I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I’ve got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

    • somedaysoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I mean, that is just another way of checking your dashboards.

      It’s not another way of checking dashboards… dashboards don’t even come into play for me with this notification system. If I get a notification that my backup script didn’t run, I’m dropping straight to an SSH session and checking logs and fixing it. There is no dashboard in this equation.

      Unless you are dealing with a high availability setup, it matters a lot less whether you do a push/pull model for notifications so long as you are regularly checking then.

      My home is not high availability, it’s just me and my wife, that doesn’t change the fact that this is a better solution over having to constantly check in on services. Also, high availability isn’t the reason for this, it’s having the peace of mind things are working, and doing literally nothing to know it. Right now, I know all my services are working, and how do I know? Because I haven’t received a notification that told me there is a problem so I know, everything is working. Do you know if all your services are working right now? No, not unless you actively check in on them right now. That’s the difference between my way and your way of doing it. I always know the status of my services, you don’t know unless you check in on them.

      But listen, I’m not trying to persuade you, if you like to take time to check in and babysit your services to make sure everything is running correctly instead of setup a simple notification system, that’s your preference, but in my opinion it’s not the best way to do it. This is about working smarter instead of harder.