# Albert’s Self-hosting Project

My goal here is to host some SaaS inside the home to reduce dependency on cloud providers.

## Services

This list will hopefully grow as I add more.

| Service  | Replaces | Address |
| -------- | -------- | ------- |
| Gitea    | GitHub   | https://git.tingker.ddns.net |

## Set up

The servers will run in Docker containers managed by a Compose file. I’ve started with an old MacBook, but may add more nodes in the future. These steps assume that the nodes are running Linux.

- [Docker Engine](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/)
- Add login user to the `docker` access group:

```
$ sudo groupadd docker
$ sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
```

## Networking

In order to make the server accessible via the Internet, some networking configuration is required on our home router.

1. Configure router to use [NoIP.com](https://noip.com) to create a dynamic DNS record. This makes it so that we have a fixed domain name that translates to the IP address of our home Internet connection, updating as required if our ISP changes our IP address.
    - We have registered the domain name `tingker.ddns.net`.
2. Configure router to reserve a fixed IP address for each of the server nodes.
3. Configure router to forward ports to the server nodes. The following ports are required:

| External Port | Internal Port | Reason |
| ------------- | ------------- | ------ |
| 80            | 80            | [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) listens for all HTTP and HTTPS requests and will route to applications |
| 443           | 443           | Ditto |
| 22            | 2222          | Gitea support for pushing and pulling repositories via SSH |

## TODOs

- Setup off-site backup solution
- Setup Gitea action runners
  - Host alchoi.com website repo here, and set up deployment action to DigitalOcean (or we can switch hosting providers)
- Setup NextCloud (file sharing)
- Setup some kind of notes app (e.g. Joplin)