Either self-hosted or cloud, I assume many of you keep a server around for personal things. And I’m curious about the cool stuff you’ve got running on your personal servers.
What services do you host? Any unique stuff? Do you interact with it through ssh, termux, web server?
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I started to answer your question with a list of stuff and then deleted the lot and started again:
What are you really after? Do you fancy a challenge or what?
I’ve got servers all over the place. A sample of what I have running on all of them:
- YaCy
- SearxNG
- Kodi
- Shaarli
- Huginn
- Part-DB-server
- Bookstack
- Cyberchef
- Efflux
Pi-hole on an ancient pi zero w.
I’ve got a little MSI box with 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD, and a quad core i3 running Proxmox. Home Assistant is in its own VM, I have a VM for a bastion host/jump box of sorts for a client’s network (yes, I know VPNs exist), and then a VM running a few Docker containers: CheckMK, Dozzle, Uptime Kuma, and The TP-Link Omada Controller software. I intend to migrate those to Podman eventually.
On my desktop in Podman, I’m running Dashy, Redlib, and Dozzle regularly. Sometimes I run other services but those are pretty persistent. I use Podman on my local machine for my development work and it’s just handy to have Redlib and Dashy right here.
I tend to interact with things via SSH unless it’s a webshit.
@[email protected] my home one runs:
- Nginix PM
- DuckDNS
- Glances
- Home Assistant
- Jellyfin
- AdGuard Home
- Syncthing
- Paperless-Ngx with Tika and Gotenberg
- OpenMediaVault
- Heimdall
I’ve been running my own nextcloud for around a decade now. I use it for my calendar, contacts, and file storage. It’s basically replaced all the google services for me, and has been effectively zero maintenance. It just works.
Multiple hosts. Win2024/hyperv and proxmox
- domain/dns/dhcp/ncp 2x
- pihole
- iobroker (smarthome)
- sonarr/radarr/orowlarr
- emby
- sabnzbd
- vpn-vm for torrent/soulseek
- searxng
- dav for calendar
- caddy (for emby/dav from outside)
- firefly (banking)
And some minor, less important ones.
All backup to a central server, which does a daily backup of the backup onto another nas. In case of emergency,just grab nas.
I settled on a Fujitsu Q920 with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. Runs FreeBSD 14.1 and each service has its own Jail.
Services:
DNSmasq - local DNS and adblocker Wireguard Navidrome MPD - Media server Vaultwarden - password save Radicale - cardav and caldav server TinyRSS - RSS aggregator Zabbix - server and service monitoring Postgresql Gitea - git repository Emby - jellyfin alternative Mariadb Bhyve VM with Debian running 2 apps (invoiceplane and leantime) which use a quite old php version and I never had time to port to Freebsd.
A second machine that starts daily and creates a backup of machine 1 by using ZFS autobackup.
Nothing fancy but it does what I need.
Some vegetables
I managed to install Nextcloud (not the docker) and I called it a success since I find nginx, ports, firewalls and port forwarding a meta headache.
Half a dozen WordPress sites
NUC 8i5, 32GB, 500GB NVMe (host), 8TB SSD (data), Akasa Turing fanless case, running Proxmox:
- samba
- syncthing
- pihole
- radicale
- jellyfin
- minidnla
I also have a Pi 4 running LibreElec for Kodi on the home theater. Nothing fancy yet and it more than meets our current needs. Most maintenance done over SSH.
Would like to eventually get a proper web and email server going (yes, I know).
For local use only I use Docker Rootless hosting:
- SearXNG (with some modifications, like not using Redis nor Caddy)
- FreshRSS
- Jellyfin (for my small collection of series and movies)
- Gotify
- Stirling-PDF
- PiHole (more as an experiment, rather than looking for a complete DNS solution since I can’t change my router’s DNS)
- Paperless-NGX (I don’t use it much, it’s more as an experiment)
- Homer
- DokuWiki
I’ve found problems using Docker Rootless and Tumbleweed as my server’s OS, since some configurations are different and some containers don’t even work, but I’ve also learned a lot :)
What do you use as a replacement for Caddy and Redis?
Nothing for Redis since it’s optional and I had problems running SearXNG with it. For Caddy, I forgot to mention that I use Nginx-Proxy-Manager as my reverse proxy for HTTPS hehe
I can’t change my router’s DNS
Do you mean you can’t change the DNS server in the DHCP settings or the server the router itself uses? In the first case you might be able to use Pi-Hole’s DHCP server instead, while for the latter it shouldn’t be an issue - I actually usually leave upstream servers configured there to avoid loops. BTW, you might also be able to flash OpenWRT to your router
You could turn off the DHCP server on your router and let your server handle it. You can then tell your clients to use Pi hole via the DHCP running on your server
This might be a better question for !selfhosted
Homework worth of TBs
truenas: plex/jellyfin, *arr stack
working on another (debian) machine to run nextcloud and immich, plan is to have a failover. Redundant machine would ideally be wake on LAN to save power. I already have commodity hardware for these two identical machines, otherwise I’d probably just go for a more robust single machine.
Mikrotik routerboard out front providing wireguard for one subnet. pi4 providing pihole on the wireguard subnet. This is a new router and I’m very happy with it. This coming weekend the goal is to correctly implement mangle rules (policy based routing) to combine my two WAN connections seamlessly.
So very standard setup for selfhosting with the exception of two ISPs
truenas is easiest to manage through the web service, debian ssh and VNC, mikrotik’s WInBox is just amazing, but it’s also the first “grown up” router software I’ve ever used. It’s so much better than managing PF through a ssh session.
