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I have a jellyfin server on a pi4. I recently bought a dell micro pc, but haven't had the motivation to move the jellyfin server over to it yet.
Lemmy (since why not), portainer, Plex & Jellyfin (I mostly use Jellyfin), vaultwarden, qbittorrent, autobrr, virtualmin, couple of ircd servers, nginx proxy manager, couple of websites and considering actually selfhosting email even with all that crap that comes with it. Probably a few I've forgotten about
VFIO KVM/ QEMU GPU passthrough for Windows VM for Solidworks. A forked program that I've turned into something completely different, I took some random http server from github and made it convert PDFs to Excel, linked it to my website so it can be used. Got a small network share for all the movies I've got which is kinda a lot Made a VM with a dedicated nic for managing my websites
Everything is on One PC, got 4 more systems that have no purpose and are there if this one dies so I have reserve. Any ideas on how to repurpose them? Also on todo list is an self hosted mail server that I'm yet to do because of domain issues. They are expensive lol
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.
This is my little setup at work
Kubernetes cluster (created by kubespray)
- "Glue" services:
- nginx ingress controller (automatically sets up nginx vhosts for Kubernetes apps)
- cert-manager (gets SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt for any apps that need them)
- MetalLB (finds and provides an IP for Kubernetes services)
- rook (storage provisioner--I have a few partitions & drives dedicated for rook to provide storage to the apps on the cluster)
- Apps:
- GitLab (via GitLab helm chart which brings along nginx ingress and cert-manager)
- Nextcloud (via Nextcloud helm chart)
- Mattermost (via Mattermost helm chart)
- Rancher
- Apps deployed via GitLab CI/CD (primarily through Auto DevOps):
- Company website
- Firmware updates for embedded systems
- Mobile apps
Raspberry Pi 3
- Home assistant
- syncthing
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.
How is the home assistant doing?
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:
- Vaultwarden
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Pi-hole
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
- media server (jellyfin + sonarr/radarr etc)
- stable diffusion image generation server
- games (starbound mostly, killed minecraft after microsoft takeover)
- lemmy
- comics/manga server (komga)
- yt-dl web interface
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 host the following in my house:
- Nextcloud
- ManicTime (tho this isn't FOSS, but I'm a contractor consultant and love how this works) -Calibre Library/Calibre Web for books -all the *arr's w/ Plex -BaiKal for caldav to manage mine and my mom's life -vikunja for task management -grocy for home erp -bookstack for various notes
the following in digitalocean cause uptime is super important -mastodon -lemmy -matrix -url shortener for fediverse
All are running ubuntu server
I plan on getting a server this summer (building it myself), and the things I have planned this far:
- bitwarden
- monica
- minecraft
- factorio
- email server
- maybe pihole
- maybe lemmy
- jellyfin
Edit: forgot jellyfin
I have a dietPi on a RapsberryPi2 where I run a vaultwarden instance and pi-hole
i7 12700, 64GB RAM, 1TB NVME x2 mirrored for OS, 10TBx8 z1
Proxmox VMs:
TrueNAS running storage array
Home Assistant
Ubuntu VM where everything else runs in Docker:
*pfSense
*Unifi controller
*Jellyfin
*Radarr
*Sonarr
*NZBGet
*Airsonic
*Ombi
*Transmission
*Calibre
*Soulseek
*BitWarden
*Traefik
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.
- Gerbera - DLNA/Upnp server for streaming my media
- Shinobi - monitors and records my security cameras
- Syncthing - for keeping backups of important things from my laptop and my phone and my wife's phone.
- A container with a Python script that is constantly monitoring my solar panel energy production and sends it to pvoutput.org
- Some VMs with different versions of Centos and PHP for developing and testing webapps on.
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:
- traefik
- grocy
- nextcloud
- vaultwarden
- plex
- nginx (portfolio website that I currently just have on GitHub pages)
- lemmy instance (for some of you beautiful bastards)
- readarr, sonarr, readarr, lidarr, prowlarr, sabnzb, and qbittorrent
Mostly WordPress sites. But do have experience with Mastodon self hosting
Plex and an FTP/Samba server on a DS418play.
Currently one server as VM host for:
- Nextcloud
- Mailcow
- Apache/PHP/mariadb as both reverse proxy for Nextcloud and the mailcow web interface and webserver for personal and company websites, bitwarden and bookstack
- Custom backup server (wireguard connections to different sites and incremental backup routines with bash/rsync)
Server 1 OS: Debian Nextcloud Plex
Server 2 (raspberry pi) OS: Raspbian Lite PiHole PiVPN
I have a few Raspberry Pis hosting
- PiHole/Wireguard
- Synching
- Jellyfin
- Home Assistant
- Motioneye
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.