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Tell us, what services do you selfhost? Extra points for selfhosted hardware infrastructure.
Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!
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Presently I’m self hosting:
- NextCloud
- ArchiveBox
- Lemmy
- Ntfy
- Calibre Web
- ByteStash
- Etherpad
- RustDesk
- GitLab Community
- Peertube
- Matrix
- Minecraft Java Server (I mean, it is self hosted)
I think sometimes my servers complain about what I’m hosting. lol
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters MECO Main Engine Cut-Off ~ MainEngineCutOff podcast ROC Range Operations Coordinator ~ Radius of Curvature RP-1 Rocket Propellant 1 (enhanced kerosene) SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar (increasing resolution with parallax) SECO Second-stage Engine Cut-Off SES Formerly Société Européenne des Satellites, comsat operator ~ Second-stage Engine Start VPN Virtual Private Network
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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- AdguardHome
- Nextcloud
- Redlib
- DrawIO
- Wireguard
- Matrix server
- SearxNG
- Jellyfin
- LibMedium
- Linkwarden
- IT-tools
- Vaultwarden
- Memos
- Miniflux
- Rimgo
- Invidious
- Quetre
- Anonymously Overflow
All except few are routed via VPN.
Hosted on: Raspberry Pi 4B + Alienware M14x R2
Available from internet:
- jellyfin
- jellyseerr
- immich
- paperless-ngx
- owncloud ocis
- traefik
- homarr
Available only from local:
- the *arr stack
- qbittorrent
- jackett
- watchtower
- apprise
- netdata (kinda new, still have to fully understand how it works)
- portainer
- speedtest-tracker
- homepage
Security
All the services available from internet, just goes through traefik to terminate https, I rely on the build in authentication of each service. To add another layer of security, I have fail2ban active on all those services.
I have a public IP, and I have open on my router ports 80, 443, a random port for ssh and vpn.
Hardware:
Memory: System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.73 GiB used: 4.46 GiB (57.7%) Report: arrays: 1 slots: 4 modules: 2 type: DDR3 CPU: Info: 6-core model: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 535.98docker compose files
All the docker compose files + how I configured everything is available at: https://github.com/simone-viozzi/my-server
Bonus:
Since I like the ability of btrfs to do snapshots, I created all important docker volumes as btrfs subvolumes. Then I created a backup script that literally sends the subvolume (encrypted) to an external cloud. This does not allow incremental backups and most likely is not the best backup solution… but it works… the repo is: https://github.com/simone-viozzi/btrfs2cloud-backup
I welcome any advice / criticism!
(I’ll add links / descriptions later)
I host the following fediverse stuff:
- Lemmy (you’re looking at it)
- Mastodon (3 instances)
- Calckey oh sorry, now FireFish
- Pixelfed
- Misskey
- Writefreely
- Funkwhale
- Akkoma (2 instances)
- Peertube
And these are other things I host:
- Kimai2
- Matrix/Synapse
- Silver Bullet
- XWiki (3 instances)
- Cryptpad (2 instances)
- Gitea
- Grafana
- Hedgedoc
- Minecraft
- Nextcloud
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Paperless-ngx
- TheLounge
- Vaultwarden
- Zabbix
- Zammad
Host all the things!
Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT…
I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven’t even realised it yet.
That’s pretty aweseom. The day I discovered I could host my own websites was eye opening. lol
Wait, what? How are hosting someone else’s website?
OK, here’s how it happened.
I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.
I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.
Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.
6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.
That’s dedication. lol
I have been self hosting things for over 15 years. I now host on 7 computers. I’m proud of the fact that I stay under 100W idle, including 3 Omada WLAN APs and network technology (all via PoE and all is on a UPS). For most of the services i normally used the helper scripts. i’m currently in the process of moving everything to komodo. there should be an lxc for each service or service group, komodo pulls the compose files from gitea and deploys everything.
Proxmox pve0: M910x i5.7500 4x3,4GHz, 32 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe
- OPNSense (VM)
- Omada (LXC/komodo-server - control for 3 WLAN-APs)
- apt-cacher-ng (LXC/komodo-server - cache for debian-updates)
- searxng (LXC/komodo-server - my standard google-alternative)
- technitium (LXC/komodo-server - DNS, Adblock)
- nginx (LXC/komodo-server - own ssl-domain over cloudflare, no ports open to the www, my devices connect only via tailscale)
UNRAID-NAS - odroid h2+ Intel J4115 4x1,8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2x24GB HDD - fileserver)
Proxmox Backup Server (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe, 2TB SSD)
Proxmox pve1 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)
- bifrost (LXC/komodo-server - hue emulator)
- paperless (LXC/komodo-server - DMS)
- paperless-ai (LXC/komodo-server - tagging DMS)
- mosquitto (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt broker)
- zigbee2mqtt (LXC/komodo-server - mqtt-zigbee bridge)
- snowflake (LXC/komodo-server - tor relais)
- RaspberryMatic (VM - Homematic)
Proxmox pve2 (M90n-1: i5-8265U, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB NVMe)
- ghost (LXC comm-script, business soltion, wanna play around)
- hoarder (LXC/komodo-server - bookmarks with AI tagging)
- memos (LXC/komodo-server - notes - I play around)
- obsidian-sync (LXC/komodo-server - notes, but I hate the need of action for this)
- vaultwarden (LXC/komodo-server - password manager backup for my payed bitwarden instance)
- gitea (LXC/komodo-server - hoe to, IP-addresses, compose-files)
- komodo-management (LXC/komodo-server - komodo main-server to manage all the servers)
- firefly-iii (LXC/komodo-server - finance - I’m looking for an alternaticve for actualbudget )
- actual-budged (LXC/komodo-server - finance with AI tagging)
- investbrain (LXC/komodo-server - stock management, but only in USD, I wait for other currencies)
Proxmox pve3 (M920x: i7-8700, 64 GB RAM, 250 GB NVMe, 2 TB NVMe)
- ollama+open webui (LXC/komodo-server - AI)
- immich (LXC/komodo-server - photo backup for my ios-photos)
- iobroker (LXC/komodo-server - smarthome for some tricky scripts)
- home assistant (VM - smarthome - for UI, its stupid for scripts)
- nextcloud (LXC/alpine - Im using it for documents, but Im looking for an alternative)
- plex/jellyfin/management (LXC/komodo-server - multimedia)
*raspberry pi 5
- venus OS (solar/accu management software)
i’m happy to have found an entry point and an alternative to reddit here, even though my second post (question about suitable hardware with 32 answers) has already been deleted. hello everyone!
vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:
- 2x PiHole servers with local unbound resolver; synced with Gravity Sync
- 3x Active Directory DCs
- Homebridge Instance
- Jenkins Instance
- Portainer Instance Hosting:
- Authelia
- Code Server
- CyberChef
- Guacamole
- NGINX Proxy Manager
- PairDrop
- SMEE Client
- Your Spotify
- Docker-SMTP
- Vaultwarden
- A couple of personal websites using NGINX
- Kubernetes (k3s) (3 Managers, 6 Workers) Hosting:
- ArgoCD
- AWX
- Rook Ceph
- Cloudflared
- My main personal website using a container image built with Jenkins and deployed with ArgoCD.
Standalone Lenovo TS140:
- Plex (GTX 1650 Super for Transcoding)
- SABnzbd
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Ombi
- Tautulli
- MP4 Automator
- Veeam B&R for backing up vSphere hosts.
Synology DS1821+:
- 64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
- MeTube
- Backup Sync to Google Drive
Misc:
- RIPE Atlas Probe
- All networking gear is Unifi. UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6 Pro, U6 In-Wall, 3 USW Flex Minis. 10G SFP+ connections between UDM Pro and switches.





