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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.

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I have a shared linux host account (and I occasionally help the admin with some installation stuff)

I currently host a few PHP sites on it like Dokuwiki, a few feedback forms, a mail image bug tester, piwik and a few others
Also I host a gemini server for my own site and a gemini chat server that I actually wrote myself in Java
a web2gemini gateway
a Misfin server (again wrote myself)

On a pubnix host I host a uptime kuma instance to check my main server

On a vps host I have an instance of Linkace that I wanted to try out but am not really using

[–] ZeroPoke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've got some Dell 2U I got from work.

Currently running Proxmox for a hypervisor.

  • OPNsense - Main Gateway,Firewall,etc. Also Reverse Proxy

  • UnFi Controller for AP

  • OMV as my NAS which also hosts an emby container to keep it close to the data.

  • Wireguard VPN

  • Mumble Music Bot

  • Game servers.

  • OMV is set up with SnapRAID and mergerfs.

  • EmbyContainer just mounts the localdrives.

  • Mumble server is on a VPS which also handles the domain and email I use as well.

  • Basically whatever my group of friends is playing

I would like to upgrade the server for 10gbit. My ISP has 3000/3000 fibre I could get.

[–] WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Got a Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi OS) set with an USB3 HDD with Systemd mount dependency for the following services:

  • Plex for movies and music
  • Samba for a shared network drive
  • Transmission

Planning for:

  • PiHole (DNS adblocker)
  • Jellyfin as a backup
  • Nginx Proxy Server (since my Nodejs Express Proxy project failed miserably)

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

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[–] eightys3v3n@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bunkbed@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wayyy too much for my lil old PC server. Its pegged at 40% swap usage, that's after a RAM upgrade.

Alpine Linux running services in podman. Deployments use ansible.

Got a few disks fused together + snapraid redundancy.

All services go through Nginx, plus a couple static sites generated with hugo.

Authentik for single sign on everywhere I can.

Matrix: Synapse + mautrix WhatsApp, Signal bridges for private chats. A public Conduit server for big online chats. Element and Cinny clients, I can't pick a fave.

Nextcloud because I have to.

Jellyfin for movies, shows and music. The Arr suite for managing my media. Transmission openvpn container for getting Linux ISOs and other legal media.

Vaultwarden super light betwarden server - I love this.

Forgejo git server is fantastic.

Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

Umami for web stats.

Pihole for filtered DNS.

A tiny minetest server for the LAN.

That's pretty much it. I love this thing.

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[–] smolgumball@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A few LAN Minecraft instances for my wife and I, a personal Git server, Plex, SMB file share, and a few Docker containers on a MINISFORUM UM690 Mini PC. Been very happy with that little machine!

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[–] stinkyweezle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] CrownCrafter@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm selfhosting a Terraria server, with a medium size world

[–] oxbech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't actually started self-hosting anything yet, though at least I've bought a domain and I'm paying for an email service using that domain. It's nice and easy while still giving me some control my e-mail address and not being beholden to the likes of Google. I did so after my long time e-mail I had had all my life through my parents' internet provider was deleted with no warning.

I've also been looking into buying a NAS for use as a media server and backup target. I'll probably go with a Synology one for now, just to keep maintenance to a minimum. Maybe in the future I'll do something more advanced.

[–] jorgesumle@lemmy.pt 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my website, mail server... using free software, of course

[–] cyd@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I self-host, on a Debian VPS,

  • Commafeed, an online RSS reader (replacement for the long-departed, dearly missed Google Reader)
  • Nextcloud, for file sync (to replace Google Drive)

Considered self-hosting email as well, but dealing with spam is an intimidating prospect. Using Tutanota instead, but it's not entirely satisfactory (the app client is sloooow).

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[–] Walker@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago

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).

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I have a Proxmox server running:

  • PiHole
  • Jellyfin
  • Grocy
[–] stueja@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

  • NFS and SMB file shares
  • syncthing, because I can't get my Macbook to use the network shares in a performant way
  • plex media server
  • nginx with mariadb for a privately hosted database of a German TV show (Tatort) and also a self-made expense tracker
  • paperless-ngx for electronic document management
  • traefik as a reverse proxy
  • heimdall to remind me what's there :)
  • a couple statically generated web sites
  • changedetection.io to check some websites for changes
  • watchtower to at least notify me when new docker images are available
  • portainer to have kind of a dashboard for all services
  • youtube-dl-material
  • dokuwiki as a second brain

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.

[–] ealecc@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been running the following in docker on a thinkpad t510 running ubuntu server, performance isn't bad for a 10+ year old laptop.

  • radarr/sonarr/jackett for finding movies and shows.

  • Jellyfin for local streaming.

  • transmission-openvpn for torrents over a VPN without routing other apps traffic.

  • syncthing, for file sync between my desktop, laptop and phone (means one node is always on to get latest changes).

  • wireguard VPN server to connect from outside home.

  • nginx as a reverse proxy for all applications. Currently configured by hand, plan to find a way to automate at some point.

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[–] joejoefashosho@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I have an old netbook as a web facing server that runs: Apache, php, and MariaDB for my personal website. I also run a gopher hole using pygopherd. I also use my web facing server for a nextcloud instance.

I have a dell optiplex thin client running plex and Samba. And I have a raspberry pi zero w running pivpn.

[–] MorganCS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In my homelab I have two main servers

Esxi: Opnsense VM --Running Wireguard VPN Docker VM --Vaultwarden --Portainer --FreshRSS --Heimdall Dashboard --SponsorBlockCast --Portainer Agent Home Assistant VM --Node Red --Frigate --DoubleTake --zigbee2mqtt --Mosquitto --ESPHome SecureVM --NGINX Proxy Manager --Portainer Agent

Ubuntu Media Server 40tb zfs Running Docker: --Scrutiny --Plex --YTDL Material --Lidarr --Radarr --Bazarr --Sonarr --Sabnzbd --Compfreface --Portainer Agent Cockpit

[–] ziriuz84@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

I have a Proxmox on and old laptop with Nextcloud, Etherpad, OpenmediaVault and some random test. I have also a Raspberry Pi2 with Dashy and HomeAssistant

[–] lupec@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Bit of an odd journey here, migrated from a Windows 10 + Docker on WSL2 setup on the side of my main PC to a dedicated DIY Proxmox server/NAS setup. Set it up with snapraid since it's mostly media files, will add a proper ZFS mirror or two in the future when I'm able to afford the upgrade.
I'm mainly in it for the usual media services, Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, plus Jellyseerr (Overseer fork with Jellyfin support). Got Nextcloud as well, plan on looking into Lidarr and Mylarr at some point too.
Also have a Pi 4 running Home Assistant and Adguard DNS, as well as Tailscale all over for VPN. Contemplating moving HA to the proper server for the performance/storage reliability boost but at the end of the day it only really toggles lights rn so no real need.

[–] Sickify@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My main machine is running Linux Mint on a Ryzen 2700x, 32gb ram, 80TB of raw storage and a vega 64 GPU.

Running:

  • Home Assistant
  • Emby Server
  • Photoprism
  • Piwigo
  • The usual NZB suite
  • FTP Server for uploading cellphone pictures automatically at night time
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[–] yara@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm running truenas scale as hypervisor (migrated from proxmox to try to save electricity costs)

  • Opnsense as Firewall
  • Ansible (debian)for Patching and infrastructure management
  • zabbix (debian) for monitoring
  • plex (debian) media server
  • Omada controller (access points) (ubuntu)
  • homeassistant (hass OVA) for home automation
  • nginx (debian) as reverse proxy
[–] vimofthevine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2 with Debian 11:

  • Actual Budget : personal finance & budgeting
  • Dashy : dashboard
  • Jupyter : web-based use of jupyter notebooks for data analysis
  • Photoprism : photo library
    • I use FolderSync on mine and my wife's phones to backup photos to photoprism nightly via WebDAV
  • mariadb : metadata storage for photoprism
  • Pihole : for ad blocking on the network
  • Traefik : proxies access to all services

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.

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[–] plo@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I bought a dirt cheap thin client and put a 1TB SSD in it. Now running debian and experimenting with docker compose.

I got the following now:

  • mariadb
  • adminer
  • caddy-docker-proxy
  • home assistant
  • nextcloud

Now i'm slowly looking at replacing Google apps on my phone. Mostly keep, photos, and calendar.

[–] TicklishRocket@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Unraid

  • Plex
  • Radarr
  • Sonarr
  • Modded Minecraft Server
  • Modded WoW private server
  • Work only Windows VM

Hoping to host more eventually, just need more ideas.

[–] RelativeArea0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I got 2 q+ tv boxes running armbian for h6

1st one runs as my dns server + sinkhole via technitium (pihole is a bit janky on them idk why) 2nd one runs as my unifi controller + samba fileserver + torrent downloader

Reason why i went with this is because they are cheaper than sbc or 2nd hand laptop

Fun part is that they are running at 20w/h in total

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