Nothing is enabled after installation. While it can be a daunting task to manually hook up your PC to the wifi manually, this philosophy lets you hand-pick the services which you actually want to run, catering for a very personalised and clearly defined system.

Script kiddies these days got really fast. Configured a new subdomain, started droppy, within a couple seconds, all types of requests were visible in the log.

Thanks a bunch!

Fellow self-hoster, you mention Droppy – I can only find an archived repo (https://github.com/silverwind/droppy). Do you have any other source?

I’ve been running Arch Linux on a Gigabyte Brix with two USB HDDs for… years now. At least 8. On and off, there were several services, but mostly, this device is meant to host

• NFS and SMB file shares
• syncthing, because I can’t get my Macbook to use the network shares in a performant way
• plex media server
• nginx with mariadb for a privately hosted database of a German TV show (Tatort) and also a self-made expense tracker
• paperless-ngx for electronic document management
• traefik as a reverse proxy
• heimdall to remind me what’s there :)
• a couple statically generated web sites
• changedetection.io to check some websites for changes
• watchtower to at least notify me when new docker images are available
• portainer to have kind of a dashboard for all services
• youtube-dl-material
• dokuwiki as a second brain

Since Arch Linux is rolling, it sometimes simply breaks after an update. But since the services have gotten more critical for me over time (especially plex :) ) I plan on putting some of the services to a host in the cloud behind a WireGuard VPN. Also, the Brix should be re-installed with Ubuntu or Debian some day.