Pangolin!
Selfhosted
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
Rules:
-
Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
-
No spam posting.
-
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
-
Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
-
Submission headline should match the article title (donβt cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
-
No trolling.
Resources:
- selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
- awesome-selfhosted software
- awesome-sysadmin resources
- Self-Hosted Podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting
Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.
Questions? DM the mods!
Ohh, I'd love to share.
Running most services as docker/ kubernetes containers.
Currently running Plex (previously Jellyfin, maybe will switch back) for media streaming.
Grocy for food/task/family organisation (grocery list and so forth)
Piehole for home ad-blocker and proxy ππ»ππ»ππ»
3 Proxmox nodes 2 SFF Dell Optiplex (i5 with 32gb RAM) 1 Nuc (i7 with 64gb RAM)
1 Truenas host (old gaming PC i5 with 64gb RAM and 8TB ZFS pool
pfSense appliance for firewall
- Pi-Hole
- Vaultwarden
- Immich
- Paperless-ngx
- InfluxDB + Grafana
- Ansible
- Nextcloud
- Wireguard
- UptimeKuma
- Homeassiatant
- Homepage
- Octoprint
I see people listing things I've never heard about...I thought I had spent a considerable amount of time on the old sub and knew stuff. Guess I gotta hit the books.
Right now though I'm hosting everything on a 2012 Mac Mini that's running Proxmox.
Been using these programs for awhile now:
- Photoprism
- wireguard
- web blog testing instance while the live one lives on linode
- plex
- filebrowser
- pi-hole
- homepage
Nothing crazy but cool stuff to learn in my day to day. I want more hardware but I'm about to buy a house. It's crazy how much I'm throwing at an 11 year old computer and it's handling it all quite well.
I've been working on expanding my homelab recently. I have a physical box at home serving as an LXC host along with a few VPSes. I'm now up to:
- Some static web sites
- Nextcloud
- Jellyfin
- Forgejo
- NTFY
- A reverse proxy
- An IRC server
- A Gemini server
- A VPN
- DNS servers
I think I read an old blog post once that said "Servers tend to multiply like rabbits" and it's 100% true.
Original comment overwritten
Raspberry 4 No.1 (HassOS)
- Home Assistant - smart home management
- HA extension Vaultwarden
Raspberry 4 No.2 (Ubuntu LTS)
- Pi-Hole - network ad filter
- Navidrome - music library
- Beets - music tagging
- Lidarr/Deluge/Hydra/Jackett - music collection, downloading
- Baikal - CalDAV & CardDAV
- Nginx - Reverse-proxy
- Filebrowser
- Vaultwarden - Backup of HA extension
- Raneto - Knowledge base
- Pyload - Download manager
Fileserver custom built (Ubuntu LTS, local only):
- Sonarr - Series management
- PostgreSQL - Data management for Kodi/MPD
- Snapserver
- Mopidy
Raspberry 4 No.3 (Raspian, local only)
- Kodi
All services dockerized but Kodi.
I use a combination of a MacMini Oracle cloud, probably not best long term solution but it's free (while it lasts).
Stuff that runs on Oracle:
- caddy proxy (mostly used for Mac reverse proxy)
- couch db (obsidian live sync plugin)
Stuff on Mac:
- blue bubbles (iMessage relay for Android)
- Plex (for photo backup)
Aside from that not much else π
I have been self hosting things for over 15 years. I now host on 7 computers. I'm proud of the fact that I stay under 100W idle, including 3 Omada WLAN APs and network technology (all via PoE and all is on a UPS). For most of the services i normally used the helper scripts. i'm currently in the process of moving everything to komodo. there should be an lxc for each service or service group, komodo pulls the compose files from gitea and deploys everything.
Proxmox pve0: M910x i5.7500 4x3,4GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe
- OPNSense (VM)
- Omada (LXC/komodo-server - control for 3 WLAN-APs)
- apt-cacher-ng (LXC/komodo-server - cache for debian-updates)
- searxng (LXC/komodo-server - my standard google-alternative)
- technitium (LXC/komodo-server - DNS, Adblock)
- nginx (LXC/komodo-server - own ssl-domain over cloudflare, no ports open to the www, my devices connect only via tailscale)
UNRAID-NAS - odroid h2+ Intel J4115 4x1,8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2x24GB HDD - fileserver)
Proxmox Backup Server (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe, 2TB SSD)
Proxmox pve1 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)
- bifrost (LXC/komodo-server - hue emulator)
- paperless (LXC/komodo-server - DMS)
- paperless-ai (LXC/komodo-server - tagging DMS)
- mosquitto (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt broker)
- zigbee2mqtt (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt-zigbee bridge)
- snowflake (LXC/komodo-server - tor relais)
- RaspberryMatic (VM - Homematic)
Proxmox pve2 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)
- ghost (LXC comm-script, business soltion, wanna play around)
- hoarder (LXC/komodo-server - bookmarks with AI tagging)
- memos (LXC/komodo-server - notes - I play around)
- obsidian-sync (LXC/komodo-server - notes, but I hate the need of action for this)
- vaultwarden (LXC/komodo-server - password manager backup for my payed bitwarden instance)
- gitea (LXC/komodo-server - hoe to, IP-addresses, compose-files)
- komodo-management (LXC/komodo-server - komodo main-server to manage all the servers)
- firefly-iii (LXC/komodo-server - finance - I'm looking for an alternaticve for actualbudget )
- actual-budged (LXC/komodo-server - finance with AI tagging)
- investbrain (LXC/komodo-server - stock management, but only in USD, I wait for other currencies)
Proxmox pve3 (M920x: i7-8700, 64 GB RAM, 250 GB NVMe, 2 TB NVMe)
- ollama+open webui (LXC/komodo-server - AI)
- immich (LXC/komodo-server - photo backup for my ios-photos)
- iobroker (LXC/komodo-server - smarthome for some tricky scripts)
- home assistant (VM - smarthome - for UI, its stupid for scripts)
- nextcloud (LXC/alpine - Im using it for documents, but Im looking for an alternative)
- plex/jellyfin/management (LXC/komodo-server - multimedia)
*raspberry pi 5
- venus OS (solar/accu management software)
i'm happy to have found an entry point and an alternative to reddit here, even though my second post (question about suitable hardware with 32 answers) has already been deleted. hello everyone!
I just started months ago, but I have a yunohost server ona raspberry with nextcloud and forgejo on it :)
I have a few things going on. I've been blogging some of my notes on how I'm getting some things going in Docker. But I only relatively recently started sharing my notes so there's not a ton yet. Hopefully there's something useful for someone here. https://magnus919.com/tags/selfhosting/
I self-host:
- A Matrix homeserver
- A Pleroma instance (basically Mastadon but different implementation)
- Tiny-Tiny-RSS
- Nextcloud
- Gitea
- Headscale
- Jellyfin
- Wikijs
I rent a low-budget dedicated server from a data center - it only has about 4 cores and 8GB of RAM, but that's more than enough for my needs. Most importantly it has 2TB of hard drive space (for Nextcloud & Jellyfin) which is why I upgraded from my prior VPS.
I run one main hypervisor with a bunch of different Ubuntu server VMs that I spin up as I mess with different things. I'm old-school so I am not a fan of cloud computing or even docker. Services I host that I use the most are NAS (samba), plex, pi-hole, dokuwiki (huge documentation nerd), and zoneminder which is a great open-source security cam software.
I turned my last two gaming PCs into Proxmox hosts and I have a Hetzner vps that will host something eventually.
2010 Gaming PC:
- Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
- Docker teet VM
- Piwigo
- Chevereto
Pihole is running on a keepalived vip that acts as my secondary DNS server. Gravity sync keeps it in line with my main Pihole VM (push/pull) and then I have an old rpi also on the same keepalived vip that has gravity sync set up that pulls from the secondary VM
Anything I run as an evaluation or that needs testing also runs here. This machine gets Proxmox updates first as well.
2016 Gaming PC:
- unRAID VM
- Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
- Nextcloud
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Gitea
- Dozzle
- Docker container registry
- Diun
- Caddy (moving away from NPM)
- Photoprism
- Jellyfin
- Plex
- Tautulli
- Bookstack
- Heimdall
- Netbox
- Unifi Controller
- Wikijs
- Paperless-ngx
- Uptime kuma
- Gluetun
- Deluge
- Homarr
- Lidarr
- Miniflux
- NZBget
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Readarr
These are split amongst a few VMs depending on criticality and further broken down to needs (VPN, whether or not I can reboot and not affect my wife/kids, network share requirements.
I'm pretty much always tweaking something and having fun with it
This is an incredible amount of services! Where would you suggest someone with basic hardware begin with setting some of this stuff up, and what are some of the essentials to you?