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Same things as everyone else except:
My ISP uses CNAT so I can't just open ports or dynamic DNS. My solution is a tiny VPS running nginx as a reverse proxy connecting back to my home server using tailscale. Tailscale was super easy but the reverse proxy was not trivial!
Also host my own IMAP server collecting all my email using getmail. Keeps all my messages on my home machine but much easier to manage than a fully fledged email server.
Special mention to: ntfy, Monica and Pairdrop!
I got
There are probably other things that I don't remember right now.
In terms of hardware I got a 6 core AMD 5600X machine with a 5700XT GPU and 16GB of ram for almost all my services and personal use.
I also have an AMD 3600 machine with 3x8TB harddrives for network storage.
Ohh, I'd love to share.
Running most services as docker/ kubernetes containers.
Currently running Plex (previously Jellyfin, maybe will switch back) for media streaming.
Grocy for food/task/family organisation (grocery list and so forth)
Piehole for home ad-blocker and proxy ππ»ππ»ππ»
I self-host:
I rent a low-budget dedicated server from a data center - it only has about 4 cores and 8GB of RAM, but that's more than enough for my needs. Most importantly it has 2TB of hard drive space (for Nextcloud & Jellyfin) which is why I upgraded from my prior VPS.
Nextcloud, gitea, matrix, jellyfin, WordPress and i2p
Every now and then I think about selfhosting eMail, but then I remember the horrors of spam '^^
I run everything I can out of containers. It makes remembering all the changes I made easy, and reverting them even easier. My hardware is a generic PC in my closet.
I'm running:
But that's not all, I also installed OpenWRT on my router, more out of necessity because it didn't have features my ISP required. That's running:
I have a Raspberry Pi running OctoPrint for a 3D printer in the corner. I would have preferred to have ran that on my server to save on power and save a Raspberry Pi but I don't have a long enough USB cable.
Hello :)
I'm not really a "selfhoster" but I thought I'd present myself anyway since you asked :D
I do a little bit of it but only for personal use, I don't have the skills to selfhost for public use.
I have Gitea, Planka, Dokuwiki, Apache+MariaDB, and self-compiled World of Warcraft server emulators (TrinityCore, CMangos and AzerothCore).
I run one main hypervisor with a bunch of different Ubuntu server VMs that I spin up as I mess with different things. I'm old-school so I am not a fan of cloud computing or even docker. Services I host that I use the most are NAS (samba), plex, pi-hole, dokuwiki (huge documentation nerd), and zoneminder which is a great open-source security cam software.
So Iβve got a mediocre mini PC that Iβm using as a NAS with a USB RAID1 enclosure after my NAS bit the dust. Itβs running the following:
And then Iβve got a RPi4 also running Tailscale, a backup Pi-Hole, and something called mlbserver which lets me access mlb.tv streams (legally) as m3u8 playlists and avoid the mediocre mlb apps.
3 Proxmox Nodes (2 R720Xds and 1 crappy Atom server) hosting Zoneminder, Zabbix, FreeIPA, Uptime-Kuma, Technitium DNS, FreeRADIUS, and much more stuff for software development, etc. Also running Nextcloud and Wireguard on a VPS.
Used to be a big lurker on Reddit, but I want to be more involved here. I'm loving Lemmy being open source and decentralized.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVR | Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| Unifi | Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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First post on Lemmy in general. It's great to see this community with a decently healthy population! I guess it's a natural fit for the Fediverse :)
My current hosted situation...
3rd gen NUC (!) with 16GB hosting the lion's share of low resource services:
9th gen Intel / 64GB host running a handful of heavier servers:
RPI 4, 8GB running some network / monitoring / incidental services:
80TB Synology running some storage services:
This list doesn't include all the node exporters and underpinning services for prometheus / grafana to function, or sidecar containers like minecraft backup and such, since that's not terribly interesting stuff - but I remain perennially interested in the elegant solutions others have come up for maximum efficiency in security and redundancy without making selfhosting a second dayjob. I'm always happy to discuss the details of those things and accept constructive (keyword) advice - providing the same.
My singular use case for NextCloud was replaced this year with a combination of Immich and Syncthing, and I could not be happier for that decision.
I also maintain a fairly nondescript (as in, cosmetically it's "just another living area") but technically built-out) retrogaming den built around a MiSTer and a Wii, which is hosted, in a manner of speaking. :)
All container hosts are running docker-ce on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and every end user machine in my house runs Linux, typically Manjaro but not exclusively. This includes those used for gaming and everything else by me and school by my grade school children. There are zero Windows or Apple devices available anywhere other than a single Win10 VM that gets spun up a couple times a year for random reasons.
Hi
I started self hosting 3 years ago when I got wind of tailscale. I've always cared about privacy and building things so that was great.
My infrastructure consists of two machines.
One - my personal and work server A deskmini i3 12th gen
256GB Boot drive 4TB NVME data drive
-photoprism -syncthing -nextcloud -Firefox+VPN -archivebox
Two - my media server that I let 6ish other people access - PC tower i3 12th gen
512GB Boot and docker config file drive 4*4TB HDD mergerfs for raw data
-jellyfin -*arr suite -gluetun VPN -audiobookshelf (also for auto downloading podcasts) -calibre-web
I host a nextcloud sever (snap) and a minecraft server on a laptop I no longer use
I use a combination of a MacMini Oracle cloud, probably not best long term solution but it's free (while it lasts).
Stuff that runs on Oracle:
Stuff on Mac:
Aside from that not much else π
3 Proxmox nodes 2 SFF Dell Optiplex (i5 with 32gb RAM) 1 Nuc (i7 with 64gb RAM)
1 Truenas host (old gaming PC i5 with 64gb RAM and 8TB ZFS pool
pfSense appliance for firewall
Raspberry 4 No.1 (HassOS)
Raspberry 4 No.2 (Ubuntu LTS)
Fileserver custom built (Ubuntu LTS, local only):
Raspberry 4 No.3 (Raspian, local only)
All services dockerized but Kodi.