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.
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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.
I have a few things going on. I've been blogging some of my notes on how I'm getting some things going in Docker. But I only relatively recently started sharing my notes so there's not a ton yet. Hopefully there's something useful for someone here. https://magnus919.com/tags/selfhosting/
Got a proxmox node with a couple of vm's, mostly for hosting docker.
I'm considering switching proxmox for kubevirt, but I'd have to deploy all my container as either k8s deployments or create new vm for docker...
Been using prometheus at work lately and I want to create a push setup with thanos backend, but for now it's just an idea
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.
- Jellyfin
- OpenVPN
- radicale
- jellyseerr
- ArchiveBox
- pydio
- Nextcloud
- Ocis
- pihole
- CollaboraOffice server
- Gokapi
- Seafile
- Mastodon
- GoToSocial
- Signal Proxy
Running xen hypervisor (Debian 12) on a HP Elitedesk 805 Gen6 (currently 10 VMs) at home, a few VPS from different hosting providers too.
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
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
---|---|
DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
IP | Internet Protocol |
LXC | Linux Containers |
NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
NVR | Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) |
PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
Plex | Brand of media server package |
SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
Unifi | Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand |
VPN | Virtual Private Network |
VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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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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I see people listing things I've never heard about...I thought I had spent a considerable amount of time on the old sub and knew stuff. Guess I gotta hit the books.
Right now though I'm hosting everything on a 2012 Mac Mini that's running Proxmox.
Been using these programs for awhile now:
- Photoprism
- wireguard
- web blog testing instance while the live one lives on linode
- plex
- filebrowser
- pi-hole
- homepage
Nothing crazy but cool stuff to learn in my day to day. I want more hardware but I'm about to buy a house. It's crazy how much I'm throwing at an 11 year old computer and it's handling it all quite well.
3 Proxmox nodes 2 SFF Dell Optiplex (i5 with 32gb RAM) 1 Nuc (i7 with 64gb RAM)
1 Truenas host (old gaming PC i5 with 64gb RAM and 8TB ZFS pool
pfSense appliance for firewall
- Pi-Hole
- Vaultwarden
- Immich
- Paperless-ngx
- InfluxDB + Grafana
- Ansible
- Nextcloud
- Wireguard
- UptimeKuma
- Homeassiatant
- Homepage
- Octoprint
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 π
I selfhost a lot of the normal stuff everyone else does. Plex, AdguardHome, etc...
I also have a 96+ port dial-up server system: https://2600.network
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
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?
Ohh, I'd love to share.
Running most services as docker/ kubernetes containers.
Currently running Plex (previously Jellyfin, maybe will switch back) for media streaming.
Grocy for food/task/family organisation (grocery list and so forth)
Piehole for home ad-blocker and proxy ππ»ππ»ππ»