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What are your must-have selfhosted services? (lemmy.world)
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Always enjoyed scrolling though these posts, figured I'd give it a go here:

What are your must-have selfhosted services?

Some of mine:

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[–] pdavis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After looking at other's lists I think I am missing a good document server. Emby isn't the best music and photo server so I could look at improving that, but it has been good enough for those purposes that I haven't felt like going to the trouble of installing anything else.

  • Aster: Multiseat software for Windows allows several users to work on the same PC.
  • LaunchBox: Frontend for DOSBox, modern PC games and emulated console platforms.
  • Blue Iris: Video security and webcam software
  • Calibre: E-Book management and server
  • Emby: Server for videos, music, audio books, and photos.
  • Firewalla: VPN server, internet monitor and control
  • Foundary Virtual Tabletop: Online role-playing game server.
  • Grafana: Dashboard interface
  • Hubitat: Home automation
  • Hyper-V Manager: Tool that allows users to manage Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines (VMs)
  • InfluxDB: Real-time database server.
  • IotaWatt: Open WiFi electric power monitor
  • Microsoft SQL Server: Database Server
  • Octoprint: Web interface for 3D printers.
  • PCem: Emulator for various old 8086 through Pentium PCs.
  • SmartSync Pro: File sync program
  • SnapRaid: Backup program for disk arrays.
  • Stablebit DrivePool/Scanner: Disk pooling, file duplication, protection, disk surface scanner, and disk health monitoring
  • Steam Link: Access and play steam games remotely
[–] Lena@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for taking the time to link everything and formatting the post

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Didn't see Paperless in these comments yet. Great way to never again search for documents, bills, receipts, warranties, manuals, etc cetera ad nauseam.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

According to my continued survival on the planet, none.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my favorites is Whoogle, a simple Google search proxy. It accepts search requests and forwards them to Google anonymously, then strips out the AMP links and tracking. There's even an option for it to use Tor so your IP address changes frequently.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whoogle vs SearXng in your experience?

[–] yamdwich@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I used both, I ended up settling on searxng because Whoogle seemed to be unable to retain my settings. Might be something with my cookie configuration, but searxng has no problem remembering my preferences. If that is not a problem for you then they are comparable; Whoogle is pretty simple to get going and works well, searxng is slightly more complicated to set up (but not that much with docker) but has a ton more features.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HA Home Assistant automation software
~ High Availability
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex Brand of media server package
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSO Single Sign-On
VPN Virtual Private Network
nginx Popular HTTP server

11 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Syncthing - No introduction needed. Couldn't live without it.

Healthchecks.io (you can self host this) - Dead man's switch monitoring for all my automation. Most of my automated scripts hit up a Healthchecks endpoint when they run, and if they fail to hit the endpoint on a regular schedule I get notified. Mandatory for my anxiety.

[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Immich for photos (the only proper Google photos alternative) Nextcloud for storing documents and photos (read by immich). Jellyfin to replace Plex.

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last time I checked, I had >30 containers running. 🙆

[–] johntash@eviltoast.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you like any of them more than others?

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

I respect all of them equally