Hey selfhosters, what are you selfhosting?
- Nextcloud + OnlyOffice
- *arr media management series (Lidarr, Sonarr, etc)
- Gitea
- Vaultwarden
- PiHole
- Jellyfin
- Wiki-js
- Lemmy
- Prometheus/Grafana/Loki
Currently all containerised running on a debian VM on a Rockylinux Qemu/KVM hypervisor. Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷
Hardware is an circa 2012 gaming machine with a few ZFS raids for all of my Linux ISOs. It lives an extremely tortured existence and longs for the sweet release of death.
Toying with the idea of migrating it all to on-prem virtualised kubernetes cluster using helm charts to manage the stacks and using NFS mounts for persistent storage because I hate myself (and to upskill I guess)
What about you?
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Nothing 😀but I'm still enjoying the community
This individual fornicates
This guy just said "I'm gonna make my own internet, with blackjack and hookers"
Far quicker to share a screenshot of my dashboard
Is there an anime radarr / sonarr setup guide you followed?
I haven't finished setting those up, but will be using TRaSH Guides as a starting point. I used their guides for my regular 1080p and 4K setups, and have been pretty happy with them.
Thanks a lot, wallabanged and will look at it later 😁
What software is the dashboard in? I've seen similar ones here before but not sure what people are using to see it all at a glance like that.
That's Dashy. I've only just started using it recently. I like it because I can edit it on the fly - no need to dive into the YAML behind it (which I had to do when I was using Homer).
wow! Very long list!
Edit:
What dashboard are you using for the app overview?Dashy I see in the answersQuicker but not ideal for users with visual impairments :/
Hello, I went through and wrote down all the applications and services from the image, enjoy.
Well, instead of being a victim and fucking whinging about it just ask. Not my job to guess if people have a vision impairment, but I'll happily oblige if asked nicely.
Does send to kindle go through amazon?
Wouldn’t you have your kindle disconnected from the net since ur pirating?
Amazon has always turned a blind eye to the 'send to kindle' backdoor for getting pirated content onto the kindle
You can send with calibre-web to kindle if you have an amazon account. You get a specific address for your kindle. They appear under documents in your library, legal or otherwise.
I self-host a ton of software. For context, I'm leveraging docker-compose on top of TrueNAS SCALE:
What I'm looking into at the moment:
What I'll be looking into in the near future:
How did you do Caddy on TrueNAS Scale? Docker-compose also? Im currently hosting a lot of stuff you are, but all with truecharts apps via docker. Ultimately used traefik this time, but I like the simplicity of the caddyfile a lot.
When I read through your post, it feels like you are me in 5 years if everything goes well.
I run everything on top of the docker-compose chart, which allows me much more flexibility that I would ever have with official TrueNAS apps and TrueCharts.
I see, thanks! Wanted to get my stuff up and running as quick as possible, but Ill be looking into doing things this way next.
I don't know how I haven't ever heard of n8n before but I finally was able to get my old ass mFi controller to be able to completely talk to Home Assistant again. Thank you!
Everything is running in containers on an Unraid server
With disks at idle/spun down, it consumes roughly 25W.
I have a very similar setup minus the iot and metric related services. I'm managing the services with Docker Compose on unRAID.
What's the reasoning behind using docker compose on unraid, instead of the built in docker implementation?
For a couple reasons
Store and version configs in git. I realize unRAID provides flash drive backup (using git also), but this allows me to spin up my setup on another machine that may not be running unRAID. Helped recently when I switched away from Proxmox.
Allows me to group services with their dependencies. ( e.g. postgres, redis, etc ) Also can help isolate service groups from each other. Avoiding port conflicts on common db ports for example. Downside being may have more than one database, redis, etc.
Note, there is an unRAID docker compose plugin so you can still get easy access management buttons to start, stop, view logs, and edit services.
Personally I use it for a couple services that would be difficult to run separately (ie: deemix + lidarr). I'm also planning on moving all of my services with databases over to compose. I do lose a couple other QOL features but I still prefer this approach to start/stop all related containers instead of manually having to close each one.
Can you elaborate on your host?
What exactly?
Here you go !
Took me to much time to make everything work perfectly together, but learned alot along the road ! Everything hosted on a old spare laptopt with docker containers.
Proxmox host. Fedora server vm.
The hardware is a 10 year old Thinkpad. I think it's pretty clear by my software list that I don't ask it to do much, but it does so much for me. Like, I wouldn't run Jellyfin off of this thing. In fact my NAS is 4x8TB drives but I keep it mostly shut off. It's powered on maybe about once or twice a week for a few hours at a time. I try to batch my activity with it. Like "oh, yeah, I want file X but it's on my NAS. Maybe later, when I have a need for file Y I will turn it on and retrieve both."
I can achieve everything I want with even lower spec hardware, but this Thinkpad has a faulty trackpad anyway, which is also how I got it for cheap. I have never measured it, but supposedly it consumes around 6W at idle which is low enough for me.
Plex, nzb/sonarr/lidarr/radar/, homeassistant, AD, vpn, teamspeak, lemmy, a blog, wifi controller, cert authority, Pi-hole, mail relay, all data/files etc, backups of email from workspace, zabbix for monitoring, miniflux, windows update cache, quicken server
Probably more.
Nice - what are you using to cache windows updates? LANcache?
Straight up wsus with a nightly script to keep it from fucking itself up.
AD and wsus? Do you need a paid license to run that?
My job pays for a visual studio dev kit that gets windows server keys. Though I may move to samba 4 And just drop wsus entirely
Running on a total of 5 fanless commercial grade sign PCs. That's why the motto of my websites is "this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign"
1x core 2 duo running Lemmy
2x atom d2550s running xmpp, matrix, lotide, searx, nostr, and invidious
2x core i5 4000 series running everything else
I try to run bare metal so I can stick my fingers into things.
Love keeping that old tech alive! My Core 2 Duo died a couple of years back, if I could figure out a way to leverage old mobile phones for some sort of project I would.
I've always called it 'ghetto IT' personally.
I'm not a huge fan of PC fans if I can help it, since I know they're one of the points of failure (and they're also loud)
I like the idea of using old smart phones too, I figure if you used something like a nexus 5x maybe you could pull it off with a powered USB-C hub?
My dream was to find a way to leverage them as poor man's IP camera or something ...one day...
I think there's already apps for that.
Just navidrome & the Synology suite (drive, photos, video)
I'm lazy 🫠
Lazy is good.. I try not to think about the time I've invested in this stuff
All running on Debian 11/12 physical hosts, VMs or VPS, deployed and managed through https://xsrv.readthedocs.io
I'm a noobie:
All running locally on a 2008 lenovo core 2 duo with 2gb, 1 120gb SSD, 1 1tb HDD and 1 250gb HDD...couldn't open the services to the web since my ISP blocks every port (except 52180 udp) even if I open them in the router sothey can change the double on a fixed IP withppen ports in their "enterprise" package
Try tailscale to access services outside of the network, works great for me
Proxmox host running on a Dell Inspiron laptop with a 6th gen i3 and 12GB RAM, 120GB SSD
Home Assistant runs in its own VM (HAOS), the rest run in a Ubuntu Server VM.
Some are used way more than others, but here is my list.
(Probably some underutilized app I'm forgetting)
All in docker containers on an Ubuntu NUC
EDIT - also got a dedicated pivpn (wireguard+pihole) on a pizero and time machine server + borg backup server on a pi4 running yunohost
(copied from an older comment)
I run basically all of the Arr stack, Plex (more friendly to my less tech savvy family then my preferred solution Jellyfin), HAss, Frigate NVR, Obsidian LiveSync, a few Minecraft worlds, Docspell, Tandoor recipes, gitea, Nextcloud, FoundryVTT, an internet radio station, syncthing, Wireguard, ntfy, calibre, searx, traefik, Wallabag, FreshRSS, Kopia, Navidrome, and a few pet projects.
And most importantly: as of recently I'm self-hosting Lemmy and Kbin instances for myself to try them out! Kbin was a pain to setup, but I seem to be liking it more.
It's all running on two Ryzen R7 1700 systems with 64GB of RAM in one and 48GB in the other (long story), and virtual disk storage is done over a 10Gb iSCSI link to a TrueNAS system with two 1TB SSDs in a RAIDz mirror. I've also got an unRAID NAS that hosts my video project files. Pretty smooth overall :D
TrueNas Scale (4820k, 64gb ddr3, 1x256gb sata ssd & 2x4tb hdd):
-> Plex (Looking to replace with something less.. commercialized)
-> EmulatorJS
-> OpenSpeedTest
-> DisqTV
-> Calibre (Looking for flashier alternative)
-> Nas storage + media storage
Windows Server w/CubeCoders AMP (xeon 1230v2, 32gb ddr3 ram, 256gb ssd)
-> Minecraft W/Mods
-> Satisfactory
Give Jellyfin a go!
Oooh I’m getting motivated by this post.
I tried Mastodon. Too resource intensive for little I use it.
Next up in my list to try:
If you still want something for Mastodon, maybe GoToSocial is worth a look. You will need a separate client, but it is very lightweight in my experience.
Thanks for the tip, I will give it a look.
lemmy mainly
Services that I'm experimenting with:
e-mail, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, koel (pretty good music server imo), Minecraft server for the homies, Grocy, CalDAV and CardDAV, Nextcloud and probably something else I forgot and can't look up right now
Nice, what's your email stack look like?
Postfix and cyrus, but I had to ask for help to set it up, so sooner or later I'll just move to mailcow :P
Mailcow for selfhosted email.
Look at Mr. Moneybags over here running Matrix Synapse on his Cray supercomputer! ;P
I don't really know what I'm doing so I'm currently banging my head against a wall trying to get nextcloud to work alongside a wordpress site both in docker, and this Lemmy is on a linode. I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that's for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.
Now that you've written this? Tonight. It'll happen tonight.
I feel this pain. Trying to figure out how to get my HomeAssistant docker install to talk to the rest of my network and HomeKit is driving me up a wall. Integrating things by IP address is not fun lol But I know so much more than when I started doing it!
Nothing too crazy. I use Proxmox on hardware that used to be a gaming rig (4th gen Intel) and I upped the RAM to 32GB.
Some of my “VMs” are actually LXCs but I can’t remember which are which at the moment.
Playing with ZFS was fun too, and it puts all that RAM to good use!
I’ve also been meaning to create a VM for Dokku, but I haven’t had a strong enough need yet.
On an OrangePi with a powered USB hub using a bunch of SSDs.
All except the Minecraft server running on Podman.
How's the support for the Orange Pi SBC?
As far as ARM SBCs go, I'd say B tier. Not as good as a RaspberryPi or RockPi but armbian installed great. Had a pain debugging the rockchip video decoder in a container, and still have issues with USB hard drives.
If you're coming from x86_64, be prepared for some unique challenges.
NextCloud
Discord bot (let's my friends update Valheim /satisfactory and reboot them etc etc)
Valheim server
Satisfactory server
BirdNet
MariaDB and flask for my Arduino / raspberry pi sensors (weather station and water temperature, particle sensor)
Tailscale for remote desktop
PiKVM
Might setup a Lemmy instance later.
I used to self host everything but nowadays I value my time too much so I have moved my data to google drive and back it up to a local hard disk periodically. Photos go to iCloud and google photos. iCloud is running my email domain (previously was google domains/gmail)
I still do run a Plex server with my shield tv pro but that’s mostly to access my TV tuner as I stream my media from google drive directly instead.
I just got tired of taking time away from my family to troubleshoot my services or just live with downtime. I did run a $5 linode to host things for awhile but eventually it just became more cost effective to just refactor things to run natively on various cloud services. I even just redesigned my personal website/blog to run on google sites
I still love to follow the self hosted community, someday I will take my data back just not right now.
I had you till you got to running your blog on google sites. Like not even blogger, but straight up google sites. As someone who tried using google sites for this purpose, I wrote one post and I was like, not doing it, it is too much.
Yeah google sites is not a great platform for a blog. I chose it for aesthetic reasons and not functionality for sure
Totally respect that, I question my sanity frequently
Home assistant
Plex
Jellyfin
Sonarr
Radarr
Prowlarr
Readarr
Organizr
Overseerr
SaBnzbd
Transmission
Calibre web
Homepage
Memos
Pwndrop
Picsur
Remotely
Youtube dl
Changedetection.io
Uptime Kuma
Kavita
Nginx
And a couple discord bots
Why run RockyLinux HV when everything is in a Debian VM anyway?
I just have Ubuntu server running docker on my old workstation which has plenty of RAM to spin up a production-sized workload just to play around.
I’ve setup these images up as Docker containers:
Just played around mostly, I haven’t scaled out any full infrastructure schemes yet, but that’s the plan for the workstation. Container and terraform testbed.
Container host started life as rocky, I honestly can't remember why I switched distros
The KVM host also hosts a bunch of other random stuff, Debian running on Rocky is just the tip of the junkpile
Nextcloud, Jellyfin, my own personal photography website, and a Valheim server, all done via docker-compose because I haven't spent the time to learn other container tech yet. I've been hearing a lot about podman, what are the benefits over docker for you?
Mainly selected podman for the security, it doesn't rely on a daemon and supported rootless containers before docker did. Easy to just come up with a pattern where you can minimise the risk of container breakout by having a user for each container stack to provide even more isolation. You can do the same with docker these days I think, each user just runs their own copy of the docker daemon. The aim of the project was to achieve 1:1 compatibility, I think it's pretty close these days. It's also native to the Redhat family so could avoid using the community edition of Docker.
Thanks! I'll check it out. I am in the process of building a new hosting machine (my old QNAP NAS died) so I think now's a good time as any to switch to a new container tech.
Docker is still what 95% of people think of when you talk containers and you may encounters issues, particularly running things rootlessly as it's not a use-case that developers necessarily support. Not to discourage you at all, experimentation is great, but be prepared for thorns. 👍
Jellyfin, Shinobi, and more recently NextCloud. Looking into Home Assistant and Paperless.
Shinobi's on a Pi4 and the Jellyfin/NC are on a mini PC.
Had never heard of Shinobi, looks interesting - are you using the
bear+elephanttensorflow object detection?No, I'm using it's FTP based triggers. Since most cameras can upload snapshots to FTP servers when there's motion, Shinobi has a feature to trigger motion with FTP.
I have plex with radaar, sonaar + nzb + vpn. Stuck a 10tb HD in my pc (ryzen 7 3700x + 2070s) for my plex library and just leave it running.
I’m not an IT guy so I am happy I’ve had it running flawlessly for 6ish months. Will probably upgrade to a dedicated NAS in a year or so.
Since I built my pc, I feel fairly comfortable with the idea of building a NAS from the ground up. I want to use one of those NVIDIA graphic cards that allow more than 4 1080p encodes (I think that’s what it’s called).
I’ve always been curious about the pihole… one day.
Outside of jellyfin & pihole, I have no idea what anything else is.
osTicket, Radarr, Sonarr, Bazarr, Plex, SABnzbd
File sharing / storage via SSH, Minecraft server.
At home I have a Dell Power edge tower running Yunohost. The apps on there are Nextcloud, Navidrome, Gotify and HomeAssistant. It reaches the internet via tunnel to a wireguard server on an Ubuntu vps. I also have another vps which hosts Jellyfin, qbittorrent and the *arrs. I set that up using swizzin community edition on Ubuntu.
That media setup took a long time and many iterations to get working smooth. I tried a few docker-based setups early on, but none of them were simple enough for me to understand. For the home server, I've never had a reason to look for alternatives. Yunohost is awesome.
Everything is running on a Synology NAS. Media lives on a 16TB raid array of HDD, and the containers themselves on a RAID 1 of two NVMe SSDs. This helps with spinning down the HDD when not in use and overall power consumption is very reasonable.
On the host:
Then everything in Docker containers, deployed via compose stacks from Git and Portainer, very easy to update! Also using Watchtower to automatically updates containers that are using the “latest” tag.
Radarr, Sonarr, Jellyfin, handmade image and video scraper, Firefly, Minecraft, Minetest, Factorio, and a handmade image/video browsing/tagging web app.
So far, a small amount. I just upgraded to my busted RPi to a refurb Optiplex 9020 and got brave enough to finally try out Docker 😂
I’ve got it on Tailscale along with my Synology NAS and the rest of my machines.
Love this community for all the ideas and guidance I get looking at other setups!
Pretty much anything I can. It's too much to type out, but my Homepage lists most of it minus any databases or reverse proxies. I also host a one person Lemmy instance. Everything but Lemmy is run on a 2013 gaming PC with Unraid.
https://imgur.com/a/OVntije
EDIT: After posting this, I'll probably end up selfhosting an imgur alternative too...
Hey, thanks for doing that! I, unfortunately, didn't think about people that would need to use screen readers or the like. Next time I'll wait until I'm at a computer to type it out.
Can you clarify some of the things you got stuck on with podman? I currently have a docker-compose based setup that I'm pretty happy with, but am rebuilding and am planning to experiment with podman play with k8s-style manifests as an alternative to compose. It's still not clear to me whether podman is going to simplify my life or make it worse compared to docker and compose, and I'm curious about your insights and why you backed off from that architecture.
Basically I ran into issues with building images from newer and more complex compose files that podman-compose just couldn't pull apart.
Docker is still the go-to if you want shit to 'just work', it has an easier user experience, it's what the vast majority of developers building containers are using. You can run rootless if you want without too much pain.
It has come a long way but the probability that you'll run into some random edge case or other issue with podman is higher, podman-compose has some thorns (high likelihood you'll need to hack on compose files), if you want containers to start without your interaction you have to bake up systemd unit files for them, etc. I've not messed with
podman-kube-play- wasn't even aware of it, so can't really comment as to how well that works.There's nothing to lose by giving it a go except your sanity and time. 😁
Thanks for the insights. I'll see how it goes.
I need to get on paperless ngx still.. Partner's trying out grocy too but it's not part of the club yet
the webpage you see in the pic is flame (also hosted)
Is there a noob breakdown somewhere of what each of those are?
Most are self explanatory if you google their names individually. If you need any specific explanations, just let me know I'll fill you in.
Haha. Said the hoader with tonnes of content he's never going to finish watching.
Only PiHole and Nextcloud
One thing I've not been able to find, unfortunately, is a good replacement for subsonic for my 1.5TB mp3 and FLAC collection.
Everything I've tried to host dockerized has just crawled.
But other than that, hosting mostly for nyswlf..
The typical arrs, subsonic, spotweb, pinhole, duckdns, caliber, calibre web, qbittorrent via a dockerized vpn client
All containerized
Airsonic has been rock solid for (just) me in docker behind npm on a 6yo celeron nuc
I was considering airsonic. How large is your music collection? That's what seems to kill every other self hosted service i tried
18,000 songs
Gotcha ok so that may be the difference. Right now I'm at..
4,843 artists 18,708 albums 235,303 songs 2254.59 GB 16,936 hours
And so media services that catalog and server that all seem to puke big time. Except for subsonic for some reason.
Wow I feel so small time
It's a result of lidarr just doing its own thing and me dropping new artists onto it every time I hear something I like, multiplied by a few years
Home Assistant (with Zigbee2MQTT)
Plex
Nextcloud
Bookstack
Paperless-ngx
CalibreWeb
Home box
Mealie
FreshRSS
Uptime Kuma
Healthchecks (used with borgbackup to keep track of whether my backups are working)
Grafana
Plus a bunch of other Apps I've forgotten about and a lot of the *arrs
Uhhhhh, I would need to shell into my host and check what isn't running...
I understand the Bitwarden not hosted yourself. I'm somewhat of a noob myself and wouldn't trust myself for it. But Nextcloud seems to me like it's not too big of an issue if it's down for a day or two. Do you often work with remote files? I am planing on just using Nextcloud for syncing which can wait.
All running on a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB. Also currently running Plex on a separate Rasperry Pi with a external SSD, but looking into getting a Synology NAS.
As someone who's used Podman for a while, though possibly not as extensively as you, what was it you hit that needed Docker? So far I've gotten everything to work with Podman, though sometimes I've had to RTFM and specify some extra command line parameters.
I've never used podman but always wondered if it was able to use the host's network stack to perform things like sending ICMP packets.
Thank you for your service
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