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Running xen hypervisor (Debian 12) on a HP Elitedesk 805 Gen6 (currently 10 VMs) at home, a few VPS from different hosting providers too.
Got a proxmox node with a couple of vm's, mostly for hosting docker.
I'm considering switching proxmox for kubevirt, but I'd have to deploy all my container as either k8s deployments or create new vm for docker...
Been using prometheus at work lately and I want to create a push setup with thanos backend, but for now it's just an idea
Thank you for all for sharing π€© I still havent determine if I'm going self hosting at home or with a VPS, but I discovered cool projects!
I cover most of what services Iβm running in my own post looking for assistance recently.
I might be the only person self hosting a gopher server. Its running on a Raspi 4 on my home network, using Flask Gopher.
Aww man I remember those well. Is this for nostalgia or do you regularly use it?
I have a number of useful services on it, including stock quotes, many news sources, some games. Its been a labor of love.
I just started months ago, but I have a yunohost server ona raspberry with nextcloud and forgejo on it :)
I have been self hosting things for over 15 years. I now host on 7 computers. I'm proud of the fact that I stay under 100W idle, including 3 Omada WLAN APs and network technology (all via PoE and all is on a UPS). For most of the services i normally used the helper scripts. i'm currently in the process of moving everything to komodo. there should be an lxc for each service or service group, komodo pulls the compose files from gitea and deploys everything.
Proxmox pve0: M910x i5.7500 4x3,4GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe
UNRAID-NAS - odroid h2+ Intel J4115 4x1,8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2x24GB HDD - fileserver)
Proxmox Backup Server (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe, 2TB SSD)
Proxmox pve1 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)
Proxmox pve2 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)
Proxmox pve3 (M920x: i7-8700, 64 GB RAM, 250 GB NVMe, 2 TB NVMe)
*raspberry pi 5
i'm happy to have found an entry point and an alternative to reddit here, even though my second post (question about suitable hardware with 32 answers) has already been deleted. hello everyone!
Pangolin!
I have a few things going on. I've been blogging some of my notes on how I'm getting some things going in Docker. But I only relatively recently started sharing my notes so there's not a ton yet. Hopefully there's something useful for someone here. https://magnus919.com/tags/selfhosting/
Running Tipi on a five year old chrome box with tailscale as the VPN. Has been running great! Now I'm self hosting
Tipi is pretty awesome. If you haven't already, check it out!
Didn't know about Tipi!
Getting ready to set up Immich, Navidrome and Nextcloud, was meaning to handle it with separate Docker containers, but now I'll try Tipi first.
Thanks!
Hi
I started self hosting 3 years ago when I got wind of tailscale. I've always cared about privacy and building things so that was great.
My infrastructure consists of two machines.
One - my personal and work server A deskmini i3 12th gen
256GB Boot drive 4TB NVME data drive
-photoprism -syncthing -nextcloud -Firefox+VPN -archivebox
Two - my media server that I let 6ish other people access - PC tower i3 12th gen
512GB Boot and docker config file drive 4*4TB HDD mergerfs for raw data
-jellyfin -*arr suite -gluetun VPN -audiobookshelf (also for auto downloading podcasts) -calibre-web
Presently, my Fediverse presence is mostly self-hosted by one definition or another. This Lemmy instance lives on my server, and my Masto is hosted by a company dedicated to exactly that because it's dirty cheap and one fewer thing for me to worry about.
Looking to add to the list.
Late to the party and after reading through some of these setups I may have to expand mine soon (it never ends does it?), here is what I have right now.
Unraid (Dell R720XD, dual Xeon E5-2670 v2, 64GB RAM, 12 x 6TB in 12 disk array with 2 parity disks, 800GB SSD cache pool)
-NextCloud
-Plex
-Emby
-Gitea
-Backrest
-MariaDB
-Netbootxyz
-Trillium
-Traccar
-Vaultwarden
-Adguard-Home
-Unifi
-Homebox
-Nessus
-Headscale
-Collabora
-*arrs
-Jupterlab
-Mealie
-SearXNG
-IT-Tools
-EmulatorJS
-Youtube-DL-Material
Proxmox (old Intel server S2600WT2, dual Xeon E5-2620 V2, 768GB RAM, 5 x 2TB disks):
-Zap2XML
-Immich
-Mumble
-NextPVR
-Stirling-PDF
-WebTop
-Frigate
-MCServer (gameserver)
-SDTDServer (gameserver)
-SFServer (gameserver)
There are some other things floating around in my homelab that aren't really 'selfhosted' things, just important to the home network:
3 HP Microserver Gen8's
-x1 with ESXi hosting pfSense
-x2 with TrueNas Scale for backups
R610 with ESXi for a few remote desktops and Home Assistant (which I'm sure I'll move to docker at some point).
backrest
headscale
emulatorjs
it-tools
webtop
...
Oooohhh... some really interesting and new-to-me apps in your list! Thanks for sharing.
Just testing from selfhosted instance!
Do you have some massive server home or using VPS/VDS?
I know it's been 2 months but I just stumbled upon your question.
I've been working on expanding my homelab recently. I have a physical box at home serving as an LXC host along with a few VPSes. I'm now up to:
I think I read an old blog post once that said "Servers tend to multiply like rabbits" and it's 100% true.
Two "servers"
Pi4-8gb; 1TB SSD:
External-facing
Dual Xeon; 96Gb Ram; 50TB; bound NICs:
Internal, mostly
Can't ask too much off my little laptop, but here it is
Pihole
Sonarr
Radarr
Lidarr
Notifiarr
Sabzbd
Nicotine+
Kodi
Plex
Airsonic
Nextcloud
Joplin
qbittorrent
Currently split between VMs and physicals. I'm refactoring these ,with plans to build out and migrate much of it to a minipc proxmox cluster.
Adding:
proxmox
podman/portainer
unbound
ngnx proxy mgr
Solid server
homepage
matrix
searxng
some sort of mail stack, TBD
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVR | Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| Unifi | Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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Currently I play around with a Raspi 4 8GB with docker-compose. Most services are accessible with VPN only:
Caddy (as easy reverse proxy)
Portainer (container dashboard)
Linkding (bookmarks)
Baikal (calendar, todo list to sync with Android by caldav)
Agendav (web calendar frontend)
Dillinger (browser markdown editor with PDF export)
Trilium (note app)
Syncthing (google drive/onedrive alternative)
Seafile (file sharing)
Jellyfin (media server)
All the services available from internet, just goes through traefik to terminate https, I rely on the build in authentication of each service. To add another layer of security, I have fail2ban active on all those services.
I have a public IP, and I have open on my router ports 80, 443, a random port for ssh and vpn.
Memory:
System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.73 GiB used: 4.46 GiB (57.7%)
Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR3
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 535.98
All the docker compose files + how I configured everything is available at: https://github.com/simone-viozzi/my-server
Since I like the ability of btrfs to do snapshots, I created all important docker volumes as btrfs subvolumes. Then I created a backup script that literally sends the subvolume (encrypted) to an external cloud. This does not allow incremental backups and most likely is not the best backup solution... but it works... the repo is: https://github.com/simone-viozzi/btrfs2cloud-backup
I'm hosting Trillium Note for my personal note taking.
Greetings!
Not really self hosting a lot right now, but I've been spending a lot of time reengineering my network and fixing some things. Recently retired my loud and power-hungry pfsense server, replacing it with a Mikrotik rb5009, so setting that up has been a steep learning curve.
Most things are running on my Synology DS920+, except for a few raspberry pis.
(I'll add links / descriptions later)
I host the following fediverse stuff:
And these are other things I host:
Using LXD:
Using rootless Podman + Systemd service:
All services are split across 2 DIY servers (in towers). 15TB of media stored on HDD with btrfs duplicated across both servers. One server host is Alpine Linux, the other is Opensuse MicroOS. LXD containers usually are Debian 12 or Alpine. I'm beginning to migrate some things to a cluster of (12) raspberry pi 3s. Unsure what to choose for rpi's, maybe, Fedora CoreOS (ublue), although Alpine does work extremely well on them (once you get them set up with it).
+ router running fresh tomato :)
Also mailcow for email, on a VPS, although I need to switch to a new provider, having difficulty with delivery using Linode and OVHCloud.