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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] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

My long and mostly complete list:

  • Audiobookshelf (GH)
    • Using for audiobooks. Ebooks, comics, and podcast support in early stages.
  • Authelia (GH)
    • Using for two-factor authentication in front of all of my services. Critical infrastructure.
  • Bazarr (GH)
    • Using for automated subtitle management. Have not needed to rely on it much.
  • Code-Server (GH)
    • Using for a plethora of things. I could write an entire post on this alone.
  • Courier
    • Using (occasionally) for package-tracking from various carriers.
  • EmulatorJS
    • Using for retro-emulation.
  • Gitea (GH) x2
    • Using as a git repo server, package repository, and for CI/CD automation. Is critical infrastructure in my lab. Could also write an entire post on this one.
  • Headscale with Headscale-UI. Tailscale clients on various VMs LXCs, etc.
    • Using to securely network with my remote servers.
  • Homepage
    • Using as a "single-pane-of-glass" to get an overview of service health with links to the various services.
  • Invidious
    • Using in-place of YouTube.
  • IT-Tools (GH)
    • Using for the myriad of various useful tools it offers.
  • Jellyfin (GH)
    • My media player of choice. Using for movies and television, but supports music, ebooks, and photos in addition.
  • Kopia Server (GH)
    • Using for data backups to my Minio instance on local NAS and Wasabi. Simple, fast, and reliable.
  • Librespeed (GH)
    • Using for the occasional speedtest to my remote servers.
  • Matrix stack using Conduit back end and Element-Web front end
    • Federated Discord essentially. Using as a private instance for friends and family.
  • Minio
    • Using primarily as a gateway to storing backups, also serves git-lfs for Gitea.
  • N8N (GH)
    • Using for home-automation, backing up my Reddit saved posts to a database, deal-alerts, and part of a CI/CD pipeline.
  • NTFY (GH)
    • Using for infrastructure notifications mostly. Very simple and versatile alerting solution.
  • NZBGet
    • Using for getting "usenet articles".
  • Paperless-NGX
    • Using for document archival. Important receipts, documentation, letters, etc. live here.
  • Portainer (GH) with multiple agents on VM's LXCs and VPSs
    • High level management of my various docker containers.
  • Prowlarr
    • Using to provide torznab API to websites that dont natively have it. Integrates with Radarr and Sonarr
  • Radarr (GH)
    • Using for movie management.
  • Radicale
    • Using for contacts and calendar server.
  • Raneto (GH)
    • Using as a knowledge base. Lab documentation, lists, recipes, lots of things live here. Using with with code-server and Gitea.
  • Readarr (GH)
    • Using for book management
  • Recyclarr (GH)
    • Using for Radar and Sonarr to sync search terms for their automations. Very useful, hard to summarize.
  • Requestrr
    • Using (very rarely) as a requests bot for Radarr and Sonarr.
  • SFTP-Go
    • Using mostly in-place of Nextcloud. Used to back up phones mostly.
  • Shaarli (GH)
    • Using as a read-it-later service. Went through lots of these, and Shaarli has been good enough.
  • Singlefile-Archive
    • A hacky way of presenting pages saved with the singlefile browser extension. Not exactly happy with the solution, but for my ocasional use it does work.
  • Sonarr (GH)
    • Using as TV series manager
  • Speedtest-Tracker (GH)
    • Using to get periodic speedtests. Plan to automate results to blast my ISP if my service speed gets too low.
  • Traefik (GH) on each seperate host
    • Using as a web proxy in front of my various services. Critical infrastructure.
  • Transmission (GH)
    • Using to get "Linux ISOs"
  • Uptime Kuma (GH)
    • Using to monitor site and services status along with a few others. Integrated with NTFY for alerts.
  • Vaultwarden
    • Using as my password manager. Have been using for years, cannot recommend enough.
  • A handful of static websites served with NGINX
    • The old standby, its been reliable as a webserver.

These services are the result of years of development and administrating my lab and while there is still some cruft, it's mostly services that I think have real utility.

As far as hardware:

  • Running pfsense on a toughbook laptop as a router-firewall.

  • A SuperMicro 24 bay disk-shelf with Proxmox and ZFS for NAS duties and a couple services.

  • Lenovo Tiny boxes with a Proxmox cluster for the majority of my local services.

  • Dell managed switch

  • A few Raspberry-pi's with Raspbian for various things.

  • Linksys AP for wifi

Edit: Spelling is hard.

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

Did you get a dual nic in the laptop router, or how did you work it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is impressive. For the sake of curiosity, do you have any photos or diagrams you could share?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hmmm. I don't have a network/infrastructure diagram or anything yet, but I've been meaning to create one. I'll probably put one together and post more about my setup if there's any interest. I'll be sure to tag you when I do. Thanks for the interest!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I host:

Fedi servers

  • lemmy.world
  • mastodon.world
  • calckey.world
  • pool.social
  • musicworld.social
  • akkoma.nl
  • ruud.social
  • fotofed.nl
  • fediland.nl
  • blog.mastodon.world
  • play-my.video

Software I use

  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Portainer
  • Kimai
  • Xwiki (3 of them)
  • Cryptpad
  • Grafana
  • Hedgedoc
  • Matrix/Synapse
  • Thelounge
  • Vaultwarden
  • Gitea
  • Nextcloud
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Zabbix
  • Zammad

Probably forgot some..

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

Do you host on at your house, a VPS or something else?

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

All on Hetzner.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh my jesus, does this thread really have 400+ comments

Edit: respectfully as an atheist

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

Currently all LAN only, still in the experimental stage finding out what's useful/preferable to me and what I want to keep:

KEEPING
Pi-Hole - ad/malware/tracker blocking
Portainer - Easy Docker
Syncthing - Sync folders between devices
Planka - Kanban board
I.T. Tools - Handy I.T. Tools
Bookstack - Personal documentation
Mealie - Recipe manager/meal planner
Jellyfin + usual accompaniments - Media Management
Navidrome - Music library
Changedetection - Stock monitoring
Gotify - For push notifications from other apps
Filebrowser
That Word Game ;)

UNDECIDED (may swap for alternatives or just remove)
Organizr - Homepage
Jump - Homepage
Homepage - Yup, another homepage!
Linkding - Bookmarks
Shiori - Pocket replacement
Etebase - CalDAV & CardDAV
Whoogle - Google without the crap
Photoprism - Photo management
Libreddit (not being used now!)
QBittorrent - for Linux ISOs
Uptime-Kuma (for when I do open a few services to family)
Ryot (beta) "Roll Your Own Tracker" - Media Tracker

PLANNING TO ADD
Reverse-proxying (likely NPM) + Security (Fail2Ban, Autheilia?)
Audiobooks
Comic book management
Translation service
Document manager
Home Assistant on its own Pi4 when I can get hold of one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Long Time Developer always googling for specific tools when needed just learned about I.T. Tools. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
  • 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 :).

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

As an offensive security worker.... I can't help but read people listing out their attack surface 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 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] 1 points 2 years ago

I have a small and humble set up. Pihole on my old Pi3, OpenMediaVault, Kavita, Qbittorrent on my Pi 4 and my other Pi 4 is running fucked up Lemmy and Mastodon instances because I'm new to this stuff.

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

On 3 Rpis and a NAS around my home:

  • Nextcloud - Google replacement

  • Actual Budget - YNAB type server that's super simple and meets my needs

  • Apache web server - portal to my projects

  • PiHole - DNS pass/allow list

  • PiVPN - Allows me to connect to my home VPN when abroad

  • 2009Scape - A little RuneScape Private Server I turn on and off on my desktop when I'd like to afk at work

  • Docker - A couple docker instances - one on my test pi I use to roll out onto my "prod" servers

  • Backup server - 14TB backup with an offsite copy :D

  • Joplin - Note-taking app - barely a server connected through Nextcloud

  • Plex - Everyone knows about Plex - I'm thinking of switching to JellyFin

  • rtorrent - kinda old-school compared to the *arr programs but I enjoy manually downloading all my media :)

Hope I'm not forgetting any!

[–] [email protected] 1 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] 1 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] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh jeez... there's quite the list. I have a Ceph cluster of 3 nodes with 15x HDD's and 3 SSD's... on that cluster I run some VM's that in turn run a Docker swarm. All Ubuntu 22.04, all commodity hardware. Currently I'm running;

  • Portainer to help manage this beast
  • NGINX which proxies all my web facing services on multiple websites.
  • Wordpress for my personal site which sync my Instagram pictures to it as well
  • MariaDB Galera cluster
  • Nextcloud for file sharing but also provides lots of plugin services like a password manager, email client and so on
  • Photoprism for my photos... I use the Nextcloud client to automatically upload new pics from my phone to Nextcloud then Photoprism is attached to that same library
  • OnlyOffice as a plugin to Nextcloud to allow O365-like functionality
  • ElasticSearch plugged into Nextcloud for full-text searching
  • OpenProject for project management in my own businesses
  • Jellyfin and Plex both attached to the same media library
  • E-Mail using Docker-Mailserver... so Postfix with a bunch of ancillary tools for 3 domains
  • Droppy as a quick-and-dirty file repo for when I need to get files to people easily
  • FreePBX (Asterisk) with 4 extensions around the house
  • MeshCentral for managing my family's PC's and also doing remote tech support for family, friends and customers as necessary
  • FOGProject for imaging PC's and VM's as necessary
  • ReactiveResume
  • Docker Registry set up as a caching proxy
  • YoutubeDL-Material
  • Karaoke Eternal for those nights when you just get drunk enough to karaoke

Then there's a whole host of ancillary services; BackupPC, Unifi controller container, piHole on a couple of Raspberry Pi's, ts-dnsserver for internal DNS management... probably a dozen other containers and tools I'm forgetting.

Oh yeah, and a Synology NAS as a backup target :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 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
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you're open to things similar to Plex, I'd recommend Jellyfin! Plex has been making some decisions lately that aren't necessarily selfhoster friendly. A selfhosted instance of Plex still authenticates using Plex's central servers (if you're internet is out or Plex is down and you want to stream your own movies or shows, that won't work due to failed authentication). That's compared to your Jellyfin instance handling authentication locally. If you can contact your server, you can watch your media. Plex has also announced a credit skipping feature, uploading credit timing to their central servers that can be restored on complete rebuild. While they say it's anonymous, they need some way to associate you and the proper credit timings, to send that back to you.

Jellyfin is earlier days in development, and you should check to see what clients are available to see if that would work with your hardware. But Jellyfin is definitely catching up, I've been very happy with their server and applications.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh neat! Thanks for pointing me toward that. Will definitely check that out:)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago
  • 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Too many things:

Management:
Proxmox
Portainer

Services:

Pihole with Unbound
Matrix
cryptpad
seafile
Vaultwarden
mailcow
pterodactyl running Minecraft, Valheim, and Terraria servers
emby though I am planning the switch to Jellyfin
Paperless-NGX
Photoprism
SearxNG
Wallabag
Ghost
Miniflux
PrivateBin
Calibre-web and Kavita
Nitter and Troddit (for now...)
Home Assistant and Frigate
YOURLS
Code-server
Linkding
Changedetection.io
LanguageTool
Uptime Kuma

And more, but those are what I use the most.