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Locally tailscale/home network only, intel NUC with a big honking thunderbolt drive bay:
Linode VPS, world accessible:
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.
Pihole Keycloak Lemmy
The "usual" Plex stack:
Plex Sonarr Radarr Readarr Calibre & Calibre-Web Sabnzbd Nzbhydra
I want to throw Nextcloud into the mix, but I haven't gotten the motivation to do that yet. I have 102TB of disk on a 4 node kubernetes cluster just for fun
PiHole, Owncast, weechat, Bookwyrm
Maybe I should set up my own matrix instance 🤔
Last year I downsized from an old HP tower server with a xeon, and 8x 1tb SAS HDDs, to a single Intel NUC with i5 and 4x 4TB SATA HDDs.
I run Proxmox on it, with several VMs.
I also have a raspberry pi with home assistant and a ZigBee USB adapter, for controlling the lighting in my house.
I've been trying to get docker swarm running across my 4 rpi's, but traefik hasn't been able to discover services (can find them on the same node if the network is a bridge, can't find anything with overlay network) which has been frustrating to try to figure out the problem. That said, here is what I plan to host on the swarm:
Mostly WordPress sites. But do have experience with Mastodon self hosting
Plex and an FTP/Samba server on a DS418play.
Right now only Syncthing on a Raspi. I'm lazy 😆
Oracle Database and Apex for a shopping list application for my family.
Currently one server as VM host for:
Server 1 OS: Debian Nextcloud Plex
Server 2 (raspberry pi) OS: Raspbian Lite PiHole PiVPN
I have a few Raspberry Pis hosting
How about what I'm not self-hosting? Lemmy. If anyone has an up to date guide on self-hosting a single user instance of lemmy that is actually easy to follow, that would be great. I just want to control my user account.
Their Ansible instructions are accurate and thorough.
Plex and Plex-related software, Linkding, Calibre-Web, Pi-Hole, Home Assistant
Unifi controller is the only 'real' service I actually keep running. I have various VMs running on Proxmox that I mostly use for testing. Even though I have two physical servers with plenty of compute and memory available, backed by a large NAS and all of hanging off a UPS, I just don't feel comfortable in self-hosting things I deem critical.
Pi4 with an usb->m.2 1TB drive with nextcloud. Has been working like a charm so far