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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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
It's still in the works, but I'm planning on:
- Nextcloud (file storage/calendar/office suite)
- Actual (budgeting)
- Home Assistant (IoT device hub)
- Nginx-proxy-manager (reverse proxy)
- Jellyfin (media)
- Headscale, selfhosted version of Tailscale (Mesh VPN)
- *arr stack (media fetching)
- Immich (photos)
- Pihole (DNS adblocking)
- Vaultwarden (password manager)
It's definitely a lot of stuff, but I'm trying to reduce my reliance on cloud services. Really excited to get this stuff going.
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)
Home Assistant
Nextcloud
Veeam
Need to get a Bitwarden instance going.
Feels like literally everything...
LXC:
NginxProxyManager
Kasm
Several instances of GameServer
openemr (testing for viability for a client)
3 instances of TechnitiumDNS
Nextcloud
Graylog
UptimeKuma
ChangeDetection
Zwave-js
MeshCentral
Homepage
Canvas (yes a full instance of canvas. I used to be a college instructor, I have a copy of all my courses)
InvoiceNinja
Matrix
Lemmy
UnifiController
Gameyfin (I don't like this that much... it'll likely get killed)
6 instances of generic docker on LXC running portainer for other services:
diagrams.net (specifically tied into my nextcloud instance)
ghostfolio
it-tools
librespeed
libretranslate
quakejs
rickroll
rxresume
searxng
Ascii starwars
wxrdle
gramps.js
teamspeak
authentik (I think I like keycloak more and might migrate back)
bisq
hrconvert2
And a watchtower instance on each.
VMs:
Proxmox Backup Server
Mailcow
Librenms
freepbx
HomeAssistant
Windows Domain Server (no GUI)
"Media Server" which is a plex stack with all the *arr fixings.
And a vpn bound qbitorrent instance.
Edit:
I missed an old VM that I'm in the process of deprecating out to lxc...
Docker01:
Archivebox
Ghost
Bookstack
LibreCaptcha
Wordpress (for a client)
parsedmarc
gitea
grocy
YOURLS
minecraft
opennox
vaultwarden
racktables
tubearchivist
I host a custom PaaS I developed during the pandemic, based of Docker Swarm.
On it I have:
- Nextcloud
- collabora
- matrix/synapse
- a service that bypasses a podcast's platform requirement to be logged in to listen to full content through RSS feed
- 6 very small websites
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
Minecraft server
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)
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.
At the moment, just a Plex server, but would love to migrate to Jellyfin eventually.
The Plex ads and bloat are really starting to get to me.
Most recently I'm running my own instances of Mastodon and Lemmy. Those are on my Hetzner dedicated server along with a bunch of other services and websites, but what I use the most is Miniflux, Immich and Photoprism.
Then I turned my old laptop (it's got decent spec) into a home server running Jellyfin.
Everything runs in a kubernetes cluster hosted on my homelab, except the public services access point which is a VM hosted on a non-profit ISP and service provider infrastructure, which I contribute to, through a wireguard VPN between the VM and home:
Public-facing:
- an old static website (nginx-unprivileged), which was my first website and which I keep online because nostalgia
- Ghost, personal blog
- OpenSMTPd + rspamd + dovecot (dovecot only accessible from home, not public)
- privatebin
- picoshare
- Whoogle + Tor
- SearxNG
Work related (I work from home 75% of time), not public-facing:
- dolibarr ERP for managing prospects and clients billing
- gitea
- bookstack for personal documentation
- edit: forgot Harbor as container registry.
- vaultwarden
- eck-operator
- wireguard operator for personal, family and friends access from outside
- awx operator
- draw.io
- zalando postgresql operator for postgres needs
- mariadb-galera for mariadb needs
- bitlbee-libpurple for all clients' slack needs
- Authentik as OIDC/LDAP/SAML provider (also used to identify family and friends)
- internal DNS (pdns-resolver + powerdns with postgres backend) serving work zone and home zone.
Home stuff, not public-facing:
- Games: Minetest, EQEmu server (Everquest), planar ally, bzflag, veloren
- Home-cinema/music: Jellyfin, Koel, alltube, and the usual tools to share Linux isos.
- Immich to sync photos
- homeassistant (more a PoC than anything else right now)
- mealie for recipes (I like cooking original meals for friends and family) and lunch/dinner planning
- another instance of vaultwarden for family
- piHole to keep the children a bit safer online (notably blocking malware/scams/nsfw sites)
all of this running on a 3 control-planes/6 workers talos linux k8s cluster, itself hosted on a franken-proxmox cluster (a mix of server/"old" desktops/Ryzen NUCs) and a bunch of NAS (VM dedicated NAS, data storage NAS, backup NAS).
- Vaultwarden
- 2 pi holes
- the suite of arrrs + nzbget
- jellyfin
- ombi
- OMV for a SMB share
- Nextcloud
- homer as a dashboard
- homeassistsnt
- uptime kuma
- koillection
I did also have a wordpress site but that was too much hassle so the container is stopped at the moment.
All on docker (except OMV, and home assistsnt on its own pi4) and using portainer for sanity.
Internal SSL using a domain and nginx proxy manager.
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.
it's pretty cobbled together, but ive got a docker swarm that runs the following:
- Portainer to allow for fairly easy CI/CD worflows with Gitlab
- Plex Stack
- Plex
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Jackett
- qbittorrent
- VPN
- Deemix for downloading music
- Authentik for SSO
- AWX for my automation
- Budibase for a local Go club I run
- A discord bot setup with CI/CD for a friend
- Foundry VTT
- a gitlab runner for local CI jobs
- An comic strip to RSS scraper I wrote
- MongoDB for Budibase
- Nextcloud
- Onlyoffice server
- PiHole
- Shlink URL shortener
- Traefik and Caddy for reverse proxies
- Uptime Kuma for basic monitoring
- Minecraft Server
- Ark Server
- Frigate NVR
On its own Pi4 I have Homeassistant
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)
36 TB server:
- Nextcloud (a little heavier than I'd like considering something that's just filesharing)
- Jellyfin
- Audiobookshelf
- Kavita
- Authentik
- N.eko with protection via authentik (rabbit clone so I can watch things with friends even if it's not on jellyfin)
- Homepage so I can remember everything -_-
Raspberry pi:
- Adguard home, which router pushes all traffic dns through
- Mopidy - hooked the pi to my speakers, can start playing via web interface. Don't love it, but it's working.
if nextcloud is too heavy for you and you really just use it for filesharing, consider filebrowser. if you also need sync, you can use syncthing. Even combined those two should easily be more lightweight, easier to maintain and less error prone than a nextcloud instance. you will miss out on the additional nextcloud apps though.
Across my and some family members' homes:
- pihole and openvpn via pivpn(sharing a pi4 in each house)
- transmission and minidlna (another pi4 with an external hdd)
- folding@home (on a beefier Intel NUC)
- homeassistant (same NUC)
- one house has a funkier setup running on a NUC with homeassistant, appdaemon, influx, grafana and a custom django app that manages them all so they do aome fancier automation for heating/cooling and power consumption
On the internet:
- a pretty much abandoned blog in Bulgarian built with hugo and deployed on gitlab pages
- a single user akkoma instance I've migrated off of, but am still keeping for no logical reason, running in docker on a Hetzner VPS
- a calcley instance that's my current main home on the fediverse, also in docker on a separate Hetzner VPS, this one setup a bit less amateurishly, behind cloidflare and using R2 for sorage
- a nitter instance for those terrible cases when someone sends me a link to The Bad Place that I still want to see.
- I set up a bibliogram and proxytok on the same VPS as the nitter instance, but those no longer work after some agressive API changes on IG and tiktok.
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
Let me see...
Monica Linx Nextcloud ArchiveBox Dashy Home Assistant And a few more services like jDownloader, nzbget etc
Not much. I have a searxng instance, used to have nextcloud… I should start hosting more stuff really soon
my website, mail server... using free software, of course
I have a Jellyfin server, which has been absolutely amazing. It's accesible remotely via my domain, too. So my whole family and some friends can watch stuff / listen to music through it. Super happy with it.
I also have a Minecraft server. We don't use it much, but it's always there, and it's not going away. Which is something I've always wanted since I first put up an MC server a decade ago.
Besides that, my website and a bunch of personal scripts are all hosted from home :)
Navidrome, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud are the services I use the most, and all the related stuff, MySQL, NPM, Redis, Collabora, etc.
Jellyfin is running on my Unraid server (28tb usable), the rest are running on an Ubuntu Server system (1tb, raid 1 SSDs).
- Vaultwarden
- ntfy
- immich
- AdGuard Home
- Syncthing
Mostly running as docker containers on a custom built miniserver using Ubuntu 22.04 as the OS.
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