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

On a VPS:

  • mailcow for email for a personal domain

On home network:

  • unraid server as a local fileserver for backups and media (repurposed from an i5 2500k with a bunch of drives added)
  • unraid server hosts a bunch of containers -- plex -- jellyfin -- *arr apps

Edit: and hoping to play around with hosting a lemmy server in the next few days

[–] ITGuyLevi 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Late to the party and after reading through some of these setups I may have to expand mine soon (it never ends does it?), here is what I have right now.

Unraid (Dell R720XD, dual Xeon E5-2670 v2, 64GB RAM, 12 x 6TB in 12 disk array with 2 parity disks, 800GB SSD cache pool)

-NextCloud

-Plex

-Emby

-Gitea

-Backrest

-MariaDB

-Netbootxyz

-Trillium

-Traccar

-Vaultwarden

-Adguard-Home

-Unifi

-Homebox

-Nessus

-Headscale

-Collabora

-*arrs

-Jupterlab

-Mealie

-SearXNG

-IT-Tools

-EmulatorJS

-Youtube-DL-Material

Proxmox (old Intel server S2600WT2, dual Xeon E5-2620 V2, 768GB RAM, 5 x 2TB disks):

-Zap2XML

-Immich

-Mumble

-NextPVR

-Stirling-PDF

-WebTop

-Frigate

-MCServer (gameserver)

-SDTDServer (gameserver)

-SFServer (gameserver)

There are some other things floating around in my homelab that aren't really 'selfhosted' things, just important to the home network:

3 HP Microserver Gen8's

-x1 with ESXi hosting pfSense

-x2 with TrueNas Scale for backups

R610 with ESXi for a few remote desktops and Home Assistant (which I'm sure I'll move to docker at some point).

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

I have a few raspberry pis, running Home Assistant, Unifi controller, PiHole... Otherwise i have DigitalOcean droplets, one hosts my Lemmy instance, and another hosts a couple of side project websites (my wife's freelance business, and some other stuff)

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

Main Server - 37 Containers, 4 VMs

  • Media: Plex, Audiobookshelf, along with everything for a complete *arr stack
  • Network: Cloudflared, NginxProxyManager, Tailscale, Gluetun (for *arrs)
  • Other: Authelia, OpenVSCode, Filebrowser, SFTPGo, Bitcoin Node to support the network
  • VMs: Parrot, Windows 11 for local and remote gaming, Windows 3.11 (because why not), currently spun up myNode to see if I want to explore hosting a Bitcoin Ligtning Node

Smarthome Server - OptiPlex 3050

  • Containers: mqtt, NodeRed, zigbee2mqtt, homebridge, tailscale, pihole (paired with my phone usually)
  • VM: HomeAssistant

Testing Server - OptiPlex 7060
Lately been testing and making stuff using linuxserver/docker-baseimage-kasmvnc.

  • Arduino-IDE running in a container - with USB hotswap.
  • Featherwallet and Electrumwallet (I use a HW-Wallet for HODL).
  • Lutris, got it working with Hearthstone, but didn't really have a use for it.
  • Nomachine in kasmvnc, to (somewhat) smoothly access my VMs through the webbrowser when I just need something fast.
    Linuxserver Firefox.

XMR Mining Server - Old tired HP SFF
Basicly everything from this guide by seth for privacy; monerod, p2pool, tor, watchtower, and a python-webserver to expose metrics/api.

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

Hardware:

  • CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v4
  • RAM: 256GB ECC
  • Storage: 4x256GB Enterprise SSD, 4x2TB SSD (ZFS Striped Mirror)

Software:

  • pfSense
  • Proxmox
  • k3s with Flux and Longhorn
  • Gitea
  • Woodpecker
  • UniFi
  • FreshRSS
  • Grafana / Loki
  • Ntfy
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Vaultwarden
  • Minio
  • Syncthing

I purchased the server used. The services are mostly running in a virtualized cluster, which is absolutely oversized for the current tasks. However, it has motivated me to learn Kubernetes and the power consumption is within my limits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
  • Mail server
  • Bitwarden (vaultwarden)
  • Git server (apache + basic git server. no git frontend)

All on dedicated cloud servers for simplicity and security.

Im looking at selfhostihng on my own hardware again. Im considering the following

  • lemmy instance
  • proxmox with gpu
  • Some sort of production database
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

VPS (Ubuntu on 4 virtual cores, 10GB ram, 100GB NVME)

  • Mediawiki with semantic mediawiki and various plug-ins and 650 pages
  • Orthantic and OHIF (radiology images)
  • Moodle (docker)

Cloud container provider (different to above VPS provider)

  • 3 x mediawiki sites

Homelab (Unraid on i7 4790, 16gb RAM, 3 x 10TB HDD, 4TB external disk, no cache disk yet, RTX 3070, fractal define 7 mid tower)

  • Plex
  • Komga (comics)
  • Audiobookshelf
  • Kavita and Calibre (books)
  • Photoview (family photos)
  • Filebrowser (work)
  • Cloudflared (zero trust tunnels)
  • Heimdall (dashboard)
  • Krusader
  • Plugins: docker compose manager, docker patch, unassigned devices

Have ordered an N100 mini PC from aliexpress with plans of installing OPNsense and running a couple VMs on it.

My gaming computer for interest, not currently hosting anything: 5800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB ram, 2TB NVME, 2TB SSD, 4TB HDD, fractal meshify midbtower case.

I also have a Pi 4 and a Pi 3 that I don't have any use for currently. Open to ideas. I already run Adguard on phone and Ublock origin on desktop browser, and don't see any current use for Pihole.

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

First post in the world of Lemmy! Woot! Another Reddit escapee. I can't for the life of me understand the management team at Reddit. I get that they need to make money and that they're pissed off at the AI guys for pilfering their data but the people who contribute to the subreddits and moderate them for free are why Reddit is such a success. Why would you screw them over? It's so short sited. If you're pissed at OpenAI then talk to them and figure out how they can pay for your API access but don't screw the people that made you a success. They can afford to spend a little of the VC/Microsoft money. Okay...off the soap box now.....

Up until very recently I was running all my services on a HP DL380 Gen9 server. Beautiful server but sucks back electricity like a drunk on New Years Eve and is way too noisy for my office. Purchased 4 different Tiny PCs (3 Lenovos and 1 Dell).

One Lenovo (AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200GE with 32GB RAM) is running RockyLinux with Docker with 20+ containers currently running.

  • "Sweden Services" - SABnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr
  • Tools - IT-Tools, Pairdrop, CyberChef and Paperless NGX
  • Homelab services - Portainer, Dozzle and Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Info - FreshRSS
  • Media - Plex, Audiobookshelf and Navidrome

I'm constantly playing with different containers - adding, removing, etc. I did try making the switch to Podman as I like the idea of rootless containers but could not for the life of me get things like NFS shares and Portainer integration working and was spending way too much time fighting with it. Will probably try again in the near future.

Then the other 3 Tiny PCs are running XCP-NG with various VMs including my Xen Orchestra, Kali, a couple Windows machines (usually off), Tailscale gateway box and a few others. Again, mostly for testing things out.

Using OpnSense as my firewall. Have a TrueNAS system sharing files and another small Rockstor NAS also.

Looking forward to the community here. Thanks.

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

I use proxmox on my server. I virtualize opnsense (with adguard and wireguard), jellyfin, unifi, home assistant, and syncthing.

I have a synology ds220j w/ 2x10tb

Hardware: Intel 12100, 32gb ram, i350-t4 network card TP link TL-SG108E switch

I'm going to move opnsense to a dedicated box eventually

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

Hardware:

  • Two Dell r610s, each with 12 cores and 96 GB of RAM, running ESXi 6.7
  • Lenovo M900, 4 core, 16 GB RAM
  • 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

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.

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

Nothing too grand - a couple Discord bots and a few retro shooter servers in the cloud, and also a Raspberry Pi 4 in the living room which serves nicely as a media center and seed box.

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

I have a (beefy specd) Intel NUC that's running Proxmox. A few of the VMs mount to my RS1221+ for things like media (Jellyfin), etc.

On Proxmox I run

  • Jellyfin (media server)
  • Home Assistant (home automation)
  • PiHole (DNS)
  • Ansible (For keeping everything up to date and applying bulk actions)
  • NGINX Proxy Manager (so I can access things locally with a nice URL)
  • VM to host my Discord bots
  • Whoogle (Search engine)
  • AMP game server

Probably missing a few, but that's the jist

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

I use a combination of a MacMini Oracle cloud, probably not best long term solution but it's free (while it lasts).

Stuff that runs on Oracle:

  • caddy proxy (mostly used for Mac reverse proxy)
  • couch db (obsidian live sync plugin)

Stuff on Mac:

  • blue bubbles (iMessage relay for Android)
  • Plex (for photo backup)

Aside from that not much else 😊

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

Hello

Let's have a look at the inventory

  • RPI 4B

    • OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
  • HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i5-6500T, 8GiB RAM - this one is currently the mainstay of my lab, running containers with docker-compose

    • Nginx as reverse proxy (+ fail2ban)
    • Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
    • Jellyfin
    • Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
    • ddclient
    • Heimdall
  • Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro i7-8700T 32GiB RAM

    • I've gotten this one fairly recently. A real bargain - costed as much as the CPU alone and was in pristine condition. I will be migrating the workload from EliteDesk to this one. I decided to try ProxMox this time though, so I need to learn a bit first. Also perhaps add a second SSD
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I selfhost on a 2011 Mac Mini running Ubuntu with 16 gb ram:

  • Metabase (a data library of charts, dashboards)
  • NocoDB (an Airtable replacement that makes it easy for my users to get data into Metabase)

I'm also setting these up on VPS

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

Raspberry 4 No.1 (HassOS)

  • Home Assistant - smart home management
  • HA extension Vaultwarden

Raspberry 4 No.2 (Ubuntu LTS)

  • Pi-Hole - network ad filter
  • Navidrome - music library
  • Beets - music tagging
  • Lidarr/Deluge/Hydra/Jackett - music collection, downloading
  • Baikal - CalDAV & CardDAV
  • Nginx - Reverse-proxy
  • Filebrowser
  • Vaultwarden - Backup of HA extension
  • Raneto - Knowledge base
  • Pyload - Download manager

Fileserver custom built (Ubuntu LTS, local only):

  • Sonarr - Series management
  • PostgreSQL - Data management for Kodi/MPD
  • Snapserver
  • Mopidy

Raspberry 4 No.3 (Raspian, local only)

  • Kodi

All services dockerized but Kodi.

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

Hi, I have an Unraid server (currently offline due to moving :'-/ ) running

VMs:

  • 2 full flat Windows and Pop_OS! VMs with GPU passed through
  • 2 low resource Windows and Pop_OS! VMs accessible by VNC
  • Home assistant OS

Docker containers:

  • Calibre + Calibre-web: apart from managing my ebook library, calibre goes through my RSS feed and generates daily epub newspaper/magazines that are send by Syncthing to my eink tablet
  • Syncthing: apart from that it also synchronizes my handwritten notes from my eink tablet between my devices
  • Nextcloud: intended to replace Google/Microsoft cloud, but, due to previous apartment's internet connection with PIA triple-ish NAT situation, is only used to backup photo/video from my phone (might change later)
  • EMBY: media streaming
  • Gitea: WIP, not currently used
  • dokuwiki: WIP, intended to acumulate manuals to home appliances and stramlined directions on how to use and maintain them
  • influxDB and Grafana: values and graphs from Home Assistant

The server was born when I merged my desktop PC, that was off and not utilized most of the time anyway, and my off the shelf NAS with 4 drives in raid5, that was slow, loud and could only run built-in garbage services. I ran Emby on Windows on my desktop, meaning I would have to manully turn it on every time I wanted to watch something.

Now my server runs on Ryzen 5 1600 with 48GB of RAM, GTX 1060 salvaged from a minig rig and total of 7 drives - 4 HDDs, 2 Sata SSD mirrored for cache and containers and 1 NVME SSD for VMs.

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

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

##Docker Portainer β€” CF Tunnel FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel Adguard Home β€” Local 2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel Watchtower β€” Local

###For public access dockers Feedropolis Mirotalk SFU FiveFilters RSS Taiga 2x Mattermost Servers 8x Wordpress Staging Sites 1x Wordpress Dev Sites

##For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like: ScreamingFrog 9 sites using LAMP stack Aria2c with AriaNG NextCloud Plex 4x WebHooks server for communities Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy OpenVPN CrowdSec

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

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

Docker

Portainer β€” CF Tunnel

FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel

ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel

Adguard Home β€” Local

2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel

LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel

TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel

Watchtower β€” Local

#For public access dockers

Feedropolis

Mirotalk SFU

FiveFilters RSS

Taiga

2x Mattermost Servers

8x Wordpress Staging Sites

1x Wordpress Dev Sites

For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:

ScreamingFrog

9 sites using LAMP stack

Aria2c with AriaNG

NextCloud

Plex

4x WebHooks server for communities

Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy

OpenVPN

CrowdSec

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

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

Docker

Portainer β€” CF Tunnel

FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel

ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel

Adguard Home β€” Local

2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel

LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel

TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel

Watchtower β€” Local

#For public access dockers

Feedropolis

Mirotalk SFU

FiveFilters RSS

Taiga

2x Mattermost Servers

8x Wordpress Staging Sites

1x Wordpress Dev Sites

For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:

ScreamingFrog

9 sites using LAMP stack

Aria2c with AriaNG

NextCloud

Plex

4x WebHooks server for communities

Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy

OpenVPN

CrowdSec

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

Hello :)

I'm not really a "selfhoster" but I thought I'd present myself anyway since you asked :D

I do a little bit of it but only for personal use, I don't have the skills to selfhost for public use.

I have Gitea, Planka, Dokuwiki, Apache+MariaDB, and self-compiled World of Warcraft server emulators (TrinityCore, CMangos and AzerothCore).

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

I self-host:

  • A Matrix homeserver
  • A Pleroma instance (basically Mastadon but different implementation)
  • Tiny-Tiny-RSS
  • Nextcloud
  • Gitea
  • Headscale
  • Jellyfin
  • Wikijs

I rent a low-budget dedicated server from a data center - it only has about 4 cores and 8GB of RAM, but that's more than enough for my needs. Most importantly it has 2TB of hard drive space (for Nextcloud & Jellyfin) which is why I upgraded from my prior VPS.

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

I got

  • A RAID NAS for general
  • A Firefly-iii instance for expense analysis and stuff
  • And MQTT broker for my ESP32 projects
  • A webdav server for calendar and address book syncing and general file syncing for some things like joplin

There are probably other things that I don't remember right now.

In terms of hardware I got a 6 core AMD 5600X machine with a 5700XT GPU and 16GB of ram for almost all my services and personal use.

I also have an AMD 3600 machine with 3x8TB harddrives for network storage.

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

I used to host a ton of stuff, now I just host my WordPress site on Linode.

I have toyed with the idea of selfhosting a Lemmy server, but that's a project for another day.

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

Just reset my R620 running proxmox and have Cloudflare tunnel setup for some of my non-media streams

  • gitlab
  • NPM
  • *arr instances

And then using NPM to proxy everything over https including jellyfin to local IPs

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

Eh... just your typical docker pihole + 2x unbound setup.

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

Humaara Artha , which means my material.

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

currently, I selfhost https://beyondcombustion.net and now https://lemmy.beyondcombustion.net for /r/vaporents and hopefully others. There's other stuff I self host too, this is the fun new stuff though.

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

I selfhost a lot of the normal stuff everyone else does. Plex, AdguardHome, etc...

I also have a 96+ port dial-up server system: https://2600.network

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

Ohh, I'd love to share.

Running most services as docker/ kubernetes containers.

Currently running Plex (previously Jellyfin, maybe will switch back) for media streaming.

Grocy for food/task/family organisation (grocery list and so forth)

Piehole for home ad-blocker and proxy πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»πŸ™ŒπŸ»

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