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What is the one thing every self-hosted household should have? (alien.top)
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Let's keep it simple. I'm sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I'm talking about the house as a whole.

My personal favorite is turning out to be Mealie.

I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I've never been able to achieve this before). I don't think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.

My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)

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

Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I'm on Nginx, but wondering if I'm missing out on anything.

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

  1. Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.

  2. Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.