Neat website that might help: https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
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That's a really open-ended question. Depends purely upon your interests and appetite for risk, etc.
Might be worth looking at, from a Docker perspective:
- AdGuard Home (I think it's better than Pi-Hole)
- Wireguard or similar. Great for reaching your services when away from home.
- Audiobookshelf. Audiobooks. There are good apps.
- Calibre-Web. Ebooks.
- RSS feed reader, for non-social media websites you visit. Plenty to choose from: FreshRSS, TT-RSS, Sismics, etc.
- Gitlab CE. If you're a developer or can otherwise make use of version control.
- Gotify. Alerting on your containers. Has a good mobile app.
- Heimdall. A dashboard for everything you're running.
- Komga. If you're into manga. The best iOS app is meh, but the best Android app is awesome.
- Mealie. Recipe database.
- Paperless-ngx. Excellent for storing your PDFs and other digital life.
- PhotoPrism. Basically Google Photos.
- Portainer. Great for managing Docker containers/stacks.
- qBitTorrent. Guess what that's for.
- SWAG with Authelia. SWAG does reverse proxying with a Let's Encrypt certificate, and automatically renews it for you. Authelia provides MFA (Authy, Google Authenticator, etc) on top of it.
- Vikunja. Todoist or Toodledoo without having to pay for features.
- Wallabag. Basically Pocket.
- Watchtower. Automatically updates containers for you. Can exclude the ones you don't want to update, etc.
- Webtrees. Family tree research, if that's your thing.
- YouTransfer. Useful for sharing files without having to use Dropbox, etc.
I have in the past run a Valheim server and a VRising server, too. FWIW.
Why do you think AdGuard is better than Pihole? I'm not upset with the job Pihole is doing but always looking for improvements.
Did you need steam to run the Valheim Server? We have it on xbox game pass and don't want to buy it again
I don't remember Valheim specifically, but most standalone servers don't require you to own the game in the account you use to host it
I'm a huge fan of Immich (Google Photos clone). I disabled the ML features which kneecaps it a little, but it runs totally fine on an rpi 4 (4GB).
There are other self hosted image solutions, e.g. PhotoPrism, so check out the options first. I used PhotoPrism for a while, but I like the Immich mobile apps (Android and iOS!), so am sticking with it.
I'm also running pihole, Wireguard, and Home Assistant (and fail2ban). Simple nginx web server handles the proxy business for Immich, and I also use that for sharing stuff with friends and family (e.g., a link to a PDF or something). I finally got around to installing SSL certs, and it was almost disappointingly simple! certbot just worked for me.
Plus Photoprsim put some stuff behind a paywall which is a bit lame. Immich is fantastic!
Immich is so good. I love it
I've got Immich with ML enabled on my Rpi (8GB) along with many other services
Bitwarden for hosting your own password manager.
Not sure if you have any smart home devices, homeassistant is another great self host program
I use mine for FreshRSS, Komga, Nextcloud and Syncthing.
Take back the control on your data, that's the whole point.. :) Where are you regularly saving data? Those are the prime candidates. Look at self-hosted alternatives for those services. I know big webapps hosted in docker containers managed by kubernetes is all the rage around here, but you can often find Unix style equivalent for such services, the main advantage of putting it on a server being to be able to access it from multiple devices. But you do you, if you prefer hosting big webapps, that's fine too. :)
Jellyfin, nextcloud, gitea if your a Dev, matrix and maybe even lemmy
What public services do you use that you think you'd want to self host? I'm trying to reduce the data i give to big companies so i starred running an instance of Audiobook-shelf and use it to auto grab my podcasts from an rss feed and keep a copy on my server plus it serves up all my audio books too. Or you could set up a vpn back to your network via wireguard and get the benefits of pihole when you're not home. If you feel like really digging into things you could host your own lemmy instance, or matrix chat and bridge in other serviced but that requires a bit more advanced knowledge.
Matrix with bridges to all your chat apps
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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