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Well thanks to the soon to be dead /r/selfhosted on reddit I started selfhosting few years ago and now approximately 90% of my stuff is selfhosted:
- Gitlab
- RocketChat
- VS Code
- Anonaddy
- Etherpad
- Min.io
- Archivebox
- FreshRSS
- FileStash
- Matomo
- InfiniteWP
- piHole
as daily drivers and several others that I use from time to time.
wait, vscode self hosted?, how
With this Docker image: lscr.io/linuxserver/code-server
Here is a sample docker-compose.yml.
edit: replaced code block with link due to the formatting being a complete mess
Self hosted Vscode? How does that work, like a remote workspace via web or directly in a local Vscode session? Did it handle extensions well?
- 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.
Umami analytics looks exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks! ntfy looks very useful as well.
- Audiobookshelf
- Calckey
- Gitea
- Grafana + Prometheus
- Homeassistant
- Jellyfin
- KitchenOwl
- Navidrome
- Nextcloud
- Wallabag
and lemmy of course π
Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com> Audiobookshelf
I didn't know that existed and now I love it and started up a docker container for it!
Thanks! :D
vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:
- 2x PiHole servers with local unbound resolver; synced with Gravity Sync
- 3x Active Directory DCs
- Homebridge Instance
- Jenkins Instance
- Portainer Instance Hosting:
- Authelia
- Code Server
- CyberChef
- Guacamole
- NGINX Proxy Manager
- PairDrop
- SMEE Client
- Your Spotify
- Docker-SMTP
- Vaultwarden
- A couple of personal websites using NGINX
- Kubernetes (k3s) (3 Managers, 6 Workers) Hosting:
- ArgoCD
- AWX
- Rook Ceph
- Cloudflared
- My main personal website using a container image built with Jenkins and deployed with ArgoCD.
Standalone Lenovo TS140:
- Plex (GTX 1650 Super for Transcoding)
- SABnzbd
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Ombi
- Tautulli
- MP4 Automator
- Veeam B&R for backing up vSphere hosts.
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.
If this comment is federating then I started hosting my first service -- Lemmy itself.
I'm seeing it from my own selfhosted Lemmy instance!
Hello
Let's have a look at the inventory
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RPI 4B
- OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
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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
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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
I will go first π
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 ππ¦
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 :)
If there is RAM to spare... one more selfhosted service can't be bad hahaha
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
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
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.
Hello selfhosters.
Here's my list of stuff:
On a VPS hosted in Germany:
- Nextcloud
- Mailcow for my own domain
- A blog (https://www.ninjazumbi.com)
- Wallabag
- FreshRSS
- WireGuard VPN
On my home server (my old gaming PC, repurposed)
- Proxmox to manage several containers/VMs:
- OPNsense Firewall
- HomeAssistant
- Pihole
- Gitlab
- Jellyfin
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
- 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
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
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.
Wait, what? How are hosting someone else's website?
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.
That's funny. Imagine how confused they'll be when/if they find out.
What a hero!
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:
- Mattermost
- NextCloud
- WordPress https://www.uckermark-blog.de/
For the public I host:
- Mastodon at https://hub.uckermark.social
- Mastodon at https://tetrax.de/
- BookWyrm at https://books.mxhdr.net/
- Mobilizon at https://termine.uckermark.social/
- MatrixChat at https://matrix.mxhdr.net
- Element WebUI for Matrix at https://element-web.explain-it.org/
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.
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.
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.
Dedicated Raspberry Pi4 running Home Assistant on an M.2 SATA SSD.
Custom built server in Lian-Li PC-D600 case. 3x5 Drive SATA backplane. OpenMediaVault is the server software. Following is running in Docker:
- Nextcloud
- Jellyfin
- Grocy
- Snap-IT
- Photoprism
- Onlyoffice Document Server
- Netdata
- Motioneye
- Ombi
- TiddlyWiki
- Adguard
- Audiobookshelf
- Jellystat
- OpenVPN
- Vaultwarden
- DailyTXT
- Papermerge
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.
Lemmy, mostly :D. I also recently started up my own Matrix home server. I took a stab at email, but it was more trouble than it's worth considering my relatively newly acquired cloud hosting IP is on several blacklists. Now that I actually have a server running again Gitea might be next on the list of services that gets added.
I'm running a Kubernetes cluster on the Dell hardware, then another single node k8s cluster on the Lenovo, mostly to run Adguard home / DNS in case the big cluster goes down for whatever reason.
Hardware:
- Two Dell r610s, each with 12 cores and 96 GB of RAM, running ESXi 6.7
- Lenovo M900, 4 core, 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu and k3s
- Synology 1515 with 12 TB usable
- Synology 1517 with 32 TB usable
- Juniper SRX 220H (Firewall)
- Juniper EX 2200 48 port switch
- UnFi in-wall WiFi APs
I run the following services, all in Kubernetes, with FluxCD doing GitOps from a repo in GitHub (for now, might move to Gitea later):
- Authentik
- Bookstack
- Calibre
- Flame (Homepage)
- Frigate NVR
- Home Assistant
- Memos
- Monica
- Plex
- Prowlarr
- Radarr
- Rocket Chat
- Sonarr
- Tandoor
- Tautulli
- Unifi
- UptimeKuma
- VS Code
- Zigbee2MQTT
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
I have a MediaWiki instance on my laptop (I've found the features of all other wikis/mindmaps/knowledge databases decisively insufficient after having a taste of MW templates, Semantic MediaWiki and Scribunto).
Also some smaller things like pihole-standalone, Jellyfin and dictd.
I run a bunch of bots, some databases plus
- Jellyfin
- Unifi controller
- Radar
- Sonarr
- Lidarr
- Bazarr
- nzbhydra2
- Sabnzbd
- Heimdall
- Twitch points miner 2
(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
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)
On my own hardware: At home I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running JellyFin as a local media server, also experimenting with PiHole. One of these days I'd like to pull my NextCloud server in-house.
VPS: Nextcloud (including calendar, notes, contacts & RSS/Atom), GoToSocial, WordPress, Gemini, and personal website with a mix of home-grown parts and sections managed through Eleventy.
I've also experimented with self-hosting Calckey , Snac2 and Mastodon, but Mastodon's too heavy for a single user and Snac2 is lighter than I want to go with for now. I may try Calckey again at some point, though.
Eventually I'd like to set up Wallabag and migrate from Pocket.
Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:
- CPU β 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz
- RAM β 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB)
- Disks β 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker
For services, I'm currently running the following:
Docker
- Portainer β CF Tunnel
- FreshRSS β CF Tunnel
- ArchiveBox β CF Tunnel
- Adguard Home β Local
- 2x Uptime Kuma β CF Tunnel
- LinkAce β CF Tunnel
- TheLounge β CF Tunnel
- Watchtower β Local
For public access dockers
- Feedropolis
- Mirotalk SFU
- FiveFilters RSS
- Taiga
- 2x Mattermost Servers
- 8x Wordpress Staging Sites
- 1x Wordpress Dev Sites
For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:
- ScreamingFrog -9 sites using LAMP stack
- Aria2c with AriaNG
- NextCloud
- Plex
- 4x WebHooks server for communities
- Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy
- OpenVPN
- CrowdSec
Starting to fall down the rabbit hole of self hosting,
Unraid, Plex & Pihole. Next project is Opnsense, then starting to look at Home Assistant.
All on one system, basically an old Dell Optiplex that I got for free when a company was shutting down. I5 6600 with 16 gb ram.
- Portainer for easy docker management
- Nginx Proxy Manager to provide easy access to the docker containers with SSL
Docker:
- Dashy
- Pihole DNS
- NextCloud
- Slskd (https://github.com/slskd/slskd - web based soulseek client)
- JellyFin
- Tailscale
- Vaultwarden
These are the containers that are running 24/7 but I play around a lot, trying new things :)