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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I might be the only person self hosting a gopher server. Its running on a Raspi 4 on my home network, using Flask Gopher.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, what? How are hosting someone else's website?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

OK, here's how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn't find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn't load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it's still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven't even realised.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I strive to be this level of...

Whatever this is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Hahah yeah whatever that is

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's funny. Imagine how confused they'll be when/if they find out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

What a hero!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you still hosting it? Have they realised?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The owners closed the restaurant and started a new one so I let the domain lapse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Well... Start hosting a website for their new restaurant! 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 1 points 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

i don't self-host yet, but i have an old pc in my house, i just need to bring it with me to colege, so i can learn and start self-hosting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm hosting Trillium Note for my personal note taking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have a few things going on. I've been blogging some of my notes on how I'm getting some things going in Docker. But I only relatively recently started sharing my notes so there's not a ton yet. Hopefully there's something useful for someone here. https://magnus919.com/tags/selfhosting/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I just started months ago, but I have a yunohost server ona raspberry with nextcloud and forgejo on it :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 πŸ‘€πŸ¦Ž

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Pihole

  • Sonarr

  • Radarr

  • Lidarr

  • Notifiarr

  • Sabzbd

  • Nicotine+

  • Kodi

  • Plex

  • Airsonic

  • Nextcloud

  • Joplin

  • qbittorrent

Currently split between VMs and physicals. I'm refactoring these ,with plans to build out and migrate much of it to a minipc proxmox cluster.

Adding:

  • proxmox

  • podman/portainer

  • unbound

  • ngnx proxy mgr

  • Solid server

  • homepage

  • matrix

  • searxng

  • some sort of mail stack, TBD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got a couple VPSes, hosting

  • Mailcow, because email is identity.
  • Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
  • Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
  • ttrss, even though it's junk software with a jerk developer.
  • A bunch of self-developed web apps

Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it's also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that's still broadly accepted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Hi, could you detail how you utilise Asterisk?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Been self hosting for over a decade at this point. Mix of custom built servers and surplus hardware over the years.

To name a few of my daily servers.

  • home assistant
  • paperless-ng
  • jellyfin
  • nextcloud
  • blue iris
  • audiobook shelf

With docker being so easy I have kind of lost track how much stuff i am hosting. A problem i never thought i would have :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

If there is RAM to spare... one more selfhosted service can't be bad hahaha

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  • 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Please make a blog post about your migration. I'm in the same boat.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello selfhosters.

Here's my list of stuff:

On a VPS hosted in Germany:

On my home server (my old gaming PC, repurposed)

  • Proxmox to manage several containers/VMs:
    • OPNsense Firewall
    • HomeAssistant
    • Pihole
    • Gitlab
    • Jellyfin
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hi, thanks for your comment! I just visited your blog and noticed that it loads fairly quickly: I assume you must have some sort of CDN set up. Could you point me to how you went about setting up the CDN for your domain/website? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

No CDN. The secret is way simpler: It's a static site. Just a bunch of files served directly by Nginx. I use Pelican to generate the site from Markdown files.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have some massive server home or using VPS/VDS?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know it's been 2 months but I just stumbled upon your question.

Here's what my massive home server looks like. : )

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Since I'm moving very soon I'm also redoing everything, so this more of a "soon-to-be" than a current, but I will have:

3x ryzen 5600 w/ 32gb of ECC ram, 10gb network and some enterprise disks 1x mikrotik switch 1x mikrotik router

And I will host, using Kubernetes (Talos OS):

  • ceph
  • owncloud infinite scale
  • Immich
  • Jellyfin
  • Homeassistant
  • Hashicorp vault
  • Oneuptime
  • gitea
  • plane
  • actual (finance software)
  • probably forgetting some stuff
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How do you find actual? I couldn't really get to grips with it. Although it certainly seemed sleeker than Firefly III.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's pretty good and it's the only open source solution that managed to import transactions from bank statements with few mistakes. but my problem is always to solve conflicts. And I'm always coming back to simple spreadsheets as i can plan some things, do projections with more control.