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In a similar thread 8 months ago I broke down my self-hosting infrastructure : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i

In a similar thread 8 months ago I broke down my self-hosting infrastructure : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106197 Since then I have added a few things, partly from that thread. The big things were hosting Sandstorm.io, which is a complete self-hosted google-apps/office365 type setup that is very easy to use and has great functionality. My entire family uses it for a variety of things that we used to use independent files or google apps for. Nicely collaborative. I have also recently started self-hosting a meta-searchengine called Searx in order to extricate myself from google on another front. It has also been pleasantly easy to set up, and the aggregated and collated search results have been excellent. Its much faster and more usable than I dreamed of when I decided to test drive it. It anonymizes all browser/os/etc fingerprints to keep the search engines that you query in the dark about your habits. I've toyed with tunneling it over TOR to make the whole thing even more private, but that may slow things down too much. Again, my family have pretty much all switched to it. I even use both of these things externally (protected by https, geoip blocking and simple auth) I have also added a minemeld server for IP blocking and DNS blackholing of malware/spyware/C&C servers etc. This is an excellent Ubuntu based free server put out by Palo Alto networks. I combine this with the existing blocking/blackholing I do with the someonewhocares blocking lists. It really keeps browsing from my home network faster, safer and mostly ad free. Also hedgewars and teeworlds for mindless family multiplayer action

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
You mentioned Minetest back then. I had a look at it recently and it seemed like it's not that much fun without mobs. Could you describe your Minetest setup in more detail? I'm sure it can be used to get more fun of it than I managed to.
- DrPhish 8y ago
  Modpacks and worlds for minetest are a bit tricky, since you need the right version of all the mods for things to work properly, and sometimes newer versions of minetest break old mods, so there is definitely some manual labour involved in setting up a nice modern server where everything just works. It can be frustrating finding a subgame or mod that you want to use but hasn't been maintained and is broken. The whole thing can't be too hard, because my kids running Debian were able to download and install dozens of subgames and mods to their computers and self-host for their brothers. All I had to do was show them how to unzip, move and (if required) rename folders. The directory that mods are placed in will effect how it is loaded. It would be redundant to write it all out here, so check the wiki [1]. The best place to find out what the newest mods are is the forum [2], specifically the mods forum For a good game (essentially a modpack) to start with, try Mineclone [3]. It tries to create a Minecraft clone, and is very active. My kids were also obsessed with Lord of the Test[4] for a while [1] - http://dev.minetest.net/Installing_Mods http://dev.minetest.net/Installing_Mods [2] - https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=46 https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=46 [3] - https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=16407 https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=16407 [4] - https://wiki.minetest.net/Games/Lord_of_the_Test https://wiki.minetest.net/Games/Lord_of_the_Test
  - dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
    Great, that's exactly what I needed - thank you!
chatmasta 8y ago
Would love to hear more details about the challenges of the VOIP endpoint over a remote VPN connection. What sort of software is on the user device, and did you have any trouble with fragmentation getting VOIP to work over IPSec?

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago

You mentioned Minetest back then. I had a look at it recently and it seemed like it's not that much fun without mobs. Could you describe your Minetest setup in more detail? I'm sure it can be used to get more fun of it than I managed to.

DrPhish 8y ago
Modpacks and worlds for minetest are a bit tricky, since you need the right version of all the mods for things to work properly, and sometimes newer versions of minetest break old mods, so there is definitely some manual labour involved in setting up a nice modern server where everything just works. It can be frustrating finding a subgame or mod that you want to use but hasn't been maintained and is broken. The whole thing can't be too hard, because my kids running Debian were able to download and install dozens of subgames and mods to their computers and self-host for their brothers. All I had to do was show them how to unzip, move and (if required) rename folders. The directory that mods are placed in will effect how it is loaded. It would be redundant to write it all out here, so check the wiki [1]. The best place to find out what the newest mods are is the forum [2], specifically the mods forum For a good game (essentially a modpack) to start with, try Mineclone [3]. It tries to create a Minecraft clone, and is very active. My kids were also obsessed with Lord of the Test[4] for a while [1] - http://dev.minetest.net/Installing_Mods http://dev.minetest.net/Installing_Mods [2] - https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=46 https://forum.minetest.net/viewforum.php?f=46 [3] - https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=16407 https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=16407 [4] - https://wiki.minetest.net/Games/Lord_of_the_Test https://wiki.minetest.net/Games/Lord_of_the_Test
- dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
  Great, that's exactly what I needed - thank you!

chatmasta 8y ago

Would love to hear more details about the challenges of the VOIP endpoint over a remote VPN connection. What sort of software is on the user device, and did you have any trouble with fragmentation getting VOIP to work over IPSec?