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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious what you use a local version of MediaWiki for?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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

Running Tipi on a five year old chrome box with tailscale as the VPN. Has been running great! Now I'm self hosting

  1. Adguard: adblocking inside tailnet & for DNS rewrites
  2. Barrage: Nice deluge UI
  3. Beszel: Clean & simple server monitoring. I monitor two of my instances & the self hosted setup on this.
  4. Beszel Agent: Agent for collecting data for Baszel
  5. Deluge: Torrenting
  6. Duplicati: Backups with a great UI
  7. File Browser: for quick ops
  8. Flowise AI: Great drag and drop LLM chat apps builder
  9. Immich: The absolute best way to manage pictures
  10. Jackett: For the arr stack
  11. Jellyfin: Media streaming solution with apps on my phone, TV & laptops
  12. 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
  13. Radarr
  14. Sonarr
  15. Uptime Kuma: Uptime monitoring for everything
  16. Wallos: Subscription management

Tipi is pretty awesome. If you haven't already, check it out!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Can't ask too much off my little laptop, but here it is

  • HomeAssistant
  • Frigate NVR
  • PiHole
  • Wireguard VPN
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My "Home Lab" loosely put, is an amalgamation of this:

Docker and Docker Compose installed on Ubuntu on a Dell PowerEdge 530 and on that docker host I have: -Portainer

-Nginx Proxy Manager

-Cloudflare Dynamic DNS

-Chromium

-Dozzle

-Gluetun

-Homarr

-Jellyfin

-Kanboard

-Komga

-Radarr

-Lidarr

-Sonarr

-Navodrome

-netbooyxyz (work in progress)

-Prowlarr

-qBittorrent

-Pairdrop

-Resilio-Sync

-Searxng

-Siganl CLI container for alerts

-Uptime Kuma

-VSCode

-WikiJS

-Watchtower

On one of my Pi's:

-Pihole

-Pialert

-fail2ban

-PIVPN

-Unbound

The weakest part of my setup arguably is between my storage "solution" and my networking setup.

Storage is just a bunch of large drives in the Dell. Next upgrade is a new router solution, but still use my current router for a wireless access point strictly for IOT and putting my other devices on separate VLANs.

I was thinking about getting a Nextcloud going, but not sure I want to as of right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • 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.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

How do you find actual? I couldn't really get to grips with it. Although it certainly seemed sleeker than Firefly III.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have a meager ds418play with 2x4tb drives set up with RAID. I forget what it's called, but it is one drive redundancy, 1:1. I run Plex and an FTP server on it for file storage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Just testing from selfhosted instance!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Personally, I host Sandstorm, and Discord music bot, and Minecraft.

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

I host one of the worlds last gopher sites. And some Telegram bots, on Raspberry Pi's.

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

Hi everyone! I’m a big fan of self hosting :)

I have a dedicated server in Hetzner

  • Intel Core i7-8700
  • 2x SSD M.2 NVMe 1 TB
  • 4x RAM 32768 MB DDR4

Been running it for almost a year without any issues. I host several things there. I’m using caprover.com for managing my deployments since I contributed on the project a few years ago and it’s so easy to get started.

Some of the things I host there:

  • nextcloud
  • MySQL
  • Postgres
  • privatebin
  • some Hasura instances
  • Kuma (for monitoring)
  • Browserless Chrome (which I use for web scrapping)
  • Plausible (analytics)
  • A private Ragnarok Online Server

I have setup a cron job that dumps my all of my databases (Postgres and MySQL) to my Google drive every midnight.

Hope this can help as inspiration for anyone else. Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Plex and a web app I wrote for a Twitch community I moderate.

Plex is on a server in the Netherlands and the web app is just AWS. I would've hosted on some spare hardware but my internet is notoriously trash and I didn't want to risk it going down while people are playing in the app.

Plex I might move onto a NAS at some point but I'm just too lazy lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

A Lack Rack with VMWare and TrueNAS servers, pfsense, Jellyfin, Zoneminder, web/email, Nextcloud, Minecraft, LineageOS build machine, .....other stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On a VPS:

  • mailcow for email for a personal domain

On home network:

  • unraid server as a local fileserver for backups and media (repurposed from an i5 2500k with a bunch of drives added)
  • unraid server hosts a bunch of containers -- plex -- jellyfin -- *arr apps

Edit: and hoping to play around with hosting a lemmy server in the next few days

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

I live small in the cloud for now:

  • dns
  • email
  • 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!

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

Have a PC in the basement acting as a server.

  • Microk8s on Ubuntu Server
  • Custom-written experimental NodeJS app to help when playing D&D
  • Keycloak to act as an IDP
  • Cloudflare tunnel to receive traffic
  • Valheim server (temporarily -- I moved this back to local)
  • Wiki.js
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Currently self-hosting a pi-hole instance, an nfs/smb server & a LAN-only webserver, as well as 24/7 syncthing (to which I automatically send my phone's photos to)

My specs are:

Intel Atom N270 (1 core, 2 threads) 1Gb DDR2 Ram (God knows the frequency but it's slow.) And a 500gb HDD

You really don't need a lot of oomph to self host! I'm planning on running a qBitTorrent webui next.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I host a bitcoin node, and some video

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