Self hosted FOSS software : foss

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here are a few I like:

Jellyfin - a media server software that allows you to organize and stream your personal media collection.
NextCloud - a self-hosted file sync and sharing platform. Not as good as Google Drive (of course), but it can do the job.
Bitwarden (with a Rust-written alternative named [vaultwarden] (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)) - a password manager for storing and autofilling login credentials.
Matrix - an open network for secure, decentralized communication. WhatsApp, but in the Fediverse.
PiHole - a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and other unwanted content.
Mycroft - an open-source voice assistant. You can make your own Google Home with it.
OctoPrint - web interface that allows you to control 3D printers. Pretty handy if you have one!
Gitea - a lightweight self-hostable GitHub
Home Assistant - an open-source home automation platform. Can integrate a lot of other things in your house.
The X-arr initiative - a collection of tools for managing and organizing media libraries. Pretty good if you deploy your own media server:
- Sonarr - Select TV shows and it will automatically download episodes for you.
- Radarr -> movies
- Lidarr -> music

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Caddy - Reverse proxy
Owncast - Twitch alternative
Jellyfin - Home video streaming application
Joplin - Note taking app that syncs
Syncthing - syncs files from my LineageOS (Android) phones to PC
PiHole - AD blocker
Minetest - open source voxel game engine (basically Minecraft)
Veloren - open source adventure game
Invidious - frontend for Youtube
Libreddit - frontend for Reddit (about to stop working)
Proxitok - frontend for TikTok
Nitter - frontend for Twitter
Rimgo - frontend for Imgur
Libremdb - frontend for IMDB

Edit: Fixed PiHole from saying "VPN" blocker to "AD" :-D

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin with Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and some torrent client makes a great automated media server. Just don't forget a VPN!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

pihole/adblock monero node/support monero network p2pool/mining pool for monero wireguard/vpn Tor relay, i have thought of using an old pc to support Tor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

conduit is a lightweight Matrix homeserver. If you tried running synapse and found it to be an utter mess, conduit is much better!

mpd is a music server daemon with many clients. It scans your music (either stored locally or on a network) and creates a database (either stored locally or accessed from another mpd server on the network).

minidlna is a ~~DLNA~~ReadyMedia server which is a plug and play media server. Many hardware devices (e.g. AVRs) which don't support anything else do support DLNA, so you can e.g. serve music or video directly to your AVR instead of needing a set top box like an Apple TV or Roku.

If you have a problem with collecting machines like I do, set up DNS with dnsmasq. It's pretty easy to get started, all you need to do is write your /etc/hosts file (and, likely, disable the DHCP server). Additionally, if you have a problem with collecting machines like I do, invest in some kind of config management so it's easy to handle all the different things you're running.

Also, if you want to actually learn, I would strongly recommend against using Docker containers for everything. Besides being stuck with what the developers prefer, all the work of installing things is already done. Build things from source (optional), configure all the pieces yourself, work out all the dependencies and actually learn how things work. That's the fun, at least in my opinion. That's why I have yet another SBC with no OS to fiddle with this weekend: I'm looking to migrate from OpenWRT to real Linux so I can do everything myself instead of relying on OpenWRT's scripts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, if you want to actually learn, I would strongly recommend against using Docker containers for everything. Besides being stuck with what the developers prefer, all the work of installing things is already done.

I really disagree on this point. You should use docker or podman (preferably Podman) to containerize your applications on your server to keep them ephemeral and separated from the host OS wherever possible. This improves security, makes setups reproducible, and eases backup and restore procedure. If you want to build from source do so with a containerfile/docker file to keep your build environment fresh and clean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. You should use docker and for a beginner Podman is perfect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Here are some I find really useful:

Jellyfin (media interface)
paperless-ng (document store with OCR, tagging, search, etc.)
Miniflux (RSS reader)

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

I use all of these and can confirm they're really good! I can't believe I used to just search through multiple email accounts instead of using Paperless.

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

Thanks, paperless will be really useful at uni

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For a real hands off approach take a look at Yunohost or CapRover. Both are very easy installs and will give you a gui to manage your applications and other self-hosted services. It's a great way to dip your toes in. The only difference is that with yunohost, they bundle most of the self-hosted services with their own local-sso implementation, so you only need one login for all your services. This is nice if you want a set it and forget it solution. With CapRover, you basically just have a nice gui to manipulate docker installs, so if you find it a bit too restricting, you could just manipulate the docker installs yourself via command line.

Both are great entry points!

EDIT: Honorable mention of DietPi !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nextcloud, Bitwarden (vaultwarden is the name of the OSS server), Adguard Home / Pihole and Paperless-NGX might be some things which can have a pretty big impact in your daily life.

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

From the things I use:

Uptime Kuna, for monitoring the availability of websites/services
Gitea, for hosting code
PicoShare, for sharing files
Maddy, for email

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How has your experience hosting your own email been? I often hear that the big providers (Google, Microsoft, etc.) will simply drop your sent mails.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have had issues with it over the years. Many will blacklist entire cidr nets for a single bad actor. I get this on my linodes frequently if I proxy traffic through them. Ie: tons of captchas on google/YouTube.

When I ran my own mail it was similar. Often having to spend time getting IPs off rbls and the like because some other node on my subnet was malicious.

In the end, I just moved my email over to workspace. Not ideal. But it works.

One thing I did notice was that as soon as I registered my domain in workspace (but hadn’t even setup mx records or began moving mail) a lot of issues with google immediately stopped, and thus, same with Office.com. I actually ran this way for a while but then google axed freed accounts and I just moved my stuff to them and pay.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I also host my own mail and there's been little issues.

Microsoft is a pain in the ass if you're in an IP space they don't like like DigitalOcean. Which is ironic because they have the worst spam filter by far in the industry.

If you want to get through to everyone you will have to:

Use a "good" TLD ( not .to, not .xyz, ...)
Don't use cloud platforms that are regularily used for spam (mostly DigitalOcean)
Use SPF
Use DMARC
Use DKIM
Use a PTR record
Don't make an open relay by accident
Use proper ports and certificates
Register an abuse account at the big players (Google, Microsoft, ...)
Don't use an dynamic IP
Keep it up to date
Minimize downtime

I can't recommend mailcow enough, it makes setting up a mail server a breeze.

https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized

Use the MXToolbox to verify your server(s).

https://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok I may have to set up uptime Kuma. I have some services that I don't realize are down until I need them, and it gets frustrating

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

These are the ones I use most actively, on my FreedomBox:

bepasty for moving around or sharing temporary files
Quassel for staying connected to IRC servers
Radicale for synchronizing my calendar and tasks.
Syncthing for files I want to have available between my laptop, desktop, phone.
Tiny Tiny RSS for following blogs.

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

Syncthing to replace Google drive and Photoprism for Photos. Both have a great functionality and run well on my 12yrs old home server with 2gb of ram.

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

I'm really happy with Photoprism as well, it's great to have facial recognition without relying on Google Photos

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and syncing is so easy, I just press a button and don't care about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

dokuwiki
draw.io
gitea
woodpecker (ci/cd)
minio
postgres
freshrss (rss server and reader)
firefly3 (finance / budgets / expenses)
calibre
Pi-hole (primary on a pi, secondary on docker host)

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

Have you looked at Adguard Home instead of pi-hole? I had been on pi-hole for years and just recently switched to AGH. My primary is in docker and secondary on pi but I think I like your idea better so I'll probably switch that around. I like AGH better so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I haven’t looked into it yet. What do you like better about it?

(I put my primary pi-hole on a pi because it’s practically the only thing on it - I can reboot it quickly if needed and not have a lengthy downtime on my DNS - the was before I had the second one running)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I find the user interface to be more intuitive and it seems like it's a bit more effective than pi-hole at ad blocking. It also has built in adult content filter lists if you want that which includes forcing safe search on multiple search engines, which is interesting. One thing I'll miss about pi-hole is the local dns config. I had stuff set like "pi.local" and "unRAID.local" so I didn't have to type IPs over and over. Afaik, AGH does not have that feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I currently have a server running dnsmasq just for DHCP/local DNS, and have it set with Adguard Home as its upstream servers. That way I can set up custom blocklists, and have local resolution as well.

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

Portainer server and agent for monitoring all docker hosts in one place
Traefik as reverse proxy
Dashy (complex) and Homarr (simpler) as dashboards
Gluetun for VPN access for containers and proxy for everyone on the network
Radarr/Sonarr for managing Movies and TV shows
Navidrome for music
Audiobookshelf for audiobooks
Transmission/qbittorrent/rtorrent/deluge as torrent clients
Pinhole for DNS
Technitium for more advanced DNS and DHCP (might replace all piholes with this or blocky in the future)
Plex/Jellyfin for media streaming
JellyfinVue - awesome frontend to jellyfin
Bazarr - for subtitles

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Caddy is simpler for the reverse proxy. Just sharing for people that get scared when they try to set up Traefik.

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

Honestly I started using traefik first and I agree, the learning curve is steep. I'm only just now starting to understand what my labels are doing. But now, I've tried caddy and literally cannot get it to work, or find how to port what I have on traefik over to caddy lol.

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

I really like Memos. It's a micro blogging site that is minimal, but has a lot of neat features. I'm using it as a replacement for DayOne's journal app.

And I'll second Veloren. My kids and I are having a blast playing.

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

I've got a pretty booring setup compared to most 🤣. Ubuntu Server running the following in docker,

Plex
Audiobookshelf
Komga

Audiobookshelf has come a really long way. The version out now is heaps and bounds better than what it was 1 year ago.

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

The piece of string is very long!

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

You may need to work backwards, identify a service as a need and then figure out which software to run.

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

I have two instances of BookStack. A public-facing one for bird stuff, and one for home stuff. I also self-host an instance of Plausible Analytics as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics.

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

I'm using the following:

Plex for music/anime/tv/movies, calibre webserver for ebooks/manga, qbittorrent web+Prowlarr to search for and download content, SyncThing to keep things in sync between my server and desktop, and I'm also file sharing with nicotine++

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