Hello everyone! Mods here 😊

Tell us, what services do you selfhost? Extra points for selfhosted hardware infrastructure.

Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!

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  • dmcwetty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Started about 15 years ago hosting media files on a Drobo but quickly realized that wasn’t going to work for me. Moved to Synology for NAS and then finally landed on Unraid 4 years ago.

    Currently hosting the usual media stack like plex and *arr. Recently added Grimmory and hooked into my Kobo. Also have Immich deployed. Testing the waters with Tofa as a next project.

    Running everything on 112Tb array with a 12600k + 32Gb RAM.

  • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    I started in August. Running docker containers on ubuntu server lts minimal, on a ryzen 3 3200g with 16gb ram.

    Running:

    • Jellyfin
    • RomM
    • Kiwix
    • Seafile
    • Beszel
    • Portainer
    • WUD
    • Pi-hole
    • Unbound
    • Caddy
    • Syncthing
    • Tailscale

    The domain has no website and no open ports, so Caddy handles routing and automated tls certification via api. External access only via tailscale, per user and per device approval process. Split horizon dns so domain names resolve direct routes to server on lan, and via tailnet from outside.

    500GB nvme OS drive rsynched nightly to a second matched nvme in the server. HDD data drives backed up using rsynch to matching sized drives in a DAS unit. Script dumps romm and seafile databases to hdd before rsynch Git pulls to data drive, captured in backup and Syncthing to separate device.

    Parallel Pihole and Unbound on a RPi5. RPi5 is primary dns for the lan to spread load, but the config master is the server, RPi is kept in sync with a one way feed from the main server using Syncthing.

    Looking into adding openclaw and ollama to play with, maybe use to monitor the server a bit more proactively. Need to plan out permissions and security so nothing dumb happens.

  • TheRagingGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hey all, I’ve been slowly building services on my server over many many years, starting with running a minecraft ftb server, to where I am now, which is 1 primary system(providing the network filesystem) and 2 auxiliary minipc systems my brother in law recently donated. I moved from Docker to Docker Swarm after getting those MiniPC’s and enjoying the added compute. Currently my swarm is running:

    • PiHole x2 - AdBlocking and Local DNS Management
    • Wg-easy - for Wireguard VPN Management
    • nginx - for reverse proxy servicing
    • authentik - for Authentication and SSO
    • Duplicati - for cloud backups(pointing at backblaze buckets)
    • Guacamole - for RDP services
    • Grafana+Prometheus+Node-Exporter+Cadvisor+AlertManager - for aggregation and system monitoring
    • Gatus - single pane of glass monitoring of services(might remove it now that I’ve started using Grafana)
    • diun - monitoring docker image versions and notification
    • Bookstack - Personal Knowledge Base system
    • Linkwarden - Collaborative Link Sharing and archiving
    • Fasten Health - Local Health Records Storage
    • SnipeIT - personal asset management
    • Affine - self hosted cloud notebook
    • Actual - Budgeting Software
    • it-tools - for swiss army knife utilities
    • kitchenowl - recipes and grocery lists
    • Reactive resume - for resume building with AI empowered editing
    • Onetimesecret - for burn after reading secret sharing(using it for distributing credentials to my family)
    • Searxng - Local Search Aggregation
    • Homarr - Personal Dashboarding
    • Home Assistant - Smart Home Management
    • N8n - Automating codeless workflows
    • Ollama and Open-WebUI - personal Agentic AI
    • AudioBookshelf - Audiobook streaming and Management
    • OwnCloud - local file sharing and storage
    • Plex - Video Streaming
    • BitMagnet - DHT network sniffer
    • syncthing - for transporting data between local and remote systems
    • the *Arrs - for acquiring content
    • Docspell - for digitizing and storing important documents
    • picsur - for local meme storage
    • Calibre+Calibre-web - for Ebook management
    • Crafty Controller - for Minecraft Server Management
    • RomM - For Emulation and ROM Management.

    As I go about my day I’m always looking for new and interesting containers to run, and then scrutinizing if they fill a need, replace an existing service with a better version of the same service, or if it’s better off not implementing, then I pull them down. this has been a great experience in devops learning and the longer I work on the server the more best practices I put in place and the more I understand why corporate clouds have some of the practices they have. I look forward to poking around in this community looking to help and to find new containers to accrete into my platform.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      That’s a respectable list of apps. Looks almost like what I run sans the *arr stack. Good work!

  • Max Headroom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    3 years ago

    Hosting a whole bunch of stuff for myself, the family and also the public. For the larger family I’m hosting eMail but using a managed service offering for that (Hetzner). Too old to run my own IMAP/SMTP infrastructure ;)

    For a few private societies I’m hosting:

    For the public I host:

    Mostly formyself, but not restricted I’m hosting:

    • Pixelfed
    • LinkDing for Bookmarks
    • Excalidraw
    • Grafana
    • OverLeaf
    • StandardNotes Server
    • PiHole
    • GitTea
    • FreshRSS
    • Minio S3-kompatible Object Storage as Backend for Mastodon & Pixelfed (on an old Dell Optiplex at home over my DSL Line)
    • GoToSocial Fediverse Client (On a RaspberryPi at home)
    • PeerTube for public projects (on the same old Dell OptiPlex)
    • PeerTube as private Video Streaming platform (on a Dell Precision 3500 tower)

    Most services run in Docker Containers on some VPS at Hetzner. Some stuff runs in Docker Containers on old spare hardware at home.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Are you using the mail service from Hetzner or are you using their servers to host it yourself?

      • Max Headroom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        0·
        3 years ago

        I’m using the Mail service from Hetzner. I did host my own eMails for more than 10 years but eventually decided it’s too much hassle.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    AP WiFi Access Point
    DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    LTS Long Term Support software version
    LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN
    PoE Power over Ethernet
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSO Single Sign-On
    VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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  • battlesheep@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I have been self hosting things for over 15 years. I now host on 7 computers. I’m proud of the fact that I stay under 100W idle, including 3 Omada WLAN APs and network technology (all via PoE and all is on a UPS). For most of the services i normally used the helper scripts. i’m currently in the process of moving everything to komodo. there should be an lxc for each service or service group, komodo pulls the compose files from gitea and deploys everything.

    Proxmox pve0: M910x i5.7500 4x3,4GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe

    • OPNSense (VM)
    • Omada (LXC/komodo-server - control for 3 WLAN-APs)
    • apt-cacher-ng (LXC/komodo-server - cache for debian-updates)
    • searxng (LXC/komodo-server - my standard google-alternative)
    • technitium (LXC/komodo-server - DNS, Adblock)
    • nginx (LXC/komodo-server - own ssl-domain over cloudflare, no ports open to the www, my devices connect only via tailscale)

    UNRAID-NAS - odroid h2+ Intel J4115 4x1,8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2x24GB HDD - fileserver)

    Proxmox Backup Server (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe, 2TB SSD)

    Proxmox pve1 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)

    • bifrost (LXC/komodo-server - hue emulator)
    • paperless (LXC/komodo-server - DMS)
    • paperless-ai (LXC/komodo-server - tagging DMS)
    • mosquitto (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt broker)
    • zigbee2mqtt (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt-zigbee bridge)
    • snowflake (LXC/komodo-server - tor relais)
    • RaspberryMatic (VM - Homematic)

    Proxmox pve2 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)

    • ghost (LXC comm-script, business soltion, wanna play around)
    • hoarder (LXC/komodo-server - bookmarks with AI tagging)
    • memos (LXC/komodo-server - notes - I play around)
    • obsidian-sync (LXC/komodo-server - notes, but I hate the need of action for this)
    • vaultwarden (LXC/komodo-server - password manager backup for my payed bitwarden instance)
    • gitea (LXC/komodo-server - hoe to, IP-addresses, compose-files)
    • komodo-management (LXC/komodo-server - komodo main-server to manage all the servers)
    • firefly-iii (LXC/komodo-server - finance - I’m looking for an alternaticve for actualbudget )
    • actual-budged (LXC/komodo-server - finance with AI tagging)
    • investbrain (LXC/komodo-server - stock management, but only in USD, I wait for other currencies)

    Proxmox pve3 (M920x: i7-8700, 64 GB RAM, 250 GB NVMe, 2 TB NVMe)

    • ollama+open webui (LXC/komodo-server - AI)
    • immich (LXC/komodo-server - photo backup for my ios-photos)
    • iobroker (LXC/komodo-server - smarthome for some tricky scripts)
    • home assistant (VM - smarthome - for UI, its stupid for scripts)
    • nextcloud (LXC/alpine - Im using it for documents, but Im looking for an alternative)
    • plex/jellyfin/management (LXC/komodo-server - multimedia)

    *raspberry pi 5

    • venus OS (solar/accu management software)

    i’m happy to have found an entry point and an alternative to reddit here, even though my second post (question about suitable hardware with 32 answers) has already been deleted. hello everyone!

  • vinylll04@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I have an Asus NUC 12th gen with 32gb of ram and 1 TB of storage atm. I plan on expanding it with a DAS then run with that for a very long while until I can get a nice rack to play with and do some sys admin stuff down the line.

    But ATM I got an arrstack going for Movies, TV, and Music. Alongside that I have Stalwart for mail, Immich for photo backup/gallery, Vaultwarden for password and auth manager, and opencloud for cloud storage.

  • gedhrel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.

  • Vijay Prema@fosstodon.org
    0·
    3 years ago

    @devve

    - Nextcloud
    - Miniflux
    - Gitlab
    - HomeAssistant
    - Wallabag
    - Ghost (for my personal blog)
    - Umami analytics
    - Searx NG
    - OnlyOffice document server
    - ntfy
    - Lychee
    - LAMP Stack
    - TheLounge (IRC web client)
    - Cockpit (server manager)
    - RSSHub
    - Jellyfin
    - Adguard

    On an Intel NUC in my closet.

    • estevez@lemmy.one
      0·
      3 years ago

      Umami analytics looks exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks! ntfy looks very useful as well.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    Host all the things!

    Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT…

    I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven’t even realised it yet.

      • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        OK, here’s how it happened.

        I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

        I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

        Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

        6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.

  • grk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:

    Standalone Lenovo TS140:

    Synology DS1821+:

    • 64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
    • MeTube
    • Backup Sync to Google Drive

    Misc:

    • RIPE Atlas Probe
    • All networking gear is Unifi. UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6 Pro, U6 In-Wall, 3 USW Flex Minis. 10G SFP+ connections between UDM Pro and switches.
    • ronflex@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Very impressive. I gotta ask, how is this feasible cost-wise? Mostly as in licensing for vshpere. I know you can get pretty far in windows server with evaluation keys, butI run an ESXi server on eval mode cuz I’m cheap and have to reset the license every 90 days with some commands and reboot 😅

      What is the scale of your network, like is this all just in your house?

    • Hexarei@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      Ok, you’ve got me curious - Why 3 different active directory domain controllers?

      • grk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        3 years ago

        Just for redundancy! One DC VM per physical vSphere host. Each DC also handles internal DNS records for my network.

  • oolong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 years ago

    I have a used Lenovo Thinkcentre mini with an i3-7100T and 16gb RAM. I have Ubuntu server LTS installed on it and I run everything in docker containers.

    I host:

    • jellyfin server for my friends and family
    • qbittorrent to download for the JF server(behind a VPN)
    • Jellyseerr for requests
    • Jackett, Sonarr, and Radarr for downloads
    • a Minecraft server
  • Bharat Kalluri@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Running Tipi on a five year old chrome box with tailscale as the VPN. Has been running great! Now I’m self hosting

    1. Adguard: adblocking inside tailnet & for DNS rewrites
    2. Barrage: Nice deluge UI
    3. Beszel: Clean & simple server monitoring. I monitor two of my instances & the self hosted setup on this.
    4. Beszel Agent: Agent for collecting data for Baszel
    5. Deluge: Torrenting
    6. Duplicati: Backups with a great UI
    7. File Browser: for quick ops
    8. Flowise AI: Great drag and drop LLM chat apps builder
    9. Immich: The absolute best way to manage pictures
    10. Jackett: For the arr stack
    11. Jellyfin: Media streaming solution with apps on my phone, TV & laptops
    12. Open WebUI: My default LLM chat client now, I no longer pay 20$ for chatGPT but just pay as I go with open webui and chatgpt api key
    13. Radarr
    14. Sonarr
    15. Uptime Kuma: Uptime monitoring for everything
    16. Wallos: Subscription management

    Tipi is pretty awesome. If you haven’t already, check it out!

    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Didn’t know about Tipi!

      Getting ready to set up Immich, Navidrome and Nextcloud, was meaning to handle it with separate Docker containers, but now I’ll try Tipi first.

      Thanks!