Hello everyone! Mods here 😊

Tell us, what services do you selfhost? Extra points for selfhosted hardware infrastructure.

Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!

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  • anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca
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    I’ve been selfhosting various things for almost 25 years now. Started with email/web, but now I’ve got the following (in no particular order):

    • email (postfix/dovecot)
    • web (nginx)
    • shared notes (obsidian, but also through dovecot)
    • calendar (davical)
    • telephony (asterisk)
    • replicated storage (syncthing)
    • media server (plex)
    • home automation (homeassistant, mosquitto, grafana, influxdb)
    • power monitoring (empora device on the breaker panel + a few smart outlets talking to homeassistant)
    • security cameras (securityspy)
    • irrigation (a controller of my own design, adding OpenSprinkler support this year)
    • offsite backups (duplicity + rclone)
    • project management/issue tracking (redmine)
    • social media (gnu-social + lemmy, but also testing mbin)
    • bookmark management (karakeep)
    • local copies of web stuff (yt-dlp, hamsterbase, singlefile)
    • VPN (openvpn)

    Virtualization is mostly docker containers, but also some ESXi/VMWare Fusion. I also have Obsidian in the mix but that’s not really a self-host but more of a way to organize/access my data. I have also been doing a (very!) little bit of experimentation with local LLMs, but it’s all on ARM, using either the GPU or the NPU available on the RK3588.

    This stuff either exists on an OVH VPS for the “internet facing” stuff or on an old Dell C6100 blade server. ESXi uses one blade and another blade runs Debian and talks to an old SATA/SAS disk shelf I got for $50 to see if I could make it work (it was super straightforward). I have a bunch of 2T and 4T “spinning rust” drives in two RAID6 arrays (mdadm) and then carve out storage for various things using LVM. I am experimenting with zfs on the VPS but am not a big fan of it. I used to run OpnSense on another blade since I couldn’t find a router which would properly shape gigabit internet traffic, but now I’m using an ER605 and it seems to be doing quite well. I have a tiny KeepConnect device which will physically cut power to the cable modem if it can’t see the internet which is very helpful since the biggest source of trouble for me has always been the damn internet service doing weird things when I’m not at home.

    I’ve even been working toward “self hosting” my own educational electronics stuff for my kids using https://microblocks.fun (the actual project is called smallvm) - think scratch running completely in the browser and executing code on a “vm” which is actually running on a microcontroller over BLE or serial.

    This sounds like a shitload of work and sometimes it can be, but one of the best parts of self hosting is that once it’s set up, it hardly ever has to be updated/changed. Security updates are the biggest reason of course, but a LOT of this is not on the open internet so I can be more lenient about keeping things up to date. I also try to keep everything that needs a database to use ONE database (postgres), which also makes it easier to back up or use data from several tools in a new way. Honestly it’s largely fire and forget these days. I add more space or replace drives as needed and try not to touch things otherwise. I keep a set of notes to help me remember not only the how but the WHY I set things up in a particular way, and those notes are accessible 100% offline. (After all, what good are notes on how things are set up if the thing you’ve stored them on isn’t working?)

    My infrastructure at home (C6100, SAS shelf, switch, etc.) consumes about 700W 24/7 which is not awesome but I figure the power bill saves a lot of service costs. The VPS runs me about $30/mo.

  • Vijay Prema@fosstodon.org
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    2 years ago

    @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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      Umami analytics looks exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks! ntfy looks very useful as well.

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    2 years ago

    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.
    • Hexarei@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Ok, you’ve got me curious - Why 3 different active directory domain controllers?

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        Just for redundancy! One DC VM per physical vSphere host. Each DC also handles internal DNS records for my network.

    • ronflex@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Very impressive. I gotta ask, how is this feasible cost-wise? Mostly as in licensing for vshpere. I know you can get pretty far in windows server with evaluation keys, butI run an ESXi server on eval mode cuz I’m cheap and have to reset the license every 90 days with some commands and reboot 😅

      What is the scale of your network, like is this all just in your house?

  • Kage@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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

  • Mchl@lemmy.world
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    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
    • 7u5k3n@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      How does mapcrafter run for you now? I’m hosting a vanilla server and that’s exactly what I need to see our map. I’m just concerned that it doesn’t function properly now due to recent updates.

      Thanks!

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

  • devve@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 years ago

    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 👀🦎

    • BrightCandle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Hugo? As in your generated site or you have some sort of service that costs hugo that generates and deploys your site or something else?

  • oolong@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I have a used Lenovo Thinkcentre mini with an i3-7100T and 16gb RAM. I have Ubuntu server LTS installed on it and I run everything in docker containers.

    I host:

    • jellyfin server for my friends and family
    • qbittorrent to download for the JF server(behind a VPN)
    • Jellyseerr for requests
    • Jackett, Sonarr, and Radarr for downloads
    • a Minecraft server
  • Bharat Kalluri@lemmy.world
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    9 months 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!

    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Didn’t know about Tipi!

      Getting ready to set up Immich, Navidrome and Nextcloud, was meaning to handle it with separate Docker containers, but now I’ll try Tipi first.

      Thanks!

  • Marxine@lemmy.world
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    2 years 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

  • battlesheep@lemmy.world
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    I have been self hosting things for over 15 years. I now host on 7 computers. I’m proud of the fact that I stay under 100W idle, including 3 Omada WLAN APs and network technology (all via PoE and all is on a UPS). For most of the services i normally used the helper scripts. i’m currently in the process of moving everything to komodo. there should be an lxc for each service or service group, komodo pulls the compose files from gitea and deploys everything.

    Proxmox pve0: M910x i5.7500 4x3,4GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe

    • OPNSense (VM)
    • Omada (LXC/komodo-server - control for 3 WLAN-APs)
    • apt-cacher-ng (LXC/komodo-server - cache for debian-updates)
    • searxng (LXC/komodo-server - my standard google-alternative)
    • technitium (LXC/komodo-server - DNS, Adblock)
    • nginx (LXC/komodo-server - own ssl-domain over cloudflare, no ports open to the www, my devices connect only via tailscale)

    UNRAID-NAS - odroid h2+ Intel J4115 4x1,8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2x24GB HDD - fileserver)

    Proxmox Backup Server (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe, 2TB SSD)

    Proxmox pve1 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)

    • bifrost (LXC/komodo-server - hue emulator)
    • paperless (LXC/komodo-server - DMS)
    • paperless-ai (LXC/komodo-server - tagging DMS)
    • mosquitto (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt broker)
    • zigbee2mqtt (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt-zigbee bridge)
    • snowflake (LXC/komodo-server - tor relais)
    • RaspberryMatic (VM - Homematic)

    Proxmox pve2 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)

    • ghost (LXC comm-script, business soltion, wanna play around)
    • hoarder (LXC/komodo-server - bookmarks with AI tagging)
    • memos (LXC/komodo-server - notes - I play around)
    • obsidian-sync (LXC/komodo-server - notes, but I hate the need of action for this)
    • vaultwarden (LXC/komodo-server - password manager backup for my payed bitwarden instance)
    • gitea (LXC/komodo-server - hoe to, IP-addresses, compose-files)
    • komodo-management (LXC/komodo-server - komodo main-server to manage all the servers)
    • firefly-iii (LXC/komodo-server - finance - I’m looking for an alternaticve for actualbudget )
    • actual-budged (LXC/komodo-server - finance with AI tagging)
    • investbrain (LXC/komodo-server - stock management, but only in USD, I wait for other currencies)

    Proxmox pve3 (M920x: i7-8700, 64 GB RAM, 250 GB NVMe, 2 TB NVMe)

    • ollama+open webui (LXC/komodo-server - AI)
    • immich (LXC/komodo-server - photo backup for my ios-photos)
    • iobroker (LXC/komodo-server - smarthome for some tricky scripts)
    • home assistant (VM - smarthome - for UI, its stupid for scripts)
    • nextcloud (LXC/alpine - Im using it for documents, but Im looking for an alternative)
    • plex/jellyfin/management (LXC/komodo-server - multimedia)

    *raspberry pi 5

    • venus OS (solar/accu management software)

    i’m happy to have found an entry point and an alternative to reddit here, even though my second post (question about suitable hardware with 32 answers) has already been deleted. hello everyone!

  • bosse@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years 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.

  • lungdart@lemmy.ca
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    • 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

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        I migrated from Plex to jellyfin.

        I tried it out when I couldn’t get HEVC files to steam on Plex, and i liked it!

        It doesn’t have the full ecosystem around it that Plex does, but that’s fine by me.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzB
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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    IP Internet Protocol
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    Plex Brand of media server package
    SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
    Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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