I'd like a solution to self-host services such as Vaultwarden, Immich and Home Assistant at home. I don't want to rely on cloud solutions for this so I'm thinking maybe along the lines of a Raspberry Pi for the Docker apps and a NAS for the backend storage, but I'm really clueless as what to get. I just know that I'd want something relatively simple and easy to maintain.

I'm also a bit of a Linux and Docker noob so I'm looking to get some advice and ideas from the Fedi community!

What would your suggestions be? What does your home lab setup look like?

#SelfHosted #HomeLab #Linux #Docker #NAS #RaspberryPi #VaultWarden #Immich #HomeAssistant

Thanks everyone who has replied. Very helpful. Gives me some options to explore and work out what works best for me.

I’ll respond to your posts if I have follow up questions. Thanks again. 🤩

Edit: Adding additional people to say thank you. 😊

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Today I’ve spent the majority of the day researching different options I might have for self hosting (using the suggestion made here and more) and to say there is a lot out there is an understatement!

For now I’m going to see if I can get hold of an old laptop of mine and use it to do some testing on; installing different applications and seeing what I feel may suit in a more permanent solution.

#SelfHosted #HomeLab

@jamie The old laptop will likely be more powerful then the raspberry pi, or an orange pi 5/plus.

On the other hand, it will use more power (probably, i guess it depends) which will cost you more money. Unless your electricity is dirt cheap.

Vaultwarden doesn't require much in the way of CPU cycles. I am unsure about home assistant. Out of all of them, Immich is likely going to be the most resource intensive (if it has to generate thumbnails).

Good luck!

@frenzybiscuit It’s an old Sony Vaio with a 3rd gen i7 and 2GB AMD Radeon graphics card so it’ll probably do fine. Does only have a HDD so will probably need to swap that out for an SSD.