- immich
- homeassistant
- jellyfin
are used daily, also lots of other services.
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are used daily, also lots of other services.
MeshCentral for providing remote IT support. I run it in a lightweight VM on very modest hardware (ancient Core 2 system I had kicking around) and it works great. The sheer breadth of features is damn impressive and I'd consider it among some of the best open source projects in terms of UI. No middleman like TeamViewer or Splashtop, and it only costs me a bit of time and hardware.
Raspberry Pi 3
Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
I really want to get something like a Synology NAS to run a media server / VPN server / PiHole / NAS server on, but I don't have $500-$1000 to drop on new hardware right now.
Currently running OPNsense on my primary router/firewall appliance, with a WireGuard VPN so I can access my self-hosted stuff remotely without exposing more of an attack surface.
Actual things I’m hosting:
Those are all running on a Libre LePotato.
Currently that’s all the hardware I have, but I’m hoping to expand as time goes on. Next step is setting up a proxmox machine (I have an old desktop but it generates too much heat for where I want to store it)
My general rule is to not self host things that are good enough / free (as in $$ not FOSS). So I don't host email or music. I'm not a huge music person so spotify does the job, and gmail's been great since it started.
Things I do host
a wiki for a fraternal organization...
OpenWRT on Netgear for DNS and DHCP
pfSense on CP2200 for VPN, packet filtering, SSL inspection, and unbound
TrueNAS on TerraMaster for NFS and iocage running Jellyfin
Raspbian on RasPi4 for ICA, LDAP, SNMP, Syslogs, etc
I host the following in my house:
the following in digitalocean cause uptime is super important -mastodon -lemmy -matrix -url shortener for fediverse
All are running ubuntu server
Nextcloud, Calckey, HomeAssistant, AdGuard Home, Serge, Octoprint (probably forgot something)
Some of it running in a data center. Some of it running local either on dedicated hardware or on Proxmox.
I self host the work software,
Ansible host,
Kubernetes Cluster
Elasticsearch cluster
Game servers
Piholes,
AgentGPT,
Various other things when needed.