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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.

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[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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:

  • Running pfsense on a toughbook laptop as a router-firewall.

  • A SuperMicro 24 bay disk-shelf with Proxmox and ZFS for NAS duties and a couple services.

  • Lenovo Tiny boxes with a Proxmox cluster for the majority of my local services.

  • Dell managed switch

  • A few Raspberry-pi's with Raspbian for various things.

  • Linksys AP for wifi

Edit: Spelling is hard.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 1 points 1 year ago

At home:

  • HomeAssistant OS in a Raspberry PI. Runs all the lights, curtains, heating, air-conditioning and media at home. (Linux)
  • Hifiberry with a good DAC connected to it, runs mpv, airplay and chromecast audio. (RPI, Linux)
  • TrueNAS together with over 40 terabytes of space (FreeBSD)
  • Plex and Plexamp for music (FreeBSD)
  • OPNsense router runs the whole home network (FreeBSD)
  • A private git server for stuff I don't want to push to a public server (FreeBSD)
  • Jellyfin server for movies and television (FreeBSD), client on an NVIDIA Shield (Android)
  • Unifi controller to handle the home WiFi (FreeBSD)

Remote:

  • Akkoma for Twitter-like communication on the Fediverse (Linux)
  • Lemmy to talk with y'all in here (Linux)
  • PostgreSQL as the central database for all my remote services (Linux)
  • Elasticsearch for searching the Fediverse (Linux)
  • SearXNG as my private search engine (Linux)
[–] Sinister_Crayon@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh jeez... there's quite the list. I have a Ceph cluster of 3 nodes with 15x HDD's and 3 SSD's... on that cluster I run some VM's that in turn run a Docker swarm. All Ubuntu 22.04, all commodity hardware. Currently I'm running;

  • Portainer to help manage this beast
  • NGINX which proxies all my web facing services on multiple websites.
  • Wordpress for my personal site which sync my Instagram pictures to it as well
  • MariaDB Galera cluster
  • Nextcloud for file sharing but also provides lots of plugin services like a password manager, email client and so on
  • Photoprism for my photos... I use the Nextcloud client to automatically upload new pics from my phone to Nextcloud then Photoprism is attached to that same library
  • OnlyOffice as a plugin to Nextcloud to allow O365-like functionality
  • ElasticSearch plugged into Nextcloud for full-text searching
  • OpenProject for project management in my own businesses
  • Jellyfin and Plex both attached to the same media library
  • E-Mail using Docker-Mailserver... so Postfix with a bunch of ancillary tools for 3 domains
  • Droppy as a quick-and-dirty file repo for when I need to get files to people easily
  • FreePBX (Asterisk) with 4 extensions around the house
  • MeshCentral for managing my family's PC's and also doing remote tech support for family, friends and customers as necessary
  • FOGProject for imaging PC's and VM's as necessary
  • ReactiveResume
  • Docker Registry set up as a caching proxy
  • YoutubeDL-Material
  • Karaoke Eternal for those nights when you just get drunk enough to karaoke

Then there's a whole host of ancillary services; BackupPC, Unifi controller container, piHole on a couple of Raspberry Pi's, ts-dnsserver for internal DNS management... probably a dozen other containers and tools I'm forgetting.

Oh yeah, and a Synology NAS as a backup target :)

[–] stueja@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fellow self-hoster, you mention Droppy -- I can only find an archived repo (https://github.com/silverwind/droppy). Do you have any other source?

[–] Sinister_Crayon@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, that's what I'm using. Thankfully it works fine and I don't worry too much about security because I just leave it turned off until I need it. The "/droppy" url directs to it but if it's off then it just throws an error back.

[–] stueja@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] stueja@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Script kiddies these days got really fast. Configured a new subdomain, started droppy, within a couple seconds, all types of requests were visible in the log.

[–] stueja@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] treeofnik@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] coltzero@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mealie I have to checkout, missing something like that

[–] coltzero@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

There is also Openeats

[–] thisn@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I personally use tandoor

Fits my needs quite well, and can be installed as a PWA on your phone.

[–] coltzero@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • tinyRSS
  • paperlessNGX
  • homeassistent
  • navidrome
  • spamassassin
[–] behohippy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you running your own mail server? I only ever integrated Spamassassin with postfix.

[–] coltzero@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] behohippy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you recommend this email provider? Lots of people looking to get off gmail lately.

[–] coltzero@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

It is Hosteurope. Yes I can, works well for me since years without having complaints.

[–] NovoDuck@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 Tracker

PLANNING 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 one

[–] foonex@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • 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.

[–] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • 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?

[–] foonex@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Neshura@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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
[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How often do you have to bounce the host? / Are you using Docker?

I run like half of this stuff on an RPi and I think it's a bad idea but it's my bad idea dammit.

[–] Neshura@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Structure is like this:

Proxmox 
-> docker host
---> most of these services & Nginx Proxy Manager
-> mix of VM's & LXC containers

Singular entry point is the Nginx Proxy Manager which then distributes based on hostname, so far I haven't run into issues

[–] BitPirate@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Vaultwarden
  • ntfy
  • immich
  • AdGuard Home
  • Syncthing

Mostly running as docker containers on a custom built miniserver using Ubuntu 22.04 as the OS.

[–] yara@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm running truenas scale as hypervisor (migrated from proxmox to try to save electricity costs)

  • Opnsense as Firewall
  • Ansible (debian)for Patching and infrastructure management
  • zabbix (debian) for monitoring
  • plex (debian) media server
  • Omada controller (access points) (ubuntu)
  • homeassistant (hass OVA) for home automation
  • nginx (debian) as reverse proxy
[–] Eijolend@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I have a Mini-PC sitting under my TV that is a frankenstein'd together media PC and home server running on Ubuntu.

I am running Nextcloud for easily accessing stuff from all devices, Bookstack for organizing and sharing notes, borgbackup for, well, backups. Currently experimenting with gitea just in case github loses its shit^^

[–] shertson@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)
[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

You're doing that as a full-time job, right?

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Right now only Syncthing on a Raspi. I'm lazy 😆

[–] vimofthevine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2 with Debian 11:

  • 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.

[–] Bautznersenf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is photoprism working for you? Any problems? Anything that's great?

[–] vimofthevine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No complaints so far--my requirements and expectations for it were pretty minimal to begin with. Face recognition is decent although I have to regularly go in and correct a lot of unknown faces from time to time.

Only thing that bugs me currently is having to log in every time. I'd really like a remember-me option.

[–] Bautznersenf@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does it recognize objects and clothing?

[–] wasabi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago
  • Nextcloud
  • Mumble
  • Mail (postfix/dovecot), though I regret that I did, cause running your own mail server is a PITA
[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I have a Proxmox server running:

  • PiHole
  • Jellyfin
  • Grocy
[–] MetaCubed@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Prefacing by saying my lab is severely breaking ~~some~~ a lot of best practices due to hardware availability limitations

Proxmox box (24GB DDR3, E3-1230)

  • Ubuntu LTS Dedicated Minecraft server
  • Windows 10 Dedicated V Rising server
  • Ubuntu LTS for Plex
  • TrueNAS
  • Coming Soon: Jelu Server - a self-hosted Goodreads replacement

Raspberry Pi 2B+

  • PiHole

OptiPlex 7020 sff (8GB DDR3, i5-4590)

  • Bitwarden

You could just host everything on your Proxmox server, why running another OptiPlex just for Bitwarden?