Paperless NGX on a Raspberry 4. No more paper documents at home... Everything that still comes by mail is instantly scanned and shredded. Emails are also scanned and attachments are added automatically, if important.
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Speedtest Tracker to keep an eye on my internet speed
Uptime Kuma to keep track of my uptime
2x Plex server for redundancy
Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr/Jackett
Qbittorrent/VPN combo
NGINX Reverse proxy
And of course, my own lemmy instance
Plex, Sonarr/Radarr, Ombi, Home Assistant, Komga, Calibre-Web, Valheim. Everything is on a Debian machine I built recently, except HA which is on an O-Droid (I just copied the hardware from HA Blue and ordered the parts from Ameridroid).
automatic youtube downloader using PubSubHubbub to get notified of new videos via flask app behind apache reverse proxy. running on a pi3b.
Feels like literally everything...
LXC:
NginxProxyManager
Kasm
Several instances of GameServer
openemr (testing for viability for a client)
3 instances of TechnitiumDNS
Nextcloud
Graylog
UptimeKuma
ChangeDetection
Zwave-js
MeshCentral
Homepage
Canvas (yes a full instance of canvas. I used to be a college instructor, I have a copy of all my courses)
InvoiceNinja
Matrix
Lemmy
UnifiController
Gameyfin (I don't like this that much... it'll likely get killed)
6 instances of generic docker on LXC running portainer for other services:
diagrams.net (specifically tied into my nextcloud instance)
ghostfolio
it-tools
librespeed
libretranslate
quakejs
rickroll
rxresume
searxng
Ascii starwars
wxrdle
gramps.js
teamspeak
authentik (I think I like keycloak more and might migrate back)
bisq
hrconvert2
And a watchtower instance on each.
VMs:
Proxmox Backup Server
Mailcow
Librenms
freepbx
HomeAssistant
Windows Domain Server (no GUI)
"Media Server" which is a plex stack with all the *arr fixings.
And a vpn bound qbitorrent instance.
Edit:
I missed an old VM that I'm in the process of deprecating out to lxc...
Docker01:
Archivebox
Ghost
Bookstack
LibreCaptcha
Wordpress (for a client)
parsedmarc
gitea
grocy
YOURLS
minecraft
opennox
vaultwarden
racktables
tubearchivist
Navidrome, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud are the services I use the most, and all the related stuff, MySQL, NPM, Redis, Collabora, etc.
Jellyfin is running on my Unraid server (28tb usable), the rest are running on an Ubuntu Server system (1tb, raid 1 SSDs).
I've been running Arch Linux on a Gigabyte Brix with two USB HDDs for... years now. At least 8. On and off, there were several services, but mostly, this device is meant to host
- NFS and SMB file shares
- syncthing, because I can't get my Macbook to use the network shares in a performant way
- plex media server
- nginx with mariadb for a privately hosted database of a German TV show (Tatort) and also a self-made expense tracker
- paperless-ngx for electronic document management
- traefik as a reverse proxy
- heimdall to remind me what's there :)
- a couple statically generated web sites
- changedetection.io to check some websites for changes
- watchtower to at least notify me when new docker images are available
- portainer to have kind of a dashboard for all services
- youtube-dl-material
- dokuwiki as a second brain
Since Arch Linux is rolling, it sometimes simply breaks after an update. But since the services have gotten more critical for me over time (especially plex :) ) I plan on putting some of the services to a host in the cloud behind a WireGuard VPN. Also, the Brix should be re-installed with Ubuntu or Debian some day.
It's still in the works, but I'm planning on:
- Nextcloud (file storage/calendar/office suite)
- Actual (budgeting)
- Home Assistant (IoT device hub)
- Nginx-proxy-manager (reverse proxy)
- Jellyfin (media)
- Headscale, selfhosted version of Tailscale (Mesh VPN)
- *arr stack (media fetching)
- Immich (photos)
- Pihole (DNS adblocking)
- Vaultwarden (password manager)
It's definitely a lot of stuff, but I'm trying to reduce my reliance on cloud services. Really excited to get this stuff going.
I have DietPi running on an RPi 4 with 4GB RAM.
Everything here is hosted in docker containers:
- Portainer (docker management)
- Nginx Proxy Manager (for reverse proxy)
- Nextcloud (file storage + calendar)
- Kanboard (task management + kanban board)
- Homepage
- Transmission (behind VPN with Flood web frontend)
- Jellyfin media server
- A Discord bot for my server
- Watchman, my RSS feed to Kindle setup (https://github.com/andrwcnln/watchman)
I've probably forgotten some things but that's the main bulk of it. Can't recommend DietPi enough if you are looking for a super lightweight OS for you Pi server, has been perfect for me so far. Here are some things I am looking to host in the future too:
- ntfy (for push notifications)
- Apache server for my websites
- Pi-hole
- Plausible (a replacement for Google analytics for websites)
- Vaultwarden
I've got a Raspberry Pi running Portainer on DietPi OS hosting a Discord bot, ACME certificate manager, reverse proxy; a second DietPi pi hosting Sonarr and Radarr and an automatic ripping machine; a pi NAS ruining open media vault; and my Linux gaming system also has Portainer running Jellyfin.
These days I just got a plex server and a project zomboid server running.
I've got a Nextcloud instance that I've run for a few years. Love it. At home I have an Odroid H3+ with 64GB of ram running Openmediavault. Got about a dozen containers running on that. I need to play with it more and use that ram. I did try to get Boinc running on it but it, sadly, kept shutting down. I'll have to find a another way to contribute to science.
File storage, mainly. I have 2 NAS devices (one Synology I picked up in 2014, and an Unraid device I just built a couple months ago) - the former holds 13TB and the latter currently holds 35TB with plans to bring it to 100TB as I get money for more drives.
The Unraid system has a Youtube-dl instance running to auto-pull videos from the channels I follow, and I also run my Plex server from it. The Synology only has a Git server on it that I use to keep local copies of repos that I store on GitHub, along with personal projects that I'd rather not publish (even as private repos) in the cloud.
Minecraft server
At home on multiple Pis: OpenMediaVault HomeAssistant Raspbee (Zigbee module) Unifi controller
Server 1 (Ubuntu): Wireguard
Server 2 (Ubuntu): Nextcloud Trillium Gitea Vaultwarden Calibre Web Vikunja Photoprism Paperless
All services only run on the Wireguard interface.
And I am looking into some billing tools for my side-gig.
I currently host
- Akkoma (microblogging)
- GoToSocial (microblogging)
- SearXNG (meta search engine)
- Baikal (CalDAV)
on a cheap VPS that has 2GB RAM and 2 core CPU. They run pretty smoothly.☁️
eddit : spelling
Pretty much everything to be fair:
- Email with Roundcube
- Chat with Matrix-Synapse + Element
- My files with Nextcloud, easily one of my most used self-hosted apps
- RSS with Miniflux (open to change, as soon as I find any RSS backend with a usable Android app)
- My social network presence, with Pleroma (again, subject to change, as soon as I know how to properly move my domain to a different software tool)
- My media, with Jellyfin
- Peertube to watch videos from other instances and comment on them
- And finally, all of the above protected with a password vault from Vaultwarden
EDIT: For those wondering, I use @yunohost@mastodon.social ( https://yunohost.org ) as my server manager
Most recently I'm running my own instances of Mastodon and Lemmy. Those are on my Hetzner dedicated server along with a bunch of other services and websites, but what I use the most is Miniflux, Immich and Photoprism.
Then I turned my old laptop (it's got decent spec) into a home server running Jellyfin.
Everything runs in a kubernetes cluster hosted on my homelab, except the public services access point which is a VM hosted on a non-profit ISP and service provider infrastructure, which I contribute to, through a wireguard VPN between the VM and home:
Public-facing:
- an old static website (nginx-unprivileged), which was my first website and which I keep online because nostalgia
- Ghost, personal blog
- OpenSMTPd + rspamd + dovecot (dovecot only accessible from home, not public)
- privatebin
- picoshare
- Whoogle + Tor
- SearxNG
Work related (I work from home 75% of time), not public-facing:
- dolibarr ERP for managing prospects and clients billing
- gitea
- bookstack for personal documentation
- edit: forgot Harbor as container registry.
- vaultwarden
- eck-operator
- wireguard operator for personal, family and friends access from outside
- awx operator
- draw.io
- zalando postgresql operator for postgres needs
- mariadb-galera for mariadb needs
- bitlbee-libpurple for all clients' slack needs
- Authentik as OIDC/LDAP/SAML provider (also used to identify family and friends)
- internal DNS (pdns-resolver + powerdns with postgres backend) serving work zone and home zone.
Home stuff, not public-facing:
- Games: Minetest, EQEmu server (Everquest), planar ally, bzflag, veloren
- Home-cinema/music: Jellyfin, Koel, alltube, and the usual tools to share Linux isos.
- Immich to sync photos
- homeassistant (more a PoC than anything else right now)
- mealie for recipes (I like cooking original meals for friends and family) and lunch/dinner planning
- another instance of vaultwarden for family
- piHole to keep the children a bit safer online (notably blocking malware/scams/nsfw sites)
all of this running on a 3 control-planes/6 workers talos linux k8s cluster, itself hosted on a franken-proxmox cluster (a mix of server/"old" desktops/Ryzen NUCs) and a bunch of NAS (VM dedicated NAS, data storage NAS, backup NAS).
I host a custom PaaS I developed during the pandemic, based of Docker Swarm.
On it I have:
- Nextcloud
- collabora
- matrix/synapse
- a service that bypasses a podcast's platform requirement to be logged in to listen to full content through RSS feed
- 6 very small websites
I am running Mealie (recipe management site) and pi hole (network ad blocker) on an old MacBook Pro (2012?) loaded with Ubuntu server. Also have Plex media server running on my main computer (Pop OS)
Currently just running an SMB share and paperless on my Turing Pi v2, which only has one 8gb Pi at the moment. Hoping to get more Pis and run more things soon.
I have a Jellyfin server, which has been absolutely amazing. It's accesible remotely via my domain, too. So my whole family and some friends can watch stuff / listen to music through it. Super happy with it.
I also have a Minecraft server. We don't use it much, but it's always there, and it's not going away. Which is something I've always wanted since I first put up an MC server a decade ago.
Besides that, my website and a bunch of personal scripts are all hosted from home :)
Across my and some family members' homes:
- pihole and openvpn via pivpn(sharing a pi4 in each house)
- transmission and minidlna (another pi4 with an external hdd)
- folding@home (on a beefier Intel NUC)
- homeassistant (same NUC)
- one house has a funkier setup running on a NUC with homeassistant, appdaemon, influx, grafana and a custom django app that manages them all so they do aome fancier automation for heating/cooling and power consumption
On the internet:
- a pretty much abandoned blog in Bulgarian built with hugo and deployed on gitlab pages
- a single user akkoma instance I've migrated off of, but am still keeping for no logical reason, running in docker on a Hetzner VPS
- a calcley instance that's my current main home on the fediverse, also in docker on a separate Hetzner VPS, this one setup a bit less amateurishly, behind cloidflare and using R2 for sorage
- a nitter instance for those terrible cases when someone sends me a link to The Bad Place that I still want to see.
- I set up a bibliogram and proxytok on the same VPS as the nitter instance, but those no longer work after some agressive API changes on IG and tiktok.
Let me see...
Monica Linx Nextcloud ArchiveBox Dashy Home Assistant And a few more services like jDownloader, nzbget etc
So much stuff.
- Unraid for NAS
- next cloud to connect to the NAS and as a personal drop box
- all of the *arr services (sonarr, radarr etc)
- Plex
- I was doing dizqueTV for a personal “tv station” on my Plex server but I disabled it for now due to low use
- a bunch of VMs for infosec related tinkering (couple of Win 10, Ubuntu server, and one ParrotOS install)
On the cloud side, I host two things in production:
- Akkoma (microblogging a la Mastodon) at https://dartboard.social
- my Lemmy instance at https://links.dartboard.social
Not much. I have a searxng instance, used to have nextcloud… I should start hosting more stuff really soon
Im hosting the following services on a small cloud VM running k3s:
- teamspeak3 + mariadb
- whoogle search
My current homelab build is a 5950X w/128GB and... well it's more complicated than that.
Currently running in Proxmox (in no particular order!):
- LinuxGSM - game servers
- Multicraft - Minecraft servers
- Zammad helpdesk (for a non-critical service, hosting at home as failover)
- Plex - using Nvidia T600 for transcoding
- PopOS compute VMs x2 - one of which currently running InvokeAI with 2xGPU, 40GB VRAM total
- Windows 10 gaming VM (was for passthrough, hardly used now!)
- Docker, including:
- Channels DVR - live TV streaming/recording
- Deemix - music downloader
- Flame - homepage
- Gogs x2 - Git repositories
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Nzbget - Usenet downloader
- Prowlarr - indexer
- Qbittorrentvpn - VPN and torrent downloader
- Radarr - movies
- Requestrr - Discord -arr request bot
- Sonarr - TV
- Uptime-Kuma x2 - uptime bots
- Wallabag - bookmarks
Mostly matrix client/server + bots, etherpad & mumble (until matrix can replace it on desktop, PTT-wise)
DYI NAS (mini-itx mobo with on-board atom chip and 8 GB ram and zfs) running:
- ssh (SCP/sshfs shared)
- smb
- jellyfin
- syncthing
- dovecot
- rclone for pull backups from Google drove, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.
- restic for backing everything up to backblaze + azure
Intel NUC running:
- zwavejs
- deconz / phoscon
Intel NUC (DMZ) running:
- wireguard
- home assistant
- Doods (object detection for home assistant camera entities
- mosquitto mqtt
- unifi controller
- AdGuardHome
- roundcube email
- nginx reverse proxy for all services + hosting some static sites