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The Lollipop Cloud Project
The Lollipop Cloud project is an attempt to make hosting personal internet services such as a website, contact list, remote file storage, or a calendar more accessible to users through open source technology and ARM boards (link). It allows for anyone with an ARM computer to host their own services.
(The above blurb came from our website (link), in case you're just joining us.)
Recommended Hardware
- a single-board computer (SBC) like Pine64 or Orange Pi (link) with Armbian installed.
- a means to work with the SBC (monitor/keyboard, serial adapter, ssh via ethernet)
- wifi adapter, cell modem, GPS, RTC (Real Time Clock), Bluetooth Serial Terminal, other hardware you need for your custom setup. see also: Hardware Considerations (link)
Initial Setup
Setup For Beginners!! (link): If you are new to installing Linux, or would like a little extra help walking through the initial creation of your Lollipop, please take a look our document written especially for beginners. Come back here and skip down to the next section (Networking) when you're ready.
If you're not using the link for beginners, you can start here:
Networking Setup
- Network Manager (networking setup tool) (link)
- Modem Manager (3G/LTE modems) (link)
- FirewallD (firewall/routing) (link)
- Unbound (Non ISP DNS) (link)
- VPN Options
Fundamental Tools
- Cockpit (recommended!) (link): simple browser-based management console/UI
- Chrony (link): clock synchronization
- Borg Backups (link): simple, effective, efficient backups
- Docker (link): containerize your services
- Let's Encrypt (link): SSL/TLS certificates
- Incron (link): inotify-based cron, useful for automatic service reloads
- Caddy (link): web server/proxy
- Pi Hole (link): ad-blocking to save bandwidth and data
- Searx (link): self-hosted search engine
Additional Services
- Postgresl: database management, required for NextCloud, Gogs, Wallabag, TT-RSS, and Turtl, if desired, and possibly additional services
- Monitoring: basic monitoring with munin
- ElasticBeats (incomplete): Logs/Monitoring
- NextCloud: file syncing, alternative to Dropbox
- Syncthing: sync for large numbers or large sized files, an alternative to NextCloud
- Gogs: self-hosted git, alternative to GitHub
- Gitea (incomplete): self-hosted git
- Wallabag: save websites for later, alternative to Read it Later or Pocket
- TT-RSS: self-hosted RSS reader, alternative to Google Reader
- Turtl: self-hosted notes synchronization, alternative to Evernote or OneNote