Hellmo_luciferrari

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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • I self host as well as use bitwardens service.

    I pay $10 a year, and never have I had access issues with it.

    My self hosted instance houses everything for my other self hosted services.

    I can also have my Bitwarden duplicated to my self hosted instance.

    However, the only way to access my Vailtwarden instance is via my network. And for my use case, this is perfect.

    Neither of them have I had any downtime; like others have said it’s anecdotal.




  • So, I of course rebooted everything i could, the box hosting my DNS/PiHole, VPN, docker box, etc. However, was remote and couldn’t reboot my modem.

    I lowered my MTU on my VPN client config after rebooting my modem, and it’s working.

    I don’t fully understand why it worked, but it did.

    Maybe something on my ISPs end that wasn’t functioning.


  • I turned on query logging for my PiHole. I chose a random site I don’t typically browse, and confirmed I saw it logged in my PiHole. Though, I am thinking it’s likely DNS that’s causing issues.

    I even tried turning off split tunneling, and it does the same thing.

    I checked automatic DNS setting on my phone.


    I don’t know if it will make a difference but the DNS records for my local services are CNAME records, so I am going to change it to an A/AAAA record on PiHole.

    I have these set in PiHole and not my Unbound.















  • I want to self host more, but power draw is a concern.

    So I have gone the route of running to Pi 4 8gb models as my hosts of choice.

    So far I am hosting:

    Non-Docker:

    • PiHole
    • Unbound
    • Wireguard (and Wireguard-UI)

    Docker:

    • ForgeJo
    • Dozzle
    • Homarr
    • LinkWarden
    • Traefik
    • Watchtower

    There are a few other services I want to get up, but I haven’t gotten around to it:

    • Jellyfin
    • Immich
    • Nextcloud

    As to why:

    • ForgeJo to host my own git repositories (Docker Compose files, Chezmoi dot files, Miscellaneous configs)
    • PiHole for ad blocking
    • Unbound, well, having my own DNS
    • Wireguard so I can connect to my home network
    • Dozzle for easy log checking for my docker containers
    • Linkwaren so I can backup bookmarks in a privacy friendly way
    • Homarr for easy access to other web services I host
    • Traefik so I can resolve IP:port to a hostname with SSL certificates even though everything I host is internal only
    • Watchtower to update my Docker containers