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Tell us, what services do you selfhost? Extra points for selfhosted hardware infrastructure.
Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!
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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
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?
I haven’t used it in a while, maybe its better. Basically since vscode is an electron app it can run im he browser. You can even use https://vscode.dev which is the official web version. Iirc it didn’t have the same plugins, but it’s pretty much the same thing.
Its super useful when you deploy alongside containers as an easy way to change configs in shared volumes.
Is installing VSCode locally “self hosting”? I thought that was how everybody did it. I just run the executable - no Docker or anything - for coding, testing etc. but I’m not sure what a VSCode “server” would even do.
If this comment is federating then I started hosting my first service – Lemmy itself.
I’m seeing it from my own selfhosted Lemmy instance!
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.
64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
Respect! Nobody can accuse you of a half-assed effort.
MeTube
This looks great. I am going to spin up an instance.
Ok, you’ve got me curious - Why 3 different active directory domain controllers?
Just for redundancy! One DC VM per physical vSphere host. Each DC also handles internal DNS records for my network.
Very impressive. I gotta ask, how is this feasible cost-wise? Mostly as in licensing for vshpere. I know you can get pretty far in windows server with evaluation keys, butI run an ESXi server on eval mode cuz I’m cheap and have to reset the license every 90 days with some commands and reboot 😅
What is the scale of your network, like is this all just in your house?
- 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
- AdguardOn 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 🙂
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
Also love it - I use it to auto download my podcasts
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
How does mapcrafter run for you now? I’m hosting a vanilla server and that’s exactly what I need to see our map. I’m just concerned that it doesn’t function properly now due to recent updates.
Thanks!
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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
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.
I strive to be this level of…
Whatever this is
Hahah yeah whatever that is
That’s funny. Imagine how confused they’ll be when/if they find out.
What a hero!
I will go first 😌
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 👀🦎
Hugo? As in your generated site or you have some sort of service that costs hugo that generates and deploys your site or something else?
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
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
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.
Are you using the mail service from Hetzner or are you using their servers to host it yourself?
I’m using the Mail service from Hetzner. I did host my own eMails for more than 10 years but eventually decided it’s too much hassle.
I’m also using their mail servers, but I’m having some issues with DKIM. Is DKIM working fine for you?
Self hosted email is a brave endeavor, but I always love seeing when people are cool enough to do it
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
Hi, thanks for your comment! I just visited your blog and noticed that it loads fairly quickly: I assume you must have some sort of CDN set up. Could you point me to how you went about setting up the CDN for your domain/website? Thanks!
No CDN. The secret is way simpler: It’s a static site. Just a bunch of files served directly by Nginx. I use Pelican to generate the site from Markdown files.
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.
Have you tried FreshRSS for feeds ? I’m pretty happy with it.
Hi, could you detail how you utilise Asterisk?
I just got going on matrix and I wish there were better XMPP iOS apps. Chat services without friends don’t work and bad iOS apps keeps people away. After all this time there isn’t a good adoption of XMPP for iOS except iMessage I guess.
@GregoryTheGreat @beigegull I’ve got a few friends using xmpp apps on iOS, mostly snikket (which is a rebranded siskin). Works well, notifications work as they should, so does audio/video calling, and e2ee works too of course. Monal has apparently gotten better recently
@beigegull @devve Totally agree that your email is basically your de facto identity online. I didn’t have the heart to fully host my own mail server but I made the decision to ditch gmail and use my own domain with a hosted provider. I am hosting my own IMAP server so the plan will be to work my way up to where you are eventually…
- 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
Please make a blog post about your migration. I’m in the same boat.
Which way are you migrating?
I migrated from Plex to jellyfin.
I tried it out when I couldn’t get HEVC files to steam on Plex, and i liked it!
It doesn’t have the full ecosystem around it that Plex does, but that’s fine by me.