Either self-hosted or cloud, I assume many of you keep a server around for personal things. And I’m curious about the cool stuff you’ve got running on your personal servers.
What services do you host? Any unique stuff? Do you interact with it through ssh, termux, web server?
I have an orangepi zero 3 with pihole
Then an ITX PC with
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mealie (meal planner, recipe parser, grocery list maker with a bunch of features and tools)
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immich for self hosting a google photos alternative
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*arr stack for torrenting Linux ISOs
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Jellyfin for LAN media playing
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home assistant for my VW car, our main hanging renovation lights, smoke and CO monitors, and in the future, all of the KNX smart systems in our house
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Syncthing for syncing photo backup and music library with phone
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Bookstack for a wiki, todos, journal, etc… (Because I didn’t want to install better services for journals when I don’t use it much)
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paperless-ngx for documents
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leantime for managing my personal projects, tasks, and timing
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Valheim game server
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Calibre-web for my eBook library backup
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I had nextcloud but it completely broke on an update and I can’t even see the login fields anymore, it just loads forever until it takes down my network and server, so I ditched it since I never used it anyway
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crowdsec for much better (preemptive) security than fail2ban
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traefik for reverse proxy
As a person that actually torrented a Linux iso on Friday, thank you! Lol
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Self-hosted machine. It was basically my old computer I bought back in '09. It’s a i5-750 on a Asus P5P77. It started with the 4 GB RAM I hadn’t sold until I upgrade to 8. I used a borrowed Nvidia GT730 and a 1 TB HDD at first until I upgrade my main PC GPU and bought a new HDD for the server so now it runs in a 4 TB HDD and my old GTX 1060 3 Gb. It’s a beast for my needs.
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Jellyfin is the main reason I started my server. Initially it was so my mother could easily watch shows I would never illegally download. Until a realized it would be great for me too and friends. To not watch them…I mean, because that would be ilegal!
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Qbittorrent…shit…oh well :)
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Nginx, when I realized I could host my own development server and personal website
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Komga, when I realized I could have the same benefits of Jellyfin with books and comics.
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Tailscale, allows me to, among other things, use it as an online or LAN hard drive for me and people I like.
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Samba, see above. It also works to keep a nice share folder between my main PC and my laptop
The more time passes the more I realize self-hosting is the best idea ever. I get new ideias every day.
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Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tiny. Debian + Podman systemd quadlets, running these services:
- Jellyfin
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Qbittorrent w/ VPN
- Linkwarden
- Calibre Web
- Immich
- Lidare
- Postgres
- Prowlarr
- Vaultwarden
P330 tiny is so good I just wish there was a ryzen version with a pcie slot. Quicksync is great but I hate Intel.
Do you have any tips (or examples) using quadlets? I tried using them but I couldn’t wrap my head around them.
I used this guide https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman
I have a folder on my in my home folder called
containers
symlinked to/etc/containers/systemd
with my .container files. This is my jellyfin.container for using the Nvidia Quadro on my server.[Unit] Description=Podman - Jellyfin Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target Requires=nvidia-ctk-generate.service After=nvidia-ctk-generate.service [Container] Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest AutoUpdate=registry ContainerName=jellyfin Environment=PUID=1000 Environment=PGID=100 Environment=TZ=America/St_Johns Environment=DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/gilbn/theme.park:jellyfin Environment=TP_THEME=dracula Volume=/home/eric/services/jellyfin:/config Volume=/home/eric/movies:/movies Volume=/home/eric/tv:/tv Volume=/home/eric/music:/music PublishPort=8096:8096 PublishPort=8920:8920 PublishPort=7359:7359/udp PublishPort=1900:1900/udp AddDevice=nvidia.com/gpu=all SecurityLabelDisable=true [Service] Restart=always TimeoutStartSec=900 [Install] WantedBy=default.target
I use
sudo podman auto-update
to update the images to utilize theAutoUpdate=registry
option.
-Jellyfin: for playing media that I totally own and surely did no obtain by any obscure way.
-Qbittorrent: for reasons completely unrelated to the previous one.
-Amule: see above.
-Synapse (matrix server): overly complex way to send myself notifications from the server to my phone.
-FreshRSS: to have a self hosted RSS feed server. Could I use an android app for the same thing? Sure. But it’s more fun and headache inducing this way.
-TubeArchivist: Because I want to offload some of that cost inducing bandwidth that is making those poor YouTube executives to keep pushing more aggressive ads on their platform. I’m just that nice.
-Caddy: because I’m just lazy.
-Crowdsec: Because I’m just paranoid.
This might be a better question for !selfhosted
Multiple hosts. Win2024/hyperv and proxmox
- domain/dns/dhcp/ncp 2x
- pihole
- iobroker (smarthome)
- sonarr/radarr/orowlarr
- emby
- sabnzbd
- vpn-vm for torrent/soulseek
- searxng
- dav for calendar
- caddy (for emby/dav from outside)
- firefly (banking)
And some minor, less important ones.
All backup to a central server, which does a daily backup of the backup onto another nas. In case of emergency,just grab nas.
Pi-hole on an ancient pi zero w.
I’ve got a little MSI box with 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD, and a quad core i3 running Proxmox. Home Assistant is in its own VM, I have a VM for a bastion host/jump box of sorts for a client’s network (yes, I know VPNs exist), and then a VM running a few Docker containers: CheckMK, Dozzle, Uptime Kuma, and The TP-Link Omada Controller software. I intend to migrate those to Podman eventually.
On my desktop in Podman, I’m running Dashy, Redlib, and Dozzle regularly. Sometimes I run other services but those are pretty persistent. I use Podman on my local machine for my development work and it’s just handy to have Redlib and Dashy right here.
I tend to interact with things via SSH unless it’s a webshit.
- Prosody XMPP server (might move to ejabberd) with Movim front-end
- Murmur VoIP server
- Miniflux feed reader
- Nix remote builder & substitutor
- Upterm terminal sharing
- Some small static sites on Nginx
- Darcs, Pijul, Git hosting (no forge, basic SSH + HTTPS)
countless “read later” pdfs …and cat pictures
Cat pictures ? Definitely the best possible use of a server 😄
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Have you integrated your matrix instance with keycloak? Ive been wanting to set it up to allow local matrix users the ability to SSO with other stuff like jellyfin with just their matrix ID.
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Minetest server, arr suite, plex, Pihole, calibre, homesssistant, Nextcloud.
Interact with it through a Homarr webpage and all of it is virtualized through proxmox.
You use Homarr with Proxmox? I should look into that.
Ya I have it running as an LXC. Here’s a script you can run in your proxmox shell that will create it for you:
bash -c “$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/homarr.sh)”
I’ve been a software engineer for 8 years and I’ve had my own Jellyfin server (and before that, Plex) set up for 4 years on a server that I built myself.
Despite this, I don’t have a damn clue what “virtualized through Proxmox” means any time I read it.
Proxmox is a hypervisor, like VMware. They are just running containers and / or VMs. Procmox is the management interface.
They are just running things in VMs. They may even have a cluster with some sort of high availability.
Or containers, but lxc instead of docker-like. They’re like full VMs in operation but super lightweight. Perfect for some needs.
I personally find that LXC really isn’t better than a VM.
U crazy! lxc is incredibly lightweight compared to a vm, I’m often amazed at what it can do with just a few hundred MB of memory.
Also you can map storage straight from the host and increase allocation instantly, if needed. Snapshotting and replication are faster too.
I’m always bummed when I’m forced to run a VM, they seem archaic vs PVE CTs. Obviously there are still things VMs are required for, though.
ATM I have the following running:
- Caddy
- NextCloud
- Webpress
- Plex
- Actual Budget
- Portainer
- Vaultwarden
- Grafana
- Stable Diffusion
- QBT
- *arr stack
- 4 Debian instances with differing bits and bobs on
- MIT Scratch
- Neon KDE (Drives lounge TV)
- Win10 and 11 vms
- TrueNAS
- OpnSense
- Homepage
- Navidrome
- SoulSeek
Curious about the specs of your machine.
it’s an i5 13xxx with 64GB ram and a HBA passed through to TrueNAS with 7 disks on it and a second network card passed through to OpnSense for WAN/LAN
All the above runs in Proxmox and has a bit of room for expansion still ;) This was a 50th to myself to replace an IBM M4 space heater
On my Raspberry Pi 4 4gb with encrypted sd is:
- pihole
- wireguard server
- vaultwarden
- cloudflare ddns
- nginx proxy manager
- my website
- ntfy server
- mollysocket
- findmydevice server
- watchtower
Pi is overkill for this kind of job. Load average is only 0.7% and ram usage is only 400M
A lemmy server, and my experimental Tenfingers sharing protocol nodes.
How come you don’t post from your own lemmy
Because I had lots of problems with my lemmy.mindoki.com server, so I shamefully uses an accunt on lemmy.world.
Just wiped the server a coupla of days ago (snif), so if everything works out well this time you’ll see valmond from mindoki the next time :-)
Nothing yet, I’m still trying to figure out how to get my orange pi working… not much progress yet because I am just starting and making a server is very intimidating 😅 For now I’d like to just get it working so I can access a hard drive, and if I manage that and feel very daring, then pihole, jellyfin and home assistant.
Have you tried DietPi?