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[–] Bharatkalluri@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Running Tipi on a five year old chrome box with tailscale as the VPN. Has been running great! Now I'm self hosting

  1. Adguard: adblocking inside tailnet & for DNS rewrites
  2. Barrage: Nice deluge UI
  3. Beszel: Clean & simple server monitoring. I monitor two of my instances & the self hosted setup on this.
  4. Beszel Agent: Agent for collecting data for Baszel
  5. Deluge: Torrenting
  6. Duplicati: Backups with a great UI
  7. File Browser: for quick ops
  8. Flowise AI: Great drag and drop LLM chat apps builder
  9. Immich: The absolute best way to manage pictures
  10. Jackett: For the arr stack
  11. Jellyfin: Media streaming solution with apps on my phone, TV & laptops
  12. Open WebUI: My default LLM chat client now, I no longer pay 20$ for chatGPT but just pay as I go with open webui and chatgpt api key
  13. Radarr
  14. Sonarr
  15. Uptime Kuma: Uptime monitoring for everything
  16. Wallos: Subscription management

Tipi is pretty awesome. If you haven't already, check it out!

[–] Mchl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hello

Let's have a look at the inventory

  • RPI 4B

    • OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
  • HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i5-6500T, 8GiB RAM - this one is currently the mainstay of my lab, running containers with docker-compose

    • Nginx as reverse proxy (+ fail2ban, letsencrypt)
    • Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
    • Jellyfin
    • Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
    • ddclient
    • Heimdall
  • Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro i7-8700T 32GiB RAM

    • I've gotten this one fairly recently. A real bargain - costed as much as the CPU alone and was in pristine condition. I will be migrating the workload from EliteDesk to this one. I decided to try ProxMox this time though, so I need to learn a bit first. Also perhaps add a second SSD
[–] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

How does mapcrafter run for you now? I'm hosting a vanilla server and that's exactly what I need to see our map. I'm just concerned that it doesn't function properly now due to recent updates.

Thanks!

[–] Marxine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I joined to learn, still not self-hosting anything, but I intend to use an 11yo Compaq laptop (i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) as a server while I'm still practicing. I intend to self-host a lemmy instance and a nextcloud server.

Thanks for everything you guys have been sharing I've already got some good leads, gonna try out YunoHost for starters

[–] Kage@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Proxmox on a self-built rackserver (Will be building a second one for a proxmox cluster):

  • Pi-Hole (primary)
  • Home Assistant
  • 2 Docker Hosts (One for Eval, one for Prod)

Raspberry Pi Zero for Pi-Hole (secondary)

On my Docker Host (All in docker-compose):

  • Heimdall (Personal Dashboard)
  • Portainer (Docker GUI)
  • baikal (CAL & CADdav)
  • vaultwarden (Password Manager)
  • bookstack (Documentation, kinda abandoned because im lazy)
  • changedetection(.)io (Monitoring Websites for Changes, useful for changelogs or price monitoring)
  • cloudflare-ddns (DDNS because dynamic IP Adresses...)
  • Grafana & InfluxDB (Dashboard and Database for Stats)
  • linkding (Bookmarks aka "Have to read someday")
  • mealie (Reciepe manager)
  • neko (Watch2gether but in selfhosted and more capable imo)
  • nginx proxy manager (Reverse Proxy with GUI)
  • paperless-ngx (Document manager with OCR)
  • semaphore ui (Ansible GUI with sheduled tasks)
  • Uptime Kuma (Status Monitoring)
  • watchtower (Automatic updates of my docker containers because im lazy)

A Synology DS220+ for local Storage

A 5TB Hetzner Storage Box for Backups (encrypted)

A Rootserver for Games and some testing in the wild (Currently Windows, will be switched to ubuntu)

Hetzner Cloud Server with mailcow on it

[–] vjprema@fosstodon.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@devve

- Nextcloud
- Miniflux
- Gitlab
- HomeAssistant
- Wallabag
- Ghost (for my personal blog)
- Umami analytics
- Searx NG
- OnlyOffice document server
- ntfy
- Lychee
- LAMP Stack
- TheLounge (IRC web client)
- Cockpit (server manager)
- RSSHub
- Jellyfin
- Adguard

On an Intel NUC in my closet.

[–] estevez@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Umami analytics looks exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks! ntfy looks very useful as well.

[–] oolong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have a used Lenovo Thinkcentre mini with an i3-7100T and 16gb RAM. I have Ubuntu server LTS installed on it and I run everything in docker containers.

I host:

  • jellyfin server for my friends and family
  • qbittorrent to download for the JF server(behind a VPN)
  • Jellyseerr for requests
  • Jackett, Sonarr, and Radarr for downloads
  • a Minecraft server
[–] grk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:


Standalone Lenovo TS140:


Synology DS1821+:

  • 64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
  • MeTube
  • Backup Sync to Google Drive

Misc:

  • RIPE Atlas Probe
  • All networking gear is Unifi. UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6 Pro, U6 In-Wall, 3 USW Flex Minis. 10G SFP+ connections between UDM Pro and switches.
[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Host all the things!

Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT...

I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven't even realised it yet.

[–] JakeHimself@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, what? How are hosting someone else's website?

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

OK, here's how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn't find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn't load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it's still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven't even realised.

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I strive to be this level of...

Whatever this is

[–] tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Hahah yeah whatever that is

[–] Nilz@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

That's funny. Imagine how confused they'll be when/if they find out.

[–] ticoombs@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

What a hero!

[–] devve@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will go first 😌

I selfhost codimd, vaultwarden, kuma, immich, home assistant, trilium, hugo, gotify, wakapi and umami. I have one VPS and one custom built NAS at home.

I read you πŸ‘€πŸ¦Ž

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

(I'll add links / descriptions later)

I host the following fediverse stuff:

  • Lemmy (you're looking at it)
  • Mastodon (3 instances)
  • Calckey oh sorry, now FireFish
  • Pixelfed
  • Misskey
  • Writefreely
  • Funkwhale
  • Akkoma (2 instances)
  • Peertube

And these are other things I host:

  • Kimai2
  • Matrix/Synapse
  • Silver Bullet
  • XWiki (3 instances)
  • Cryptpad (2 instances)
  • Gitea
  • Grafana
  • Hedgedoc
  • Minecraft
  • Nextcloud
  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Paperless-ngx
  • TheLounge
  • Vaultwarden
  • Zabbix
  • Zammad
[–] eodur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A 6 node k3s cluster with a Synology for network storage running:

  • Nextcloud
  • Authentik SSO
  • Paperless
  • Vikunja
  • Joplin Sync
  • Matrix
  • Immich
  • Mealie
  • Gitea
  • Home-Assistant
  • Node-Red
  • Zigbee2mqtt
  • MQTT server
  • Frigate
  • UptimeKuma
  • Prometheus and Grafana
  • AdGuard Home
  • Minio
  • Longhorn
  • Unifi Controller
  • Jellyfin
  • Homepage

Managed with FluxCD.

[–] Oida@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have a 800W solar panel and some home automatization at home. Therefor, I use MQTT & NodeRED.

  • Adguard
  • Authelia (authentication for my services)
  • Dashy (I've become lazy collecting my own bookmarks)
  • Gotify (receive notifications on my mobile from NodeRED)
  • Grafana
  • Influxdb
  • Jellyfin
  • Mariadb
  • Nextcloud
  • NodeRED
  • phpMyAdmin
  • Portainer
  • Remmina
  • sshwifty
  • Swag (Nginx and more)
  • ubooquity (ebooks)
  • Wallabag (Bookmark collection)
  • Wordpress (want to try)
[–] ___@l.djw.li 1 points 5 months ago

Presently, my Fediverse presence is mostly self-hosted by one definition or another. This Lemmy instance lives on my server, and my Masto is hosted by a company dedicated to exactly that because it's dirty cheap and one fewer thing for me to worry about.

Looking to add to the list.

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • Pihole

  • Sonarr

  • Radarr

  • Lidarr

  • Notifiarr

  • Sabzbd

  • Nicotine+

  • Kodi

  • Plex

  • Airsonic

  • Nextcloud

  • Joplin

  • qbittorrent

Currently split between VMs and physicals. I'm refactoring these ,with plans to build out and migrate much of it to a minipc proxmox cluster.

Adding:

  • proxmox

  • podman/portainer

  • unbound

  • ngnx proxy mgr

  • Solid server

  • homepage

  • matrix

  • searxng

  • some sort of mail stack, TBD

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.

[–] tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Hi

I started self hosting 3 years ago when I got wind of tailscale. I've always cared about privacy and building things so that was great.

My infrastructure consists of two machines.

One - my personal and work server A deskmini i3 12th gen

256GB Boot drive 4TB NVME data drive

-photoprism -syncthing -nextcloud -Firefox+VPN -archivebox

Two - my media server that I let 6ish other people access - PC tower i3 12th gen

512GB Boot and docker config file drive 4*4TB HDD mergerfs for raw data

-jellyfin -*arr suite -gluetun VPN -audiobookshelf (also for auto downloading podcasts) -calibre-web

[–] lungdart@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • jellyfin and Plex (in the process of migrating)
  • radarr/sonarr
  • jackett and deluge
  • nextcloud

I've had new hardware in the basement now for a while, going to slap it together and build a k8s cluster on top of rancher/harvester

[–] AdminWorker@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Please make a blog post about your migration. I'm in the same boat.

[–] bosse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I have a rented server with 8 Xeon E3-1246 and 64GB at Hetzner where I host:

  • Vaultwarden
  • Gitlab (git repo, container registry, static blog (pages with Hugo))
  • Drawio (Diagrams)
  • Kroki (for Gitlab)
  • Gitlab runner
  • FreshRSS
  • Nextcloud
  • Redis
  • Headscale (Tailscale server)
  • Keycloak
  • MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Plex
  • Privacybin
  • Wallabag
  • Hedgedoc

It's all behind a Traefik instance handling Let's Encrypt and using the Docker socket to route traffic based on labels in docker-compose.yml. Behind these I also run k3s and from time to time some VMs. I also have a 1TB storage pod at Hetzner where I use restic to back everything up from this instance as well as from my home system and laptops.

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello selfhosters.

Here's my list of stuff:

On a VPS hosted in Germany:

On my home server (my old gaming PC, repurposed)

  • Proxmox to manage several containers/VMs:
    • OPNsense Firewall
    • HomeAssistant
    • Pihole
    • Gitlab
    • Jellyfin
[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, thanks for your comment! I just visited your blog and noticed that it loads fairly quickly: I assume you must have some sort of CDN set up. Could you point me to how you went about setting up the CDN for your domain/website? Thanks!

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No CDN. The secret is way simpler: It's a static site. Just a bunch of files served directly by Nginx. I use Pelican to generate the site from Markdown files.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

i don't self-host yet, but i have an old pc in my house, i just need to bring it with me to colege, so i can learn and start self-hosting

[–] WezXL@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Starting to fall down the rabbit hole of self hosting,

Unraid, Plex & Pihole. Next project is Opnsense, then starting to look at Home Assistant.

I'm hosting Trillium Note for my personal note taking.

[–] maxheadroom@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hosting a whole bunch of stuff for myself, the family and also the public. For the larger family I'm hosting eMail but using a managed service offering for that (Hetzner). Too old to run my own IMAP/SMTP infrastructure ;)

For a few private societies I'm hosting:

For the public I host:

Mostly formyself, but not restricted I'm hosting:

  • Pixelfed
  • LinkDing for Bookmarks
  • Excalidraw
  • Grafana
  • OverLeaf
  • StandardNotes Server
  • PiHole
  • GitTea
  • FreshRSS
  • Minio S3-kompatible Object Storage as Backend for Mastodon & Pixelfed (on an old Dell Optiplex at home over my DSL Line)
  • GoToSocial Fediverse Client (On a RaspberryPi at home)
  • PeerTube for public projects (on the same old Dell OptiPlex)
  • PeerTube as private Video Streaming platform (on a Dell Precision 3500 tower)

Most services run in Docker Containers on some VPS at Hetzner. Some stuff runs in Docker Containers on old spare hardware at home.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
IP Internet Protocol
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex Brand of media server package
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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[–] Teng@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you have some massive server home or using VPS/VDS?

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know it's been 2 months but I just stumbled upon your question.

Here's what my massive home server looks like. : )

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Been self hosting for over a decade at this point. Mix of custom built servers and surplus hardware over the years.

To name a few of my daily servers.

  • home assistant
  • paperless-ng
  • jellyfin
  • nextcloud
  • blue iris
  • audiobook shelf

With docker being so easy I have kind of lost track how much stuff i am hosting. A problem i never thought i would have :)

[–] devve@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If there is RAM to spare... one more selfhosted service can't be bad hahaha

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

home assistant, freshrss (and a few related services such as rss-bridge), nitter and piped. I tried to host libregrammar, but ran out of memory.

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

I've got a couple VPSes, hosting

  • Mailcow, because email is identity.
  • Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
  • Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
  • ttrss, even though it's junk software with a jerk developer.
  • A bunch of self-developed web apps

Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it's also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that's still broadly accepted.

Hi, could you detail how you utilise Asterisk?

[–] CodeGameEat@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since I'm moving very soon I'm also redoing everything, so this more of a "soon-to-be" than a current, but I will have:

3x ryzen 5600 w/ 32gb of ECC ram, 10gb network and some enterprise disks 1x mikrotik switch 1x mikrotik router

And I will host, using Kubernetes (Talos OS):

  • ceph
  • owncloud infinite scale
  • Immich
  • Jellyfin
  • Homeassistant
  • Hashicorp vault
  • Oneuptime
  • gitea
  • plane
  • actual (finance software)
  • probably forgetting some stuff
[–] capacitor@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you find actual? I couldn't really get to grips with it. Although it certainly seemed sleeker than Firefly III.

[–] CodeGameEat@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

It's pretty good and it's the only open source solution that managed to import transactions from bank statements with few mistakes. but my problem is always to solve conflicts. And I'm always coming back to simple spreadsheets as i can plan some things, do projections with more control.