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Self-Hosting: Decentralisation and Privacy

Showing how you can install any service yourself, where you can own your data, guaranteeing privacy.

DISCLAIMER: these tutorials are meant to be used as a "how to get started on XYZ", these tutorials may miss some details here and there, they have a lower quality standard than the ones i maintain in Privacy / Anonymity / Plausible Deniability


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  1. Nihilist
  2. Notorious


LEGAL DISCLAIMER:
Across the entirety of my blog, in all articles that I made, I advocate for the legal use of technologies, even when I am talking about Privacy-enhancing and Anonymity-enabling technologies. In no way am I advocating for any illegal use of any technology showcased in any article on my blog, as the goal of this blog is to remain stricly informative and educative.

I decline any and all responsibility for any mis-use of any of the technology i showcase in the entirety of my blog. I also decline any and all responsibility for any physical, digital and psychological damage caused by the mis-use of any showcased technology, as the responsibility of such acts remains with the perpretating third-party. By reading this blog, you permanently, irrevocably and world-widely agree that I am in no way am responsible for any illegal action done by you or anyone that uses any of the showcased technology in my blog articles.

Setting up Servers

📝 Security

  1. ✅ Physical Surveillance (rpi + webcams)

📝 Privacy Front-ends

  1. ✅ SearxNG: privacy front-end for web-browsing
  2. ✅ 4get: privacy front-end for web-browsing
  3. ✅ Whoogle: privacy front-end for Google
  4. ✅ Invidious: privacy front-end for Youtube
  5. ✅ Nitter: privacy front-end for Twitter
  6. ✅ AnonymousOverflow: privacy front-end for StackOverflow
  7. ✅ Teddit: (DISCONTINUED) privacy front-end for Reddit
  8. ✅ SafeTwitch: privacy front-end for Twitch
  9. ✅ Wikiless: privacy front-end for wikipedia
  10. ✅ Proxitok: privacy front-end for tiktok
  11. ✅ Librex: privacy front-end for google

📝 Productivity

  1. ✅ RSS Feeds
  2. ✅ RustDesk (open source teamviewer alternative)
  3. ✅ Perlite (Obsidian Notes)
  4. ✅ Gitea
  5. ✅ Nginx Nextcloud Server
  6. ✅ Nginx Kanboard
  7. ✅ Privatebin
  8. ✅ Jitsi
  9. ✅ CyberChef
  10. ✅ GLPI
  11. ✅ FreshRSS
  12. ✅ PlainPad
  13. ✅ MyMind+Mindmaps
  14. ✅ hat.sh file encryption


💻 Collaborative Work

  1. ✅ Matrix chat with VoIP support
  2. ✅ Etherpad
  3. ✅ Cryptpad
  4. ✅ CodiMD
  5. ✅ ShareLateX


⭐ Personal Favorites

  1. ✅ Anonymity Management (Whonix, Veracrypt Plausible Deniability)⭐
  2. ✅ Public Mail service over VPN over Tor ⭐
  3. ✅ GTX 1050 PCI Passthrough to QEMU VM
  4. ✅ Lainon Radio (mpd, icecast, nginx)
  5. ✅ NGINX - RTMP HLS + HTTPS
  6. ✅ Perlite (Obsidian Notes)

  7. ✅ Openvpn Over Tor Server Setup
  8. ✅ HTTP Service over VPN over Tor
  9. ✅ Nginx Zabbix Server, with SNMPv3 Hosts
  10. ✅ Nginx Nextcloud Server
  11. ✅ Leela Chess Zero


🪟 Windows Server

  1. ✅ WS2019 QEMU setup
  2. ✅ DNS setup
  3. ✅ Active Directory (AD) setup
  4. ✅ AD + Users and Groups setup
  5. ✅ WS2019 DNS + AD Proxmox setup
  6. ✅ LDAP + SSL setup
  7. ✅ WS2019 Triple DFS Share replication


🎦 Media

  1. ✅ Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion) AI text to image generation
  2. ✅ NGINX - RTMP HLS + HTTPS
  3. ✅ Lainon Radio (mpd, icecast, nginx)
  4. ✅ Neko (rabb.it replacement)
  5. ✅ Hydrus Network Client
  6. ✅ Asciinema Server




🟦 pfSense Administration

  1. ✅ pfsense on virt-manager
  2. ✅ pfsense on proxmox
  3. ✅ pfsense Site to Site VPN


🐐 Debian Server Administration

  1. ✅ Debian 12 Bookworm Upgrade
  2. ✅ Mdadm raid 1 setup
  3. ✅ External Drives with LUKS encryption
  4. ✅ Simple NGINX setup with HTTPS
  5. ✅ NGINX + fail2ban
  6. ✅ Protect SSH with fail2ban
  7. ✅ Haproxy Load Balancing
  8. ✅ NGINX Load Balancing
  9. ✅ XRDP
  10. ✅ Apt-Cacher Linux Proxy


🔁 Automation

  1. ✅ Automatic Debian updates (via unattended upgrades)
  2. ✅ Automatic Debian / Arch Updates
  3. ✅ Updating Debian10 Clusters with Ansible


🖥️ Monitoring

  1. ✅ Uptime Kuma
  2. ✅ SNMP (Debian, Windows, PfSense)
  3. ✅ Nginx Zabbix Server
  4. ✅ Nginx LibreNMS Server
  5. ✅ Nginx Observium Server
  6. ✅ Prometheus Grafana Server
  7. ✅ CheckMK Server
  8. ✅ T-Pot Honeypot


📧 Mail

  1. ✅ VPS PUBLIC Mailserver (postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, OpenDKIM)
  2. ✅ Rainloop
  3. ✅ Local hMailServer + Thunderbird with self-signed SSL












📜 Scripted Setups:

  1. ✅ Openvpn Server
  2. ✅ Wireguard Server
  3. ✅ Simple SSH Server
  4. ✅ RDP Connections
  5. ✅ Simple FTP server
  6. ✅ Simple WebDav server
  7. ✅ Snapd Nextcloud Server


🚧Complete Professionnal Projects

  1. ✅ E4 Network Monitoring (SNMP + GLPI)
  2. ✅ E4 - SP1 Nextcloud 🇫🇷
  3. ✅ E4 - SP2 pfSense VPN 🇫🇷


🗄️ Databases

  1. ✅ PostgreSQL Master-Slave Replication
  2. ✅ PostgreSQL Master-Master (Bucardo)
  3. ✅ PostgreSQL Front-End: PgAdmin4
  4. ✅ MySQL Master-Slave Replication
  5. ✅ MySQL Master-Master Replication
  6. ✅ MySQL Front-End: PHPMyAdmin


🚢 Docker - Management

  1. ✅ Docker automatic image updates setup
  2. ✅ Docker setup
  3. ✅ Dozzle (Docker Logs)
  4. ✅ Portainer.io
  5. ✅ Nginx Proxy Manager


🚢 Docker - Containers

  1. ✅ Dillinger
  2. ✅ Kutt URL Shortener
  3. ✅ Searx


📦 Backups

  1. ✅ Rsync Automation with SSH Keys (PUSH backups)
  2. ✅ Borg Backup Usage (PUSH backups)
  3. ✅ Borg Backup Automation (PUSH backups)


🔍 Search Engines

  1. ✅ Gomez (Torrents)


⚠️ Minimal / Experimental / Games

  1. ✅ KVM/QEMU : Multiple displays per VM + clipboard copy paste
  2. ✅ Port forward from local services to VPSes
  3. ✅ Bedrock Linux: kali tools on arch linux
  4. ✅ GTX 1050 PCI Passthrough to QEMU VM
  5. ✅ PHP LainSafe
  6. ✅ CGI LainSafe
  7. ✅ Colored MOTDs
  8. ✅ Leela Chess Zero
  9. ✅ TF2 Server (ubuntu)
  10. ✅ Modded Minecraft Server




📡 DNS

  1. ✅ Bind9 dyndns + dnssec + slave master
  2. ✅ Tor Anonymous DNS
  3. ✅ pihole DNS


📑 Blogging

  1. ✅ Ghost


💬 Chat

  1. ✅ Clearnet Matrix server (federated clearnet chatting)
  2. ✅ XMPP Chat Server Setup (Clearnet + Onion + OMEMO E2EE)
  3. ✅ rocket.chat
  4. ✅ TheLounge (with inspircd)
  5. ✅ inspIRCd (no ssl, with password)


🧊 General Virtualisation

  1. ✅ virt-manager with NAT setup
  2. ✅ VMWare Workstation Pro














































Anonymity-friendly VPS providers



  1. ServersGuru (KYC-Free reseller of cloud providers like Hetzner)
  2. nicevps.net (KYC-Free registrar)
  3. Other Non-KYC Cloud Providers

Inspirations

  1. awesomeopensource self-hosted
  2. awesome self-hosted
  3. awesome sysadmin
  4. Awesome Self Hosted


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