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What do you prefer to selfhost? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been around selfhosting most of my life and have seen a variety of different setups and reasons for selfhosting. For myself, I don't really self host as mant services for myself as I do infrastructure. I like to build out the things that are usually invisible to people. I host some stuff that's relatively visible, but most of my time is spent building an over engineered backbone for all the services I could theoretically host. For instance, full domain authentication and oversight with kerberized network storage, and both internal and public DNS.

The actual services I host? Mail and vaultwarden, with a few (i.e. < 3) more to come.

I absolutely do not need the level of infrastructure I need, but I honestly prefer that to the majority of possible things I could host. That's the fun stuff to me; the meat and potatoes. But I know some people do focus more on the actual useful services they can host, or on achieving specific things with their self hosting. What types of things do you host and why?

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

My cloud and in there my keepass file. And a own git remote server. And my media streaming box, which streams in Quality I want ( I need to pirate stuff I pay for to be able to watch the content in the quality the streaming services has advertise it ) 😤

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

Jellyfin Plex (I wanted to get rid of it but I found my son's TV has no Jellyfin client available so I have to keep Plex up for him) Nginx Caddy Ddclient to Cloudflare for my home dynamic IP Syncthing (such an underrated app) Wireguard HomeAssistant Some other stuff that isn't all that interesting

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

Really just video for me, I can't handle paying for streaming anymore.

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

For media, I host the some of the arr apps, qbittorrent, Jellyfin, gpodder2go, and navidrome. For personal photos, I host PhotoPrism. I host a file sharing service fileshelter, and a link shortening service chhoto-url. I host Wiki.js for mostly recipes, and some notes. I've recently started hosting Forgejo for my git repos. I also host SageMath for computation, it's especially useful when I only have my phone with me and need to use it. I use caddy as a reverse proxy and serve these through a VPS using a Wireguard tunnel.

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