Hello everyone! Mods here 😊

Tell us, what services do you selfhost? Extra points for selfhosted hardware infrastructure.

Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!

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  • NastyNative@mander.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    My Self-Hosting Journey

    I began my self-hosting journey in 2021 with the goal of hosting a game server for friends so they would not need to pay for external hosting. Through onsite IT work, I acquired several 6th and 8th generation i7 systems from companies that were downsizing or upgrading. After adding inexpensive NVMe storage and APC battery backups, the environment grew quickly.

    What started as a single server eventually expanded to three dedicated game servers running 27/4, supporting up to 270 concurrent players at peak. These servers have been up for almost 4 years now.

    Internet Connection

    • ISP: Optimum Fiber (1 Gbps / 1 Gbps symmetrical) – $65/month
    • ISP router configured in bridge mode if I return it they take away a discount.

    Network Infrastructure

    • Router: UDM Pro
    • Switch: USW 16-Port PoE
    • Access Point: AC Pro

    Infrastructure Services

    DNS Server

    • Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB RAM)
    • DietPi OS
    • Running Pi-hole for DNS filtering

    Game Server Infrastructure

    All game servers are connected to APC battery backups and maintain approximately 99% uptime, with downtime only occurring during scheduled maintenance. A custom watchdog script automatically restarts servers if a crash occurs.

    • Game Server 1

      • i7 6th Gen
      • 24 GB RAM
      • 500 GB NVMe storage
      • Windows Server 2019

    • Game Server 2

      • i7 8th Gen
      • 32 GB RAM
      • 500 GB NVMe storage
      • Windows Server 2019

    • Game Server 3

      • i7 8th Gen
      • 28 GB RAM
      • 500 GB NVMe storage
      • Windows Server 2019

    Virtualization / Homelab

    Proxmox Server

    • i7 12th Gen
    • 40 GB RAM
    • 1 TB NVMe storage
    • External USB Media Drive – 22 TB (with backup)

    Current Services

    • Jellyfin – Replacing all commercial streaming services (currently LAN only, working on secure remote access)

    Planned Additions

    • NGINX – Reverse proxy for secure external access
    • Apache Guacamole – Replace RemotePC for remote access
    • Tailscale – Replace Surfshark for private networking
    • Vaultwarden – Replace RoboForm for password management

    If you think there are better options please let me know so I can do my research!

  • Kage@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Proxmox on a self-built rackserver (Will be building a second one for a proxmox cluster):

    • Pi-Hole (primary)
    • Home Assistant
    • 2 Docker Hosts (One for Eval, one for Prod)

    Raspberry Pi Zero for Pi-Hole (secondary)

    On my Docker Host (All in docker-compose):

    • Heimdall (Personal Dashboard)
    • Portainer (Docker GUI)
    • baikal (CAL & CADdav)
    • vaultwarden (Password Manager)
    • bookstack (Documentation, kinda abandoned because im lazy)
    • changedetection(.)io (Monitoring Websites for Changes, useful for changelogs or price monitoring)
    • cloudflare-ddns (DDNS because dynamic IP Adresses…)
    • Grafana & InfluxDB (Dashboard and Database for Stats)
    • linkding (Bookmarks aka “Have to read someday”)
    • mealie (Reciepe manager)
    • neko (Watch2gether but in selfhosted and more capable imo)
    • nginx proxy manager (Reverse Proxy with GUI)
    • paperless-ngx (Document manager with OCR)
    • semaphore ui (Ansible GUI with sheduled tasks)
    • Uptime Kuma (Status Monitoring)
    • watchtower (Automatic updates of my docker containers because im lazy)

    A Synology DS220+ for local Storage

    A 5TB Hetzner Storage Box for Backups (encrypted)

    A Rootserver for Games and some testing in the wild (Currently Windows, will be switched to ubuntu)

    Hetzner Cloud Server with mailcow on it

  • Bharat Kalluri@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Running Tipi on a five year old chrome box with tailscale as the VPN. Has been running great! Now I’m self hosting

    1. Adguard: adblocking inside tailnet & for DNS rewrites
    2. Barrage: Nice deluge UI
    3. Beszel: Clean & simple server monitoring. I monitor two of my instances & the self hosted setup on this.
    4. Beszel Agent: Agent for collecting data for Baszel
    5. Deluge: Torrenting
    6. Duplicati: Backups with a great UI
    7. File Browser: for quick ops
    8. Flowise AI: Great drag and drop LLM chat apps builder
    9. Immich: The absolute best way to manage pictures
    10. Jackett: For the arr stack
    11. Jellyfin: Media streaming solution with apps on my phone, TV & laptops
    12. Open WebUI: My default LLM chat client now, I no longer pay 20$ for chatGPT but just pay as I go with open webui and chatgpt api key
    13. Radarr
    14. Sonarr
    15. Uptime Kuma: Uptime monitoring for everything
    16. Wallos: Subscription management

    Tipi is pretty awesome. If you haven’t already, check it out!

    • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Didn’t know about Tipi!

      Getting ready to set up Immich, Navidrome and Nextcloud, was meaning to handle it with separate Docker containers, but now I’ll try Tipi first.

      Thanks!

  • Vijay Prema@fosstodon.org
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    3 years ago

    @devve

    - Nextcloud
    - Miniflux
    - Gitlab
    - HomeAssistant
    - Wallabag
    - Ghost (for my personal blog)
    - Umami analytics
    - Searx NG
    - OnlyOffice document server
    - ntfy
    - Lychee
    - LAMP Stack
    - TheLounge (IRC web client)
    - Cockpit (server manager)
    - RSSHub
    - Jellyfin
    - Adguard

    On an Intel NUC in my closet.

    • estevez@lemmy.one
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      3 years ago

      Umami analytics looks exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks! ntfy looks very useful as well.

  • oolong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I have a used Lenovo Thinkcentre mini with an i3-7100T and 16gb RAM. I have Ubuntu server LTS installed on it and I run everything in docker containers.

    I host:

    • jellyfin server for my friends and family
    • qbittorrent to download for the JF server(behind a VPN)
    • Jellyseerr for requests
    • Jackett, Sonarr, and Radarr for downloads
    • a Minecraft server
  • battlesheep@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have been self hosting things for over 15 years. I now host on 7 computers. I’m proud of the fact that I stay under 100W idle, including 3 Omada WLAN APs and network technology (all via PoE and all is on a UPS). For most of the services i normally used the helper scripts. i’m currently in the process of moving everything to komodo. there should be an lxc for each service or service group, komodo pulls the compose files from gitea and deploys everything.

    Proxmox pve0: M910x i5.7500 4x3,4GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe

    • OPNSense (VM)
    • Omada (LXC/komodo-server - control for 3 WLAN-APs)
    • apt-cacher-ng (LXC/komodo-server - cache for debian-updates)
    • searxng (LXC/komodo-server - my standard google-alternative)
    • technitium (LXC/komodo-server - DNS, Adblock)
    • nginx (LXC/komodo-server - own ssl-domain over cloudflare, no ports open to the www, my devices connect only via tailscale)

    UNRAID-NAS - odroid h2+ Intel J4115 4x1,8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2x24GB HDD - fileserver)

    Proxmox Backup Server (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe, 2TB SSD)

    Proxmox pve1 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)

    • bifrost (LXC/komodo-server - hue emulator)
    • paperless (LXC/komodo-server - DMS)
    • paperless-ai (LXC/komodo-server - tagging DMS)
    • mosquitto (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt broker)
    • zigbee2mqtt (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt-zigbee bridge)
    • snowflake (LXC/komodo-server - tor relais)
    • RaspberryMatic (VM - Homematic)

    Proxmox pve2 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)

    • ghost (LXC comm-script, business soltion, wanna play around)
    • hoarder (LXC/komodo-server - bookmarks with AI tagging)
    • memos (LXC/komodo-server - notes - I play around)
    • obsidian-sync (LXC/komodo-server - notes, but I hate the need of action for this)
    • vaultwarden (LXC/komodo-server - password manager backup for my payed bitwarden instance)
    • gitea (LXC/komodo-server - hoe to, IP-addresses, compose-files)
    • komodo-management (LXC/komodo-server - komodo main-server to manage all the servers)
    • firefly-iii (LXC/komodo-server - finance - I’m looking for an alternaticve for actualbudget )
    • actual-budged (LXC/komodo-server - finance with AI tagging)
    • investbrain (LXC/komodo-server - stock management, but only in USD, I wait for other currencies)

    Proxmox pve3 (M920x: i7-8700, 64 GB RAM, 250 GB NVMe, 2 TB NVMe)

    • ollama+open webui (LXC/komodo-server - AI)
    • immich (LXC/komodo-server - photo backup for my ios-photos)
    • iobroker (LXC/komodo-server - smarthome for some tricky scripts)
    • home assistant (VM - smarthome - for UI, its stupid for scripts)
    • nextcloud (LXC/alpine - Im using it for documents, but Im looking for an alternative)
    • plex/jellyfin/management (LXC/komodo-server - multimedia)

    *raspberry pi 5

    • venus OS (solar/accu management software)

    i’m happy to have found an entry point and an alternative to reddit here, even though my second post (question about suitable hardware with 32 answers) has already been deleted. hello everyone!

  • Marxine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I joined to learn, still not self-hosting anything, but I intend to use an 11yo Compaq laptop (i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) as a server while I’m still practicing. I intend to self-host a lemmy instance and a nextcloud server.

    Thanks for everything you guys have been sharing I’ve already got some good leads, gonna try out YunoHost for starters

  • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago
    • website
    • email
    • dns
    • adblocking
    • home assistent
    • home gallery
    • eve-ng
    • check_mk
    • nagios
    • git
    • ansible
    • backuppc
    • zoneminder
    • unifi controller
    • central syslog
    • syslog2irc
    • kodi
    • 3x moodeaudio
  • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 years ago

    i don’t self-host yet, but i have an old pc in my house, i just need to bring it with me to colege, so i can learn and start self-hosting

    • devve@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Great way to start! My first server was an “old” 2010 server I left at home when I went to college 😄

  • Max Headroom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Hosting a whole bunch of stuff for myself, the family and also the public. For the larger family I’m hosting eMail but using a managed service offering for that (Hetzner). Too old to run my own IMAP/SMTP infrastructure ;)

    For a few private societies I’m hosting:

    For the public I host:

    Mostly formyself, but not restricted I’m hosting:

    • Pixelfed
    • LinkDing for Bookmarks
    • Excalidraw
    • Grafana
    • OverLeaf
    • StandardNotes Server
    • PiHole
    • GitTea
    • FreshRSS
    • Minio S3-kompatible Object Storage as Backend for Mastodon & Pixelfed (on an old Dell Optiplex at home over my DSL Line)
    • GoToSocial Fediverse Client (On a RaspberryPi at home)
    • PeerTube for public projects (on the same old Dell OptiPlex)
    • PeerTube as private Video Streaming platform (on a Dell Precision 3500 tower)

    Most services run in Docker Containers on some VPS at Hetzner. Some stuff runs in Docker Containers on old spare hardware at home.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Are you using the mail service from Hetzner or are you using their servers to host it yourself?

      • Max Headroom@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 years ago

        I’m using the Mail service from Hetzner. I did host my own eMails for more than 10 years but eventually decided it’s too much hassle.

  • beigegull@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I’ve got a couple VPSes, hosting

    • Mailcow, because email is identity.
    • Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
    • Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
    • ttrss, even though it’s junk software with a jerk developer.
    • A bunch of self-developed web apps

    Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it’s also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that’s still broadly accepted.

  • Anarch157a@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Hello selfhosters.

    Here’s my list of stuff:

    On a VPS hosted in Germany:

    On my home server (my old gaming PC, repurposed)

    • Proxmox to manage several containers/VMs:
      • OPNsense Firewall
      • HomeAssistant
      • Pihole
      • Gitlab
      • Jellyfin
    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Hi, thanks for your comment! I just visited your blog and noticed that it loads fairly quickly: I assume you must have some sort of CDN set up. Could you point me to how you went about setting up the CDN for your domain/website? Thanks!

      • Anarch157a@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        No CDN. The secret is way simpler: It’s a static site. Just a bunch of files served directly by Nginx. I use Pelican to generate the site from Markdown files.

  • Mchl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Hello

    Let’s have a look at the inventory

    • RPI 4B

      • OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)

    • HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i5-6500T, 8GiB RAM - this one is currently the mainstay of my lab, running containers with docker-compose

      • Nginx as reverse proxy (+ fail2ban, letsencrypt)
      • Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
      • Jellyfin
      • Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
      • ddclient
      • Heimdall

    • Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro i7-8700T 32GiB RAM

      • I’ve gotten this one fairly recently. A real bargain - costed as much as the CPU alone and was in pristine condition. I will be migrating the workload from EliteDesk to this one. I decided to try ProxMox this time though, so I need to learn a bit first. Also perhaps add a second SSD