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A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
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- Jellyfin - Media streaming type app - basically use it for movies/shows and pictures.
- Joplin - Note taking app
- Syncthing - Sync for phones to PC for backing up pictures
- Miniflux - RSS reader
- Minetest - FOSS Minecraft voxel engine
- Veloren - FOSS Cubeworld game written in Rust
- GoToSocial - Microblogging server - aka Twitter/Mastodon
- Semaphore - Frontend for GoToSocial
- SearXNG - Search engine
- Conduit - Matrix server - chat
- Libremdb - IMBD frontend
- Invidious - Youtube frontend
- Nitter - Twitter frontend
- Libreddit - Reddit frontend
- Rimgo - Imgur frontend
- Proxitok - TikTok frontend
Failed to get working:
- Mobilizon - FB groups type alternative
- Peertube - YT alternative on the Fediverse
- Lemmy - Tried for a day and just couldn't get it working. Found out there are issues with Rocky Linux and Lemmy that broke about two months ago but no further work was done it. I'll try again someday.
Almost everything has been mentioned already so I just stick with the unusual: I host a private MediaWiki instance for note taking in my pen and paper rounds. It's amazing once the other players got a bit more comfortable how to use it well regarding templates, categories and articles. My only regret is that I didn't set up new instances per gaming group.
I run:
- Matrix
- Mastodon
- Pixelfed
DYI NAS (mini-itx mobo with on-board atom chip and 8 GB ram and zfs) running:
- ssh (SCP/sshfs shared)
- smb
- jellyfin
- syncthing
- dovecot
- rclone for pull backups from Google drove, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
- restic for backing everything up to backblaze + azure
Intel NUC running:
- zwavejs
- deconz / phoscon
Intel NUC (DMZ) running:
- wireguard
- home assistant
- Doods (object detection for home assistant camera entities
- mosquitto mqtt
- unifi controller
- AdGuardHome
- roundcube email
- nginx reverse proxy for all services + hosting some static sites
Not much. I have a searxng instance, used to have nextcloud… I should start hosting more stuff really soon
Classic useless answer but nothing ATM 🙃. I've been travelling for a few months and won't be able to host anything til I get home mid July. However, I do have plans to host a website or two, maybe even a Bookwyrm, Lemmy or Mastodon instance.
Syncthing, Plex, and DokuWiki.
My needs are small but Syncthing is for standard file sync and DokuWiki is for a repository for my family. It's been surprisingly useful to be able to spin and delete up a syncthing folder for some specific thing.
Plex is for my ripped DVDs and also a great way to consume my photos archive without keeping a copy locally on my phone.
- Heimdall
- Home Assistant
- Plex
- Nginx Proxy Manager - ram hog
- Adguard
- NodeRed
- ZWaveJS
- Zigbee2Mqtt
- Portainer
- qBittorent
- Ring-MQTT
Running on a minisofurm mini pc with 5600h, paid $219 and used spare drives and ram lying around. Used to run 2 raspberry pi 4s but retired those due to updating home assistant via docker getting really old. Proxmox handles things great, like the flexibility and performance boost too, especially just pulling docker images lol, unarchiving was so painful on pi 4.
Gitea
Backups via rsync
Jellyfin
Piped for YouTube
Using gentoo Linux with raspberry pi 4B
Lots. I have 2 proxmox hypervisors and 3 Raspberry Pi's; my OS of choice for servers is Ubuntu Server or Raspbian.
- ISC-DHCP-Server (DHCP)
- Bind9 (DNS)
- Pihole (pihole upstreams to bind9) (More DNS with ad and content blocking)
- OpenLDAP (Directory)
- Jellyfin (Media)
- Nextcloud (General google drive replacement)
- Vaultwarden (password Vault)
- Asterisk (Phone)
- EasyRSA Certificate Authority (Certificates)
- Minecraft (Gaming!)
- HomeAssistant (Home Automation)
- Octoprint (3D Printing)
- Shinobi (Security Cameras)
- Multiple Apache Websites (Web)
- Exim4 mail relay (Mail)
Experimental:
- Photoprism (Photo Sharing)
- tt-rss (RSS Reader)-
My main machine is running Linux Mint on a Ryzen 2700x, 32gb ram, 80TB of raw storage and a vega 64 GPU.
Running:
- Home Assistant
- Emby Server
- Photoprism
- Piwigo
- The usual NZB suite
- FTP Server for uploading cellphone pictures automatically at night time
Photoprism
You should give Immich a go. It's infinitely better.
I've got a Nextcloud instance that I've run for a few years. Love it. At home I have an Odroid H3+ with 64GB of ram running Openmediavault. Got about a dozen containers running on that. I need to play with it more and use that ram. I did try to get Boinc running on it but it, sadly, kept shutting down. I'll have to find a another way to contribute to science.
Currently: RPi4 with CasaOS, running Pihole and Home Assistant, which I honestly rarely use, unfortunately.
Potentially planned: -Jellyfin -Rustdesk server -Some samba solution on RPi4 for my hdd I currently have hooked to my router, any advice on what I should look into for that would be appreciated.
- Home Assistant (running on RPi, proxied to VPS)
- Zigbee2MQTT (running on RPi)
- NodeRed (running on RPi)
- Joplin (VPS, opensource note taking app)
- Minecraft modded modpack (VPS, statech 1.0.3) Probably a couple more I'm forgetting.
This is all in docker containers behind a reverse proxy using Traefik. Im happy with the setup as it's really versatile and so far hasn't failed me. Biggest upgrade I've done is replacing the SD card of the RPi with an SSD
- Jellyfin - film/tv, both locally and on a seedbox.
- stable-diffusion-webui - self explanatory
- Matrix/synapse - private instant messaging for myself and tech minded friends
- MeTube - web UI for youtube-dl
- Stash - like Jellyfin/Plex but for any adult media you may have (link is SFW).
- Lemmy - only privately just seeing how it all works, I don't intend to make a public instance.
- A fairly typical LEMP (Ubuntu, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) stack on my VPS
Stuff I used to use or have at least tried out:
- Plex
- Calibre-web
- Typical LAMP (CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack back in the old days (PHP4/5) when I did a bit of web dev.
Why Jellyfin over plex? I looked at JF but the lack of a good Xbox app made me stick with Plex.
I jumped ship due to privacy concerns - I didn't like that my internally-hosted Plex web home had like 12 things blocked by uBlock, and I really like open source software!
I run an I2P instance and I'm starting to look at Plex. I wonder if those can be combined.
Part of my Reddit exodus plan was to get serious about my RSS setup.
I've settled on:
- FreshRSS as my feed manager (supported by Reeder app in iOS and MacOS)
- FiveFilters Full Text extractor
- rss-proxy site scraper
I may experiment with some replacements for rss-proxy, as I've run into a couple sites it doesn't scrape well, but FreshRSS and FiveFilters have been smashing successes.
i USED to host a mc server, now i dont host anything as i cant get jellyfish automatic pirating to work...
Mail server, pi-hole, mediawiki, kanboard, Tiny Tiny RSS, Baïkal, Minetest, Transmission, Jellyfin, Filestash and some homebrew.
I use Wireguard to access all that from outside my network. This way, my mail server only exposes smtp.
- whats your opinion on selfhosting mail servers?
- why have you chosen baikal over radicale?
- are you happy with filestash? im torn between filestash and filebrowser
I'm self-hosting my mail server for all kinds of neat tricks, like turning mailing lists into RSS feeds and putting attached bills in the right folder. But it is tricky to pull off, because 90% of all email is spam so you must take that seriously because otherwise nobody will accept you mail. One thing I learned quickly is not to use PGP. They almost always and up in spam boxes.
I switched from radicale to baikal because vdirsyncer (which I then used) didn't agree with radicale on the caldav standard. And I'm very happy with Filestash. It's fast and does the only thing I need it do do, stash files.
BTW I used to use NextCloud, but that was way too much work and I really like tools that do just one thing and do it well.
I also self host a mail server but I don't think I'd every put anything super important through it. Right now I use it to send emails from the services I run (plex, file sharing, etc). It's a fun little project but if you want something reliable it's going to get pricy very quick.
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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
What's the performance of Frigate like on an N5095? I've got a J5105 that I'm tempted to use for a few of my cameras, but worried I'll be wasting my time.
Ever since 0.12.0 released the performance is pretty good actually. I run one 1440p cam, three 1080n cam with object detection, and the cpu usage is 28% when idle and went up to 80% when detecting.
I've been trying to get docker swarm running across my 4 rpi's, but traefik hasn't been able to discover services (can find them on the same node if the network is a bridge, can't find anything with overlay network) which has been frustrating to try to figure out the problem. That said, here is what I plan to host on the swarm:
- traefik
- grocy
- nextcloud
- vaultwarden
- plex
- nginx (portfolio website that I currently just have on GitHub pages)
- lemmy instance (for some of you beautiful bastards)
- readarr, sonarr, readarr, lidarr, prowlarr, sabnzb, and qbittorrent
My general rule is to not self host things that are good enough / free (as in $$ not FOSS). So I don't host email or music. I'm not a huge music person so spotify does the job, and gmail's been great since it started.
Things I do host
- media server (jellyfin + sonarr/radarr etc)
- stable diffusion image generation server
- games (starbound mostly, killed minecraft after microsoft takeover)
- lemmy
- comics/manga server (komga)
- yt-dl web interface
I plan on getting a server this summer (building it myself), and the things I have planned this far:
- bitwarden
- monica
- minecraft
- factorio
- email server
- maybe pihole
- maybe lemmy
- jellyfin
Edit: forgot jellyfin