A Lack Rack with VMWare and TrueNAS servers, pfsense, Jellyfin, Zoneminder, web/email, Nextcloud, Minecraft, LineageOS build machine, .....other stuff
Just testing from selfhosted instance!
Can't ask too much off my little laptop, but here it is
- HomeAssistant
- Frigate NVR
- PiHole
- Wireguard VPN
I host one of the worlds last gopher sites. And some Telegram bots, on Raspberry Pi's.
A cobbled together Ryzen 2400g with 16GB of ram. Open Media Vault/Docker: Plex Nextcloud stack with dns refresh/ssl/nginx Sonarr/transmission stack with VPN PiHole Octoprint
Occasionally I run a game server or two when the need comes up, mostly Valheim lately.
I host a bitcoin node, and some video
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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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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Using LXD:
- ddclient
- Jellyfin (2)
- Minecraft (proxy + 4 servers)
- Satisfactory server
- V Rising
- Gitea vcs
- wordpress
- rtorrent
- other web servers
Using rootless Podman + Systemd service:
- Vaultwarden
- Linkding
- Traefik
- Immich photo backup
- Nextcloud (though I hate it, probably will stop)
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Prowlarr/Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Bazarr/Recyclarr
- Rtorrent + Flood
- Jellyseerr
- Navidrome (Subsonic server)
- Miniflux (RSS)
- Woodpecker (CI integration for Gitea)
- Tubearchivist (yt-dl)
- wg-easy (wireguard)
- searxng
All services are split across 2 DIY servers (in towers). 15TB of media stored on HDD with btrfs duplicated across both servers. One server host is Alpine Linux, the other is Opensuse MicroOS. LXD containers usually are Debian 12 or Alpine. I'm beginning to migrate some things to a cluster of (12) raspberry pi 3s. Unsure what to choose for rpi's, maybe, Fedora CoreOS (ublue), although Alpine does work extremely well on them (once you get them set up with it).
+ router running fresh tomato :)
Also mailcow for email, on a VPS, although I need to switch to a new provider, having difficulty with delivery using Linode and OVHCloud.
Turns out I have quite a lot of stuff, and yet I'm here thinking I barely have anything! Until now:
- Nextcloud
- Kitchenowl (grocery lists)
- Kavita (ebook manager)
- Grist (spreadsheets that are databases I guess?)
- Sharry (file sharing)
- Changedetection.io
- A ghost blog
- Bookstack (like a manual on managing the server)
- Portainer (manage containers from a webui)
- Diun (notifies when an update is released for a container. Doesn't have a webui)
- Homepage dashboard (basically a webpage that shows me my selfhosted services)
All these are running inside Docker containers, on an ancient laptop with a single cpu core and 3 gigs of RAM.
Excited to discover more things to host on that ~~little~~ pretty big guy (somehow its still running well)!
Pi-hole, Wireguard + 'a CDN client' on raspberry pi 4 with SSD
Ditched my Synology NAS, running an unRaid machine now:
i5-10400, 32 GiB (to much) Memory, 15.7 TB used of 60 TB
- VMs: homeassistant , macOS, Windows 10
- SWAG, Cloudflare DDNS, Arrrrrr dockers, Plex, ArchiveTeamWarrior, gokapi, qBittorrent, Resilio Sync, wikijs, mariaDB + whatever I find interesting to try out
Jellyfin and Nextcloud with UptimeKuma for monitoring. A pretty simple stack running on a mini tower, but it works great for my primary needs. Portainer for managing docker containers and stacks from a GUI.
Have a PC in the basement acting as a server.
- Microk8s on Ubuntu Server
- Custom-written experimental NodeJS app to help when playing D&D
- Keycloak to act as an IDP
- Cloudflare tunnel to receive traffic
- Valheim server (temporarily -- I moved this back to local)
- Wiki.js
I've been selfhosting various things for almost 25 years now. Started with email/web, but now I've got the following (in no particular order):
- email (postfix/dovecot)
- web (nginx)
- shared notes (obsidian, but also through dovecot)
- calendar (davical)
- telephony (asterisk)
- replicated storage (syncthing)
- media server (plex)
- home automation (homeassistant, mosquitto, grafana, influxdb)
- power monitoring (empora device on the breaker panel + a few smart outlets talking to homeassistant)
- security cameras (securityspy)
- irrigation (a controller of my own design, adding OpenSprinkler support this year)
- offsite backups (duplicity + rclone)
- project management/issue tracking (redmine)
- social media (gnu-social + lemmy, but also testing mbin)
- bookmark management (karakeep)
- local copies of web stuff (yt-dlp, hamsterbase, singlefile)
- VPN (openvpn)
Virtualization is mostly docker containers, but also some ESXi/VMWare Fusion. I also have Obsidian in the mix but that's not really a self-host but more of a way to organize/access my data. I have also been doing a (very!) little bit of experimentation with local LLMs, but it's all on ARM, using either the GPU or the NPU available on the RK3588.
This stuff either exists on an OVH VPS for the "internet facing" stuff or on an old Dell C6100 blade server. ESXi uses one blade and another blade runs Debian and talks to an old SATA/SAS disk shelf I got for $50 to see if I could make it work (it was super straightforward). I have a bunch of 2T and 4T "spinning rust" drives in two RAID6 arrays (mdadm) and then carve out storage for various things using LVM. I am experimenting with zfs on the VPS but am not a big fan of it. I used to run OpnSense on another blade since I couldn't find a router which would properly shape gigabit internet traffic, but now I'm using an ER605 and it seems to be doing quite well. I have a tiny KeepConnect device which will physically cut power to the cable modem if it can't see the internet which is very helpful since the biggest source of trouble for me has always been the damn internet service doing weird things when I'm not at home.
I've even been working toward "self hosting" my own educational electronics stuff for my kids using https://microblocks.fun/ (the actual project is called smallvm) - think scratch running completely in the browser and executing code on a "vm" which is actually running on a microcontroller over BLE or serial.
This sounds like a shitload of work and sometimes it can be, but one of the best parts of self hosting is that once it's set up, it hardly ever has to be updated/changed. Security updates are the biggest reason of course, but a LOT of this is not on the open internet so I can be more lenient about keeping things up to date. I also try to keep everything that needs a database to use ONE database (postgres), which also makes it easier to back up or use data from several tools in a new way. Honestly it's largely fire and forget these days. I add more space or replace drives as needed and try not to touch things otherwise. I keep a set of notes to help me remember not only the how but the WHY I set things up in a particular way, and those notes are accessible 100% offline. (After all, what good are notes on how things are set up if the thing you've stored them on isn't working?)
My infrastructure at home (C6100, SAS shelf, switch, etc.) consumes about 700W 24/7 which is not awesome but I figure the power bill saves a lot of service costs. The VPS runs me about $30/mo.
In addition to the standard complement of jellyfin etc. I run a Docker OS on Google's free tier with Gotify along with Uptime Kuma running on a tiny x86 computer accessed via a Cloudflare tunnel. Discord watches the watcher and notifies me if Gotify goes down!
It's a great combo. All reverse proxying is handled by HAProxy on my pfsense router.
In addition to the standard complement of jellyfin etc. I run a Docker OS on Google's free tier with Gotify along with Uptime Kuma running on a tiny x86 computer accessed via a Cloudflare tunnel. Discord watches the watcher and notifies me if Gotify goes down!
It's a great combo. All reverse proxying is handled by HAProxy on my pfsense router.
Since I haven't seen it commented yet, I host a kiwix backup of stackoverflow and it has already saved me a couple times during outages.
This is interesting! I will be checking this out! Thank you for sharing!
Currently self-hosting a pi-hole instance, an nfs/smb server & a LAN-only webserver, as well as 24/7 syncthing (to which I automatically send my phone's photos to)
My specs are:
Intel Atom N270 (1 core, 2 threads) 1Gb DDR2 Ram (God knows the frequency but it's slow.) And a 500gb HDD
You really don't need a lot of oomph to self host! I'm planning on running a qBitTorrent webui next.
I use proxmox on my server. I virtualize opnsense (with adguard and wireguard), jellyfin, unifi, home assistant, and syncthing.
I have a synology ds220j w/ 2x10tb
Hardware: Intel 12100, 32gb ram, i350-t4 network card TP link TL-SG108E switch
I'm going to move opnsense to a dedicated box eventually
- Mail server
- Bitwarden (vaultwarden)
- Git server (apache + basic git server. no git frontend)
All on dedicated cloud servers for simplicity and security.
Im looking at selfhostihng on my own hardware again. Im considering the following
- lemmy instance
- proxmox with gpu
- Some sort of production database
Main Server - 37 Containers, 4 VMs
- Media: Plex, Audiobookshelf, along with everything for a complete *arr stack
- Network: Cloudflared, NginxProxyManager, Tailscale, Gluetun (for *arrs)
- Other: Authelia, OpenVSCode, Filebrowser, SFTPGo, Bitcoin Node to support the network
- VMs: Parrot, Windows 11 for local and remote gaming, Windows 3.11 (because why not), currently spun up myNode to see if I want to explore hosting a Bitcoin Ligtning Node
Smarthome Server - OptiPlex 3050
- Containers: mqtt, NodeRed, zigbee2mqtt, homebridge, tailscale, pihole (paired with my phone usually)
- VM: HomeAssistant
Testing Server - OptiPlex 7060
Lately been testing and making stuff using linuxserver/docker-baseimage-kasmvnc.
- Arduino-IDE running in a container - with USB hotswap.
- Featherwallet and Electrumwallet (I use a HW-Wallet for HODL).
- Lutris, got it working with Hearthstone, but didn't really have a use for it.
- Nomachine in kasmvnc, to (somewhat) smoothly access my VMs through the webbrowser when I just need something fast.
Linuxserver Firefox.
XMR Mining Server - Old tired HP SFF
Basicly everything from this guide by seth for privacy; monerod, p2pool, tor, watchtower, and a python-webserver to expose metrics/api.
Hardware:
- CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v4
- RAM: 256GB ECC
- Storage: 4x256GB Enterprise SSD, 4x2TB SSD (ZFS Striped Mirror)
Software:
- pfSense
- Proxmox
- k3s with Flux and Longhorn
- Gitea
- Woodpecker
- UniFi
- FreshRSS
- Grafana / Loki
- Ntfy
- Paperless-ngx
- Vaultwarden
- Minio
- Syncthing
I purchased the server used. The services are mostly running in a virtualized cluster, which is absolutely oversized for the current tasks. However, it has motivated me to learn Kubernetes and the power consumption is within my limits.
First post in the world of Lemmy! Woot! Another Reddit escapee. I can't for the life of me understand the management team at Reddit. I get that they need to make money and that they're pissed off at the AI guys for pilfering their data but the people who contribute to the subreddits and moderate them for free are why Reddit is such a success. Why would you screw them over? It's so short sited. If you're pissed at OpenAI then talk to them and figure out how they can pay for your API access but don't screw the people that made you a success. They can afford to spend a little of the VC/Microsoft money. Okay...off the soap box now.....
Up until very recently I was running all my services on a HP DL380 Gen9 server. Beautiful server but sucks back electricity like a drunk on New Years Eve and is way too noisy for my office. Purchased 4 different Tiny PCs (3 Lenovos and 1 Dell).
One Lenovo (AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200GE with 32GB RAM) is running RockyLinux with Docker with 20+ containers currently running.
- "Sweden Services" - SABnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr
- Tools - IT-Tools, Pairdrop, CyberChef and Paperless NGX
- Homelab services - Portainer, Dozzle and Nginx Proxy Manager
- Info - FreshRSS
- Media - Plex, Audiobookshelf and Navidrome
I'm constantly playing with different containers - adding, removing, etc. I did try making the switch to Podman as I like the idea of rootless containers but could not for the life of me get things like NFS shares and Portainer integration working and was spending way too much time fighting with it. Will probably try again in the near future.
Then the other 3 Tiny PCs are running XCP-NG with various VMs including my Xen Orchestra, Kali, a couple Windows machines (usually off), Tailscale gateway box and a few others. Again, mostly for testing things out.
Using OpnSense as my firewall. Have a TrueNAS system sharing files and another small Rockstor NAS also.
Looking forward to the community here. Thanks.
I used to host a ton of stuff, now I just host my WordPress site on Linode.
I have toyed with the idea of selfhosting a Lemmy server, but that's a project for another day.
I have a (beefy specd) Intel NUC that's running Proxmox. A few of the VMs mount to my RS1221+ for things like media (Jellyfin), etc.
On Proxmox I run
- Jellyfin (media server)
- Home Assistant (home automation)
- PiHole (DNS)
- Ansible (For keeping everything up to date and applying bulk actions)
- NGINX Proxy Manager (so I can access things locally with a nice URL)
- VM to host my Discord bots
- Whoogle (Search engine)
- AMP game server
Probably missing a few, but that's the jist
VPS (Ubuntu on 4 virtual cores, 10GB ram, 100GB NVME)
- Mediawiki with semantic mediawiki and various plug-ins and 650 pages
- Orthantic and OHIF (radiology images)
- Moodle (docker)
Cloud container provider (different to above VPS provider)
- 3 x mediawiki sites
Homelab (Unraid on i7 4790, 16gb RAM, 3 x 10TB HDD, 4TB external disk, no cache disk yet, RTX 3070, fractal define 7 mid tower)
- Plex
- Komga (comics)
- Audiobookshelf
- Kavita and Calibre (books)
- Photoview (family photos)
- Filebrowser (work)
- Cloudflared (zero trust tunnels)
- Heimdall (dashboard)
- Krusader
- Plugins: docker compose manager, docker patch, unassigned devices
Have ordered an N100 mini PC from aliexpress with plans of installing OPNsense and running a couple VMs on it.
My gaming computer for interest, not currently hosting anything: 5800X3D, 7900XTX, 32GB ram, 2TB NVME, 2TB SSD, 4TB HDD, fractal meshify midbtower case.
I also have a Pi 4 and a Pi 3 that I don't have any use for currently. Open to ideas. I already run Adguard on phone and Ublock origin on desktop browser, and don't see any current use for Pihole.
Hi, I have a few bits and pieces.
Currently I have:
Pi Zero running pi-hole
A Mac mini running overseer on Linux
Another Mac mini that I use for dev work that’s also running sonarr, radarr, bazarr, plex and Hoobs under MacOS
A Dell R170 running a number of VMs (windows and Linux) that host a couple of websites , and a load balancer on proxmox.
Things are a bit spread out where I sometimes just had to use the hardware I had to hand but it all works together somehow.
Edit: I've also just spun up a MediaWiki for me and my colleagues to use to store useful snippets of code etc. in a central place. Although I know my colleagues, they'll use it once and then it'll be abandoned :D
A Plex server, two DayZ servers and as of today a Lemmy instance. 😀
I selfhost a lot of the normal stuff everyone else does. Plex, AdguardHome, etc...
I also have a 96+ port dial-up server system: https://2600.network
Minecraft server, a pingvin share site for myself, tubearchivist, pihole, pivpn, 25mb video compressor with a script and incrontab along with the same thing but for GIFs. I think that's most of the list
I selfhost on a 2011 Mac Mini running Ubuntu with 16 gb ram:
- Metabase (a data library of charts, dashboards)
- NocoDB (an Airtable replacement that makes it easy for my users to get data into Metabase)
I'm also setting these up on VPS
Hello
Let's have a look at the inventory
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RPI 4B
- OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
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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)
- Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
- Jellyfin
- Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
- ddclient
- Heimdall
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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
Nothing too grand - a couple Discord bots and a few retro shooter servers in the cloud, and also a Raspberry Pi 4 in the living room which serves nicely as a media center and seed box.
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