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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Running Tipi on a five year old chrome box with tailscale as the VPN. Has been running great! Now I'm self hosting

  1. Adguard: adblocking inside tailnet & for DNS rewrites
  2. Barrage: Nice deluge UI
  3. Beszel: Clean & simple server monitoring. I monitor two of my instances & the self hosted setup on this.
  4. Beszel Agent: Agent for collecting data for Baszel
  5. Deluge: Torrenting
  6. Duplicati: Backups with a great UI
  7. File Browser: for quick ops
  8. Flowise AI: Great drag and drop LLM chat apps builder
  9. Immich: The absolute best way to manage pictures
  10. Jackett: For the arr stack
  11. Jellyfin: Media streaming solution with apps on my phone, TV & laptops
  12. Open WebUI: My default LLM chat client now, I no longer pay 20$ for chatGPT but just pay as I go with open webui and chatgpt api key
  13. Radarr
  14. Sonarr
  15. Uptime Kuma: Uptime monitoring for everything
  16. Wallos: Subscription management

Tipi is pretty awesome. If you haven't already, check it out!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@devve

- Nextcloud
- Miniflux
- Gitlab
- HomeAssistant
- Wallabag
- Ghost (for my personal blog)
- Umami analytics
- Searx NG
- OnlyOffice document server
- ntfy
- Lychee
- LAMP Stack
- TheLounge (IRC web client)
- Cockpit (server manager)
- RSSHub
- Jellyfin
- Adguard

On an Intel NUC in my closet.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:


Standalone Lenovo TS140:


Synology DS1821+:

  • 64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
  • MeTube
  • Backup Sync to Google Drive

Misc:

  • RIPE Atlas Probe
  • All networking gear is Unifi. UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6 Pro, U6 In-Wall, 3 USW Flex Minis. 10G SFP+ connections between UDM Pro and switches.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache

Respect! Nobody can accuse you of a half-assed effort.

MeTube

This looks great. I am going to spin up an instance.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Audiobookshelf
  • Calckey
  • Gitea
  • Grafana + Prometheus
  • Homeassistant
  • Jellyfin
  • KitchenOwl
  • Navidrome
  • Nextcloud
  • Wallabag

and lemmy of course πŸ™‚

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[email protected]> Audiobookshelf

I didn't know that existed and now I love it and started up a docker container for it!

Thanks! :D

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Proxmox on a self-built rackserver (Will be building a second one for a proxmox cluster):

  • Pi-Hole (primary)
  • Home Assistant
  • 2 Docker Hosts (One for Eval, one for Prod)

Raspberry Pi Zero for Pi-Hole (secondary)

On my Docker Host (All in docker-compose):

  • Heimdall (Personal Dashboard)
  • Portainer (Docker GUI)
  • baikal (CAL & CADdav)
  • vaultwarden (Password Manager)
  • bookstack (Documentation, kinda abandoned because im lazy)
  • changedetection(.)io (Monitoring Websites for Changes, useful for changelogs or price monitoring)
  • cloudflare-ddns (DDNS because dynamic IP Adresses...)
  • Grafana & InfluxDB (Dashboard and Database for Stats)
  • linkding (Bookmarks aka "Have to read someday")
  • mealie (Reciepe manager)
  • neko (Watch2gether but in selfhosted and more capable imo)
  • nginx proxy manager (Reverse Proxy with GUI)
  • paperless-ngx (Document manager with OCR)
  • semaphore ui (Ansible GUI with sheduled tasks)
  • Uptime Kuma (Status Monitoring)
  • watchtower (Automatic updates of my docker containers because im lazy)

A Synology DS220+ for local Storage

A 5TB Hetzner Storage Box for Backups (encrypted)

A Rootserver for Games and some testing in the wild (Currently Windows, will be switched to ubuntu)

Hetzner Cloud Server with mailcow on it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hello

Let's have a look at the inventory

  • RPI 4B

    • OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
  • HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i5-6500T, 8GiB RAM - this one is currently the mainstay of my lab, running containers with docker-compose

    • Nginx as reverse proxy (+ fail2ban, letsencrypt)
    • Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
    • Jellyfin
    • Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
    • ddclient
    • Heimdall
  • Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro i7-8700T 32GiB RAM

    • I've gotten this one fairly recently. A real bargain - costed as much as the CPU alone and was in pristine condition. I will be migrating the workload from EliteDesk to this one. I decided to try ProxMox this time though, so I need to learn a bit first. Also perhaps add a second SSD
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I will go first 😌

I selfhost codimd, vaultwarden, kuma, immich, home assistant, trilium, hugo, gotify, wakapi and umami. I have one VPS and one custom built NAS at home.

I read you πŸ‘€πŸ¦Ž

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

A 6 node k3s cluster with a Synology for network storage running:

  • Nextcloud
  • Authentik SSO
  • Paperless
  • Vikunja
  • Joplin Sync
  • Matrix
  • Immich
  • Mealie
  • Gitea
  • Home-Assistant
  • Node-Red
  • Zigbee2mqtt
  • MQTT server
  • Frigate
  • UptimeKuma
  • Prometheus and Grafana
  • AdGuard Home
  • Minio
  • Longhorn
  • Unifi Controller
  • Jellyfin
  • Homepage

Managed with FluxCD.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been self hosting for over a decade at this point. Mix of custom built servers and surplus hardware over the years.

To name a few of my daily servers.

  • home assistant
  • paperless-ng
  • jellyfin
  • nextcloud
  • blue iris
  • audiobook shelf

With docker being so easy I have kind of lost track how much stuff i am hosting. A problem i never thought i would have :)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I joined to learn, still not self-hosting anything, but I intend to use an 11yo Compaq laptop (i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) as a server while I'm still practicing. I intend to self-host a lemmy instance and a nextcloud server.

Thanks for everything you guys have been sharing I've already got some good leads, gonna try out YunoHost for starters

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Host all the things!

Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT...

I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven't even realised it yet.

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

Wait, what? How are hosting someone else's website?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OK, here's how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn't find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn't load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it's still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven't even realised.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I strive to be this level of...

Whatever this is

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

That's funny. Imagine how confused they'll be when/if they find out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What a hero!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I have a rented server with 8 Xeon E3-1246 and 64GB at Hetzner where I host:

  • Vaultwarden
  • Gitlab (git repo, container registry, static blog (pages with Hugo))
  • Drawio (Diagrams)
  • Kroki (for Gitlab)
  • Gitlab runner
  • FreshRSS
  • Nextcloud
  • Redis
  • Headscale (Tailscale server)
  • Keycloak
  • MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Plex
  • Privacybin
  • Wallabag
  • Hedgedoc

It's all behind a Traefik instance handling Let's Encrypt and using the Docker socket to route traffic based on labels in docker-compose.yml. Behind these I also run k3s and from time to time some VMs. I also have a 1TB storage pod at Hetzner where I use restic to back everything up from this instance as well as from my home system and laptops.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello selfhosters.

Here's my list of stuff:

On a VPS hosted in Germany:

On my home server (my old gaming PC, repurposed)

  • Proxmox to manage several containers/VMs:
    • OPNsense Firewall
    • HomeAssistant
    • Pihole
    • Gitlab
    • Jellyfin
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, thanks for your comment! I just visited your blog and noticed that it loads fairly quickly: I assume you must have some sort of CDN set up. Could you point me to how you went about setting up the CDN for your domain/website? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No CDN. The secret is way simpler: It's a static site. Just a bunch of files served directly by Nginx. I use Pelican to generate the site from Markdown files.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

(I'll add links / descriptions later)

I host the following fediverse stuff:

  • Lemmy (you're looking at it)
  • Mastodon (3 instances)
  • Calckey oh sorry, now FireFish
  • Pixelfed
  • Misskey
  • Writefreely
  • Funkwhale
  • Akkoma (2 instances)
  • Peertube

And these are other things I host:

  • Kimai2
  • Matrix/Synapse
  • Silver Bullet
  • XWiki (3 instances)
  • Cryptpad (2 instances)
  • Gitea
  • Grafana
  • Hedgedoc
  • Minecraft
  • Nextcloud
  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Paperless-ngx
  • TheLounge
  • Vaultwarden
  • Zabbix
  • Zammad
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • jellyfin and Plex (in the process of migrating)
  • radarr/sonarr
  • jackett and deluge
  • nextcloud

I've had new hardware in the basement now for a while, going to slap it together and build a k8s cluster on top of rancher/harvester

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

Please make a blog post about your migration. I'm in the same boat.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i don't self-host yet, but i have an old pc in my house, i just need to bring it with me to colege, so i can learn and start self-hosting

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've got a couple VPSes, hosting

  • Mailcow, because email is identity.
  • Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
  • Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
  • ttrss, even though it's junk software with a jerk developer.
  • A bunch of self-developed web apps

Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it's also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that's still broadly accepted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Have you tried FreshRSS for feeds ? I'm pretty happy with it.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hosting a whole bunch of stuff for myself, the family and also the public. For the larger family I'm hosting eMail but using a managed service offering for that (Hetzner). Too old to run my own IMAP/SMTP infrastructure ;)

For a few private societies I'm hosting:

For the public I host:

Mostly formyself, but not restricted I'm hosting:

  • Pixelfed
  • LinkDing for Bookmarks
  • Excalidraw
  • Grafana
  • OverLeaf
  • StandardNotes Server
  • PiHole
  • GitTea
  • FreshRSS
  • Minio S3-kompatible Object Storage as Backend for Mastodon & Pixelfed (on an old Dell Optiplex at home over my DSL Line)
  • GoToSocial Fediverse Client (On a RaspberryPi at home)
  • PeerTube for public projects (on the same old Dell OptiPlex)
  • PeerTube as private Video Streaming platform (on a Dell Precision 3500 tower)

Most services run in Docker Containers on some VPS at Hetzner. Some stuff runs in Docker Containers on old spare hardware at home.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have a 800W solar panel and some home automatization at home. Therefor, I use MQTT & NodeRED.

  • Adguard
  • Authelia (authentication for my services)
  • Dashy (I've become lazy collecting my own bookmarks)
  • Gotify (receive notifications on my mobile from NodeRED)
  • Grafana
  • Influxdb
  • Jellyfin
  • Mariadb
  • Nextcloud
  • NodeRED
  • phpMyAdmin
  • Portainer
  • Remmina
  • sshwifty
  • Swag (Nginx and more)
  • ubooquity (ebooks)
  • Wallabag (Bookmark collection)
  • Wordpress (want to try)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

znc, radicale, miniflux, gotosocial, lemmy, i2pd, searx, rtorrent, webdav

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Greetings!

Not really self hosting a lot right now, but I've been spending a lot of time reengineering my network and fixing some things. Recently retired my loud and power-hungry pfsense server, replacing it with a Mikrotik rb5009, so setting that up has been a steep learning curve.

Most things are running on my Synology DS920+, except for a few raspberry pis.

  • Jellyfin (docker)
  • Kavita (docker)
  • Home Assistant (pi4)
  • Paperless-ngx (docker)
  • ~~PiHole (pi zero)~~ currently broken
  • Unifi controller (docker)
  • Grafana (home assistant)
  • InfluxDB (docker)
  • LibreNMS (VM)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin Nextcloud Homeassistant Mattermost Gitlab Visions of Chaos Oobabooga Automatic1111

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Always looking for more, but so far it's pretty minimal.

  • Pi.hole with Gravity Sync
  • openhabian for smarthome hub

Looking to add Jellyfin and a sonarr radarr setup, but my QNAP doesn't like doing actual work so I've been struggling. Planning to add a mini PC soon as a more stable server and to centralize things a bit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

home assistant, freshrss (and a few related services such as rss-bridge), nitter and piped. I tried to host libregrammar, but ran out of memory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
  • Pihole

  • Sonarr

  • Radarr

  • Lidarr

  • Notifiarr

  • Sabzbd

  • Nicotine+

  • Kodi

  • Plex

  • Airsonic

  • Nextcloud

  • Joplin

  • qbittorrent

Currently split between VMs and physicals. I'm refactoring these ,with plans to build out and migrate much of it to a minipc proxmox cluster.

Adding:

  • proxmox

  • podman/portainer

  • unbound

  • ngnx proxy mgr

  • Solid server

  • homepage

  • matrix

  • searxng

  • some sort of mail stack, TBD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm just getting my server up and running! Previously it only ran Honeassistant.

Now it runs proxmox, which boots 2 vms, one for HAOS and another for Debian. On the Debian vm there is currently Plex, nextcloud, and some -arr apps.

8 also have a separate raspberry pi pihole. I've had that going for years now, I think I first made it 2019.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Available from internet:

  • jellyfin
  • jellyseerr
  • immich
  • paperless-ngx
  • owncloud ocis
  • traefik
  • homarr

Available only from local:

  • the *arr stack
  • qbittorrent
  • jackett
  • watchtower
  • apprise
  • netdata (kinda new, still have to fully understand how it works)
  • portainer
  • speedtest-tracker
  • homepage

Security

All the services available from internet, just goes through traefik to terminate https, I rely on the build in authentication of each service. To add another layer of security, I have fail2ban active on all those services.

I have a public IP, and I have open on my router ports 80, 443, a random port for ssh and vpn.

Hardware:

Memory:
  System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.73 GiB used: 4.46 GiB (57.7%)
  Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR3
CPU:
  Info: 6-core model: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 535.98

docker compose files

All the docker compose files + how I configured everything is available at: https://github.com/simone-viozzi/my-server

Bonus:

Since I like the ability of btrfs to do snapshots, I created all important docker volumes as btrfs subvolumes. Then I created a backup script that literally sends the subvolume (encrypted) to an external cloud. This does not allow incremental backups and most likely is not the best backup solution... but it works... the repo is: https://github.com/simone-viozzi/btrfs2cloud-backup

I welcome any advice / criticism!
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Using LXD:

  • ddclient
  • Jellyfin (2)
  • Minecraft (proxy + 4 servers)
  • Satisfactory server
  • V Rising
  • Gitea vcs
  • wordpress
  • rtorrent
  • other web servers

Using rootless Podman + Systemd service:

  • Vaultwarden
  • Linkding
  • Traefik
  • Immich photo backup
  • Nextcloud (though I hate it, probably will stop)
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Prowlarr/Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Bazarr/Recyclarr
  • Rtorrent + Flood
  • Jellyseerr
  • Navidrome (Subsonic server)
  • Miniflux (RSS)
  • Woodpecker (CI integration for Gitea)
  • Tubearchivist (yt-dl)
  • wg-easy (wireguard)
  • searxng

All services are split across 2 DIY servers (in towers). 15TB of media stored on HDD with btrfs duplicated across both servers. One server host is Alpine Linux, the other is Opensuse MicroOS. LXD containers usually are Debian 12 or Alpine. I'm beginning to migrate some things to a cluster of (12) raspberry pi 3s. Unsure what to choose for rpi's, maybe, Fedora CoreOS (ublue), although Alpine does work extremely well on them (once you get them set up with it).

+ router running fresh tomato :)

Also mailcow for email, on a VPS, although I need to switch to a new provider, having difficulty with delivery using Linode and OVHCloud.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemmy, mostly :D. I also recently started up my own Matrix home server. I took a stab at email, but it was more trouble than it's worth considering my relatively newly acquired cloud hosting IP is on several blacklists. Now that I actually have a server running again Gitea might be next on the list of services that gets added.

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

I host one of the worlds last gopher sites. And some Telegram bots, on Raspberry Pi's.

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

Wow, is Gopher still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Sure is. There is now Flask Gopher for building gopher sites in Python.

Flask gopher

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Personally, I host Sandstorm, and Discord music bot, and Minecraft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have a meager ds418play with 2x4tb drives set up with RAID. I forget what it's called, but it is one drive redundancy, 1:1. I run Plex and an FTP server on it for file storage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I run a bunch of bots, some databases plus

  • Jellyfin
  • Unifi controller
  • Radar
  • Sonarr
  • Lidarr
  • Bazarr
  • nzbhydra2
  • Sabnzbd
  • Heimdall
  • Twitch points miner 2
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ceph (rbd,s3) on 4 poweredges.

Nomad, Consul servers running in a 3 node raft on some ARM SBCs.

Nomad clients on 2 poweredges and 3 arm SBCs running:

  • s3 CSI (media and large file storage is all on s3)
  • rbd CSI (all the stateful jobs have rbd block devices)
  • NATS cluster with Jetstream to enable MQTT support
  • mosquito mqtt (had to run mosquito for mqtt v5)
  • mosquito<->nats bridge (via benthos)
  • nodered (just for easy Google home integration)
  • zwavejs2mqtt
  • zigbee2mqtt
  • frigate (can only talk mqtt v5 so had to run mosquito just for this)
  • grafana
  • gotify
  • gitea
  • drone CI
  • postgresql
  • BitTorrent client
  • ceph rgw s3 gateways
  • NATS based home automation lambdas - I wrote these in go
  • Adguard home
  • traefik as main ingress
  • Prometheus
  • prom node exporter
  • jellyfin
  • jackett
  • a program I wrote that manages torznab->acquisiton->s3 lifecycle
  • a website
  • wireguard servers

And that is just in the server room - I also have more like the 3d printer and CNC machine controllers etc.

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

I have a MediaWiki instance on my laptop (I've found the features of all other wikis/mindmaps/knowledge databases decisively insufficient after having a taste of MW templates, Semantic MediaWiki and Scribunto).

Also some smaller things like pihole-standalone, Jellyfin and dictd.

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

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

  • CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz
  • RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB)
  • Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

Docker

  • Portainer β€” CF Tunnel
  • FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel
  • ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel
  • Adguard Home β€” Local
  • 2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel
  • LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel
  • TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel
  • Watchtower β€” Local

For public access dockers

  • Feedropolis
  • Mirotalk SFU
  • FiveFilters RSS
  • Taiga
  • 2x Mattermost Servers
  • 8x Wordpress Staging Sites
  • 1x Wordpress Dev Sites

For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:

  • ScreamingFrog -9 sites using LAMP stack
  • Aria2c with AriaNG
  • NextCloud
  • Plex
  • 4x WebHooks server for communities
  • Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy
  • OpenVPN
  • CrowdSec
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