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<p>link to Borg backup page</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:14, 25 June 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l62">Line 62:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 62:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Syncthing]] - Decentralized file synchronization application</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Syncthing]] - Decentralized file synchronization application</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Restic]] - Fast and secure backup program</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Restic]] - Fast and secure backup program</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BorgBackup</del>]] - Deduplicating incremental backup program for local and remote data</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Borg backup</ins>]] - Deduplicating incremental backup program for local and remote data</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Rclone]] - Command-line program that synchronizes files and directories between different cloud storage services</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Rclone]] - Command-line program that synchronizes files and directories between different cloud storage services</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key mediawiki:diff:1.41:old-23242:rev-23243:php=table --> </table>

Klinger https://wiki.nixos.org/w/index.php?title=NixOS_as_a_server&diff=23242&oldid=prev 2025-06-25T20:12:44Z

<p>link to apache httpd page</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:12, 25 June 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l49">Line 49:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 49:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Nginx]] - Web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Nginx]] - Web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Apache]] - Free and open-source cross-platform web server</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Apache <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Httpd</ins>]] - Free and open-source cross-platform web server</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Caddy]] - Extensible, cross-platform, open-source web server written in Go</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [[Caddy]] - Extensible, cross-platform, open-source web server written in Go</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key mediawiki:diff:1.41:old-23180:rev-23242:php=table --> </table>

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<p>Create initial page</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[NixOS]] is well-suited for server deployments, offering declarative, reproducible system configurations and atomic system upgrades and rollbacks. This page provides an overview of configuring, deploying, and maintaining NixOS systems in server environments. <br /> <br /> == Initial setup ==<br /> <br /> Refer to the [[NixOS Installation Guide]] for detailed installation instructions.<br /> <br /> For setting up NixOS in the cloud, refer to the [[NixOS friendly hosters]].<br /> <br /> For guidance on defining and maintaining your system configuration, consult [[NixOS system configuration]].<br /> <br /> == NixOS infrastructure tools ==<br /> <br /> === Deployment orchestration ===<br /> <br /> * [[nixos-anywhere]] - Install NixOS everywhere via SSH<br /> <br /> * [https://github.com/zhaofengli/colmena Colmena] - A simple, stateless NixOS deployment tool modeled after NixOps and morph, written in Rust<br /> <br /> * [[Morph]] - NixOS deployment tool<br /> <br /> * [[Clan]] - Peer-to-peer computer management framework for NixOS<br /> <br /> * [[Krops]] - Lightweight toolkit to deploy NixOS systems<br /> <br /> * [https://github.com/serokell/deploy-rs deploy-rs] - A simple, multi-profile Nix-flake deploy tool<br /> <br /> * [[NixOps]] - Native NixOS deployment tool for cloud and virtual infrastructure (not currently recommended)<br /> <br /> === Binary cache and CI ===<br /> <br /> See the main pages, [[Binary Cache]] and [[Continuous Integration (CI)]].<br /> <br /> * [https://www.cachix.org/ Cachix] - Share binaries between CI, development and deployment environments<br /> <br /> * [https://github.com/zhaofengli/attic Attic] - Self-hostable Nix Binary Cache server backed by an S3-compatible storage provider<br /> <br /> * [[Hydra]] - Tool for continuous integration testing and software release<br /> <br /> === Secrets management ===<br /> <br /> * [[Agenix]] - commandline tool for managing secrets in your Nix configuration<br /> * [https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix sops-nix] - Atomic, declarative, and reproducible secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops<br /> <br /> Refer to [[Comparison of secret managing schemes]] for additional tools and in-depth comparisions<br /> <br /> == Common server configurations ==<br /> <br /> === Web servers ===<br /> <br /> * [[Nginx]] - Web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.<br /> * [[Apache]] - Free and open-source cross-platform web server<br /> * [[Caddy]] - Extensible, cross-platform, open-source web server written in Go<br /> <br /> === File sharing and storage ===<br /> <br /> * [[NFS]] - Unix-based network file sharing<br /> * [[Samba]] - Windows-compatible file and printer sharing<br /> <br /> === Backup and replication ===<br /> <br /> * [[ZFS]] - With native snapshots and replication<br /> * [[Syncthing]] - Decentralized file synchronization application<br /> * [[Restic]] - Fast and secure backup program<br /> * [[BorgBackup]] - Deduplicating incremental backup program for local and remote data<br /> * [[Rclone]] - Command-line program that synchronizes files and directories between different cloud storage services<br /> <br /> === VPN and networking ===<br /> <br /> * [[WireGuard]] - Fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel<br /> <br /> * [[OpenVPN]] - Flexible VPN implementation for secure networking<br /> <br /> * [[Firewall]] - NixOS has an integrated firewall based on iptables or nftables<br /> <br /> * [[SSH]] - secure remote administration.<br /> <br /> == See Also ==<br /> <br /> * [[NixOS friendly hosters]] - Guides on setting up NixOS with various cloud providers<br /> <br /> * [[NixOS Installation Guide]]<br /> <br /> * [[NixOS as a desktop]] - Desktop counterpart to this article<br /> <br /> * [[NixOS system configuration]] <br /> <br /> [[Category:NixOS]]<br /> [[Category:Server]]</div>

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