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- Scheduled Jobs
- script to update subdomain ( E.g. home.domain.com) with external home IP address
- script to run snapraidrunner
- script to check docker services and report healthchecks
- script to update and clean kodi libraries
- script to backup with borg
- Snapraid on 4x8TB
- NAS - Samba shares
- backups
- computers
- phones
- public
- media
- music
- tv
- movies
- backups
- SSH Tunnel
- WireGuard (primary way to access services away from home)
- Print server
- Docker
- Server 1 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570T 8GB RAM)
- healthchecks (monitors services and makes sure scripts run otherwise notifies me)
- smtp_to_telegram (most services support email notification, this is a way to use the built in notfication of most services but be notified instantly)
- trilium (notes with tree structure organization)
- pinry (image board, think pinterest)
- portainer (GUI to manage docker services)
- adguardhome (DNS adblocking like pihole but better in my opinion)
- rustdesk (remote admin software, think remote desktop)
- ulogger (what I use to map my motorcyle rides)
- dozzle (docker log viewer)
- mariadb (database for services that require mysql)
- postgres (database for services that require postgres)
- Server 2 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570, 20GB RAM)
- omada-controller (controller for my tp-link router/switches/aps)
- home assistant (control smart devices, setup automations)
- airsonic (stream my music)
- airsonic-refix (an alternative GUI for airsonic)
- paperless-ngx (searchable document archive, I keep manuals and some receipts and tax documents)
- redis (dependency for some services)
- lidarr (manages music and auto downloads monitored artists/albums)
- jackett (manages torrent trackers and can combine them into one query for things like lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
- openbooks (download ebooks for my paperwhite)
- sabnzbd (client for usenet downloads, integrates into lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
- sonarr (manages tv shows and auto downloads them)
- esphome (makes flashes firmware on devices easier)
- agendav (web calendar, integrates with baikal or any caldav service)
- baikal (keeps my calendar and contacts)
- photoprism (photo manager, prefer over immich until immich has better read only integration)
- stash (nsfw)
- deluge (torrent client, integrates with lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
- portainer (GUI to manage docker services)
- dozzle (docker log viewer)
- nginx proxy manager (use it to set subdomains for the services… E.g. arisonic.home.lan)
- wallabag (save webpages for later viewing, doesn't seem to work on a lot of sites so I usually just use SingleFile and save to a folder on the NAS instead so I might down this)
- syncthing (mainly use it to backup all the photos and /sdcard/ dir on my phone, but also keep some configs synced between laptops/desktops)
- adguardhome (backup to the other adguard dns)
- nginx
- Homer dashboard (my favorite dashboard, but been looking at homepage lately)
- DokuWiki (favorite wiki, prefer the classic styling)
- minimalist-web-notepad (very fast and easy notes for quick and temporary notes)
- Server 1 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570T 8GB RAM)
This individual fornicates
..with great form and a lot of style — no room for doubts here.
This guy just said "I'm gonna make my own internet, with blackjack and hookers"
Far quicker to share a screenshot of my dashboard
- Categories
- House
- Home Assistant: front-end
- Frigate: CCTVs and NVR
- Node-RED: node.js automations
- ESPhome: IoT devices
- Homelab
- Grafana: Monitoring data
- Pi-hole (primary): Local DNS & ad blocking
- Pi-hole (secondary): Local DNS & ad blocking
- Portainer: Docker container management
- Proxmox #1: PVE node: chewy
- Proxmox Backup #1: PBS node: chewy
- Proxmox #2: PVE node: hansolo
- Proxmox Backup #1: PBS node: hansolo
- Nginx Proxy Manager: Reverse proxy server
- Media
- nzbget: Usenet downloading
- Deluge: Torrent downloading
- Plex: Media server
- Overseerr: Media library management
- Tautulli: Plex reporting
- Prowlarr: Indexer managerment
- Data
- Paperless-ngx: Document management
- Photoprism: Photo library
- Calibre: eBook library
- Readarr: eBook management
- Sync thing: File sync
- Joplin Server: Notebook sync
- Homelab Devices
- Firewall: OPNsense on Proxmox
- Primary NAS: Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ V2
- Secondary NAS: Qnap TS-410
- Switch: Netgear GS324TP
- Wifi: Aruba IAP-225 Virtual controller
- Printer: Fuji Xerox CM115w
- Health
- rey: Raspberry Pi 4
- lando: Raspberry Pi 3
- quigon: Raspberry Pi 3
- bobafett: Raspberry Pi 2
- jangofett: Raspberry Pi 3
- Databases
- Prometheus: Pi-hole stats
- InfluxDB: Timeseries databases
- Radius DB (Adminer): PostgreSQL database
- Tools
- VS Code: Remote code editor
- searxng: Private web search
- Changedetection: Monitor website changes
- Octoprint: 3D printing
- Shellinabox: Ajax console client
- Media Libraries
- Sonarr: TV show library
- Sonarr (anime): Anime TV show library
- Radarr (4K): 4K movie library
- Radarr: Movie library
- Radarr (Anime): Anime movie library
- House
- Vaultwarden
- audiobookshelf (Best audiobook and podcast server)
- Teamspeak3
- Sinusbot (music bot for Ts3)
- SWAG (reverse proxy with built-in fail2ban)
- Plex
- Sonarr / Radarr / Overseerr / Jackett
- Lemmy
- Uptime-Kuma
- Nextcloud
- Bookstack
- LanguageTool (Grammar and spellcheck)
- Multiple game servers depending on what our group is playing. Currently, Minecraft with PaperMC
- calibre / calibre-web (calibre with guacamole to manage library and calibre-web to access it with a webpage and send to kindle)
- DailyTxT (Diary server)
- Libreddit (Alternative reddit front end that doesn't use the official API)
- Rallly (scheduling for groups)
- Tandoor (recipe manager and shopping list)
- Tautili
- Grafana
- Pihole
I self-host a ton of software. For context, I'm leveraging docker-compose on top of TrueNAS SCALE:
- Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- the basic dockprom exporters: nodeexporter, cadvisor
- NUT Exporter (UPS statistics)
- PiHole exporter
- UptimeKuma
- Ad blocking
- PiHole
- unbound (censor-resilient DNS resolver)
- dnsproxy (in order to use PiHole on my smartphone and laptop outside my home network)
- Media
- Plex
- Transmission
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Bazarr
- Jackett
- Flaresolverr
- Services exposed to the outside world
- Bunkerweb (security-hardened nginx reverse-proxy)
- Bird.makeup (Twitter to Mastodon bridge)
- FreshRSS
- n8n (automation software, think IFTTT or Zapier, but open-source and on steroids)
- Self-Host Planning Poker (my very own software!)
- Courier (parcel tracking software)
- Overseerr (user-friendly interface for friends and family to request movies and shows, plugs into Sonarr, Radarr and Plex)
- Lemmy
- Kresus (personal finance)
- Wireguard (VPN I use as a gateway into my home network)
- Caddy (reverse proxy with HTTPS, I use it for serving locally everything I do not expose to the outside world)
- Restic server (an HTTP server to push Restic backups from various computers at home)
- wakeonlan-cron-docker (because TrueNAS doesn't allow installing WoL package. Once again, I made it myself)
What I'm looking into at the moment:
- Tandoor Recipes (deployed but I cannot make CSRF work with my reverse-proxy so far)
What I'll be looking into in the near future:
- Promtail + Grafana Loki to aggregate Docker containers logs in Prometheus/Grafa
- Immich (Google Photos alternative with automated backups from smartphones)
- The Lounge (IRC Client)
- Blocky (local DNS server with ad-blocking)
- Tailscale (VPN mesh between clients and other servers)
- Cloudflare-Tunnel (to access some local services directly from the internet via my own domain)
- traefik (reverse proxy + TLS for all my services)
- Authelia (auth server for services that don’t have their own authentication)
- borgmatic (borg backup automation for container data. Pushing backups to borgbase.com)
- paperless-ngx (document management system)
- Plex (media server)
- Tautulli (stats and tracking for Plex)
- mosquitto (MQTT server)
- zigbee2mqtt (service to manage my Zigbee devices)
- Homebridge (service to get z2m devices into Homekit)
- Homeassistant (home automation)
- Prometheus (collect stats from several services above)
- telegraf (more stats collection + server metrics collection)
- Grafana (for some dashboards that I didn’t want to create in HA)
- miniflux (RSS reader)
- Linkding (bookmark manager)
- Atuin (shell history sync server)
- uptime-kuma (monitor some external servers + my local internet connection by pinging healthchecks.io)
- redis (for paperless and some own projects)
- postgres (for miniflux, atuin and some own projects)
Everything is running in containers on an Unraid server
- 24 TB usable (16 TB parity drive)
- 1 TB nvme Cache Drive
- Intel i3-12100T
With disks at idle/spun down, it consumes roughly 25W.
I have a very similar setup minus the iot and metric related services. I'm managing the services with Docker Compose on unRAID.
Here you go !
- Vaultwarden
- Searxng
- Nextcloud
- Smallstep (own CA for self-signed full chain certificates)
- Linkding
- Gotify + watchtower
- Adguardhome
- Traefik
- Wireguard
Took me to much time to make everything work perfectly together, but learned alot along the road ! Everything hosted on a old spare laptopt with docker containers.
Plex, nzb/sonarr/lidarr/radar/, homeassistant, AD, vpn, teamspeak, lemmy, a blog, wifi controller, cert authority, Pi-hole, mail relay, all data/files etc, backups of email from workspace, zabbix for monitoring, miniflux, windows update cache, quicken server
Probably more.
Nice - what are you using to cache windows updates? LANcache?
Straight up wsus with a nightly script to keep it from fucking itself up.
Proxmox host. Fedora server vm.
- openvpn as a backup (and because i went through the highly laborious process of setting it up)
- wireguard
- nitter (twitter alternative frontend. makes twitter usable)
- audiobookshelf (podcast manager)
- pihole (block ads by dns)
- nginx for my website and some related website stuff
- Vaultwarden (sometimes. I usually keep it off because I prefer KeepassXC anyway)
The hardware is a 10 year old Thinkpad. I think it's pretty clear by my software list that I don't ask it to do much, but it does so much for me. Like, I wouldn't run Jellyfin off of this thing. In fact my NAS is 4x8TB drives but I keep it mostly shut off. It's powered on maybe about once or twice a week for a few hours at a time. I try to batch my activity with it. Like "oh, yeah, I want file X but it's on my NAS. Maybe later, when I have a need for file Y I will turn it on and retrieve both."
I can achieve everything I want with even lower spec hardware, but this Thinkpad has a faulty trackpad anyway, which is also how I got it for cheap. I have never measured it, but supposedly it consumes around 6W at idle which is low enough for me.
I'm a noobie:
- portainer
- pihole
- wireguard server
- jellyfin
- youtube-dl
- nextcloud
- tor/privoxy
- freshrss
- minetest server
- nginx proxy manager
All running locally on a 2008 lenovo core 2 duo with 2gb, 1 120gb SSD, 1 1tb HDD and 1 250gb HDD...couldn't open the services to the web since my ISP blocks every port (except 52180 udp) even if I open them in the router sothey can change the double on a fixed IP withppen ports in their "enterprise" package
- apache - web server/reverse proxy + PHP-FPM interpreter
- rsnapshot - remote/local backup service
- dnsmasq - lightweight DNS server
- gitea - Git service/software forge
- graylog - log capture, storage, real-time search and analysis tool
- custom homepage/dashboard
- jellyfin - media center
- jitsi - video conferencing and screen sharing
- libvirt - virtualization toolkit
- dovecot - IMAP mailbox server
- matrix + element-web - real-time communication server and web client
- netdata - lightweight real-time monitoring and alerting system
- rsyslog/lynis/debsecan/fail2ban/various log and security scanners...
- mumble - low-latency VoIP/voice chat server
- nextcloud - file hosting/sharing/synchronization and collaboration platform
- openldap + ldap-account-manager + self-service password - LDAP directory server and web management tools
- postgresql - database server
- samba - cross-platform file sharing server
- shaarli - bookmarking & link sharing
- ssh/sftp - remote access and file transfer
- transmission - bittorrent client/web interface
- tt-rss - web-based news feed reader
- wireguard - fast and modern VPN server
All running on Debian 11/12 physical hosts, VMs or VPS, deployed and managed through https://xsrv.readthedocs.io
- Lemmy
- Searx
- Matrix
- Xmpp
- Soapbox
- Lotide
- Peertube
- Nextcloud
- Nostr
- Wordpress
- Plex (sorta borderline of this counts)
- Invidious
- Pfsense
Running on a total of 5 fanless commercial grade sign PCs. That's why the motto of my websites is "this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign"
1x core 2 duo running Lemmy
2x atom d2550s running xmpp, matrix, lotide, searx, nostr, and invidious
2x core i5 4000 series running everything else
I try to run bare metal so I can stick my fingers into things.
this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign
Love keeping that old tech alive! My Core 2 Duo died a couple of years back, if I could figure out a way to leverage old mobile phones for some sort of project I would.
I've always called it 'ghetto IT' personally.
Just navidrome & the Synology suite (drive, photos, video)
I'm lazy 🫠
Lazy is good.. I try not to think about the time I've invested in this stuff
Some are used way more than others, but here is my list.
- Home Assistant
- ttrss
- audiobookshelf (mostly for podcasts)
- linkding
- bitwarden
- Amp game server (the game varies but right now it's space engineers)
- immich
- baby buddy
- nextcloud
- pihole
- Plex
- jellyfin
- usememos
- paperless-ngx
- mealie
(Probably some underutilized app I'm forgetting)
- airsonic
- audiobookshelf
- calibre-web
- freshrss
- invidious
- kavita
- n8n
- nextcloud (with some neat apps like phonetrack and bookmarks)
- nginx proxy manager
- vaultwarden
All in docker containers on an Ubuntu NUC
EDIT - also got a dedicated pivpn (wireguard+pihole) on a pizero and time machine server + borg backup server on a pi4 running yunohost
Proxmox host running on a Dell Inspiron laptop with a 6th gen i3 and 12GB RAM, 120GB SSD
- Home Assistant
- Jellyfin
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Prowlarr
- qBitTorrent
- Syncthing
Home Assistant runs in its own VM (HAOS), the rest run in a Ubuntu Server VM.
- Piped: Youtube proxy
- Hyperpipe: Youtube music proxy
- Beatbump: Youtube music proxy (has much better interface than Hyperpipe on mobile)
- Jellyfin: To stream some local titles
- Nextcloud: To be used as a syncserver for Carnet and Obsidian
- SimplyTranslate
- Matrix + Element
- Taiga
- Gitea
- Libremdb: not useful, going to remove this one
- Funkwhale: removed since I hoped for better federated content
- Penpot: soon!
(copied from an older comment)
I run basically all of the Arr stack, Plex (more friendly to my less tech savvy family then my preferred solution Jellyfin), HAss, Frigate NVR, Obsidian LiveSync, a few Minecraft worlds, Docspell, Tandoor recipes, gitea, Nextcloud, FoundryVTT, an internet radio station, syncthing, Wireguard, ntfy, calibre, searx, traefik, Wallabag, FreshRSS, Kopia, Navidrome, and a few pet projects.
- Caddy
- Vaultwarden
- LLDAP
- AdGuard + Sync
- Linkding + Injector
- Jellyfin + Infuse (tvOS) & FinAmp (iOS)
- Pocketbase
- Uptime-kuma
- Cloudflared
Services that I'm experimenting with:
- Owntone
- Gonic + Supersonic (macOS) & play:Sub / Amperfy (iOS)
- Calibre (can't get Kobo sync working reliably)
- Audiobookshelf (love the idea but not using much yet)
Oooh I’m getting motivated by this post.
- Home Assistant
- Pihole
- Jellyfin
- Plex
- *arr series, at least up when I am looking for specific content
- Lemmy
I tried Mastodon. Too resource intensive for little I use it.
Next up in my list to try:
- Vaultwarden
- Peertube
- Matrix
- Bookwyrm
Pretty much anything I can. It's too much to type out, but my Homepage lists most of it minus any databases or reverse proxies. I also host a one person Lemmy instance. Everything but Lemmy is run on a 2013 gaming PC with Unraid.
EDIT: After posting this, I'll probably end up selfhosting an imgur alternative too...
lemmy mainly
TrueNas Scale (4820k, 64gb ddr3, 1x256gb sata ssd & 2x4tb hdd):
-> Plex (Looking to replace with something less.. commercialized)
-> EmulatorJS
-> OpenSpeedTest
-> DisqTV
-> Calibre (Looking for flashier alternative)
-> Nas storage + media storage
Windows Server w/CubeCoders AMP (xeon 1230v2, 32gb ddr3 ram, 256gb ssd)
-> Minecraft W/Mods
-> Satisfactory
- Lemmy
- Red Discord Bot
- Matrix Synapse
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here running Matrix Synapse on his Cray supercomputer! ;P
I don't really know what I'm doing so I'm currently banging my head against a wall trying to get nextcloud to work alongside a wordpress site both in docker, and this Lemmy is on a linode. I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that's for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.
I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that’s for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.
Now that you've written this? Tonight. It'll happen tonight.
NextCloud
Discord bot (let's my friends update Valheim /satisfactory and reboot them etc etc)
Valheim server
Satisfactory server
BirdNet
MariaDB and flask for my Arduino / raspberry pi sensors (weather station and water temperature, particle sensor)
Tailscale for remote desktop
PiKVM
Might setup a Lemmy instance later.
- Nextcloud
- OnlyOffice container
- Jellyfin media server
- Gitea
- DokuWiki
- Woodpecker CI container for building static websites and other CI tasks for hobby projects
- HAProxy load balancer to forward external traffic to the right services
- A pair of web servers hosting various websites/apps
- A pair of Postfix acting as internal mail relays that sends mail through Mailgun
- SaltStack for configuration management
- Munin for monitoring
- MariaDB database for various internal apps
- Four internal BIND DNS servers (two are the primary and replica on virtual machines, then two more replicas on Pis in the event the VMs go down)
- OpenLDAP directory server for centralized auth
- Kanboard for video project tacking
- Postgres database for DaVinci Resolve projects
- UniFi controller
- Backup server hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4 w/ a pair of 5TB external HDDs in a BtrFS mirror
And most importantly: as of recently I'm self-hosting Lemmy and Kbin instances for myself to try them out! Kbin was a pain to setup, but I seem to be liking it more.
It's all running on two Ryzen R7 1700 systems with 64GB of RAM in one and 48GB in the other (long story), and virtual disk storage is done over a 10Gb iSCSI link to a TrueNAS system with two 1TB SSDs in a RAIDz mirror. I've also got an unRAID NAS that hosts my video project files. Pretty smooth overall :D
Home assistant
Plex
Jellyfin
Sonarr
Radarr
Prowlarr
Readarr
Organizr
Overseerr
SaBnzbd
Transmission
Calibre web
Homepage
Memos
Pwndrop
Picsur
Remotely
Youtube dl
Changedetection.io
Uptime Kuma
Kavita
Nginx
And a couple discord bots
e-mail, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, koel (pretty good music server imo), Minecraft server for the homies, Grocy, CalDAV and CardDAV, Nextcloud and probably something else I forgot and can't look up right now
Why run RockyLinux HV when everything is in a Debian VM anyway?
I just have Ubuntu server running docker on my old workstation which has plenty of RAM to spin up a production-sized workload just to play around.
I’ve setup these images up as Docker containers:
- Portainer
- GitLab
- Nginx
- Neftcloud
- Grafana
- MariaDB
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
Just played around mostly, I haven’t scaled out any full infrastructure schemes yet, but that’s the plan for the workstation. Container and terraform testbed.
I used to self host everything but nowadays I value my time too much so I have moved my data to google drive and back it up to a local hard disk periodically. Photos go to iCloud and google photos. iCloud is running my email domain (previously was google domains/gmail)
I still do run a Plex server with my shield tv pro but that’s mostly to access my TV tuner as I stream my media from google drive directly instead.
I just got tired of taking time away from my family to troubleshoot my services or just live with downtime. I did run a $5 linode to host things for awhile but eventually it just became more cost effective to just refactor things to run natively on various cloud services. I even just redesigned my personal website/blog to run on google sites
I still love to follow the self hosted community, someday I will take my data back just not right now.
I had you till you got to running your blog on google sites. Like not even blogger, but straight up google sites. As someone who tried using google sites for this purpose, I wrote one post and I was like, not doing it, it is too much.
Nothing too crazy. I use Proxmox on hardware that used to be a gaming rig (4th gen Intel) and I upped the RAM to 32GB.
- Plex
- Home Assistant
- NextCloud
- VM to host Duplicati + Samba which backs up some shared storage.
- VM that contains the extremely specific build environment for one of my mechanical keyboards
- VM that contains my ESP Home environment.
- VM for Docker based web development because as good as WSL is, it still sucks sometimes.
Some of my “VMs” are actually LXCs but I can’t remember which are which at the moment.
Playing with ZFS was fun too, and it puts all that RAM to good use!
I’ve also been meaning to create a VM for Dokku, but I haven’t had a strong enough need yet.
- *arr media services
- tailscale
- mullvad
- Jellyfin
- qbittorrent
- pihole
- unbound
- Minecraft server
- Portainer-CE
On an OrangePi with a powered USB hub using a bunch of SSDs.
All except the Minecraft server running on Podman.