Hello everyone! Mods here 😊
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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If this comment is federating then I started hosting my first service – Lemmy itself.
I’m seeing it from my own selfhosted Lemmy instance!
Well thanks to the soon to be dead /r/selfhosted on reddit I started selfhosting few years ago and now approximately 90% of my stuff is selfhosted:
- Gitlab
- RocketChat
- VS Code
- Anonaddy
- Etherpad
- Min.io
- Archivebox
- FreshRSS
- FileStash
- Matomo
- InfiniteWP
- piHole
as daily drivers and several others that I use from time to time.
wait, vscode self hosted?, how
Self hosted Vscode? How does that work, like a remote workspace via web or directly in a local Vscode session? Did it handle extensions well?
I haven’t used it in a while, maybe its better. Basically since vscode is an electron app it can run im he browser. You can even use https://vscode.dev which is the official web version. Iirc it didn’t have the same plugins, but it’s pretty much the same thing.
Its super useful when you deploy alongside containers as an easy way to change configs in shared volumes.
Which games do you host servers for? They’re a dying breed that let you do that these days.
Is installing VSCode locally “self hosting”? I thought that was how everybody did it. I just run the executable - no Docker or anything - for coding, testing etc. but I’m not sure what a VSCode “server” would even do.
It can be a few things.
It could be remote workspaces like GitHub codespaces.
But it could also be simpler: vscode is a web app, the native app you install is just an electron wrapper around the web app; so you can host it on a server an use it in the browser.
- Nextcloud
- Miniflux
- Gitlab
- HomeAssistant
- Wallabag
- Ghost (for my personal blog)
- Umami analytics
- Searx NG
- OnlyOffice document server
- ntfy
- Lychee
- LAMP Stack
- TheLounge (IRC web client)
- Cockpit (server manager)
- RSSHub
- Jellyfin
- AdguardOn an Intel NUC in my closet.
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.
64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
Respect! Nobody can accuse you of a half-assed effort.
MeTube
This looks great. I am going to spin up an instance.
Very impressive. I gotta ask, how is this feasible cost-wise? Mostly as in licensing for vshpere. I know you can get pretty far in windows server with evaluation keys, butI run an ESXi server on eval mode cuz I’m cheap and have to reset the license every 90 days with some commands and reboot 😅
What is the scale of your network, like is this all just in your house?
Ok, you’ve got me curious - Why 3 different active directory domain controllers?
Just for redundancy! One DC VM per physical vSphere host. Each DC also handles internal DNS records for my network.
Proxmox on a self-built rackserver (Will be building a second one for a proxmox cluster):
- Pi-Hole (primary)
- Home Assistant
- 2 Docker Hosts (One for Eval, one for Prod)
Raspberry Pi Zero for Pi-Hole (secondary)
On my Docker Host (All in docker-compose):
- Heimdall (Personal Dashboard)
- Portainer (Docker GUI)
- baikal (CAL & CADdav)
- vaultwarden (Password Manager)
- bookstack (Documentation, kinda abandoned because im lazy)
- changedetection(.)io (Monitoring Websites for Changes, useful for changelogs or price monitoring)
- cloudflare-ddns (DDNS because dynamic IP Adresses…)
- Grafana & InfluxDB (Dashboard and Database for Stats)
- linkding (Bookmarks aka “Have to read someday”)
- mealie (Reciepe manager)
- neko (Watch2gether but in selfhosted and more capable imo)
- nginx proxy manager (Reverse Proxy with GUI)
- paperless-ngx (Document manager with OCR)
- semaphore ui (Ansible GUI with sheduled tasks)
- Uptime Kuma (Status Monitoring)
- watchtower (Automatic updates of my docker containers because im lazy)
A Synology DS220+ for local Storage
A 5TB Hetzner Storage Box for Backups (encrypted)
A Rootserver for Games and some testing in the wild (Currently Windows, will be switched to ubuntu)
Hetzner Cloud Server with mailcow on it
- Audiobookshelf
- Calckey
- Gitea
- Grafana + Prometheus
- Homeassistant
- Jellyfin
- KitchenOwl
- Navidrome
- Nextcloud
- Wallabag
and lemmy of course 🙂
Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com> Audiobookshelf
I didn’t know that existed and now I love it and started up a docker container for it!
Thanks! :D
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, letsencrypt)
- 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
How does mapcrafter run for you now? I’m hosting a vanilla server and that’s exactly what I need to see our map. I’m just concerned that it doesn’t function properly now due to recent updates.
Thanks!
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A 6 node k3s cluster with a Synology for network storage running:
- Nextcloud
- Authentik SSO
- Paperless
- Vikunja
- Joplin Sync
- Matrix
- Immich
- Mealie
- Gitea
- Home-Assistant
- Node-Red
- Zigbee2mqtt
- MQTT server
- Frigate
- UptimeKuma
- Prometheus and Grafana
- AdGuard Home
- Minio
- Longhorn
- Unifi Controller
- Jellyfin
- Homepage
Managed with FluxCD.
I will go first 😌
I selfhost codimd, vaultwarden, kuma, immich, home assistant, trilium, hugo, gotify, wakapi and umami. I have one VPS and one custom built NAS at home.
I read you 👀🦎
I joined to learn, still not self-hosting anything, but I intend to use an 11yo Compaq laptop (i5, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD) as a server while I’m still practicing. I intend to self-host a lemmy instance and a nextcloud server.
Thanks for everything you guys have been sharing I’ve already got some good leads, gonna try out YunoHost for starters
Hey all, I’ve been slowly building services on my server over many many years, starting with running a minecraft ftb server, to where I am now, which is 1 primary system(providing the network filesystem) and 2 auxiliary minipc systems my brother in law recently donated. I moved from Docker to Docker Swarm after getting those MiniPC’s and enjoying the added compute. Currently my swarm is running:
- PiHole x2 - AdBlocking and Local DNS Management
- Wg-easy - for Wireguard VPN Management
- nginx - for reverse proxy servicing
- authentik - for Authentication and SSO
- Duplicati - for cloud backups(pointing at backblaze buckets)
- Guacamole - for RDP services
- Grafana+Prometheus+Node-Exporter+Cadvisor+AlertManager - for aggregation and system monitoring
- Gatus - single pane of glass monitoring of services(might remove it now that I’ve started using Grafana)
- diun - monitoring docker image versions and notification
- Bookstack - Personal Knowledge Base system
- Linkwarden - Collaborative Link Sharing and archiving
- Fasten Health - Local Health Records Storage
- SnipeIT - personal asset management
- Affine - self hosted cloud notebook
- Actual - Budgeting Software
- it-tools - for swiss army knife utilities
- kitchenowl - recipes and grocery lists
- Reactive resume - for resume building with AI empowered editing
- Onetimesecret - for burn after reading secret sharing(using it for distributing credentials to my family)
- Searxng - Local Search Aggregation
- Homarr - Personal Dashboarding
- Home Assistant - Smart Home Management
- N8n - Automating codeless workflows
- Ollama and Open-WebUI - personal Agentic AI
- AudioBookshelf - Audiobook streaming and Management
- OwnCloud - local file sharing and storage
- Plex - Video Streaming
- BitMagnet - DHT network sniffer
- syncthing - for transporting data between local and remote systems
- the *Arrs - for acquiring content
- Docspell - for digitizing and storing important documents
- picsur - for local meme storage
- Calibre+Calibre-web - for Ebook management
- Crafty Controller - for Minecraft Server Management
- RomM - For Emulation and ROM Management.
As I go about my day I’m always looking for new and interesting containers to run, and then scrutinizing if they fill a need, replace an existing service with a better version of the same service, or if it’s better off not implementing, then I pull them down. this has been a great experience in devops learning and the longer I work on the server the more best practices I put in place and the more I understand why corporate clouds have some of the practices they have. I look forward to poking around in this community looking to help and to find new containers to accrete into my platform.
That’s a respectable list of apps. Looks almost like what I run sans the *arr stack. Good work!
My Self-Hosting Journey
I began my self-hosting journey in 2021 with the goal of hosting a game server for friends so they would not need to pay for external hosting. Through onsite IT work, I acquired several 6th and 8th generation i7 systems from companies that were downsizing or upgrading. After adding inexpensive NVMe storage and APC battery backups, the environment grew quickly.
What started as a single server eventually expanded to three dedicated game servers running 27/4, supporting up to 270 concurrent players at peak. These servers have been up for almost 4 years now.
Internet Connection
- ISP: Optimum Fiber (1 Gbps / 1 Gbps symmetrical) – $65/month
- ISP router configured in bridge mode if I return it they take away a discount.
Network Infrastructure
- Router: UDM Pro
- Switch: USW 16-Port PoE
- Access Point: AC Pro
Infrastructure Services
DNS Server
- Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB RAM)
- DietPi OS
- Running Pi-hole for DNS filtering
Game Server Infrastructure
All game servers are connected to APC battery backups and maintain approximately 99% uptime, with downtime only occurring during scheduled maintenance. A custom watchdog script automatically restarts servers if a crash occurs.
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Game Server 1
- i7 6th Gen
- 24 GB RAM
- 500 GB NVMe storage
- Windows Server 2019
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Game Server 2
- i7 8th Gen
- 32 GB RAM
- 500 GB NVMe storage
- Windows Server 2019
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Game Server 3
- i7 8th Gen
- 28 GB RAM
- 500 GB NVMe storage
- Windows Server 2019
Virtualization / Homelab
Proxmox Server
- i7 12th Gen
- 40 GB RAM
- 1 TB NVMe storage
- External USB Media Drive – 22 TB (with backup)
Current Services
- Jellyfin – Replacing all commercial streaming services (currently LAN only, working on secure remote access)
Planned Additions
- NGINX – Reverse proxy for secure external access
- Apache Guacamole – Replace RemotePC for remote access
- Tailscale – Replace Surfshark for private networking
- Vaultwarden – Replace RoboForm for password management
If you think there are better options please let me know so I can do my research!
Just curious but what game are you hosting?
Welcome! Good to meet you.
Hey thanks for checking out the post. Do you have one here as well?
Do you have one here as well?
I’m not sure what you are asking me, but yes I do selfhost. This would be as close of a description as I have posted here: https://lemmy.world/post/43533409
znc, radicale, miniflux, gotosocial, lemmy, i2pd, searx, rtorrent, webdav
Hey fellow self-hosters! I’m just starting but I’m now running my own instances of Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Readeck and Kitchen Owl. It’s really a great feeling to know the data is safe with me!
Been self hosting for over a decade at this point. Mix of custom built servers and surplus hardware over the years.
To name a few of my daily servers.
- home assistant
- paperless-ng
- jellyfin
- nextcloud
- blue iris
- audiobook shelf
With docker being so easy I have kind of lost track how much stuff i am hosting. A problem i never thought i would have :)
If there is RAM to spare… one more selfhosted service can’t be bad hahaha













