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I haven't actually started self-hosting anything yet, though at least I've bought a domain and I'm paying for an email service using that domain. It's nice and easy while still giving me some control my e-mail address and not being beholden to the likes of Google. I did so after my long time e-mail I had had all my life through my parents' internet provider was deleted with no warning.
I've also been looking into buying a NAS for use as a media server and backup target. I'll probably go with a Synology one for now, just to keep maintenance to a minimum. Maybe in the future I'll do something more advanced.
Here's mine:
Unraid OS: Docker:
- cadvisor
- deluge
- FileZilla
- Firefox
- Fivefilters-full-text-rss
- FreshRSS
- Home-Assistant-Container
- Libreddit
- Microsoft-Edge
- pihole
- Plex-Media-Server
- Radarr
- Resilio-Sync
- Scrutiny
- Sonarr
Unraid OS: Virtual Machines:
- Debian VM
- Windows 11 VM
Unraid OS: Plugins:
- GPU Statistics
- Tailscale
- CA Mover Tuning
- Community Applications
- Dynamix System Temperature
- Intel GPU TOP
- NVTOP
- Unassigned Devices
My unraid server is my "jack of all trades" machine running the primary services apart from my Pihole instance (as below).
Ubuntu Server LTS:
- pihole
- pivpn
- emby
This is running on an old thin client machine and is my primary Pihole/VPN machine with a backup music/media server running Emby.
Oh boy here I go:
Hardware: Ryzen 7900X, 128GB Ram, 2x12TB HDD, 2x2TB SSD
What I'm running:
- Space Engineers Server
- Minecraft Server
- Chevereto
- Mastodon
- Jellyfin
- PeerTube
- Kavita
- Calibre Web
- Vaultwarden
- Nextcloud
- Gitlab
- Navidrome
- Lemmy
- Mailcow
Raspberry Pi 4B
- OS: Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64 bit
- Pi Hole (Ad block)
- NextCloud (File access)
- Home Assistant (Automation)
- Paperless NGX (Document management)
- Apache/Php/MariaDB (Web server)
- Jellyfin (Media streaming)
- Plex (will be removed once happy with Jellyfin)
- Sonarr (Show locator)
- Radarr (Film locator)
- Bazarr (Subtitle)
- Deluge (Torrent client)
I have DietPi running on an RPi 4 with 4GB RAM.
Everything here is hosted in docker containers:
- Portainer (docker management)
- Nginx Proxy Manager (for reverse proxy)
- Nextcloud (file storage + calendar)
- Kanboard (task management + kanban board)
- Homepage
- Transmission (behind VPN with Flood web frontend)
- Jellyfin media server
- A Discord bot for my server
- Watchman, my RSS feed to Kindle setup (https://github.com/andrwcnln/watchman)
I've probably forgotten some things but that's the main bulk of it. Can't recommend DietPi enough if you are looking for a super lightweight OS for you Pi server, has been perfect for me so far. Here are some things I am looking to host in the future too:
- ntfy (for push notifications)
- Apache server for my websites
- Pi-hole
- Plausible (a replacement for Google analytics for websites)
- Vaultwarden
- Nextcloud
- Mumble
- Mail (postfix/dovecot), though I regret that I did, cause running your own mail server is a PITA
Newbie here. Trying to learn the ins and outs of self-hosting by messing around with Discord Red on my Pi 3B (on Raspberry Pi OS). Working great-ish so far! Need me some more free time to tinker with cogs.
I'm currently working on redoing my homelab stack but here is what I have running so far.
Hardware:
3x Pi 4 4GB - Debian Bookworm
1x Pi 3 - Debian Bookworm
1x 8-core AMD, 24 GB RAM, 1.5 TB of space frankenstein server - TrueNAS (might forgo the TrueNAS installation for Bookworm and just host NFS shares natively)
1x TP-LINK POE Switch
1x FriendlyWRT router
Software:
- Consul/Nomad
- Pihole (DNS/Adblock)
- Traefik (routing)
- Hashicorp Vault (secrets management)
- Authelia (authentication)
- Rabbitmq
- Bitwarden
- PostgreSQL
- Mariadb
- pgadmin (considering switching to adminer)
- Redis
- Gitea
- Drone
- AWX
- Watchtower
I've been redoing that stack for a couple of years now, and it's never quite finished; it started out as docker containers on the Pi3, went to Kubernetes, went back to containers, and finally landed on Nomad which I am loving.
I have a list of about 30 services I want to host on that stack, but I'll probably start with Foundry VTT, Paperless, and Calibre.
Forgot to mention my cloud stuff
- Lemmy instance: https://pathfinder.social for all your Pathfinder and Starfinder TTRP needs.
- Resume website based on The Cloud Resume Challenge (https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/) that I want to redo and just self-host pretty soon
I'm selfhosting a Terraria server, with a medium size world
I have a VPS (netcup) with 8 cores, 12GB RAM and 320GB SSD. Hosting there on Ubuntu 22.04:
- Matrix
- Mastodon
- Nextcloud
- Wordpress
- Adguard
- Stirling PDF
- Gotify
- Bitwarden
At home I have a Ryzen 5 5600G with 16GB RAM on a B550 aorus elite v2 with 2TB nvme SSD and 2x 6TB seagate HDDs.
Hosting there on Fedora 38 KDE:
- Immich
- Jellyfin
- Lemmy
- Photoview
- ArozOS
- Paperless
- Dashdot
- Codeserver
- LXD Dashboard
- Scrutiny
- Cloudbeaver
- jDownloader
- Kavita
- Podgrab
- Home Assistant - smart home management
- OMV - storage manager/docker host
- Portainer - docker manager
- Overseer - media manager/request interface
- Sonarr - tv show manager
- Radarr - movie manager
- SABNZBD - media finder
- Plex - media server
- Tautulli - plex monitor
- Kavita - book/comic manager
- Octoprint - remote 3d printer management
- Pi-Hole - network ad filter
- Uptime Kuma - uptime monitor
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Portainer
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Adguard home
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Home assistant
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Influxdb
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Grafana
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Frigate NVR
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Sonarr
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Lidarr
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Jackett
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Plex
All on Debian mini PC N5095
- VS Code Server (remote development environment)
- Paperless NGX (document management)
- Bookstack (personal wiki)
- Portainer (docker management)
- Authelia (authentication)
At home:
- HomeAssistant OS in a Raspberry PI. Runs all the lights, curtains, heating, air-conditioning and media at home. (Linux)
- Hifiberry with a good DAC connected to it, runs mpv, airplay and chromecast audio. (RPI, Linux)
- TrueNAS together with over 40 terabytes of space (FreeBSD)
- Plex and Plexamp for music (FreeBSD)
- OPNsense router runs the whole home network (FreeBSD)
- A private git server for stuff I don't want to push to a public server (FreeBSD)
- Jellyfin server for movies and television (FreeBSD), client on an NVIDIA Shield (Android)
- Unifi controller to handle the home WiFi (FreeBSD)
Remote:
- Akkoma for Twitter-like communication on the Fediverse (Linux)
- Lemmy to talk with y'all in here (Linux)
- PostgreSQL as the central database for all my remote services (Linux)
- Elasticsearch for searching the Fediverse (Linux)
- SearXNG as my private search engine (Linux)
I have proxmox running on PC in my closet. So far not a ton of things hosted on it:
Current:
- Minecraft (vanilla) on debian
- Valheim on debian
- A debian VM running some tools (namely dynamic DNS)
Planned:
- Plex!
- Prolly more game servers
I am running Mealie (recipe management site) and pi hole (network ad blocker) on an old MacBook Pro (2012?) loaded with Ubuntu server. Also have Plex media server running on my main computer (Pop OS)
- Vaultwarden
- 2 pi holes
- the suite of arrrs + nzbget
- jellyfin
- ombi
- OMV for a SMB share
- Nextcloud
- homer as a dashboard
- homeassistsnt
- uptime kuma
- koillection
I did also have a wordpress site but that was too much hassle so the container is stopped at the moment.
All on docker (except OMV) and using portainer for sanity.
Internal SSL using a domain and nginx proxy manager.
At the moment, just a Plex server, but would love to migrate to Jellyfin eventually.
The Plex ads and bloat are really starting to get to me.
cluster (two old laptops, and 3 PI 3s): nomad glusterfs consul
containers on nomad: gitea nodered traefik nextdns postfix cloudflared diun uptimekuma searxng n8n nfty minecraft bedrock maraiadb linkding ddclient
docker (on unraid): audiobookshelf changedetection.io fileflows gluetun jellyfin metube netdata qbittorrent unifi controller
Minecraft server
Home Assistant
Nextcloud
Veeam
Need to get a Bitwarden instance going.
Navidrome, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud are the services I use the most, and all the related stuff, MySQL, NPM, Redis, Collabora, etc.
Jellyfin is running on my Unraid server (28tb usable), the rest are running on an Ubuntu Server system (1tb, raid 1 SSDs).
Feels like literally everything...
LXC:
NginxProxyManager
Kasm
Several instances of GameServer
openemr (testing for viability for a client)
3 instances of TechnitiumDNS
Nextcloud
Graylog
UptimeKuma
ChangeDetection
Zwave-js
MeshCentral
Homepage
Canvas (yes a full instance of canvas. I used to be a college instructor, I have a copy of all my courses)
InvoiceNinja
Matrix
Lemmy
UnifiController
Gameyfin (I don't like this that much... it'll likely get killed)
6 instances of generic docker on LXC running portainer for other services:
diagrams.net (specifically tied into my nextcloud instance)
ghostfolio
it-tools
librespeed
libretranslate
quakejs
rickroll
rxresume
searxng
Ascii starwars
wxrdle
gramps.js
teamspeak
authentik (I think I like keycloak more and might migrate back)
bisq
hrconvert2
And a watchtower instance on each.
VMs:
Proxmox Backup Server
Mailcow
Librenms
freepbx
HomeAssistant
Windows Domain Server (no GUI)
"Media Server" which is a plex stack with all the *arr fixings.
And a vpn bound qbitorrent instance.
Edit:
I missed an old VM that I'm in the process of deprecating out to lxc...
Docker01:
Archivebox
Ghost
Bookstack
LibreCaptcha
Wordpress (for a client)
parsedmarc
gitea
grocy
YOURLS
minecraft
opennox
vaultwarden
racktables
tubearchivist
Paperless NGX on a Raspberry 4. No more paper documents at home... Everything that still comes by mail is instantly scanned and shredded. Emails are also scanned and attachments are added automatically, if important.
In my homelab I have two main servers
Esxi: Opnsense VM --Running Wireguard VPN Docker VM --Vaultwarden --Portainer --FreshRSS --Heimdall Dashboard --SponsorBlockCast --Portainer Agent Home Assistant VM --Node Red --Frigate --DoubleTake --zigbee2mqtt --Mosquitto --ESPHome SecureVM --NGINX Proxy Manager --Portainer Agent
Ubuntu Media Server 40tb zfs Running Docker: --Scrutiny --Plex --YTDL Material --Lidarr --Radarr --Bazarr --Sonarr --Sabnzbd --Compfreface --Portainer Agent Cockpit
I've got some Dell 2U I got from work.
Currently running Proxmox for a hypervisor.
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OPNsense - Main Gateway,Firewall,etc. Also Reverse Proxy
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UnFi Controller for AP
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OMV as my NAS which also hosts an emby container to keep it close to the data.
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Wireguard VPN
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Mumble Music Bot
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Game servers.
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OMV is set up with SnapRAID and mergerfs.
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EmbyContainer just mounts the localdrives.
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Mumble server is on a VPS which also handles the domain and email I use as well.
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Basically whatever my group of friends is playing
I would like to upgrade the server for 10gbit. My ISP has 3000/3000 fibre I could get.
I host a custom PaaS I developed during the pandemic, based of Docker Swarm.
On it I have:
- Nextcloud
- collabora
- matrix/synapse
- a service that bypasses a podcast's platform requirement to be logged in to listen to full content through RSS feed
- 6 very small websites
I run:
- Matrix
- Mastodon
- Pixelfed
These days I just got a plex server and a project zomboid server running.
Pretty much everything to be fair:
- Email with Roundcube
- Chat with Matrix-Synapse + Element
- My files with Nextcloud, easily one of my most used self-hosted apps
- RSS with Miniflux (open to change, as soon as I find any RSS backend with a usable Android app)
- My social network presence, with Pleroma (again, subject to change, as soon as I know how to properly move my domain to a different software tool)
- My media, with Jellyfin
- Peertube to watch videos from other instances and comment on them
- And finally, all of the above protected with a password vault from Vaultwarden
EDIT: For those wondering, I use @yunohost@mastodon.social ( https://yunohost.org ) as my server manager
File storage, mainly. I have 2 NAS devices (one Synology I picked up in 2014, and an Unraid device I just built a couple months ago) - the former holds 13TB and the latter currently holds 35TB with plans to bring it to 100TB as I get money for more drives.
The Unraid system has a Youtube-dl instance running to auto-pull videos from the channels I follow, and I also run my Plex server from it. The Synology only has a Git server on it that I use to keep local copies of repos that I store on GitHub, along with personal projects that I'd rather not publish (even as private repos) in the cloud.
Most recently I'm running my own instances of Mastodon and Lemmy. Those are on my Hetzner dedicated server along with a bunch of other services and websites, but what I use the most is Miniflux, Immich and Photoprism.
Then I turned my old laptop (it's got decent spec) into a home server running Jellyfin.
I've been running Arch Linux on a Gigabyte Brix with two USB HDDs for... years now. At least 8. On and off, there were several services, but mostly, this device is meant to host
- NFS and SMB file shares
- syncthing, because I can't get my Macbook to use the network shares in a performant way
- plex media server
- nginx with mariadb for a privately hosted database of a German TV show (Tatort) and also a self-made expense tracker
- paperless-ngx for electronic document management
- traefik as a reverse proxy
- heimdall to remind me what's there :)
- a couple statically generated web sites
- changedetection.io to check some websites for changes
- watchtower to at least notify me when new docker images are available
- portainer to have kind of a dashboard for all services
- youtube-dl-material
- dokuwiki as a second brain
Since Arch Linux is rolling, it sometimes simply breaks after an update. But since the services have gotten more critical for me over time (especially plex :) ) I plan on putting some of the services to a host in the cloud behind a WireGuard VPN. Also, the Brix should be re-installed with Ubuntu or Debian some day.
Everything runs in a kubernetes cluster hosted on my homelab, except the public services access point which is a VM hosted on a non-profit ISP and service provider infrastructure, which I contribute to, through a wireguard VPN between the VM and home:
Public-facing:
- an old static website (nginx-unprivileged), which was my first website and which I keep online because nostalgia
- Ghost, personal blog
- OpenSMTPd + rspamd + dovecot (dovecot only accessible from home, not public)
- privatebin
- picoshare
- Whoogle + Tor
- SearxNG
Work related (I work from home 75% of time), not public-facing:
- dolibarr ERP for managing prospects and clients billing
- gitea
- bookstack for personal documentation
- edit: forgot Harbor as container registry.
- vaultwarden
- eck-operator
- wireguard operator for personal, family and friends access from outside
- awx operator
- draw.io
- zalando postgresql operator for postgres needs
- mariadb-galera for mariadb needs
- bitlbee-libpurple for all clients' slack needs
- Authentik as OIDC/LDAP/SAML provider (also used to identify family and friends)
- internal DNS (pdns-resolver + powerdns with postgres backend) serving work zone and home zone.
Home stuff, not public-facing:
- Games: Minetest, EQEmu server (Everquest), planar ally, bzflag, veloren
- Home-cinema/music: Jellyfin, Koel, alltube, and the usual tools to share Linux isos.
- Immich to sync photos
- homeassistant (more a PoC than anything else right now)
- mealie for recipes (I like cooking original meals for friends and family) and lunch/dinner planning
- another instance of vaultwarden for family
- piHole to keep the children a bit safer online (notably blocking malware/scams/nsfw sites)
all of this running on a 3 control-planes/6 workers talos linux k8s cluster, itself hosted on a franken-proxmox cluster (a mix of server/"old" desktops/Ryzen NUCs) and a bunch of NAS (VM dedicated NAS, data storage NAS, backup NAS).