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Ask HN: What do you self-host?

by aeleos on 10/12/19, 8:24 PM with 335 comments

• by mavidser on 10/13/19, 3:18 AM

  I reworked my servers a while ago to host literally everything through docker, managed via terraform.

  All web-services are reverse-proxied through traefik

  At home:

      loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus
      syncthing
      tinc vpn server
      jackett + radarr + sonarr + transmission
      jellyfin
      samba server
      calibre server
  

  On a remote server:

      loki + cadvisor + node-exporter + grafana + prometheus
      syncthing
      tinc vpn server
      dokuwiki
      firefox-sync
      firefox-send
      vscode server
      bitwarden
      freshrss
      znc bouncer + lounge irc client + bitlbee
      an httptunnel server (like ngrok)
      firefly iii
      monicahq
      kanboard
      radicale
      syncthing
      wallabag
      tmate-server

• by teddyh on 10/13/19, 1:56 PM

  “Self-host” is such a weird word. Having your own stuff yourself should be the default, should it not? I mean, you don’t “self-drive” your car, nor “self-work” your job. The corresponding words instead exists for the opposites: You can have a chauffeur and you can outsource your job.

  I think the problem is entirely caused by the US having absolutely abysmal private internet speeds and capacity. Since you can’t then have your own server at home, you are forced to have it elsewhere with sensible internet connections.

  It’s as if, in an alternate reality, no private residences had parking space for cars; no garages, no street parking. Everyone would be forced to either use public transport, taxis and chauffeur services to get anywhere. Having a private vehicle would be an expensive hobby for the rich and/or enthusiasts, just like having a personal server is in our world.

• by cyphar on 10/13/19, 11:16 AM

  I self-host the following at home. Everything is running under LXD (and I have all of the scripts to set it up here[1]):

    * nginx to reverse-proxy each of the services.
    * NextCloud.
    * Matrix Homeserver (synapse).
    * My website (dumb Flask webapp).
    * Tor (non-exit) relay.
    * Tor onion service for my website.
    * Wireguard VPN (not running in a container, obviously).
  

  All running on an openSUSE Leap box, with ZFS as the filesystem for my drives (simple stripe over 2-way mirrors of 4TB drives).

  It also acts as an NFS server for my media center (Kodi -- though I really am not a huge fan of LibreELEC) to pull videos, music, and audiobooks from. Backups are done using restic (and ZFS snapshots to ensure they're atomic) and are pushed to BackBlaze B2.

  I used to run an IRC bouncer but Matrix fills that need these days. I might end up running my own Gitea (or gitweb) server one day though -- I don't really like that I host everything on GitHub. I have considered hosting my own email server, but since this is all done from a home ISP connection that probably isn't such a brilliant idea. I just use Mailbox.org.

  [1]: https://github.com/cyphar/cyphar.com/tree/master/srv

• by sdan on 10/13/19, 1:41 AM

  I host a bunch of docker containers plus Traefik to route everything. It runs on a cheap GCP instance (more on this here: https://sdan.xyz/sd2)

  Overleaf: https://sdan.xyz/latex

  A URL Shortener: https://sdan.xyz

  All my websites (https://sdan.xyz/drf, https://sdan.xyz/surya, etc.)

  My blog(s) (https://sdan.xyz/blog, https://sdan.xyz/essays)

  Commento commenting server (I don't like disqus)

  Monitoring (https://sdan.xyz/monitoring, etc.)

  Analytics (using Fathom Analytics) and some more stuff!

• by whalesalad on 10/13/19, 12:24 AM

  Bums me out when I see people putting so many resources into running/building elaborate piracy machines. Plex, radarr, sonarr, etc... (you note some of these services but /r/homelab is notorious for this)

  Here’s my home lab: https://imgur.com/a/aOAmGq8

  I don’t self host anything of value. It’s not cost effective and network performance isn’t the best. Google handles my mail. GitHub can’t be beat. I use Trello and Notion for tracking knowledge and work, whether personal or professional. Anything else is on AWS. I do have a VPN though so I can access all of this when I’m not home.

  The NAS is for backing up critical data. R720 was bought to experiment with Amazon Firecracker. It’s usually off at this point. Was running ESXI, now running Windows Server evaluation.

  The desktop on the left is the new toy. I’m learning AD and immersing myself 100% in the Microsoft stack. Currently getting an idiomatic hybrid local/azure/o365 setup going. The worst part about planning a MS deployment is having to account for software licensing that is done on a per-cpu-core basis.

• by tbyehl on 10/13/19, 2:13 AM

  In colo:

    nginx
    Plex
    Radarr / Sonarr / SABnzbd / qBittorrent / ZeroTier -> online.net server
    FreeNAS x2
    Active Directory
  

  At home:

    nginx
    vCenter
    urbackup
    UniFi SDN, Protect
    Portainer / unms / Bitwarden
    Wordpress (isolated)
    Guacamole
    PiHole
    InfluxDB / grafana
    Active Directory
    Windows 10 VM for Java things
    L2TP on my router
  

  Everything I expose to the world goes through CloudFlare and nginx with Authenticated Origin Pulls [0], firewalled to CF's IPs [1], and forced SSL using CF's self-signed certs. I'm invisible to Shodan / port scans.

  Have been meaning to move more to colo, especially my Wordpress install and some Wordpress.com-hosted sites, but inertia.

  [0] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/204899617-A...

  [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/

• by zelly on 10/13/19, 5:10 AM

  SSH: for git and tunneling literally everything: VNC, sftp, Emacs server, tmux, ....

  Docker running random stuff

  Used to run Pihole until I got an Android and rooted it. Used to mess with WebDAV and CalDAV. Nextcloud is a mess; plain SFTP fuse mounts work better for me. My approach has gone from trying to replicate cloud services to straight up remoting over SSH (VNC or terminal/mosh depending connectivity) to my home computer when I want to do something. It's simple and near unexploitable.

  This is the way it should always have been done from the start of the internet. When you want to edit your calendar, for example, you should be able to do it on your phone/laptop/whatever as a proxy to your home computer, actually locking the file on your home computer. Instead we got the prolifetation of cloud SaaSes to compensate for this. For every program on your computer, you now need >1 analogous but incompatible program for every other device you use. Your watch needs a different calendar program than your gaming PC than your smart fridge, but you want a calendar on all of them. M×N programs where you could have just N, those on your home computer, if you could remote easily. (Really it's one dimension more than M×N when you consider all the backend services behind every SaaS app. What a waste of human effort and compute.)

• by ricardbejarano on 10/12/19, 11:40 PM

  On my home server (refurbished ThinkPad X201 with a Core i5-520M, 8GB of memory, 1TB internal SSD sync'd nightly to an external 1TB HDD) I run a single-node Kubernetes cluster with the following stuff:

  * MinIO: for access to my storage over the S3 API, I use it with restic for device backups and to share files with friends and family

  * CoreDNS: DNS cache with blacklisted domains (like Pihole), gives DNS-over-TLS to the home network and to my phone when I'm outside

  * A backup of my S3-hosted sites, just in case (bejarano.io, blog.bejarano.io, mta-sts.bejarano.io and prefers-color-scheme.bejarano.io)

  * https://ideas.bejarano.io, a simple "pick-one-at-random" site for 20,000 startup ideas (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21112345)

  * MediaWiki instance for systems administration stuff

  * An internal (only accessible from my home network) picture gallery for family pictures

  * TeamSpeak server

  * Cron jobs: dynamic DNS, updating the domain blacklist nightly, recursively checking my websites for broken links, keeping an eye on any new release of a bunch of software packages I use

  * Prometheus stack + a bunch of exporters for all the stuff above

  * IPsec/L2TP VPN for remote access to internal services (picture gallery and Prometheus)

  * And a bunch of internal Kubernetes stuff for monitoring and such

  I still have to figure out log aggregation (probably going to use fluentd), I want to add some web-based automation framework like NodeRED or n8n.io for random stuff. I'd also like to host some password manager but I still have to study that.

  I also plan on rewriting wormhol.org into supporting any S3 backend, so that I can bind it's storage with MinIO.

  And finally, I'd like to move off single-disk storage and get a decent RAID solution to provide NFS for my cluster, as well as a couple more nodes to add redundancy and more compute.

  Edit: formatting.

• by itm on 10/13/19, 5:29 AM

  I eat my own food:

  https://github.com/epoupon/lms for music

  https://github.com/epoupon/fileshelter to share files

  Eveything is packaged on debian buster (amd64 and armhf) and run behind a reverse proxy.

• by kstenerud on 10/13/19, 6:16 AM

  Everything I run is in a deterministic, rebuildable LXC container or KVM virtual machine.

  I have around 10 desktops that run in containers in various places for various common tasks I do. Each one has a backed up homedir, and then I have a ZFS-backed fileserver for centralized data. I connect to them using chrome remote desktop or x2go. I've had my work machine die one time too many, so with these scripts I can go from a blank work machine to exactly where I left off before the old one died, in a little over an hour. None of my files are stuck to a particular machine, so I can run on a home server, and then when I need to travel, transfer the desktop to a laptop, then transfer it back again when I get home. Takes about 10 minutes to transfer it.

  https://github.com/kstenerud/virtual-builders

  I also run most of my server apps this way:

  https://github.com/kstenerud/virtual-builders/tree/master/ma...

• by letstrynvm on 10/12/19, 10:40 PM

  I have a cheap dedicated server with outgoing Postfix mail forwarding with sasl auth, nsd for the domains, a few web services over tls. Git server via gitolite + git-daemon. Mailman.

  Incoming mail points directly to an RPi at home on dsl... Postfix + Dovecot IMAP. It's externally accessible, my dedicated server does the dynamic dns to point to the RPi; the domain MX points to that. Outgoing mail forwards through the dedicated server, which has an IP with good reputation and DKIM.

  This gets me a nice result that my current and historical email is delivered directly to, and stays at, home, and my outgoing mail is still universally accepted. There's no dependency on google or github. There's no virtualization, no docker, no containers, just Linux on the server and on the rpi to keep up to date. It uses OS packages for everything so it stays up to date with security updates.

• by rolleiflex on 10/12/19, 9:52 PM

  I’m pretty vanilla compared to most people here, I just host my own email and I have a Synology box that provides a few utilities like an Evernote replacement.

  I also host Aether P2P (https://getaether.net) on a Raspberry Pi-like device, so it helps the P2P network. But I’m biased on that last one, it’s my own software.

• by thegeekbin on 10/13/19, 12:44 PM

  I changed my hardware around recently, I used to have 5u colo that I’ve now downsized for financial reasons, I migrated all into one box called Poof, on poof I’m running:

      - matrix home server
      - xmpp server
      - websites for wife and I (Cloudlinux, Plesk, Imunify360)
      - nextcloud
      - jellyfin + jackett + sonarr + radarr
      - rutorrent
      - CDN origin server (bunnycdn pulls files from this)
      - znc bouncer
      - freeipa server
      - Portainer with pihole, Prometheus, grafana and some microservices on them
      - Gitea server
      - spare web server I use as staging environment
  

  All of this is behind a firewall, I’ve been fortunate enough I’ve got /27 assigned to me, so more than enough IP addresses available to me, I’m using all but about 5 or 6 of them, but plan to change that soon. I’m going to be assigning dedicated IPs to every site I host (3 total), put my XMPP server on its own vm instead of sharing it with Matrix and giving it its own IP.

  I blog about this stuff if anyone’s interested: https://thegeekbin.com/

• by Youden on 10/13/19, 9:08 AM

  I used to have things in a colo but now I have fiber at home, just about everything is on a single giant machine, complete with graphics card for a gaming VM:

    VM management: libvirt (used to host gaming PC and financial applications)
    Container management: Docker (used to be k8s but gave up)
    Photo gallery: Koken, Piwigo, Lychee
    Media acquisition: Radarr, Sonarr, NZBGet, NZBHydra
    Media access: Plex
    Monitoring: InfluxDB, Grafana, cAdvisor, Piwik, SmartD, SmokePing, Prometheus
    Remote data access: Nextcloud
    Local data access: Samba, NFS
    Data sync: Syncthing
    WireGuard
    Unifi server
    IRC: irssi, WeeChat, Glowing Bear, Sopel (runs a few bots)
    Finance: beancount-import, fava
    Chat: Riot, Synapse (both Matrix)
    Databases: Postgres, MariaDB, Redis
    Speed test: IPerf3
  

  I also have a seedbox for high-bandwidth applications.

• by h1d on 10/12/19, 10:12 PM

  Just an advice but I suggest you host publicly facing services and privately hosted services on different instances.

  You don't want less tested web app to expose some security hole for someone to start snooping on your traffic toward BitWarden after SSL termination.

  If you don't want an extra box at home, you can always get a $5/mo cloud instance for public stuff, where you don't have to worry about increased electricity bill from DDoS having CPU spiked or choking your home network.

• by DominoTree on 10/13/19, 1:26 AM

  I self-host a fairly big Plex and several personal websites along with a NextCloud instance to sync calendars/reminders/etc across devices. Pretty much everything forward-facing is behind CloudFlare.

  On the front end I have two 1Gbit circuits (AT&T and Google) going into an OPNSense instance doing load-balancing and IPS running on a Dell R320 with a 12-thread Xeon and 24GB of RAM

  Services are hosted on a Dell R520 with 48GB RAM and two 12-thread Xeons running Ubuntu and an up-to-date ZFS on Linux build.

  Media storage handled by two Dell PowerVault 1200 SAS arrays.

  Back-end is handled by a Cisco 5548UP and my whole apartment is plumbed for 10Gbit.

• by menssen on 10/13/19, 3:00 PM

  Nothing. I self-host nothing. My entire home networking infrastructure consists of a more powerful WiFi router than the one built into the modem that the cable company provides so that it reaches to the back of my apartment. I pay money for GitHub, Dropbox, iCloud, Apple Music, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon Prime, a VPN to spoof my location occasionally, and Google Apps (or I would, if I were not grandfathered into the free tier). When I want to spin up a personal project, I do it on Heroku.

  I live in a stable first-world democracy. Or, since it seems to be getting less stable recently, maybe a better way to put it is: I participate in a stable global economy. If "the cloud" catastrophically fails to the point where I lose all of the above without warning, I will likely have bigger problems than never being able to watch a favorite tv show again.

  I wonder if this exposes two kinds of people: those who value mobility, and are more comfortable limiting the things that are important to them to a laptop and a bug-out bag, and those who value stability, and are inclined to build self-sufficient infrastructure in their castles.

• by olalonde on 10/13/19, 2:22 AM

  I recently installed docker-simple-mail-forwarder[0] to use a custom domain name email with Gmail. It's a one line install.

  [0] https://github.com/huan/docker-simple-mail-forwarder

• by folkhack on 10/12/19, 9:30 PM

  I'll bite because I love threads like this! I run an Intel NUC with an i5, 8G RAM, a OS SSD, and an external USB3 4TB RAID attached. OS is Debian 9. I've always ran a "general utility" Debian server at home due to projects and SSH tunneling (yeah yeah I should setup a proper VPN I know ha).

  * It's a target for my rsync backups for all my client systems (most critical use); Docker TIG stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana) which monitors my rackmount APC UPS, my Ubiquiti network hardware, Docker, and just general system stats; Docker Plex; Docker Transmission w/VPN; Docker Unifi; A custom network monitor I built that just pings/netcats certain internal and external hosts (not used too seriously but it comes in handy); and finally a neglected Minecraft server.

  I went for low power consumption since it's an always-on device and power comes at a premium here + fanless. I highly suggest the NUC as it's a highly capable device and with plenty of power if upgraded a bit!

• by kissgyorgy on 10/13/19, 7:55 AM

  Wallabag! It changed my reading habits: https://wallabag.org/en

• by yankcrime on 10/13/19, 12:09 PM

  In colo (a former nuclear bunker, no less!) I have a small OpenStack 'cloud' deployment cobbled together from spare hardware, pieced together in partnership with a friend of mine. I wrote a bit about it here if anyone's interested:

  https://dischord.org/2019/07/23/inside-the-sausage-factory/

  At home I have:

    A Synology DS412+ with 4 x 4TB drives
    An ancient HP Microserver N36L with 16GB RAM and 4 x 4TB drives running FreeBSD
    Ubiqiuti UniFi SG + CloudKey + AP
    An OG Pi running PiHole
  

  The DS412+ is my main network storage device, with various things backed up to the Microserver. Aside from the OEM services it also runs Minio (I use this for local backups from Arq), nzbget, and Syncthing in Docker containers.

• by Mister_Snuggles on 10/13/19, 4:16 AM

  At home I have:

  FreeBSD server running various things:

  * Home Assistant, Node-RED, and some other home automation utilities running in a FreeBSD Jail.

  * UniFi controller in a Debian VM.

  * Pi-Hole in a CentOS VM.

  * StrongSwan in a FreeBSD VM.

  * ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Grafana running in a Debian VM.

  * PostgreSQL on bare metal.

  * Nginx on bare metal, this acts as a front-end to all of my applications.

  I also have:

  * Blue Iris on a dedicated Windows box. This was a refurbished business desktop and works well, but my needs are starting to outgrow it.

  * A QNAP NAS for general storage needs.

  Future plans are always interesting, so in that vein here are my future plans:

  Short term:

  * Move my home automation stuff out of the FreeBSD Jail into a Linux VM. The entire Home Assistant ecosystem is fairly Linux-centric and even though it works on FreeBSD, it's more pain than I'd really like. Managing VMs is also somewhat easier than managing Jails, though I'm sure part of this is that I'm using ezjail instead of something more modern like iocage.

  * Get Mayan-EDMS up and running. I hate paper files, this will be a good way to wrangle all of them. I've used it before, but didn't get too deep into it. This time I'm going all-in.

  Medium term:

  * Replace my older cameras with newer models.

  * Possibly upgrade my Blue Iris machine to a more powerful refurbished one.

  * Create a 'container VM', which will basically be a Linux VM used for me to learn about containers.

  Long term:

  * Replace my FreeBSD server with new hardware running a proper hypervisor (e.g., Proxmox, VMware ESXi). This plan is nebulous as what I have meets my needs, this is more about learning new tools and ways of doing things.

• by boredpenguin on 10/12/19, 10:49 PM

  Currently not much. On the home server:

  • Apache: hosting a few websites and a personal (private) wiki.

  • Transmission: well, as an always-on torrent client. Usually I add a torrent here, wait for it to download and then transfer it via SFTP to my laptop.

  • Gitea: mostly to mirror third party repos I need or find useful.

  • Wireguard: as a VPN server for all my devices and VPS, mostly so I don't need to expose SSH to the internet. Was really easy to setup and it's been painless so far.

• by 0x0aff374668 on 10/13/19, 6:54 AM

  Why are so many folks here running media servers? Are you really streaming your own video / audio libraries, or is there something else it is useful for? I'd be rather shocked to learn people still store digitally media locally.

• by stiray on 10/13/19, 9:50 AM

  I am a bit old school but this fills all my needs.

  - httpd

  - nextcloud (mostly for android syncing, for normal file operations I prefer sftp). Nextcloud is great but the whole js/html/browser is clumsy.

  - roundcube (again mostly imap but just to have alternative when phone isnt available - I havent used it for ages)

  - postfix

  - dovecot

  - squid on separate fib with paid vpn (mitming all the traffic, removing all internet "junk" from my connections, all my devices, including android are using it over ssh tunnel).

  - transmission, donating my bandwidth to some OSS projects

  - gitolite, all my code goes there

  I think this is it.

  Everything is running on mitx board, with 16gb of ram, 3x 3tb toshiba hdds in zraid and additional 10tb hitachi disk. FreeBSD. 33 watts.

• by jasonkester on 10/13/19, 6:48 AM

  S3stat, Twiddla, Unwaffle, the Expat site, and a dozen other old projects all still run on a single box in a Colo.

  it costs about $800/month for the half cage and all the hardware in it, when you amortise it out. And there's plenty of performance overhead for when one project gets a lot of attention or I want to ad something new.

  Pretty much the only thing I use cloud computing for is the nightly job for S3stat, because it fits the workload pattern that EC2 was designed for. Namely, it needs to run 70 odd hours of computing every day, and gets 3 hours to do it in.

  For SaaS sized web stuff, self hosting still makes the most sense.

• by kemenaran on 10/13/19, 8:09 AM

  I like self hosting, but I want it to work without having to do sysadmin work. Especially the upgrades–most hosting providers will have one-click tools to install self hosted instances of something; but very few have working upgrade scripts to keep up with the new versions.

  So I set up Yunohost [0] on a small box, and now I install self hosted services whenever I need them. Installing a new service is a breeze–but more importantly, upgrading them is a breeze to.

  For now I self host Mattermost, Nextcloud, Transmission.

  [0] https://yunohost.org

• by hendry on 10/13/19, 3:23 AM

  FreeNAS + voidlinux nuc running grafana + prometheus.

  Tbh I run hot and cold about self hosting since after work, I really really want to be able relax at home.

  Not wonder why the hell my nuc hasn't come up after a reboot. Or why is it so hard to increase the disk space on my FreeNAS https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/upgrading-storag...

• by dcchambers on 10/14/19, 2:36 PM

  A household wiki. Contains all kinds of information about our house and lives. We used to track stuff like this in a google doc but it was getting unwieldy.

  I wasn't happy with any of the free wiki hosting solutions available so I ended up self-hosting a mediawiki site. It's been...challenging...to convince my wife and family to adapt and use wiki markup.

  I've been considering switching to something that uses standard markdown instead since it's easier to write with.

• by Jaruzel on 10/13/19, 7:06 AM

  Hyper-V host:

      Active Directory (x2)
      Exchange Server 2013
      MS SQL 
      Various Single Purpose VMs providing automation
      Debian for SpamAssassion
      Debian for my web domains
      Custom SMTP MTA thats in front of SpamAssassin and Exchange
  

  Raspberry Pis:

      TVHeadEnd
      Remote Cameras
  

  Plus a Windows Server hosting all my files/media.

  I used to self-host a lot more, but have been paring back recently.

• by canada_dry on 10/13/19, 2:02 AM

  Calendar: (https://radicale.org)

  Home automation/security system + 'Alexa': completely home grown using python + android + arduino + rpi + esp32

• by dnate on 10/13/19, 10:18 AM

  I self host a flask app on my raspberry pi, soldered to the garage door opener.

  I have hosted media folders/streaming applications for friends and family, but this has been by far my most used and most useful hack.

• by Macha on 10/13/19, 1:24 AM

  So far I have a home server with:

  * Unbound for dns-over-tls and single point of config hostnames for my home network

  * Syncthing for file sync

  * offlineimap to backup my email accounts

  * Samba for a home media library

  * cron jobs to backup my shares

  * Unifi controller

  On my todo list:

  * Scheduled offsite backup (borg + rsync.net being the top contender currently)

  * Something a bit more dedicated to media streaming than smb. some clients like vlc handle it fine, others do not.

  * Pull logs for my various websites locally

• by vermilingua on 10/13/19, 6:36 AM

  On a bit of a tangent, hopefully not an inappropriate question:

  What do you all spend on this sort of thing? Whether hosting remotely or on local hardware, what would you say is the rough monthly/annual cost to move your Netflix/Spotify/etc equiv to a self-hosted setup (excluding own labor)?

• by chrissnell on 10/13/19, 2:08 PM

  At home, I run:

  - A weather station that lives on a pole on the yard. Powered by GopherWX https://github.com/chrissnell/gopherwx

  - InfluxDB for weather station

  - Heatermeter Barbecue controller

  - oauth2_proxy, fronted by Okta, to securely access the BBQ controller while I'm away. This proxy is something that everyone with applications hosted on their home network should look into. Combined with Okta, it's much easier than running VPN.

  In the public cloud, I host nginx, which runs a gRPC proxy to the gopherwx at home. I wrote an app to stream live weather from my home station to my desktops and laptops and show it in a toolbar.

  nginx in the cloud also hosts a public website displaying my live weather, pulled as JSON over HTTPS from gopherwx at home.

• by ohiovr on 10/13/19, 12:13 AM

  I'm testing some self hosted apps including Nginx reverse proxy with letsencrypt, nextcloud with either onlyoffice document server or collabora, onlyoffice community server with mail, gitea, lychee, osclass, guacamole, wireguard vpn, searx, and a few others.

• by dmclamb on 10/12/19, 10:39 PM

  Boring and predictable, but openvpn and pihole on a raspberry pi.

  I have a second raspberry pi running a version of Kali Linux. I only hack my own stuff for learning.

  Once upon a time I ran a public facing website and quake server, and published player stats. No time these days for much play.

• by zzo38computer on 10/12/19, 9:32 PM

  On my computer I host HTTP (with Apache), SMTP (with Exim), NNTP (with sqlnetnews), QOTD (TCP only, no UDP), and Gopher. I might add others later, too (e.g. IRC, Viewdata, Telnet, Finger, etc). And on the HTTP server I host several Fossil repositories.

• by geek_at on 10/13/19, 2:29 PM

  Open Trashmail so I can use throwaway emails with my own (sub)domains and keep my data private

  https://github.com/HaschekSolutions/opentrashmail

• by hanklazard on 10/13/19, 3:54 AM

  - raspi running pi-hole - synology NAS for storage and backups, and it runs an Ubuntu VM for a wireguard vpn server - for music, Volumio on a raspi as a server with snapcast; 4 other amped raspi’s with speakers in other parts of the house as clients, synced up via snapcast (check out hifiberry amp if you’re interested in this sort of thing) - an older Mac mini now running an Ubuntu server with hassio virtualized. Lights, hvac, music controls, etc, controlled through hassio front end - print server on a pi zero

  (I guess these may not really be “self-hosted” since I don’t make them publically accessible through ports ... just vpn in to my home network)

• by yogsototh on 10/13/19, 7:19 AM

  On a scaleway (about 20€/month):

  - my websites with nginx

  - IRC (ngircd)

  - ZNC

  - espial for bookmarks and notes

  - node-red to automate RSS -> twitter and espial -> pinboard

  - transmission

  - some reddit bots manager I’ve written in Haskell+Purescript.

  - some private file upload system mostly to share images in IRC in our team

  - goaccess to self host privacy respecting analytics

  At home, Plex.

• by moutansos on 10/13/19, 6:39 AM

  Raspberry PI 3: OpenVPN Dell Poweredge R720 running VMware ESXi With - Ubuntu Docker Host - - Plex - - Blog Site - - TeamCity - - Minecraft Servers (Java and Bedrock) - - Gitlab - - ElasticSearch - - Kibana - - Resilio Sync - - PostgreSql - Manjaro Linux VM - Windows Server 2019 VM - 3 Node Kubernetes Cluster - - Couple of Side Projects Running on It

  Basically all the stuff I don't want to pay a cloud provider to host.

  Overall the R720 with 48GB of ram has been one of my best buys hands down. down the road I plan on grabbing a second server and a proper NAS or unraid setup.

• by nilsandrey on 10/13/19, 4:57 AM

  - Syncthing (folders across devices)

  - docker (just dev env with a lot of images, almost everything I can is tested in there, and maybe used there too. Just on VM if is a desktop gadget or app)

    - generic web
  
    - some stacks, Rails, nodejs, php.
   
   - ...
  

  - Calibre

  - Windows Media share feature for remote videos on devices and TV (, don't like it really, mess with subtitles and really will look for a docker oss alternative)

  Wish list:

  - wallabag

  - firefox-sync (stuck on Chrome yet, no alternative on this found)

  - email sync

  It's not so great for now. Looking on this thread for contacts and calendar (currently used from the cloud classic providers)

• by ehnto on 10/13/19, 6:37 AM

  Edit: sorry, I misunderstood the question. The below is referring to software development.

  Everything. I keep infrastructure simple as I found as a developer, infrastructure configuration, dependency issues and updates took an extraordinary amount of time while providing zero benefit for products of a small to medium size. I do have a plan in place should I need to scale, but it is not worth maintaining an entirely different stack full of dependencies for the off chance I get a burst in traffic I can't handle.

• by notinventedhear on 10/13/19, 12:41 PM

  # 2GB linode instance ($10/month)

    nginx
    mailinabox (email, nextcloud)
    gogs
    6 static websites
    3 (dumb) little personal web-projects
    selfoss
    mumble
    openvpn
  

  # rpi-3 at home

    osmc (kodi) + 8TB of raided HDDs
    nginx
    chorus-2 in kodi publicly available (behind htpasswd) updated w/ dynamic DNS
    a nightly cron job rsyncs the from the linode instance
  

  # another rpi-3 in garden shed

    8TB of raided HDDs
    nightly cron of the other rpi-3

• by k_sze on 10/13/19, 6:34 AM

  On a Linode instance (OS being Ubuntu Server 18.04):

  - mail server in Docker container

  - ZNC in Docker container

  - Shadowsocks server

  - Wekan as a Snap

  - My blog, statically generated using Pelican, served from nginx

  At home, I only have a Synology NAS that is exposed to the internet.

• by munmaek on 10/12/19, 10:38 PM

  On my FreeNAS server: gitea, plex, openvpn (w/ ExpressVpn), Mayan EDMS

  I am unhappy with the complexity of Mayan EDMS. I'm debating moving to Paperless. All I want is a digital file system that 1) looks at directories and automatically handles files 2) has user permissions/personal files so I can let my family use it 3) has a web form for uploads.

  I am planning to change gitea to sourcehut- the git service as well as builds.

  Any ideas for things a raspberry pi 3 & 4 could be useful for?

• by Fiahil on 10/13/19, 9:48 AM

  Like most folks here, I'm running the pihole/media/torrent suite. Hardware is a Rock64 soon to be colocated with a few Raspberry pi 4. Everything is dockerized and scheduled on k3s. Using kubernetes is a real life changer. I can unplug one of the SBCs and things are automatically balanced and rescheduled. It also makes the whole setup completely portable.

  I use NFS on the NAS for the storage unit. It's the only thing I need to backup.

• by bob1029 on 10/13/19, 3:09 PM

  Nothing right now, but I am looking at spinning my own stack back up either "on-prem" (aka at home), and/or in some bare-metal hosting provider.

  Relying on streaming providers, cloud email services, etc., has left me in a very foul mood lately and I feel like I need to take back control. My biggest trigger was when I purchased an actual physical audio CD (this year; because NONE of the popular streaming providers offer the album), ripped it to FLAC, and then realized I had no reliable/convenient way to expose this to my personal devices. I used to have a very elaborate setup with subsonic doing music hosting duty, and all of my personal devices were looped in on it. This was vastly superior to Spotify, et. al., but the time it takes to maintain the collection and services was perceived to be not worth it. From where I am sitting now, its looking like its worth it again.

  How long until media we used to enjoy is squeezed completely out of existence because a handful of incumbent providers feel its no longer "appropriate" for whatever money-grabbing reasons?

• by kixiQu on 10/16/19, 6:16 PM

  I selfhost stuff for fun! Which I'm counting my EC2 instance as.

  * Pleroma/Mastodon - I had been using Pleroma, but I'm not happy about a few things, so I bit the bullet to upgrade to a t3.small and am now running Mastodon. I love all the concepts of the fediverse, though the social norms are still being ironed out.

  * Write Freely (https://writefreely.org/) at https://lesser.occult.institute for my blog (right now mostly holds hidden drafts)

  * Matrix (Synapse) and the Riot.im frontend for a group chat. I'm a little conflicted, because right now the experience around enabling E2EE is very alarming for low-tech users and a pain for anyone who signs in from many places, and if it isn't enabled I have better security just messaging my friends with LINE. That said, I really want to write some bots for it. Group chats are the future of social networking, they all say...

• by greenyouse on 10/13/19, 10:09 PM

  I'm just starting out with building a virtual workstation system for myself with Eclipse Che. My home desktop has always been much more powerful than my laptop so I've always thought it would be ideal to have mainframe style development. I learned about Che 7 this week and figured that it was worth a shot. Using containers for everything sounds like an interesting idea to try out too!

  Surprisingly (at least to me), there are some really big companies like Microsoft, IBM/RedHat, and others pushing this workflow. The editor is supposed to basically be VSCode in browser and compatible with most extensions.

  I'm using my RPi as a jump box and have some commands to turn on my home desktop + mount the file system and that kind of stuff when connecting. I've used it in the past and it's worked nicely.

  I got k8s running but got blocked by some bugs when installing Che. Looks neat though. It would be cool to have a 2007 macbook with the computing power of a 2990WX workstation :).

• by winrid on 10/13/19, 8:00 AM

  I wrote my own orchestrator that I deploy my personal projects (pixmap, watch.ly, etc) with.

  The orchestrator can now deploy itself! All declarative service configuration with autoscaling etc. It manages the infra and service deployment for me. Thinking about open sourcing.

  Nginx/nchan, NodeJS, static sites (vanilla/angular/react deployments), nfs, MongoDB, Redis

• by pjc50 on 10/12/19, 10:09 PM

  I used to host email and a blog. I even had a server in a rack on which I let people have shell accounts.

  I still have the email domain, because it's easier to run it forever than migrate all the things you signed up for. But actually running my own email is too much of an obligation and need to keep up on all the anti spam measures.

• by holri on 10/13/19, 5:48 AM

  Freedombox, Apache, Exim4, prosody (XMPP), rsync, rsnapshot, ssh all on 2 identical, redundant, interchangeable Olimex A20 Mini Server with ssd (1 at home, 1 colo) and one more powerful x86 separate X2Go (Desktop usage) & File (sftp) Server at home. Everything on pure, plain Debian stable and unattended-upgrades.

• by bluedino on 10/13/19, 3:52 AM

  I bought a used Lenovo P50 for $450, added another SSD, it has 48GB and an i7 so it's overkill.

  VMware ESXi, with VM's for Squid, DNS, MySQL, Nginx, Apache, basic file server, Gitlab, and one that's basically for IRSSI

  Strongly considering just moving everything to Debian with containers for everything, easier to manage than VM's.

• by minimaul on 10/13/19, 3:23 AM

  As much as I can, currently:

  On colo’d hardware:

  - off-site backup server (Borg backup on top of zfs) - this is a dedicated box

  - a mix of VMs and docker containers - mostly custom web apps

  - email (it’s easier than you think)

  At home:

  - file server using zfs

  - Nextcloud

  - more custom web apps

  - tvheadend

  - VPN for remote access (IKEv2)

  - gitlab

  - gitlab ci

  Also run an IPSec mesh between sites for secure remote access to servers etc

  While my workplace uses AWS a massive amount, I still prefer to run my own hardware and software. Cloud services are not for me.

• by fractalf on 10/12/19, 9:55 PM

  Gitea for an easy gui git access to repos with personal/sensitive data and Resilio for backing up my phone

• by harlanji on 10/13/19, 2:39 PM

  I built a setup called TinyDataCenter on a RasPi and run it hybrid with AWS and S3FS for unlimited media storage. On it I built iSpooge Live to host and syndicate my livestreams to YouTube and Twitch, and built some ffmpeg scripts to turn videos into HLS and playback with adaptive rate via VidroJS. Also on it is my portfolio site and in progress are imported copies of all my social media archives like Twitter and IG. Auth happens via JWTs from Auth0 but I’ve an email magic link system to bolt in soon. There’s an xmpp server that isn’t integrated yet. Email is hosted 3rd party but I may try email in a box. The theme is decentralized with syndication. This has been going on and live streamed to regularly for about 2 years. All mybdcripts are open source, same username on GitHub.

• by mmcnl on 10/14/19, 9:04 PM

  Besides some self-hosted applications, this is some stuff that is very useful to me:

  * Nextcloud - your own Dropbox! Amazing stuff.

  * VPN - simple Docker service that is super reliable and easy to set up (docker-ipsec-vpn-server)

  * Ghost - a very nice lean and mean blogging CMS

  * MQTT broker for temperature sensors

  * Samba server

  * Deluge - Torrent client for local use

  * Sabnzbd - NZB client

  * Gitea - my own Git server

  * Mail forwarder - very handy if you just want to be able to receive email on certain addresses without setting up a mailbox

  * Pihole - DNS ad-blocking

  * Jellyfin - self-hosted Netflix

  It's become sort of my hobby to self-host these kind of things. I use all of these services almost daily and it's very rewarding to be able to fully self-host it. I also really love Docker, self-hosting truly entered a new era thanks to readily avaibable Docker images that make it very easy to experiment and run things in production without having to worry about breaking stuff.

• by conradfr on 10/13/19, 8:11 AM

  I actually self-host a Phoenix LiveView silly game at work on my MacBook Pro, I'm not sure you can self-host more than that ;) For the anecdote the devops tried to ddos it but the app was working like it wasn't flooded by requests.

  Of course you can't even tell Macos to not suspend wifi or whatever if you close the lid while on battery so now I'm trying to move it to a Raspberry Pi 4 but I've got an obscure ssl error with OTP22 on it while querying an api, so I'm trying to debug that instead ... oh the joy.

  All my side projects and some clients are hosted old school style in a dedicated servers. I do overpay because that's the same price and machine since 2013 and yet it's still way cheaper than any cloud offering, especially because of the hosted databases pricings.

• by CarelessExpert on 10/13/19, 3:03 AM

  At home:

  TT-RSS + mercury-parser + rss-bridge + Wallabag to replace Feedly and Pocket.

  Syncthing + restic + rclone and some home grown scripting for backups.

  Motion + MotionEye for home security.

  Deluge + flexget + OpenVPN + Transdroid.

  Huginn + Gotify for automation and push notifications.

  Apache for hosting content and reverse proxying.

  Running on a NUC using a mix of qemu/kvm and docker containers.

• by ekianjo on 10/13/19, 2:30 AM

  many things:

  - Nginx

  - Nextcloud (with Calendar/Contacts on it)

  - IRC client (thelounge)

  - IRC server

  - DLNA server

  - Ampache server

  - video and photo library thru NFS (locally only)

  - OpenVPN

  - Shiori for bookmarks

  - Gitea for private projects

  - Syncthing (to keep a folder synchronized across my devices)

  - Jenkins

• by Spivak on 10/12/19, 9:23 PM

  Plex, Bitwarden, Nextcloud, Unifi, Pihole, OpenVPN, IPSec VPN, Gitea, OpenLDAP, Portainer, My Personal Site, Cloud Torrent, TTRSS, Grafana, Loki, FreeRADIUS, Kanboard, Dokuwiki, SMTP, Goitfy, php*Admin, Container Registry, Python registry, Matomo, PXE Server.

• by Zash on 10/13/19, 11:41 AM

    * Email (postfix + dovecot)
    * XMPP (prosody + biboumi for IRC gateway)
    * Static websites
    * Mercurial code hosting (mercurial-server + hgweb)
    * File storage (sftp, mostly accessed via sshfs)
  

  Some on a HP microserver somewhere, some on a VPS.

• by gargron on 10/13/19, 10:11 AM

  I don't host anything at home, but I think it still counts as self-hosting if you run an independent service. In that sense, I self-host Mastodon: https://mastodon.social

• by platz on 10/13/19, 3:43 AM

  For my bookmarks, I self-host Espial, an open-source, web-based bookmarking server. https://github.com/jonschoning/espial

• by theshrike79 on 10/14/19, 1:22 PM

  Fastmail handles my mail, Newsblur for RSS, iCloud for calendar. My blog is hosted on Netlify.

  The only things I host are either just hobbies or non-essentials:

  At home: - Node-red for home automation - PiHole for ad filtering on the local network - Plex on my NAS for videos - A Raspi for reading my Ruuvitags and pushing the info to MQTT On Upcloud and DigitalOcean and a third place: - Unifi NVR (remote storage for security cameras) - Flexget + Deluge for torrents - InfluxDB + Grafana for visualizing all kinds of stuff I measure - Mosquitto for MQTT

• by _b8r0 on 10/13/19, 10:01 AM

  Online:

  - Nextcloud

  - Mailu.io

  - Huginn

  - Gotify

  - Airsonic

  - Gitea

  All on a dedicated box. Planning to add password sync, wallabag, syncthing a VPN and a few other features. Other boxes I have run various things from DNS to backup MXes and a WriteFreely instance on OpenBSD.

  Internally I host a ton of stuff, mostly linked to a Plex instance.

• by algaeontoast on 10/13/19, 12:54 AM

  File server and plex, that’s about it. I have another server I’ll occasionally run a Kubernetes cluster on, otherwise I don’t really bother with self hosting - I hate dev ops shit for a reason...

• by apple4ever on 10/13/19, 2:54 PM

  In DO:

  4 Ubuntu 16.04 servers:

  - Nginx/PHP for Wordpress - MySQL - Redis - Mail

  Planning to expand the the Nginx/PHP servers to at least two, and add load balancers. All certs are provided by an Ansible script using Lets Encrypt (yuck).

  At home:

  Proxmox running on two homebuilt AMD FX 8320 servers with 32GB each, with drives provided by FreeNAS on a homebuilt Supermicro server with about 10TB of usable space (on both HDDs and SSDs)

  Ubuntu 16.04 Servers:

  - 2x DNS - 2x DHCP - GitLab - Nagios - Grafana - InfluxDB - Redmine - Reposado - MySQL

  Other:

  - Sipecs

  All set up via Ansible.

  Next will set up a Kubernetes cluster (probably as far as I’ll get with containers).

• by DrAwdeOccarim on 10/13/19, 1:58 PM

  I host everything internal where if I need the resource I VPN in from outside. They all run on Raspberry Pis.

  > Resilio Sync for iPhone pictures backups and "drop box" file access

  > Transmission server

  > SMB share of NAS to supply OSMC boxes on every TV

  > Nighthawk N7000 running dd-wrt with a 500gb flash drive attached as storage for my Amcrest wifi cameras

  > Edgerouter Lite running VPN server

  > Hassbian for my zwave home automation stuff

  > A pi with cheap speakers that I can log into and play a phone ringing sound so my wife will look at her phone!

• by HellfireHD on 10/13/19, 3:32 PM

  I wasn't going to post mine until I realized that I'm hosting some stuff that I haven't seen mentioned yet.

      Appveyor
      Gitea
      Graylog + Elastic Search
      Minecraft/Pixelmon
      Nodered
      ruTorrent
      Taiga
      Tiny Tiny RSS
      Ubooquity* 
      WikiJS
      Zulip (chat/IM)
      

  *I hate it, but haven't found something better

  Also, kudos to those brave souls who are running Tor exit nodes!

  Edit: Forgot a bunch

• by preid24 on 10/13/19, 10:31 AM

  Intel NUC7i5BNK with coreos running the following in a single node docker swarm:

    - Traefik (reverse proxy)
    - Git Annex
    - Gitea
    - Drone (CI)
    - Docker Registry
    - Clair (security scanning for docker images)
    - Selfoss (RSS reader)
    - Grafana / Prometheus / Alertmanager (overkill really)
    - A few custom applications...
  

  Turris Omnia running transmission under lxc

• by lostmsu on 10/12/19, 9:22 PM

  I tried to host OwnCloud, but could not figure out how to make fully automatic updates to function (including host OS - e.g. Ubuntu).

  Now I only host my own project: http://billion.dev.losttech.software:2095/

  Also regular Windows file sharing which I use for media server and backups.

  Though I'd like to expand that. Maybe a hosted GitLab.

• by javitury on 10/13/19, 7:07 AM

  I run a small sever with node-red. Right now I use it to scrap university websites looking for PhD paid scholarships.

  Also, I use it to find flats when I need ro.

• by absc on 10/13/19, 2:01 PM

  I have one OpenBSD VM running on vultr with:

  - Mail server (OpenSMTPD)

  - IMAP (Dovecot)

  - CVS server for my projects.

  - httpd(8) for my website.

  I still need to add rspamd for spam check. But insofar, I received just one spam E-mail.

• by dvko on 10/13/19, 7:54 AM

  Email, using mailinabox.email. Highly recommend it.

  Also NextCloud (files, contacts and calendar), few WordPress websites and Fathom for website analytics.

• by frgotmylogin on 10/13/19, 2:39 AM

  Currently nothing but Hass.io on a raspberry pi with an assortment of z-wave and zigbee sensors and a few wifi enabled light bulbs.

• by jorijn on 10/15/19, 11:10 AM

  Synology NAS:

    Unifi controller
    Miniflux
    CouchPotato
    DSMR Reader (software that logs smart electricity meter data)
    Gitea
    Deluge
    MySQL
    PostgreSQL
    Cloud Storage mirror (for Google Drive backup)
  

  Intel NUC:

    Full Bitcoin node
    Bitcoin lightning node
  

  Remote (Digital Ocean):

    Trading Software
    Various PHP websites

• by pnutjam on 10/13/19, 2:14 PM

  OpenSuse Leap, that acts as a NAS for my other computers. At home: Borg backups jellyfin x2go

  cloud (time4vps 1TB storage node) borg calibre AdGuard

  -- home server data drive rsyncs to an internal data drive (XFS to btrfs), btrfs drive takes a snapshot and unmounts when not in use, then important stuff is rsynced to my VPS. --- home drives backed up with borg for encryption

• by rukuu001 on 10/13/19, 2:30 AM

  Syncthing as a Dropbox alternative

  I keep looking at hosting my own mail server, but get scared off by tales of config/maintenance dramas.

• by Artemix on 10/13/19, 1:50 PM

  I self-host the following services:

      syncthing
      nfs server
      UPnP server, connected to my media NAS
      gitea server, for my personal projects
      droneci, linked to my gitea server, for building websites and releases I publish
      A few locally hosted services, such as DevDocs, draw.io or Asciiflow, for convenience.

• by psic4t on 10/13/19, 11:00 AM

  On cheap cloud instances at Hetzner:

    - postfix/dovecot for mailing
    - searx instance
    - synapse for matrix
    - unbound for DoT
    - nginx for my blog
    - gophernicus for old times sake
  

  At home:

    - nextcloud
    - monero full node
    - unbound backup instance
    - fhem for home automation
    - restic for backup

• by BigBalli on 10/18/19, 4:16 PM

  Pretty much everything I develop (excluding most databases) are hosted on my cloud server. Best $5/mo I ever spent!

• by p0d on 10/13/19, 1:01 PM

  I run test environments for my saas products, gitlab and nextcloud on a dual core box, hp dc7900, in my roofspace. The os is running of an ssd and there are two old metal disks in software raid.

  All my business backups go to the same box. I have a pi and enrypted usb drive copying my backups to my shed from my house.

• by sahoo on 10/13/19, 7:31 AM

  Plex on raspberry Pi2 with deluge remote client/server. I don't think it can handle more than that.

• by zelon88 on 10/13/19, 4:58 AM

  Everything.

  PiHole, HRCloud2, HRScan2, HRConvert2, my wordpress blog, a KB, and a few other nick knacks. Currently working on a noSQL share tool (for auth-less large file sharing) and then maybe this idea that's been floating around my head for a Linux update server. Like WSUS for linux.

• by wildduck on 10/13/19, 6:46 AM

  nodejs nginx apache2 postgresql mysql nextcloud jvm/rhino/ringojs mattermost wekan wikimedia nextERP nodejs WebRTC signaling server, nodejs pushing notification server, STUN server, mumble Asterisk git Haraka etherpad

• by nikisweeting on 10/13/19, 2:37 AM

  Zulip, archivebox, codimd, mailu, plex, radarr, sonarr, jackett, transmission, matomo, kiwix, minecraft, nextcloud, unifi controller, unifi CRM, pihole, wireguard, zfs, glusterfs, freenas, autossh, swarmpit, netdata, syncthing, duplicati, elk stack, nomad, a bunch of static sites, a bunch of wordpress sites, a bunch of assorted django apps (including a large consumer-facing one), custom dyndns and tls renewal cron jobs, and many many more that have come and gone over the years.

  All on a few Vultr + Digitalocean droplets, 2 raspis + 1 atomic pi, a couple HP i5 mini desktop machines, and a Dell r610 rack server with 24 cores and 48GB of ram (with about 36TB of assorted shucked and unshucked USB hard drives attached in a few GlusterFS / ZFS pools). I have a home-built UPS with about 1.5kwh worth of lead-acid batteries powering everything, and it's on cheap Montreal power anyway so I only pay $0.06¢/kwh + $80/mo for Gigabit fiber. It's a mix of stuff for work and personal because I'm CTO at our ~9 person startup and I enjoy tinkering with devops setups to learn what works.

  All organized neatly in this type of structure: https://docs.sweeting.me/s/an-intro-to-the-opt-directory

  Some examples: https://github.com/Monadical-SAS/zervice.elk https://github.com/Monadical-SAS/zervice.minecraft https://github.com/Monadical-SAS/ubuntu.autossh

  Ingress is all via CloudFlare Argo tunnels or nginx + wireguard via bastion host, and it's all managed via SSH, bash, docker-compose, and supervisord right now.

  It's all built on a few well-designed "LEGO block" components that I've grown to trust deeply over time: ZFS for local storage, GlusterFS for distributed storage, WireGuard for networking, Nginx & CloudFlare for ingress, Supervisord for process management, and Docker-Compose for container orchestration. It's allowed me to be able to quickly set up, test, reconfigure, backup, and teardown complex services in hours instead of days, and has allowed me to try out hundreds of different pieces of self-hosted software over the last ~8 years. It's not perfect, and who knows, maybe I'll throw it all away in favor of Kubernetes some day, but for now it works really well for me and has been surprisingly reliable given how much I poke around with stuff.

  TODOs: find a good solution for centralized config/secrets management that's less excruciatingly painful than running Vault+Consul or using Kubernetes secrets.

• by pasxizeis on 10/13/19, 1:01 PM

  What do people use to provision their Raspberries? Ansible or something?

• by IceWreck on 10/13/19, 11:04 AM

  On my VPS

    * My Website
    * Seafile
    * FreshRSS
    * RSSBridge for making rss feed for websites that don't have one
    * Dokuwiki
    * A Proxy
    * Multiple Telegram and Reddit bots

• by asdkhadsj on 10/13/19, 2:12 PM

  On this note, I've got a few services I'd like to setup locally. I'm curious if I could set them up in a Docker-like fashion, where it's super easy to manage the individual container image - and then run it on some type of home "cloud". I debated reaching for Docker Swarm, but I'm curious:

  What might be the easiest way to achieve this? Running a Kube cluster is insane for my needs, I imagine I'd be perfectly happy with a few Pi's running various Docker Containers. However I'm unsure what the easiest way to manage this semi-cloud environment.

  edit: Oh yea, forgot Docker Compose existed. That may be the easiest way to manage this, though I've never used it.

• by jimmcslim on 10/13/19, 5:20 AM

  For folks that are reverse proxying I have a few questions...

  1) Do you identify the reverse proxy by host or by path?

  e.g. <service>.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com/<service>

  2) Do you still run everything over a VPN?

• by gorkemcetin on 10/13/19, 8:33 PM

  Self hosting Balsa Knowledgebae (https://getbalsa.com), an alternative to Notion and Evernote.

• by carc1n0gen on 10/13/19, 8:59 AM

  I host my blog on a raspberry under my desk. At some point I'll Get around to moving my gitea instance there too, which is currently on digital ocean

• by CaptainJustin on 10/15/19, 7:09 AM

  Running a few different containers in Docker at home.

  - Hand-rolled Go reverse proxy with TLS from LE.

  - Several Pg DBs for development.

  - VPN server.

  - Chisel for hosting things "from home" while running on my laptop remotely.

  - Etcd

  - Jenkins

  - Gitea

  - Pi-hole

  - A few different development projects

• by danielparks on 10/13/19, 7:17 AM

  Postfix, Dovecot, Amavis/Spamassassin, Bind, NGINX.

  So, mail, DNS, and a few web sites. I’ve been running something like this for more than 15 years now.

• by Mave83 on 10/12/19, 9:17 PM

  powerdns, wireguard, gitlab, nginx, pgsql, mariadb, zabbix, nextcloud, Grafana, graphite, prometheus, haproxy, postfix, and a lot more

• by awat on 10/13/19, 6:21 AM

  Tiny Tiny RSS - https://tt-rss.org/

• by vbezhenar on 10/13/19, 2:04 PM

  I have home server to host samba share for my needs, also hosting videofiles so I can watch them on my TV.

• by KajMagnus on 10/13/19, 9:26 AM

  I self host Talkyard, a cross between StackOverflow, Slack, HackerNews. https://github.com/debiki/talkyard (I'm developing it)

  And SyncThing, https://syncthing.net/

• by johnx123-up on 10/18/19, 1:52 PM

  Restyaboard (for trello alternative), GitLab (for GitHub alternative)

• by hanniabu on 10/13/19, 1:53 AM

  Ethereum archival node

• by jtthe13 on 10/13/19, 7:18 AM

  Not much: Plex server, and Pi-Hole in a docker.

• by scorown on 10/13/19, 2:03 AM

  Bitwarden, Unifi, PiHole

  It all started with hosting subsonic

• by danielovichdk on 10/13/19, 9:07 AM

  Windows 2000 ISS 5 FTP SQL server 2000

• by nirav72 on 10/13/19, 3:13 AM

  plex gitea deluge + VPN nzbget radar sickchill jackett grafana pihole openvpn server unify controller

• by dbeley on 10/13/19, 10:01 AM

  - Nextcloud

  - Ampache

  - Shaarli

  - Dokuwiki

  - Deluge

  - Hugo blog

  Everything running on a cheap server from kimsufi.

• by gramakri on 10/14/19, 1:40 AM

  I self-host using Cloudron (obviously). My list is:

  * Gogs

  * WordPress

  * Wallabag

  * Ghost

  * Minio

  * Email (yes, this is my primarily and only email)

  * TinyTinyRSS

  * NextCloud

  * Meemo

  * MediaWiki

• by bribri on 10/13/19, 3:15 AM

  Calibre web

• by sharma_pradeep on 10/13/19, 3:06 PM

  Blog

• by nonamestreet on 10/13/19, 12:11 PM

  bitcoin full node