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I have a single Dell R210ii running proxmox and a bunch of VM's and containers.
Opnsense (VM) Home assistant (VM) Technitium DNS (LXC) Ubuntu/OpenVPN (VM) Ubuntu/docker (VM)
Then a splattering of containers in docker. Using portioner as a UI and Authentik for Single sign on.
Plenty of docker containers but these change over time as I try things out. General setup of firewall/DNS/vpn/home assistant & docker host is how it's been for ~2 years now and its done me well.
OS and hardware:
Software:
I also host second Uptime Kuma on DigitalOcean for checking my home server. I also backup my server on S3 storage with Rclone and my custom bash script.
I have a shared linux host account (and I occasionally help the admin with some installation stuff)
I currently host a few PHP sites on it like Dokuwiki, a few feedback forms, a mail image bug tester, piwik and a few others
Also I host a gemini server for my own site and a gemini chat server that I actually wrote myself in Java
a web2gemini gateway
a Misfin server (again wrote myself)
On a pubnix host I host a uptime kuma instance to check my main server
On a vps host I have an instance of Linkace that I wanted to try out but am not really using
Manjaro Linux with ZFS on some old gaming PC.
Home Automation and IoT with HomeAssistant in a virtual box. Database for storing some IoT history (not hooked up to Home Assistant yet but recording from MQTT) with MariaDB. Media Server with Emby. Photograph Backups with Immich; just playing with this for now. Constantly have problems running it to do with not connecting to Redis or PostGres :/ MQTT Server with Mosquitto for some custom IoT devices. VPN with WireGuard. File Syncronization with Syncthing; to/from phone and other computers. Torrenting with Deluge and Deluge Web.
Plex. Sonarr/radarrr/lidarr/nzbget, home assistant (mainly to centralize smart home apps into one), miniflux for rss, teamspeak, a couple vpns, a blog I write nonsense on. Now a lemmy instance.
I have a Proxmox server running:
So many things. All my systems run Debian and firewalls run OPNsense
I don't have anything crazy setup. I'm always trying to think of some additional stuff I can setup, but only if it's really going to be useful to me.
I have an Unraid box with some containers and a few VMs
Almost everything has been mentioned already so I just stick with the unusual: I host a private MediaWiki instance for note taking in my pen and paper rounds. It's amazing once the other players got a bit more comfortable how to use it well regarding templates, categories and articles. My only regret is that I didn't set up new instances per gaming group.
Stable Diffusion (Stability AI version), text-generation-webui (WizardLM), a text embedder service with Spacy, Bert and a bunch of sentence-transformer models, PiHole, Octoprint, Elasticsearch/Kibana for my IoT stuff, Jellyfin, Sonarr, FTB Minecraft (customized pack), a few personal apps I wrote myself (todo lists), SMB file shares, qBittorrent and Transmission (one dedicated to Sonarr)... Probably a ton of other stuff I'm forgetting.
I want to get photoprism set up on my Pi but not got around to it yet
Right now I self-host )
On a hetzner sever with proxmox :
At Home :
I used to self-host Jellyfin but gave up because most of my files are H265 so other devices (like smartphones and televisions) struggle without transcoding.
I also host game servers for my friends when we're in the mood to play games like ARK, Valheim, or Minecraft.