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.
my website, mail server… using free software, of course
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- 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.
Gitea
Backups via rsync
Jellyfin
Piped for YouTubeUsing gentoo Linux with raspberry pi 4B
I run:
- Matrix
- Mastodon
- Pixelfed
- Plex and Jellyfin for movies and TV shows. I want to switch from Plex to Jellyfin but it is not quite there yet. It‘s very little effort to keep Jellyfin running in parallel though. I am keeping it around to regularly compare the two and re-evaluate.
- Tube Archivist for archiving and watching YouTube videos.
- Miniflux for reading feeds.
- Nextcloud, mainly for calendars and contacts; occasionally for sharing files with others.
- Syncthing for syncing files.
- Financier for budgeting.
- Paperless-ngx for managing documents.
- Qbittorrent for downloading and sharing Linux ISOs.
- Prowlarr for searching Linux ISOs.
- Copyparty for sharing Linux ISOs with friends.
- Shaarli for saving bookmarks.
- Jekyll for statically generating my personal blog.
- Caddy as HTTP server / reverse proxy for all of the above. Automatically provisions certificates from Let‘s Encrypt.
- PostgreSQL as database for Nextcloud and Miniflux.
- Simple Nixos Mailserver for emails with Postfix, Dovecot and rspamd.
- Dehydrated for getting certificates from Let‘s Encrypt for the mail server.
- Btrbk and Restic for backups.
Most of this stuff runs on my server at home (ASRock J4105-ITX, 8 GB RAM , 250 GB SSD, 18 TB HDD). The mail server and the blog run on a cheap VPS (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD). Both servers run NixOS.
Another person of culture sharing Linux ISOs ;)
- Nextcloud, mainly for calendars and contacts; occasionally for sharing files with others.
- Syncthing for syncing files.
Quick question: have you thought about hosting Radicale and filebrowser instead of NextCloud? I think that would be definetly lighter on your system.
Also: I have read lots of mixed opinions whether mailservers should be selfhosted - what is your take on this? Do you know about problems reaching the big player mailservers?
When I looked around for CalDAV solutions the last time Nextcloud was the only one that allowed me to share calendars with my SO. Nextcloud isn‘t very taxing on my system because it doesn‘t do anything most of the time.
Do you know about problems reaching the big player mailservers?
Honestly, I don‘t know. I have never had a confirmed case of an email being rejected or classified as spam. There were some cases of not getting an answer to an email. But that could also be explained by shitty customer service.
It is tricky to setup everything correctly if you are trying to do it all on your own but SNM holds your hand for setting up DKIM, SPF and DMARC. That‘s where some people may have problems. Also, forget about setting up a mail server at home with any IP address you get from your internet provider.
I run an I2P instance and I’m starting to look at Plex. I wonder if those can be combined.
Thanks for running one. I ran an instance for over a year, but I stopped when I switched to a different home server that has less uptime.
Jellyfin for media
Miniflux RSS reader
Home assistant
Pihole
OpenMediaVault for NAS
Kavita for ebooks
Portainer
NginxProxyManagerIt’s all kind of a mess, but I like it
As an offensive security worker… I can’t help but read people listing out their attack surface 😂
My RISV-V server (I have removed all binary blobs and have no closed source code ofc) is airgapped inside a Faraday cage.
For security reasons I never turn it on.
All my deploys are written in binary on a stack of index cards that we then burn, put in a zip lock bag, encase in concrete, surround in a welded closed steel box, and throw in the Mariana Trench. The documentation sucks though.
I like how you think.
I’m not sure the list is really that big of a deal for a home gamer. They’re probably more in danger from their choice of home audio appliances and that microwave that has been sitting on their network for 10 years which no longer gets updates. Or that 2019 Plex server they have put forwarded straight outside.
It’s actually one of my beefs with containers, You can’t keep track of The versions for everything and you’re at the mercy of the maintainers to keep individual packages updated.
Nah, it’s all safe, it’s in containers
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- Lemmy Instance
- VaultWarden - Password manager
- Jellyfin - Movies/TV Shows
- Roon / Roon ARC - Music
- OneDev - Used to use Gitlab but couldn’t afford the self-hosted instance anymore and want the paid features, which this mostly has.
- Dokuwiki - Used to use as a wiki, switched to…
- Trilium - Similar to Obsidian but open source.
- Kavita - Comics/books
- TubeArchivist - YouTube video downloader/viewer
- PodGrab - Podcast manager
- Wallabag - Website article saver/bookmarker etc. If anyone has a better suggestion for FOSS bookmark management please let me know!
- Mealie - Recipe manager (grabs recipes from a ton of different sites)
I use TrueNAS Scale for my NAS and Ubuntu server for my VM’s/home server. I probably am forgetting something, but, that’s what’s listed in my Portainer :).
trillium sounds awesome, I love obsidian but was wanting something open source. plus this has some features I felt it was missing, thanks!!
I’m thinking of switching to trillium from obsidian too. Most important point for me here is mobile support and note sync. How does trillum web support mobile phones ?
How has Scale been on Linux vs BSD? Any complaints or plug-in compatibility issues?
I would go back if it was easy. The speed difference from just getting a listing of contents in a large directory over SMB is insane. It used to be instant and it takes like 10-15 seconds now. I’m not even using their app setup anymore, I gave up on it after a while because of a bunch of random issues with updates over time and switched to a dedicated box with Portainer installed. I really wish I could go back to core.
I’m sure they’ll iron everything out but BSD is still king at the moment.
That’s disappointing, thanks for the info. I had hoped with OpenZFS things would be improved, but sounds like native Linux performance just isn’t there yet.
That’s disappointing, thanks for the info. I had hoped with OpenZFS things would be improved, but sounds like native Linux performance just isn’t there yet.
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
I have DietPi running on a RPi2, so it’s quite slow, but i run on it (without docker containers, bad choice)
-Pi-hole
-Vaultwarden
-Transmission
-Synchthing
I tried also Nextcloud but it’s a bit too slow in RPi2
I’d really recommend docker/podman etc. if you are going to host more, especially with portainer. makes things a lot easier to manage when you have lots of services hosted.
then again I’m not sure you could get much more running on an RPi 2. how does it hold up in general with the stuff you have so far?
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)
- Home Assistant - smart home management
- OMV - storage manager/docker host
- Portainer - docker manager
- Overseer - media manager/request interface
- Sonarr - tv show manager
- Radarr - movie manager
- SABNZBD - media finder
- Plex - media server
- Tautulli - plex monitor
- Kavita - book/comic manager
- Octoprint - remote 3d printer management
- Pi-Hole - network ad filter
- Uptime Kuma - uptime monitor
On 3 Rpis and a NAS around my home:
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Nextcloud - Google replacement
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Actual Budget - YNAB type server that’s super simple and meets my needs
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Apache web server - portal to my projects
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PiHole - DNS pass/allow list
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PiVPN - Allows me to connect to my home VPN when abroad
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2009Scape - A little RuneScape Private Server I turn on and off on my desktop when I’d like to afk at work
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Docker - A couple docker instances - one on my test pi I use to roll out onto my “prod” servers
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Backup server - 14TB backup with an offsite copy :D
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Joplin - Note-taking app - barely a server connected through Nextcloud
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Plex - Everyone knows about Plex - I’m thinking of switching to JellyFin
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rtorrent - kinda old-school compared to the *arr programs but I enjoy manually downloading all my media :)
Hope I’m not forgetting any!
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PiHole on Pi
Tiny Tiny RSS on Docker behind NGINX reverse proxy on Ubuntu Hosted VPS - Accessed through Tailscale
LinkAce on Docker NGINX reverse proxy on Ubuntu Hosted VPS, Accessed through Tailscale
NextCloud on Pi - Accessed through Tailscale
HomeAssistant on Ubuntu
Calibre running on Ubuntu
Windows Desktops running on Hyper-V Server (Cost and extreme time constraints forced me to setup a Hyper-V server on bare metal, at the time VMWare was not playing nice with Win11 and I did not have the time to troubleshoot).
