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Be honest: Are you doing SelfHosting just for the sake of it - or do you have apps, that really improve your daily life? (alien.top)
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Hi all,

question to you: How many of your selfhosted Apps are improving your life? Which apps are you really using on a daily/weekly basis?

Many of my running containers are just for ... running containers.

Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, Authentik, Uptime-Kuma, Wireguard ... they are not improving my life, they are only improving Selfhosting. But we are not doing selfhosting just for the sake of it? Do we? ...

Many of my running containers ... are getting replaced by Open Source client software eventually

  • I've installed Trilium Notes - but I'm using Obsidian (more plugins, mobile apps, easy backup)
  • I've installed Vikunja - but I'm using Obisdian (connecting tasks with notes is more powerful)
  • I've installed Snapdrop - but I'm using LocalSend (more reliable)
  • I've installed Bitwarden - but I'm using KeePass (easy backups, better for SSH credentials)
  • I've installed AdGuard - but I'm using uBlock (more easy to disable for Shopping etc.)
  • ...

So the few Selfhosted Apps, that improve my life

File Management

  • Paperless NGX - all my documents are scanned and archived here
  • Nextcloud - all my files accessible via WebUI (& replaced Immich/Photoprism with Photos plugin)
  • Syncthing - all my files synchroniced between devices and Nextcloud
  • Kopia - Backup of all my files encrypted into the cloud

And that's a little bit sad, right? The only "Job to be done" self-hosting is a solution for me is ... file management. Nothing else.

What are your experiences? How makes self-hosting your life better?

( I'm not using selfhosting for musc / movies / series nowadays, as streaming is more convenient for me and I'm doing selfhosting mainly because of privacy and not piracy reasons - so that usecase is not included in my list ;)My only SmartHome usecase is Philips Hue - and I'm controlling it with Android Tasker )

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Started as a hobby with an old i5 laptop (sans keyboard and screen), running Jellyfin. I wanted to learn more than just using Debian as a desktop.

Now my home lab consists of...

  • 2x PiHoles (synced using unison and entr)
  • 2x Jellyfin (1 for my use as a media server and 1 on a Unifi Cloudkey, which I am using for another little pet project).
  • 2x Nextcloud (1 for my business and colloborating with clients on the various projects I get from them, and 1 I am modifying to build myself an online school)
  • Gitea
  • My own software to do round the clock transcoding of videos using a GPU including videos I create myself in Kdenlive or Shotcut.
  • My own software to do managed downloading of content from a well known website
  • Transmission
  • Unifi (not on Unifi Hardware, the hardware was more useful for my other project mentioned above)
  • Calibre-Web
  • My own software to do daily incremental archives of my various production servers in the cloud.

I love selfhosting at home, and I recommended it for anyone who wants to learn.

Yes, I have fudged up a few times and had to nuke and start again, but with each time I get better and better at what I am doing.

I am now planning on moving my Gitea and the main Nextcloud instance into the cloud, as my poor little fibre line is not coping with the traffic.