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In my recent VPS adventures I'm curious to know besides the normal web hosting what else do you guys use your VPS for?

What self hosted services are you using?

I have:

Next cloud
Git lab
TeamSpeak server
Minecraft server
Piwik
IRC bouncer ZNC
Bookstack

I'm also looking for a self hosted IDE like cloud9
 
Thor187 said:
OpenVPN?
SquidProxy?
Transmission?
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OpenVPN, easiest to set up. Makes white listing my IP on Azure easier also allowing me to access blocked sites on my campus fiber connection.

Squid, just for network logging. Not used most of the time.

Rtorrent and rutorrent for the GUI.
 
Sweet, I thought about loading openVPN, but could not find a use just yet.

As for squid, I run squid as a cache server on my home network but not on the VPS and the seedboxes I have no experience with at all. :sly:
 
I'm hosting:

* PowerDNS cluster (with MySQL backend) for my own DNS.
* Mail
* Web (Blog / Resume site via Jekyll / Nginx)
* Syncthing for duplicating files across all my machines.
* Plex / Subsonic for streaming media.
* RocketChat for group collaboration / chat.
* Iodine for DNS tunneling (getting around pesky paid for hotspots)
* OpenVPN

Things i'm considering looking at:

* Freeboard to display metrics
* Zabbix (I'm going to be using this for work shortly, so I figured i'd try v3 as I haven't touched it since v2)
* ZNC (irc bouncer) or a Web IRC client so I can use IRC if network prohibits me.
* Cloudstack (but I'd need to NAT or pay for more IP's)
* Leanote (as a self hosted Evernote replacement) - http://leanote.org/
* Wallabag (so I can mark interesting articles and read them later across any device) - https://www.wallabag.org/
* Guacamole (SSH / VNC / RDP via HTML so I can still do whatever I need on locked down networks) - http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/
 
Thor187 said:
Sweet, I thought about loading openVPN, but could not find a use just yet.

As for squid, I run squid as a cache server on my home network but not on the VPS and the seedboxes I have no experience with at all. :sly:
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Take a look at SoftEther - can do VPN via ICMP or DNS which is great for getting out of those pesky locked down networks.
 
jsheed_sa said:
Take a look at SoftEther - can do VPN via ICMP or DNS which is great for getting out of those pesky locked down networks.
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That is quite an interesting suggestion sir.

/SSH into test VPS


Also wallabag now that looks awesome
 
jsheed_sa said:
* Zabbix (I'm going to be using this for work shortly, so I figured i'd try v3 as I haven't touched it since v2)
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Take the time to architect the solution correctly, building out a cluster is not much work in the beginning but it saves you loads of headaches when needing to migrate to something bigger later on.
SSDs and a few proxies and you will hit 1000 values per second with ease. The SSDs shine a second time when you need to graph 1000's of data points to build out a HUD for various systems.

Actual storage space also requires some consideration if you are planning on keeping trends for a long time, spending the time tweaking your retention policies early pays off.
 
Ipwn 4 said:
Take the time to architect the solution correctly, building out a cluster is not much work in the beginning but it saves you loads of headaches when needing to migrate to something bigger later on.
SSDs and a few proxies and you will hit 1000 values per second with ease. The SSDs shine a second time when you need to graph 1000's of data points to build out a HUD for various systems.

Actual storage space also requires some consideration if you are planning on keeping trends for a long time, spending the time tweaking your retention policies early pays off.
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Yep - all good points. It definitely requires some leg work in the beginning to allow it to keep functioning at scale.
 
I just installed Syncthing again (was having issues with it on CentOS 7 - my dedi was hanging).

I've since re-installed with Ubuntu 16.04 and all seems well. No more hanging.

If you're not using it then its worth taking a look. Keeps your files up to date and sync'd between multiple machines.

I've also decided to give QSyncThing tray a go.

Syncthing: https://syncthing.net/
QSyncthingTray: https://github.com/sieren/QSyncthingTray
 
jsheed_sa said:
I just installed Syncthing again (was having issues with it on CentOS 7 - my dedi was hanging).

I've since re-installed with Ubuntu 16.04 and all seems well. No more hanging.

If you're not using it then its worth taking a look. Keeps your files up to date and sync'd between multiple machines.

I've also decided to give QSyncThing tray a go.

Syncthing: https://syncthing.net/
QSyncthingTray: https://github.com/sieren/QSyncthingTray
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Any major reasons to use this over Owncloud/Nextcloud?

EDIT: nvm, I see now that it is fundamentally different to the typical cloud <===> client architecture of the options I mentioned
 
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