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I just recently started playing around with an old pc as my homeserver and am curious of any recommendations for lesser known self hostable foss software that you would recommend

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

Syncthing to replace Google drive and Photoprism for Photos. Both have a great functionality and run well on my 12yrs old home server with 2gb of ram.

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

You may be way ahead of me on this, but I highly recommend using docker for this endeavor(or podman), as it really allows you to try a lot out without making a mess of your system.

I run pihole, syncthing, and gitea locally(among less interesting things.)

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

I just started using podman yesterday, and only used docker for about a week before that, im excited for the learning to be had in this area. A couple days ago i tried pihole, for some reason it didnt serve the web interface, but i will definitely kepp on trying.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Can you share with me what OS you are running? At the moment I am using MX Linux because it is familiar to me, but is likely suboptimal for running a server.

I think docker is really cool, but felt like a lot of work compared to using flatpaks or a package manager, but I am really limiting myself and it is probably not that hard to learn.

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

Strange, Lemmy didn't tell me you replied. Well, I run mostly Ubuntu Server OSs for Linux for work, but at home I am cheating and using a Synology NAS as my home server with docker installed on it. CentOS used to be a good go-to for servers, but I think Redhat made some changes to the way it releases and I think a lot of the CentOS users moved to other distros.

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

Interesting. I never used CentOS, but I think it makes sense to run an OS designed to be used in servers. That would probably make my life a hell of a lot easier than setting up everything on my own.

Good call.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The thing about docker is, you can set it up with all your data mounted into a folder in your home directory. So, for instance, ~/docker/jellyfin/data, and your docker compose file for jellyfin is in the jellyfin folder. So if you want to move it to a different system, you just rsync the folder over and run docker-compose up and it's done. Also, backups are super simple, because you just stop the container, rsync (or Borg or duplicati, restic... whatever) your container's folder over. Of your server gets completely trashed, you just restore your backup to another computer and you're good. Usually the better maintained projects are even architecture aware, so you can move from Intel to arm or whatever. It's totally worth learning.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (6 children)
  • dokuwiki
  • draw.io
  • gitea
  • woodpecker (ci/cd)
  • minio
  • postgres
  • freshrss (rss server and reader)
  • firefly3 (finance / budgets / expenses)
  • calibre
  • Pi-hole (primary on a pi, secondary on docker host)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

On my 2 raspberry pi's I am running Pihole, Pivpn, Syncthing, Photoprism, Unify controller, Heimdall (webpage that has all my servers....locally accessible, or non local via wireguard connection via pivpn) Might be more can't remember! Prob more from other suggestions on here over next few days 😂

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

One of my most used softwares on my server is calibre and calibre-web. It allows me to self host my own book server with a very nice looking front end

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