SelfHosting - 1st Half 2025

People keep doing awsome stuff: this time with solar energy

But lately, it was all about…Traefik to get programatic https for homelab services!

While exploring TinyAuth, I revisited the Jims Garage guide on Traefik v3.

Tinkering with Traefik v3

Together with TinyAuth as authentication

TinyAuth x Traefik x Flask

Source Code with a Flask App working with the authentication middleware

It was also the time to set a LogTo example.

Docker Repository

Collection of Docker Config Files - 0625 Edition

Home-Lab

Ordered config files | Youtube Video friendly

SelfHosting Resources:

• https://openalternative.co/self-hosted
• https://devsuite.co/collections/open-source

Improvements

Nextcloud with Https

Getting Better at sync file tools

All thanks to getting Traefik (traefik:v3.3) to work programatically!

So I just needed to get the domain DNS records accordingly:

nslookup nextcloud.jalcocertech.com

docker exec -it nextcloud /bin/bash
cd /var/www/html/config/
nano config.php

#docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php occ config:list system | grep trusted_domains -A 10
docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php /var/www/html/occ config:system:get trusted_domains #See how many you have, and put the next
docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php /var/www/html/occ config:system:set trusted_domains 2 --value="192.168.1.11"
docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php /var/www/html/occ config:system:set trusted_domains 3 --value="nextcloud.jalcocertech.com"

Going from this: https://jalcocert.github.io/JAlcocerT/selfhosted-apps-spring-2025/#nextcloud

To this

remember to use the Android or iOS app

https://jalcocert.github.io/JAlcocerT/sync-file-tools/#webdavs

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/31/user_manual/en/files/access_webdav.html

dav://reisikei@192.168.1.11:8080/remote.php/webdav
davs://your_nc_user@nextcloud.yourdomain.duckdns.org/remote.php/webdav
davs://your_nc_user@nextcloud.jalcocertech.com/remote.php/webdav

I got a transfer speed of ~15mb/s via wifi:

nload
#nload wlp3s0

You can also use the desktop app:

flatpak install flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud

See the transfer speed with

sudo apt install nload
#ip a
nload wlp3s0

Got a transfer speed of , compared to the ~60MB/s avg to ProtonDrive

You can now enable other devices or create accounts for your friends/family:

Third Party Cloud NC Backup

Last month i tried protondrive with rclone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/Docker/tree/main/Backups#rclone

1. ProtonDrive

2. Google Drive

PortMaster and https

If you are using portmaster, you might need to disable DNS config -> Enforce global/private-split view

So that the nextcloud configured via Traefik and tailscale DSN will work

The DNSs

Its all about the DNS.

And I saw on this post that there is an EU alternative to cloudflare, goodle, quad9 and many other DNS: https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public#resolver-options

Lately, I evne learnt how to modify Cloudflare DNS records via its API with a Python script

Monitoring

Beszel Setup

Monitoring Tools Post | With Beszel 101 Setup

On that post I also talked about Tianji, which is something more than a Web Analytics tool.

Grafana

Uptime Kuma

Internet Speed

• https://orb.net/docs/setup-sensor/docker https://orb.net/

P2P

You can find things to share

In Home Tools

1. Reubah: with background removal coming soon

Tech for a Trip

Hardware & Softw setup for traveling

Photo Tools

PiGallery, PhotoView, Immich…

For more photo/video tricks, see also:

2. IT/Toos + OmniTools

HomeLab Diagrams

I was very surprised to find out that you can embed https://docs.excalidraw.com/docs/@excalidraw/excalidraw/integration into your websites!

A very interesting to share homelab diagrams with your friends/family.

You could also do the classic Mermaid inside a SliDev PPT https://sli.dev/features/mermaid

To have a rendered pdf with instructions how to access your selfhosted services

Conclusions

Termix has been great to manage couple of homelab devices.

http://192.168.1.11:8090/

Filebrowser dev has been abandoned and for me it was still a thing to combine it with PiGallery2.

But now we have filebrowser quantum!

Also, ive been tinkering a lot with authentication via Logto

With gemini CLI and similar vibe coding tools, its been much easier to spin new services:

AI CLI Tools

Tinkering with GeminiCLI | Post

TinyAuth x Traefik x Flask

Source Code with a Flask App working with the authentication middleware

People are still doing cool stuff with the Pis

FAQ

HomeLab Commands

Whats taking that much space?

#sudo du -ahx / | sort -rh | head -n 50
sudo du -ahx . | sort -rh | head -n 50 #from current folder and below

I want to clean old container stuff

docker builder prune
#docker system prune -a
docker volume prune
docker image prune -a

SelfHosting Python Web Apps

Lately I have also been tinkering with Python Web Apps

So I have updated the docker-compose and Dockerfiles at:

https://github.com/JAlcocerT/Docker/tree/main/Dev/Python_apps

Other

Link analytics solutions, like Kutt: