Hello everyone! I’m kinda curious about the services you self-host, and I would love to see what do y’all use!
I’ll start, and list the services I self-host:
My list
- Immich (bye Google photos)
- Open WebUI (web interface for llms)
- Fireshare (clips hosting and sharing)
- Home Assistant
- FMD Server (find my device alternative)
- YourSpotify (spotify tracker)
- Kener (uptime monitoring)
- AdGuard Home
- SearXNG
Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who participate!
My list is weird because I reused an android device with termux for this and it runs very well.
- Readeck (bookmarking and archiving)
- Syncthing
- Transmission (torrent)
- Foegejo (fuck github, the software behind codeberg)
- TOR (as a socks5 proxy and DNS resolver)
- Kiwix of you count that
I’m always looking for stuff to host but limited for the host android device, as it’s also my “phone”. Some ports like 53 is blocked so can’t use pihole or similar
What this thread has showed me is that I’m over here playing tiddlywinks.
- Nextcloud - I basically just use it as a Google drive replacement
- Immich
- SearXNG (will probably remove it because I don’t really use it)
- Jellyfin + arr stack + qbittorrent for 🦜. I also have IPTV hooked in. Everything that needs to is routed though nordVPN / mullvad
- Jellyseer
- Home Assistant (I’ve barely scratched the surface, mostly just used for:
- Predbat (manages solar with agile tariff)
- frigate+ (3 cam reolink NVR)
- keepassxc / syncthing
- ariang - download manager. I have it set up such that anything I add to the download queue downloads between 0000 and 0600.
- Some vibe coded app I made to rank movies using pairs and suggest new ones.
- adguard
- grafana
- ntfy
- coolercontrol (fan curves for server)
- otter wiki (my own idiots guide on how it’s all set up)
- and a homepage/dashboard
Only external access is from my phone via tailscale. I also run Claude code on there so I can remotely do stuff on the server using natural language while away from home.
The server is just a mishmash of old parts I had lying around. I only needed to purchase a case and a drive to get it going.
Server runs ubuntu lts I5 4690k 16gb ddr3 Rtx 2060 6gb Currently about 11tb storage
Currently I have one Docker host. I want to split my containers across 2 hosts. Both just small form factor PCs. (Lenovo, forget the exact model. But each have 16gb of DDR4 and an i5. One is 8th gen, and the other I have to double check. The one I haven’t setup yet has an Nvidia card of sorts. I want to offload media services onto that one.)
Anyways, on to the breakdown:
Containers:
- Technitium (DNS)
- DNSWeaver (DNS from Labels)
- Caddy (with custom plugins Caddy-Docker-Proxy mainly)
- WG-Easy (Wireguard VPN)
- DDNS container
- Authentik (SSO Provider)
- Signal-CLI
- Molly Socket
- Multiple Docker Socket Proxy containers
- SearXNG
- Uptime Kuma
- Vaultwarden
- WUD
- Speedtest Tracker
- Dozzle
- Forgejo
- FMD (Find my device)
- Bookstack
- Syncthing
- Vikunja (Kanban board)
- Navidrome
- Maloja
- Audiomuse
- Doku
- Jellyfin
- FreshRSS
- Nextcloud
- beets
- Komga
- Lyrica (with some custom scripting to search my music for matching LRC files)
- Homepage
- Ntfy
Next up I want to add Autokuma. However, I am going to split these containers onto another machine yet.
Your Spotify
Shame there isn’t a “your deezer” that sounds really cool. Anyways user facing service LXCs (eg. Jellyfin) have Tailscale installed. Here’s my services by box:
NAS: Ugreen DXP4800 pro
-Proxmox
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-Homarr
-Audiobookshelf
-Jellyfin
-Seerr
-Immich
-Syncthing
-Searxing
-Paperless
-Vaultwarden
-Mealie
-Joplin
-Docker host #1(Romm, LibroFM downloader, audiobookshelf/hardcover integration)
-Docker host #2 (*arrs)Local back up: Beelink eq12 (I think, anyways an Intel N100 thing.
-Proxmoxx
-Redundant pihole
-Redundant NginxProxyManager
-Syncthing
-Immich machine learningSatalites, usually a RPi3. These act as a relay in users' houses so nothing touches the open web.
-DietPi
-Tailscale
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-One poor soul has syncthing and a couple of drives for a remote backup.I have a spare no name n100 box that I would like to turn into a network box one day, then I can manage my Airvpn and Tailscale access through that. But for now the ISP router is fine, I guess.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AP WiFi Access Point DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network DNS Domain Name Service/System Git Popular version control system, primarily for code ISP Internet Service Provider LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping LXC Linux Containers NAS Network-Attached Storage NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) Plex Brand of media server package RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage SBC Single-Board Computer SSD Solid State Drive mass storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access SSO Single Sign-On Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand VPN Virtual Private Network VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) k8s Kubernetes container management package nginx Popular HTTP server
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Incus, all services running in lxc. Ansible and templates to run startup stuff for new containers (ssh keys, etc). My docker setup is primitive, I regressed down to individual containers for each with docker compose. It’s so trivial to restore last night’s lxc backup that k3s/k8s doesn’t really help me. In fact, i’ve been simplifying everything to suit my use case, including hardware.
- sonarr
- radarr
- bazarr
- prowlarr (I’m close to getting rid of this)
- transmission
- sabnzbd
- kavita for comics only
- calibre Web automated (CWA)
- frigate NVR
- navidrome
- immich
- openwisp to manage 2x openwrt access points
- homeassistant
- technitium DNS x2
- uptimekuma monitoring x2
- ntfy for push notifications
- ansible
- jellyfin
- radicale
- syncthing
- Wireguard
- wanderer for GPS track mgmt on “big screen”. I track my GPS trails and drives as a hobby. I’d love a self-hosted comaps web client, but I can’t really find one. :(
Plus lots of transient trials that come and go with interest. Rotating 7 day/4 week/3 months backups by NFS with pruning, includes snapshots, but I set expires on these.
This is running on 2x minipcs with 48GB ram each, but they are way overkill. I just received a mini itx i5 board, which will house all of the containers, save VPN and 1x DNS, which I will run on an SBC.
So I’m going down from 2x servers + 1 NFS nas to one 1u server for everything plus one SBC so I can reboot it.
Power consumption is king factor for me now.
What would you suggest for a prowlarr replacement when you get rid of it? And what would be the reason for getting rid of it? Just curious since I use prowlarr.
