Selfhosted

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 host a nextcloud sever (snap) and a minecraft server on a laptop I no longer use

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.

Thank you for all for sharing 🤩 I still havent determine if I'm going self hosting at home or with a VPS, but I discovered cool projects!

Got a proxmox node with a couple of vm's, mostly for hosting docker.

I'm considering switching proxmox for kubevirt, but I'd have to deploy all my container as either k8s deployments or create new vm for docker...

Been using prometheus at work lately and I want to create a push setup with thanos backend, but for now it's just an idea

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.

Do you have some massive server home or using VPS/VDS?

I've been selfhosting various things for almost 25 years now. Started with email/web, but now I've got the following (in no particular order):

• email (postfix/dovecot)
• web (nginx)
• shared notes (obsidian, but also through dovecot)
• calendar (davical)
• telephony (asterisk)
• replicated storage (syncthing)
• media server (plex)
• home automation (homeassistant, mosquitto, grafana, influxdb)
• power monitoring (empora device on the breaker panel + a few smart outlets talking to homeassistant)
• security cameras (securityspy)
• irrigation (a controller of my own design, adding OpenSprinkler support this year)
• offsite backups (duplicity + rclone)
• project management/issue tracking (redmine)
• social media (gnu-social + lemmy, but also testing mbin)
• bookmark management (karakeep)
• local copies of web stuff (yt-dlp, hamsterbase, singlefile)
• VPN (openvpn)

Virtualization is mostly docker containers, but also some ESXi/VMWare Fusion. I also have Obsidian in the mix but that's not really a self-host but more of a way to organize/access my data. I have also been doing a (very!) little bit of experimentation with local LLMs, but it's all on ARM, using either the GPU or the NPU available on the RK3588.

This stuff either exists on an OVH VPS for the "internet facing" stuff or on an old Dell C6100 blade server. ESXi uses one blade and another blade runs Debian and talks to an old SATA/SAS disk shelf I got for $50 to see if I could make it work (it was super straightforward). I have a bunch of 2T and 4T "spinning rust" drives in two RAID6 arrays (mdadm) and then carve out storage for various things using LVM. I am experimenting with zfs on the VPS but am not a big fan of it. I used to run OpnSense on another blade since I couldn't find a router which would properly shape gigabit internet traffic, but now I'm using an ER605 and it seems to be doing quite well. I have a tiny KeepConnect device which will physically cut power to the cable modem if it can't see the internet which is very helpful since the biggest source of trouble for me has always been the damn internet service doing weird things when I'm not at home.

I've even been working toward "self hosting" my own educational electronics stuff for my kids using https://microblocks.fun/ (the actual project is called smallvm) - think scratch running completely in the browser and executing code on a "vm" which is actually running on a microcontroller over BLE or serial.

This sounds like a shitload of work and sometimes it can be, but one of the best parts of self hosting is that once it's set up, it hardly ever has to be updated/changed. Security updates are the biggest reason of course, but a LOT of this is not on the open internet so I can be more lenient about keeping things up to date. I also try to keep everything that needs a database to use ONE database (postgres), which also makes it easier to back up or use data from several tools in a new way. Honestly it's largely fire and forget these days. I add more space or replace drives as needed and try not to touch things otherwise. I keep a set of notes to help me remember not only the how but the WHY I set things up in a particular way, and those notes are accessible 100% offline. (After all, what good are notes on how things are set up if the thing you've stored them on isn't working?)

My infrastructure at home (C6100, SAS shelf, switch, etc.) consumes about 700W 24/7 which is not awesome but I figure the power bill saves a lot of service costs. The VPS runs me about $30/mo.

Hi

I started self hosting 3 years ago when I got wind of tailscale. I've always cared about privacy and building things so that was great.

My infrastructure consists of two machines.

One - my personal and work server A deskmini i3 12th gen

256GB Boot drive 4TB NVME data drive

-photoprism -syncthing -nextcloud -Firefox+VPN -archivebox

Two - my media server that I let 6ish other people access - PC tower i3 12th gen

512GB Boot and docker config file drive 4*4TB HDD mergerfs for raw data

-jellyfin -*arr suite -gluetun VPN -audiobookshelf (also for auto downloading podcasts) -calibre-web

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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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/

Pangolin!

• Jellyfin
• OpenVPN
• radicale
• jellyseerr
• ArchiveBox
• pydio
• Nextcloud
• Ocis
• pihole
• CollaboraOffice server
• Gokapi
• Seafile
• Mastodon
• GoToSocial
• Signal Proxy

Running xen hypervisor (Debian 12) on a HP Elitedesk 805 Gen6 (currently 10 VMs) at home, a few VPS from different hosting providers too.

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