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what do y'all actually host? (self.selfhosting)

submitted 11 months ago by hamtron5000 to c/selfhosting

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hi there, comrades! just curious, what do you all actually host for yourselves?

i currently run a two old PCs refurbished as Ubuntu servers and am looking at adding a Raspberry Pi 400 that i was gifted and don't know what to do with. i have ideas though!

anyway, i'd love to hear what you've found useful, helpful, and/or fun to run. my own answer will be in the comments.

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[–] klaus_the_fish@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Openhab (smarthome controller)
Zigbee2mqtt (converts zigbee devices to talk mqtt)
Mosquitto (Mqtt server)
frigate
Jellyfin
Jellyseerr
Radarr, sonarr, lidarr, bazarr, prowlarr
transmission + a VPN tunnel
Uptime Kuma
Prometheus, Telegraf
Grafana
Influxdb, chronograf
Three PiHole instances, synced with Orbital Sync
Unifi Controller

And some small services to pipe metrics into Grafana dashboards for apps that don't have native support for metrics. Most of this is managed through Docker with a Traefik reverse proxy with letsencrypt certs for https.

My most useful so far has to be openhab. I'm barely using it to it's full potential but it's so freeing to be able to buy (nearly) any smart device and know I can integrate it with the rest of my system. It also allows me to block Internet access to most of my smart devices completely for added privacy.

Second most useful is probably the Jellyfin/*arr stack to manage and view my collection. Soon I'm planning on adding either Calibre or something similar for books to sort my ebooks and old digital textbooks.

And once you have two or three services, monitoring obviously helps. I honestly wish I had set it up earlier, in particular Uptime Kuma for general uptime tracking. It would have saved me so much time pinging all my services to try to diagnose issues.

[–] toaster 4 points 11 months ago

Saving! Lots of great homelab ideas in here.

[–] dillekant 2 points 11 months ago

Lol this is very similar to my setup. I also have an xmpp server (ejabberd), grocy, and fresh rss on digitalocean.