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Buage_Hello everyone! I’m kinda curious about the services you self-host, and I would love to see what do y’all use!
I’ll start, and list the services I self-host:
My list
- Immich (bye Google photos)
- Open WebUI (web interface for llms)
- Fireshare (clips hosting and sharing)
- Home Assistant
- FMD Server (find my device alternative)
- YourSpotify (spotify tracker)
- Kener (uptime monitoring)
- AdGuard Home
- SearXNG
Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who participate!
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Docker containers: * actual (budgeting) * affine (note taking) * bentopdf (PDF editing) * beszel (server status monitoring) * cloudflared (for a cloudflare tunnel with my own domain) * dockge (Docker management) * guacamole (server remote desktop access) * immich (photo application, backup, gallery and AI tagging) * jellyfin (video and music server) * kavita (comic books and ebooks) * kopia (backups) * mattermost (used solo for sharing text, links, files, etc to myself) * papra (document storage, tagging and OCR) * pihole (DNS adblocking for whole network) * opodsync (gpodder podcast sync backend) * omnitools (file conversion etc) * prunemate (automated scheduled docker pruning) * qbittorrent (with gluetun VPN ) * Redlib (reddit access with gluetun VPN because fuck you UK mandatory ID checks) * samba (file sharing on the local netwrok) * syncthing (mostly used to keep retro/emulated games in sync across devices) * tiny tiny rss (RSS platform) * qbittorrent, through gluetun VPN on a VPN) * SABnzbd, radarr, sonarr (for media) * watchtower (automatic docker updates)
The setup is on a bare metal Debian mini PC server with storage on a Synology 2 drive NAS.
Thanks for asking
Thank you for sharing 🙂
How did you get kopia running on your server? Even on the kopia github they pretty much just say “use one of the other options like a S3/B2 bucket or one of the file transfer options”.
Only local, without certificates for example doesn’t even work to test and there is nearly no documentation on hosting it yourself (decent documentation with the rest)
It’s running in Docker on my Debian server: https://kopia.io/docs/installation/#docker-images
One HDD in my NAS is dedicated to only have encrypted backup data that Kopia creates. The same Kopia deployment can’t upload data to the cloud, so Kopia only makes local backups every night. Then Synology’s cloudsync app is scheduled to send the backed up files to a Backblaze bucket online.
Thanks 😄
Everything I have is either for entertainment or home automation. Most of it is running on a mini-PC running Proxmox.
And I’ve got a containerized Audiomuse-AI instance for music analysis and instant playlist generation.
Nice ! Thanks for that list !
Audiomuse-AI looks interesting imo
It’s pretty cool. I have it integrated with Lyrion via a plugin so I can generate a list of related tracks to a song, album, or artist in my play queue, and with lyrics and CLAP analysis it can also generate a music queue via text prompts via phrases like “classical music with cellos” or “relaxing ambient without bass” “aggressive melodic rock” “soothing female vocals” and so on.
As a bonus, we use Wiim Pros and Pro+ units at home to integrate with Lyrion and they can be linked and synced for whole house playback across multiple audio setups.
If you decide to deploy Navidrome, there is an Audiomuse-AI plugin for it as well.
What this thread has showed me is that I’m over here playing tiddlywinks.
I use proxmox on one server, but currently my layout is:
docker 1:
docker 2:
LXCS:
VMs:
Also thank you for making this post, it helped me realize I have a few containers and services I don’t use and I don’t think have activity on them anymore so I can start a deprecation cycle on them lol
Good luck cleaning inactive containers !
Incus, all services running in lxc. Ansible and templates to run startup stuff for new containers (ssh keys, etc). My docker setup is primitive, I regressed down to individual containers for each with docker compose. It’s so trivial to restore last night’s lxc backup that k3s/k8s doesn’t really help me. In fact, i’ve been simplifying everything to suit my use case, including hardware.
Plus lots of transient trials that come and go with interest. Rotating 7 day/4 week/3 months backups by NFS with pruning, includes snapshots, but I set expires on these.
This is running on 2x minipcs with 48GB ram each, but they are way overkill. I just received a mini itx i5 board, which will house all of the containers, save VPN and 1x DNS, which I will run on an SBC.
So I’m going down from 2x servers + 1 NFS nas to one 1u server for everything plus one SBC so I can reboot it.
Power consumption is king factor for me now.
What would you suggest for a prowlarr replacement when you get rid of it? And what would be the reason for getting rid of it? Just curious since I use prowlarr.
I initially set it up because both sonarr and radarr were making their own api calls to indexers and I would get some “daily max exceeded” for certain sites. The idea was that if one host made the calls instead of 2, I wouldn’t get rate limited as much.
Now I only have my nzb and pb indexers, the first has no such limits because I pay for it, and the second is only used as a second priority, so I don’t really hit limits anymore.
If you have a bunch of arr services, this is useful. But I only have the two, so I don’t think it’s much work to set indexers up individually.
Edit: this ^^ is my suggestion. Add the indexers manually.
Ahhh ok. I mainly just run lidarr, sonarr and radarr. I do pay for an nzb subscription as well, so yeah dont really need prowlarr for that. I do use torrents as well though. I’ll probably keep prowlarr as is at least for now as its all setup and stays out of the way. Thanks for answering.
Dont some bigger servers come with an onboard sbc for management and stuff (eg. Dell’s idrac)?
Yeah. I have a dell r430 sitting unused and a supermicro xeon-d board, both have a BMC.
It’s really nice to have, but server stuff is expensive and power hungry.
Plus, I’ve shifted my way of looking at the setup where I’d rather it just default to starting back up properly. Even if I have a failed disk, if I’m away there’s nothing incan do about it until I’m physically back.
I’m almost 30yrs in it/devops/infosec and I’m no longer interested in owning an excavator just because I can.
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Wow that’s a lot of things!
To me, it’s a good stack. A lot of ppl have lower numbers than this, but then they set up a VM with docker and just run 12 extra things there. :P
And the award goes too…… Respect my brother!
I’m a bit skeptical. How does that work and how long have you been using it. Have you noticed any weird noise on your firewall?
Ty for taking this time to share your setup 🙏
Nice setup !
hi! first time posting from this account, but a long time lurker.
I have Adguard Home on my router, but here are my other machines. I’m currently working on overhauling the NUC, mostly because I didn’t know what I was doing when I got it.
I use Dokploy for my services right now, I like it more than Portainer.
currently running on a Raspberry Pi 4:
things I’m going to be running on my NUC:
I currently have a 10TB NAS in RAID 1 for storage, though I’ve found it a bit difficult to map storage to docker containers while leaving the databases on the NUC because I have very little experience and am still learning. thankfully, I’m taking notes this time around.
I would love to get more storage, but man. prices.
I saw that GPUs prices is slowly going down for now, maybe storage will too ?
Here is my copypasted documentation
You’re running a tor relay ?
It is true
Awesome !!
Proxmox, mostly LXCs
Thank you for sharing !
Quickest way for me is just show n’ tell:
spoiler
That’s currently. Could change tomorrow. LOL There’s always room for more, if I can find something interesting.
Good dashboard
Thank you.
On all of my raspberry pi’s excluding my HAOS pi I have Docker; (I am thinking of adding something so I can see all my images visually, funny story I was looking on docker to see everything I have running and I guess I do have a service for this).
2 instances of pihole across 2 of my pi’s; (one primary, which has been migrated to docker and a secondary which is still running bare metal I have docker on that pi but just have not got around to migrating it yet maybe that is a today project) highly recommend you start with a linux distro that is right for you and start with docker and pihole (You could probably stick with windows or MacOS if you want but I highly recommend linux, there are other whole LAN ad blockers, pihole is just the one that works for me. Just to be funny I run them on port 31415!) on a device or two you are not afraid to leave running 24/7 that is why my homelab is spread across different 4 different pi’s and a Flint 2 router.
Maybe on two pi’s I have Nebula-sync; to keep my piholes in sync but I know I have it on one of them.
On my pi 5 with the most RAM I have:
Caddy; this could go on prior to pihole, but it is to give everything easy to remember domain names and to allow some to be open to the world while keeping others to the LAN/VPN
After those four things I would suggest searXNG; to replace whatever search engine you use when you go through and pick which engines it uses to do searches please do not select the Google. With searXNG you do not get all that AI crap I hear people get now, or the paid advertisement links at the top of the results, you also get to weigh which engine you want to use more.
Vaultwarden; with that I can use all of bitwarden’s services for free
Immich, because I am not paying a third party to store just my photos
Nextcloud, but I am getting off of that, it does all of the file sharing that I need with my devices that cannot use rsync calendars and contacts but it tries to do to much.
Down detector; to tell me if there are problems with my devices (sends me emails if one of my devices goes off line).
Paperless; to keep important documents in a easier place to find.
On another pi 5 I have:
The arr stack, I should really get jellyseeerr working!
Transmission, the bittorrent client it is running CLI with a web interface. I have it setup to download a copy of the raspberry pi OS every time there is a new release and to host it until the next new release, everything else I have a ratio of 3.
Jellyfin; (I will fight you if you think plex or emby are better), if I wanted to share my media with people I could create another VPN exit that only allows people to Jellyfin.
I guess I have Navidrone; for music streaming? I should probably remove that because I have Jellyfin that I plan on using.
Cowrie, is the honey pot sitting on port 22.
On another pi 5 I have
Ghost; for my blog/web design service, I am considering exploring more options as it is more geared towards people wanting to get money.
I guess I have matomo; to monitor my self hosted blog, did not know that.
On a pi 4 I have
HAOS; I have so many things running in HAOS, but the one service I am most proud of is my reminders. The reminders just started as a reminder for me to take my medication because the app I had purchased decided that the fact that I had purchased it was not good enough and they wanted to charge me a subscription, so I setup Home Assistant to remind me and that quickly became reminders to do other things as well all on my apple watch.
I have a retired ipad running a HA kiosk in my kitchen; it tells me things like what lights are on, how many times I have had bots try to penetrate me, speedtest, transmission stats, and my ecobee settings. I am thinking of setting up an old phone to run as a separate kiosk in my bedroom as a clock/weather screen on my bedside table and I am hoping to get a hand me down old ipad to act as another kiosk in my living room, more to watch for docker containers needing updates, maybe the also the weather and bandwidth monitor.
OpenWRT on a Flint 2 because the firewall my ISP’s firewall/modem like most ISP’s is a joke so I have it set to pass through to my own with 2 static IP’s one of them was originally going to be for mail but I quickly discovered how silly of an idea that was.
Wireguard; I think it is on my firewall, on one of the IPs I was going to host mail on the other but I came so close to ripping out my hair trying to do that so I got a hosted service through easydns it has a wildcard function so I can still get unlimited free trials to whatever instead of going into hosthero’s cpannel and spinning up a new address)
Crowdsec so I get to watch how many bots try to penetrate me in a day, week, month, or ever. It is in the 100’s a day, before I knew I could/should change my SSH port I had port 22 open to the WAN, this was long ago but still it was a bad idea. 22 is now open as a honey pot.
I have Crowdsec-bouncer that stops known bad actors from trying to get in.
I am sure I have other services on my firewall but I cannot tell what is an actual openwrt service and what is something I have added, but it is a vanilla install with all kinds of things added extra. .
Don’t know if you would count CUPS or scanjs as self hosted but those are run for my printer/scanner on a pi.
I have an old mac mini I am thinking of plugging in so that I can download all my music and add it to Jellyfin, than I am debating on if I want to install debian on part of the drive and keep MacOS on part of the drive so that I can actually use the bluray drive I have as far as I know there are no bluray drivers for linux because the big movie producers are scared of piracy, not like they are trying to rape us consumers over the hot coals.
Jellyfin doesnt handle music as well as Navidrome fyi. I love jellyfin but I found navidrome being specifically for music handles it way better and also recognizes and handles artist metadata better.
Thanks for letting me know.
No problem. Also Feishin client is awesome for Navidrome, probably the best. Try it out and I think you’ll agree Navidrome is better for music. Aside from that, I love Jellyfin for everything else.
I decided that living on a hope and a dream of maybe someday seeing if my Mac Mini still worked I can now gleefully say it is working* if I cannot figure out how to update it further oh well I will just continue on with it as is and harden it the same way I do everything else. But right now it is downloading my music library, which I will promptly backup before trying to update it further.
*I need to figure out how to update it to the last OS version it can handle.
Wow, thank you for sharing all of this !
I will probably get Cowrie and try it ! Btw, I totally agree about the fact that Jellyfin is better
You should really have a good hardware firewall before you do that. Change ports, change ports for everything you can nothing I run is on the standard port I make sure of that other than 80 and 443 for unbound I would if I could but I like having access to the internet I should have mentioned that with pihole.
A lot on docker and yunohost.
Gotosocial is the most used service for the family.
NAS
RaspPi
VPS
Personal Workstation
And of course all the basic security measures and Borg backup on everything.
May I ask what VPS provider do you use pls ?
I use Hetzner, they’ve been easy to work with, reasonably priced and I’ve never had a problem.
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Nice
Main services:
Infrastructure supporting the above:
I’m currently only hosting Jellyfin (movies and TV) and Komga (books and comics) on a LAN, but I already bought a domain, and I’ll be exposing them via reverse proxy within the next few weeks; maybe even this weekend if everything goes well. After that, Nextcloud is a must for sharing large files, as Google Drive’s limits are coming up on me fast, and I’ll start test driving Fluxer as a replacement for Discord.
Shame there isn’t a “your deezer” that sounds really cool. Anyways user facing service LXCs (eg. Jellyfin) have Tailscale installed. Here’s my services by box:
NAS: Ugreen DXP4800 pro
-Proxmox
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-Homarr
-Audiobookshelf
-Jellyfin
-Seerr
-Immich
-Syncthing
-Searxing
-Paperless
-Vaultwarden
-Mealie
-Joplin
-Docker host #1(Romm, LibroFM downloader, audiobookshelf/hardcover integration)
-Docker host #2 (*arrs)
Local back up: Beelink eq12 (I think, anyways an Intel N100 thing.
-Proxmoxx
-Redundant pihole
-Redundant NginxProxyManager
-Syncthing
-Immich machine learning
Satalites, usually a RPi3. These act as a relay in users’ houses so nothing touches the open web.
-DietPi
-Tailscale
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-One poor soul has syncthing and a couple of drives for a remote backup.
I have a spare no name n100 box that I would like to turn into a network box one day, then I can manage my Airvpn and Tailscale access through that. But for now the ISP router is fine, I guess.
Not much these days. While it used to be “everything”, now it’s: