WEW it’s been a minute since I posted any updates here.
The last time I was messing around, I was working toward getting Photoprism and Syncthing to work for me. Both are now running in tandem to sync photos directly from my phone to a linux vm running Photoprism as a docker container. I have the docker-compose.yml files set to share a location as a persistent volume. PhotoPrism is also set to index it’s library once every 5 or so minutes to ensure that the files uploaded are being indexed and synced into the system.
Have yet to have any issues with it after 4 months aside from a small issue where PhotoPrism lost it’s mind with it’s clock being out of sync.
I also started migrating away from using CloudFlared tunnels, setting up an instance of NGINX Proxy Manager and migrating things to a direct SSL secured connection to my network.
So over all, not too much added. Now that I’m using NGINX Proxy Manager on my network, I had to figure out a way to set up Dynamic DNS with my Cloudflare DNS. Thankfully a useful guide online walked through the process. Since I’m running multiple subdomains, I did have to have multiple tasks setup to update for each record in the zone. So far, no issues.
After having an unexpected power outage, I hadn’t realized that a chunk of my services had gone down. This created the need for an uptime monitor, granted an uptime monitor on the same network and uplink that the services are hosted from would not prove useful. After talking with a few friends I found out that Oracle offers a free tier for their virtual private server services. I got signed up with them and was able to create a uptime monitor through a service called Uptime Kuma. This service has worked without issue thus far and with a bit of configuration, I’m able to get alerts directly through a private discord server when a service has been unreachable for 60 seconds.
