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What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by tofu_oligarch@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone!

I recently switched my Android phone to a custom ROM, and while setting things up, I wanted push notifications without relying on Google. That’s how I discovered UnifiedPush.

Really liking the concept, I decided to rent a small VPS (1 vCPU, 2GB RAM) and started hosting NTFY. So far, it's been working great. Over time, I’ve added a few more services like FreshRSS and Audiobookshelf.

All of this is just for personal use, so the resource usage is minimal (the whole setup only uses around 500MB of RAM). I really enjoy how much value you can get out of such a small machine.

That brings me to my question:

What other lightweight, self-hostable tools would you recommend? I’m especially interested in small, resource-efficient services that you’ve personally found useful.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm in the process of switching from ipfire to opnsense myself.

I hate how bloaty opnsense is at first glance but it has so much more control so once I copy my current config I'll be leaving ipfire in the dust.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think you will be back at Ipfire soon. OPNsense is a confusing mess and while IPfire certainly has its issues, at least it is easy to understand and it does what it is supposed to.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

yea I have the machine backed up in case this happens. I have noticed that its a mess UI wise. But ipfire doesn't seem to be stable. every few months it'll randomly kill itself which will take everything on the network down until i manually restart the machine and then force tell it a new DNS server. It's something I've never managed to resolve on the machine, and I don't seem to have that issue with my test network with OPNsense.

[–] ApocolypticGopher@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago

Nice. Haven't tried IpFire but gonna give it a look. Been on OpnSense for a couple years now and have been enjoying it.