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.
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)
- 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.
I host these:
- Vaultwarden(saves my life almost everyday)
- Jellyfin (makes my life fun)
- Sonarr & Radarr
- Home assistant(the best thing I’ve done in a while)
- freshRSS( none of that curated for you bullshit)
- Whoogle.(like google search but not the tracking)
- Flatnotes, Qbittorrent, Metube, Databag, Photoprism, kavita, NExtcloud, Guacomole(A few services I use rarely.)
As an offensive security worker… I can’t help but read people listing out their attack surface 😂
I’m not sure the list is really that big of a deal for a home gamer. They’re probably more in danger from their choice of home audio appliances and that microwave that has been sitting on their network for 10 years which no longer gets updates. Or that 2019 Plex server they have put forwarded straight outside.
It’s actually one of my beefs with containers, You can’t keep track of The versions for everything and you’re at the mercy of the maintainers to keep individual packages updated.
My RISV-V server (I have removed all binary blobs and have no closed source code ofc) is airgapped inside a Faraday cage.
For security reasons I never turn it on.
I like how you think.
All my deploys are written in binary on a stack of index cards that we then burn, put in a zip lock bag, encase in concrete, surround in a welded closed steel box, and throw in the Mariana Trench. The documentation sucks though.
Nah, it’s all safe, it’s in containers
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Oh my jesus, does this thread really have 400+ comments
Edit: respectfully as an atheist
Yep, people are enthusiastic about self hosting and like talking about what they host :)
And talk about it on a self-hostable platform, no less.
My long and mostly complete list:
- Audiobookshelf (GH)
- Using for audiobooks. Ebooks, comics, and podcast support in early stages.
- Authelia (GH)
- Using for two-factor authentication in front of all of my services. Critical infrastructure.
- Bazarr (GH)
- Using for automated subtitle management. Have not needed to rely on it much.
- Code-Server (GH)
- Using for a plethora of things. I could write an entire post on this alone.
- Courier
- Using (occasionally) for package-tracking from various carriers.
- EmulatorJS
- Using for retro-emulation.
- Gitea (GH) x2
- Using as a git repo server, package repository, and for CI/CD automation. Is critical infrastructure in my lab. Could also write an entire post on this one.
- Headscale with Headscale-UI. Tailscale clients on various VMs LXCs, etc.
- Using to securely network with my remote servers.
- Homepage
- Using as a “single-pane-of-glass” to get an overview of service health with links to the various services.
- Invidious
- Using in-place of YouTube.
- IT-Tools (GH)
- Using for the myriad of various useful tools it offers.
- Jellyfin (GH)
- My media player of choice. Using for movies and television, but supports music, ebooks, and photos in addition.
- Kopia Server (GH)
- Using for data backups to my Minio instance on local NAS and Wasabi. Simple, fast, and reliable.
- Librespeed (GH)
- Using for the occasional speedtest to my remote servers.
- Matrix stack using Conduit back end and Element-Web front end
- Federated Discord essentially. Using as a private instance for friends and family.
- Minio
- Using primarily as a gateway to storing backups, also serves git-lfs for Gitea.
- N8N (GH)
- Using for home-automation, backing up my Reddit saved posts to a database, deal-alerts, and part of a CI/CD pipeline.
- NTFY (GH)
- Using for infrastructure notifications mostly. Very simple and versatile alerting solution.
- NZBGet
- Using for getting “usenet articles”.
- Paperless-NGX
- Using for document archival. Important receipts, documentation, letters, etc. live here.
- Portainer (GH) with multiple agents on VM’s LXCs and VPSs
- High level management of my various docker containers.
- Prowlarr
- Using to provide torznab API to websites that dont natively have it. Integrates with Radarr and Sonarr
- Radarr (GH)
- Using for movie management.
- Radicale
- Using for contacts and calendar server.
- Raneto (GH)
- Using as a knowledge base. Lab documentation, lists, recipes, lots of things live here. Using with with code-server and Gitea.
- Readarr (GH)
- Using for book management
- Recyclarr (GH)
- Using for Radar and Sonarr to sync search terms for their automations. Very useful, hard to summarize.
- Requestrr
- Using (very rarely) as a requests bot for Radarr and Sonarr.
- SFTP-Go
- Using mostly in-place of Nextcloud. Used to back up phones mostly.
- Shaarli (GH)
- Using as a read-it-later service. Went through lots of these, and Shaarli has been good enough.
- Singlefile-Archive
- A hacky way of presenting pages saved with the singlefile browser extension. Not exactly happy with the solution, but for my ocasional use it does work.
- Sonarr (GH)
- Using as TV series manager
- Speedtest-Tracker (GH)
- Using to get periodic speedtests. Plan to automate results to blast my ISP if my service speed gets too low.
- Traefik (GH) on each seperate host
- Using as a web proxy in front of my various services. Critical infrastructure.
- Transmission (GH)
- Using to get “Linux ISOs”
- Uptime Kuma (GH)
- Using to monitor site and services status along with a few others. Integrated with NTFY for alerts.
- Vaultwarden
- Using as my password manager. Have been using for years, cannot recommend enough.
- A handful of static websites served with NGINX
- The old standby, its been reliable as a webserver.
These services are the result of years of development and administrating my lab and while there is still some cruft, it’s mostly services that I think have real utility.
As far as hardware:
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Running pfsense on a toughbook laptop as a router-firewall.
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A SuperMicro 24 bay disk-shelf with Proxmox and ZFS for NAS duties and a couple services.
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Lenovo Tiny boxes with a Proxmox cluster for the majority of my local services.
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Dell managed switch
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A few Raspberry-pi’s with Raspbian for various things.
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Linksys AP for wifi
Edit: Spelling is hard.
Mind blown! Thanks so much for the comprehensive list!! 🙏
Fantastic breakdown, thank you!
Did you get a dual nic in the laptop router, or how did you work it?
It’s an older Panasonic ToughBook CF-C2 with an ExpressCard34 slot I’d say circa 2013. I have a gigabit Ethernet adapter jammed in there for WAN. I’ve been using the setup for maybe 8 years and it’s been ultra reliable for me.
Expresscards are an underrated feature of old laptops as a server.
That is impressive. For the sake of curiosity, do you have any photos or diagrams you could share?
Hmmm. I don’t have a network/infrastructure diagram or anything yet, but I’ve been meaning to create one. I’ll probably put one together and post more about my setup if there’s any interest. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do. Thanks for the interest!
- Audiobookshelf (GH)
I host:
Fedi servers
- lemmy.world
- mastodon.world
- calckey.world
- pool.social
- musicworld.social
- akkoma.nl
- ruud.social
- fotofed.nl
- fediland.nl
- blog.mastodon.world
- play-my.video
Software I use
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Portainer
- Kimai
- Xwiki (3 of them)
- Cryptpad
- Grafana
- Hedgedoc
- Matrix/Synapse
- Thelounge
- Vaultwarden
- Gitea
- Nextcloud
- Paperless-ngx
- Zabbix
- Zammad
Probably forgot some…
Chad.
Thanks for #rexxit destination!
Do you host on at your house, a VPS or something else?
All on Hetzner.
- Matrix Synapse
- Paperless-ngx
- MediaTracker
- Lychee
- Immich
- AudioBookShelf
- Baikal
- Monica
- Nextcloud
- Calibre-web
- Piwigo
- Pinry
- Prosody
- Shaarli
- Wallabag
- mygpodder
- Peertube
- Mealie
- Mastodon
- Firefox sync
- Seafile
- Dokuwiki
- The Lounge
- Redmine
- Gitea
- Castopod
- Portainer
This assortment is run under a combination of Proxmox LXC containers, docker containers, and Yunohost. Mostly I use it to play around, but most are heavily used by my wife and I. I’m planning to rebuild everything and making things more “official”. Looking to convert from a “lab” to actually making it “production” with solid failure routes and backups. I am looking to move anything currently under Yunohost to docker/lxc and to start making use of podman. Recently saw CosmOS and think it might be a good alternative to portainer.
Hardware:
- Node 1: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
- Node 2: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
- Node 3: Gigabyte Brix with 16GB RAM and 500GB Sata SSD, 128GB m.2 SSD - Proxmox
- Node 4: Trigkey Green G3 with 16GB RAM and 1TB Sata SSD - Proxmox
- TPLink managed switch
- TerraMaster 2-bay NAS with 2x 2TB HD (NFS host for containers)
- Synology ds220j NAS with 2x 8TB HD (backup of home desktops, laptops, cell phones, and lab systems)
You’re doing that as a full-time job, right?
LOL
No, just a hobby. Been playing around for about a year. It started small with an old mac mini and Yunohost. Then I decided to play with Proxmox and bought a used m93p. Then I read about Proxmox clusters, so I got another m93p. I was going to use the mac mini in the cluster, but it was getting too slow, so I bought the Brix. Then I decided to migrate the Yunohost setup over to a VM in Proxmox. Then I figured I should learn a bit about docker. And it spiraled.
I spend maybe 10-12 hours a month on installation and configuration. I spend way more time using it. A couple of weeks ago I spent about 15 hours over the weekend importing/uploading my audiobooks into AudioBookShelf. Last year I spent several weekends getting my Calibre library in shape and moving it to the web.
I figure this is a much cheaper and safer hobby than drinking.
Currently a new instance of Lemmy, other than that I have a Synology NAS where I host:
- Plex
- Synology Drive (alternative to Dropbox etc.)
- Synology Office (alternative to Google Docs)
- VPN server
There’s also docker where I host:
- Gitlab
- AdGuard Home
This is my little setup at work
Kubernetes cluster (created by kubespray)
- “Glue” services:
- nginx ingress controller (automatically sets up nginx vhosts for Kubernetes apps)
- cert-manager (gets SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt for any apps that need them)
- MetalLB (finds and provides an IP for Kubernetes services)
- rook (storage provisioner–I have a few partitions & drives dedicated for rook to provide storage to the apps on the cluster)
- Apps:
- GitLab (via GitLab helm chart which brings along nginx ingress and cert-manager)
- Nextcloud (via Nextcloud helm chart)
- Mattermost (via Mattermost helm chart)
- Rancher
- Apps deployed via GitLab CI/CD (primarily through Auto DevOps):
- Company website
- Firmware updates for embedded systems
- Mobile apps
- “Glue” services:
Part of my Reddit exodus plan was to get serious about my RSS setup.
I’ve settled on:
- FreshRSS as my feed manager (supported by Reeder app in iOS and MacOS)
- FiveFilters Full Text extractor
- rss-proxy site scraper
I may experiment with some replacements for rss-proxy, as I’ve run into a couple sites it doesn’t scrape well, but FreshRSS and FiveFilters have been smashing successes.
Nice, RSS is great indeed. I use it extensively as well, but I didn’t even realize it was a thing people ran as a service on a server. I hadn’t heard of FreshRSS etc. I personally just run newsboat from my desktop/laptop, even my phone if need be.
I will look into FiveFilters, sounds like it would solve some issues for me. Thx
Got 2 24/7 runners in my home:
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Server on a tiny Dell Optiplex 7000 server (Intel 12700T), strapped under my desk, hosting everything in docker:
- Plex
- *arrs, on top of a Gluetun container for privacy
- QBittorrent, to download big files, like … eh … linux distributions
- NginX Proxy Manager
- PhotoPrism (I subscribe, it’s awesome, cannot recommend it enough)
- Portainer, as a management interface
- Wireguard VPN server, to enable me to get into my LAN and prevent having to expose anything to the public internet.
- Watchtower, for keeping things up to date.
- A Synology 718+ with 10 TB in a a dual SHR RAID.
- PhotoPrism storage
- Plex media storage
In addition, I’m hosting a couple of Wireguard VPS in the US and a Nordic country to give me access to regional content (I pay for a few regional services through friends living there - i.e. they pay monthly and I pay them yearly for an account on a region-locked service) - not sure if that counts as “self-hosting” :)
- Lemmy Instance
- VaultWarden - Password manager
- Jellyfin - Movies/TV Shows
- Roon / Roon ARC - Music
- OneDev - Used to use Gitlab but couldn’t afford the self-hosted instance anymore and want the paid features, which this mostly has.
- Dokuwiki - Used to use as a wiki, switched to…
- Trilium - Similar to Obsidian but open source.
- Kavita - Comics/books
- TubeArchivist - YouTube video downloader/viewer
- PodGrab - Podcast manager
- Wallabag - Website article saver/bookmarker etc. If anyone has a better suggestion for FOSS bookmark management please let me know!
- Mealie - Recipe manager (grabs recipes from a ton of different sites)
I use TrueNAS Scale for my NAS and Ubuntu server for my VM’s/home server. I probably am forgetting something, but, that’s what’s listed in my Portainer :).
How has Scale been on Linux vs BSD? Any complaints or plug-in compatibility issues?
I would go back if it was easy. The speed difference from just getting a listing of contents in a large directory over SMB is insane. It used to be instant and it takes like 10-15 seconds now. I’m not even using their app setup anymore, I gave up on it after a while because of a bunch of random issues with updates over time and switched to a dedicated box with Portainer installed. I really wish I could go back to core.
I’m sure they’ll iron everything out but BSD is still king at the moment.
That’s disappointing, thanks for the info. I had hoped with OpenZFS things would be improved, but sounds like native Linux performance just isn’t there yet.
That’s disappointing, thanks for the info. I had hoped with OpenZFS things would be improved, but sounds like native Linux performance just isn’t there yet.
trillium sounds awesome, I love obsidian but was wanting something open source. plus this has some features I felt it was missing, thanks!!
I’m thinking of switching to trillium from obsidian too. Most important point for me here is mobile support and note sync. How does trillum web support mobile phones ?
Unraid (3700X, 16GB 3200 Mhz RAM, NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Graphics Card, 7x14TB Hard Drives):
- Organizer (Loads each service in a tab for easy access)
- Overseer (Allows you to add popular trending movies/tv shows to sonarr/radarr)
- Plex (Serves movies/tv shows and allows for hardware transcoding)
- Tautulli (Shows Plex statistics for each user on the server)
- Sonarr (Searches and Manages TV Shows)
- Radarr (Searches and Manages Movies)
- Prowlarr (Manages NZB and Torrent Indexers)
- Bazarr (Manages subtitles for movies/tv shows)
- NZBget (NZB Client)
- rFlood (Torrent Client)
- Calibre (Manages and serves books to read)
- Stash (for private videos)
- PhotoPrism (Manages photos and vidoes)
- Glances (htop like webpage to monitor server stats)
- Uptime Karma (Shows a status page with the status of each service)
- Nginx Proxy Manager (Manages external access for each service)
- Portainer (Manages the docker containers running on the server)
- Adminer (Manages the mysql databases running in the background)
VFIO KVM/ QEMU GPU passthrough for Windows VM for Solidworks. A forked program that I’ve turned into something completely different, I took some random http server from github and made it convert PDFs to Excel, linked it to my website so it can be used. Got a small network share for all the movies I’ve got which is kinda a lot Made a VM with a dedicated nic for managing my websites
Everything is on One PC, got 4 more systems that have no purpose and are there if this one dies so I have reserve. Any ideas on how to repurpose them? Also on todo list is an self hosted mail server that I’m yet to do because of domain issues. They are expensive lol
