About Services

We use selected services to help with managing, in one way or another, all the things described in this documentation, and some that are not. The services we use are very briefly described in the sections below. They are broken down into two categories: - External services — These are services: - Provided by companies. - Which, in most cases, charge a monthly or annual fee. - Internal services — These services: - Are installed and run on small, relatively inexpensive servers. - Use free and ‘open’ software. - Are connected to our home network. - Are managed and maintained by us.

Each section title is a link to a page giving details about that service, for example, what it is used for, how we access it, how much it costs, etc.

External Services

1Password

As one aspect of the name implies, 1Password is used to store account credentials, i.e. userid’s and passwords, sensitive information, aka. secrets, and in a few cases, information used to make (re)building Internal Services easier.

Github

Github introduction here

DropBox

DropBox introduction here

Cloudflare

Internal Services

Internal Services, also called self-hosted services, are services that are installed and run on servers — a kind of device — we own and maintain. At present, all our servers are Raspberry Pi’s with the exception of the QNAP NAS¹.

The N8N service

The AI service

The Web-Hosting service

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The QNAP NAS

Refactor the QNAP service

This should be modeled as a device that has services running on it. Those might include the NAS, and possibly a service or services running within Docker on the QNAP server device.