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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] 3 points 2 years ago

Across my and some family members' homes:

  • pihole and openvpn via pivpn(sharing a pi4 in each house)
  • transmission and minidlna (another pi4 with an external hdd)
  • folding@home (on a beefier Intel NUC)
  • homeassistant (same NUC)
  • one house has a funkier setup running on a NUC with homeassistant, appdaemon, influx, grafana and a custom django app that manages them all so they do aome fancier automation for heating/cooling and power consumption

On the internet:

  • a pretty much abandoned blog in Bulgarian built with hugo and deployed on gitlab pages
  • a single user akkoma instance I've migrated off of, but am still keeping for no logical reason, running in docker on a Hetzner VPS
  • a calcley instance that's my current main home on the fediverse, also in docker on a separate Hetzner VPS, this one setup a bit less amateurishly, behind cloidflare and using R2 for sorage
  • a nitter instance for those terrible cases when someone sends me a link to The Bad Place that I still want to see.
  • I set up a bibliogram and proxytok on the same VPS as the nitter instance, but those no longer work after some agressive API changes on IG and tiktok.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not much. I have a searxng instance, used to have nextcloud… I should start hosting more stuff really soon

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

Prefacing by saying my lab is severely breaking ~~some~~ a lot of best practices due to hardware availability limitations

Proxmox box (24GB DDR3, E3-1230)

  • Ubuntu LTS Dedicated Minecraft server
  • Windows 10 Dedicated V Rising server
  • Ubuntu LTS for Plex
  • TrueNAS
  • Coming Soon: Jelu Server - a self-hosted Goodreads replacement

Raspberry Pi 2B+

  • PiHole

OptiPlex 7020 sff (8GB DDR3, i5-4590)

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

I'm self-hosting a bunch of stuff all over the place. I've a pi-hole, NAS and a bunch of Discord bots on an e-waste rescue nettop. Then I have a linux server running Ubuntu Server with more Discord bots, Nextcloud, syncplay, some basic websites, including an Element-im stickerpicker. I used to run a Matrix homeserver too, but I got fed up with maintaining that. It has been quite the learning experience and it has been absolutely worth it.

[–] [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

Right now only mail server and Bitwarden server. I’m thinking of running lemmy instance

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

I have a Mini-PC sitting under my TV that is a frankenstein'd together media PC and home server running on Ubuntu.

I am running Nextcloud for easily accessing stuff from all devices, Bookstack for organizing and sharing notes, borgbackup for, well, backups. Currently experimenting with gitea just in case github loses its shit^^

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

I have a jellyfin server on a pi4. I recently bought a dell micro pc, but haven't had the motivation to move the jellyfin server over to it yet.

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

Right now I am just running Jellyfin. I had been running AdGuard Home, TTRSS, and WordPress on a Yunohost server (in a VM on my Ubuntu 22.10 desktop PC), but it inexplicably ran out of space in /var, so I shut it down. I intent to try again, but this time with a personal Lemmy instance.

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

Local server running my NAS, Technitium DNS, Jenkins + build nodes, OpenVPN, Forgejo, my Debian package mirror, the central LDAP server for auth, Lemmy, and a couple straggler services. Still working on setting up some more stuff for me and my housemates.

Running everything on an old dual Xeon box running TrueNAS, works wonders with no downtime so far!

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

Pleroma, Owncast, Nextcloud, an internet radio station, and a couple web sites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
  • E-Mail (postfix + dovecot)
  • Nextcloud
  • Mastodon
  • Gitea
  • Jellyfin
  • Paperless-NGX
  • Homeassistant
  • Octoprint
  • rmfakecloud
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Heimdall Home Assistant Plex Nginx Proxy Manager - ram hog Adguard NodeRed ZWaveJS Zigbee2Mqtt Portainer qBittorent Ring-MQTT

Running on a minisofurm mini pc with 5600h, paid $219 and used spare drives and ram lying around. Used to run 2 raspberry pi 4s but retired those due to updating home assistant via docker getting really old. Proxmox handles things great, like the flexibility and performance boost too, especially just pulling docker images lol, unarchiving was so painful on pi 4.

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

i USED to host a mc server, now i dont host anything as i cant get jellyfish automatic pirating to work...

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

radarr+sonarr should suit you, here's a good setup guide: https://trash-guides.info/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
  • Home Assistant (running on RPi, proxied to VPS)
  • Zigbee2MQTT (running on RPi)
  • NodeRed (running on RPi)
  • Joplin (VPS, opensource note taking app)
  • Minecraft modded modpack (VPS, statech 1.0.3) Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.

This is all in docker containers behind a reverse proxy using Traefik. Im happy with the setup as it's really versatile and so far hasn't failed me. Biggest upgrade I've done is replacing the SD card of the RPi with an SSD

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

I only host one service for myself: Navidrome on a raspberry pi zero. Lets me stream my full music library from anywhere. Been using it ever since GPM shut down

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

Syncthing, Plex, and DokuWiki.

My needs are small but Syncthing is for standard file sync and DokuWiki is for a repository for my family. It's been surprisingly useful to be able to spin and delete up a syncthing folder for some specific thing.

Plex is for my ripped DVDs and also a great way to consume my photos archive without keeping a copy locally on my phone.

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

currently using a old Dell PowerEdge r610 as my homelab.

  • 2x Xeon X5680 CPUS
  • 192GB DDR3 ECC ram
  • 5x 1.2TB 10k rpm drives in RAID 5 / boot SSD 220GB
  • Quadro P2000 for Jellyfin Transcoding

now for the things i host!

  • Jellyfin
  • HomeBridge
  • PiHole
  • 2x WireGuard VPN instances (one for each VLAN)
  • Unifi Controller
  • VaultWarden
  • 5x other VMs for game servers that i host for friends

i would move my lemmy instance to my own selfhosted setup, however i just don't want to go through with setting up NGINX proxy manager. also, my internet is a bit slower at home than what i'm getting with this hetzner VPS.

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

I’m a simple man. All I’m running is Gitlab, Plex, and Artifactory CE. I used to have Libreddit and Invidious, but those died during a server migration and was too lazy to bring them back. I guess libreddit wouldn’t work anymore?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
  • Movies: Plex
  • Social media: Lemmy
  • Security cameras: Blue Iris
  • Various websites and services spread across half a dozen VMs hosted by AWS, DO, and other hosts
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I self-host, on a Debian VPS,

  • Commafeed, an online RSS reader (replacement for the long-departed, dearly missed Google Reader)
  • Nextcloud, for file sync (to replace Google Drive)

Considered self-hosting email as well, but dealing with spam is an intimidating prospect. Using Tutanota instead, but it's not entirely satisfactory (the app client is sloooow).

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

I have an Intel NUC running debian stable (well, old stable now I guess). I store some files via sshfs and run some containers like plex, qbvpn, and Heimdall.

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

OS and hardware:

  • Main homelab machine:
    • Debian 11
    • Asrock X300 Mini (I love small form-factor, it is like Mini PC)
    • Ryzen 7 5700G
    • 32 GB RAM
    • NVMe storage for OS and small apps
    • Raid1 (2x 2 TB HDD drives) for data used (especially with Nextcloud)
  • Additional hardware (with software):
    • ASUS RT-53U running OpenWrt (with adblocking)
    • Orange Pi running Ghostscript Printing Server and mongodb (both installed via Snap) and VPN
    • Raspberry Pi 3B+ (finding new place for it after switching to OpenWrt)

Software:

  • YunoHost
  • NextCloud (especially for RSS, Deck, Photos, Tasks, calendars, contacts)
  • Home Assistant
  • HedgeDoc
  • Jellyfin
  • Simple webpage for hosting my about-me page
  • Trillium Notes for drawing graphs
  • Wallabag
  • Uptime Kuma

I also host second Uptime Kuma on DigitalOcean for checking my home server. I also backup my server on S3 storage with Rclone and my custom bash script.

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

Currently: RPi4 with CasaOS, running Pihole and Home Assistant, which I honestly rarely use, unfortunately.

Potentially planned: -Jellyfin -Rustdesk server -Some samba solution on RPi4 for my hdd I currently have hooked to my router, any advice on what I should look into for that would be appreciated.

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

I have a single Dell R210ii running proxmox and a bunch of VM's and containers.

Opnsense (VM) Home assistant (VM) Technitium DNS (LXC) Ubuntu/OpenVPN (VM) Ubuntu/docker (VM)

Then a splattering of containers in docker. Using portioner as a UI and Authentik for Single sign on.

Plenty of docker containers but these change over time as I try things out. General setup of firewall/DNS/vpn/home assistant & docker host is how it's been for ~2 years now and its done me well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
  • Proxmox (VM host)
  • Minecraft server
  • Jellyfin
  • ZeroTier network controller
  • Homeassistant
  • Blue Iris (commercial self-hosted home security, unfortunately Windows VM only)
  • Ghost blog (hosted directly from home)
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