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Ask HN: What do you self host

by julietteeb on 6/16/23, 5:59 PM with 7 comments

I was wondering what other people self host as I recently got a new server and wanted to use it for more. I'm currently self hosting Matrix, Gitea, and Nextcloud.

  • by mattbgates on 6/16/23, 8:57 PM

    Aside from saving more money on my hosting with a "managed server"... DreamHost was the one who taught me about the importance of that. DreamHost was my very first shared hosting and I loved it. But I outgrew it very quickly. Then I went and upgraded to one of their new services, DreamPress, at the time... which was great until it wasn't.

    I left them simply because if my website went down... at first, they gave you control over at least restarting your server but that disappeared and I needed that. If I had to start, I had to contact their support team who might take a few hours to respond. I couldn't have my website being down for more than a few minutes. So I got on a server that allowed me to restart as I deemed fit. Being able to SSH into your own server for additional things you need to do also is a bonus. And I prefer having that control over something I am running then having to reach out to support any time I needed it.

  • by ArtWomb on 6/16/23, 6:43 PM

    Vintage Nintendo Pokemon Rom Collection

    Fair Use. Air gapped. Recycled from work Intel Gen 3 HP Laptop HDD server. For initiating kindergarteners into the joys of "binary corruption" (and get ash ketchum to say silly things). But I am into it! SQLite3 hiscore persistence. WASM emulation. AI upscaling. As a hobby? It's provided wayyy more fun than Minecraft & Roblox combined ;)

  • by legrande on 6/16/23, 6:29 PM

    I toyed with Umbrel[0] but only to try it out. I was unsure of the security model of having all my eggs in one basket. I only self-host things as separate and distinct instances now.

    [0] https://umbrel.com/

  • by mindcrime on 6/16/23, 7:23 PM

    Previously on HN:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33657947

    FWIW, my answer is still mostly the same as it was then:

    - Mediawiki

    - Apache Roller

    - Apache HTTPD

    - eJabberd

    - SuiteCRM (a fork of SugarCRM)

    - Bugzilla

    - Mosquitto

    - Jenkins

    - Artifactory

  • by shortrounddev2 on 6/19/23, 5:06 PM

    I use windows as a file server to share media files with my streaming devices

  • by zzo38computer on 6/17/23, 5:58 PM

    I self-host HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, and QOTD.

  • by flamboyant_ride on 6/18/23, 1:37 AM

    Syncthing