hi there, comrades! just curious, what do you all actually host for yourselves?
i currently run a two old PCs refurbished as Ubuntu servers and am looking at adding a Raspberry Pi 400 that i was gifted and don’t know what to do with. i have ideas though!
anyway, i’d love to hear what you’ve found useful, helpful, and/or fun to run. my own answer will be in the comments.
We’re doing Christmas dinner this year.
Hope you have enough RAM for that. I hear it’s quite resource-intensive.
lol, fair. we did Thanksgiving this year so Christmas is at my mom’s. ha!
Thanksgiving and Christmas, but by choice.
And alternating Easter.
- Openhab (smarthome controller)
- Zigbee2mqtt (converts zigbee devices to talk mqtt)
- Mosquitto (Mqtt server)
- frigate
- Jellyfin
- Jellyseerr
- Radarr, sonarr, lidarr, bazarr, prowlarr
- transmission + a VPN tunnel
- Uptime Kuma
- Prometheus, Telegraf
- Grafana
- Influxdb, chronograf
- Three PiHole instances, synced with Orbital Sync
- Unifi Controller
And some small services to pipe metrics into Grafana dashboards for apps that don’t have native support for metrics. Most of this is managed through Docker with a Traefik reverse proxy with letsencrypt certs for https.
My most useful so far has to be openhab. I’m barely using it to it’s full potential but it’s so freeing to be able to buy (nearly) any smart device and know I can integrate it with the rest of my system. It also allows me to block Internet access to most of my smart devices completely for added privacy.
Second most useful is probably the Jellyfin/*arr stack to manage and view my collection. Soon I’m planning on adding either Calibre or something similar for books to sort my ebooks and old digital textbooks.
And once you have two or three services, monitoring obviously helps. I honestly wish I had set it up earlier, in particular Uptime Kuma for general uptime tracking. It would have saved me so much time pinging all my services to try to diagnose issues.
Saving! Lots of great homelab ideas in here.
Lol this is very similar to my setup. I also have an xmpp server (ejabberd), grocy, and fresh rss on digitalocean.
@hamtron5000 For personal use:
- TrueNAS with some shares
- Plex
- jDownloader + Transmission
- IPFS node
- Jitsi meetDoes Jitsi Meet support screen control?
@Bipta @hamtron5000 You mean screen sharing? Yes it does.
I suppose he meants like on Teams, people can use your screen share and ask for control of the mouse and keyboard
i am not sure - that’s why i installed Rustdesk, which is remote help tool. I’m IT in my daily life for an organization and also IT in my personal life for friends and family, so it’s helpful to have something like TeamViewer for personal use.
I wish they would update jDownloader
TrueNAS… Niiice!
Vaultwarden, forgejo and nextcloud. I tried matrix and email, but couldn’t get them to work, comrade.
I actually use a real owned server, and host all kinds of my own stuff, along with
Matrix (synapse + element web)
Nextcloud
Etherpad lite
Gitea (have yet to switch to Forgejo)
And gaming servers. AssaultCube was very successful, as it has incredibly low pings, it was full multiple times, and it was incredible fun.
Could you point me to the documentation you used to get etherpad lite going? I’ve had a hell of a time getting etherpad running and usable on my server.
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite#manual-install
I just do the straight up git clone && run.sh inside a systemd unit.
Thank you!
I self host whatever I can within reason. Like I don’t host my own email, used to though! Currently I have the following services on Proxmox:
- Nginx reverse proxy
- Authelia
- Technitium
- Paperless
- FreePBX
- Immich
- LibreNMS
- Gitea
- WikiJS
- Ntfy
- Vaultwarden
- Kasm
- Portainer
- Matter most
And a few smattering of others that I spin up as needed or for testing things.
What a list!
There’s more… ><
Would you recommend WikiJS? I’m looking for a wiki solution to document my homelab setup.
I do recommend it. It’s easy to setup and does everything you need in a documentation knowledge base. I used to use confluence before their enshitification; WikiJS is much nicer for my use case.
On an old raspberry pi 3b, a copy of a blog by one of my favorite writers (the original is long gone and was never archived, I happened to grab a copy with wget when it came back up briefly) so I can read it when I’m on my home network. And a pi hole dns adblocker.
I’m hoping to set up some kind of media system for streaming eventually, but we currently use a PS4 as our media center and it doesn’t look like our options for compatibe apps are great.
I’d definitely like to get a local Mealie instance going in the next year
i have two old PCs refurbished as Ubuntu servers running the latest LTS version.
machine the first: - Taskwarrior - Taskserver - Docker and Docker Compose - local media and stuff on a 2TB NAS
machine the second: - Docker and Docker compose - Jitsi Meet server - Rustdesk server
coming soon: - PiHole - Unbound DNS - Plex (maybe) - Mealie (possibly with a dedicated ancient iPad that will live in the kitchen) - BirdNET-Pi
also possibly a home weather station built out of a Raspberry Pi 4B that is on order; i love the idea of having one of these in my backyard to track our microclimate.
Love those project ideas! Birdnet sounds really cool.
NixOS on an AMD mini itx board.
- NGINX for reverse proxy
- Jellyfin
- Syncthing node
- Homeassistant OS on a VM (QEMU/KVM)
OpenWRT on a Raspberry Pi4
Nextcloud, Synapse + bridges, Adguard Home, Uptime Kuma, Home Assistant. Thinking about spinning up Gitea, Forgejo or Gitlab again.
GitLab is really nice, just needs like 6-8gb of ram, vs 1 for GitTea. Are you working with other folks, or is it just for personal stuff? I run a small GitTea server myself for super private stuff. The rest I just put on GH.
At this stage I’ll probably just mirror my stuff from GH. I have a feeling they’ll be doing something stupid soon, forcing people to look for alternatives.
Would be nice to collaborate with others, but getting started is hard when you don’t have enough free time.
It seems Gitea has basic CI + package registries now, that will be plenty for my needs.
Yeah, their runners are GH Actions compatible, which is great. I think GH is too smart these days to mess with devs. MS has too much skin in the cloud and OSS game these days to pull shit like they did in the 90s. Do wish they didn’t bork Windows 11 so bad, made me switch to Ubuntu. They don’t really care about desktop anymore TBH. Very happy Steam works great on Linux.
My home servers currently consists of 3 old laptops and 1 old desktop computer, all these computers run Proxmox and clustered together.
Laptops:
- HP ProBook 6470b
- Packard Bell EasyNote
- Dell Inspiron 1520
Desktop:
- HP envy 700-204eo
On the cluster I have these things installed
Always running:
- GitLab
- Minetest server
- Jellyfin
- Nextcloud
- Dashy
- FreshRSS
- BookStack
Not running:
- VM with Linux Mint
- VM with Haiku
- VM with FreeBSD
- VM with FreeDOS
pi 4 with yunohost:
- freshrss
- nextcloud
- navidrome
- transmission
- Gitlab
- Gitlab Docker Runner
- Minecraft Server
- Discord Bot (wrote my own because I couldn’t find a good one that ran on arm)
- Jellyfin
- Fluidd
- home assistant
- frigate
- nzbget
- deluge
- sonarr
- radarr
- jellyfin
- jellyseer
- octoprint
My server is a pc I built maybe 8 years ago for YouTube streaming back when I still ran my channel. It’s running Ubuntu server 20.04, but I’m planning a rebuild soon with an upgrade to whatever is the latest lts when I actually do the rebuild. Currently hosting via Docker:
- Portainer
- NGINX proxy manager
- Jellyfin
- Navidrome
- Kavita
- Audiobookshelf
- Matrix (synapse, but moving to dendrite when I rebuild)
- Mealie
- Baserow
- Homepage
- Ntfy
- Seafile
I’d really like some kind of google docs replacement. I used to run Nextcloud and tried adding OnlyOffice Document Server probably half a dozen times and it never worked for me. Documents created wouldn’t sync, couldn’t be edited from another machine, and generally just failed at the basics of providing a server based document solution.
