What are YOU self-hosting?
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.
I host:
Probably forgot some..
My long and mostly complete list:
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:
Edit: Spelling is hard.
That is impressive. For the sake of curiosity, do you have any photos or diagrams you could share?
Fantastic breakdown, thank you!
That was a fantastic list thank you!
Mind blown! Thanks so much for the comprehensive list!! 🙏
Hi, would it be possible to link to the switch?
Are you concerned about how much power your hardware consumes?
I'm not sure what kind of link would be best, but sure. It's a Dell PowerConnect-5524. Picked it up from eBay I believe maybe 6 or 7 years ago. Not a particularly great switch, but it was cheap, had plenty of expansion, and some management capabilities. Consumes more power than I'd like though (~20-25w), and doesn't have some of the advanced capabilities of some newer switches.
For power consumption, yes. I prefer to use power efficient devices. The big standout in my lab is the NAS and Dell switch. The NAS is running very little, but still idles at ~100-110w so I'm looking at lowering that usage with a motherboard / processor swap in the future. It's using a server board and xenon processor which aren't really built for power efficiency. Swapping this to a recent consumer-grade board with an i3 would likely address this, but depending on chipset I'll probably loose ECC ram compatibility. I'd like to swap the switch to a more modern microtik 10g unit I think, with a large dumb swich; but I haven't settled on the idea for sure.
Hi, would it be possible to link to the switch?
Are you concerned about how much power your hardware consumes?
Hi, would it be possible to link to the switch?
Are you concerned about how much power your hardware consumes?
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.
Another person of culture sharing Linux ISOs ;)
Need to have the infrastructure ready for when those sweet ISOs drop.
- 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?
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.
Self hosting mail servers is possible but I place it in one of those more trouble than it's worth camps. If you set up your DKIM and SPF records, most places will accept your mail and not flag it as junk. There are always some businesses that are aggressive on anti-spam which won't accept mail from home ISP ranges. My email at this point is more a notification that I bought something, that a bill is ready or two-factor for logging into someplace. I pay Google to handle my mail and don't really regret it.
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.
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
I use TrueNAS Scale for my NAS and Ubuntu server for my VM's/home server. I probably am forgetting something, but, that's what's listed in my Portainer :).
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:
Too many things:
Services:
Pihole with Unbound
Matrix
cryptpad
seafile
Vaultwarden
mailcow
pterodactyl running Minecraft, Valheim, and Terraria servers
emby though I am planning the switch to Jellyfin
Paperless-NGX
Photoprism
SearxNG
Wallabag
Ghost
Miniflux
PrivateBin
Calibre-web and Kavita
Nitter and Troddit (for now...)
Home Assistant and Frigate
YOURLS
Code-server
Linkding
Changedetection.io
LanguageTool
Uptime Kuma
And more, but those are what I use the most.
are you using a container for privatebin?
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;
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 :)
Ubuntu server(Xeon CPU E5-2650 v4 with 86 GB Ram) running k3s(My home server):
2 Ubuntu servers running k3s(VPS used for my infrastructure services)
Infrastructure services runing on all servers
Lastly I'm hosting Lemmy on a leftover VPS, that I hadn't used in a while. Might move to a bigger server though.
miniflux, nitter, seafile on my local RPi4
pondered pixelfed (but they don't have docker image) and calckey (no arm one)...
I run everything in docker on Ubuntu 22.04 with the exception of Plex, which runs on bare metal on the same server. The server is a 16 core threadripper 1950, with 2 quadro gpu's, m2000 and a p400, 128gb ram, mirrored ssd for system, platter HDD for media, CoralTPU pcie.
I also run Home Assistant on a separate Lenovo MiniPC(forget which model), I did this so I can take down the server for various reasons without losing smart home stuff. Helps with the Partner Acceptance Factor.
In no particular order the server runs:
Calibre-web - Library management
Sonarr - TV series downloads
Radarr - Movie Downloads
Lidarr - Music Downloads
QbittorentVPN - Torrents over vpn, guarantees no leaks
Jackett - tracker management and proxying
Podgrab - downloads podcasts
Frigate - NVR, camera recording with object detection
DoubleTake - Facial recognition middleware, works between frigate/homeassistant and Compreface/Deepstack
Octoprint - 3d printer spooler
Tautulli - Plex statistics
Portainer - Docker Management
Ombi - Media request app, users can request shows/movies and they can be automatically added to sonarr/radarr
MeTube - Webui for youtube-dl/dlp, useful for downloading Youtube videos for offline and ad free use
Spot-dl - parses spotify playlists and downloads them from youtube
Part of my Reddit exodus plan was to get serious about my RSS setup.
I've settled on:
I may experiment with some replacements for rss-proxy, as I've run into a couple sites it doesn't scrape well, but FreshRSS and FiveFilters have been smashing successes.
Stuff I used to use or have at least tried out:
Any service that needs non-http traffic pointed at it runs local instances of the frp client to expose that port to the reverse-proxy cluster.
AMD EPYC 7B12 / 256GB RAM / Supermicro H12SSL-i / 4x2TB Samsung 980 Pro in ZFS RAIDZ-10
Total overkill for what is currently running on it. But who knows what the future brings.
Current:
Docker-based
As a VM in Proxmox VE
As an LXC in Proxmox VE
On 3 Rpis and a NAS around my home:
Hope I'm not forgetting any!
My wife and I are living full time in a campervan as we travel. I have a couple pi4's, mainly for low-power-consuption reasons. One pi4 is dedicated to Home Assistant, and another one runs our nas.
The Home Assistant pi also runs Grafana, Postgres/TimescaleDB, MQTT broker, and a few other HA addons
Right now, our nas is just a single ssd attached via USB, but that's more than enough right now for the essentials. Eventually the nas will run mergerFS and rclone and automatically back up our data (encrypted) to multiple cloud providers but it's just a starting point
I have a third pi4 running misc software and is kinda my scratch pad, the main thing it does right now is talk to our solar controllers and renogy batteries thru rs485/modbus-rtu using some custom software I wrote in typescript and then publishes that data on the mqtt bus, aggregates it, and then advertises it correctly to get it into Home Assistant and from HA, into grafana
Oh, and I also have a Linksys E8450 running openWRT as our router / ax-wap
All the things! I've got a hybrid VMware cluster (two nodes at home and one in a DC) with a bunch of VMs for stuff like Plex, Plesk, Gitlab, Lemmy, Stable Diffusion, etc. also running a 5-node Rancher k8s cluster.
Some of my public services do actually run from home but are routed through ZeroTier to my Nginx Proxy Manager appliance.
Pretty much everything is running RHEL8 or CoreOS after a recent migration. Veeam for backups (two community instances since I'm too cheap to pay for licensing for personal stuff).
Edit:
Not sure this one counts but...
Pretty much anything I can. Host OS is mostly Debian with Docker, only the Git Server is running on Alpine. Hardware-wise everything is running on Proxmox with an FreeBSD NAS for backup and data storing
how's kimai been for you?
It works fine for my use-case which is basically just tracking my work-time for the employer I'm working at, so I don't really use the freelancing options like invoicing.
Had some problems with the docker container, because they did some breaking changes, but overall it works for me.
It also supports SAML so I can use it with Keycloak and there is an app for the iPhone, which I'm using that works nicely with it.
Hi, thank you for your comment. I was wondering if you could tell me more about the Lemmy instance you have hosted. Which ports did you have to forward? What are some of the problems you faced trying to host it?
Thanks!
The lemmy instance works fine so far. I had some problems migrating the nginx config file from the lemmy manual migrated to traefik, but it works with this guide here.
I'm not really forwarding ports, but I'm rather using a more complex setup. I have two devices - my router and an external VPS hosted in a datacenter. These devices are connected via WireGuard. On the VM where all my services are installed there is traefik installed which is used as reverse proxy for the services and does TLS. The VPS has HAProxy configured to the internal VM in TCP mode, which makes the services available from outside and is important to get valid Let's Encrypt certificates as I'm not using DNS Verification.
I know it's a bit hard to understand, but it works fine for me and I'm not depending on any third-providers (other than the Hoster of the VPS, which I can easily swap if needed).
Basic stuff
Lots. I have 2 proxmox hypervisors and 3 Raspberry Pi's; my OS of choice for servers is Ubuntu Server or Raspbian.
Experimental:
I run an I2P instance and I'm starting to look at Plex. I wonder if those can be combined.
Failed to get working:
Got 2 24/7 runners in my home:
In addition, I'm hosting a couple of Wireguard VPS in the US and a Nordic country to give me access to regional content (I pay for a few regional services through friends living there - i.e. they pay monthly and I pay them yearly for an account on a region-locked service) - not sure if that counts as "self-hosting" :)
Raspberry Pi 4B
I feel like I'm late, but
I'm running a single node microk8s cluster on a dual xeon (20 cores each for a total of 40 cores) server with (only) 64 gb ram. Wish I could do more but this is on a microatx dual slot motherboard that maxes at 64gb.
I have this attached to a 72tb das.
I currently live in an RV so I had to downsize my bare metal cluster to 1. It's sufficient for now 😊
I haven't actually started self-hosting anything yet, though at least I've bought a domain and I'm paying for an email service using that domain. It's nice and easy while still giving me some control my e-mail address and not being beholden to the likes of Google. I did so after my long time e-mail I had had all my life through my parents' internet provider was deleted with no warning.
I've also been looking into buying a NAS for use as a media server and backup target. I'll probably go with a Synology one for now, just to keep maintenance to a minimum. Maybe in the future I'll do something more advanced.
My longest running self-host is the RSS reader Tiny Tiny RSS running on a Digital Ocean droplet with Ubuntu 22.04
I'm currently working on redoing my homelab stack but here is what I have running so far.
Hardware:
3x Pi 4 4GB - Debian Bookworm
1x Pi 3 - Debian Bookworm
1x 8-core AMD, 24 GB RAM, 1.5 TB of space frankenstein server - TrueNAS (might forgo the TrueNAS installation for Bookworm and just host NFS shares natively)
1x TP-LINK POE Switch
1x FriendlyWRT router
Software:
Consul/Nomad
Pihole (DNS/Adblock)
Traefik (routing)
Hashicorp Vault (secrets management)
Authelia (authentication)
Rabbitmq
Bitwarden
PostgreSQL
Mariadb
pgadmin (considering switching to adminer)
Redis
Gitea
Drone
AWX
Watchtower
I've been redoing that stack for a couple of years now, and it's never quite finished; it started out as docker containers on the Pi3, went to Kubernetes, went back to containers, and finally landed on Nomad which I am loving.
I have a list of about 30 services I want to host on that stack, but I'll probably start with Foundry VTT, Paperless, and Calibre.
Forgot to mention my cloud stuff
Lemmy instance: https://pathfinder.social for all your Pathfinder and Starfinder TTRP needs.
Resume website based on The Cloud Resume Challenge (https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/) that I want to redo and just self-host pretty soon
I've got some Dell 2U I got from work.
Currently running Proxmox for a hypervisor.
I would like to upgrade the server for 10gbit. My ISP has 3000/3000 fibre I could get.
Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2 with Debian 11:
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.
Newbie here. Trying to learn the ins and outs of self-hosting by messing around with Discord Red on my Pi 3B (on Raspberry Pi OS). Working great-ish so far! Need me some more free time to tinker with cogs.
I have a VPS (netcup) with 8 cores, 12GB RAM and 320GB SSD. Hosting there on Ubuntu 22.04:
At home I have a Ryzen 5 5600G with 16GB RAM on a B550 aorus elite v2 with 2TB nvme SSD and 2x 6TB seagate HDDs.
Hosting there on Fedora 38 KDE:
I run:
Here's mine:
Unraid OS: Docker:
Unraid OS: Virtual Machines:
Unraid OS: Plugins:
My unraid server is my "jack of all trades" machine running the primary services apart from my Pihole instance (as below).
Ubuntu Server LTS:
This is running on an old thin client machine and is my primary Pihole/VPN machine with a backup music/media server running Emby.
How has been your experience with code-server so far? I am interested in self-hosting it
I'm also curious about this -- there's a usecase I have that I think fits, but I'm not sure if I'm either barking up the wrong tree, or overthinking it.
What I'd like to do is open up VSCode on any of my computers, make changes to files, save them, and see those reflected when I open VSCode on another PC.
I suspect VSCode container is meant for people who are actually developing and running their code and need an environment catered to that.
Am I better off doing something like saving my files to folder on a network share and then just opening that folder in VSCode on each PC instead? Is that even possible?
Got a Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi OS) set with an USB3 HDD with Systemd mount dependency for the following services:
Planning for:
I configured it for mobility since I am always moving with it, so this is why the Systemd dependency is very handy. Also, its wifi connection defaults to my hotspot when not at home.
I also got 3 Pi3Bs remaining from an old Kube cluster project with HypriotOS, but I didn't know what to do with them and it pains me to renew the cluster certificates
I'm selfhosting a Terraria server, with a medium size world
I'm actually not that into actual self-hosting (it feels too close to my day job). But i love the idea of it, and actually do host my own RSS Reader: It's selfoss (PHP + SQLite, so, very simple) and i have been using ever since google reader shut down. It runs on my uberspace.de instance.