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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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[–] coltzero@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)
  • tinyRSS
  • paperlessNGX
  • homeassistent
  • navidrome
  • spamassassin
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[–] CAVOK@lemmy.world 6 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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[–] purplepony@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 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)
[–] meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Selfhosting is certainly addicting once you get your feet wet. You find a site and instantly look for its github to host it.

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[–] wasabi@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  • Nextcloud
  • Mumble
  • Mail (postfix/dovecot), though I regret that I did, cause running your own mail server is a PITA
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[–] oxbech@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I haven't actually started self-hosting anything yet, though at least I've bought a domain and I'm paying for an email service using that domain. It's nice and easy while still giving me some control my e-mail address and not being beholden to the likes of Google. I did so after my long time e-mail I had had all my life through my parents' internet provider was deleted with no warning.

I've also been looking into buying a NAS for use as a media server and backup target. I'll probably go with a Synology one for now, just to keep maintenance to a minimum. Maybe in the future I'll do something more advanced.

[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 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.
[–] noer@fedia.io 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
  • VS Code Server (remote development environment)
  • Paperless NGX (document management)
  • Bookstack (personal wiki)
  • Portainer (docker management)
  • Authelia (authentication)
[–] tomi@lemmy.gdgz.dev 4 points 2 years ago (7 children)

How has been your experience with code-server so far? I am interested in self-hosting it

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[–] vimofthevine@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2 with Debian 11:

  • Actual Budget : personal finance & budgeting
  • Dashy : dashboard
  • Jupyter : web-based use of jupyter notebooks for data analysis
  • Photoprism : photo library
    • I use FolderSync on mine and my wife's phones to backup photos to photoprism nightly via WebDAV
  • mariadb : metadata storage for photoprism
  • Pihole : for ad blocking on the network
  • Traefik : proxies access to all services

Plus grafana and prometheus for monitoring, although I haven't fully configured them so they're not terribly useful at the moment.

All are running as rootless docker containers. I've considered switching back to normal rooted containers, since there are some oddities with file permissions and networking (e.g., pihole only sees one client IP address).

All data is backed up to BackBlaze B2 via restic.

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[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 5 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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[–] mountainCalledMonkey@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

Basic stuff

  • Proxmox server
  • Plex server
  • Wireguard vpn
  • Bitwarden on docker
  • unifi controller as LVM
  • Docker
  • Portainer
  • Tiny Core linux as a script server on Pi-4
[–] ChoAlZu@lemmy.world 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.

[–] ZeroPoke@lemmy.world 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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[–] s3rvant@beehaw.org 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

[–] msprout@fedia.io 5 points 2 years ago

I run:

  • Matrix
  • Mastodon
  • Pixelfed
[–] dubbel@discuss.tchncs.de 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.

[–] morethanevil@lmy.mymte.de 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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[–] Wereduck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 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
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[–] sean_starnes@infosec.exchange 5 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

[–] Neshura@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh boy here I go:

Hardware: Ryzen 7900X, 128GB Ram, 2x12TB HDD, 2x2TB SSD

What I'm running:

  • Space Engineers Server
  • Minecraft Server
  • Chevereto
  • Mastodon
  • Jellyfin
  • PeerTube
  • Kavita
  • Calibre Web
  • Vaultwarden
  • Nextcloud
  • Gitlab
  • Navidrome
  • Lemmy
  • Mailcow
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[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 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)
[–] Soulsender@vlemmy.net 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.

[–] SocialMediyas@lemmy.world 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.

[–] CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] FapFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Home Assistant

Nextcloud

Veeam

Need to get a Bitwarden instance going.

[–] juandjara@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

A full setup around managing and download multimedia content

  • Jellyfin for playing everywhere
  • Sonarr and Radarr for automatically renaming and sorting
  • Prowlarr and QBittorrent for downloading
  • Filebrowser as a kind of light-weight cloud
  • Caddy docker proxy for handling every service a subdomain
  • And a bunch of other tools for sysadmin tasks
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[–] MorganCS@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 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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[–] ElGatoEsBlanco@labdegato.com 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

[–] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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 home assistsnt on its own pi4) and using portainer for sanity.

Internal SSL using a domain and nginx proxy manager.

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[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 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.

[–] stueja@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been running Arch Linux on a Gigabyte Brix with two USB HDDs for... years now. At least 8. On and off, there were several services, but mostly, this device is meant to host

  • NFS and SMB file shares
  • syncthing, because I can't get my Macbook to use the network shares in a performant way
  • plex media server
  • nginx with mariadb for a privately hosted database of a German TV show (Tatort) and also a self-made expense tracker
  • paperless-ngx for electronic document management
  • traefik as a reverse proxy
  • heimdall to remind me what's there :)
  • a couple statically generated web sites
  • changedetection.io to check some websites for changes
  • watchtower to at least notify me when new docker images are available
  • portainer to have kind of a dashboard for all services
  • youtube-dl-material
  • dokuwiki as a second brain

Since Arch Linux is rolling, it sometimes simply breaks after an update. But since the services have gotten more critical for me over time (especially plex :) ) I plan on putting some of the services to a host in the cloud behind a WireGuard VPN. Also, the Brix should be re-installed with Ubuntu or Debian some day.

[–] atmur@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Navidrome, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud are the services I use the most, and all the related stuff, MySQL, NPM, Redis, Collabora, etc.

Jellyfin is running on my Unraid server (28tb usable), the rest are running on an Ubuntu Server system (1tb, raid 1 SSDs).

[–] Ectra@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just Jellyfin on my Win10 PC. Been thinking of getting a NAS but it's quite daunting for me to start that process. Been looking for a Synology to at least start somewhere

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[–] Damaniel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

File storage, mainly. I have 2 NAS devices (one Synology I picked up in 2014, and an Unraid device I just built a couple months ago) - the former holds 13TB and the latter currently holds 35TB with plans to bring it to 100TB as I get money for more drives.

The Unraid system has a Youtube-dl instance running to auto-pull videos from the channels I follow, and I also run my Plex server from it. The Synology only has a Git server on it that I use to keep local copies of repos that I store on GitHub, along with personal projects that I'd rather not publish (even as private repos) in the cloud.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 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

[–] Lrobie@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's still in the works, but I'm planning on:

  • Nextcloud (file storage/calendar/office suite)
  • Actual (budgeting)
  • Home Assistant (IoT device hub)
  • Nginx-proxy-manager (reverse proxy)
  • Jellyfin (media)
  • Headscale, selfhosted version of Tailscale (Mesh VPN)
  • *arr stack (media fetching)
  • Immich (photos)
  • Pihole (DNS adblocking)
  • Vaultwarden (password manager)

It's definitely a lot of stuff, but I'm trying to reduce my reliance on cloud services. Really excited to get this stuff going.

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