1y ago

What are your most used selfhosted services?

I'd probably have to go with Audiobookshelf and Kavita. Behind those would be Invidous and Immich.

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In terms of what services do the most:
PiHole
Home Assistant
In terms of user activity:
Plex and the utilities installed alongside it
Minecraft (Paper) with BlueMap
Mealie

Jellyfin: An unfederated alternative to Plex, with some pros and cons. Very lightweight, customizable with plugins. Decent iOS and tvOS client from the devs.
Vaultwarden: Unofficial open-source fork of Bitwarden.
FreshRSS: Self hosted RSS + Atom reader, honestly the best way to read news ad free. I recommend using FreshRSS with lire if you’re on iOS.
I’m definitely looking into hosting PiHole down the line, and hopefully nextcloud once i get some more drives
- Thank you for not just listing the names of some software. Everyone else in this thread is like "Crimble, JFlax, pIcomIco, Flerbl, and 17 Orangutans."
  
  I usually just ask recruiters to point those that are pokemon
  
  lmaoooo ofc :)
- Thanks
  
  ofc! if you’re gonna get media and use jellyfin as a front end, contact me on matrix: @joshrandall@matrix.org

Pihole, Bitwarden and Plex.

DNS server, because everything depends on it
The Lounge - got like 7 people using it basically daily to chat
Lemmy, even though I'm the only one really actively using it.
E-Mail server, I don't get a whole lot of mail but it's a pretty important one!
Everything else tends to be a lot more idle, but I've also got NextCloud, an IRC server, soon a Matrix server, an internal VPN so all my devices can always talk to eachother no matter where they are.
- You're self-hosting your email? Masochist.
  
  It's been set up for almost a decade at this point, it's shockingly low maintenance once it's all set up and going. It is a pain to figure out Postfix's and Dovecot's fairly arcane configuration files, but smooth sailing afterwards. It's been a long time since I've even got a mail rejected/not make it to the recipient's inbox.

pihole, wireguard, qbittorrent, sonarr/radarr, Jellyfin, syncthing, NFS.
I've considered Airsonic but I haven't found a good client that looks good and doesn't behave weirdly. I had one launch about 500 threads trying to transcode the same song which ate up my CPU time on my server resulting in a stern e-mailing from my host.

vaultwarden

Actively used is definitely Plex. Based on pure usage though, it would be pihole.

FreshRSS: RSS reader (TinyTTS is also decent, but the developer is kind of a richard)
Kanboard: For keeping track of all my client projects (though you can use it for any sort of project tracking)
Nextcloud: It's pretty full featured, but I only really use it for shared calendars and contacts so that I'm not hosting on Microsoft or Google.
- Could you tell more about the developer of Tiny Tiny RSS?
  I'm using this apps for years, never heard about the problems with development.
  
  If you take a look at his forums, you'll see when people request features, or just ask how to set something up, his responses are usually demeaning or meant to put the person down. And a bunch of users there defend or support it. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
  I dunno, it might have changed recently, but I doubt it. The app itself, if you ignore the forums is pretty solid. But it was enough to look for another dev, and the one who does FreshRSS is pretty cool, and the posts just seem to load faster through FeedMe (android app)

Gitea

Plex, PiHole, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Syncthing in a hub and spoke config, Caddy for reverse proxy, custom containers for: yt-dlp, restic, and rsync.
- Could you elaborate on syncthing hub and spoke?
  
  Yeah I saw a post about it a long time ago on Reddit for users with lots of devices
  Basically it is just setting up one or two "central devices" that know all the client devices, but not linking the client devices individually.
  IE: One server is connected to your phone, laptop, tablet, desktop, etc. But the phone is not directly connected to your laptop or desktop or tablet.
  To be fair I don't actually know if this is the best approach anymore or if just connecting all of them in a mesh is better 🤷
  Here is a forum post describing it.
  
  My guess would be that each of their devices (phone, laptop, etc) syncs back to their server/NAS, but they do not sync to each other. The server/NAS is the hub, and each device is a spoke.

AdGuardHome
Vaultwarden
Linkding (plus Injector Extension)
Jellyfin (plus Infuse and FinAmp)
Owntone
Caddy
Pocketbase
Uptime-Kuma
- What is pocketbase?
  
  Instant backend for web apps. Basically firebase lite

1- Pihole + wireguard
2- Searxng
3- Bookstack
4- qBittorentVPN + *arr suite
5- Jellyfin

ntfy and FreshRSS for me. Audiobookshelf recently joined and I am using it daily. (Inofficial probably the Arr stack though 😅)
- I've switched recently to freshrss, and it's been fantastic
- I liked Audiobookshelf but the RSS feed kept breaking for me. I’d pull new podcast episodes for several days then it would fail and I’d have to recreate the feed. I wonder if they’ve fixed that yet.
  
  Never noticed anything in the last couple of weeks. I had one podcast missing new episodes because the schedule was turned off. But I might not have had it turned on in the first place.
- Inofficial probably the Arr stack though
  I've been wanting to set up Readarr, but I feel like it's one of those things that can be pretty annoying to do with Docker because of the volumes.
  
  Readarr is still just not good enough compared to the others. I ended up spinning 1 for ebooks and 1 for audiobooks to help make it less frustrating

Not all I self-host but pihole, plex, & homeassistant are certainly my most used.

Adguard home, jellyfin and miniflux probably see the most use

Syncthing

There are multiple ways to evaluate usage. I’ll go with what I would guess is your desired measurement, things that I use intentionally (as opposed to things like dns, which just happen incidentally to other things or automation based things which are continuously running but not necessarily interacted with):
Mastodon
An app I’ve written to collect personal data
Jellyfin
Lemmy
Bitwarden (I pay to self-host as opposed to vaultwarden as the latter probably won’t have a security audit)
Freshrss
Linkding
Gitea
Archivebox
Mailcow

Home Assistant by far.

Pihole, Wireguard, Syncthing, Jellyfin

In no particular order: jellyfin + *arr ecosystem, vaultwarden, wireguard, komga.

navidrome and jellyfin

Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, Nextcloud, Syncthing, Invidious, SearxNG

Paperless-ngx is better than any hosted equivalent.

In terms of services I use the most I guess it would be these:
OpenHAB + HABapp + zigbee2mqtt + mosquitto (home automation)
Foundry VTT
piHole (DNS)
OpenMediaVault (NAS)
Grafana + Loki + Prometheus (monitoring)
- I love Foundry. Hands down the best virtual tabletop on the market.

from services that I host – gitea
- That's a good one. I just switched from Gitlab to Gitea.

Vaultwarden and git are in daily use. Everything else comes far behind.

my most heavily used self hosted services are:
Audiobookshelf Jellyfin Homepage Matrix/synapse

As of now:
vaultwarden
linkding
Mumble server
I can't live without the first 2, though.

DNS obviously, I use the Pi-hole compatible filtering in OpnSense Then Nextcloud, Email, Navidrome, Jupyter Hub, Code-Server

I use Gitea as project hosting and personal wiki. I also host Nextcloud for files and news and Jellyfin for movies and music.
In this order.

Plex, Komga (like kavita), nextcloud, and all the ancillary apps that go along with those, and Home Assistant.
Also playing with jellyfin alongside plex but it's not quite there to changeover totally.

Adguard home
OpenMediaVault
JellyFin

Jellyfin and that is about it.

Immich, Lemmy and Mastodon 😌

My custom blog, Syncthing and now I'm trying Lemmy and Mastodon. Let's see how it goes!
- Do you need to be able to port forward / have a domain to host a lemmy instance? Is it the same for Kbin?
  
  Yes, I think port forward and domain name is required not just for Lemmy but for every ActivityPub service (Kbin too).
  
  For things to work properly, yeah. Other instances need to be able to connect to your instance to send updates/etc. You could use cloudflare tunnels or something like that instead of port forwarding though

Love this post. I was just looking for a new project.
One of my favs is PufferPanel for managing game servers. Works incredibly well as an lxc in Proxmox.

Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, Plex, Overseer, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, Mattermost

Like most, Plex and the *arrs are the main ones, paired with overseerr Others I use daily or frequently are:
Benotes for bookmarks and quickly saving links for later
Gotify so I have push notifications of anything that happens on the server
Koillection as an inventory of all my knitting and crochet digital patterns
Homepage this one is always a pinned tab on any browser and a shortcut on my phone, quick glance of my services with the widgets and just a click away from them.
Also hosting a minecraft instance with backups but so far no dashboard or anything

I don't see Docspell mentioned anywhere, but it's really cool document management system. Similar to Paperless, but with pretty easy way to extend functionality via addons if you need to add some extra automation when ingesting the documents.
- Thx for the docspell tip - looks like something i was searching for

Pihole, Paperless, Mattermost, Gitea

TTRSS and Jellyfin

Definitely my pictures folder

PiHole, Bitwarden, Bookstack, Grafana/Loki, Immich, haproxy, plex

Trilium for notes, Jellyfin, jupyterlab and komga

Mostly... a Pterodactyl panel for my Minecraft server. Will run a lemmy tomorrow ish

Using 'hours of use' as the metric, it would be Plex. The ones I use every day are Libreddit, TT-RSS, Huginn and Reddit-RSS - and my own journalling app and pocket clone.

Pi-hole (DNS resolver with blocklists)
Syncthing (sync files across all your devices)
Next- or ownCloud (contacts, calendar, task, files and more)
mailcow (complete mail server with web admin panel, SPAM protection, webmail, etc.)
Tiny Tiny RSS (web RSS reader - lol, I'm still using it)
Grafana (graphs for various sensors)
Checkmk (Nagios-like monitoring for my own servers and services)
Proxmox Backup Server (deduplication magic! like 20-22 times)