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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] 6 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] 5 points 2 years ago

Raspberry Pi 4B

  • OS: Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit
  • Pi Hole (Ad block)
  • NextCloud (File access)
  • Home Assistant (Automation)
  • Paperless NGX (Document management)
  • Apache/Php/MariaDB (Web server)
  • Jellyfin (Media streaming)
  • Plex (will be removed once happy with Jellyfin)
  • Sonarr (Show locator)
  • Radarr (Film locator)
  • Bazarr (Subtitle)
  • Deluge (Torrent client)
[–] [email protected] 5 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] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm selfhosting a Terraria server, with a medium size world

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

My longest running self-host is the RSS reader Tiny Tiny RSS running on a Digital Ocean droplet with Ubuntu 22.04

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Newbie here. Trying to learn the ins and outs of self-hosting by messing around with Discord Red on my Pi 3B (on Raspberry Pi OS). Working great-ish so far! Need me some more free time to tinker with cogs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)
  • VS Code Server (remote development environment)
  • Paperless NGX (document management)
  • Bookstack (personal wiki)
  • Portainer (docker management)
  • Authelia (authentication)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A few LAN Minecraft instances for my wife and I, a personal Git server, Plex, SMB file share, and a few Docker containers on a MINISFORUM UM690 Mini PC. Been very happy with that little machine!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I run:

  • Matrix
  • Mastodon
  • Pixelfed
[–] [email protected] 5 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] 6 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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I dockerize everything, but services like media streaming, content downloading, but my favourite part is the minecraft server for my friends and I. It’s fun to write your own custom plugins and scripts and things to use with it which I find incredibly rewarding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

These comments inspire me so much to get back into my self-hosting. Right now, I'm running

  • Foundry (a virtual table top for ttrps)
  • Nextcloud (which I don't use)
  • Jellyfin (which I also don't use)
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[–] [email protected] 5 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] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a VPS (netcup) with 8 cores, 12GB RAM and 320GB SSD. Hosting there on Ubuntu 22.04:

  • Matrix
  • Mastodon
  • Nextcloud
  • Wordpress
  • Adguard
  • Stirling PDF
  • Gotify
  • Bitwarden

At home I have a Ryzen 5 5600G with 16GB RAM on a B550 aorus elite v2 with 2TB nvme SSD and 2x 6TB seagate HDDs.

Hosting there on Fedora 38 KDE:

  • Immich
  • Jellyfin
  • Lemmy
  • Photoview
  • ArozOS
  • Paperless
  • Dashdot
  • Codeserver
  • LXD Dashboard
  • Scrutiny
  • Cloudbeaver
  • jDownloader
  • Kavita
  • Podgrab
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got some Dell 2U I got from work.

Currently running Proxmox for a hypervisor.

  • OPNsense - Main Gateway,Firewall,etc. Also Reverse Proxy

  • UnFi Controller for AP

  • OMV as my NAS which also hosts an emby container to keep it close to the data.

  • Wireguard VPN

  • Mumble Music Bot

  • Game servers.

  • OMV is set up with SnapRAID and mergerfs.

  • EmbyContainer just mounts the localdrives.

  • Mumble server is on a VPS which also handles the domain and email I use as well.

  • Basically whatever my group of friends is playing

I would like to upgrade the server for 10gbit. My ISP has 3000/3000 fibre I could get.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I run an I2P instance and I'm starting to look at Plex. I wonder if those can be combined.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Here's mine:

Unraid OS: Docker:

  • cadvisor
  • deluge
  • FileZilla
  • Firefox
  • Fivefilters-full-text-rss
  • FreshRSS
  • Home-Assistant-Container
  • Libreddit
  • Microsoft-Edge
  • pihole
  • Plex-Media-Server
  • Radarr
  • Resilio-Sync
  • Scrutiny
  • Sonarr

Unraid OS: Virtual Machines:

  • Debian VM
  • Windows 11 VM

Unraid OS: Plugins:

  • GPU Statistics
  • Tailscale
  • CA Mover Tuning
  • Community Applications
  • Dynamix System Temperature
  • Intel GPU TOP
  • NVTOP
  • Unassigned Devices

My unraid server is my "jack of all trades" machine running the primary services apart from my Pihole instance (as below).

Ubuntu Server LTS:

  • pihole
  • pivpn
  • emby

This is running on an old thin client machine and is my primary Pihole/VPN machine with a backup music/media server running Emby.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • Vaultwarden
  • 2 pi holes
  • the suite of arrrs + nzbget
  • jellyfin
  • ombi
  • OMV for a SMB share
  • Nextcloud
  • homer as a dashboard
  • homeassistsnt
  • uptime kuma
  • koillection

I did also have a wordpress site but that was too much hassle so the container is stopped at the moment.

All on docker (except OMV) and using portainer for sanity.

Internal SSL using a domain and nginx proxy manager.

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

I've got a Raspberry Pi running Portainer on DietPi OS hosting a Discord bot, ACME certificate manager, reverse proxy; a second DietPi pi hosting Sonarr and Radarr and an automatic ripping machine; a pi NAS ruining open media vault; and my Linux gaming system also has Portainer running Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

In my homelab I have two main servers

Esxi: Opnsense VM --Running Wireguard VPN Docker VM --Vaultwarden --Portainer --FreshRSS --Heimdall Dashboard --SponsorBlockCast --Portainer Agent Home Assistant VM --Node Red --Frigate --DoubleTake --zigbee2mqtt --Mosquitto --ESPHome SecureVM --NGINX Proxy Manager --Portainer Agent

Ubuntu Media Server 40tb zfs Running Docker: --Scrutiny --Plex --YTDL Material --Lidarr --Radarr --Bazarr --Sonarr --Sabnzbd --Compfreface --Portainer Agent Cockpit

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

I've got a Nextcloud instance that I've run for a few years. Love it. At home I have an Odroid H3+ with 64GB of ram running Openmediavault. Got about a dozen containers running on that. I need to play with it more and use that ram. I did try to get Boinc running on it but it, sadly, kept shutting down. I'll have to find a another way to contribute to science.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pihole for DNS/Adblock

FreshRSS for my news

Speedtest Tracker to keep an eye on my internet speed

Uptime Kuma to keep track of my uptime

N.eko

Homepage

2x Plex server for redundancy

Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr/Jackett

Qbittorrent/VPN combo

NGINX Reverse proxy

And of course, my own lemmy instance

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

Got a Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi OS) set with an USB3 HDD with Systemd mount dependency for the following services:

  • Plex for movies and music
  • Samba for a shared network drive
  • Transmission

Planning for:

  • PiHole (DNS adblocker)
  • Jellyfin as a backup
  • Nginx Proxy Server (since my Nodejs Express Proxy project failed miserably)

I configured it for mobility since I am always moving with it, so this is why the Systemd dependency is very handy. Also, its wifi connection defaults to my hotspot when not at home.

I also got 3 Pi3Bs remaining from an old Kube cluster project with HypriotOS, but I didn't know what to do with them and it pains me to renew the cluster certificates

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Feels like literally everything...

LXC:
NginxProxyManager
Kasm
Several instances of GameServer
openemr (testing for viability for a client)
3 instances of TechnitiumDNS
Nextcloud
Graylog
UptimeKuma
ChangeDetection
Zwave-js
MeshCentral
Homepage
Canvas (yes a full instance of canvas. I used to be a college instructor, I have a copy of all my courses)
InvoiceNinja
Matrix
Lemmy
UnifiController
Gameyfin (I don't like this that much... it'll likely get killed)

6 instances of generic docker on LXC running portainer for other services:
diagrams.net (specifically tied into my nextcloud instance)
ghostfolio
it-tools
librespeed
libretranslate
quakejs
rickroll
rxresume
searxng
Ascii starwars
wxrdle
gramps.js
teamspeak
authentik (I think I like keycloak more and might migrate back)
bisq
hrconvert2
And a watchtower instance on each.

VMs:
Proxmox Backup Server
Mailcow
Librenms
freepbx
HomeAssistant
Windows Domain Server (no GUI)
"Media Server" which is a plex stack with all the *arr fixings.
And a vpn bound qbitorrent instance.

Edit:

I missed an old VM that I'm in the process of deprecating out to lxc... Docker01:
Archivebox
Ghost
Bookstack
LibreCaptcha
Wordpress (for a client)
parsedmarc
gitea
grocy
YOURLS
minecraft
opennox
vaultwarden
racktables
tubearchivist

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@proycon

I'm currently working on redoing my homelab stack but here is what I have running so far.

Hardware:
3x Pi 4 4GB - Debian Bookworm
1x Pi 3 - Debian Bookworm
1x 8-core AMD, 24 GB RAM, 1.5 TB of space frankenstein server - TrueNAS (might forgo the TrueNAS installation for Bookworm and just host NFS shares natively)
1x TP-LINK POE Switch
1x FriendlyWRT router

Software:
- Consul/Nomad
- Pihole (DNS/Adblock)
- Traefik (routing)
- Hashicorp Vault (secrets management)
- Authelia (authentication)
- Rabbitmq
- Bitwarden
- PostgreSQL
- Mariadb
- pgadmin (considering switching to adminer)
- Redis
- Gitea
- Drone
- AWX
- Watchtower

I've been redoing that stack for a couple of years now, and it's never quite finished; it started out as docker containers on the Pi3, went to Kubernetes, went back to containers, and finally landed on Nomad which I am loving.

I have a list of about 30 services I want to host on that stack, but I'll probably start with Foundry VTT, Paperless, and Calibre.

Forgot to mention my cloud stuff
- Lemmy instance: https://pathfinder.social for all your Pathfinder and Starfinder TTRP needs.
- Resume website based on The Cloud Resume Challenge (https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/) that I want to redo and just self-host pretty soon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I currently host

  • Akkoma (microblogging)
  • GoToSocial (microblogging)
  • SearXNG (meta search engine)
  • Baikal (CalDAV)

on a cheap VPS that has 2GB RAM and 2 core CPU. They run pretty smoothly.☁️

eddit : spelling

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

These days I just got a plex server and a project zomboid server running.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

36 TB server:

  • Nextcloud (a little heavier than I'd like considering something that's just filesharing)
  • Jellyfin
  • Audiobookshelf
  • Kavita
  • Authentik
  • N.eko with protection via authentik (rabbit clone so I can watch things with friends even if it's not on jellyfin)
  • Homepage so I can remember everything -_-

Raspberry pi:

  • Adguard home, which router pushes all traffic dns through
  • Mopidy - hooked the pi to my speakers, can start playing via web interface. Don't love it, but it's working.
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  • Portainer

  • Adguard home

  • Home assistant

  • Influxdb

  • Grafana

  • Frigate NVR

  • Sonarr

  • Lidarr

  • Jackett

  • Plex

All on Debian mini PC N5095

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

Home server is currently running;

  • Firefly III (accounting software for me and the wife)
  • Deemix (I can scrape all the flacs I want)
  • Droopy (Fileshare (Deemix downloads save to it))
  • Portainer (Docker web client)
  • Firefox (Chat-GBT has blocked my VPN so I run Firefox from the server bypassing the VPN)

All the above are running in Docker.

On the to-do list;

  • wiki.js ( This is a demo for work, hopefully get the go ahead to move all IT documentation away from doc and folder)
  • Snip-IT (Again demo for work, so we can move away from an excel file)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I feel like I'm late, but this is what I'm hosting.

I'm running a single node microk8s cluster on a dual xeon (20 cores each for a total of 40 cores) server with (only) 64 gb ram. Wish I could do more but this is on a microatx dual slot motherboard that maxes at 64gb.

I have this attached to a 72tb das.

I currently live in an RV so I had to downsize my bare metal cluster to 1. It's sufficient for now 😊

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
  • Small Matrix Instance (for Bridging under alpine lxc)
  • Nextcloud (for phone data under debian lxc)
  • Jellyfin (for old CD rips under debian lxc)
    All of this is under Proxmox VE
    I also am a Sysadmin for Project Segfault (projectsegfau.lt/instances), where we host a lot of other stuff :)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everything runs in a kubernetes cluster hosted on my homelab, except the public services access point which is a VM hosted on a non-profit ISP and service provider infrastructure, which I contribute to, through a wireguard VPN between the VM and home:

Public-facing:

  • an old static website (nginx-unprivileged), which was my first website and which I keep online because nostalgia
  • Ghost, personal blog
  • OpenSMTPd + rspamd + dovecot (dovecot only accessible from home, not public)
  • privatebin
  • picoshare
  • Whoogle + Tor
  • SearxNG

Work related (I work from home 75% of time), not public-facing:

  • dolibarr ERP for managing prospects and clients billing
  • gitea
  • bookstack for personal documentation
  • vaultwarden
  • eck-operator
  • wireguard operator for personal, family and friends access from outside
  • awx operator
  • draw.io
  • zalando postgresql operator for postgres needs
  • mariadb-galera for mariadb needs
  • bitlbee-libpurple for all clients' slack needs
  • Authentik as OIDC/LDAP/SAML provider (also used to identify family and friends)
  • internal DNS (pdns-resolver + powerdns with postgres backend) serving work zone and home zone.

Home stuff, not public-facing:

  • Games: Minetest, EQEmu server (Everquest), planar ally, bzflag, veloren
  • Home-cinema/music: Jellyfin, Koel, alltube, and the usual tools to share Linux isos.
  • Immich to sync photos
  • homeassistant (more a PoC than anything else right now)
  • mealie for recipes (I like cooking original meals for friends and family) and lunch/dinner planning
  • another instance of vaultwarden for family
  • piHole to keep the children a bit safer online (notably blocking malware/scams/nsfw sites)

all of this running on a 3 control-planes/6 workers talos linux k8s cluster, itself hosted on a franken-proxmox cluster (a mix of server/"old" desktops/Ryzen NUCs) and a bunch of NAS (VM dedicated NAS, data storage NAS, backup NAS).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pretty much everything to be fair:

  • Email with Roundcube
  • Chat with Matrix-Synapse + Element
  • My files with Nextcloud, easily one of my most used self-hosted apps
  • RSS with Miniflux (open to change, as soon as I find any RSS backend with a usable Android app)
  • My social network presence, with Pleroma (again, subject to change, as soon as I know how to properly move my domain to a different software tool)
  • My media, with Jellyfin
  • Peertube to watch videos from other instances and comment on them
  • And finally, all of the above protected with a password vault from Vaultwarden

EDIT: For those wondering, I use @[email protected] ( https://yunohost.org ) as my server manager

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

Pretty modest right now. Pi-hole and Homebridge on one of my old laptops.

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