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What's on your personal server? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Either self-hosted or cloud, I assume many of you keep a server around for personal things. And I'm curious about the cool stuff you've got running on your personal servers.

What services do you host? Any unique stuff? Do you interact with it through ssh, termux, web server?

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[–] AbidanYre 36 points 4 months ago

This might be a better question for !selfhosted

[–] Veraxis 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Two old HP thin client PCs configured as 4TB SFTP file servers using vsftpd on Debian. Each one uses software RAID 1 with both an NVMe and SATA SSD internally, and are in two separate locations with a cron job which syncs one to the other every 24 hours.

People who actually know what they are doing will probably find this silly, but I had fun and learned a lot setting it up.

[–] Crackhappy 5 points 4 months ago

If it works reliably who cares?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

tell me about the cron thing. im thinking of doing just that on mine for backup.

are you scping them together?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tiny. Debian + Podman systemd quadlets, running these services:

Jellyfin
Sonarr
Radarr
Qbittorrent w/ VPN
Linkwarden
Calibre Web
Immich
Lidare
Postgres
Prowlarr
Vaultwarden

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any tips (or examples) using quadlets? I tried using them but I couldn't wrap my head around them.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You might like to search this community, and also \c\self_hosted, since this question gets asked a lot.

For me:

Audiobookshelf
Navidrome
FreshRss
Jellyfin
Forgejo
Memos
Planka
File Storage
Immich
Pihole
Syncthing
Dockge

I created two things - CodeNotes (for snippets) and a lil' Weather app myself 'cause I didn't like what I found out there.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

On my Raspberry Pi 4 4gb with encrypted sd is:

pihole
wireguard server
vaultwarden
cloudflare ddns
nginx proxy manager
my website
ntfy server
mollysocket
findmydevice server
watchtower

Pi is overkill for this kind of job. Load average is only 0.7% and ram usage is only 400M

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

findmydevice server

What server are you running for this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

https://gitlab.com/Nulide/findmydevice/-/wikis/FMD-Server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

https://gitlab.com/Nulide/findmydevice/-/wikis/FMD%20Server

[–] vikingtons 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

can you tell us how you got this running with an encrypted SD card?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That was really hard to do. I created a note for myself and I will also publish it on my website. You can also decrypt the sd using fido2 hardware key (I have a nitrokey). If you don't need that just skip steps that are for fido2.

The note:

Download the image.

Format SD card to new DOS table:

Boot: 512M 0c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Root: 83 Linux

As root:

xz -d 2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz
losetup -fP 2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img
dd if=/dev/loop0p1 of=/dev/mmcblk0p1 bs=1M
cryptsetup luksFormat --type=luks2 --cipher=xchacha20,aes-adiantum-plain64 /dev/mmcblk0p2
systemd-cryptenroll --fido2-device=auto /dev/mmcblk0p2
cryptsetup open /dev/mmcblk0p2 root
dd if=/dev/loop0p2 of=/dev/mapper/root bs=1M
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/root
resize2fs -f /dev/mapper/root
mount /dev/mapper/root /mnt
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/boot/firmware
arch-chroot /mnt

In chroot:

apt update && apt full-upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y && apt install cryptsetup-initramfs fido2-tools jq debhelper git vim -y
git clone https://github.com/bertogg/fido2luks && cd fido2luks
fakeroot debian/rules binary && sudo apt install ../fido2luks*.deb
cd .. && rm -rf fido2luks*

Edit /etc/crypttab:

root            /dev/mmcblk0p2          none            luks,keyscript=/lib/fido2luks/keyscript.sh

Edit /etc/fstab:

/dev/mmcblk0p1    /boot/firmware  vfat    defaults          0       2
/dev/mapper/root  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1

Change root to /dev/mapper/root and add cryptdevice=/dev/mmcblk0p2:root to /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt.

PATH="$PATH:/sbin"
update-initramfs -u

Exit chroot and finish!

umount -R /mnt

[–] vikingtons 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much! will make a note of this

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

countless "read later" pdfs ...and cat pictures

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Cat pictures ? Definitely the best possible use of a server 😄

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have an orangepi zero 3 with pihole

Then an ITX PC with

mealie (meal planner, recipe parser, grocery list maker with a bunch of features and tools)
immich for self hosting a google photos alternative
*arr stack for torrenting Linux ISOs
Jellyfin for LAN media playing
home assistant for my VW car, our main hanging renovation lights, smoke and CO monitors, and in the future, all of the KNX smart systems in our house
Syncthing for syncing photo backup and music library with phone
Bookstack for a wiki, todos, journal, etc... (Because I didn't want to install better services for journals when I don't use it much)
paperless-ngx for documents
leantime for managing my personal projects, tasks, and timing
Valheim game server
Calibre-web for my eBook library backup
I had nextcloud but it completely broke on an update and I can't even see the login fields anymore, it just loads forever until it takes down my network and server, so I ditched it since I never used it anyway
crowdsec for much better (preemptive) security than fail2ban
traefik for reverse proxy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

As a person that actually torrented a Linux iso on Friday, thank you! Lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

ATM I have the following running:

Caddy
NextCloud
Webpress
Plex
Actual Budget
Portainer
Vaultwarden
Grafana
Stable Diffusion
QBT
*arr stack
4 Debian instances with differing bits and bobs on
MIT Scratch
Neon KDE (Drives lounge TV)
Win10 and 11 vms
TrueNAS
OpnSense
Homepage
Navidrome
SoulSeek

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Minetest server, arr suite, plex, Pihole, calibre, homesssistant, Nextcloud.

Interact with it through a Homarr webpage and all of it is virtualized through proxmox.

[–] Meltrax 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've been a software engineer for 8 years and I've had my own Jellyfin server (and before that, Plex) set up for 4 years on a server that I built myself.

Despite this, I don't have a damn clue what "virtualized through Proxmox" means any time I read it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They are just running things in VMs. They may even have a cluster with some sort of high availability.

1000002710

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Or containers, but lxc instead of docker-like. They’re like full VMs in operation but super lightweight. Perfect for some needs.

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[–] SpaceNoodle 6 points 4 months ago

Plex, transmission, home assistant, some SSH tunnels, some custom home automation endpoints.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

For local use only I use Docker Rootless hosting:

SearXNG (with some modifications, like not using Redis nor Caddy)
FreshRSS
Jellyfin (for my small collection of series and movies)
Gotify
Stirling-PDF
PiHole (more as an experiment, rather than looking for a complete DNS solution since I can't change my router's DNS)
Paperless-NGX (I don't use it much, it's more as an experiment)
Homer
DokuWiki

I've found problems using Docker Rootless and Tumbleweed as my server's OS, since some configurations are different and some containers don't even work, but I've also learned a lot :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I use Docker and (currently) VMware and host whatever I need for as long (or short) as I need it.

This allows me to keep everything separate and isolated and prevents incompatible stuff interacting with each other. In addition, after I'm done with a test, I can dispose of the experiment without needing to track down spurious files or impacting another project.

I also use this to run desktop software by only giving a container access to the specific files I want it to access.

I'm in the process of moving this to AWS, so I have less hardware in my office whilst gaining more flexibility and accessibility from alternative locations.

The ultimate aim is a minimal laptop with a terminal and a browser to access what I need from wherever I am.

One side effect of this will be the opportunity to make some of my stuff public if I want to without needing to start from scratch, just updating permissions will achieve that.

One step at a time :)

[–] atocci 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just Jellyfin and modded Minecraft right now. Nothing super interesting, but great fun.

I'm using SSH to interact with the Minecraft server in tmux, and the web interface for Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

NUC 8i5, 32GB, 500GB NVMe (host), 8TB SSD (data), Akasa Turing fanless case, running Proxmox:

samba
syncthing
pihole
radicale
jellyfin
minidnla

I also have a Pi 4 running LibreElec for Kodi on the home theater. Nothing fancy yet and it more than meets our current needs. Most maintenance done over SSH.

Would like to eventually get a proper web and email server going (yes, I know).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

here is my deploy

https://github.com/simone-viozzi/my-server

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

HomeAssistant and a bunch of scripts and helpers.
A number of websites, some that I agreed to host for someone who was dying.
Jellyfin and a bunch of media
A lot of docker containers (Adguard, *arrs)
Zoneminder
Some routing and failover to provide this between main main server and a much smaller secondary (keepalived, haproxy, some of the docker containers)
Some development environments for my own stuff.
A personal diary that I wrote and keep track of personal stats for 15 years
Backup server for a couple of laptops and a desktop (plus automated backup archiving)

Main server is a ML110 G9 running Debian. 48G/ram. 256 ssd x2 in raid1 as root. 4tb backup drive. 4tb cctv drive. 4x4tb raid 10 data drive. (Separating cctv and backup to separate drives lowers overall iowait a lot). 2nd server is a baby thinkcentre. 2gb ram, 1x 128gb ssd.

Edit: Also traccar, tracking family phones. Really nice bit of software and entirely free and private. Replaced Life360 who have a dubious privacy history.

Edit2: Syncthing - a recent addition to replace GDrive. Bunch of files shared between various desktops/laptops and phones.

[–] spirinolas 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Self-hosted machine. It was basically my old computer I bought back in '09. It's a i5-750 on a Asus P5P77. It started with the 4 GB RAM I hadn't sold until I upgrade to 8. I used a borrowed Nvidia GT730 and a 1 TB HDD at first until I upgrade my main PC GPU and bought a new HDD for the server so now it runs in a 4 TB HDD and my old GTX 1060 3 Gb. It's a beast for my needs.

Jellyfin is the main reason I started my server. Initially it was so my mother could easily watch shows I would never illegally download. Until a realized it would be great for me too and friends. To not watch them...I mean, because that would be ilegal!
Qbittorrent...shit...oh well :)
Nginx, when I realized I could host my own development server and personal website
Komga, when I realized I could have the same benefits of Jellyfin with books and comics.
Tailscale, allows me to, among other things, use it as an online or LAN hard drive for me and people I like.
Samba, see above. It also works to keep a nice share folder between my main PC and my laptop

The more time passes the more I realize self-hosting is the best idea ever. I get new ideias every day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Current setup:
Main server (HP ProDesk 600 G3 MT):

2fauth (not finished)
Some stuff for the local breweries website
Nextcloud (includes KeePass.kdbx)
Some stuff for a flea market event in the near future
Gitlab
Gotify (notification sevice to notify of failed systemd services)
Jellyfin
Lemmy
AbuseIPDB contributor badge (for more API calls)
Piped
Some stuff for my dad
Synapse (Matrix)
Uptime-kuma (not finished)
WebODM (Drone mapping)
Postfix
Dovecot
Self written DynDNS

Workstation (HP Z440):

Gitlab runner
NodeODM (Webodm processing node)
pict-rs
Service to archive+compress+encrypt backups (uploaded to the workstation by the other devices hourly) daily and upload them to google drive + Hetzner

Soon I'll move to a setup where the Workstation runs all services, and there are two servers (HP ProDesk 600 G3 MT) whose only purpose is to run a DHCP+DNS server (one authoritative) as well as a Wireguard bridge to connect the two servers, located at two different networks (and cities), together. I'll also set up Jellyseerr, Vencloud (settings sync for the Discord Client Vencord), revamp the backup system and introduce my Laptop to the ecosystem.