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

I don't selfhost very much compared to other people and my hardware's pretty much either all literally found in the garbage or 2nd hand, but here it is

PiHole

WireGuard server that passes trough pihole adblocking

Homarr (lol)

Deluge

The system is mostly a NAS that I also run the occasinal general purpose VM off of, here are the specs for the 3 ppl that care:

CPU: AMD FX-8320E

RAM: 16GB

Storage: 5x2TB Seagate something something 7200RPM in RAIDz1, 128 GB random chinese SSD (mostly for VMs and apps) the, OS runs off of a flash drive

OS: TrueNAS scale

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

I'm running a Kubernetes cluster on the Dell hardware, then another single node k8s cluster on the Lenovo, mostly to run Adguard home / DNS in case the big cluster goes down for whatever reason.

Hardware:

  • Two Dell r610s, each with 12 cores and 96 GB of RAM, running ESXi 6.7
  • Lenovo M900, 4 core, 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu and k3s
  • Synology 1515 with 12 TB usable
  • Synology 1517 with 32 TB usable
  • Juniper SRX 220H (Firewall)
  • Juniper EX 2200 48 port switch
  • UnFi in-wall WiFi APs

I run the following services, all in Kubernetes, with FluxCD doing GitOps from a repo in GitHub (for now, might move to Gitea later):

  • Authentik
  • Bookstack
  • Calibre
  • Flame (Homepage)
  • Frigate NVR
  • Home Assistant
  • Memos
  • Monica
  • Plex
  • Prowlarr
  • Radarr
  • Rocket Chat
  • Sonarr
  • Tandoor
  • Tautulli
  • Unifi
  • UptimeKuma
  • VS Code
  • Zigbee2MQTT
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What are the benefits of Kubernetes in a home server?

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

I've got a couple VPSes, hosting

  • Mailcow, because email is identity.
  • Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
  • Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
  • ttrss, even though it's junk software with a jerk developer.
  • A bunch of self-developed web apps

Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it's also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that's still broadly accepted.

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

Have you tried FreshRSS for feeds ? I'm pretty happy with it.

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

I just got going on matrix and I wish there were better XMPP iOS apps. Chat services without friends don’t work and bad iOS apps keeps people away. After all this time there isn’t a good adoption of XMPP for iOS except iMessage I guess.

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

I'm hosting Trillium Note for my personal note taking.

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

I run a bunch of bots, some databases plus

  • Jellyfin
  • Unifi controller
  • Radar
  • Sonarr
  • Lidarr
  • Bazarr
  • nzbhydra2
  • Sabnzbd
  • Heimdall
  • Twitch points miner 2
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a MediaWiki instance on my laptop (I've found the features of all other wikis/mindmaps/knowledge databases decisively insufficient after having a taste of MW templates, Semantic MediaWiki and Scribunto).

Also some smaller things like pihole-standalone, Jellyfin and dictd.

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

Curious what you use a local version of MediaWiki for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I've been working on expanding my homelab recently. I have a physical box at home serving as an LXC host along with a few VPSes. I'm now up to:

  • Some static web sites
  • Nextcloud
  • Jellyfin
  • Forgejo
  • NTFY
  • A reverse proxy
  • An IRC server
  • A Gemini server
  • A VPN
  • DNS servers

I think I read an old blog post once that said "Servers tend to multiply like rabbits" and it's 100% true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Do you have some massive server home or using VPS/VDS?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Hi

I started self hosting 3 years ago when I got wind of tailscale. I've always cared about privacy and building things so that was great.

My infrastructure consists of two machines.

One - my personal and work server A deskmini i3 12th gen

256GB Boot drive 4TB NVME data drive

-photoprism -syncthing -nextcloud -Firefox+VPN -archivebox

Two - my media server that I let 6ish other people access - PC tower i3 12th gen

512GB Boot and docker config file drive 4*4TB HDD mergerfs for raw data

-jellyfin -*arr suite -gluetun VPN -audiobookshelf (also for auto downloading podcasts) -calibre-web

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

Starting to fall down the rabbit hole of self hosting,

Unraid, Plex & Pihole. Next project is Opnsense, then starting to look at Home Assistant.

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

I have a 800W solar panel and some home automatization at home. Therefor, I use MQTT & NodeRED.

  • Adguard
  • Authelia (authentication for my services)
  • Dashy (I've become lazy collecting my own bookmarks)
  • Gotify (receive notifications on my mobile from NodeRED)
  • Grafana
  • Influxdb
  • Jellyfin
  • Mariadb
  • Nextcloud
  • NodeRED
  • phpMyAdmin
  • Portainer
  • Remmina
  • sshwifty
  • Swag (Nginx and more)
  • ubooquity (ebooks)
  • Wallabag (Bookmark collection)
  • Wordpress (want to try)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A 6 node k3s cluster with a Synology for network storage running:

  • Nextcloud
  • Authentik SSO
  • Paperless
  • Vikunja
  • Joplin Sync
  • Matrix
  • Immich
  • Mealie
  • Gitea
  • Home-Assistant
  • Node-Red
  • Zigbee2mqtt
  • MQTT server
  • Frigate
  • UptimeKuma
  • Prometheus and Grafana
  • AdGuard Home
  • Minio
  • Longhorn
  • Unifi Controller
  • Jellyfin
  • Homepage

Managed with FluxCD.

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

I host:

  • docker-mailserver
  • code-server
  • Vaultwarden
  • Flame Dashboard
  • FreePad
  • Gotify
  • Nextcloud
  • Baikal
  • Mosquitto
  • HomeAssistant
  • Node-RED
  • InfluxDB
  • Grafana
  • piHole, Cloudflare DNS over HTTPS client
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • wg-easy
  • Shiori
  • MeTube
  • Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Unpackerr,...
  • qBittorrent, Gluetun
  • Jellyfin
  • Watchtower
  • Honeygain, Pawns App, Peer2Profit, Traffmonetizer
  • 4 Websites via Nginx
  • a few services that I wrote myself

I think that should be it. I left out some less important ones and probably forgot a few that I don't use that often. All these services are spread across 2 servers at home and a small VPS mainly used for the mailserver and Uptime Kuma.

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

Honeygain etc.... First time I hear about them. Do you mind sharing how much you get?

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

It really depends on the type of IP you have and your location, but it's really not much for me. From Honeygain I get like 20 bucks every 6 months and when paying out the money around 4$ get lost by transaction fees, but better than nothing and those services use so few resources, you don't even notice them running in the background.

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

you might want to check honeygain's network calls, because I had it running and then suddenly noticed my IP got banned on quite a few websites.

Turns out it was my honeygain traffic that caused it, I quickly uninstalled it after that.

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

Which websites are you referring to? I never noticed any problems from the sites I use. Only when I encounter any kind of captcha I always have to manually select images and it will never solve itself like some did in the past. But not sure if thats due to me not being logged in with Google in my main browser or if it's caused by Honeygain.

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

Since I'm moving very soon I'm also redoing everything, so this more of a "soon-to-be" than a current, but I will have:

3x ryzen 5600 w/ 32gb of ECC ram, 10gb network and some enterprise disks 1x mikrotik switch 1x mikrotik router

And I will host, using Kubernetes (Talos OS):

  • ceph
  • owncloud infinite scale
  • Immich
  • Jellyfin
  • Homeassistant
  • Hashicorp vault
  • Oneuptime
  • gitea
  • plane
  • actual (finance software)
  • probably forgetting some stuff
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you find actual? I couldn't really get to grips with it. Although it certainly seemed sleeker than Firefly III.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's pretty good and it's the only open source solution that managed to import transactions from bank statements with few mistakes. but my problem is always to solve conflicts. And I'm always coming back to simple spreadsheets as i can plan some things, do projections with more control.

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

I host one of the worlds last gopher sites. And some Telegram bots, on Raspberry Pi's.

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

Wow, is Gopher still a thing?

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

Sure is. There is now Flask Gopher for building gopher sites in Python.

Flask gopher

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
IP Internet Protocol
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex Brand of media server package
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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

Personally, I host Sandstorm, and Discord music bot, and Minecraft.

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