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Pi zero running pihole
unRAID server running
I only turn the unRAID server on when needed however. The summers here in Denmark is beginning to be unbearable, so I don't need any more heat in my apartment.
Jellyfin for media
Miniflux RSS reader
Home assistant
Pihole
OpenMediaVault for NAS
Kavita for ebooks
Portainer
NginxProxyManager
It's all kind of a mess, but I like it
Right now only mail server and Bitwarden server. I’m thinking of running lemmy instance
Mostly matrix client/server + bots, etherpad & mumble (until matrix can replace it on desktop, PTT-wise)
File storage, mainly. I have 2 NAS devices (one Synology I picked up in 2014, and an Unraid device I just built a couple months ago) - the former holds 13TB and the latter currently holds 35TB with plans to bring it to 100TB as I get money for more drives.
The Unraid system has a Youtube-dl instance running to auto-pull videos from the channels I follow, and I also run my Plex server from it. The Synology only has a Git server on it that I use to keep local copies of repos that I store on GitHub, along with personal projects that I'd rather not publish (even as private repos) in the cloud.
DYI NAS (mini-itx mobo with on-board atom chip and 8 GB ram and zfs) running:
Intel NUC running:
Intel NUC (DMZ) running:
So much stuff.
On the cloud side, I host two things in production:
Im hosting the following services on a small cloud VM running k3s:
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 run Nextcloud for myself and extended family plus a wireguard vpn, airsonic music streaming, calibre web for books and pi-hole for killing ads.
EDIT - pi-hole and wireguard are running on a raspberry pi and the rest on an Ubuntu NUC.
I'm self-hosting a bunch of stuff all over the place. I've a pi-hole, NAS and a bunch of Discord bots on an e-waste rescue nettop. Then I have a linux server running Ubuntu Server with more Discord bots, Nextcloud, syncplay, some basic websites, including an Element-im stickerpicker. I used to run a Matrix homeserver too, but I got fed up with maintaining that. It has been quite the learning experience and it has been absolutely worth it.
I only host one service for myself: Navidrome on a raspberry pi zero. Lets me stream my full music library from anywhere. Been using it ever since GPM shut down
As of right now
It is all running via NixOS on an old Chromebook Acer CB3-431.
Works like charm though!
Wayyy too much for my lil old PC server. Its pegged at 40% swap usage, that's after a RAM upgrade.
Alpine Linux running services in podman. Deployments use ansible.
Got a few disks fused together + snapraid redundancy.
All services go through Nginx, plus a couple static sites generated with hugo.
Authentik for single sign on everywhere I can.
Matrix: Synapse + mautrix WhatsApp, Signal bridges for private chats. A public Conduit server for big online chats. Element and Cinny clients, I can't pick a fave.
Nextcloud because I have to.
Jellyfin for movies, shows and music. The Arr suite for managing my media. Transmission openvpn container for getting Linux ISOs and other legal media.
Vaultwarden super light betwarden server - I love this.
Forgejo git server is fantastic.
Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.
Umami for web stats.
Pihole for filtered DNS.
A tiny minetest server for the LAN.
That's pretty much it. I love this thing.
Raspberry 4 No.1 (HassOS)
Raspberry 4 No.2 (Ubuntu LTS)
Fileserver custom built (Ubuntu LTS, local only):
Raspberry 4 No.3 (Raspian, local only)
Currently just running an SMB share and paperless on my Turing Pi v2, which only has one 8gb Pi at the moment. Hoping to get more Pis and run more things soon.
All my servers are running NixOS, including the router. And no containers except for Pterodactyl :^)
First server - Hetzner dedicated server, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of storage
Second server - Hetzner VPS, 2GB of RAM, 20GB of storage
Third server - Oracle Free Tier VPS (aarch64), 24GB of RAM, 100GB of storage
Fourth server - old box at home, 8GB of RAM, 6TB or so of storage
(this one is currently turned off due to power usage)
Home router - Turris Omnia (armv7l), 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (system is currently installed on an USB stick)
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
We self-host a Jellyfin instance in our local network for our household.
Our server box is an old workstation machine with 4 TiB of storage and runs Debian.
Across four Raspberry Pi 4's, a Synolgoy DS918+, and a Protecli Vault 4 (formerly my pfSense firewall) I currently have the following running:
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
A full setup around managing and download multimedia content
Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
I really want to get something like a Synology NAS to run a media server / VPN server / PiHole / NAS server on, but I don't have $500-$1000 to drop on new hardware right now.
Let me see...
Monica Linx Nextcloud ArchiveBox Dashy Home Assistant And a few more services like jDownloader, nzbget etc
I am running a Ryzen 5700x with 48GB of RAM. I use it as my always on desktop/gaming computer/server running Gentoo Linux. The few services I use are:
Pihole NFS (File sharing between my *nix computers) Netatalk (AFP File sharing between my PowerPC macs) Samba (Media sharing to an old laptop running LibreElec)
It's not a lot but it makes everything so much easier.
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.
My main machine is running Linux Mint on a Ryzen 2700x, 32gb ram, 80TB of raw storage and a vega 64 GPU.
Running:
Debian 9 running a webserver with Nextcloud, mostly. Also currently trying to get Matrix to work on a temporary Debian 11 device but we'll see how that goes.