I mean anything that is not hosted in your house. For example, dynamic dns, some type of ddos protection, off-site backups, external oauth provider, etc.
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Email and offsite backups (as 3rd copy of data, encrypted
- have a cloud server for public IP to host email server, headscale and coturn.
- hetrix tools for uptime monitoring
- cloudflare for ddos protection etc.
Fast Mail DNS because I moved my domain over there for email. Problem is that it doesn’t have an API for DNS updates, and that makes it bad for DynDNS. There are some web scraping libraries out there that can work for it, but those can easily break any time FastMail changes their interface.
For now, I’m just using the fact that my IP doesn’t change that often, and living with the fact that I’ll have to manually update it at some point.
Plenty of better DNS services out there…
I just use a domain name through name cheap, which includes ddns. I cant think of anything else that I do at home that isn’t taken care of locally.
For personal stuff, i use an external email, and borgbase for backups (highly recommend them if using Borg or restic).
- Tailscale for external access, this is extremely convenient.
- Namesilo for domain (cheap but otherwise not really recommended)
- Bunny DNS (because NPM’s certbot doesn’t support Namesilo). Still looking at their other services, overall it seems nice.
Still looking at an external backup solution like Backblaze or Hetzner
Basically just the bare minimum
- Email (Zoho, still on their old legacy free plan)
- Backblaze B2 for Restic to store backups on
- DNS for my public domain name (Cloudflare)
- Uptime monitoring for my website (HetrixTools)
hetrixtools is so good!
Cloudflare tunnels - it used to be dynamic dns, but the ISP blocked ports 80/443, so I switched to tunnels.
External DNS on the Gl-Inet router, included with the product
Goodcloud, from Gl-Inet (included and really nice to have another way to get to it)for the home self-hosting, that’s pretty much it.
For the (coming soon TM) fediverse apps in Keyboard Vagabond, add in S3, cloudflare CDN
For my homelab:
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
For things that I host externally (i.e. not part of my homelab):
- Oracle Cloud (VPS)
- Tailscale (VPN)
- Cloudflare (DNS)
- Cloudflare R2 (Object storage)
- Backblaze B2 (Backup storage)
What are you paying for BackBlaze and Cloudflare?
I don’t store much on backblaze, so I don’t think I’ve ever spent over 2USD there in a month. As for Cloudflare, I’m able to stay in the free tier.
How much (GB/TB) is not much btw?
I need to get around to backing up via Backblaze
Around 350~400 GB. I compress and encrypt before sending to backblaze.
I have a $5/mo vps running caddy over wireguard to get better routing when I’m on mobile.
Otherwise, my traffic goes to my home ISPs hub 600 miles away and back. The VPS is less than 100 miles away and it performs much better.
- Lets Encrypt…
- Backblaze (for now, until I find an alternative closer to home)
Only tailscale fpr vpn and backblaze for backup
For me Cloudflare as I’ve been with them for years, Let’s Encrypt and that is pretty much it…
VPS that hosts my email and a few other things, and for clients that is where their stuff is hosted
GoDaddy(I think) for my domain, Cloudflare +Letsencrypt (DNS SSL challenge), Tailscale (to access applications remotely), AirVPN (for applications to access the web), Gmail (smtp, I want to migrate soon).
I host everything else.
- Mail with all the bells and whistles (been there, done that – but I just want this to work and not care about details).
- Dynamic DNS because I just need to tell someone my non-static IP so they can connect that with my domain name.
