Anyone else have it ? The more work I do setting things up like dockers, reverse proxies, single sign on, etc. the more I want to do it. But I’m running out of ideas of things to host that would actually benefit me. But I have that itch where I want more lol.
So far I have the following: (EDIT: added descriptions for those who aren’t familar with all of it. )
- Caddy - use this primarily as a reverse proxy to access my applications via my domain and outside the house
- Nextcloud - mainly using it for cloud storage but also some of their other apps likes decks and tasks as well as contacts and calendar.
- Memos - simple note taking app similar to twitter but personal.
- Miniflux - rss
- Authentik - sso
- Portainer - web view of dockers and status / health
- KitchenOwl - groceries / recipe management
- Actual - zero budgeting (like YNAB)
- Firefly iii - finances management
- Immich - images / iCloud replacement
- Organizr (barely using it. Trying to think of more use cases) - dashboard of all my services
- Speedtest - runs daily speed tests and monitors.
- Plex - host my media library
- Plex_Debrid / rclone - sync real Debrid with plex.
- rsync to backup data to one onsite and one off site location. Automated backups
- Watchtower automated docker updates
- Home Assistant - home automation
- Home bridge - Apple home automation
- Zigbee2mqtt - manage zigbee smart home devices
- Unifi controller - manage my network
I think that’s everything!
Edit: Thanks for the overwhelming responses! I really appreciate everyone with their opinions. First things first I did get borg setup for both my server and my desktop so thats awesome! I am waiting for response from my backup server admin if they can install rdiff-backup for me so I can utilize that as well for my cloud backups.
Going to take a look at a few other of the many suggestions here! More than a few I like!
I love posts like these just to look for more stuff to host!
My current list -
hex - main server (Intel NUC 8GB) Nginx Proxy Manager (reverse proxy) Dokuwiki Nextcloud (file sync) - also used for the following Bookmarks Contacts Calendar Location tracking Notes Airsonic (music streaming) Audio Bookshelf (audiobook streaming) Calibre-Web (e-books) FreshRSS (RSS reader) Kavita (comics) Batch monitoring scripts N8N (workflow automation) Transmission (bittorrent client) Vaultwarden (password and 2FA sync for Bitwarden) Glances (fancy top replacement) Paperless-ngx (process attachments and scanned documents) Uptime Kuma Dozzle charon - Raspberry PI4 Pi-hole (Ad blocking DNS server) PiVPN (wireguard VPN server) PiAlert (network intrusion detection) Time Machine (backup for MacOS) Borg Server (backup for main server) coeus - Raspberry Pi Zero PiHoleOoh, self hosted location tracking? Tell me more!
I already run Nextcloud for file sync. One of the apps available in Nextcloud is called PhoneTrack which is a compatible server for collecting and displaying data collected by the owntracks app on my phone. Nextcloud sits behind an nginx reverse proxy
I haven’t tried it on Nextcloud yet but I do this already on home assistant with my girlfriend and I. We can basically replicate the iOS find my app with it.
I personally just started using Owntracks, which is a standalone location tracker. There is also Traccar which I looked into but opted not to make use of.
Some people use it as a Find My replacement, I personally make use of it as a Google Maps Timeline replacement (and have imported my previous data as a result) as well as for Tile tracker location history (which I’ve got custom scripted currently).
