Selfhosted

Monitoring. Try out Prometheus/InfluxDB and Grafana, throw Loki in there too... It'll keep you busy for a few days to a week at least.

I did all of that and I just use Netdata now.

PiHole or AdGuard Home, rutorrent, GitLab.

Yet another note about your list, OP... instead of plain rsync, take a look at rdiff-backup which uses rsync as its backend but it creates incremental backups. Very handy when you made a change a month ago and just noticed a problem! (I actually keep a year's worth of backups for each of my servers and it's very easy on the storage space.)

There was a point I had a minimum of one service from each category of the awesome-selfhosted repo. I've since scaled down to a more minimal approach, but still enjoy looking for new services to try out.

Monitoring is one that's interesting, graphs can be fun to look at though, so Grafana for that, and it's fun for family to see, even if they don't exactly know what it means, lines and charts are pretty.

I have since setup most of my monitoring to only alert if there is something that is unusual or outside of some threshold. Previously I had it alert me when a process or script had finished, however it was too noisy, and instead now it checks to make sure the script succeeded and if it didn't to alert me.

As someone else already said, automated backups should be up on the priority list.

But also maybe try out self hosting Lemmy. It's been a fun little journey and helped me flesh out my Caddy config more than I thought possible.

I've been selfhosting for almost a year, and I'm still on the lookout for anything I can host.

I've reached a point where if I don't have a use for something, i'll still try to make an unraid template if there isn't one. Just to install it and try it out. Lol

I would love to self host more but I feel like I don't have the proper hardware to back it up and I feel like it would take a lot of my free time to manage it properly.

I love posts like these just to look for more stuff to host!

My current list -

hex - main server (Intel NUC 8GB)
    Nginx Proxy Manager (reverse proxy)
    Dokuwiki
    Nextcloud (file sync) - also used for the following
        Bookmarks
        Contacts
        Calendar
        Location tracking
        Notes
    Airsonic (music streaming)
    Audio Bookshelf (audiobook streaming)
    Calibre-Web (e-books)
    FreshRSS (RSS reader)
    Kavita (comics)
    Batch monitoring scripts
    N8N (workflow automation)
    Transmission (bittorrent client)
    Vaultwarden (password and 2FA sync for Bitwarden)
    Glances (fancy top replacement)
    Paperless-ngx (process attachments and scanned documents)
    Uptime Kuma
    Dozzle
charon - Raspberry PI4
    Pi-hole (Ad blocking DNS server)
    PiVPN (wireguard VPN server)
    PiAlert (network intrusion detection)
    Time Machine (backup for MacOS)
    Borg Server (backup for main server)
coeus - Raspberry Pi Zero
    PiHole

Your own Lemmy instance.

In no specific order

goaccess-for-nginxproxymanager

filebrowser

smokeping

searxng

duplicati

whoogle

nginx-proxy-manager

flaresolverr

linkding

ntfy

changedetection.io

librex

shlink

portainer

speedtest-tracker

pihole

unbound

wg-easy

bookstack

memos

epicgames-freegames

mind-reminders

teddit

vikunja

uptime-kuma

Bloben

stash

jackett

gluetun

prowlarr

mstream

jellyseerr

sonarr

nextcloud

qbittorrentvpn

komga

bazarr

duplicati

Tube-archivist

homepage

radarr

picoshare

audiobookshelf

lychee

scrutiny

youtubedl-material

deemix

Jellyfin

Invidious

Wefwef

Serge

A local caching DNS server can be useful and is easy to get set up. And learning about DNS gives you insight into one of the most important pieces of how the internet works. You can go as far as setting up your own root zone which means you have the needed components to run the entire internet (except for the bandwidth it would require).

I don't see an apache or nginx server in your list, do you host your own websites? Get one of those set up, and then read about LetsEncrypt to creating and managing SSL certs.

There's just so many other things you can run from home... Chat servers like IRC, instant messager services like XMPP via OpenFire, a local SMTP relay with postfix, file hosting under something like SeaFile. If you have a collection of music files you could even build your own internet radio station.

I've been wanting to set up NextCloud on my servers, but I've been busy trying to get all the OS upgrades caught up. One of these days...

Host a containerized Bitwarden instance.

Also if you're running out of ideas on what to do, try to Nixify it. Install NixOS, learn modules, maybe make some modules yourself. Fun journey.

Observability stack?

@fraydabson

Start automating your backups / maintenance and orchestrate deployments .....

Anyone else have it ?

Im definitely not commenting from my selfhosted instance lmao

I'm currently using Authelia, but would like to see what Authentik provides. The last time I tried it, I remember circling through multiple sections in the web app to add authentication and bypass certain endpoints.

Also, it was considerably heavy compared to Authelia. Still, I would like to give it a chance again to see what I'm missing.

Ill add few that no one mentioned here:

1. Upsnap - wake-on-lan to wake up my PC when I need remote control
2. Code-server - txt editor / file browser
3. *arr - next level torrenting

You could set up specifically clementines and tell me how you got it working 😅😅

I recently started using https://silverbullet.md (note taking with PWA offline support). And nforwardauth (authentication). I like both so far.

I see you are also missing paperless-ngx, syncthing and gitea

I get it from time to time. It's why I have 89 containers running and why the https://powerg.love Mastodon instance exists

Are firefly and actual different enough to justify running both? I'm looking into them myself.

As for suggestions on other things to host, maybe a recipe manager like Mealie, Tandoor or nextcloud cookbook?

Maybe try alternatives to things you run and see if there is a better thing

I try to find ways to make my setup more bulletproof or faster whenever I get the itch. As an example, I recently switched to OpenSUSE and Podman to take advantage of the LTO optimized packages and rootless containers.

I tried to run my online life through self hosting but I found a lot of the services weren't reliable or capable enough to get real work done. So I went from 30 containers to about 7 and have a lot less to tinker with.

How is it all running? I'd look into moving to proper infrastructure and maybe even go a bit wild and run OpenStack? Maybe with OpenShift on top and migrate your docker stuff into Kubernetes?

Personally I think both OpenStack and OpenShift are cool as shit!