What are YOU self-hosting?
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.
I host:
Probably forgot some..
Chad.
Do you host on at your house, a VPS or something else?
All on Hetzner.
Thanks for #rexxit destination!
My long and mostly complete list:
These services are the result of years of development and administrating my lab and while there is still some cruft, it's mostly services that I think have real utility.
As far as hardware:
Edit: Spelling is hard.
That is impressive. For the sake of curiosity, do you have any photos or diagrams you could share?
Mind blown! Thanks so much for the comprehensive list!! 🙏
Fantastic breakdown, thank you!
Oh my jesus, does this thread really have 400+ comments
Edit: respectfully as an atheist
Yep, people are enthusiastic about self hosting and like talking about what they host :)
And talk about it on a self-hostable platform, no less.
As an offensive security worker.... I can't help but read people listing out their attack surface 😂
My RISV-V server (I have removed all binary blobs and have no closed source code ofc) is airgapped inside a Faraday cage.
For security reasons I never turn it on.
I like how you think.
All my deploys are written in binary on a stack of index cards that we then burn, put in a zip lock bag, encase in concrete, surround in a welded closed steel box, and throw in the Mariana Trench. The documentation sucks though.
I'm not sure the list is really that big of a deal for a home gamer. They're probably more in danger from their choice of home audio appliances and that microwave that has been sitting on their network for 10 years which no longer gets updates. Or that 2019 Plex server they have put forwarded straight outside.
It's actually one of my beefs with containers, You can't keep track of The versions for everything and you're at the mercy of the maintainers to keep individual packages updated.
Nah, it's all safe, it's in containers
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Currently all LAN only, still in the experimental stage finding out what's useful/preferable to me and what I want to keep:
KEEPING
Pi-Hole - ad/malware/tracker blocking
Portainer - Easy Docker
Syncthing - Sync folders between devices
Planka - Kanban board
I.T. Tools - Handy I.T. Tools
Bookstack - Personal documentation
Mealie - Recipe manager/meal planner
Jellyfin + usual accompaniments - Media Management
Navidrome - Music library
Changedetection - Stock monitoring
Gotify - For push notifications from other apps
Filebrowser
That Word Game ;)
UNDECIDED (may swap for alternatives or just remove)
Organizr - Homepage
Jump - Homepage
Homepage - Yup, another homepage!
Linkding - Bookmarks
Shiori - Pocket replacement
Etebase - CalDAV & CardDAV
Whoogle - Google without the crap
Photoprism - Photo management
Libreddit (not being used now!)
QBittorrent - for Linux ISOs
Uptime-Kuma (for when I do open a few services to family)
Ryot (beta) "Roll Your Own Tracker" - Media Tracker
PLANNING TO ADD
Reverse-proxying (likely NPM) + Security (Fail2Ban, Autheilia?)
Audiobooks
Comic book management
Translation service
Document manager
Home Assistant on its own Pi4 when I can get hold of one
Long Time Developer always googling for specific tools when needed just learned about I.T. Tools. Thanks.
How are you liking shiori? I've not found a bookmark manager that's worth going through my horrible mess of bookmarks yet, but the offline archive option looks interesting.
To be honest I've not really used it very much, but it's functional and simple. I have nothing against it, other than "If I've not really used it, do I really need it?" (hence it being on my "Undecided" list.
It's worth mentioning the docker hub image is very out of date, but the github is active as someone else took over.
Most of this stuff runs on my server at home (ASRock J4105-ITX, 8 GB RAM , 250 GB SSD, 18 TB HDD). The mail server and the blog run on a cheap VPS (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD). Both servers run NixOS.
- Nextcloud, mainly for calendars and contacts; occasionally for sharing files with others.
- Syncthing for syncing files.
Quick question: have you thought about hosting Radicale and filebrowser instead of NextCloud? I think that would be definetly lighter on your system.
Also: I have read lots of mixed opinions whether mailservers should be selfhosted - what is your take on this? Do you know about problems reaching the big player mailservers?
When I looked around for CalDAV solutions the last time Nextcloud was the only one that allowed me to share calendars with my SO. Nextcloud isn‘t very taxing on my system because it doesn‘t do anything most of the time.
Do you know about problems reaching the big player mailservers?
Honestly, I don‘t know. I have never had a confirmed case of an email being rejected or classified as spam. There were some cases of not getting an answer to an email. But that could also be explained by shitty customer service.
It is tricky to setup everything correctly if you are trying to do it all on your own but SNM holds your hand for setting up DKIM, SPF and DMARC. That‘s where some people may have problems. Also, forget about setting up a mail server at home with any IP address you get from your internet provider.
Another person of culture sharing Linux ISOs ;)
Currently a new instance of Lemmy, other than that I have a Synology NAS where I host:
There's also docker where I host:
I have a VPS (netcup) with 8 cores, 12GB RAM and 320GB SSD. Hosting there on Ubuntu 22.04:
At home I have a Ryzen 5 5600G with 16GB RAM on a B550 aorus elite v2 with 2TB nvme SSD and 2x 6TB seagate HDDs.
Hosting there on Fedora 38 KDE:
TIL about netcup! Aggressive prices. Thank you for the introduction.
Pihole Keycloak Lemmy
The "usual" Plex stack:
Plex Sonarr Radarr Readarr Calibre & Calibre-Web Sabnzbd Nzbhydra
I want to throw Nextcloud into the mix, but I haven't gotten the motivation to do that yet. I have 102TB of disk on a 4 node kubernetes cluster just for fun
I run my own kubernetes cluster in 3 thinkcentres I bougth for cheap. Each of them has a proxmox and an ubuntu with k3s on top of it. The storage is an NFS I run from a good old qnap.
https://files.catbox.moe/8w2e7y.png
I used to have an irc bouncer too but I didn't use it enough.
My short term plans are adding tdarr and transmission.
On 3 Rpis and a NAS around my home:
Hope I'm not forgetting any!
I use TrueNAS Scale for my NAS and Ubuntu server for my VM's/home server. I probably am forgetting something, but, that's what's listed in my Portainer :).
How has Scale been on Linux vs BSD? Any complaints or plug-in compatibility issues?
I would go back if it was easy. The speed difference from just getting a listing of contents in a large directory over SMB is insane. It used to be instant and it takes like 10-15 seconds now. I'm not even using their app setup anymore, I gave up on it after a while because of a bunch of random issues with updates over time and switched to a dedicated box with Portainer installed. I really wish I could go back to core.
I'm sure they'll iron everything out but BSD is still king at the moment.
trillium sounds awesome, I love obsidian but was wanting something open source. plus this has some features I felt it was missing, thanks!!
I'm thinking of switching to trillium from obsidian too. Most important point for me here is mobile support and note sync. How does trillum web support mobile phones ?
This assortment is run under a combination of Proxmox LXC containers, docker containers, and Yunohost. Mostly I use it to play around, but most are heavily used by my wife and I. I'm planning to rebuild everything and making things more "official". Looking to convert from a "lab" to actually making it "production" with solid failure routes and backups. I am looking to move anything currently under Yunohost to docker/lxc and to start making use of podman. Recently saw CosmOS and think it might be a good alternative to portainer.
Hardware:
You're doing that as a full-time job, right?
LOL
No, just a hobby. Been playing around for about a year. It started small with an old mac mini and Yunohost. Then I decided to play with Proxmox and bought a used m93p. Then I read about Proxmox clusters, so I got another m93p. I was going to use the mac mini in the cluster, but it was getting too slow, so I bought the Brix. Then I decided to migrate the Yunohost setup over to a VM in Proxmox. Then I figured I should learn a bit about docker. And it spiraled.
I spend maybe 10-12 hours a month on installation and configuration. I spend way more time using it. A couple of weeks ago I spent about 15 hours over the weekend importing/uploading my audiobooks into AudioBookShelf. Last year I spent several weekends getting my Calibre library in shape and moving it to the web.
I figure this is a much cheaper and safer hobby than drinking.
Oh jeez... there's quite the list. I have a Ceph cluster of 3 nodes with 15x HDD's and 3 SSD's... on that cluster I run some VM's that in turn run a Docker swarm. All Ubuntu 22.04, all commodity hardware. Currently I'm running;
Then there's a whole host of ancillary services; BackupPC, Unifi controller container, piHole on a couple of Raspberry Pi's, ts-dnsserver for internal DNS management... probably a dozen other containers and tools I'm forgetting.
Oh yeah, and a Synology NAS as a backup target :)
What's it like hosting your own mail? Been considering it for a while but Gmail features/spam filter/deliverability has been tough to beat.
I respect the enterprise-level IT operation you run for your family lol
Fellow self-hoster, you mention Droppy -- I can only find an archived repo (https://github.com/silverwind/droppy). Do you have any other source?
These days I just got a plex server and a project zomboid server running.
I host these:
Got 2 24/7 runners in my home:
In addition, I'm hosting a couple of Wireguard VPS in the US and a Nordic country to give me access to regional content (I pay for a few regional services through friends living there - i.e. they pay monthly and I pay them yearly for an account on a region-locked service) - not sure if that counts as "self-hosting" :)
I'm actually not that into actual self-hosting (it feels too close to my day job). But i love the idea of it, and actually do host my own RSS Reader: It's selfoss (PHP + SQLite, so, very simple) and i have been using ever since google reader shut down. It runs on my uberspace.de instance.
36 TB server:
Raspberry pi:
At home:
Remote:
A Groovy bot replacement for me and my friends.
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things, but that's mostly what I host here at home. My lemmy instance is on DigitalOcean.
Minecraft server
Too many things:
Services:
Pihole with UnboundMatrixcryptpadseafileVaultwardenmailcowpterodactyl running Minecraft, Valheim, and Terraria serversemby though I am planning the switch to JellyfinPaperless-NGXPhotoprismSearxNGWallabagGhostMinifluxPrivateBinCalibre-web and KavitaNitter and Troddit (for now...)Home Assistant and FrigateYOURLSCode-serverLinkdingChangedetection.ioLanguageToolUptime Kuma
And more, but those are what I use the most.
Manjaro Linux with ZFS on some old gaming PC.
Home Automation and IoT with HomeAssistant in a virtual box. Database for storing some IoT history (not hooked up to Home Assistant yet but recording from MQTT) with MariaDB. Media Server with Emby. Photograph Backups with Immich; just playing with this for now. Constantly have problems running it to do with not connecting to Redis or PostGres :/ MQTT Server with Mosquitto for some custom IoT devices. VPN with WireGuard. File Syncronization with Syncthing; to/from phone and other computers. Torrenting with Deluge and Deluge Web.
I have a jellyfin server on a pi4. I recently bought a dell micro pc, but haven't had the motivation to move the jellyfin server over to it yet.
This is my little setup at work
Kubernetes cluster (created by kubespray)
Unraid (3700X, 16GB 3200 Mhz RAM, NVIDIA Quadro P2000 Graphics Card, 7x14TB Hard Drives):
VFIO KVM/ QEMU GPU passthrough for Windows VM for Solidworks. A forked program that I've turned into something completely different, I took some random http server from github and made it convert PDFs to Excel, linked it to my website so it can be used. Got a small network share for all the movies I've got which is kinda a lot Made a VM with a dedicated nic for managing my websites
Everything is on One PC, got 4 more systems that have no purpose and are there if this one dies so I have reserve. Any ideas on how to repurpose them? Also on todo list is an self hosted mail server that I'm yet to do because of domain issues. They are expensive lol
Pretty much anything I can. Host OS is mostly Debian with Docker, only the Git Server is running on Alpine. Hardware-wise everything is running on Proxmox with an FreeBSD NAS for backup and data storing
how's kimai been for you?
It works fine for my use-case which is basically just tracking my work-time for the employer I'm working at, so I don't really use the freelancing options like invoicing.
Had some problems with the docker container, because they did some breaking changes, but overall it works for me.
It also supports SAML so I can use it with Keycloak and there is an app for the iPhone, which I'm using that works nicely with it.
Hi, thank you for your comment. I was wondering if you could tell me more about the Lemmy instance you have hosted. Which ports did you have to forward? What are some of the problems you faced trying to host it?
Thanks!
The lemmy instance works fine so far. I had some problems migrating the nginx config file from the lemmy manual migrated to traefik, but it works with this guide here.
I'm not really forwarding ports, but I'm rather using a more complex setup. I have two devices - my router and an external VPS hosted in a datacenter. These devices are connected via WireGuard. On the VM where all my services are installed there is traefik installed which is used as reverse proxy for the services and does TLS. The VPS has HAProxy configured to the internal VM in TCP mode, which makes the services available from outside and is important to get valid Let's Encrypt certificates as I'm not using DNS Verification.
I know it's a bit hard to understand, but it works fine for me and I'm not depending on any third-providers (other than the Hoster of the VPS, which I can easily swap if needed).
Jellyfin for media
Miniflux RSS reader
Home assistant
Pihole
OpenMediaVault for NAS
Kavita for ebooks
Portainer
NginxProxyManager
It's all kind of a mess, but I like it
PiHole on Pi
Tiny Tiny RSS on Docker behind NGINX reverse proxy on Ubuntu Hosted VPS - Accessed through Tailscale
LinkAce on Docker NGINX reverse proxy on Ubuntu Hosted VPS, Accessed through Tailscale
NextCloud on Pi - Accessed through Tailscale
HomeAssistant on Ubuntu
Calibre running on Ubuntu
Windows Desktops running on Hyper-V Server (Cost and extreme time constraints forced me to setup a Hyper-V server on bare metal, at the time VMWare was not playing nice with Win11 and I did not have the time to troubleshoot).
At the moment, just a Plex server, but would love to migrate to Jellyfin eventually.
The Plex ads and bloat are really starting to get to me.
I've got a Raspberry Pi running Portainer on DietPi OS hosting a Discord bot, ACME certificate manager, reverse proxy; a second DietPi pi hosting Sonarr and Radarr and an automatic ripping machine; a pi NAS ruining open media vault; and my Linux gaming system also has Portainer running Jellyfin.
I have proxmox running on PC in my closet. So far not a ton of things hosted on it:
Current:
Planned:
If you're open to things similar to Plex, I'd recommend Jellyfin! Plex has been making some decisions lately that aren't necessarily selfhoster friendly. A selfhosted instance of Plex still authenticates using Plex's central servers (if you're internet is out or Plex is down and you want to stream your own movies or shows, that won't work due to failed authentication). That's compared to your Jellyfin instance handling authentication locally. If you can contact your server, you can watch your media. Plex has also announced a credit skipping feature, uploading credit timing to their central servers that can be restored on complete rebuild. While they say it's anonymous, they need some way to associate you and the proper credit timings, to send that back to you.
Jellyfin is earlier days in development, and you should check to see what clients are available to see if that would work with your hardware. But Jellyfin is definitely catching up, I've been very happy with their server and applications.
Oh neat! Thanks for pointing me toward that. Will definitely check that out:)
A full setup around managing and download multimedia content
I've been running Arch Linux on a Gigabyte Brix with two USB HDDs for... years now. At least 8. On and off, there were several services, but mostly, this device is meant to host
Since Arch Linux is rolling, it sometimes simply breaks after an update. But since the services have gotten more critical for me over time (especially plex :) ) I plan on putting some of the services to a host in the cloud behind a WireGuard VPN. Also, the Brix should be re-installed with Ubuntu or Debian some day.
Home server is currently running;
All the above are running in Docker.
On the to-do list;
Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2 with Debian 11:
Plus grafana and prometheus for monitoring, although I haven't fully configured them so they're not terribly useful at the moment.
All are running as rootless docker containers. I've considered switching back to normal rooted containers, since there are some oddities with file permissions and networking (e.g., pihole only sees one client IP address).
All data is backed up to BackBlaze B2 via restic.
How is photoprism working for you? Any problems? Anything that's great?
No complaints so far--my requirements and expectations for it were pretty minimal to begin with. Face recognition is decent although I have to regularly go in and correct a lot of unknown faces from time to time.
Only thing that bugs me currently is having to log in every time. I'd really like a remember-me option.
Got a Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi OS) set with an USB3 HDD with Systemd mount dependency for the following services:
Planning for:
I configured it for mobility since I am always moving with it, so this is why the Systemd dependency is very handy. Also, its wifi connection defaults to my hotspot when not at home.
I also got 3 Pi3Bs remaining from an old Kube cluster project with HypriotOS, but I didn't know what to do with them and it pains me to renew the cluster certificates
my website, mail server... using free software, of course
Across my and some family members' homes:
On the internet:
Almost everything has been mentioned already so I just stick with the unusual: I host a private MediaWiki instance for note taking in my pen and paper rounds. It's amazing once the other players got a bit more comfortable how to use it well regarding templates, categories and articles. My only regret is that I didn't set up new instances per gaming group.
I run:
DYI NAS (mini-itx mobo with on-board atom chip and 8 GB ram and zfs) running:
Intel NUC running:
Intel NUC (DMZ) running:
Not much. I have a searxng instance, used to have nextcloud… I should start hosting more stuff really soon
Classic useless answer but nothing ATM 🙃. I've been travelling for a few months and won't be able to host anything til I get home mid July. However, I do have plans to host a website or two, maybe even a Bookwyrm, Lemmy or Mastodon instance.
Syncthing, Plex, and DokuWiki.
My needs are small but Syncthing is for standard file sync and DokuWiki is for a repository for my family. It's been surprisingly useful to be able to spin and delete up a syncthing folder for some specific thing.
Plex is for my ripped DVDs and also a great way to consume my photos archive without keeping a copy locally on my phone.
Running on a minisofurm mini pc with 5600h, paid $219 and used spare drives and ram lying around. Used to run 2 raspberry pi 4s but retired those due to updating home assistant via docker getting really old. Proxmox handles things great, like the flexibility and performance boost too, especially just pulling docker images lol, unarchiving was so painful on pi 4.
Gitea
Backups via rsync
Jellyfin
Piped for YouTube
Using gentoo Linux with raspberry pi 4B
Lots. I have 2 proxmox hypervisors and 3 Raspberry Pi's; my OS of choice for servers is Ubuntu Server or Raspbian.
Experimental:
