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
• 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 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 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)