I have vaultwarden, navidrome, uptime kuma (on a vps, because it doesn't make sense to host it on my pi, because if it goes down, I'm not gonna know), pihole (though it's not currently working with Mullvad), dokuwiki, freshrss, searxng, ntfy, and tugtainer (replacement for watchtower since that's now abandoned).
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Late to the party and after reading through some of these setups I may have to expand mine soon (it never ends does it?), here is what I have right now.
Unraid (Dell R720XD, dual Xeon E5-2670 v2, 64GB RAM, 12 x 6TB in 12 disk array with 2 parity disks, 800GB SSD cache pool)
-NextCloud
-Plex
-Emby
-Gitea
-Backrest
-MariaDB
-Netbootxyz
-Trillium
-Traccar
-Vaultwarden
-Adguard-Home
-Unifi
-Homebox
-Nessus
-Headscale
-Collabora
-*arrs
-Jupterlab
-Mealie
-SearXNG
-IT-Tools
-EmulatorJS
-Youtube-DL-Material
Proxmox (old Intel server S2600WT2, dual Xeon E5-2620 V2, 768GB RAM, 5 x 2TB disks):
-Zap2XML
-Immich
-Mumble
-NextPVR
-Stirling-PDF
-WebTop
-Frigate
-MCServer (gameserver)
-SDTDServer (gameserver)
-SFServer (gameserver)
There are some other things floating around in my homelab that aren't really 'selfhosted' things, just important to the home network:
3 HP Microserver Gen8's
-x1 with ESXi hosting pfSense
-x2 with TrueNas Scale for backups
R610 with ESXi for a few remote desktops and Home Assistant (which I'm sure I'll move to docker at some point).
backrest
headscale
emulatorjs
it-tools
webtop
...
Oooohhh... some really interesting and new-to-me apps in your list! Thanks for sharing.
- jellyfin and Plex (in the process of migrating)
- radarr/sonarr
- jackett and deluge
- nextcloud
I've had new hardware in the basement now for a while, going to slap it together and build a k8s cluster on top of rancher/harvester
Which way are you migrating?
I migrated from Plex to jellyfin.
I tried it out when I couldn't get HEVC files to steam on Plex, and i liked it!
It doesn't have the full ecosystem around it that Plex does, but that's fine by me.
Please make a blog post about your migration. I'm in the same boat.
I'm hosting Trillium Note for my personal note taking.
Main Server - 37 Containers, 4 VMs
- Media: Plex, Audiobookshelf, along with everything for a complete *arr stack
- Network: Cloudflared, NginxProxyManager, Tailscale, Gluetun (for *arrs)
- Other: Authelia, OpenVSCode, Filebrowser, SFTPGo, Bitcoin Node to support the network
- VMs: Parrot, Windows 11 for local and remote gaming, Windows 3.11 (because why not), currently spun up myNode to see if I want to explore hosting a Bitcoin Ligtning Node
Smarthome Server - OptiPlex 3050
- Containers: mqtt, NodeRed, zigbee2mqtt, homebridge, tailscale, pihole (paired with my phone usually)
- VM: HomeAssistant
Testing Server - OptiPlex 7060
Lately been testing and making stuff using linuxserver/docker-baseimage-kasmvnc.
- Arduino-IDE running in a container - with USB hotswap.
- Featherwallet and Electrumwallet (I use a HW-Wallet for HODL).
- Lutris, got it working with Hearthstone, but didn't really have a use for it.
- Nomachine in kasmvnc, to (somewhat) smoothly access my VMs through the webbrowser when I just need something fast.
Linuxserver Firefox.
XMR Mining Server - Old tired HP SFF
Basicly everything from this guide by seth for privacy; monerod, p2pool, tor, watchtower, and a python-webserver to expose metrics/api.
I'm running a Kubernetes cluster on the Dell hardware, then another single node k8s cluster on the Lenovo, mostly to run Adguard home / DNS in case the big cluster goes down for whatever reason.
Hardware:
- Two Dell r610s, each with 12 cores and 96 GB of RAM, running ESXi 6.7
- Lenovo M900, 4 core, 16 GB RAM, Ubuntu and k3s
- Synology 1515 with 12 TB usable
- Synology 1517 with 32 TB usable
- Juniper SRX 220H (Firewall)
- Juniper EX 2200 48 port switch
- UnFi in-wall WiFi APs
I run the following services, all in Kubernetes, with FluxCD doing GitOps from a repo in GitHub (for now, might move to Gitea later):
- Authentik
- Bookstack
- Calibre
- Flame (Homepage)
- Frigate NVR
- Home Assistant
- Memos
- Monica
- Plex
- Prowlarr
- Radarr
- Rocket Chat
- Sonarr
- Tandoor
- Tautulli
- Unifi
- UptimeKuma
- VS Code
- Zigbee2MQTT
What are the benefits of Kubernetes in a home server?
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
Greetings!
Not really self hosting a lot right now, but I've been spending a lot of time reengineering my network and fixing some things. Recently retired my loud and power-hungry pfsense server, replacing it with a Mikrotik rb5009, so setting that up has been a steep learning curve.
Most things are running on my Synology DS920+, except for a few raspberry pis.
- Jellyfin (docker)
- Kavita (docker)
- Home Assistant (pi4)
- Paperless-ngx (docker)
- ~~PiHole (pi zero)~~ currently broken
- Unifi controller (docker)
- Grafana (home assistant)
- InfluxDB (docker)
- LibreNMS (VM)
Using LXD:
- ddclient
- Jellyfin (2)
- Minecraft (proxy + 4 servers)
- Satisfactory server
- V Rising
- Gitea vcs
- wordpress
- rtorrent
- other web servers
Using rootless Podman + Systemd service:
- Vaultwarden
- Linkding
- Traefik
- Immich photo backup
- Nextcloud (though I hate it, probably will stop)
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Prowlarr/Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr/Bazarr/Recyclarr
- Rtorrent + Flood
- Jellyseerr
- Navidrome (Subsonic server)
- Miniflux (RSS)
- Woodpecker (CI integration for Gitea)
- Tubearchivist (yt-dl)
- wg-easy (wireguard)
- searxng
All services are split across 2 DIY servers (in towers). 15TB of media stored on HDD with btrfs duplicated across both servers. One server host is Alpine Linux, the other is Opensuse MicroOS. LXD containers usually are Debian 12 or Alpine. I'm beginning to migrate some things to a cluster of (12) raspberry pi 3s. Unsure what to choose for rpi's, maybe, Fedora CoreOS (ublue), although Alpine does work extremely well on them (once you get them set up with it).
+ router running fresh tomato :)
Also mailcow for email, on a VPS, although I need to switch to a new provider, having difficulty with delivery using Linode and OVHCloud.
home assistant, freshrss (and a few related services such as rss-bridge), nitter and piped. I tried to host libregrammar, but ran out of memory.
I have a MediaWiki instance on my laptop (I've found the features of all other wikis/mindmaps/knowledge databases decisively insufficient after having a taste of MW templates, Semantic MediaWiki and Scribunto).
Also some smaller things like pihole-standalone, Jellyfin and dictd.
Curious what you use a local version of MediaWiki for?
I run a bunch of bots, some databases plus
- Jellyfin
- Unifi controller
- Radar
- Sonarr
- Lidarr
- Bazarr
- nzbhydra2
- Sabnzbd
- Heimdall
- Twitch points miner 2
I don't selfhost very much compared to other people and my hardware's pretty much either all literally found in the garbage or 2nd hand, but here it is
PiHole
WireGuard server that passes trough pihole adblocking
Homarr (lol)
Deluge
The system is mostly a NAS that I also run the occasinal general purpose VM off of, here are the specs for the 3 ppl that care:
CPU: AMD FX-8320E
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 5x2TB Seagate something something 7200RPM in RAIDz1, 128 GB random chinese SSD (mostly for VMs and apps) the, OS runs off of a flash drive
OS: TrueNAS scale
I've been working on expanding my homelab recently. I have a physical box at home serving as an LXC host along with a few VPSes. I'm now up to:
- Some static web sites
- Nextcloud
- Jellyfin
- Forgejo
- NTFY
- A reverse proxy
- An IRC server
- A Gemini server
- A VPN
- DNS servers
I think I read an old blog post once that said "Servers tend to multiply like rabbits" and it's 100% true.
Currently I play around with a Raspi 4 8GB with docker-compose. Most services are accessible with VPN only:
Caddy (as easy reverse proxy)
Portainer (container dashboard)
Linkding (bookmarks)
Baikal (calendar, todo list to sync with Android by caldav)
Agendav (web calendar frontend)
Dillinger (browser markdown editor with PDF export)
Trilium (note app)
Syncthing (google drive/onedrive alternative)
Seafile (file sharing)
Jellyfin (media server)
Starting to fall down the rabbit hole of self hosting,
Unraid, Plex & Pihole. Next project is Opnsense, then starting to look at Home Assistant.
Hi
I started self hosting 3 years ago when I got wind of tailscale. I've always cared about privacy and building things so that was great.
My infrastructure consists of two machines.
One - my personal and work server A deskmini i3 12th gen
256GB Boot drive 4TB NVME data drive
-photoprism -syncthing -nextcloud -Firefox+VPN -archivebox
Two - my media server that I let 6ish other people access - PC tower i3 12th gen
512GB Boot and docker config file drive 4*4TB HDD mergerfs for raw data
-jellyfin -*arr suite -gluetun VPN -audiobookshelf (also for auto downloading podcasts) -calibre-web
I have a 800W solar panel and some home automatization at home. Therefor, I use MQTT & NodeRED.
- Adguard
- Authelia (authentication for my services)
- Dashy (I've become lazy collecting my own bookmarks)
- Gotify (receive notifications on my mobile from NodeRED)
- Grafana
- Influxdb
- Jellyfin
- Mariadb
- Nextcloud
- NodeRED
- phpMyAdmin
- Portainer
- Remmina
- sshwifty
- Swag (Nginx and more)
- ubooquity (ebooks)
- Wallabag (Bookmark collection)
- Wordpress (want to try)
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 have a few things going on. I've been blogging some of my notes on how I'm getting some things going in Docker. But I only relatively recently started sharing my notes so there's not a ton yet. Hopefully there's something useful for someone here. https://magnus919.com/tags/selfhosting/
Pangolin!
I just started months ago, but I have a yunohost server ona raspberry with nextcloud and forgejo on it :)