I’m not sure anyone shares the same glee I feel when I view all the blocked IPs scrolling by in my pFsense firewall. Suricata does a lot of heavy lifting for sure.
What’s your selfhosting guilty pleasure or pleasures?
- Seeing the rising request count as ai bots circle around in iocaine
- Knowing where my photos and files are
- Having useful services that don’t require a subscription to random company
- Learning and experimenting with things
Pushing my commits that trigger my own gitlab runners that build my c++ application across 32 cores/threads homelab server.
Watching the bots eat my iocaine poison. Its most of my traffic.
Mine is looking at the blocked domains in pihole and watching my TV trying to call home desperately without success.
Mine is seeing the “removed” and “started” when I update all my dockers
Use Watchtower. You’ll miss out on this pleasure though.
I like manual updates, keeps me in the loop
Gaming with friends and family over Tailscale on my servers; it just works
Do you get a lot of latency with Tailscale?
Why would they? It is peer to peer






