In terms of what services do the most:
In terms of user activity:
Jellyfin: An unfederated alternative to Plex, with some pros and cons. Very lightweight, customizable with plugins. Decent iOS and tvOS client from the devs.
Vaultwarden: Unofficial open-source fork of Bitwarden.
FreshRSS: Self hosted RSS + Atom reader, honestly the best way to read news ad free. I recommend using FreshRSS with lire if you’re on iOS.
I’m definitely looking into hosting PiHole down the line, and hopefully nextcloud once i get some more drives
Thank you for not just listing the names of some software. Everyone else in this thread is like "Crimble, JFlax, pIcomIco, Flerbl, and 17 Orangutans."
I usually just ask recruiters to point those that are pokemon
17 Orangutans isn't software, it's just a bunch of apes I'm hosting in my basement server room. I trained one to answer level 1 trouble tickets, but manager said we need highly available maintenance processes. So, I got another container and put an orangutan inside it, and kept doing that until either we hit our KPI or we exhausted the budget.
lmaoooo ofc :)
Pihole, Bitwarden and Plex.
vaultwarden
Everything else tends to be a lot more idle, but I've also got NextCloud, an IRC server, soon a Matrix server, an internal VPN so all my devices can always talk to eachother no matter where they are.
You're self-hosting your email? Masochist.
It's been set up for almost a decade at this point, it's shockingly low maintenance once it's all set up and going. It is a pain to figure out Postfix's and Dovecot's fairly arcane configuration files, but smooth sailing afterwards. It's been a long time since I've even got a mail rejected/not make it to the recipient's inbox.
100%. I’ve been running my own mail server for 10-15 years now and you’re spot on. I’ve wanted to migrate it to a more modern platform but I’m loath to relive the process of configuring postfix and dovecot. DKIM/SPF and Let’s Encrypt certs for IMAPS were also a bit of a headache to get sorted, and warming up the sending IP so gmail would stop sending me to spam… but once that’s all sorted it’s been very very hands off. I log in once in a blue moon to update it but otherwise it just sits and does it’s thing.
pihole, wireguard, qbittorrent, sonarr/radarr, Jellyfin, syncthing, NFS.
I've considered Airsonic but I haven't found a good client that looks good and doesn't behave weirdly. I had one launch about 500 threads trying to transcode the same song which ate up my CPU time on my server resulting in a stern e-mailing from my host.
Actively used is definitely Plex. Based on pure usage though, it would be pihole.
FreshRSS: RSS reader (TinyTTS is also decent, but the developer is kind of a richard)
Kanboard: For keeping track of all my client projects (though you can use it for any sort of project tracking)
Nextcloud: It's pretty full featured, but I only really use it for shared calendars and contacts so that I'm not hosting on Microsoft or Google.
Gitea
Plex, PiHole, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Syncthing in a hub and spoke config, Caddy for reverse proxy, custom containers for: yt-dlp, restic, and rsync.
Syncthing
Pihole, Wireguard, Syncthing, Jellyfin
Adguard home, jellyfin and miniflux probably see the most use
ntfy and FreshRSS for me. Audiobookshelf recently joined and I am using it daily. (Inofficial probably the Arr stack though 😅)
I've switched recently to freshrss, and it's been fantastic
I liked Audiobookshelf but the RSS feed kept breaking for me. I’d pull new podcast episodes for several days then it would fail and I’d have to recreate the feed. I wonder if they’ve fixed that yet.
1- Pihole + wireguard
2- Searxng
3- Bookstack
4- qBittorentVPN + *arr suite
5- Jellyfin
Not all I self-host but pihole, plex, & homeassistant are certainly my most used.
Paperless-ngx is better than any hosted equivalent.
There are multiple ways to evaluate usage. I’ll go with what I would guess is your desired measurement, things that I use intentionally (as opposed to things like dns, which just happen incidentally to other things or automation based things which are continuously running but not necessarily interacted with):
Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, Nextcloud, Syncthing, Invidious, SearxNG
In no particular order: jellyfin + *arr ecosystem, vaultwarden, wireguard, komga.
Home Assistant by far.
navidrome and jellyfin
In terms of services I use the most I guess it would be these:
I love Foundry. Hands down the best virtual tabletop on the market.
Vaultwarden and git are in daily use. Everything else comes far behind.
As of now:
I can't live without the first 2, though.
DNS obviously, I use the Pi-hole compatible filtering in OpnSense Then Nextcloud, Email, Navidrome, Jupyter Hub, Code-Server
from services that I host – gitea
That's a good one. I just switched from Gitlab to Gitea.
my most heavily used self hosted services are:
Audiobookshelf Jellyfin Homepage Matrix/synapse
My custom blog, Syncthing and now I'm trying Lemmy and Mastodon. Let's see how it goes!
I use Gitea as project hosting and personal wiki. I also host Nextcloud for files and news and Jellyfin for movies and music.
In this order.
Love this post. I was just looking for a new project.
One of my favs is PufferPanel for managing game servers. Works incredibly well as an lxc in Proxmox.
Jellyfin and that is about it.
Immich, Lemmy and Mastodon 😌
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