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.
I host:
Fedi servers
- lemmy.world
- mastodon.world
- calckey.world
- pool.social
- musicworld.social
- akkoma.nl
- ruud.social
- fotofed.nl
- fediland.nl
- blog.mastodon.world
- play-my.video
Software I use
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Portainer
- Kimai
- Xwiki (3 of them)
- Cryptpad
- Grafana
- Hedgedoc
- Matrix/Synapse
- Thelounge
- Vaultwarden
- Gitea
- Nextcloud
- Paperless-ngx
- Zabbix
- Zammad
Probably forgot some…
My long and mostly complete list:
- Audiobookshelf (GH)
- Using for audiobooks. Ebooks, comics, and podcast support in early stages.
- Authelia (GH)
- Using for two-factor authentication in front of all of my services. Critical infrastructure.
- Bazarr (GH)
- Using for automated subtitle management. Have not needed to rely on it much.
- Code-Server (GH)
- Using for a plethora of things. I could write an entire post on this alone.
- Courier
- Using (occasionally) for package-tracking from various carriers.
- EmulatorJS
- Using for retro-emulation.
- Gitea (GH) x2
- Using as a git repo server, package repository, and for CI/CD automation. Is critical infrastructure in my lab. Could also write an entire post on this one.
- Headscale with Headscale-UI. Tailscale clients on various VMs LXCs, etc.
- Using to securely network with my remote servers.
- Homepage
- Using as a “single-pane-of-glass” to get an overview of service health with links to the various services.
- Invidious
- Using in-place of YouTube.
- IT-Tools (GH)
- Using for the myriad of various useful tools it offers.
- Jellyfin (GH)
- My media player of choice. Using for movies and television, but supports music, ebooks, and photos in addition.
- Kopia Server (GH)
- Using for data backups to my Minio instance on local NAS and Wasabi. Simple, fast, and reliable.
- Librespeed (GH)
- Using for the occasional speedtest to my remote servers.
- Matrix stack using Conduit back end and Element-Web front end
- Federated Discord essentially. Using as a private instance for friends and family.
- Minio
- Using primarily as a gateway to storing backups, also serves git-lfs for Gitea.
- N8N (GH)
- Using for home-automation, backing up my Reddit saved posts to a database, deal-alerts, and part of a CI/CD pipeline.
- NTFY (GH)
- Using for infrastructure notifications mostly. Very simple and versatile alerting solution.
- NZBGet
- Using for getting “usenet articles”.
- Paperless-NGX
- Using for document archival. Important receipts, documentation, letters, etc. live here.
- Portainer (GH) with multiple agents on VM’s LXCs and VPSs
- High level management of my various docker containers.
- Prowlarr
- Using to provide torznab API to websites that dont natively have it. Integrates with Radarr and Sonarr
- Radarr (GH)
- Using for movie management.
- Radicale
- Using for contacts and calendar server.
- Raneto (GH)
- Using as a knowledge base. Lab documentation, lists, recipes, lots of things live here. Using with with code-server and Gitea.
- Readarr (GH)
- Using for book management
- Recyclarr (GH)
- Using for Radar and Sonarr to sync search terms for their automations. Very useful, hard to summarize.
- Requestrr
- Using (very rarely) as a requests bot for Radarr and Sonarr.
- SFTP-Go
- Using mostly in-place of Nextcloud. Used to back up phones mostly.
- Shaarli (GH)
- Using as a read-it-later service. Went through lots of these, and Shaarli has been good enough.
- Singlefile-Archive
- A hacky way of presenting pages saved with the singlefile browser extension. Not exactly happy with the solution, but for my ocasional use it does work.
- Sonarr (GH)
- Using as TV series manager
- Speedtest-Tracker (GH)
- Using to get periodic speedtests. Plan to automate results to blast my ISP if my service speed gets too low.
- Traefik (GH) on each seperate host
- Using as a web proxy in front of my various services. Critical infrastructure.
- Transmission (GH)
- Using to get “Linux ISOs”
- Uptime Kuma (GH)
- Using to monitor site and services status along with a few others. Integrated with NTFY for alerts.
- Vaultwarden
- Using as my password manager. Have been using for years, cannot recommend enough.
- A handful of static websites served with NGINX
- The old standby, its been reliable as a webserver.
These services are the result of years of development and administrating my lab and while there is still some cruft, it’s mostly services that I think have real utility.
As far as hardware:
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Running pfsense on a toughbook laptop as a router-firewall.
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A SuperMicro 24 bay disk-shelf with Proxmox and ZFS for NAS duties and a couple services.
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Lenovo Tiny boxes with a Proxmox cluster for the majority of my local services.
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Dell managed switch
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A few Raspberry-pi’s with Raspbian for various things.
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Linksys AP for wifi
Edit: Spelling is hard.
Mind blown! Thanks so much for the comprehensive list!! 🙏
Did you get a dual nic in the laptop router, or how did you work it?
It’s an older Panasonic ToughBook CF-C2 with an ExpressCard34 slot I’d say circa 2013. I have a gigabit Ethernet adapter jammed in there for WAN. I’ve been using the setup for maybe 8 years and it’s been ultra reliable for me.
Expresscards are an underrated feature of old laptops as a server.
That is impressive. For the sake of curiosity, do you have any photos or diagrams you could share?
Hmmm. I don’t have a network/infrastructure diagram or anything yet, but I’ve been meaning to create one. I’ll probably put one together and post more about my setup if there’s any interest. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do. Thanks for the interest!
Tag me as well! I hope to have something with half the functionality of your setup by year’s end.
Fantastic breakdown, thank you!
Hi, would it be possible to link to the switch?
Are you concerned about how much power your hardware consumes?
I’m not sure what kind of link would be best, but sure. It’s a Dell PowerConnect-5524. Picked it up from eBay I believe maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Not a particularly great switch, but it was cheap, had plenty of expansion, and some management capabilities. Consumes more power than I’d like though (~20-25w), and doesn’t have some of the advanced capabilities of some newer switches.
For power consumption, yes. I prefer to use power efficient devices. The big standout in my lab is the NAS and Dell switch. The NAS is running very little, but still idles at ~100-110w so I’m looking at lowering that usage with a motherboard / processor swap in the future. It’s using a server board and xenon processor which aren’t really built for power efficiency. Swapping this to a recent consumer-grade board with an i3 would likely address this, but depending on chipset I’ll probably loose ECC ram compatibility. I’d like to swap the switch to a more modern microtik 10g unit I think, with a large dumb swich; but I haven’t settled on the idea for sure.
Thanks!
- Audiobookshelf (GH)
Oh my jesus, does this thread really have 400+ comments
Edit: respectfully as an atheist
Yep, people are enthusiastic about self hosting and like talking about what they host :)
And talk about it on a self-hostable platform, no less.
I sure can tell. It’s probably also a major demographic on here
Which is why I like it here
No one in my afk spaces wants to hear about it. So I’m very enthusiastic when the subject comes up online or otherwise!
Ubuntu server(Xeon CPU E5-2650 v4 with 86 GB Ram) running k3s(My home server):
- App-daemon(Used with home assitant for more complicated automation)
- Bazarr
- Browserless(Currently used for rendering js pages for huginn)
- Dpaste
- Filerun
- Homeassistant
- Homer(My dashboard)
- Huginn
- Jellyfin
- Kaizoku(For downloading manga)
- Nzbget
- Nzbhydra
- Ombi
- Paperless
- Photoprism
- Pihole
- Plex
- Prowlarr
- Radarr
- Scrutiny(For checking my drives)
- Sonarr
- Qbittorrent with vpn
- Wiki.js
- Christmas-Community(Wishlist)
- ZwaveJS(For homeassistant)
2 Ubuntu servers running k3s(VPS used for my infrastructure services)
- Keycloak
- Offical docker registry
- Bitwarden
- Gitea
- Headscale
- Healthchecks(For checking backups)
- Uptime-kuma - Hashicorp vault
Infrastructure services runing on all servers
- ArgoCD(For deploying everything on k3s)
- Longhorn(For storage)
- Vault-secrets-operator(For getting secrets from vault into k3s)
- Traefik(My reverse proxy)
Lastly I’m hosting Lemmy on a leftover VPS, that I hadn’t used in a while. Might move to a bigger server though.
As an offensive security worker… I can’t help but read people listing out their attack surface 😂
My RISV-V server (I have removed all binary blobs and have no closed source code ofc) is airgapped inside a Faraday cage.
For security reasons I never turn it on.
I like how you think.
All my deploys are written in binary on a stack of index cards that we then burn, put in a zip lock bag, encase in concrete, surround in a welded closed steel box, and throw in the Mariana Trench. The documentation sucks though.
I’m not sure the list is really that big of a deal for a home gamer. They’re probably more in danger from their choice of home audio appliances and that microwave that has been sitting on their network for 10 years which no longer gets updates. Or that 2019 Plex server they have put forwarded straight outside.
It’s actually one of my beefs with containers, You can’t keep track of The versions for everything and you’re at the mercy of the maintainers to keep individual packages updated.
Nah, it’s all safe, it’s in containers
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A lot of them are likely behind wireguard. At least, I hope a lot of them are.
You’d hope, but I have a few friends who simply port-expose their media servers.
I guess it could be worse if they had ssh exposed.
I’ll have to disagree with you there. SSH is super well maintained and understood, and massively useful for the risk you do run. Who knows what’s going on with all the random projects people are hosting. I’d rather have SSH exposed than almost anything else.
What would you do to provide access to some less tech savvy friends. I’m thinking of dropping a SBC with wireguard and a proxy onto a friend’s network, that way everything is under my control, and I can lock down the wireguard connection however I want, but I haven’t gone down that route yet.
I was thinking more along the lines of simply thowing up a port to SSH into. No Fail2Ban and no keys, just a password.
I would just containerize and reverse proxy, but I understand the hesitation, wireguard would be preferable.
AMD EPYC 7B12 / 256GB RAM / Supermicro H12SSL-i / 4x2TB Samsung 980 Pro in ZFS RAIDZ-10
Total overkill for what is currently running on it. But who knows what the future brings.
Current:
Docker-based
- Portainer
- SabNZBD
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Prowlarr
- Gotify
- Jellyfin
- Bitwarden
- Paperless NGX
- Watchtower
As a VM in Proxmox VE
- KASM workspaces because it’s really cool
- Random Windows 11 VM attached to KASM for some remote work
- Random Windows Server 2022 to play around with
As an LXC in Proxmox VE
- Ubuntu-based SSH jump-host
- Ubuntu-based Unifi-controller
- Ubuntu-based crowdsec concentrator
Currently all LAN only, still in the experimental stage finding out what’s useful/preferable to me and what I want to keep:
KEEPING
Pi-Hole - ad/malware/tracker blocking
Portainer - Easy Docker
Syncthing - Sync folders between devices
Planka - Kanban board
I.T. Tools - Handy I.T. Tools
Bookstack - Personal documentation
Mealie - Recipe manager/meal planner
Jellyfin + usual accompaniments - Media Management
Navidrome - Music library
Changedetection - Stock monitoring
Gotify - For push notifications from other apps
Filebrowser
That Word Game ;)UNDECIDED (may swap for alternatives or just remove)
Organizr - Homepage
Jump - Homepage
Homepage - Yup, another homepage!
Linkding - Bookmarks
Shiori - Pocket replacement
Etebase - CalDAV & CardDAV
Whoogle - Google without the crap
Photoprism - Photo management
Libreddit (not being used now!)
QBittorrent - for Linux ISOs
Uptime-Kuma (for when I do open a few services to family)
Ryot (beta) “Roll Your Own Tracker” - Media TrackerPLANNING TO ADD
Reverse-proxying (likely NPM) + Security (Fail2Ban, Autheilia?)
Audiobooks
Comic book management
Translation service
Document manager
Home Assistant on its own Pi4 when I can get hold of oneLong Time Developer always googling for specific tools when needed just learned about I.T. Tools. Thanks.
How are you liking shiori? I’ve not found a bookmark manager that’s worth going through my horrible mess of bookmarks yet, but the offline archive option looks interesting.
To be honest I’ve not really used it very much, but it’s functional and simple. I have nothing against it, other than “If I’ve not really used it, do I really need it?” (hence it being on my “Undecided” list.
It’s worth mentioning the docker hub image is very out of date, but the github is active as someone else took over.That is worth mentioning, thanks. I probably would have missed it and thoughtbit wasn’t active.
- tinyRSS
- paperlessNGX
- homeassistent
- navidrome
- spamassassin
Are you running your own mail server? I only ever integrated Spamassassin with postfix.
Currently not, I’m using the SMTP+IMAP service from a hosting provider and my Spamassassin classifies all Mails in that inbox. The anti spam solution they provided was not sufficient.
Do you recommend this email provider? Lots of people looking to get off gmail lately.
It is Hosteurope. Yes I can, works well for me since years without having complaints.
- Matrix Synapse
- Paperless-ngx
- MediaTracker
- Lychee
- Immich
- AudioBookShelf
- Baikal
- Monica
- Nextcloud
- Calibre-web
- Piwigo
- Pinry
- Prosody
- Shaarli
- Wallabag
- mygpodder
- Peertube
- Mealie
- Mastodon
- Firefox sync
- Seafile
- Dokuwiki
- The Lounge
- Redmine
- Gitea
- Castopod
- Portainer
This assortment is run under a combination of Proxmox LXC containers, docker containers, and Yunohost. Mostly I use it to play around, but most are heavily used by my wife and I. I’m planning to rebuild everything and making things more “official”. Looking to convert from a “lab” to actually making it “production” with solid failure routes and backups. I am looking to move anything currently under Yunohost to docker/lxc and to start making use of podman. Recently saw CosmOS and think it might be a good alternative to portainer.
Hardware:
- Node 1: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
- Node 2: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
- Node 3: Gigabyte Brix with 16GB RAM and 500GB Sata SSD, 128GB m.2 SSD - Proxmox
- Node 4: Trigkey Green G3 with 16GB RAM and 1TB Sata SSD - Proxmox
- TPLink managed switch
- TerraMaster 2-bay NAS with 2x 2TB HD (NFS host for containers)
- Synology ds220j NAS with 2x 8TB HD (backup of home desktops, laptops, cell phones, and lab systems)
I have a VPS (netcup) with 8 cores, 12GB RAM and 320GB SSD. Hosting there on Ubuntu 22.04:
- Matrix
- Mastodon
- Nextcloud
- Wordpress
- Adguard
- Stirling PDF
- Gotify
- Bitwarden
At home I have a Ryzen 5 5600G with 16GB RAM on a B550 aorus elite v2 with 2TB nvme SSD and 2x 6TB seagate HDDs.
Hosting there on Fedora 38 KDE:
- Immich
- Jellyfin
- Lemmy
- Photoview
- ArozOS
- Paperless
- Dashdot
- Codeserver
- LXD Dashboard
- Scrutiny
- Cloudbeaver
- jDownloader
- Kavita
- Podgrab
TIL about netcup! Aggressive prices. Thank you for the introduction.
I run an I2P instance and I’m starting to look at Plex. I wonder if those can be combined.
cluster (two old laptops, and 3 PI 3s):
- nomad
- glusterfs
- consul
containers on nomad:
- gitea
- nodered
- traefik
- nextdns
- postfix
- cloudflared
- diun
- uptimekuma
- searxng
- n8n
- nfty
- minecraft bedrock
- maraiadb
- linkding
- ddclient
docker (on unraid):
- audiobookshelf
- changedetection.io
- fileflows
- gluetun
- jellyfin
- metube
- netdata
- qbittorrent
- unifi controller
Stand alone hardware:
- technitium dns server x2
- home assistant
I’m actually not that into actual self-hosting (it feels too close to my day job). But i love the idea of it, and actually do host my own RSS Reader: It’s selfoss (PHP + SQLite, so, very simple) and i have been using ever since google reader shut down. It runs on my uberspace.de instance.
- Jellyfin - Media streaming type app - basically use it for movies/shows and pictures.
- Joplin - Note taking app
- Syncthing - Sync for phones to PC for backing up pictures
- Miniflux - RSS reader
- Minetest - FOSS Minecraft voxel engine
- Veloren - FOSS Cubeworld game written in Rust
- GoToSocial - Microblogging server - aka Twitter/Mastodon
- Semaphore - Frontend for GoToSocial
- SearXNG - Search engine
- Conduit - Matrix server - chat
- Libremdb - IMBD frontend
- Invidious - Youtube frontend
- Nitter - Twitter frontend
- Libreddit - Reddit frontend
- Rimgo - Imgur frontend
- Proxitok - TikTok frontend
Failed to get working:
- Mobilizon - FB groups type alternative
- Peertube - YT alternative on the Fediverse
- Lemmy - Tried for a day and just couldn’t get it working. Found out there are issues with Rocky Linux and Lemmy that broke about two months ago but no further work was done it. I’ll try again someday.
- Plex and Jellyfin for movies and TV shows. I want to switch from Plex to Jellyfin but it is not quite there yet. It‘s very little effort to keep Jellyfin running in parallel though. I am keeping it around to regularly compare the two and re-evaluate.
- Tube Archivist for archiving and watching YouTube videos.
- Miniflux for reading feeds.
- Nextcloud, mainly for calendars and contacts; occasionally for sharing files with others.
- Syncthing for syncing files.
- Financier for budgeting.
- Paperless-ngx for managing documents.
- Qbittorrent for downloading and sharing Linux ISOs.
- Prowlarr for searching Linux ISOs.
- Copyparty for sharing Linux ISOs with friends.
- Shaarli for saving bookmarks.
- Jekyll for statically generating my personal blog.
- Caddy as HTTP server / reverse proxy for all of the above. Automatically provisions certificates from Let‘s Encrypt.
- PostgreSQL as database for Nextcloud and Miniflux.
- Simple Nixos Mailserver for emails with Postfix, Dovecot and rspamd.
- Dehydrated for getting certificates from Let‘s Encrypt for the mail server.
- Btrbk and Restic for backups.
Most of this stuff runs on my server at home (ASRock J4105-ITX, 8 GB RAM , 250 GB SSD, 18 TB HDD). The mail server and the blog run on a cheap VPS (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD). Both servers run NixOS.
Another person of culture sharing Linux ISOs ;)
- Nextcloud, mainly for calendars and contacts; occasionally for sharing files with others.
- Syncthing for syncing files.
Quick question: have you thought about hosting Radicale and filebrowser instead of NextCloud? I think that would be definetly lighter on your system.
Also: I have read lots of mixed opinions whether mailservers should be selfhosted - what is your take on this? Do you know about problems reaching the big player mailservers?
When I looked around for CalDAV solutions the last time Nextcloud was the only one that allowed me to share calendars with my SO. Nextcloud isn‘t very taxing on my system because it doesn‘t do anything most of the time.
Do you know about problems reaching the big player mailservers?
Honestly, I don‘t know. I have never had a confirmed case of an email being rejected or classified as spam. There were some cases of not getting an answer to an email. But that could also be explained by shitty customer service.
It is tricky to setup everything correctly if you are trying to do it all on your own but SNM holds your hand for setting up DKIM, SPF and DMARC. That‘s where some people may have problems. Also, forget about setting up a mail server at home with any IP address you get from your internet provider.
