On my laptop:
- Plex
- qBittorrent
- Calibre
- Prowlarr
- Syncthing
On vultr:
- Akkoma
- Lemmy
- The Lounge
- Wordpress
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On my laptop:
On vultr:
@proycon Proxmox on an HP Z620 (2x Xeon E5-2670, 16 cores, 64GB RAM)
Inside of that I run:
Emby
AMP (game server software)
Moodle (for content development, currently idle)
Home Assistant
Paperless-ngx
Grocy (just installed recently)
+ an assortment of VMs for various purposes
(Edit: for anyone who uses Proxmox: I find the scripts here tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ to be very helpful is quickly spinning up LXC's)
I also have an OPNSense firewall, a Pihole, and a Synology NAS.
Other than my game servers and Emby, which get port forwarding through my OPNSense firewall, everything stays internal to my network. I'm thinking of learning wireguard so I can remote into my network, but that's not a high priority.
Local server running my NAS, Technitium DNS, Jenkins + build nodes, OpenVPN, Forgejo, my Debian package mirror, the central LDAP server for auth, Lemmy, and a couple straggler services. Still working on setting up some more stuff for me and my housemates.
Running everything on an old dual Xeon box running TrueNAS, works wonders with no downtime so far!
I got 2 q+ tv boxes running armbian for h6
1st one runs as my dns server + sinkhole via technitium (pihole is a bit janky on them idk why) 2nd one runs as my unifi controller + samba fileserver + torrent downloader
Reason why i went with this is because they are cheaper than sbc or 2nd hand laptop
Fun part is that they are running at 20w/h in total
Mail server, pi-hole, mediawiki, kanboard, Tiny Tiny RSS, Baïkal, Minetest, Transmission, Jellyfin, Filestash and some homebrew.
I use Wireguard to access all that from outside my network. This way, my mail server only exposes smtp.
Proxmox on i7-6700 32GB -- VMs are debian unless otherwise specified:
Home Assistant (HAOS)
motionEye
openmediavault
Plex, Ombi, sonarr, radarr (Windows) -- someday I will migrate all of this to debian VMs
Unraid
Hoping to host more eventually, just need more ideas.
I'm sitting on a hand-me-down Intel server with a 24 core CPU, 96gb of RAM, and a combined 13.5TB of storage space.
Currently hosting:
Redundant pi-holes - DNS/Adblock
Plex - Streaming service 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Uptime Kuma - uptime tracker
Cloudflare proxy - secured external access to my environment sans VPN. It's set up with session tokens and 2fa via email. I'd like to lock this down further but I'm using the free option right now.
Ubiquiti wireless controller - I also have a hand-me-down AP, and I'm using it to improve wireless signal in my house.
I'd love some recommendations for different things to host too. I don't think a Lemmy instance is in the cards for me ATM though.
dumped docker ps and cleaned it up a bit
authelia/authelia:latest
containrrr/watchtower:latest
directus/directus:v9.0.0-rc.75
drone
ghcr.io/muchobien/pocketbase:latest
linuxserver/jackett:latest
linuxserver/radarr:latest
linuxserver/sonarr:latest
minio/minio:latest
nextcloud:latest
photoprism/photoprism:latest
pihole/pihole:latest
plexinc/pms-docker:latest
portainer/agent:latest
rclone/rclone:latest
custom projects
portfolio
staticdeploy/staticdeploy:latest
traefik:v2.5
I bought a dirt cheap thin client and put a 1TB SSD in it. Now running debian and experimenting with docker compose.
I got the following now:
Now i'm slowly looking at replacing Google apps on my phone. Mostly keep, photos, and calendar.
Bit of an odd journey here, migrated from a Windows 10 + Docker on WSL2 setup on the side of my main PC to a dedicated DIY Proxmox server/NAS setup. Set it up with snapraid since it's mostly media files, will add a proper ZFS mirror or two in the future when I'm able to afford the upgrade.
I'm mainly in it for the usual media services, Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, plus Jellyseerr (Overseer fork with Jellyfin support). Got Nextcloud as well, plan on looking into Lidarr and Mylarr at some point too.
Also have a Pi 4 running Home Assistant and Adguard DNS, as well as Tailscale all over for VPN. Contemplating moving HA to the proper server for the performance/storage reliability boost but at the end of the day it only really toggles lights rn so no real need.
On my little server i have:
2 pihole VM for DNS and redundancy 1 opnsense router VM 1 owncloud VM
my website, mail server... using free software, of course
I self-host, on a Debian VPS,
Considered self-hosting email as well, but dealing with spam is an intimidating prospect. Using Tutanota instead, but it's not entirely satisfactory (the app client is sloooow).
I also looked at self hosting email but the main problem I ran into is most IP's are blocked by most email providers. My residential IP was already on a blacklist and getting it off that is too much hassle
I'm pretty sure I used mxtoolbox before to check my IP. Looks like my current one is actually clean so I might not have any issues if I tried it now
PiHole on Pi
Tiny Tiny RSS on Docker behind NGINX reverse proxy on Ubuntu Hosted VPS - Accessed through Tailscale
LinkAce on Docker NGINX reverse proxy on Ubuntu Hosted VPS, Accessed through Tailscale
NextCloud on Pi - Accessed through Tailscale
HomeAssistant on Ubuntu
Calibre running on Ubuntu
Windows Desktops running on Hyper-V Server (Cost and extreme time constraints forced me to setup a Hyper-V server on bare metal, at the time VMWare was not playing nice with Win11 and I did not have the time to troubleshoot).
Unfortunately much less and much less efficiently than I'd like; atm it's Plex on an old Windows 7 laptop, and an SMB/NFS server on a Rock64 with an 8TB external hard drive.
Quassal Core on a linode, but that's cloud VPS, not my hardware, so not really self-hosting, even if I'm directly handling the OS and configuration.
I'd like to set up more. Ideally I'd like to set up two RAID backup servers, at seperate buildings, and have everything within the building back up to the local server multiple times per day, then have the servers perform incremental backups to each other once a day. ideally running on something small and cheap that I can leave in my dad's basment next to his router; "I got backups set up dad, it's this machine, you can pretty much ignore it, but let me know if you happen to notice it not running."
Figuring out Borg would be nice; dad's laptop is of course Windows, which Borg doesn't play nice with, but from the server on his end on, it'd all be linux. I just need to get a couple low-power high-storage boxen built.
i USED to host a mc server, now i dont host anything as i cant get jellyfish automatic pirating to work...
currently using a old Dell PowerEdge r610 as my homelab.
now for the things i host!
i would move my lemmy instance to my own selfhosted setup, however i just don't want to go through with setting up NGINX proxy manager. also, my internet is a bit slower at home than what i'm getting with this hetzner VPS.
I’m a simple man. All I’m running is Gitlab, Plex, and Artifactory CE. I used to have Libreddit and Invidious, but those died during a server migration and was too lazy to bring them back. I guess libreddit wouldn’t work anymore?