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.
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Lots. I have 2 proxmox hypervisors and 3 Raspberry Pi's; my OS of choice for servers is Ubuntu Server or Raspbian.
- ISC-DHCP-Server (DHCP)
- Bind9 (DNS)
- Pihole (pihole upstreams to bind9) (More DNS with ad and content blocking)
- OpenLDAP (Directory)
- Jellyfin (Media)
- Nextcloud (General google drive replacement)
- Vaultwarden (password Vault)
- Asterisk (Phone)
- EasyRSA Certificate Authority (Certificates)
- Minecraft (Gaming!)
- HomeAssistant (Home Automation)
- Octoprint (3D Printing)
- Shinobi (Security Cameras)
- Multiple Apache Websites (Web)
- Exim4 mail relay (Mail)
Experimental:
- Photoprism (Photo Sharing)
- tt-rss (RSS Reader)-
Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2:
- 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.
All the things! I've got a hybrid VMware cluster (two nodes at home and one in a DC) with a bunch of VMs for stuff like Plex, Plesk, Gitlab, Lemmy, Stable Diffusion, etc. also running a 5-node Rancher k8s cluster.
Some of my public services do actually run from home but are routed through ZeroTier to my Nginx Proxy Manager appliance.
Pretty much everything is running RHEL8 or CoreOS after a recent migration. Veeam for backups (two community instances since I'm too cheap to pay for licensing for personal stuff).
Edit:
Unraid 114TB usable, 2TB NVMe cache
- Nextcloud
- *arr UI's
- Pihole
- YT-DL
- Satisfactory server
- Fivem server
Game/AI Rig (i7-13900k, 128gb ddr5, 6700xt, 12tb ssd/nvme)
- Plex
- Minecraft server (big ass custom pack)
- Stable Diffusion
Home servers (Poweredge R410, old but powerful)
- *arr downloader (routed through PIA with kill switch)
- Ansible Tower
- Splunk
- Domain controller
- Veeam backups
- Handful of Red Hat dev/test VMs
- 1x Rancher controller
- 2x Rancher workers
Mac Mini's
- 1x Rancher controller
- 2x Rancher workers
Desktop (Ryzen 7, 3090ti, 128gb ddr4, too many ssds/nvme's)
- Another Plex server, same content
- Stable Diffusion
- oobagooba text-generation-webui for LLMs
Not sure this one counts but...
OVH Game server (Ryzen 7, 64gb ddr4, 2tb nvme) [not self hosted]
- Lemmy.tf
- Plesk (web/DNS/DBs mostly)
- Teleport (SSH/RDP tunnel)
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Gitlab
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
I feel like I'm late, but
I'm running a single node microk8s cluster on a dual xeon (20 cores each) server with (only) 64 gb ram. Wish I could do more but this is on a microatx dual slot motherboard that maxes at 64gb.
I currently live in an RV so I had to downsize my bare metal cluster to 1. It's sufficient for now 😊
I'm selfhosting a Terraria server, with a medium size world
I currently host
- Akkoma (microblogging)
- GoToSocial (microblogging)
- SearXNG (meta search engine)
- Baikal (CalDAV)
on a cheap VPS that has 2GB RAM and 2 core CPU. They run pretty smoothly.☁️
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@proycon Proxmox on an HP Z620 (2x Xeon E5-2670, 16 cores, 64GB RAM)
Inside of that I run:
Emby
AMP (game server software)
Moodle (for content development, currently idle)
Home Assistant
Paperless-ngx
Grocy (just installed recently)
+ an assortment of VMs for various purposes
(Edit: for anyone who uses Proxmox: I find the scripts here tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ to be very helpful is quickly spinning up LXC's)
I also have an OPNSense firewall, a Pihole, and a Synology NAS.
Other than my game servers and Emby, which get port forwarding through my OPNSense firewall, everything stays internal to my network. I'm thinking of learning wireguard so I can remote into my network, but that's not a high priority.
I've got a Nextcloud instance that I've run for a few years. Love it. At home I have an Odroid H3+ with 64GB of ram running Openmediavault. Got about a dozen containers running on that. I need to play with it more and use that ram. I did try to get Boinc running on it but it, sadly, kept shutting down. I'll have to find a another way to contribute to science.
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.
Newbie here. Trying to learn the ins and outs of self-hosting by messing around with Discord Red on my Pi 3B (on Raspberry Pi OS). Working great-ish so far! Need me some more free time to tinker with cogs.
Plex, Sonarr/Radarr, Ombi, Home Assistant, Komga, Calibre-Web, Valheim. Everything is on a Debian machine I built recently, except HA which is on an O-Droid (I just copied the hardware from HA Blue and ordered the parts from Ameridroid).
Paperless NGX on a Raspberry 4. No more paper documents at home... Everything that still comes by mail is instantly scanned and shredded. Emails are also scanned and attachments are added automatically, if important.
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Portainer
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Adguard home
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Home assistant
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Influxdb
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Grafana
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Frigate NVR
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Sonarr
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Lidarr
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Jackett
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Plex
All on Debian mini PC N5095
Currently a new instance of Lemmy, other than that I have a Synology NAS where I host:
- Plex
- Synology Drive (alternative to Dropbox etc.)
- Synology Office (alternative to Google Docs)
- VPN server
There's also docker where I host:
- Gitlab
- AdGuard Home
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
These comments inspire me so much to get back into my self-hosting. Right now, I'm running
- Foundry (a virtual table top for ttrps)
- Nextcloud (which I don't use)
- Jellyfin (which I also don't use)
At home on multiple Pis: OpenMediaVault HomeAssistant Raspbee (Zigbee module) Unifi controller
Server 1 (Ubuntu): Wireguard
Server 2 (Ubuntu): Nextcloud Trillium Gitea Vaultwarden Calibre Web Vikunja Photoprism Paperless
All services only run on the Wireguard interface.
And I am looking into some billing tools for my side-gig.
I am running Mealie (recipe management site) and pi hole (network ad blocker) on an old MacBook Pro (2012?) loaded with Ubuntu server. Also have Plex media server running on my main computer (Pop OS)
I have proxmox running on PC in my closet. So far not a ton of things hosted on it:
Current:
- Minecraft (vanilla) on debian
- Valheim on debian
- A debian VM running some tools (namely dynamic DNS)
Planned:
- Plex!
- Prolly more game servers
Home server is currently running;
- Firefly III (accounting software for me and the wife)
- Deemix (I can scrape all the flacs I want)
- Droopy (Fileshare (Deemix downloads save to it))
- Portainer (Docker web client)
- Firefox (Chat-GBT has blocked my VPN so I run Firefox from the server bypassing the VPN)
All the above are running in Docker.
On the to-do list;
- wiki.js ( This is a demo for work, hopefully get the go ahead to move all IT documentation away from doc and folder)
- Snip-IT (Again demo for work, so we can move away from an excel file)
Oh boy here I go:
Hardware: Ryzen 7900X, 128GB Ram, 2x12TB HDD, 2x2TB SSD
What I'm running:
- Space Engineers Server
- Minecraft Server
- Chevereto
- Mastodon
- Jellyfin
- PeerTube
- Kavita
- Calibre Web
- Vaultwarden
- Nextcloud
- Gitlab
- Navidrome
- Lemmy
- Mailcow
A full setup around managing and download multimedia content
- Jellyfin for playing everywhere
- Sonarr and Radarr for automatically renaming and sorting
- Prowlarr and QBittorrent for downloading
- Filebrowser as a kind of light-weight cloud
- Caddy docker proxy for handling every service a subdomain
- And a bunch of other tools for sysadmin tasks
Minecraft server
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.
These days I just got a plex server and a project zomboid server running.
- Home Assistant (running on RPi, proxied to VPS)
- Zigbee2MQTT (running on RPi)
- NodeRed (running on RPi)
- Joplin (VPS, opensource note taking app)
- Minecraft modded modpack (VPS, statech 1.0.3) Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.
This is all in docker containers behind a reverse proxy using Traefik. Im happy with the setup as it's really versatile and so far hasn't failed me. Biggest upgrade I've done is replacing the SD card of the RPi with an SSD
Just Jellyfin on my Win10 PC. Been thinking of getting a NAS but it's quite daunting for me to start that process. Been looking for a Synology to at least start somewhere
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
My longest running self-host is the RSS reader Tiny Tiny RSS running on a Digital Ocean droplet with Ubuntu 22.04