Hello everyone! I’m kinda curious about the services you self-host, and I would love to see what do y’all use!
I’ll start, and list the services I self-host:
My list
- Immich (bye Google photos)
- Open WebUI (web interface for llms)
- Fireshare (clips hosting and sharing)
- Home Assistant
- FMD Server (find my device alternative)
- YourSpotify (spotify tracker)
- Kener (uptime monitoring)
- AdGuard Home
- SearXNG
Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who participate!
Docker containers:
- actual (budgeting)
- affine (note taking)
- bentopdf (PDF editing)
- beszel (server status monitoring)
- cloudflared (for a cloudflare tunnel with my own domain)
- dockge (Docker management)
- guacamole (server remote desktop access)
- immich (photo application, backup, gallery and AI tagging)
- jellyfin (video and music server)
- kavita (comic books and ebooks)
- kopia (backups)
- mattermost (used solo for sharing text, links, files, etc to myself)
- papra (document storage, tagging and OCR)
- pihole (DNS adblocking for whole network)
- opodsync (gpodder podcast sync backend)
- omnitools (file conversion etc)
- prunemate (automated scheduled docker pruning)
- qbittorrent (with gluetun VPN )
- Redlib (reddit access with gluetun VPN because fuck you UK mandatory ID checks)
- samba (file sharing on the local netwrok)
- syncthing (mostly used to keep retro/emulated games in sync across devices)
- tiny tiny rss (RSS platform)
- qbittorrent, through gluetun VPN on a VPN)
- SABnzbd, radarr, sonarr (for media)
- watchtower (automatic docker updates)
The setup is on a bare metal Debian mini PC server with storage on a Synology 2 drive NAS.
Thanks for asking
How did you get kopia running on your server? Even on the kopia github they pretty much just say “use one of the other options like a S3/B2 bucket or one of the file transfer options”.
Only local, without certificates for example doesn’t even work to test and there is nearly no documentation on hosting it yourself (decent documentation with the rest)
It’s running in Docker on my Debian server: https://kopia.io/docs/installation/#docker-images
One HDD in my NAS is dedicated to only have encrypted backup data that Kopia creates. The same Kopia deployment can’t upload data to the cloud, so Kopia only makes local backups every night. Then Synology’s cloudsync app is scheduled to send the backed up files to a Backblaze bucket online.
Thank you for sharing 🙂
What this thread has showed me is that I’m over here playing tiddlywinks.
I use proxmox on one server, but currently my layout is:
- docker 1:
- Authentik first network
- heimdall
- immich
- jellyfin
- NPM first network
- zipline
- docker 2:
- authentik second network
- npm second network
- blorp
- gitlab-runner
- ladder
- metube
- photon
- privatebin
- tandoor
- bar assistant
- sponsor block
LXCS:
- database server
- pihole
- wireguard
- mail server (postfix/dovecot)
- zoneminder
- zabbix
- gitlab
- matrix
- xmpp/openfire
- revolt/stoat
- gamevox (temporary)
- pufferpanel - minecraft
- pufferpanel - ark
- palworld
- discord development container
- projects container
VMs:
- homeassistant
- ipa server
- firewall
- Syncthing / immich storage / PXE server/ File storage
Also thank you for making this post, it helped me realize I have a few containers and services I don’t use and I don’t think have activity on them anymore so I can start a deprecation cycle on them lol
Good luck cleaning inactive containers !
- docker 1:
Current Self-hosted Setup Hardware Server 1 Trycoo / Peladn mini pc Intel n97 CPU Integrated GPU 32gb of 3200mt/s ddr4 (Upgraded from 16gb) 512nvme 2x 2tb ssd's (Raid1 + LVM) Startech usb to sata cable Atolla 6 port powered usb 3.0 splitter 2x 8tb hdd's 2 bay usb 3.0 Fideco dock Each 8tb HDD is split into 2 equal size partitions, making 4 x 4tb partitions Each night, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating first partition of the HDD's . Each 1st of the month, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating 2nd partition of the HDD's . Server 2 Raspberry pi 4b 32gb SD card 4gb ram Services Server 1 Nginx web server / reverse proxy. Fail2ban. Crowdsec. Valutwarden Bit warden reimplantation for storing credentials Forgejo Remote federated git Immich. Google Photos replacement. External libraries only. 4 users. Radicale Calender and contacts Navidrome. Spotify replacement. 2 users. Adguard home 1st instance Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server Unbound Provides recursive DNS Go-notes Rich Text formatting, live, real time multi-user notes app FMD Find my device Transmission Torrent client PIA VPN Network Namespace script to isolate PIA & Transmission Searxng Meta search engine StirlingPDF PDF editor File browser This is in maintenance mode only so I am planning to migrate to File Browser Quantum soon Syncthing Syncs 3 android and 1 apple phone for immich Custom rsync backup script Darkstat Real time Network statistics Server 2 Fail2ban Crowdsec Honeygain Generates a tiny passive income I'm UK based and in the last 6 months it has produced £15 Adguard home 2nd instance Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server Unbound Provides recursive DNS Custom DDNS update scriptAnd the award goes too… Respect my brother!
Honeygain
I’m a bit skeptical. How does that work and how long have you been using it. Have you noticed any weird noise on your firewall?
Ty for taking this time to share your setup 🙏
NAS
- Arr stack
- Jellyfin
- Navidrome
- Immich
- Forgejo
- Paperless
- Mealie
RaspPi
- PiHole
VPS
- Tailscale
- TaskWarrior Sync
- Vaultwarden
Personal Workstation
- Forgejo runners
- Immich image detection
- Paperless OCR
And of course all the basic security measures and Borg backup on everything.
May I ask what VPS provider do you use pls ?
I use Hetzner, they’ve been easy to work with, reasonably priced and I’ve never had a problem.
- authoritative DNS for my domain
- email (Postfix, Dovecot, rspamd)
- endlessh
- Matrix chat and video conferencing (nginx, Synapse, MAS, Livekit, coturn, Postgres)
- Prosody elsewhere for failover if international links go down
- Nextcloud
- offsite backups for important data, not the whole OS (rsync)
- QR scanner on a webpage, for transferring complex passwords locally
- Syncthing
- Offsite monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager) - amusingly, on an old ex-Android phone running PostmarketOS (a variant of Alpine). Eats less than a watt of power.
- Wireguard to hook up the monitoring with minimum fuss
Not much these days. While it used to be “everything”, now it’s:
- Http/https
- dns
- Wireguard
- Minecraft
- beegfs
- Firefly III - home financials
- Grocy
- Jellyfin
- Self made homebrewing log webapp
- Arr stack
- Nextcloud
- Matrix server for family chats
Thanks 😄
I’m currently only hosting Jellyfin (movies and TV) and Komga (books and comics) on a LAN, but I already bought a domain, and I’ll be exposing them via reverse proxy within the next few weeks; maybe even this weekend if everything goes well. After that, Nextcloud is a must for sharing large files, as Google Drive’s limits are coming up on me fast, and I’ll start test driving Fluxer as a replacement for Discord.
Your Spotify
Shame there isn’t a “your deezer” that sounds really cool. Anyways user facing service LXCs (eg. Jellyfin) have Tailscale installed. Here’s my services by box:
NAS: Ugreen DXP4800 pro
-Proxmox
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-Homarr
-Audiobookshelf
-Jellyfin
-Seerr
-Immich
-Syncthing
-Searxing
-Paperless
-Vaultwarden
-Mealie
-Joplin
-Docker host #1(Romm, LibroFM downloader, audiobookshelf/hardcover integration)
-Docker host #2 (*arrs)Local back up: Beelink eq12 (I think, anyways an Intel N100 thing.
-Proxmoxx
-Redundant pihole
-Redundant NginxProxyManager
-Syncthing
-Immich machine learningSatalites, usually a RPi3. These act as a relay in users' houses so nothing touches the open web.
-DietPi
-Tailscale
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-One poor soul has syncthing and a couple of drives for a remote backup.I have a spare no name n100 box that I would like to turn into a network box one day, then I can manage my Airvpn and Tailscale access through that. But for now the ISP router is fine, I guess.
Everything I have is either for entertainment or home automation. Most of it is running on a mini-PC running Proxmox.
- Jellyfin
- Asset UPnP
- Lyrion
- Navidrome
- LRCLIB offline lyric server
- Home Assistant
And I’ve got a containerized Audiomuse-AI instance for music analysis and instant playlist generation.
Nice ! Thanks for that list !
Audiomuse-AI looks interesting imo
Audiomuse-AI looks interesting imo
If you decide to deploy Navidrome, there is an Audiomuse-AI plugin for it as well.
It’s pretty cool. I have it integrated with Lyrion via a plugin so I can generate a list of related tracks to a song, album, or artist in my play queue, and with lyrics and CLAP analysis it can also generate a music queue via text prompts via phrases like “classical music with cellos” or “relaxing ambient without bass” “aggressive melodic rock” “soothing female vocals” and so on.
As a bonus, we use Wiim Pros and Pro+ units at home to integrate with Lyrion and they can be linked and synced for whole house playback across multiple audio setups.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AP WiFi Access Point DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network DNS Domain Name Service/System Git Popular version control system, primarily for code ISP Internet Service Provider LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping LXC Linux Containers NAS Network-Attached Storage NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) Plex Brand of media server package RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SBC Single-Board Computer SSD Solid State Drive mass storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) k8s Kubernetes container management package nginx Popular HTTP server
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Nice
Main services:
- Home Assistant
- Immich
- Pi-Hole (3x, to avoid killing internet if one goes down for whatever reason)
- Plex/JF/*arr stack
- Nextcloud
- Syncthing
- Planka (kanban for keeping track of all my various projects around the house)
- LubeLogger
- Joplin (OneNote replacement)
- Kasm (remote management)
- Mesh Central (local management)
- BeamMP (BeamNG.Drive multiplayer server)
- Crafty (Minecraft server)
- Traccar (location tracking)
- NPM
Infrastructure supporting the above:
- Mac Mini 2014 | some 4th gen i5 | 16GB RAM | 8TB RAID5+1 (OMV NAS)
- Lenovo M710q Tiny | i7-7700T | 8GB RAM (Home Assistant)
- Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF | i7-7700 | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
- HP Elitedesk Mini G3 | i7-7700T | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
- HP Elitedesk Mini G4 | i7-8700T | 32GB RAM (Proxmox node)
- 4x Docker VMs (managed by Dockge)
- 22x active Docker compose stacks
- 5x inactive Docker stacks (testing/tinkering shit)
- 3x not-Docker VMs
- 7x LXCs
- Unifi UDM (the OG trash can model)
- Unifi U7 AP Lite
- 3x Netgear GS308E switches (1x for house distribution, 1x for game consoles, 1x for servers)
- 1x Netgear GS305E switch (for my own PC + U7 AP)
Incus, all services running in lxc. Ansible and templates to run startup stuff for new containers (ssh keys, etc). My docker setup is primitive, I regressed down to individual containers for each with docker compose. It’s so trivial to restore last night’s lxc backup that k3s/k8s doesn’t really help me. In fact, i’ve been simplifying everything to suit my use case, including hardware.
- sonarr
- radarr
- bazarr
- prowlarr (I’m close to getting rid of this)
- transmission
- sabnzbd
- kavita for comics only
- calibre Web automated (CWA)
- frigate NVR
- navidrome
- immich
- openwisp to manage 2x openwrt access points
- homeassistant
- technitium DNS x2
- uptimekuma monitoring x2
- ntfy for push notifications
- ansible
- jellyfin
- radicale
- syncthing
- Wireguard
- wanderer for GPS track mgmt on “big screen”. I track my GPS trails and drives as a hobby. I’d love a self-hosted comaps web client, but I can’t really find one. :(
Plus lots of transient trials that come and go with interest. Rotating 7 day/4 week/3 months backups by NFS with pruning, includes snapshots, but I set expires on these.
This is running on 2x minipcs with 48GB ram each, but they are way overkill. I just received a mini itx i5 board, which will house all of the containers, save VPN and 1x DNS, which I will run on an SBC.
So I’m going down from 2x servers + 1 NFS nas to one 1u server for everything plus one SBC so I can reboot it.
Power consumption is king factor for me now.
What would you suggest for a prowlarr replacement when you get rid of it? And what would be the reason for getting rid of it? Just curious since I use prowlarr.
I initially set it up because both sonarr and radarr were making their own api calls to indexers and I would get some “daily max exceeded” for certain sites. The idea was that if one host made the calls instead of 2, I wouldn’t get rate limited as much.
Now I only have my nzb and pb indexers, the first has no such limits because I pay for it, and the second is only used as a second priority, so I don’t really hit limits anymore.
If you have a bunch of arr services, this is useful. But I only have the two, so I don’t think it’s much work to set indexers up individually.
Edit: this ^^ is my suggestion. Add the indexers manually.
Ahhh ok. I mainly just run lidarr, sonarr and radarr. I do pay for an nzb subscription as well, so yeah dont really need prowlarr for that. I do use torrents as well though. I’ll probably keep prowlarr as is at least for now as its all setup and stays out of the way. Thanks for answering.
Dont some bigger servers come with an onboard sbc for management and stuff (eg. Dell’s idrac)?
Yeah. I have a dell r430 sitting unused and a supermicro xeon-d board, both have a BMC.
It’s really nice to have, but server stuff is expensive and power hungry.
Plus, I’ve shifted my way of looking at the setup where I’d rather it just default to starting back up properly. Even if I have a failed disk, if I’m away there’s nothing incan do about it until I’m physically back.
I’m almost 30yrs in it/devops/infosec and I’m no longer interested in owning an excavator just because I can.
I use proxmox on one server, but currently my layout is:
- docker 1:
- Authentik first network
- heimdall
- immich
- jellyfin
- NPM first network
- zipline
- docker 2:
- authentik second network
- npm second network
- blorp
- gitlab-runner
- ladder
- metube
- photon
- privatebin
- tandoor
- bar assistant
- sponsor block
LXCS:
- pihole
- wireguard
- mail server (postfix/dovecot)
- zoneminder
- zabbix
- gitlab
- matrix
- xmpp/openfire
- revolt/stoat
- gamevox (temporary)
- pufferpanel - minecraft
- pufferpanel - ark
- palworld
- discord development container
- projects container VMs:
- homeassistant
- ipa server
- firewall
- Syncthing / immich storage / PXE server/ File storage
Also thank you for making this post, it helped me realize I have a few containers and services I don’t use and I don’t think have activity on them anymore so I can start a deprecation cycle on them lol
- docker 1:
Wow that’s a lot of things!
To me, it’s a good stack. A lot of ppl have lower numbers than this, but then they set up a VM with docker and just run 12 extra things there. :P
A lot on docker and yunohost.
Gotosocial is the most used service for the family.
