- Two NextCloud instances, one is a RPi4 with a big external HDD which I use for backups, the other one contains everything else, including PhoneTrack. Happy to have a self-hosted privacy-friendly way to share my location with family.
- Email using mailcow.
- Jabber server using prosody. Using it with immediate family and two friends. Still super happy.
- Web server including personal blogs. Currently looking to migrate away from Wordpress into something static without comments.
- pihole
- Half-finished home automation stuff.
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So... ODroid N2+ is hosting a Home Assistant. Nothing to add.
I have an old Intel Nuc nuc5cpyh that is currently hosting my WordPress blog at https://some-techy-tinkering.com/. Made it self-hosted a month ago and can't be happier.
The last machine is Intel Nuc nuc7i7bnh with 2 TBs of internal and 4.5 TBs of external drives. This is my main server with:
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Nextcloud
- Various *arr services
- qBittorrent
- Plex
A bunch (47 containers at present)... Won't list them here as its kind of redundant with what a lot of other people are running. My latest is Lemmy (lemmy.nine-hells.net).
Hey, thanks for the selfhost community!
1u homebrew server
- Docker containers
- Mail server (mail in a box)
Tower server running Freebsd
- Asterisk - jail
- Conduit Matrix server - jail
- Homeassistant - jail
- NFS shares
- Nginx - jail
- Postgres - jail
On my own hardware: At home I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running JellyFin as a local media server, also experimenting with PiHole. One of these days I'd like to pull my NextCloud server in-house.
VPS: Nextcloud (including calendar, notes, contacts & RSS/Atom), GoToSocial, WordPress, Gemini, and personal website with a mix of home-grown parts and sections managed through Eleventy.
I've also experimented with self-hosting Calckey , Snac2 and Mastodon, but Mastodon's too heavy for a single user and Snac2 is lighter than I want to go with for now. I may try Calckey again at some point, though.
Eventually I'd like to set up Wallabag and migrate from Pocket.
Just in case it's helpful, here's my docker-compose file for Wallabag behind traefik: https://pastebin.com/b2VEbxae
znc, radicale, miniflux, gotosocial, lemmy, i2pd, searx, rtorrent, webdav
I have a two server proxmox cluster (beelink ser5, hp prodesk micro g3) plus running and proxying some services to my daily driver desktop
Services:
- authelia
- caddy
- change dection
- code server
- file browser
- gokapi
- immich
- jellyfin
- jupyter notebook server (for python development)
- kasm
- linkding
- mealie
- nextcloud
- nocodb
- olivetin
- paperless
- portainer
- syncthing
- gluetun
- radarr, sonarr, jacket
- upsnap
- vaultwarden
Always looking for more, but so far it's pretty minimal.
- Pi.hole with Gravity Sync
- openhabian for smarthome hub
Looking to add Jellyfin and a sonarr radarr setup, but my QNAP doesn't like doing actual work so I've been struggling. Planning to add a mini PC soon as a more stable server and to centralize things a bit.
I live small in the cloud for now:
- dns
- homeassistant
Used to selfhost a gitlab instance, nextcloud and some other things, but I'm between houses so it has to wait.
Lots of good inspiration here!
Plex+arrs etc Nextcloud Komga SWAG Photoprism HA
128TB.
My main hypervisor is proxmox which runs an unraid vm with the iGPU passed through to accelerate PLEX and disk controllers to manage the storage. I also have 2 Endeavour OS VMs, one that runs Thunderbird and Insync. Another that has a quadro p2000 passed through to tinker with. I also have a homeassistant vm and a proxmox CT running docker.
I'm working up to transitioning the dockers on unraid to a proxmox container but at the same time if it's not broke why fix it.
I also want to mess with networking by putting in OPNsense or pfsense and routing some traffic through a vps.
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.
- Jellyfin (docker)
- Kavita (docker)
- Home Assistant (pi4)
- Paperless-ngx (docker)
- ~~PiHole (pi zero)~~ currently broken
- Unifi controller (docker)
- Grafana (home assistant)
- InfluxDB (docker)
- LibreNMS (VM)
Using LXD:
- ddclient
- Jellyfin (2)
- Minecraft (proxy + 4 servers)
- Satisfactory server
- V Rising
- Gitea vcs
- wordpress
- rtorrent
- other web servers
Using rootless Podman + Systemd service:
- Vaultwarden
- Linkding
- Traefik
- Immich photo backup
- Nextcloud (though I hate it, probably will stop)
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Prowlarr/Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Bazarr/Recyclarr
- Rtorrent + Flood
- Jellyseerr
- Navidrome (Subsonic server)
- Miniflux (RSS)
- Woodpecker (CI integration for Gitea)
- Tubearchivist (yt-dl)
- wg-easy (wireguard)
- searxng
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.
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Pihole
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Sonarr
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Radarr
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Lidarr
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Notifiarr
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Sabzbd
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Nicotine+
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Kodi
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Plex
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Airsonic
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Nextcloud
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Joplin
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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:
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proxmox
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podman/portainer
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unbound
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ngnx proxy mgr
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Solid server
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homepage
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matrix
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searxng
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some sort of mail stack, TBD
I host:
- docker-mailserver
- code-server
- Vaultwarden
- Flame Dashboard
- FreePad
- Gotify
- Nextcloud
- Baikal
- Mosquitto
- HomeAssistant
- Node-RED
- InfluxDB
- Grafana
- piHole, Cloudflare DNS over HTTPS client
- Uptime Kuma
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- wg-easy
- Shiori
- MeTube
- Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Unpackerr,...
- qBittorrent, Gluetun
- Jellyfin
- Watchtower
- Honeygain, Pawns App, Peer2Profit, Traffmonetizer
- 4 Websites via Nginx
- a few services that I wrote myself
I think that should be it. I left out some less important ones and probably forgot a few that I don't use that often. All these Services are spread across 2 servers at home and a small VPS mainly used for the mailserver and Uptime Kuma.
I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.
Hi there. My first post in this community.
I'm currently running:
- Pi-hole
- Plex Media Server
- Grafana
- Torrent server
- Monica
- Shaarli
- Matrix instance
- Arch package cache
- Several game servers such as Minecraft and Terraria
- VM running Volvo software to troubleshoot my cars.
My hardware: I used to run it all on a Supermicro x9drd-7ln4f-jbod with dual Xeon E5-2670 v2 with 16x16GB ECC ram and 6x 3TB disks in raidz2 for storage and 2x 60gb Intel SSDs for OS. I started with less and upgraded towards this configuration but it was consuming 300 watt idle which was just unacceptable.
So earlier this year I upgraded to an ASRock Rack x470D4U with Ryzen 7 5700x and 4x32GB ECC (non-registered) ram and 6x 2TB SSDs in raidz2. 1 ssd is in the nvme slot on the motherboard, 4 are in a 4x4 bifurcation card in the 16x slot and 1 more in a 4x riser. All PCIe lanes of the CPU are used. This setup is not possible with an AMD CPU with integrated GPU since it will take up 4 PCIe lanes (you can guess how I know). It uses about 20 watt idle without any containers and VMs running. I initially didn't want to move away from Supermicro but the ASRock Rack motherboard has IPMI so I'm not missing out on much.
Hardware and software suggestions are welcome :D
I'm just getting my server up and running! Previously it only ran Honeassistant.
Now it runs proxmox, which boots 2 vms, one for HAOS and another for Debian. On the Debian vm there is currently Plex, nextcloud, and some -arr apps.
8 also have a separate raspberry pi pihole. I've had that going for years now, I think I first made it 2019.
A cobbled together Ryzen 2400g with 16GB of ram. Open Media Vault/Docker: Plex Nextcloud stack with dns refresh/ssl/nginx Sonarr/transmission stack with VPN PiHole Octoprint
Occasionally I run a game server or two when the need comes up, mostly Valheim lately.
Everything except Node-exporter running in containers on a single Ubuntu machine. i5-6500T, 16gb RAM & 1TB.
Media Stack
- JellyFin
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Calibre
- Calibre-Web
IT Stack
- FreshRSS
- IT-Tools
- Prometheus
- Grafanna
- Node-Exporter
- Watchtower
Can't ask too much off my little laptop, but here it is
- HomeAssistant
- Frigate NVR
- PiHole
- Wireguard VPN
I don't selfhost very much compared to other people and my hardware's pretty much either all literally found in the garbage or 2nd hand, but here it is
PiHole
WireGuard server that passes trough pihole adblocking
Homarr (lol)
Deluge
The system is mostly a NAS that I also run the occasinal general purpose VM off of, here are the specs for the 3 ppl that care:
CPU: AMD FX-8320E
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 5x2TB Seagate something something 7200RPM in RAIDz1, 128 GB random chinese SSD (mostly for VMs and apps) the, OS runs off of a flash drive
OS: TrueNAS scale
A Lack Rack with VMWare and TrueNAS servers, pfsense, Jellyfin, Zoneminder, web/email, Nextcloud, Minecraft, LineageOS build machine, .....other stuff
I host a bitcoin node, and some video
I dabble in the ARRs, plex, jellyfin, emby nextcloud. I have an old supermicro server 2014 I got on eBay with dual e5 2620, 64gb RAM, and 12 hdds of various types adding to 100tb all on LVM in ubuntu. I'm planning on transitioning to UnRAID once I get the motivation because my storage hygiene is bad. I've broken LVM too often with misplaced commands.
I'm looking at making an offsite backup shortly mostly for nextcloud at a coworkers home. I am trying to get rid of my reliance on Google for backup.
Running Tipi on a five year old chrome box with tailscale as the VPN. Has been running great! Now I'm self hosting
- Adguard: adblocking inside tailnet & for DNS rewrites
- Barrage: Nice deluge UI
- Beszel: Clean & simple server monitoring. I monitor two of my instances & the self hosted setup on this.
- Beszel Agent: Agent for collecting data for Baszel
- Deluge: Torrenting
- Duplicati: Backups with a great UI
- File Browser: for quick ops
- Flowise AI: Great drag and drop LLM chat apps builder
- Immich: The absolute best way to manage pictures
- Jackett: For the arr stack
- Jellyfin: Media streaming solution with apps on my phone, TV & laptops
- Open WebUI: My default LLM chat client now, I no longer pay 20$ for chatGPT but just pay as I go with open webui and chatgpt api key
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Uptime Kuma: Uptime monitoring for everything
- Wallos: Subscription management
Tipi is pretty awesome. If you haven't already, check it out!
Available from internet:
- jellyfin
- jellyseerr
- immich
- paperless-ngx
- owncloud ocis
- traefik
- homarr
Available only from local:
- the *arr stack
- qbittorrent
- jackett
- watchtower
- apprise
- netdata (kinda new, still have to fully understand how it works)
- portainer
- speedtest-tracker
- homepage
Security
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.
Hardware:
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
docker compose files
All the docker compose files + how I configured everything is available at: https://github.com/simone-viozzi/my-server
Bonus:
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 welcome any advice / criticism!
Jellyfin Nextcloud Homeassistant Mattermost Gitlab Visions of Chaos Oobabooga Automatic1111
HARDWARE:
- Dual Xeon E5-2640v3
- Nvidia Quadro P2000 GPU
- 128Gb DDR4 ECC Memory
- 4 x 4tb WD Red plus drives in raidz2 for bulk network storage
- 2 x 500gb WD Red SSD, mirrored for fast network storage
- 2 x 1tb Samsung EVO 870 SSD, mirrored for vms
- 1 x 2tb WD Purple Surveillance Drive
- 1 x 8tb Seagate Barracuda Media Drive
PROXMOX:
- Nginx
- Nextcloud
- Truenas with Backblaze B2 backup
- 2 x WordPress sites
- Home Assistant
- Grafana
- Mosquito MQTT
- Tailscale VPN
- ESPHome
- 3D print server (Repetier Pro) with webcam feeds
- Plex
- Blue Iris NVR
- Codeproject.ai (object detection)
- Transmission with PIA VPN
- Backblaze personal backup client for media
I host one of the worlds last gopher sites. And some Telegram bots, on Raspberry Pi's.
Wow, is Gopher still a thing?
Virtualized with libvirt:
- Nomad (3 nodes)
- Consul (3 nodes)
- Vault (3 nodes)
- Gitlab + CI
- Nextcloud
- Sonarr, radarr, bazarr, jackett, deluge
- Prometheus
- opensearch
- puppet
- powerdns (international authoritive main + replica), unbound (internal recursor), ntp (2 nodes)
- powerdns (public authoritive replica)
- haproxy (2 nodes)
- nfs, samba
- Seaweedfs (S3) (3 nodes)
- rsnapshot
- package repositories (deb, rpm - plain dirs/files served by apache, with some scripts to manage repo metadata)
- postgresql + patroni (2 nodes)
- container registry (to investigate replacing with zot)
- openldap, keycloak (2 nodes)
- unifi controller
In nomad:
- Grafana
- Vaultwarden
- Tandoor
- Matrix
- Puppetboard
- Prometheus exporters for various things
Offsite rpi @ parents
- Rsnapshot, samba
Rpi doing router duties, to be replaced with rb3011 when I finalize it's config in terraform
VPS:
- Powerdns (public authoritive primary), haproxy, postfix (secondary MX)
- Postfix (primary MX), dovecot, spamassassin, opendmarc, opendkim
Old laptop: k8s playground for learning
Short-term todo:
- Homeassistant
Public dns names have A records pointing to haproxy vps, which proxies to home over tunnel, and AAAA records pointing straight to home (I have static ipv6 prefix, but no static ipv4 address)
Lots of stuff! Currently running almost all of these in Docker on a Synology NAS:
- Code Server - access my notes files remotely
- Gitea - only used to store notes that are edited in Obsidian (or Code Server as mentioned above)
- Home Assistant - home automation
- Homebridge - used for one or two devices that have better integrations than natively in Home Assistant
- Jellyfin - video streaming platform (installed because it's FOSS and seems interesting, but I rarely use it)
- Overseerr - user-request app for video streaming platform (installed when I anticipated sharing my movies/shows before realizing that my ISP severely limits my upload speeds)
- Pi-Hole - block all ads network-wide
- Plex - primary video streaming platform
- Radarr - download movies
- Readarr - download books but have had better luck with Libgen on an ad-hoc basis
- Sonarr - download shows
- YTDL - download YT videos
- Wireguard - VPN into the home network
Since I haven't seen it commented yet, I host a kiwix backup of stackoverflow and it has already saved me a couple times during outages.
- Caddy (web server)
- Agate (gemini server)
- FreshRSS (rss reader)
- Yarr (rss reader)
- ergo (irc server)
- akkoma
- prosody (xmpp)
- conduit (matrix)
- nextcloud
- soju (irc bouncer)
- gamja (irc web interface)
- qbittorrent-nox
- unbound/dnsmasq
- isso (selfhosted comments server)
- smbd and nfs server
- pivpn wireguard
- minecraft stuff in seperate ubuntu vm:
- pterodactyl panel
- pterodactyl daemon
- probably something else I forget
- currently just running a monero miner as I have not been playing minecraft recently.
Hardware: Main server Ryzen 7 3900XT with 64GB of ram, two 240GB ssds running in raid1, two 4tb hard drives running in raid1, running proxmox with mostly alpine linux VMs
Secondary Server: Intel nuc running alpinelinux, only running secondary unbound/dnsmasq server so if my main server goes down, dns still works.
Late 2013 iMac: I was using it to run an iMessage to matrix bridge but I was not able to get it to work so now I just vnc into it to text. (suggestions welcome as vnc is annoying)
I also have another intel nuc that does not do anything.
All of these servers are connected to an APC back-ups UPS.
Main Server - 37 Containers, 4 VMs
- Media: Plex, Audiobookshelf, along with everything for a complete *arr stack
- Network: Cloudflared, NginxProxyManager, Tailscale, Gluetun (for *arrs)
- Other: Authelia, OpenVSCode, Filebrowser, SFTPGo, Bitcoin Node to support the network
- VMs: Parrot, Windows 11 for local and remote gaming, Windows 3.11 (because why not), currently spun up myNode to see if I want to explore hosting a Bitcoin Ligtning Node
Smarthome Server - OptiPlex 3050
- Containers: mqtt, NodeRed, zigbee2mqtt, homebridge, tailscale, pihole (paired with my phone usually)
- VM: HomeAssistant
Testing Server - OptiPlex 7060
Lately been testing and making stuff using linuxserver/docker-baseimage-kasmvnc.
- Arduino-IDE running in a container - with USB hotswap.
- Featherwallet and Electrumwallet (I use a HW-Wallet for HODL).
- Lutris, got it working with Hearthstone, but didn't really have a use for it.
- Nomachine in kasmvnc, to (somewhat) smoothly access my VMs through the webbrowser when I just need something fast.
Linuxserver Firefox.
XMR Mining Server - Old tired HP SFF
Basicly everything from this guide by seth for privacy; monerod, p2pool, tor, watchtower, and a python-webserver to expose metrics/api.
- Mail server
- Bitwarden (vaultwarden)
- Git server (apache + basic git server. no git frontend)
All on dedicated cloud servers for simplicity and security.
Im looking at selfhostihng on my own hardware again. Im considering the following
- lemmy instance
- proxmox with gpu
- Some sort of production database
Ceph (rbd,s3) on 4 poweredges.
Nomad, Consul servers running in a 3 node raft on some ARM SBCs.
Nomad clients on 2 poweredges and 3 arm SBCs running:
- s3 CSI (media and large file storage is all on s3)
- rbd CSI (all the stateful jobs have rbd block devices)
- NATS cluster with Jetstream to enable MQTT support
- mosquito mqtt (had to run mosquito for mqtt v5)
- mosquito<->nats bridge (via benthos)
- nodered (just for easy Google home integration)
- zwavejs2mqtt
- zigbee2mqtt
- frigate (can only talk mqtt v5 so had to run mosquito just for this)
- grafana
- gotify
- gitea
- drone CI
- postgresql
- BitTorrent client
- ceph rgw s3 gateways
- NATS based home automation lambdas - I wrote these in go
- Adguard home
- traefik as main ingress
- Prometheus
- prom node exporter
- jellyfin
- jackett
- a program I wrote that manages torznab->acquisiton->s3 lifecycle
- a website
- wireguard servers
And that is just in the server room - I also have more like the 3d printer and CNC machine controllers etc.
Hardware:
- CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v4
- RAM: 256GB ECC
- Storage: 4x256GB Enterprise SSD, 4x2TB SSD (ZFS Striped Mirror)
Software:
- pfSense
- Proxmox
- k3s with Flux and Longhorn
- Gitea
- Woodpecker
- UniFi
- FreshRSS
- Grafana / Loki
- Ntfy
- Paperless-ngx
- Vaultwarden
- Minio
- Syncthing
I purchased the server used. The services are mostly running in a virtualized cluster, which is absolutely oversized for the current tasks. However, it has motivated me to learn Kubernetes and the power consumption is within my limits.
Pi-hole, Wireguard + 'a CDN client' on raspberry pi 4 with SSD
Ditched my Synology NAS, running an unRaid machine now:
i5-10400, 32 GiB (to much) Memory, 15.7 TB used of 60 TB
- VMs: homeassistant , macOS, Windows 10
- SWAG, Cloudflare DDNS, Arrrrrr dockers, Plex, ArchiveTeamWarrior, gokapi, qBittorrent, Resilio Sync, wikijs, mariaDB + whatever I find interesting to try out