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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pihole for DNS/Adblock

FreshRSS for my news

Speedtest Tracker to keep an eye on my internet speed

Uptime Kuma to keep track of my uptime

N.eko

Homepage

2x Plex server for redundancy

Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr/Jackett

Qbittorrent/VPN combo

NGINX Reverse proxy

And of course, my own lemmy instance

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

In my homelab I have two main servers

Esxi: Opnsense VM --Running Wireguard VPN Docker VM --Vaultwarden --Portainer --FreshRSS --Heimdall Dashboard --SponsorBlockCast --Portainer Agent Home Assistant VM --Node Red --Frigate --DoubleTake --zigbee2mqtt --Mosquitto --ESPHome SecureVM --NGINX Proxy Manager --Portainer Agent

Ubuntu Media Server 40tb zfs Running Docker: --Scrutiny --Plex --YTDL Material --Lidarr --Radarr --Bazarr --Sonarr --Sabnzbd --Compfreface --Portainer Agent Cockpit

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I host a custom PaaS I developed during the pandemic, based of Docker Swarm.

On it I have:

  • Nextcloud
  • collabora
  • matrix/synapse
  • a service that bypasses a podcast's platform requirement to be logged in to listen to full content through RSS feed
  • 6 very small websites
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Navidrome, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud are the services I use the most, and all the related stuff, MySQL, NPM, Redis, Collabora, etc.

Jellyfin is running on my Unraid server (28tb usable), the rest are running on an Ubuntu Server system (1tb, raid 1 SSDs).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

automatic youtube downloader using PubSubHubbub to get notified of new videos via flask app behind apache reverse proxy. running on a pi3b.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

My current homelab build is a 5950X w/128GB and... well it's more complicated than that.

Currently running in Proxmox (in no particular order!):

  • LinuxGSM - game servers
  • Multicraft - Minecraft servers
  • Zammad helpdesk (for a non-critical service, hosting at home as failover)
  • Plex - using Nvidia T600 for transcoding
  • PopOS compute VMs x2 - one of which currently running InvokeAI with 2xGPU, 40GB VRAM total
  • Windows 10 gaming VM (was for passthrough, hardly used now!)
  • Docker, including:
  1. Channels DVR - live TV streaming/recording
  2. Deemix - music downloader
  3. Flame - homepage
  4. Gogs x2 - Git repositories
  5. Nginx Proxy Manager
  6. Nzbget - Usenet downloader
  7. Prowlarr - indexer
  8. Qbittorrentvpn - VPN and torrent downloader
  9. Radarr - movies
  10. Requestrr - Discord -arr request bot
  11. Sonarr - TV
  12. Uptime-Kuma x2 - uptime bots
  13. Wallabag - bookmarks
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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.)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

cluster (two old laptops, and 3 PI 3s):

  • nomad
  • glusterfs
  • consul

containers on nomad:

  • gitea
  • nodered
  • traefik
  • nextdns
  • postfix
  • cloudflared
  • diun
  • uptimekuma
  • searxng
  • n8n
  • nfty
  • minecraft bedrock
  • maraiadb
  • linkding
  • ddclient

docker (on unraid):

  • audiobookshelf
  • changedetection.io
  • fileflows
  • gluetun
  • jellyfin
  • metube
  • netdata
  • qbittorrent
  • unifi controller

Stand alone hardware:

  • technitium dns server x2
  • home assistant
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Paperless NGX on a Raspberry 4. No more paper documents at home... Everything that still comes by mail is instantly scanned and shredded. Emails are also scanned and attachments are added automatically, if important.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am running Mealie (recipe management site) and pi hole (network ad blocker) on an old MacBook Pro (2012?) loaded with Ubuntu server. Also have Plex media server running on my main computer (Pop OS)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Mealie I have to checkout, missing something like that

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's still in the works, but I'm planning on:

  • Nextcloud (file storage/calendar/office suite)
  • Actual (budgeting)
  • Home Assistant (IoT device hub)
  • Nginx-proxy-manager (reverse proxy)
  • Jellyfin (media)
  • Headscale, selfhosted version of Tailscale (Mesh VPN)
  • *arr stack (media fetching)
  • Immich (photos)
  • Pihole (DNS adblocking)
  • Vaultwarden (password manager)

It's definitely a lot of stuff, but I'm trying to reduce my reliance on cloud services. Really excited to get this stuff going.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Feels like literally everything...

LXC:
NginxProxyManager
Kasm
Several instances of GameServer
openemr (testing for viability for a client)
3 instances of TechnitiumDNS
Nextcloud
Graylog
UptimeKuma
ChangeDetection
Zwave-js
MeshCentral
Homepage
Canvas (yes a full instance of canvas. I used to be a college instructor, I have a copy of all my courses)
InvoiceNinja
Matrix
Lemmy
UnifiController
Gameyfin (I don't like this that much... it'll likely get killed)

6 instances of generic docker on LXC running portainer for other services:
diagrams.net (specifically tied into my nextcloud instance)
ghostfolio
it-tools
librespeed
libretranslate
quakejs
rickroll
rxresume
searxng
Ascii starwars
wxrdle
gramps.js
teamspeak
authentik (I think I like keycloak more and might migrate back)
bisq
hrconvert2
And a watchtower instance on each.

VMs:
Proxmox Backup Server
Mailcow
Librenms
freepbx
HomeAssistant
Windows Domain Server (no GUI)
"Media Server" which is a plex stack with all the *arr fixings.
And a vpn bound qbitorrent instance.

Edit:

I missed an old VM that I'm in the process of deprecating out to lxc... Docker01:
Archivebox
Ghost
Bookstack
LibreCaptcha
Wordpress (for a client)
parsedmarc
gitea
grocy
YOURLS
minecraft
opennox
vaultwarden
racktables
tubearchivist

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

At home on multiple Pis: OpenMediaVault HomeAssistant Raspbee (Zigbee module) Unifi controller

Server 1 (Ubuntu): Wireguard

Server 2 (Ubuntu): Nextcloud Trillium Gitea Vaultwarden Calibre Web Vikunja Photoprism Paperless

All services only run on the Wireguard interface.

And I am looking into some billing tools for my side-gig.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh boy here I go:

Hardware: Ryzen 7900X, 128GB Ram, 2x12TB HDD, 2x2TB SSD

What I'm running:

  • Space Engineers Server
  • Minecraft Server
  • Chevereto
  • Mastodon
  • Jellyfin
  • PeerTube
  • Kavita
  • Calibre Web
  • Vaultwarden
  • Nextcloud
  • Gitlab
  • Navidrome
  • Lemmy
  • Mailcow
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Pretty modest right now. Pi-hole and Homebridge on one of my old laptops.

[–] Eezyville 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got a Nextcloud instance that I've run for a few years. Love it. At home I have an Odroid H3+ with 64GB of ram running Openmediavault. Got about a dozen containers running on that. I need to play with it more and use that ram. I did try to get Boinc running on it but it, sadly, kept shutting down. I'll have to find a another way to contribute to science.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Pretty much everything to be fair:

  • Email with Roundcube
  • Chat with Matrix-Synapse + Element
  • My files with Nextcloud, easily one of my most used self-hosted apps
  • RSS with Miniflux (open to change, as soon as I find any RSS backend with a usable Android app)
  • My social network presence, with Pleroma (again, subject to change, as soon as I know how to properly move my domain to a different software tool)
  • My media, with Jellyfin
  • Peertube to watch videos from other instances and comment on them
  • And finally, all of the above protected with a password vault from Vaultwarden

EDIT: For those wondering, I use @[email protected] ( https://yunohost.org ) as my server manager

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Most recently I'm running my own instances of Mastodon and Lemmy. Those are on my Hetzner dedicated server along with a bunch of other services and websites, but what I use the most is Miniflux, Immich and Photoprism.

Then I turned my old laptop (it's got decent spec) into a home server running Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

File storage, mainly. I have 2 NAS devices (one Synology I picked up in 2014, and an Unraid device I just built a couple months ago) - the former holds 13TB and the latter currently holds 35TB with plans to bring it to 100TB as I get money for more drives.

The Unraid system has a Youtube-dl instance running to auto-pull videos from the channels I follow, and I also run my Plex server from it. The Synology only has a Git server on it that I use to keep local copies of repos that I store on GitHub, along with personal projects that I'd rather not publish (even as private repos) in the cloud.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Everything runs in a kubernetes cluster hosted on my homelab, except the public services access point which is a VM hosted on a non-profit ISP and service provider infrastructure, which I contribute to, through a wireguard VPN between the VM and home:

Public-facing:

  • an old static website (nginx-unprivileged), which was my first website and which I keep online because nostalgia
  • Ghost, personal blog
  • OpenSMTPd + rspamd + dovecot (dovecot only accessible from home, not public)
  • privatebin
  • picoshare
  • Whoogle + Tor
  • SearxNG

Work related (I work from home 75% of time), not public-facing:

  • dolibarr ERP for managing prospects and clients billing
  • gitea
  • bookstack for personal documentation
  • edit: forgot Harbor as container registry.
  • vaultwarden
  • eck-operator
  • wireguard operator for personal, family and friends access from outside
  • awx operator
  • draw.io
  • zalando postgresql operator for postgres needs
  • mariadb-galera for mariadb needs
  • bitlbee-libpurple for all clients' slack needs
  • Authentik as OIDC/LDAP/SAML provider (also used to identify family and friends)
  • internal DNS (pdns-resolver + powerdns with postgres backend) serving work zone and home zone.

Home stuff, not public-facing:

  • Games: Minetest, EQEmu server (Everquest), planar ally, bzflag, veloren
  • Home-cinema/music: Jellyfin, Koel, alltube, and the usual tools to share Linux isos.
  • Immich to sync photos
  • homeassistant (more a PoC than anything else right now)
  • mealie for recipes (I like cooking original meals for friends and family) and lunch/dinner planning
  • another instance of vaultwarden for family
  • piHole to keep the children a bit safer online (notably blocking malware/scams/nsfw sites)

all of this running on a 3 control-planes/6 workers talos linux k8s cluster, itself hosted on a franken-proxmox cluster (a mix of server/"old" desktops/Ryzen NUCs) and a bunch of NAS (VM dedicated NAS, data storage NAS, backup NAS).

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have DietPi running on an RPi 4 with 4GB RAM.

Everything here is hosted in docker containers:

  • Portainer (docker management)
  • Nginx Proxy Manager (for reverse proxy)
  • Nextcloud (file storage + calendar)
  • Kanboard (task management + kanban board)
  • Homepage
  • Transmission (behind VPN with Flood web frontend)
  • Jellyfin media server
  • A Discord bot for my server
  • Watchman, my RSS feed to Kindle setup (https://github.com/andrwcnln/watchman)

I've probably forgotten some things but that's the main bulk of it. Can't recommend DietPi enough if you are looking for a super lightweight OS for you Pi server, has been perfect for me so far. Here are some things I am looking to host in the future too:

  • ntfy (for push notifications)
  • Apache server for my websites
  • Pi-hole
  • Plausible (a replacement for Google analytics for websites)
  • Vaultwarden
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Plex, Sonarr/Radarr, Ombi, Home Assistant, Komga, Calibre-Web, Valheim. Everything is on a Debian machine I built recently, except HA which is on an O-Droid (I just copied the hardware from HA Blue and ordered the parts from Ameridroid).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Prefacing by saying my lab is severely breaking ~~some~~ a lot of best practices due to hardware availability limitations

Proxmox box (24GB DDR3, E3-1230)

  • Ubuntu LTS Dedicated Minecraft server
  • Windows 10 Dedicated V Rising server
  • Ubuntu LTS for Plex
  • TrueNAS
  • Coming Soon: Jelu Server - a self-hosted Goodreads replacement

Raspberry Pi 2B+

  • PiHole

OptiPlex 7020 sff (8GB DDR3, i5-4590)

  • Bitwarden
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

So much stuff.

  • Unraid for NAS
  • next cloud to connect to the NAS and as a personal drop box
  • all of the *arr services (sonarr, radarr etc)
  • Plex
  • I was doing dizqueTV for a personal “tv station” on my Plex server but I disabled it for now due to low use
  • a bunch of VMs for infosec related tinkering (couple of Win 10, Ubuntu server, and one ParrotOS install)

On the cloud side, I host two things in production:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pi zero running pihole

unRAID server running

  • Plex
  • Sonarr
  • Radarr
  • Scrutiny
  • ArchiveTeam warrior
  • And much more

I only turn the unRAID server on when needed however. The summers here in Denmark is beginning to be unbearable, so I don't need any more heat in my apartment.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To answer my own question:

  • E-mail (postfix, dovecot, rspamd, clamav)
  • Web (nginx), various small websites including my homepage
  • Fediverse Microblogging (Mastodon)
  • Matrix Chat (synapse)
  • XMPP Chat (prosody)
  • Music streaming (mpd, snapcast)
  • Home automation (home assistant and my own lighthome stuff, mqtt)
  • IRC bouncer (znc)

And the basics of course:

  • SSH (openssh)
  • NFS

All running on an Ubuntu Linux server, but everything is containerised into mostly Alpine Linux podman (rootless) containers (and a few lxc containers which I'm phasing out).

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Across my and some family members' homes:

  • pihole and openvpn via pivpn(sharing a pi4 in each house)
  • transmission and minidlna (another pi4 with an external hdd)
  • folding@home (on a beefier Intel NUC)
  • homeassistant (same NUC)
  • one house has a funkier setup running on a NUC with homeassistant, appdaemon, influx, grafana and a custom django app that manages them all so they do aome fancier automation for heating/cooling and power consumption

On the internet:

  • a pretty much abandoned blog in Bulgarian built with hugo and deployed on gitlab pages
  • a single user akkoma instance I've migrated off of, but am still keeping for no logical reason, running in docker on a Hetzner VPS
  • a calcley instance that's my current main home on the fediverse, also in docker on a separate Hetzner VPS, this one setup a bit less amateurishly, behind cloidflare and using R2 for sorage
  • a nitter instance for those terrible cases when someone sends me a link to The Bad Place that I still want to see.
  • I set up a bibliogram and proxytok on the same VPS as the nitter instance, but those no longer work after some agressive API changes on IG and tiktok.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Not much. I have a searxng instance, used to have nextcloud… I should start hosting more stuff really soon

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