I’ve stuck with
gethomepage.dev the longest. Taking the time to tweak it can be a huge help (using labels for autodiscovery). It’s yaml configs are fairly easy once you get the hang of them if that’s something that is new to you. Lots of help out there too.

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A modern, fully static, fast, secure, fully proxied, highly customizable application dashboard with integrations for over 100 services and translations into multiple languages.
I was in a very similar situation as you when I decided to just go with Unraid and build my own. I got a Fractal Design 804 case and was able to put very modest parts in it (i5 6500) and it performs so much better. And now there’s no headaches with drives. I still have my 918+ but it’s only used as a local backup for my unraid. If you’re willing to shift perspective a little it can be very worthwhile. My small opinion…
Not sure what your preferred platform is but I’ve had great success connecting to my Calibre-web site with Yomu on iOS.
Maybe using a
tailscale funnel would be a good option for you? I use one for a webdav setup to get around CF’s 100mb limit on uploads when clients won’t chunk their data properly. It was fairly easy to set up and works perfectly.

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TailscaleI’ve been using
Floccus extension for a year or two and love it. Everyone of my browsers is supported (except for Orion), synced using my nextcloud setup, and is easy to set up. Can’t complain.

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That is an option I’ve been thinking about but I’ve never used it, I’m not a dev. Maybe I’ll look at it more seriously since it does sound like what would work best, I’d really apprecieate the versioning. Thanks!
In my particular case I only have a few .env files and they don’t have any credentials in them. This is mostly for the docker-compose files.
Backup compose and env files - Lemmy.World
Just curious if there is an easy way to back up my docker-compose.yaml and .env
files. I have the following directory structure for my containers: -docker
-<name of container> -.env -docker-compose.yml I’d like to copy those two files
for each container folder but no other subfolders that may also be in the
container folder (config, data, etc). I’ve been trying to get my restic backups
to do it but I just can’t figure it out. Is there a better way? I’d like to have
backups in case my entire server dies.___
I literally just set up a container for
Erugo for this exact thing. It worked perfectly and was super easy to do. It’s just a self-hosted version of wetransfer. Could be helpful…

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I think you can just download them straight from the website.