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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] 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)

cluster (two old laptops, and 3 PI 3s):

  • nomad
  • glusterfs
  • consul

containers on nomad:

  • gitea
  • nodered
  • traefik
  • nextdns
  • postfix
  • cloudflared
  • diun
  • uptimekuma
  • searxng
  • n8n
  • nfty
  • minecraft bedrock
  • maraiadb
  • linkding
  • ddclient

docker (on unraid):

  • audiobookshelf
  • changedetection.io
  • fileflows
  • gluetun
  • jellyfin
  • metube
  • netdata
  • qbittorrent
  • unifi controller

Stand alone hardware:

  • technitium dns server x2
  • home assistant
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Feels like literally everything...

LXC:
NginxProxyManager
Kasm
Several instances of GameServer
openemr (testing for viability for a client)
3 instances of TechnitiumDNS
Nextcloud
Graylog
UptimeKuma
ChangeDetection
Zwave-js
MeshCentral
Homepage
Canvas (yes a full instance of canvas. I used to be a college instructor, I have a copy of all my courses)
InvoiceNinja
Matrix
Lemmy
UnifiController
Gameyfin (I don't like this that much... it'll likely get killed)

6 instances of generic docker on LXC running portainer for other services:
diagrams.net (specifically tied into my nextcloud instance)
ghostfolio
it-tools
librespeed
libretranslate
quakejs
rickroll
rxresume
searxng
Ascii starwars
wxrdle
gramps.js
teamspeak
authentik (I think I like keycloak more and might migrate back)
bisq
hrconvert2
And a watchtower instance on each.

VMs:
Proxmox Backup Server
Mailcow
Librenms
freepbx
HomeAssistant
Windows Domain Server (no GUI)
"Media Server" which is a plex stack with all the *arr fixings.
And a vpn bound qbitorrent instance.

Edit:

I missed an old VM that I'm in the process of deprecating out to lxc... Docker01:
Archivebox
Ghost
Bookstack
LibreCaptcha
Wordpress (for a client)
parsedmarc
gitea
grocy
YOURLS
minecraft
opennox
vaultwarden
racktables
tubearchivist

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

Just Jellyfin on my Win10 PC. Been thinking of getting a NAS but it's quite daunting for me to start that process. Been looking for a Synology to at least start somewhere

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

Paperless NGX on a Raspberry 4. No more paper documents at home... Everything that still comes by mail is instantly scanned and shredded. Emails are also scanned and attachments are added automatically, if important.

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

File storage, mainly. I have 2 NAS devices (one Synology I picked up in 2014, and an Unraid device I just built a couple months ago) - the former holds 13TB and the latter currently holds 35TB with plans to bring it to 100TB as I get money for more drives.

The Unraid system has a Youtube-dl instance running to auto-pull videos from the channels I follow, and I also run my Plex server from it. The Synology only has a Git server on it that I use to keep local copies of repos that I store on GitHub, along with personal projects that I'd rather not publish (even as private repos) in the cloud.

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

I am running Mealie (recipe management site) and pi hole (network ad blocker) on an old MacBook Pro (2012?) loaded with Ubuntu server. Also have Plex media server running on my main computer (Pop OS)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mealie I have to checkout, missing something like that

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

I've been running Arch Linux on a Gigabyte Brix with two USB HDDs for... years now. At least 8. On and off, there were several services, but mostly, this device is meant to host

  • NFS and SMB file shares
  • syncthing, because I can't get my Macbook to use the network shares in a performant way
  • plex media server
  • nginx with mariadb for a privately hosted database of a German TV show (Tatort) and also a self-made expense tracker
  • paperless-ngx for electronic document management
  • traefik as a reverse proxy
  • heimdall to remind me what's there :)
  • a couple statically generated web sites
  • changedetection.io to check some websites for changes
  • watchtower to at least notify me when new docker images are available
  • portainer to have kind of a dashboard for all services
  • youtube-dl-material
  • dokuwiki as a second brain

Since Arch Linux is rolling, it sometimes simply breaks after an update. But since the services have gotten more critical for me over time (especially plex :) ) I plan on putting some of the services to a host in the cloud behind a WireGuard VPN. Also, the Brix should be re-installed with Ubuntu or Debian some day.

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

automatic youtube downloader using PubSubHubbub to get notified of new videos via flask app behind apache reverse proxy. running on a pi3b.

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

At home on multiple Pis: OpenMediaVault HomeAssistant Raspbee (Zigbee module) Unifi controller

Server 1 (Ubuntu): Wireguard

Server 2 (Ubuntu): Nextcloud Trillium Gitea Vaultwarden Calibre Web Vikunja Photoprism Paperless

All services only run on the Wireguard interface.

And I am looking into some billing tools for my side-gig.

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

Home Assistant

Nextcloud

Veeam

Need to get a Bitwarden instance going.

[–] [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

Most recently I'm running my own instances of Mastodon and Lemmy. Those are on my Hetzner dedicated server along with a bunch of other services and websites, but what I use the most is Miniflux, Immich and Photoprism.

Then I turned my old laptop (it's got decent spec) into a home server running Jellyfin.

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

Everything runs in a kubernetes cluster hosted on my homelab, except the public services access point which is a VM hosted on a non-profit ISP and service provider infrastructure, which I contribute to, through a wireguard VPN between the VM and home:

Public-facing:

  • an old static website (nginx-unprivileged), which was my first website and which I keep online because nostalgia
  • Ghost, personal blog
  • OpenSMTPd + rspamd + dovecot (dovecot only accessible from home, not public)
  • privatebin
  • picoshare
  • Whoogle + Tor
  • SearxNG

Work related (I work from home 75% of time), not public-facing:

  • dolibarr ERP for managing prospects and clients billing
  • gitea
  • bookstack for personal documentation
  • edit: forgot Harbor as container registry.
  • vaultwarden
  • eck-operator
  • wireguard operator for personal, family and friends access from outside
  • awx operator
  • draw.io
  • zalando postgresql operator for postgres needs
  • mariadb-galera for mariadb needs
  • bitlbee-libpurple for all clients' slack needs
  • Authentik as OIDC/LDAP/SAML provider (also used to identify family and friends)
  • internal DNS (pdns-resolver + powerdns with postgres backend) serving work zone and home zone.

Home stuff, not public-facing:

  • Games: Minetest, EQEmu server (Everquest), planar ally, bzflag, veloren
  • Home-cinema/music: Jellyfin, Koel, alltube, and the usual tools to share Linux isos.
  • Immich to sync photos
  • homeassistant (more a PoC than anything else right now)
  • mealie for recipes (I like cooking original meals for friends and family) and lunch/dinner planning
  • another instance of vaultwarden for family
  • piHole to keep the children a bit safer online (notably blocking malware/scams/nsfw sites)

all of this running on a 3 control-planes/6 workers talos linux k8s cluster, itself hosted on a franken-proxmox cluster (a mix of server/"old" desktops/Ryzen NUCs) and a bunch of NAS (VM dedicated NAS, data storage NAS, backup NAS).

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

It's still in the works, but I'm planning on:

  • Nextcloud (file storage/calendar/office suite)
  • Actual (budgeting)
  • Home Assistant (IoT device hub)
  • Nginx-proxy-manager (reverse proxy)
  • Jellyfin (media)
  • Headscale, selfhosted version of Tailscale (Mesh VPN)
  • *arr stack (media fetching)
  • Immich (photos)
  • Pihole (DNS adblocking)
  • Vaultwarden (password manager)

It's definitely a lot of stuff, but I'm trying to reduce my reliance on cloud services. Really excited to get this stuff going.

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

Minecraft server

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

I have DietPi running on an RPi 4 with 4GB RAM.

Everything here is hosted in docker containers:

  • Portainer (docker management)
  • Nginx Proxy Manager (for reverse proxy)
  • Nextcloud (file storage + calendar)
  • Kanboard (task management + kanban board)
  • Homepage
  • Transmission (behind VPN with Flood web frontend)
  • Jellyfin media server
  • A Discord bot for my server
  • Watchman, my RSS feed to Kindle setup (https://github.com/andrwcnln/watchman)

I've probably forgotten some things but that's the main bulk of it. Can't recommend DietPi enough if you are looking for a super lightweight OS for you Pi server, has been perfect for me so far. Here are some things I am looking to host in the future too:

  • ntfy (for push notifications)
  • Apache server for my websites
  • Pi-hole
  • Plausible (a replacement for Google analytics for websites)
  • Vaultwarden
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got a Nextcloud instance that I've run for a few years. Love it. At home I have an Odroid H3+ with 64GB of ram running Openmediavault. Got about a dozen containers running on that. I need to play with it more and use that ram. I did try to get Boinc running on it but it, sadly, kept shutting down. I'll have to find a another way to contribute to science.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • Portainer

  • Adguard home

  • Home assistant

  • Influxdb

  • Grafana

  • Frigate NVR

  • Sonarr

  • Lidarr

  • Jackett

  • Plex

All on Debian mini PC N5095

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[–] [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

Plex, Sonarr/Radarr, Ombi, Home Assistant, Komga, Calibre-Web, Valheim. Everything is on a Debian machine I built recently, except HA which is on an O-Droid (I just copied the hardware from HA Blue and ordered the parts from Ameridroid).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

These days I just got a plex server and a project zomboid server running.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I have a Jellyfin server, which has been absolutely amazing. It's accesible remotely via my domain, too. So my whole family and some friends can watch stuff / listen to music through it. Super happy with it.

I also have a Minecraft server. We don't use it much, but it's always there, and it's not going away. Which is something I've always wanted since I first put up an MC server a decade ago.

Besides that, my website and a bunch of personal scripts are all hosted from home :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

DYI NAS (mini-itx mobo with on-board atom chip and 8 GB ram and zfs) running:

  • ssh (SCP/sshfs shared)
  • smb
  • jellyfin
  • syncthing
  • dovecot
  • rclone for pull backups from Google drove, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
  • restic for backing everything up to backblaze + azure

Intel NUC running:

  • zwavejs
  • deconz / phoscon

Intel NUC (DMZ) running:

  • wireguard
  • home assistant
  • Doods (object detection for home assistant camera entities
  • mosquitto mqtt
  • unifi controller
  • AdGuardHome
  • roundcube email
  • nginx reverse proxy for all services + hosting some static sites
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi

I really want to get something like a Synology NAS to run a media server / VPN server / PiHole / NAS server on, but I don't have $500-$1000 to drop on new hardware right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To answer my own question:

  • E-mail (postfix, dovecot, rspamd, clamav)
  • Web (nginx), various small websites including my homepage
  • Fediverse Microblogging (Mastodon)
  • Matrix Chat (synapse)
  • XMPP Chat (prosody)
  • Music streaming (mpd, snapcast)
  • Home automation (home assistant and my own lighthome stuff, mqtt)
  • IRC bouncer (znc)

And the basics of course:

  • SSH (openssh)
  • NFS

All running on an Ubuntu Linux server, but everything is containerised into mostly Alpine Linux podman (rootless) containers (and a few lxc containers which I'm phasing out).

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