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Hey selfhosters, what are you selfhosting?

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Hey selfhosters, what are you selfhosting? - chatsubo

[https://chatsubo.hiteklolife.net/pictrs/image/c786875e-7455-4f5b-8e56-d1af5f1e0cfa.png] - Nextcloud + OnlyOffice - *arr media management series (Lidarr, Sonarr, etc) - Gitea - Vaultwarden - PiHole - Jellyfin - Wiki-js - Lemmy - Prometheus/Grafana/Loki Currently all containerised running on a debian VM on a Rockylinux Qemu/KVM hypervisor. Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷 Hardware is an circa 2012 gaming machine with a few ZFS raids for all of my Linux ISOs. It lives an extremely tortured existence and longs for the sweet release of death. Toying with the idea of migrating it all to on-prem virtualised kubernetes cluster using helm charts to manage the stacks and using NFS mounts for persistent storage because I hate myself (and to upskill I guess) What about you?

jetsetdorito Jul 20, 2023

Jellyfin, Shinobi, and more recently NextCloud. Looking into Home Assistant and Paperless.

Shinobi’s on a Pi4 and the Jellyfin/NC are on a mini PC.

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

Had never heard of Shinobi, looks interesting - are you using the ~~bear+elephant ~~ tensorflow object detection?

jetsetdorito Jul 20, 2023

No, I’m using it’s FTP based triggers. Since most cameras can upload snapshots to FTP servers when there’s motion, Shinobi has a feature to trigger motion with FTP.

autumn Jul 20, 2023

Subtracks Synology suite (drive, photos, video)

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

Lazy is good… I try not to think about the time I’ve invested in this stuff

██████████Jul 20, 2023

Thank you for your service

Molecular0079 Jul 20, 2023

Nextcloud, Jellyfin, my own personal photography website, and a Valheim server, all done via docker-compose because I haven’t spent the time to learn other container tech yet. I’ve been hearing a lot about podman, what are the benefits over docker for you?

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

Mainly selected podman for the security, it doesn’t rely on a daemon and supported rootless containers before docker did. Easy to just come up with a pattern where you can minimise the risk of container breakout by having a user for each container stack to provide even more isolation. You can do the same with docker these days I think, each user just runs their own copy of the docker daemon. The aim of the project was to achieve 1:1 compatibility, I think it’s pretty close these days. It’s also native to the Redhat family so could avoid using the community edition of Docker.

Molecular0079 Jul 20, 2023

Thanks! I’ll check it out. I am in the process of building a new hosting machine (my old QNAP NAS died) so I think now’s a good time as any to switch to a new container tech.

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

Docker is still what 95% of people think of when you talk containers and you may encounters issues, particularly running things rootlessly as it’s not a use-case that developers necessarily support. Not to discourage you at all, experimentation is great, but be prepared for thorns. 👍

Freeman Jul 20, 2023

Plex, nzb/sonarr/lidarr/radar/, homeassistant, AD, vpn, teamspeak, lemmy, a blog, wifi controller, cert authority, Pi-hole, mail relay, all data/files etc, backups of email from workspace, zabbix for monitoring, miniflux, windows update cache, quicken server

Probably more.

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

Nice - what are you using to cache windows updates? LANcache?

Freeman Jul 20, 2023

Straight up wsus.

Fergie434 Jul 20, 2023

AD and wsus? Do you need a paid license to run that?

Freeman Jul 20, 2023

My job pays for a visual studio dev kit that gets windows server keys.

hitagi Jul 20, 2023

Lemmy
Red Discord Bot
Matrix Synapse

SJ0 Jul 20, 2023

Look at Mr. Moneybags over here running Matrix Synapse! ;P

gabe [he/him]Jul 20, 2023

lemmy mainly

SJ0 Jul 20, 2023

Lemmy Searx Matrix Xmpp Soapbox Lotide Peertube Nextcloud Nostr Wordpress Plex (sorta borderline of this counts) Invidious Pfsense

Running on a total of 5 fanless commercial grade sign PCs. That’s why the motto of my websites is “this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign”

1x core 2 duo running Lemmy 2x atom d2550s running xmpp, matrix, lotide, searx, and invidious 2x core i5 4000 series running everything else

I try to run bare metal so I can stick my fingers into things.

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign

Love keeping that old tech alive! My Core 2 Duo died a couple of years back, if I could figure out a way to leverage old mobile phones for some sort of project I would.

I’ve always called it ‘ghetto IT’ personally.

SJ0 Jul 20, 2023

I’m not a huge fan of PC fans if I can help it, since I know they’re one of the points of failure (and they’re also loud)

I like the idea of using old smart phones too, I figure if you used something like a nexus 5x maybe you could pull it off with a powered USB-C hub?

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

My dream was to find a way to leverage them as poor man’s IP camera or something …one day…

SJ0 Jul 20, 2023

I think there’s already apps for that.

Fizz Jul 20, 2023

Nothing 😀but I’m still enjoying the community

iamroot Jul 20, 2023

Mailcow for selfhosted email.

Kata1yst Jul 20, 2023

(copied from an older comment)

I run basically all of the Arr stack, Plex (more friendly to my less tech savvy family then my preferred solution Jellyfin), HAss, Frigate NVR, Obsidian LiveSync, a few Minecraft worlds, Docspell, Tandoor recipes, gitea, Nextcloud, FoundryVTT, an internet radio station, syncthing, Wireguard, ntfy, calibre, searx, Wallabag, Navidrome, and a few pet projects.

Giddy Jul 20, 2023

airsonic
audiobookshelf
calibre-web
freshrss
invidious
kavita
n8n
nextcloud (with some neat apps like phonetrack and bookmarks)
nginx proxy manager
vaultwarden

All in docker containers on an Ubuntu NUC

talentedkiwi Jul 20, 2023

Dinner are used way more than others, but here is my list.

Home Assistant
ttrss
audiobookshelf (mostly for podcasts)
linkding
bitwarden
Amp game server (the game varies but right now it’s space engineers)
immich
baby buddy
nextcloud
pihole
Plex
jellyfin
usememos
paperless-ngx
mealie

(Probably some underutilized app I’m forgetting)

eric5949 Jul 20, 2023

I don’t really know what I’m doing so I’m currently banging my head against a wall trying to get nextcloud to work alongside a wordpress site both in docker, and this Lemmy is on a linode. I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that’s for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that’s for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.

Now that you’ve written this? Tonight. It’ll happen tonight.

plumblossom Jul 21, 2023

I feel this pain. Trying to figure out how to get my HomeAssistant docker install to talk to the rest of my network and HomeKit is driving me up a wall. Integrating things by IP address is not fun lol But I know so much more than when I started doing it!

kutsyk_alexander Jul 20, 2023

Only PiHole and Nextcloud

Scott Jul 20, 2023

Uhhhhh, I would need to shell into my host and check what isn’t running…

TORFdot0 Jul 20, 2023

I used to self host everything but nowadays I value my time too much so I have moved my data to google drive and back it up to a local hard disk periodically. Photos go to iCloud and google photos. iCloud is running my email domain (previously was google domains/gmail)

I still do run a Plex server with my shield tv pro but that’s mostly to access my TV tuner as I stream my media from google drive directly instead.

I just got tired of taking time away from my family to troubleshoot my services or just live with downtime. I did run a $5 linode to host things for awhile but eventually it just became more cost effective to just refactor things to run natively on various cloud services. I even just redesigned my personal website/blog to run on google sites

I still love to follow the self hosted community, someday I will take my data back just not right now.

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

Totally respect that, I question my sanity frequently

beigeoat Jul 20, 2023

I had you till you got to running your blog on google sites. Like not even blogger, but straight up google sites. As someone who tried using google sites for this purpose, I wrote one post and I was like, not doing it, it is too much.

CalamariSafari Jul 20, 2023

Home Assistant (with Zigbee2MQTT) Plex Nextcloud Bookstack Paperless-ngx CalibreWeb Home box Mealie FreshRSS Uptime Kuma Healthchecks Grafana Plus a bunch of other Apps I’ve forgotten about and a lot of the *arrs

Mojeezy Jul 20, 2023

I have plex with radaar, sonaar + nzb running + vpn. Stuck a 10tb HD in my pc (ryzen 7 3700x + 2070s) for my plex library and just leave it running.

I’m not an IT guy so I am happy I’ve had it running flawlessly for 6ish months. Will probably upgrade to a dedicated NAS in a year or so.

Since I built my pc, I feel fairly comfortable with the idea of building a NAS from the ground up. I want to use one of those NVIDIA graphic cards that allow more than 4 1080p encodes (I think that’s what it’s called).

I’ve always been curious about the pihole… one day.

Outside of jellyfin & pihole, I have no idea what anything else is.

hoodlem Jul 20, 2023

Oooh I’m getting motivated by this post.

Home Assistant
Pihole
Jellyfin
Plex
*arr series, at least up when I am looking for specific content
Lemmy

I tried Mastodon. Too resource intensive for little I use it.

Next up in my list to try:

Vaultwarden
Peertube
Bookwyrm

Shjosan Jul 20, 2023

If you still want something for Mastodon, maybe GoToSocial is worth a look. You will need a separate client, but it is very lightweight in my experience.

GoToSocial

GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to!

hoodlem Jul 20, 2023

Thanks for the tip, I will give it a look.

astraeus Jul 20, 2023

Why run RockyLinux HV when everything is in a Debian VM anyway?

I just have Ubuntu server running docker on my old workstation which has plenty of RAM to spin up a production-sized workload just to play around.

I’ve setup these images up as Docker containers:

Portainer
GitLab
Nginx
Neftcloud
Grafana
MariaDB
RabbitMQ
Redis

Just played around mostly, I haven’t scaled out any full infrastructure schemes yet, but that’s the plan for the workstation. Container and terraform testbed.

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

Container host started life as rocky, I honestly can’t remember why I switched distros The KVM host also hosts a bunch of other random stuff, Debian running on Rocky is just the tip of the junkpile

somedaysoon Jul 20, 2023

Scheduled Jobs
- script to update subdomain ( E.g. home.domain.com) with external home IP address
- script to run snapraidrunner
- script to check docker services and report healthchecks
- script to update and clean kodi libraries
- script to backup with borg
Snapraid on 4x8TB
NAS - Samba shares
- backups
  - computers
  - phones
- public
- media
  - music
  - tv
  - movies
SSH Tunnel
WireGuard (primary way to access services away from home)
Print server
Docker
- Server 1 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570T 8GB RAM)
  - healthchecks (monitors services and makes sure scripts run otherwise notifies me)
  - smtp_to_telegram (most services support email notification, this is a way to use the built in notfication of most services but be notified instantly)
  - trilium (notes with tree structure organization)
  - pinry (image board, think pinterest)
  - portainer (GUI to manage docker services)
  - adguardhome (DNS adblocking like pihole but better in my opinion)
  - rustdesk (remote admin software, think remote desktop)
  - ulogger (what I use to map my motorcyle rides)
  - dozzle (docker log viewer)
  - mariadb (database for services that require mysql)
  - postgres (database for services that require postgres)
- Server 2 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570, 20GB RAM)
  - omada-controller (controller for my tp-link router/switches/aps)
  - home assistant (control smart devices, setup automations)
  - airsonic (stream my music)
  - airsonic-refix (an alternative GUI for airsonic)
  - paperless-ngx (searchable document archive, I keep manuals and some receipts and tax documents)
  - redis (dependency for some services)
  - lidarr (manages music and auto downloads monitored artists/albums)
  - jackett (manages torrent trackers and can combine them into one query for things like lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
  - openbooks (download ebooks for my paperwhite)
  - sabnzbd (client for usenet downloads, integrates into lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
  - sonarr (manages tv shows and auto downloads them)
  - esphome (makes flashes firmware on devices easier)
  - agendav (web calendar, integrates with baikal or any caldav service)
  - baikal (keeps my calendar and contacts)
  - photoprism (photo manager, prefer over immich until immich has better read only integration)
  - stash (nsfw)
  - deluge (torrent client, integrates with lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
  - portainer (GUI to manage docker services)
  - dozzle (docker log viewer)
  - nginx proxy manager (use it to set subdomains for the services… ie arisonic.home.lan)
  - wallabag (save webpages for later viewing, doesn’t seem to work on a lot of sites so I usually just use single file and save to a folder on the NAS)
  - syncthing (mainly use it to backup all the photos and /sdcard/ dir on my phone)
  - adguardhome (backup to the other adguard dns)
  - nginx
    - Homer dashboard (my favorite dashboard, but been looking at homepage lately)
    - DokuWiki (favorite wiki, prefer the classic styling)
    - minimalist-web-notepad (very fast and easy notes for quick and temporary notes)

Ratz Jul 20, 2023

This individual fornicates

somnuz Jul 20, 2023

…with great form and a lot of style — no room for doubts here.

xavier666 Jul 21, 2023

This guy just said “I’m gonna make my own internet, with blackjack and hookers”

electric_nan Jul 20, 2023

At home I have a Dell Power edge tower running Yunohost. The apps on there are Nextcloud, Navidrome, Gotify and HomeAssistant. It reaches the internet via tunnel to a wireguard server on an Ubuntu vps. I also have another vps which hosts Jellyfin, qbittorrent and the *arrs. I set that up using swizzin community edition on Ubuntu.

That media setup took a long time and many iterations to get working smooth. I tried a few docker-based setups early on, but none of them were simple enough for me to understand. For the home server, I’ve never had a reason to look for alternatives. Yunohost is awesome.

gballantine Jul 20, 2023

Nextcloud
OnlyOffice container
Jellyfin media server
Gitea
DokuWiki
Woodpecker CI container for building static websites and other CI tasks for hobby projects
HAProxy load balancer to forward external traffic to the right services
A pair of web servers hosting various websites/apps
A pair of Postfix acting as internal mail relays that sends mail through Mailgun
SaltStack for configuration management
Munin for monitoring
MariaDB database for various internal apps
Four internal BIND DNS servers (two are the primary and replica on virtual machines, then two more replicas on Pis in the event the VMs go down)
OpenLDAP directory server for centralized auth
Kanboard for video project tacking
Postgres database for DaVinci Resolve projects
UniFi controller
Backup server hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4 w/ a pair of 5TB external HDDs in a BtrFS mirror

And most importantly: as of recently I'm self-hosting Lemmy and Kbin instances for myself to try them out! Kbin was a pain to setup, but I seem to be liking it more.

It's all running on two Ryzen R7 1700 systems with 64GB of RAM in one and 48GB in the other (long story), and virtual disk storage is done over a 10Gb iSCSI link to a TrueNAS system with two 1TB SSDs in a RAIDz mirror. I've also got an unRAID NAS that hosts my video project files. Pretty smooth overall :D

sn0opy Jul 20, 2023

The Lounge (IRC Client)
Blocky (local DNS server with ad-blocking)
Tailscale (VPN mesh between clients and other servers)
Cloudflare-Tunnel (to access some local services directly from the internet via my own domain)
traefik (reverse proxy + TLS for all my services)
Authelia (auth server for services that don’t have their own authentication)
borgmatic (borg backup automation for container data. Pushing backups to borgbase.com)
paperless-ngx (document management system)
Plex (media server)
Tautulli (stats and tracking for Plex)
mosquitto (MQTT server)
zigbee2mqtt (service to manage my Zigbee devices)
Homebridge (service to get z2m devices into Homekit)
Homeassistant (home automation)
Prometheus (collect stats from several services above)
telegraf (more stats collection + server metrics collection)
Grafana (for some dashboards that I didn’t want to create in HA)
miniflux (RSS reader)
Linkding (bookmark manager)
Atuin (shell history sync server)
redis (for paperless and some own projects)
postgres (for miniflux, atuin and some own projects)

Everything is running in containers on an Unraid server

24 TB usable (16 TB parity drive)
1 TB nvme Cache Drive
Intel i3-12100T
Fractal Node case

With disks at idle/spun down, it consumes roughly 25W.

troy Jul 20, 2023

I have a very similar setup minus the iot and metric related services. I’m managing the services with Docker Compose on unRAID.

jjakc Jul 21, 2023

What’s the reasoning behind using docker compose on unraid, instead of the built in docker implementation?

charles Jul 21, 2023

Personally I use it for a couple services that would be difficult to run separately (ie: deemix + lidarr). I’m also planning on moving all of my services with databases over to compose. I do lose a couple other QOL features but I still prefer this approach to start/stop all related containers instead of manually having to close each one.

troy Jul 21, 2023

For a couple reasons

Store and version configs in git. I realize unRAID provides flash drive backup (using git also), but this allows me to spin up my setup on another machine that may not be running unRAID. Helped recently when I switched away from Proxmox.

Allows me to group services with their dependencies. ( e.g. postgres, redis, etc ) Also can help isolate service groups from each other. Avoiding port conflicts on common db ports for example. Downside being may have more than one database, redis, etc.

Note, there is an unRAID docker compose plugin so you can still get easy access management buttons to start, stop, view logs, and edit services.

Cookie1990 Jul 20, 2023

Can you elaborate on your host?

sn0opy Jul 20, 2023

What exactly?

mentosfreshmaker Jul 20, 2023

*arr apps
home assistant
invidious
libreddit
jellyfin
navidrome
pinhole
dozzle

I need to get on paperless ngx still… Partner’s trying out grocy too but it’s not part of the club yet

aruc Jul 20, 2023

Everything is running on a Synology NAS. Media lives on a 16TB raid array of HDD, and the containers themselves on a RAID 1 of two NVMe SSDs. This helps with spinning down the HDD when not in use and overall power consumption is very reasonable.

On the host:

Tailscale to connect remotely
Synology Photo as a great photo library

Then everything in Docker containers, deployed via compose stacks from Git and Portainer, very easy to update! Also using Watchtower to automatically updates containers that are using the “latest” tag.

arr stack. With notably Recyclarr that allows to sync from TrashGuides the recommended media quality profiles
Jellyfin
Miniflux for RSS. Recently switched from Feedly… it’s so much better. Allows full text extraction when the feed isn’t.
Calibre + Calibre Web for the interface, ebooks management
Home Assistant + Zigbee2mqtt for home automation
Nginx proxy manager to reverse proxy a handful of services (those with shared logins, e.g. Jellyfin…)
Paperless-Ngx for documents management
Change detection for websites monitoring (e.g. price changes…)
Flame for a simple “dashboard” with all these links

DeltaTangoLima Jul 20, 2023

Far quicker to share a screenshot of my dashboard

BlackEco Jul 21, 2023

Quicker but not ideal for users with visual impairment :/