to currently implement a device management.

And if you need a more MS Office like feel: Use Softmaker.

Haha, thank you. Glad i could help.

Bonus content: I am also banned at two different swinger clubs in two different countries. And I swear I was never a guest in either one.

First one: I am a paramedic and responded to a call to this establishment.Small, sleezy, club with not much going on. (We had a few od these in the area, I know how they usually look like) Man had “too many to drink” according to the owner and he basically just called us to get rid of him fast. Yeah, no. Guy in reality had a major stroke (subarachnoid hemorrhage to be exact) and was, well, actively dying. Not gonna tube a 120kg bodybuilder that is having seizures in a dark room. So I very nicely asked them to put on all the lights they could find. Which,well, did not fare well with the owner. He refused and did infact insult us and try to force us out. (With the patient) He shoved me. I am really not the guy you want to mess with when it comes to that. Former bouncer. Called law enforcement backup and shoved him back. Hard enough for him to fly through the room. Law enforcement arrived fast, arrested him and as then no licence holder was on site cleared the premises. (And according to them tipped off the fire marshal,the code enforcement and health control guys) He requested the name of the manager of my service. Which was kind of funny…i was the manager. So two days later he wrote a heated mail and banned my colleagues and me.

The other one is sadly not as funny/expansive. During COVID I was regularly in the media(Disaster prevention/planning is my main business now) and after an interview with an national newspaper some owner took offence and wrote me a (actually fairly civilized) letter that I was banned for life in all his establishments. TBH, that one was FAR more difficult to explain to the wife than the first one.

Mullvad Leta is at least google minus the tracking.

Which is a problem of the legal system around it.

Within most(or all) EU countries this would count as a continuation of business and all previous liabilities (e.g. employees contracts, customers contracts, etc.) would need to be honored.

Why it is done this way? To prevent people from doing exact that.

I am banned from an hospital and a country.

No, I was not an unruly patient,but instead called out their bullshit as a healthcare provider working with them. And reported them. Which lead to them banning me. Which funny enough is illegal here as well.

And I am banned from entering Turkey. Turkish airlines nearly killed me during a flight by having some sharp pieces in my food. Had a gastric bleed from it,including a hospital stay in a foreign country. Well. My travel insurance sued them and thinks got ugly. In parallel the political party I then was a somewhat active member of back then (as in “running for state parliament”-levels) was getting in arguments with Erdogan. So one day I received a letter by my foreign department that I specifically should not enter Turkey or I might see a Turkish prison from the inside.

Look at you, on your high horse, who thinks that resources both are infinite and must be attributed to our little niche because your little morals think it’s the most important thing. Rather antagonising your own people if someone is willing to even move away one inch from your high morals to compromise with the rest of the world than to find an actual working solution. Because then you wouldn’t be able to fuss about it.

I’d rather have a dev getting a proper Windows build that is running well and optimised for being used with Proton (which is far easier) than a badly working Linux native version

No,more like an “AD” replacement. Does a lot of things(DNS,DHCP,some Apps),always depends on what one needs.

It sounds like it, but there are a few things I still need to do.

• AMP Gamemanager to get better control of the servers for the kiddos

• Codeproject AI for better image recognition with agent dvr

• A proper voice AI setup with HA

• I need to get my PBX setup going again

• I will soon clean up my media and storage solution and move to TrueNAS

And I need to automate more. One day…

Yeah, but Netbox is really really neat to document cabeling, IPAM, the rack and does asset management as well with a plugin.

But it’s really hard to document HOWTOs in it. And wiki.js is really a bad idea for the former.

Have a look at Cloudron as well,then. It’s free for 2 Apps and Johannes (the founder) is a fairly nice guy from Bavaria.

Anyway,yeah. I have a different post here what I self host (which doesn’t even include everything…) so it’s a slippery slope.

Play a reverse uno card and ask the interviewer how long they are working for the company,which position they started in, what they liked and disliked about the company and what was the last thing that made them smile while at work.

Seriously. Do it.

Both interviewers do work in the same position they started in after 5 years? Looks like there is not much room for development. They are all there for less than 2 years? When the company is not a startup it’s likely staff retention is bad. If both interviewers get nervous about the “like/dislike” question and only name cliché stuff: They might be afraid that they say something the other will report to someone.

And if they refuse to answer these questions totally? Well. Fuck their company culture, obviously.

Besides using the power consumption there are also various ways to integrate smart devices - e.g. Bosch Siemens HomeConnect directly and let “the house” react to it. For the later a “no cloud” local integration has become available as well.

• Matrix server
• Element web GUI
• NocoDB for various Mini databases and forms
• Joplin server
• KanBan Board
• Mealie to store recipes
• Grocy as a home ERP
• Grafana for various metrics
• Home Assistant
• NodeRed(non HA, different node)
• InfluxDB
• Zabbix for monitoring
• Vaultwarden
• etherpad
• Technitium DNS
• A NTP server
• Mesh Central
• A win11 VM with RDP
• paperless NGX
• calibre Web (or does that count as Media already)
• Agent DVR
• Spoolmann
• OrcaSlicer via Browser(linuxserver.io)
• Omada Controller
• Univention to bring everything together
• netbox to document half of the shit
• wiki.js to document the other half

Honestly,I think I have a problem.

Yunohost is okayish. Some apps sadly are badly maintained and therefore upgraded with more delay than I considered acceptable (but that has improved afaik)and integration into a single “look and feel” is a bit lacking. Nevertheless it’s solid in the end.

If you are willing to pay something Cloudron may be an alternative for you as well - very well maintained product, good support team and rock solid from my experience - and it’s a non-US/non-China company. (German to be exact) But it costs money for more than 2 applications. I nevertheless went with them - I don’t self host as a hobby, I self-host because I want shit to work. Between job and family I have no time to fiddle around with things and keep everything updated on a short notice. I have project where I can do that, but they are not something my family or myself depend on. (And they integrate nicely with Cloudron as you can add “custom” Apps/use it as a proxy and OpenID Provider)