- DNS sever like AdGuard Home or Pihole - you can block ads across your network
- node explorer, Prometheus, alertmanager- it’s easy to forget about your servers when they are running reliably. With node exporter you can monitor your device, Prometheus will keep the historical data, and you can send alerts to discord/email/slack if your disk space is running low or if your your temperatures are too hot.
- Grafana - you can create custom dashboards from all of your other services and have really good graphs. Prometheus will scrape the metrics from other services and you can view them in Grafana.
Self-Hosted Main
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
For Example
- Service: Dropbox - Alternative: Nextcloud
- Service: Google Reader - Alternative: Tiny Tiny RSS
- Service: Blogger - Alternative: WordPress
We welcome posts that include suggestions for good self-hosted alternatives to popular online services, how they are better, or how they give back control of your data. Also include hints and tips for less technical readers.
Useful Lists
- Awesome-Selfhosted List of Software
- Awesome-Sysadmin List of Software
Remember to never run anything critical on Windows
It's designed to update, forget how to function, or both, at the most inconvenient times.
If you want to get serious about this you will absolutely ditch windows immediately. I'm sorry that you feel that windows is needed but once you ditch windows your options and stability will increase exponentially.