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A simple question to this community, what are you self-hosting? It's probably fun to hear from each-other what services we are running.

Please mention at least the service (e.g. e-mail) and the software (e.g. postfix). Extra bonus points for also mentioning the OS and/or hardware (e.g. Linux Distribution, raspberry pi, etc) you are running on.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
  • Jellyfin - Media streaming type app - basically use it for movies/shows and pictures.
  • Joplin - Note taking app
  • Syncthing - Sync for phones to PC for backing up pictures
  • Miniflux - RSS reader
  • Minetest - FOSS Minecraft voxel engine
  • Veloren - FOSS Cubeworld game written in Rust
  • GoToSocial - Microblogging server - aka Twitter/Mastodon
  • Semaphore - Frontend for GoToSocial
  • SearXNG - Search engine
  • Conduit - Matrix server - chat
  • Libremdb - IMBD frontend
  • Invidious - Youtube frontend
  • Nitter - Twitter frontend
  • Libreddit - Reddit frontend
  • Rimgo - Imgur frontend
  • Proxitok - TikTok frontend

Failed to get working:

  • Mobilizon - FB groups type alternative
  • Peertube - YT alternative on the Fediverse
  • Lemmy - Tried for a day and just couldn't get it working. Found out there are issues with Rocky Linux and Lemmy that broke about two months ago but no further work was done it. I'll try again someday.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • tinyRSS
  • paperlessNGX
  • homeassistent
  • navidrome
  • spamassassin
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I run an I2P instance and I'm starting to look at Plex. I wonder if those can be combined.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Raspberry Pi 4B

  • OS: Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit
  • Pi Hole (Ad block)
  • NextCloud (File access)
  • Home Assistant (Automation)
  • Paperless NGX (Document management)
  • Apache/Php/MariaDB (Web server)
  • Jellyfin (Media streaming)
  • Plex (will be removed once happy with Jellyfin)
  • Sonarr (Show locator)
  • Radarr (Film locator)
  • Bazarr (Subtitle)
  • Deluge (Torrent client)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I haven't actually started self-hosting anything yet, though at least I've bought a domain and I'm paying for an email service using that domain. It's nice and easy while still giving me some control my e-mail address and not being beholden to the likes of Google. I did so after my long time e-mail I had had all my life through my parents' internet provider was deleted with no warning.

I've also been looking into buying a NAS for use as a media server and backup target. I'll probably go with a Synology one for now, just to keep maintenance to a minimum. Maybe in the future I'll do something more advanced.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  • Nextcloud
  • Mumble
  • Mail (postfix/dovecot), though I regret that I did, cause running your own mail server is a PITA
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

These comments inspire me so much to get back into my self-hosting. Right now, I'm running

  • Foundry (a virtual table top for ttrps)
  • Nextcloud (which I don't use)
  • Jellyfin (which I also don't use)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Selfhosting is certainly addicting once you get your feet wet. You find a site and instantly look for its github to host it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

My longest running self-host is the RSS reader Tiny Tiny RSS running on a Digital Ocean droplet with Ubuntu 22.04

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago
  • Small Matrix Instance (for Bridging under alpine lxc)
  • Nextcloud (for phone data under debian lxc)
  • Jellyfin (for old CD rips under debian lxc)
    All of this is under Proxmox VE
    I also am a Sysadmin for Project Segfault (projectsegfau.lt/instances), where we host a lot of other stuff :)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's mine:

Unraid OS: Docker:

  • cadvisor
  • deluge
  • FileZilla
  • Firefox
  • Fivefilters-full-text-rss
  • FreshRSS
  • Home-Assistant-Container
  • Libreddit
  • Microsoft-Edge
  • pihole
  • Plex-Media-Server
  • Radarr
  • Resilio-Sync
  • Scrutiny
  • Sonarr

Unraid OS: Virtual Machines:

  • Debian VM
  • Windows 11 VM

Unraid OS: Plugins:

  • GPU Statistics
  • Tailscale
  • CA Mover Tuning
  • Community Applications
  • Dynamix System Temperature
  • Intel GPU TOP
  • NVTOP
  • Unassigned Devices

My unraid server is my "jack of all trades" machine running the primary services apart from my Pihole instance (as below).

Ubuntu Server LTS:

  • pihole
  • pivpn
  • emby

This is running on an old thin client machine and is my primary Pihole/VPN machine with a backup music/media server running Emby.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2 with Debian 11:

  • Actual Budget : personal finance & budgeting
  • Dashy : dashboard
  • Jupyter : web-based use of jupyter notebooks for data analysis
  • Photoprism : photo library
    • I use FolderSync on mine and my wife's phones to backup photos to photoprism nightly via WebDAV
  • mariadb : metadata storage for photoprism
  • Pihole : for ad blocking on the network
  • Traefik : proxies access to all services

Plus grafana and prometheus for monitoring, although I haven't fully configured them so they're not terribly useful at the moment.

All are running as rootless docker containers. I've considered switching back to normal rooted containers, since there are some oddities with file permissions and networking (e.g., pihole only sees one client IP address).

All data is backed up to BackBlaze B2 via restic.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Got a Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi OS) set with an USB3 HDD with Systemd mount dependency for the following services:

  • Plex for movies and music
  • Samba for a shared network drive
  • Transmission

Planning for:

  • PiHole (DNS adblocker)
  • Jellyfin as a backup
  • Nginx Proxy Server (since my Nodejs Express Proxy project failed miserably)

I configured it for mobility since I am always moving with it, so this is why the Systemd dependency is very handy. Also, its wifi connection defaults to my hotspot when not at home.

I also got 3 Pi3Bs remaining from an old Kube cluster project with HypriotOS, but I didn't know what to do with them and it pains me to renew the cluster certificates

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I have proxmox running on PC in my closet. So far not a ton of things hosted on it:

Current:

  • Minecraft (vanilla) on debian
  • Valheim on debian
  • A debian VM running some tools (namely dynamic DNS)

Planned:

  • Plex!
  • Prolly more game servers
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@proycon

I'm currently working on redoing my homelab stack but here is what I have running so far.

Hardware:
3x Pi 4 4GB - Debian Bookworm
1x Pi 3 - Debian Bookworm
1x 8-core AMD, 24 GB RAM, 1.5 TB of space frankenstein server - TrueNAS (might forgo the TrueNAS installation for Bookworm and just host NFS shares natively)
1x TP-LINK POE Switch
1x FriendlyWRT router

Software:
- Consul/Nomad
- Pihole (DNS/Adblock)
- Traefik (routing)
- Hashicorp Vault (secrets management)
- Authelia (authentication)
- Rabbitmq
- Bitwarden
- PostgreSQL
- Mariadb
- pgadmin (considering switching to adminer)
- Redis
- Gitea
- Drone
- AWX
- Watchtower

I've been redoing that stack for a couple of years now, and it's never quite finished; it started out as docker containers on the Pi3, went to Kubernetes, went back to containers, and finally landed on Nomad which I am loving.

I have a list of about 30 services I want to host on that stack, but I'll probably start with Foundry VTT, Paperless, and Calibre.

Forgot to mention my cloud stuff
- Lemmy instance: https://pathfinder.social for all your Pathfinder and Starfinder TTRP needs.
- Resume website based on The Cloud Resume Challenge (https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/) that I want to redo and just self-host pretty soon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I run:

  • Matrix
  • Mastodon
  • Pixelfed
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got some Dell 2U I got from work.

Currently running Proxmox for a hypervisor.

  • OPNsense - Main Gateway,Firewall,etc. Also Reverse Proxy

  • UnFi Controller for AP

  • OMV as my NAS which also hosts an emby container to keep it close to the data.

  • Wireguard VPN

  • Mumble Music Bot

  • Game servers.

  • OMV is set up with SnapRAID and mergerfs.

  • EmbyContainer just mounts the localdrives.

  • Mumble server is on a VPS which also handles the domain and email I use as well.

  • Basically whatever my group of friends is playing

I would like to upgrade the server for 10gbit. My ISP has 3000/3000 fibre I could get.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh boy here I go:

Hardware: Ryzen 7900X, 128GB Ram, 2x12TB HDD, 2x2TB SSD

What I'm running:

  • Space Engineers Server
  • Minecraft Server
  • Chevereto
  • Mastodon
  • Jellyfin
  • PeerTube
  • Kavita
  • Calibre Web
  • Vaultwarden
  • Nextcloud
  • Gitlab
  • Navidrome
  • Lemmy
  • Mailcow
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm actually not that into actual self-hosting (it feels too close to my day job). But i love the idea of it, and actually do host my own RSS Reader: It's selfoss (PHP + SQLite, so, very simple) and i have been using ever since google reader shut down. It runs on my uberspace.de instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

At home:

  • HomeAssistant OS in a Raspberry PI. Runs all the lights, curtains, heating, air-conditioning and media at home. (Linux)
  • Hifiberry with a good DAC connected to it, runs mpv, airplay and chromecast audio. (RPI, Linux)
  • TrueNAS together with over 40 terabytes of space (FreeBSD)
  • Plex and Plexamp for music (FreeBSD)
  • OPNsense router runs the whole home network (FreeBSD)
  • A private git server for stuff I don't want to push to a public server (FreeBSD)
  • Jellyfin server for movies and television (FreeBSD), client on an NVIDIA Shield (Android)
  • Unifi controller to handle the home WiFi (FreeBSD)

Remote:

  • Akkoma for Twitter-like communication on the Fediverse (Linux)
  • Lemmy to talk with y'all in here (Linux)
  • PostgreSQL as the central database for all my remote services (Linux)
  • Elasticsearch for searching the Fediverse (Linux)
  • SearXNG as my private search engine (Linux)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Newbie here. Trying to learn the ins and outs of self-hosting by messing around with Discord Red on my Pi 3B (on Raspberry Pi OS). Working great-ish so far! Need me some more free time to tinker with cogs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm selfhosting a Terraria server, with a medium size world

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I dockerize everything, but services like media streaming, content downloading, but my favourite part is the minecraft server for my friends and I. It’s fun to write your own custom plugins and scripts and things to use with it which I find incredibly rewarding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
  • VS Code Server (remote development environment)
  • Paperless NGX (document management)
  • Bookstack (personal wiki)
  • Portainer (docker management)
  • Authelia (authentication)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (7 children)

How has been your experience with code-server so far? I am interested in self-hosting it

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a VPS (netcup) with 8 cores, 12GB RAM and 320GB SSD. Hosting there on Ubuntu 22.04:

  • Matrix
  • Mastodon
  • Nextcloud
  • Wordpress
  • Adguard
  • Stirling PDF
  • Gotify
  • Bitwarden

At home I have a Ryzen 5 5600G with 16GB RAM on a B550 aorus elite v2 with 2TB nvme SSD and 2x 6TB seagate HDDs.

Hosting there on Fedora 38 KDE:

  • Immich
  • Jellyfin
  • Lemmy
  • Photoview
  • ArozOS
  • Paperless
  • Dashdot
  • Codeserver
  • LXD Dashboard
  • Scrutiny
  • Cloudbeaver
  • jDownloader
  • Kavita
  • Podgrab
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

In my homelab I have two main servers

Esxi: Opnsense VM --Running Wireguard VPN Docker VM --Vaultwarden --Portainer --FreshRSS --Heimdall Dashboard --SponsorBlockCast --Portainer Agent Home Assistant VM --Node Red --Frigate --DoubleTake --zigbee2mqtt --Mosquitto --ESPHome SecureVM --NGINX Proxy Manager --Portainer Agent

Ubuntu Media Server 40tb zfs Running Docker: --Scrutiny --Plex --YTDL Material --Lidarr --Radarr --Bazarr --Sonarr --Sabnzbd --Compfreface --Portainer Agent Cockpit

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pretty much everything to be fair:

  • Email with Roundcube
  • Chat with Matrix-Synapse + Element
  • My files with Nextcloud, easily one of my most used self-hosted apps
  • RSS with Miniflux (open to change, as soon as I find any RSS backend with a usable Android app)
  • My social network presence, with Pleroma (again, subject to change, as soon as I know how to properly move my domain to a different software tool)
  • My media, with Jellyfin
  • Peertube to watch videos from other instances and comment on them
  • And finally, all of the above protected with a password vault from Vaultwarden

EDIT: For those wondering, I use @[email protected] ( https://yunohost.org ) as my server manager

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I've got a Raspberry Pi running Portainer on DietPi OS hosting a Discord bot, ACME certificate manager, reverse proxy; a second DietPi pi hosting Sonarr and Radarr and an automatic ripping machine; a pi NAS ruining open media vault; and my Linux gaming system also has Portainer running Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Home server is currently running;

  • Firefly III (accounting software for me and the wife)
  • Deemix (I can scrape all the flacs I want)
  • Droopy (Fileshare (Deemix downloads save to it))
  • Portainer (Docker web client)
  • Firefox (Chat-GBT has blocked my VPN so I run Firefox from the server bypassing the VPN)

All the above are running in Docker.

On the to-do list;

  • wiki.js ( This is a demo for work, hopefully get the go ahead to move all IT documentation away from doc and folder)
  • Snip-IT (Again demo for work, so we can move away from an excel file)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I currently host

  • Akkoma (microblogging)
  • GoToSocial (microblogging)
  • SearXNG (meta search engine)
  • Baikal (CalDAV)

on a cheap VPS that has 2GB RAM and 2 core CPU. They run pretty smoothly.☁️

eddit : spelling

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I host a custom PaaS I developed during the pandemic, based of Docker Swarm.

On it I have:

  • Nextcloud
  • collabora
  • matrix/synapse
  • a service that bypasses a podcast's platform requirement to be logged in to listen to full content through RSS feed
  • 6 very small websites
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pihole for DNS/Adblock

FreshRSS for my news

Speedtest Tracker to keep an eye on my internet speed

Uptime Kuma to keep track of my uptime

N.eko

Homepage

2x Plex server for redundancy

Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr/Jackett

Qbittorrent/VPN combo

NGINX Reverse proxy

And of course, my own lemmy instance

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • Vaultwarden
  • 2 pi holes
  • the suite of arrrs + nzbget
  • jellyfin
  • ombi
  • OMV for a SMB share
  • Nextcloud
  • homer as a dashboard
  • homeassistsnt
  • uptime kuma
  • koillection

I did also have a wordpress site but that was too much hassle so the container is stopped at the moment.

All on docker (except OMV, and home assistsnt on its own pi4) and using portainer for sanity.

Internal SSL using a domain and nginx proxy manager.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

36 TB server:

  • Nextcloud (a little heavier than I'd like considering something that's just filesharing)
  • Jellyfin
  • Audiobookshelf
  • Kavita
  • Authentik
  • N.eko with protection via authentik (rabbit clone so I can watch things with friends even if it's not on jellyfin)
  • Homepage so I can remember everything -_-

Raspberry pi:

  • Adguard home, which router pushes all traffic dns through
  • Mopidy - hooked the pi to my speakers, can start playing via web interface. Don't love it, but it's working.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

if nextcloud is too heavy for you and you really just use it for filesharing, consider filebrowser. if you also need sync, you can use syncthing. Even combined those two should easily be more lightweight, easier to maintain and less error prone than a nextcloud instance. you will miss out on the additional nextcloud apps though.

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