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To me this sounds like you’re missing another service to monitor your internet for uptime. I recommend Uptime-Kuma.
JK. Best part of the self hosted media server is I can usually get away with updating and rebooting the firewall while the wife is watching her shows and she’s never the wiser!
Oooohh...
I've got Uptime-Kuma internally for watching all my internal services and then I've got one running on a VPS that watches all the external services and public endpoints.
Such a great project and so easy to use..
Agreed, I was glad when they added maintenance windows because I can’t tell you the number of times I blew up my phone with notifications after rebooting a docker host and forgetting to stop the kuma instance.
There is a community Ansible module for the Uptime-Kuma API that I've been trying to get working so I can trigger the maintenance window when I run my playbook to update services but I haven't quite figured it out yet.
I'm in the same boat though, I start updating containers and my slack channel blows up for like five minutes straight.
That’s a great idea I didn’t think to check into, I’ll have to see how difficult that is to implement. I’m still pretty new to ansible.
That is impressive. I host a fair amount at home but do rely on lots of cloud services too. My doorbell won’t ring on all my smart speakers if the internet is down!
I used to have to rely on satellite internet, so I always avoided cloud services in favor of self-hosted options. Even without the draconian data caps, a literal cloud would cut me off.
I've got a decent ISP now, but I'm too invested in my on-prem stuff to change course. lol
That's amazing, who needs the internet anyway
I'll make my own internet, with blackjack and hookers
I had a friend stay with me for a few months. We're both effectively working from home when the Internet goes out, I ask if he wants to watch something. He gives me this weird look like, "but you just said the Internet is out" we end up watching a movie until the Internet comes back, then go back to our respective jobs.
It was fun seeing him react to something he didn't think was possible
How about solitaire and webhookers?
I can't wait for the new seasons to come out.
Honestly, I'd still notice relatively quickly. I'm running TrueNAS at home for file sharing, Jellyfin, backups and (soon) Home Assistant, but most things do run on a hosted VPS. Reason being that I share many of these services with one or several friends and my home is limited to around 30 Mbps upstream.
I'm also sharing some of my services but with family members and my upload is at around 10mbps. How do you go about sharing Jellyfin specifically with your friends over a VPS? I mostly just worry about storage space as it gets incredibly expensive to host media in the cloud.
I've got Jellyfin on a cheap ($20/year) VPS, and used SSHFS to attach it to some external hard drives attached to a Raspberry Pi. My upload speed is only 10 mbps, but that seems enough for most movies and TV shows, and multiple users can watch simultaneously via SyncPlay. Transcoding works too (up to 1080p)
Where did you get that cheap of a VPS? Either i'm bad at searching the web or I am missing something, but I can't find anything below 5$/month (60$/y) even with very poor specs (1 shitty cpu + 10gb storage + 512mb ram)...
I found a deal for a Racknerd KVM VPS on lowendbox.com--I'm not seeing the same one, but similar offers pop up often!
Jellyfin runs locally, it's just accessible through a reverse proxy that I have running on the VPS. It's not really practical to run it on a VPS since hosted storage ends up being a lot more expensive and my library is relatively big. Bandwidth hasn't been a huge issue so far though as not too many people use Jellyfin at once. I could see it becoming a problem though if I hosted too many of the other services locally too, like Nextcloud, a Minecraft Server, Teamspeak (for some friends who are eternally stuck in the 2000s), gittea and several more.
I'd also need to run a second machine to host docker containers on or replace my NAS completely with something more powerful, which likely wouldn't make sense economically as I live in a place where electricity is relatively expensive.
I guess I’m luckier than most, with rock solid internet. It’s extremely dependable. Working from home, it’s faster and more reliable than at my employer. When my kids goto their mother’s where they’re stuck with “the worst company in America” as their provider, they complain constantly about how horrible it is, despite it being “the same” as mine
I always notice when my internet is down but when it is I always have plenty of digital entertainment that still works.
That’s the ultimate goal, I guess.
GG to you.
When I’m home it is usually my wife that notices first. That said, when I’m away from home I almost immediately notice any issues. My self hosted services are the backend for almost everything I use. Just need to find a decent replacement for GoodNotes on iOS.
Basically all of my services / automation are all completely isolated.
I have my network setup in such a way, that shutting down the WAN firewall, has basically no impact on anything else internal... other then loss of the default route (aka, the internet).
However, I do host a lot of externally exposed services.... websites, etc.... Since- they are kinda important, I do have monitoring to let me know when they aren't internet accessible.
No cause a few seconds after the internet goes out I'm getting spammed with emails from Uptime Kuma that my public websites went down. But I would only experience minor complications with my smart home and entertainment setup and could probably watch movies for around 2 or 3 weeks.