I mean anything that is not hosted in your house. For example, dynamic dns, some type of ddos protection, off-site backups, external oauth provider, etc.
regery for my domains (they’re ukrainian)
smtp2go as a relay for my mail server
mxroute for my other mail domain (yes, I have 2 domains)
The rest I try to selfhost
- Mail with all the bells and whistles (been there, done that – but I just want this to work and not care about details).
- Dynamic DNS because I just need to tell someone my non-static IP so they can connect that with my domain name.
Only tailscale fpr vpn and backblaze for backup
- Lets Encrypt…
- Backblaze (for now, until I find an alternative closer to home)
I just use a domain name through name cheap, which includes ddns. I cant think of anything else that I do at home that isn’t taken care of locally.
For my homelab:
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
For things that I host externally (i.e. not part of my homelab):
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Cloudflare R2 (Object storage)
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
What are you paying for BackBlaze and Cloudflare?
I don’t store much on backblaze, so I don’t think I’ve ever spent over 2USD there in a month. As for Cloudflare, I’m able to stay in the free tier.
How much (GB/TB) is not much btw?
I need to get around to backing up via Backblaze
Around 350~400 GB. I compress and encrypt before sending to backblaze.
- Tailscale for external access, this is extremely convenient.
- Namesilo for domain (cheap but otherwise not really recommended)
- Bunny DNS (because NPM’s certbot doesn’t support Namesilo). Still looking at their other services, overall it seems nice.
Still looking at an external backup solution like Backblaze or Hetzner
Email and offsite backups (as 3rd copy of data, encrypted
I have a $5/mo vps running caddy over wireguard to get better routing when I’m on mobile.
Otherwise, my traffic goes to my home ISPs hub 600 miles away and back. The VPS is less than 100 miles away and it performs much better.
Uptime monitoring and notifications
Mind sharing what service you use for it? Paid or free?
A small application I wrote myself, hosted on the free tier of pythonanywhere.com
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For personal stuff, i use an external email, and borgbase for backups (highly recommend them if using Borg or restic).