thisiszeev

I had to delete my previous post about what we hosting control panels are being used by those who also have webhost businesses.

I just can't spend the next 20 days trying to explain

1. Data Centers Exist
2. How SMTP works
3. That webhosting has a very high profit margin
4. No sane person hosts a business server in their basement. See point 1.
5. How to get off blacklists
6. Hosting a website or email is not the same as giving someone full access to your server.
7. How shared hosting works.
8. And and and

I've been in the hosting business for 19 years. It's a good income. And it's what got me interested in having a homelab and selfhosting as a hobby. It's also what got me into using Linux as a daily driver.

But too many people here are so narrow minded and have zero concept of the existence of anything outside their own home lab.

I just wanted to find out, from those who ALSO run hosting servers in actual data centers (which do exist despite what you heard Alex Jones tell you). I just wanted to know what was other people's choice of hosting panel.

I might come back at a later stage but I can't deal with this level of intellect that I have encountered tonight.

Cheers, I'm out, and thank you for all the fish.

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I am just wondering, how many of you also have your own public hosting server (or servers) that you use to sell web-hosting and mail hosting etc?

If so, which hosting panel are you using?

Hi All

I have a selfhosted Gitea server, and I use it for a lot more than coding. I even do management of document history for my business. I love it.

What I would like to do, is use it backup specific folders on other servers in my homelab.

Say for example my webdev test server: I would like to daily back up /etc/ /var/www/one.example.com/ /var/www/two.example.com/ etc etc

Now my knowledge on Gitea, and Git as a whole, is relatively limited to clone, add, commit, push and pull.

If I setup a user for the server, then insert the ssh pub key. I would like to know, how from the terminal (via SSH to the server), I can create a new repo for folder /var/www/one.example.com/ and then do an initial commit, so that the .git folder is created locally in /var/www/one.example.com/.git/

Then I can set a cronjob to do my daily backups, but still have the magic of full file history.

Also, can you configure a Repo to only keep changes back for say 90 days? (Space saving in the long run).

I know there are a lot of ways to do this, but I have a very good reason for using Git, mainly, it streamlines restoring files at any point in history, and also if I need to fork a website I am developing, I can do it in Git with ease.

Plus it allows me to add other users to a repo for example, and allows us to do branches etc.

Currently I am backing everything up using a script I wrote, and I have a dedicated bare metal that is handling that. I get a .tar.gz for the last 7 days, the last 5 sundays and the last 3 months (1st). But this is starting to take up a lot of harddrive space.

Any advice would kindly be appreciated.

I want to play with it and see what it can do... but I would prefer to run it as bare metal so I can really get my hands dirty and mess around with things.

Anyone else making use of it... any pointers and advice. Has anyone managed to get it running bare metal?

My test server is an AMD 64 bit dual core HP Mini Server with 8GB RAM.

What I would like to do is develop custom web apps as well as apps for Android and iOS. AppleTV and AndroidTV would be really super as well.

I've been coding since 1987 so I am confident I can pick it up rather quickly.

Are any of you selfhosters using Cloudflare?

I want to make a server visible on port 80 and 443 from outside, however port 80 and 443 is currently used for another server.

I know we can reverse proxy but I have a reason why I am not using reverse proxy for this.

I have been told that I can connect to cloudflare like a VPN type of link. But going through their website I don't find much useful information?

Is this possible or is it just rumors? If possible, what is the product offering to utilize?