These are the Watchtower logs so far. https://pastes.io/watchtower

I didn’t see anything remarkable other than the error for Netdata but I got that fixed:

NFO[30906] Found new netdata/netdata:latest image (6376ffeda44a) 
INFO[30940] Stopping /NETDATA (a18a3e3409f3) with SIGTERM 
INFO[30942] Creating /NETDATA                            
ERRO[30942] Error response from daemon: the container-wide MAC address must match the endpoint-specific MAC address for the main network, or be left empty 

The end result is that people understood common sense that it’s not admirable to be pathetic and weak. You should have been beaten as a kid by other kids, and weren’t.

Ahh yes. Violence always helps. I come from an entirely different timeline myself being 70 years old. I didn’t like bullies then, and I don’t like them now.

I was thinking more along the lines of Morty’s sex robot purchased at a intergalactic pawnshop.

Hmmm, well, I’m not one to judge a person’s proclivities, but I don’t see it as being much different than porn, assuming you are selfhosting a girlfriend for sexual release/companionship. I’m not sure I’d disclose this on a public forum, but maybe you feel a bit more comfortable than I.

The other consideration is that AI generally takes a pretty good chunk of resources to use effectively. I have selfhosted a couple of LLMs like GPTFree, Automattic111, and a couple more, however, as I mentioned, they take a lot of resources.

Might want to stock up

She sure has a lot of domains tho. That’s not that unusual, just notable. I hope she finds inner peace.

One man’s dream VPS is another man’s nightmare VPS.

I do business with Contabo. They did raise my monthly by $1. I’m still with them, I have had no real issues with their service. I also do business with Ethernet Services. They are bare bones, no frills, hosters. I pay $25 per year with them so I don’t really expect that much in return except for keeping everything online and they do a fairly good job of it. Their service tickets are slow, but they’ll get around to you.

LuxVPS is my latest host. I get more bang for buck from them:

• Black Luxury Deal #1

• 4 vCores (Xeon Gold 6150)
  

• 26 GB DDR4 RAM
• 150 GB Raid 1 NVMe
• 1 Gbit internet speed | 40 TB Traffic
• 1x IPv4
• 1x /64 IPv6
• 3.2Tbit Premium DDoS Protection
• 24/7 Ticket Support
• 4 Backups
• For ONLY 10€/Mo (recurring)

Their only caveat is that you have to pay extra for mail ports.

If it was free, I’d say go for it. If it’s $100, you’re halfway to a much more capable machine

This very line of reasoning is why I cannot build cheap desktops. I’m always thinking ‘well you know, if you add another $100 you could have all of this’

Tailscale Healthcheck looks interesting.

Indeed I did. I had apparently screwed up the formatting of a couple of the entries. The associated apps worked on a daily basis, the certificate was visible, but apparently the improper formatting was enough to confuse Caddy when it came to renewing the cert. Looking at the backup Caddyfile verses the newly formatted Caddyfile, I had a couple braces out of whack.

ETA: what led to all of this was that two certs expired today, and everything I had previously read said that Caddy wouldn’t let that happen. Well it won’t if I don’t fatfinger the format next time

Well, I had a time wrapping my old head around Caddy. It took me an embarrassingly long time to get it, and one day the clouds cleared, and the sun shone through, and it made sense. I had no clue about the formater, but you can bet I’ve made some notes so I don’t do that shit again. LOL

Dude. Awesome blog.

Nah, it’s good. I do have a knack for asking silly, basic questions. I certainly don’t have the networking prowess and certifications that some of the group here has, and I just want to be cautious, perhaps overly cautious when implementing what I have proposed. I know what an overlay vpn does, and I know what a traditional vpn like say, PIA, does. I just want to proceed with caution because the end use has serious implications if improperly deployed. At the very least I want to make myself confidant that I have covered all bases.

I’m sorry…I’m just asking all the stupid questions up front.

I have tried on numerous occasions to get freedns.afraid.org to work for me. I would be interested in how you got it going when you do get it all worked out.

Sometimes I’ll throw something on the test server just to see how it works and maybe gain a little knowledge along the way.

I saw that Docker Compose Maker in the wild. I could see how that would be very handy for those just getting started in the SelfHosting arena.

I’m not sure if this will help you out since I’m really not sure what your problems are other than getting the reverse proxy to work. So, I’ll give you what I’ve found to work and if it’s not what you were looking for then you can just skip over what I"m yammering on about.

The process:

Spin up a container, let’s say it’s Dozzle and it needs port 1124. Container deployed, so lets put it in reverse proxy:

Issue command together:

sudo nano /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
sudo systemctl restart caddy	

Enter the following in the Caddyfile:

dozzle.myverycooldomain.duckdns.org:443 {
	reverse_proxy localhost:1124
}

Press ctrl x, press y, press enter, and the Caddy server restarts if you indeed issued the commands together. Now go to dozzle.myverycooldomain.duckdns.org for test run.

In a life before a TBI and subsequent seizure condition robbed me of a functioning brain, I actually ran the IT dept for a company which I worked for as a mech eng, estimator, designer, and project manager. This one gentleman who was a field super and his wife had been trying for years to have a child. They finally did after many miscarriages and rough times, and as you can imagine, they took so many pictures of their baby. He called me one day in a panic about his computer and so I rushed over to his house. Long story short, his HDD had suffered a major crash for whatever reason, and everything was gone. No backups of his baby pictures, nothing. I sent the HDD off to see what could be recovered, but apparently it everything was toast.

Even tho it wasn’t my pictures, it hurt me to my core, that all these pictures and memories this man and his wife had accumulated, were gone forever. It really did a number on me and I think about it from time to time even tho that has been decades ago.

Make backups folks. It might take you the better part of a Saturday afternoon to get everything backed up and secure, but do it anyways.

Will Proxmox BackUp server handle remote VPS? I had assumed that it only was for ProxMox VM’s.

Backup Types: Proxmox Backup Server is optimized for backing up Proxmox VMs and containers. If your VPS is running a different virtualization platform, you may need to adapt your backup strategy accordingly.

That’s what AI tells me and then gives a configuration such as:

#!/bin/bash

# Variables
CONTAINER_NAME="your_container_name"
VOLUME_NAME="your_volume_name"
BACKUP_DIR="/path/to/backup/dir"
TIMESTAMP=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")

# Create a backup of the Docker volume
docker run --rm -v ${VOLUME_NAME}:/volume -v ${BACKUP_DIR}:/backup alpine \
    sh -c "cd /volume && tar czf /backup/${VOLUME_NAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.tar.gz ."

# Optionally, export the container
docker export ${CONTAINER_NAME} -o ${BACKUP_DIR}/${CONTAINER_NAME}_${TIMESTAMP}.tar

echo "Backup completed for ${CONTAINER_NAME} and ${VOLUME_NAME} at ${TIMESTAMP}"

Yeah I know it’s AI, which may or may not be completely accurate. Would I need to do that for each and every Docker container? I’ve got some 60 +/- containers. LOL <whine boohoo!>

That along with the client on the remote VPS would take care of Docker containers, however, I would also like to back up configuration files, and data associated with UFW, F2B, etc. Pretty much a snapshot of each server.

These lowendbox hosts don’t include snapshots and frills and Contabo only lets you keep one snapshot active. I did find an N8N flow that automates the snapshot process for Contabo. I guess I could upgrade to better hosts, but one of the VPS is my skunk works server where I run and test everything before putting it into production…it’s like $25 per year. Contabo is decent, and LuxVPS gives me the most bang for buck including all the frills for $10 a month. So, that’s about as much fun money I got for the time being.

I run Proxmox on the local server. I didn’t know Veeam had a community edition. The 13 gb download just finished. It’s on the list. Thanks.