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The only thing I can really think of is email.
Email is the only one I won't touch, I just want it to be rock solid reliable. Unless someone can point me to a solution with fault tolerance and redundancy that's easy to setup via Docker, I'm all ears :)
Selfhosting mail with redundancy is easy. Staying of blocklists and filtering spam out is less easy.
There are some pretty good guides available online, and since dovecot and postfix are old and stable, years-old guides are still relevant. I'm on mobile though, so can't immediately link any. (Almost all of them are standard deb/rpm+systemd based, no docker. But if you really want docker, building those containers is pretty easy, it's just a package, a few configs and a service after all...)
Yeah, I'll just stick with the mail services. When you start talking about all the complexity to maintain a spam-free environment their value starts to show. I'd rather have more time to self-host other things. I don't think we realistically as a community self-host every single thing in our life. Although I can def see a case for someone who's really interested in how email works and just absolutely wants to maintain all those things. I love how self-hosting has become really flexible.
fault tolerance and docker in the same sentence?
Honestly, it's not worth it, especially because setting up a mail server requires some tricky stuff at DNS level, and your mail will not go anywhere without a valid reverse DNS which is kind of difficult to obtain for a home connection.
I wouldn't dare self host email