Currently, I’m using Hermes and OpenCode mostly, backed by Ollama running a couple of different models. Usually I’m running the Gemma4 or Gwen3.5 models.

Memory management is done through Obsidian as every harness seems to have really good skills for it.

I think you’re thinking of the Llama family of llm models which are owned/made by Meta.

Ollama is an open source server software and model repository for llm models. I won’t say Meta hasn’t contributed to the project, but as far as I know they don’t own it and didn’t start it.

Not sure I understand. The VPN (Tailscale) is on the VPS.

I have several very technically challenged family members that wanted to use a couple of the services that I host. Doing it this way simplifies the setup and the tech support calls. The VPS, or rather a domain name that leads to the VPS, is how they access those services.

I have Tailscale setup on all my personal devices, so I generally just connect directly to the services.

I solved it with a cheap VPS running Caddy as a reverse proxy and a Tailscale connection back to my home server.

I think Tailscale has a service called Tailscale Serve which may work around a frequently changing ip as well. Not sure though as I haven’t looked into it much.

Currently, 2 servers and 2 3d printers, I’m running just over 200w at idle. Depending on what my printers and servers are doing at any given moment, it could go up to 2000w, total, but I haven’t seen that high a power draw since I stopped contributing to Boinc projects about a year ago. I remember finding it mildly amusing that my graphics cards had a higher power draw then my printers.

Cool, but I don’t post on Reddit anymore.

Pretty much, but I keep getting burned by “free” and sometimes non-free online services. It’s a large part of why I self host the things I do.

And alot of folks are still bitter about Google Reader being shut down.

I’m using NameCheap. I don’t recall them ever asking me to provide ID. They do have an api (didn’t know that till now) though I’m tired enough at the moment that I can’t make much sense of their documentation.

https://www.namecheap.com/support/api/methods/domains-dns/set-hosts/

Not sure if it’s the simplest way, but this is how I did it. I set up a reverse proxy service in a vm using caddy and then used pihole (also in a vm) to set up a local DNS record pointing to the reverse proxy. The systems need to be set up to use the pihole server as their DNS resolver.

How it works is you type audiobookshelf.local.lan in the address bar and it queries pihole which says it at 192.168.1.100 or whatever. The Caddy web server at that address then passes the request on to the service at 192.168.1.60:8080.

Setup is a bit tedious but it has worked for me.

Looks good.

Only thing I would caution on is all of that USB storage. USB isn’t exactly known for it reliability when used long term for storage devices. Given the current market, however, It will do. When you can afford to, I would move the server into a tower with the storage on SATA.

Well, glad I walked away from SmartThings a couple of years ago. Went with Home Assistant and have never looked back.

At the time I remember being concerned about whether they were going to kill SmartThings off or start charging a subscription as the hub called home for everything. Server time costs and they weren’t charging for it. TANSTAFL. Kinda surprised it’s still alive at all