Kancil Software Setup

My current server is called Kancil2, which is a Bee-Link Mini S N5095. Kancil1 is a still running Raspbery Pi 2.

Keeping Kancil2 company is an owl named Shadrack and a 4 TB Western Digital hard drive.

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Here's my on my current and planned set-up.

Self-Hosted Software 

Completed

• Trello Board substitute
• Detect Website Changes
• Download YouTube Videos
• Store and Organize PDF files
• Store and Organize Images
• Blog / Website (it's just Publii with Nginx)

To Do

• Low-Code Database (Airtable alternative)
• Notion alternative
• Audio Transcriptions and Summary
• PDF ChatBot
• Archive Single-Page
• Archive Websites

Costs: Time. All FOSS (free and open sourced software) except API calls as/if needed

Cloud-based Software and Services

• LLM (I would prefer to avoid ChatGPT)
• Glacier storage service for cheap, long-term cloud backup

Costs: Minimal. Less than EU 10 per month

Local Hardware

• Beelink Mini S (128 GB SSD, 16 GB ram)
• 4 TB Western Digital hard drive

Cost: About EUR 90 for a used Beelink Mini S. I will likely need to upgrade the ram and SSD

Security Setup

• Cloudflare Tunnel > Nginx Proxy Manager
• And also, just keeping certain things offline (no open ports for certain services) and segregated (using containers)

Other

• Domain name 

Costs: USD 10 per year