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Hello everyone! I'm kinda curious about the services you self-host, and I would love to see what do y'all use!

I'll start, and list the services I self-host:

My list

  • Immich (bye Google photos)
  • Open WebUI (web interface for llms)
  • Fireshare (clips hosting and sharing)
  • Home Assistant
  • FMD Server (find my device alternative)
  • YourSpotify (spotify tracker)
  • Kener (uptime monitoring)
  • AdGuard Home
  • SearXNG

Thanks for reading, and thanks to anyone who participate!

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[โ€“] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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

Fewer Letters More Letters
AP WiFi Access Point
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
ISP Internet Service Provider
LVM (Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV)
PIA Private Internet Access brand of VPN
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex Brand of media server package
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
Unifi Ubiquiti WiFi hardware brand
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
k8s Kubernetes container management package
nginx Popular HTTP server

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[โ€“] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

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Nice