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I self-host, on a Debian VPS,
Considered self-hosting email as well, but dealing with spam is an intimidating prospect. Using Tutanota instead, but it's not entirely satisfactory (the app client is sloooow).
Classic useless answer but nothing ATM 🙃. I've been travelling for a few months and won't be able to host anything til I get home mid July. However, I do have plans to host a website or two, maybe even a Bookwyrm, Lemmy or Mastodon instance.
Currently: RPi4 with CasaOS, running Pihole and Home Assistant, which I honestly rarely use, unfortunately.
Potentially planned: -Jellyfin -Rustdesk server -Some samba solution on RPi4 for my hdd I currently have hooked to my router, any advice on what I should look into for that would be appreciated.
I'm loking more than anything, I have a legacy ( 50 or 100 user free) google workspaces account for my families email. I'd like to move some stuff off, unfortunately it's also used for android and chromebook stuff so no way to completely withdraw, but moving as much as possible out of googles grasp off would make me happy.
Unraid
Hoping to host more eventually, just need more ideas.
I got 2 q+ tv boxes running armbian for h6
1st one runs as my dns server + sinkhole via technitium (pihole is a bit janky on them idk why) 2nd one runs as my unifi controller + samba fileserver + torrent downloader
Reason why i went with this is because they are cheaper than sbc or 2nd hand laptop
Fun part is that they are running at 20w/h in total
Stable Diffusion (Stability AI version), text-generation-webui (WizardLM), a text embedder service with Spacy, Bert and a bunch of sentence-transformer models, PiHole, Octoprint, Elasticsearch/Kibana for my IoT stuff, Jellyfin, Sonarr, FTB Minecraft (customized pack), a few personal apps I wrote myself (todo lists), SMB file shares, qBittorrent and Transmission (one dedicated to Sonarr)... Probably a ton of other stuff I'm forgetting.
Do you have a GPU in there with the Stable Diffusion? If not how's it working? I'm debating moving to a machine I can't guarantee my spare GPU will fit in.2
Too many things:
Services:
Pihole with Unbound
Matrix
cryptpad
seafile
Vaultwarden
mailcow
pterodactyl running Minecraft, Valheim, and Terraria servers
emby though I am planning the switch to Jellyfin
Paperless-NGX
Photoprism
SearxNG
Wallabag
Ghost
Miniflux
PrivateBin
Calibre-web and Kavita
Nitter and Troddit (for now...)
Home Assistant and Frigate
YOURLS
Code-server
Linkding
Changedetection.io
LanguageTool
Uptime Kuma
And more, but those are what I use the most.
The thing I use most that I self host is Home Assistant
Jellyfin on a RPi3, PiHole on a PiZero, and more in the near future after getting some great ideas from you all!
I've been running the following in docker on a thinkpad t510 running ubuntu server, performance isn't bad for a 10+ year old laptop.
radarr/sonarr/jackett for finding movies and shows.
Jellyfin for local streaming.
transmission-openvpn for torrents over a VPN without routing other apps traffic.
syncthing, for file sync between my desktop, laptop and phone (means one node is always on to get latest changes).
wireguard VPN server to connect from outside home.
nginx as a reverse proxy for all applications. Currently configured by hand, plan to find a way to automate at some point.
Have a rather underpowered mini PC (Gigabyte BRIX BACE-3000 with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD) running Nextcloud, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT and CouchDB for a small task tracking app I built. All of this is running on Docker with Portainer on Debian.
I also run Kodi on it a couple of times a day - it doesn't have hardware acceleration for HEVC due to its age but it does have hardware acceleration for 1080p H264 which is sufficient for me.
Kinda surprised that all of this runs sort of decently. CPU hits 100% whenever a single application is actively being used but since I am the only user using a single application at a time, it is kinda alright.
First, how do I self host:
What I self-host:
That's actually about it at the moment.
I don't have anything crazy setup. I'm always trying to think of some additional stuff I can setup, but only if it's really going to be useful to me.
I have an Unraid box with some containers and a few VMs
Across my and some family members' homes:
On the internet:
My current homelab build is a 5950X w/128GB and... well it's more complicated than that.
Currently running in Proxmox (in no particular order!):
Have you had any problems running without ECC memory?