Over the years I accumulated very many services which I host myself and each of them has it’s own URL:
- 6 websites, mine and my sisters
- 3 instances of home assistant
- Uptime Kuma
- Synology with photos on it
- Matrix server
- Firefox sync
- TinyTinyRSS
- Mastodon
- PeerTube
- PieFed
- Immich
- Open WebUI (for local large language models)
- UniFi (CCTV)
- Baïkal (Cal- and CardDav)
I’m probably forgetting some of them now and I’m planning to host more in the future.
The problem is how to remember all of those URLs or domains. I have a system how I call them, but my extended family can’t really remember them.
I think it’s time for a landing page. Do you guys have any suggestions?
I use wiki.js in the linuxserver.io flavor. I have 3 URLs for every service I run: public, LAN, and tailscale url. My “homepage” is a big markdown table with links to all the services. It’s not pretty by any means, but it’s very functional
I wrote my minimal HTML+CSS dashboard with a touch of JavaScript and use it with pride.
Its blazing fast and quite customizable and no bells and whistles.
Here: https://github.com/gardiol/dashboard
You configure it with a touch of json.
No pictures on repo is always frustrating
And it also attracts more people to try/use it. (when they can see what it looks like when set up)
Ah, maybe will upload some.
Let me know if you do
I use Homerr which is really simple, but you could also use Heimdall or some other options here
Do you guys have any suggestions?
Because I don’t like software getting in my way I just cobbled together some HTML and CSS and call it a day.
Similar, but more fancy, I have a bash script that runs every 15 minutes and ingests a config file. The config file has a super simple CSV format of every service I have. It checks that all the services are operational and generates an HTML file from it. If any services are down the HTML will show its down, otherwise its just a helpful link.
I run my website as static site from within a Docker container, I wonder how I would get the information about the other containers into that site.
Do you directly serve that site from the host or do you run the script and write something in a volume the site has read access to or bind a file?
I host it on the host that runs the script and proxy it. I have one mission critial pi that is my uptime bot, pi hole and backup VPN if my elaborate server falls on its face. But you could easily use docker volumes too, and have the script push to that folder.
GetHomepage.dev
I like homarr.
Static, hand coded html. You can be as pretty as you want to be. A good learning exercise and since it is all static it will be fast and won’t have more security issues.
Or if you want to learn a JS framework, you can also do it that way.
Bookmarks are a thing
I have everything in bookmarks but the discoverability of them in my browser is not very good for the rest of the extended family.
Honestly, a landing page for me is just another thing I need to mess with. Bookmarks and using keywords to load them is so easy. Once they’re in a bookmark, I’m just using keywords to get back to wherever they are. Super easy.
I used to feel much the same way. I had a pile of bookmarks and a couple permanent browser tab groups.
That changed when I tried out Homepage
On top of just putting all the links in one place; it was really nice to combine a bunch of information from each service to view in one place.
Now I can look at a single page and see with a quick glance; what+how many items are queued in Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr, what’s queued or errored in Tdarr, item count/time/speed in SabNZBD/Qbit, who’s streaming what in Emby, and even CPU/RAM usage across multiple systems. (not pictured)
I’d recommend exploring it, I didn’t think something like this was worth it until I actually tried it myself.
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How do you share your managed bookmarks with your wife, father, children, siblings?
I wouldn’t. People can bookmark their own things. Honestly, with browser histories being so readily accessible to recall sites anymore, I feel like isn’t a problem that people struggle with. Probably why you’re not getting much traction here for your specific angle.
Actually I feel there are many very good suggostions here already like:
- Homepage
- Heimdall
- Static page with HTML links and CSS
- homarr
- Flame
- organizr
- Jump
- glance
It’s more than I expected already.
I use glance.
That actually looks awesome. Why do you follow hacker news? Is that the forum?
Looks good. It seems it can list subreddits, can it list lemmy communities too?
You can list communities with RSS
I love homepage for this purpose. Gorgeous, good UX, easy to configure, and lots of widgets/integrations.
Homepage is great, especially if the services are deployed on docker or Kubernetes. You can just add some metadata to each service and Homepage will automatically pick them up. No need to remember to update it directly for a new service.
https://tchncs.de/en/ has a pretty good landing page.
I just hacked a simple HTML page for this, with big mobile friendly buttons.
That page is served by nginx in my server and is my default home page on my phone and desktop.
Hm interesting, no icons and no status indicator. At the same time over time you probably got it into your muscle memory where to press quickly. It’s intriguing.
My requirement with this page is it has to load really fast, because I return to it often while working / browsing. So yeah, it’s really lightweight and easy to maintain, as things come and go. The source is stored in Forgejo! (the “Code” button there).
If you needed some visual cues you could use colour and emojis to add context whilst keeping load times down
I use flame. It’s super simple and minimalistic. Best part is nothing random moves like homer/ar or whichever.
I use Flame as a dashboard for users at home
I’ve been using a modified and simplified version of Prismatic Night it’s somewhat basic but I’m pretty happy with it. I’ve got startpages for my personal stuff, one for my wife and her personal stuff, and a couple for work.
Ah personalized ones, also a good idea
If you want some ideas, there are plenty of examples here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/search?sort=new&restrict_sr=on&q=flair%3APersonal%2BDashboard
