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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello selfhosters.

Here's my list of stuff:

On a VPS hosted in Germany:

On my home server (my old gaming PC, repurposed)

  • Proxmox to manage several containers/VMs:
    • OPNsense Firewall
    • HomeAssistant
    • Pihole
    • Gitlab
    • Jellyfin
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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:

For the public I host:

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I have a 800W solar panel and some home automatization at home. Therefor, I use MQTT & NodeRED.

  • Adguard
  • Authelia (authentication for my services)
  • Dashy (I've become lazy collecting my own bookmarks)
  • Gotify (receive notifications on my mobile from NodeRED)
  • Grafana
  • Influxdb
  • Jellyfin
  • Mariadb
  • Nextcloud
  • NodeRED
  • phpMyAdmin
  • Portainer
  • Remmina
  • sshwifty
  • Swag (Nginx and more)
  • ubooquity (ebooks)
  • Wallabag (Bookmark collection)
  • Wordpress (want to try)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a MediaWiki instance on my laptop (I've found the features of all other wikis/mindmaps/knowledge databases decisively insufficient after having a taste of MW templates, Semantic MediaWiki and Scribunto).

Also some smaller things like pihole-standalone, Jellyfin and dictd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Curious what you use a local version of MediaWiki for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I have a used Lenovo Thinkcentre mini with an i3-7100T and 16gb RAM. I have Ubuntu server LTS installed on it and I run everything in docker containers.

I host:

  • jellyfin server for my friends and family
  • qbittorrent to download for the JF server(behind a VPN)
  • Jellyseerr for requests
  • Jackett, Sonarr, and Radarr for downloads
  • a Minecraft server
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I have a rented server with 8 Xeon E3-1246 and 64GB at Hetzner where I host:

  • Vaultwarden
  • Gitlab (git repo, container registry, static blog (pages with Hugo))
  • Drawio (Diagrams)
  • Kroki (for Gitlab)
  • Gitlab runner
  • FreshRSS
  • Nextcloud
  • Redis
  • Headscale (Tailscale server)
  • Keycloak
  • MariaDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • Plex
  • Privacybin
  • Wallabag
  • Hedgedoc

It's all behind a Traefik instance handling Let's Encrypt and using the Docker socket to route traffic based on labels in docker-compose.yml. Behind these I also run k3s and from time to time some VMs. I also have a 1TB storage pod at Hetzner where I use restic to back everything up from this instance as well as from my home system and laptops.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hello

Let's have a look at the inventory

  • RPI 4B

    • OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
  • 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
  • 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
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@devve

- 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
- Adguard

On an Intel NUC in my closet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Umami analytics looks exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks! ntfy looks very useful as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Since I'm moving very soon I'm also redoing everything, so this more of a "soon-to-be" than a current, but I will have:

3x ryzen 5600 w/ 32gb of ECC ram, 10gb network and some enterprise disks 1x mikrotik switch 1x mikrotik router

And I will host, using Kubernetes (Talos OS):

  • ceph
  • owncloud infinite scale
  • Immich
  • Jellyfin
  • Homeassistant
  • Hashicorp vault
  • Oneuptime
  • gitea
  • plane
  • actual (finance software)
  • probably forgetting some stuff
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I run a bunch of bots, some databases plus

  • Jellyfin
  • Unifi controller
  • Radar
  • Sonarr
  • Lidarr
  • Bazarr
  • nzbhydra2
  • Sabnzbd
  • Heimdall
  • Twitch points miner 2
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:


Standalone Lenovo TS140:


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.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ok, you've got me curious - Why 3 different active directory domain controllers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Just for redundancy! One DC VM per physical vSphere host. Each DC also handles internal DNS records for my network.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

i don't self-host yet, but i have an old pc in my house, i just need to bring it with me to colege, so i can learn and start self-hosting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Please make a blog post about your migration. I'm in the same boat.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If there is RAM to spare... one more selfhosted service can't be bad hahaha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

home assistant, freshrss (and a few related services such as rss-bridge), nitter and piped. I tried to host libregrammar, but ran out of memory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 πŸ‘€πŸ¦Ž

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