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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to host a ton of stuff, now I just host my WordPress site on Linode.

I have toyed with the idea of selfhosting a Lemmy server, but that's a project for another day.

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

I self-host in a rented server. I wrote about my adventures here: https://github.com/bruj0/ProxmoxIPv6

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got

  • A RAID NAS for general
  • A Firefly-iii instance for expense analysis and stuff
  • And MQTT broker for my ESP32 projects
  • A webdav server for calendar and address book syncing and general file syncing for some things like joplin

There are probably other things that I don't remember right now.

In terms of hardware I got a 6 core AMD 5600X machine with a 5700XT GPU and 16GB of ram for almost all my services and personal use.

I also have an AMD 3600 machine with 3x8TB harddrives for network storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi, could you tell me the kinds of IoT projects you dabble in? I have always wanted to use the ESP32 and other microcontrollers and build something useful but I can't really find any ideas/lack technical expertise. Would be great to know what you're working on/the projects you have built and what they are used for.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's an existing project made by a youtuber called Dave Plummer. He made a project that controls a strip light using the FastLED library where he made several effects here. You can fork or straight up copy his project. There is also the MQTT library where you can communicate withyoutr ESP32 in a very simple and mature protocol so you can do some crazy things there, like controlling a solid state relay for lights or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I self-host:

  • A Matrix homeserver
  • A Pleroma instance (basically Mastadon but different implementation)
  • Tiny-Tiny-RSS
  • Nextcloud
  • Gitea
  • Headscale
  • Jellyfin
  • Wikijs

I rent a low-budget dedicated server from a data center - it only has about 4 cores and 8GB of RAM, but that's more than enough for my needs. Most importantly it has 2TB of hard drive space (for Nextcloud & Jellyfin) which is why I upgraded from my prior VPS.

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

Hello :)

I'm not really a "selfhoster" but I thought I'd present myself anyway since you asked :D

I do a little bit of it but only for personal use, I don't have the skills to selfhost for public use.

I have Gitea, Planka, Dokuwiki, Apache+MariaDB, and self-compiled World of Warcraft server emulators (TrinityCore, CMangos and AzerothCore).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

##Docker Portainer β€” CF Tunnel FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel Adguard Home β€” Local 2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel Watchtower β€” Local

###For public access dockers Feedropolis Mirotalk SFU FiveFilters RSS Taiga 2x Mattermost Servers 8x Wordpress Staging Sites 1x Wordpress Dev Sites

##For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like: ScreamingFrog 9 sites using LAMP stack Aria2c with AriaNG NextCloud Plex 4x WebHooks server for communities Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy OpenVPN CrowdSec

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

Docker

Portainer β€” CF Tunnel

FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel

ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel

Adguard Home β€” Local

2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel

LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel

TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel

Watchtower β€” Local

#For public access dockers

Feedropolis

Mirotalk SFU

FiveFilters RSS

Taiga

2x Mattermost Servers

8x Wordpress Staging Sites

1x Wordpress Dev Sites

For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:

ScreamingFrog

9 sites using LAMP stack

Aria2c with AriaNG

NextCloud

Plex

4x WebHooks server for communities

Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy

OpenVPN

CrowdSec

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Humaara Artha , which means my material.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I run everything I can out of containers. It makes remembering all the changes I made easy, and reverting them even easier. My hardware is a generic PC in my closet.

I'm running:

  • Jelly Fin
  • Transmission Torrent
  • Next Cloud (I have mounted Jellyfin and Torrent's volumes within the Next Cloud instance so I can access them from there, very convenient)
  • Home Assistant
  • Wire Guard
  • A printer daemon so my old printer from 2008 can do wifi printing (I refuse to upgrade)
  • A scanner daemon so I can wifi scan too (scanservjs)
  • A tool to expose my UPS as a battery Home Assistant can monitor
  • Traefik (big pain but great payoff)
  • Watch Tower to keep the public facing stuff automatically updated
  • Automatic Ripping Machine which... is almost good but I'm generally disappointed with. It's still worth using though.
  • ESPHome which lets me make my own smart home devices with ESP family microcontrollers. I've made my own smart window blinds and smartified an air conditioner.
  • Minecraft/Factorio depending on the mood of my friends and I.

But that's not all, I also installed OpenWRT on my router, more out of necessity because it didn't have features my ISP required. That's running:

  • ... actually everything else about it is pretty standard.

I have a Raspberry Pi running OctoPrint for a 3D printer in the corner. I would have preferred to have ran that on my server to save on power and save a Raspberry Pi but I don't have a long enough USB cable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here's my little list:

Proxmox VE 1

  1. OpnSense (VM)
    • Wireguard
    • Unbound
  2. PiHole (LXE)

Proxmox VE 2

  1. Dockerhost (LXE)
  • Nextcloud
  • Akkoma
  • Lemmy
  • Synapse
  • Keycloak
  • Dashy
  • Paperless NGX
  • Whoogle
  • Grafana
  • CCU Historian
  • DMARC / TLS Reports
  • Prometheus

RaspberryMatic Octoprint

eMail

  • Postfix, Dovecot, etc.
  • Ciphermail email encryption
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only self host a pi hole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use a combination of a MacMini Oracle cloud, probably not best long term solution but it's free (while it lasts).

Stuff that runs on Oracle:

  • caddy proxy (mostly used for Mac reverse proxy)
  • couch db (obsidian live sync plugin)

Stuff on Mac:

  • blue bubbles (iMessage relay for Android)
  • Plex (for photo backup)

Aside from that not much else 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I turned my last two gaming PCs into Proxmox hosts and I have a Hetzner vps that will host something eventually.

2010 Gaming PC:

  • Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
  • Docker teet VM
  • Piwigo
  • Chevereto

Pihole is running on a keepalived vip that acts as my secondary DNS server. Gravity sync keeps it in line with my main Pihole VM (push/pull) and then I have an old rpi also on the same keepalived vip that has gravity sync set up that pulls from the secondary VM

Anything I run as an evaluation or that needs testing also runs here. This machine gets Proxmox updates first as well.

2016 Gaming PC:

  • unRAID VM
  • Pihole VM (w/ Unbound)
  • Nextcloud
  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Gitea
  • Dozzle
  • Docker container registry
  • Diun
  • Caddy (moving away from NPM)
  • Photoprism
  • Jellyfin
  • Plex
  • Tautulli
  • Bookstack
  • Heimdall
  • Netbox
  • Unifi Controller
  • Wikijs
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Uptime kuma
  • Gluetun
  • Deluge
  • Homarr
  • Lidarr
  • Miniflux
  • NZBget
  • Radarr
  • Sonarr
  • Readarr

These are split amongst a few VMs depending on criticality and further broken down to needs (VPN, whether or not I can reboot and not affect my wife/kids, network share requirements.

I'm pretty much always tweaking something and having fun with it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is an incredible amount of services! Where would you suggest someone with basic hardware begin with setting some of this stuff up, and what are some of the essentials to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I've been working on expanding my homelab recently. I have a physical box at home serving as an LXC host along with a few VPSes. I'm now up to:

  • Some static web sites
  • Nextcloud
  • Jellyfin
  • Forgejo
  • NTFY
  • A reverse proxy
  • An IRC server
  • A Gemini server
  • A VPN
  • DNS servers

I think I read an old blog post once that said "Servers tend to multiply like rabbits" and it's 100% true.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I run one main hypervisor with a bunch of different Ubuntu server VMs that I spin up as I mess with different things. I'm old-school so I am not a fan of cloud computing or even docker. Services I host that I use the most are NAS (samba), plex, pi-hole, dokuwiki (huge documentation nerd), and zoneminder which is a great open-source security cam software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Do you have some massive server home or using VPS/VDS?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing too grand - a couple Discord bots and a few retro shooter servers in the cloud, and also a Raspberry Pi 4 in the living room which serves nicely as a media center and seed box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hi, I have an Unraid server (currently offline due to moving :'-/ ) running

VMs:

  • 2 full flat Windows and Pop_OS! VMs with GPU passed through
  • 2 low resource Windows and Pop_OS! VMs accessible by VNC
  • Home assistant OS

Docker containers:

  • Calibre + Calibre-web: apart from managing my ebook library, calibre goes through my RSS feed and generates daily epub newspaper/magazines that are send by Syncthing to my eink tablet
  • Syncthing: apart from that it also synchronizes my handwritten notes from my eink tablet between my devices
  • Nextcloud: intended to replace Google/Microsoft cloud, but, due to previous apartment's internet connection with PIA triple-ish NAT situation, is only used to backup photo/video from my phone (might change later)
  • EMBY: media streaming
  • Gitea: WIP, not currently used
  • dokuwiki: WIP, intended to acumulate manuals to home appliances and stramlined directions on how to use and maintain them
  • influxDB and Grafana: values and graphs from Home Assistant

The server was born when I merged my desktop PC, that was off and not utilized most of the time anyway, and my off the shelf NAS with 4 drives in raid5, that was slow, loud and could only run built-in garbage services. I ran Emby on Windows on my desktop, meaning I would have to manully turn it on every time I wanted to watch something.

Now my server runs on Ryzen 5 1600 with 48GB of RAM, GTX 1060 salvaged from a minig rig and total of 7 drives - 4 HDDs, 2 Sata SSD mirrored for cache and containers and 1 NVME SSD for VMs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Raspberry 4 No.1 (HassOS)

  • Home Assistant - smart home management
  • HA extension Vaultwarden

Raspberry 4 No.2 (Ubuntu LTS)

  • Pi-Hole - network ad filter
  • Navidrome - music library
  • Beets - music tagging
  • Lidarr/Deluge/Hydra/Jackett - music collection, downloading
  • Baikal - CalDAV & CardDAV
  • Nginx - Reverse-proxy
  • Filebrowser
  • Vaultwarden - Backup of HA extension
  • Raneto - Knowledge base
  • Pyload - Download manager

Fileserver custom built (Ubuntu LTS, local only):

  • Sonarr - Series management
  • PostgreSQL - Data management for Kodi/MPD
  • Snapserver
  • Mopidy

Raspberry 4 No.3 (Raspian, local only)

  • Kodi

All services dockerized but Kodi.

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

Hi

I started self hosting 3 years ago when I got wind of tailscale. I've always cared about privacy and building things so that was great.

My infrastructure consists of two machines.

One - my personal and work server A deskmini i3 12th gen

256GB Boot drive 4TB NVME data drive

-photoprism -syncthing -nextcloud -Firefox+VPN -archivebox

Two - my media server that I let 6ish other people access - PC tower i3 12th gen

512GB Boot and docker config file drive 4*4TB HDD mergerfs for raw data

-jellyfin -*arr suite -gluetun VPN -audiobookshelf (also for auto downloading podcasts) -calibre-web

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