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!
Monitoring. Try out Prometheus/InfluxDB and Grafana, throw Loki in there too… It’ll keep you busy for a few days to a week at least.
I did all of that and I just use Netdata now.
Decided to just start with Netdata. Looks interesting! Got it running on my server and desktop.
Wise move, all the default alerts that came preconfigured are such a timesaver. I realise what I needed was alerts and not really visualization.
Right. And it looks so similar to datadog which I already use at work.
PiHole or AdGuard Home, rutorrent, GitLab.
There was a point I had a minimum of one service from each category of the awesome-selfhosted repo. I’ve since scaled down to a more minimal approach, but still enjoy looking for new services to try out.
Monitoring is one that’s interesting, graphs can be fun to look at though, so Grafana for that, and it’s fun for family to see, even if they don’t exactly know what it means, lines and charts are pretty.
I have since setup most of my monitoring to only alert if there is something that is unusual or outside of some threshold. Previously I had it alert me when a process or script had finished, however it was too noisy, and instead now it checks to make sure the script succeeded and if it didn’t to alert me.
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 PiHole
Ooh, 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).
As someone else already said, automated backups should be up on the priority list.
But also maybe try out self hosting Lemmy. It’s been a fun little journey and helped me flesh out my Caddy config more than I thought possible.
Interesting. I did self host Lemmy once a few months ago but that was when I was using cloudflare. Maybe this would be a good way to learn more about Caddyfile and tricks.
I’ve been running it behind Cloudflare with no issues. I’m also doing it a completely different way than the official docs and the ubergeek method. Mostly because I have a particular way I do my docker stuff.
Every time something has broken it’s been 100% on me. My favorite way to learn is by breaking things though, so I also have an account on a different instance in case I break mine and have to wait a bit to fix it 😅
Oh yeah 100% I had no problems with the cloudflare tunnel or anything. I just didn’t know much about Lemmy at the time and was having issues federating and that was an older version. I’m definitely going to look into hosting one again for me and my friends and probably mastodon too !
I would love to self host more but I feel like I don’t have the proper hardware to back it up and I feel like it would take a lot of my free time to manage it properly.
I use my old gaming computer, before that I used a raspberry pi. The Pi is sufficient for a lot of things.
Managing the dockers doesn’t take that much effort. Setting things up did take a lot of time, in many small chunks. I never use the :latest tag, and do manual updates. This way things rarely breaks
I also use my old gaming computer! Makes a perfect home server.
Agreed! It has been solid. Though sometimes I want something smaller 🫣 But with room for disks😅
My stuff is hosted on an Intel NUC celeron, an rpi4 and an rpi zero. You don’t need beefy hardware.
I’ve been selfhosting for almost a year, and I’m still on the lookout for anything I can host.
I’ve reached a point where if I don’t have a use for something, i’ll still try to make an unraid template if there isn’t one. Just to install it and try it out. Lol
I need to look into unraid. I always hear people talking about it but haven’t really looked into it.
Host a containerized Bitwarden instance.
I’ve considered this. Since I use it. I always read how people say that’s the one thing they rather leave to the pros lol
I disagree, you’ll have your backups, so even if everything breaks you will have a failsafe. If you get compromised it’s still not an issue: Everything server side is encrypted, the safety is in the clients and your master password length.
So, I see no particular differences with other services. Considering I hear of some issues with bitwarden servers that are constantly under attack, selfhosting could even increase the availability.
Yeah that’s a good point. I don’t see why not. Thanks I’ll probably give it a shot.
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I got it working in my local Kubernetes cluster, by writing all the yml files myself. Then realized someone built a Helm chart for it, which is much easier to maintain. The hardest part was generating the TLS cert.
In no specific order
goaccess-for-nginxproxymanager
filebrowser
smokeping
searxng
duplicati
whoogle
nginx-proxy-manager
flaresolverr
linkding
ntfy
librex
shlink
portainer
speedtest-tracker
pihole
unbound
wg-easy
bookstack
memos
epicgames-freegames
mind-reminders
teddit
vikunja
uptime-kuma
Bloben
stash
jackett
gluetun
prowlarr
mstream
jellyseerr
sonarr
nextcloud
qbittorrentvpn
komga
bazarr
duplicati
Tube-archivist
homepage
radarr
picoshare
audiobookshelf
lychee
scrutiny
youtubedl-material
deemix
Jellyfin
Invidious
Wefwef
Serge
Your own Lemmy instance.
Observability stack?
Start automating your backups / maintenance and orchestrate deployments …
Any guides/resources on how to get started on that? I have backups and could probably get my stuff up and running after some tinkering but I love the idea of some script I can just run on a fresh environment that would bring all my containers up and restore all the data.
My backups are automated via cron jobs and rsync both on and off site. Deployments / maintenance are also partially automated via docker compose files and cron jobs to identify issues with mounts or something and fix and restart.
Any other ideas ?
Borg backup for deduplicated backups
Also if you’re running out of ideas on what to do, try to Nixify it. Install NixOS, learn modules, maybe make some modules yourself. Fun journey.
I’m currently using Authelia, but would like to see what Authentik provides. The last time I tried it, I remember circling through multiple sections in the web app to add authentication and bypass certain endpoints.
Also, it was considerably heavy compared to Authelia. Still, I would like to give it a chance again to see what I’m missing.
Yeah I haven’t tried authelia yet. I saw a lot of people talking good about authentik so decided to try it and I like it ! Yeah you have to set up both a provider and app which I believe is different but it’s easy!
Maybe try alternatives to things you run and see if there is a better thing
That is a good idea ! I meant to do this but forgot lol