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What selfhosted service have the best "return of investment" (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi guys,

What services do you think have the best return of investment? Where is it truly worth it to selfhost?

Cheers

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Vaultwarden. Been using it self hosted for 3 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

that depends on how high u value privacy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently some people consider their own time absolutely worthless because they see time spent setting something up, learning things, not as a investment.

I somehow doubt that OP was asking specifically about a financial investment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks dad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Seafile. I can get 1TB of cloud storage for the cost of a raspi and a 1tb disk. Can pay that off within a year easily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The big one for me will always be Navidrome (and the various *sonic forks before) because I have access to my music collection, and don't have to pay a subscription.

Vaultwarden I'll give another +1, especially after fighting keeping KeePass synced across devices. Plus I have control over it.

I'm sure throwing my torrent client helps because it's on a box that's always on and my computer can be turned off if we're talking cost of electricity. Or just general wear and tear on hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

where do you buy all of your music? Because if u dont, airsonic isn’t saving u money - it’s piracy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you share purpose, then it will be easier to answer it. Do you want a self-hosted service for yourself or for the product?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, like my car. Most of the time I'm the sole user. It gets me where I want to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you dont already have backup, then that is it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Invidious, searchxng , Kuma uptime..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Vaultwarden

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Everything that you host in your house with spare parts and does not let you pay for a dedicated online VPS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not email lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Immich and Bitwarden (unified beta).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Selfhosting Navidrome and pirating songs/music out of Spotify:)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Spotify has significant compression. Search harder me matey.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The simplest but the most useful: Samba file server

Well, file servers in general, paired up with a VPN server and you have a literal multi-year use right there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Jellyfin and *arr will save you 100$ per month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

  1. Pi-hole

  2. Torrent client (any) + related automation for scraping/moving media

Nothing else comes close, these two are essential for any selfhosted enthusiast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Domoticz for home automation

cloudflared for remote access

apcupsd for UPS automation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I enjoy having my own SMTP server that I control.

[–] lemmux 1 points 10 months ago

Photoprism, Actual Budget, TimeTagger

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nextcloud.

Automatic Mobile photo uploads and calendar (with apps), where you are more independent from other companies. Your data are also private.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

PBS is very bare bones, and requires a lot of manual CLI setup and config, and it can only receive ZFS Snapshots or bare files. At that point, ProxMox already has replication functions built in and then there's rclone to send it anywhere you want not just the PBS setup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

immich is my Top 1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You like it better than photoprism?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

IMO they’re currently about as good, but they still serve slightly different purposes; Immich doesn’t fully support existing libraries because they don’t support nested albums, and PhotoPrism doesn’t have a native official app and therefore only supports sync through 3rd party apps.

One thing that is relevant to mention is that Immich uses OpenStreetMap in a way that isn’t kosher, and while they’re receptive to changing that, it clearly isn’t a priority to them. It doesn’t reflect too positively on them that they’d essentially abuse another (far more important) FLOSS project like that, while PhotoPrism has made it a priority to avoid such issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I tried it, It's the closest to Google photos, and that helps with the wife approval.