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[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago
backrest
headscale
emulatorjs
it-tools
webtop
...

Oooohhh... some really interesting and new-to-me apps in your list! Thanks for sharing.

[–] ___@l.djw.li 2 points 10 months ago

Presently, my Fediverse presence is mostly self-hosted by one definition or another. This Lemmy instance lives on my server, and my Masto is hosted by a company dedicated to exactly that because it's dirty cheap and one fewer thing for me to worry about.

Looking to add to the list.

[–] arp@lemmy.studio 2 points 2 years ago

Nothing too grand - a couple Discord bots and a few retro shooter servers in the cloud, and also a Raspberry Pi 4 in the living room which serves nicely as a media center and seed box.

[–] Mchl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hello

Let's have a look at the inventory

  • RPI 4B

    • OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)
  • HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i5-6500T, 8GiB RAM - this one is currently the mainstay of my lab, running containers with docker-compose

    • Nginx as reverse proxy (+ fail2ban)
    • Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
    • Jellyfin
    • Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
    • ddclient
    • Heimdall
  • Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro i7-8700T 32GiB RAM

    • I've gotten this one fairly recently. A real bargain - costed as much as the CPU alone and was in pristine condition. I will be migrating the workload from EliteDesk to this one. I decided to try ProxMox this time though, so I need to learn a bit first. Also perhaps add a second SSD
[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

My biggest issue with Dell is the inability to upgrade the power supply 😭

[–] blotz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
  • Mail server
  • Bitwarden (vaultwarden)
  • Git server (apache + basic git server. no git frontend)

All on dedicated cloud servers for simplicity and security.

Im looking at selfhostihng on my own hardware again. Im considering the following

  • lemmy instance
  • proxmox with gpu
  • Some sort of production database
[–] lemons@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I have Vaultwarden running on an old laptop, so I definitely don't have much going on. Reading through these comments gives me plenty of ideas on what else to run though!

[–] freddy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I use proxmox on my server. I virtualize opnsense (with adguard and wireguard), jellyfin, unifi, home assistant, and syncthing.

I have a synology ds220j w/ 2x10tb

Hardware: Intel 12100, 32gb ram, i350-t4 network card TP link TL-SG108E switch

I'm going to move opnsense to a dedicated box eventually

[–] bruj0@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I self-host in a rented server. I wrote about my adventures here: https://github.com/bruj0/ProxmoxIPv6

[–] CodeFlinger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] mosjek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Hardware:

  • CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695v4
  • RAM: 256GB ECC
  • Storage: 4x256GB Enterprise SSD, 4x2TB SSD (ZFS Striped Mirror)

Software:

  • pfSense
  • Proxmox
  • k3s with Flux and Longhorn
  • Gitea
  • Woodpecker
  • UniFi
  • FreshRSS
  • Grafana / Loki
  • Ntfy
  • Paperless-ngx
  • Vaultwarden
  • Minio
  • Syncthing

I purchased the server used. The services are mostly running in a virtualized cluster, which is absolutely oversized for the current tasks. However, it has motivated me to learn Kubernetes and the power consumption is within my limits.

[–] mrclark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

First post in the world of Lemmy! Woot! Another Reddit escapee. I can't for the life of me understand the management team at Reddit. I get that they need to make money and that they're pissed off at the AI guys for pilfering their data but the people who contribute to the subreddits and moderate them for free are why Reddit is such a success. Why would you screw them over? It's so short sited. If you're pissed at OpenAI then talk to them and figure out how they can pay for your API access but don't screw the people that made you a success. They can afford to spend a little of the VC/Microsoft money. Okay...off the soap box now.....

Up until very recently I was running all my services on a HP DL380 Gen9 server. Beautiful server but sucks back electricity like a drunk on New Years Eve and is way too noisy for my office. Purchased 4 different Tiny PCs (3 Lenovos and 1 Dell).

One Lenovo (AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200GE with 32GB RAM) is running RockyLinux with Docker with 20+ containers currently running.

  • "Sweden Services" - SABnzbd, Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr
  • Tools - IT-Tools, Pairdrop, CyberChef and Paperless NGX
  • Homelab services - Portainer, Dozzle and Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Info - FreshRSS
  • Media - Plex, Audiobookshelf and Navidrome

I'm constantly playing with different containers - adding, removing, etc. I did try making the switch to Podman as I like the idea of rootless containers but could not for the life of me get things like NFS shares and Portainer integration working and was spending way too much time fighting with it. Will probably try again in the near future.

Then the other 3 Tiny PCs are running XCP-NG with various VMs including my Xen Orchestra, Kali, a couple Windows machines (usually off), Tailscale gateway box and a few others. Again, mostly for testing things out.

Using OpnSense as my firewall. Have a TrueNAS system sharing files and another small Rockstor NAS also.

Looking forward to the community here. Thanks.

[–] athenionn@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Currently self-hosting a pi-hole instance, an nfs/smb server & a LAN-only webserver, as well as 24/7 syncthing (to which I automatically send my phone's photos to)

My specs are:

Intel Atom N270 (1 core, 2 threads) 1Gb DDR2 Ram (God knows the frequency but it's slow.) And a 500gb HDD

You really don't need a lot of oomph to self host! I'm planning on running a qBitTorrent webui next.

[–] root@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I have a (beefy specd) Intel NUC that's running Proxmox. A few of the VMs mount to my RS1221+ for things like media (Jellyfin), etc.

On Proxmox I run

  • Jellyfin (media server)
  • Home Assistant (home automation)
  • PiHole (DNS)
  • Ansible (For keeping everything up to date and applying bulk actions)
  • NGINX Proxy Manager (so I can access things locally with a nice URL)
  • VM to host my Discord bots
  • Whoogle (Search engine)
  • AMP game server

Probably missing a few, but that's the jist

[–] RobotDaniel@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I host a nextcloud sever (snap) and a minecraft server on a laptop I no longer use

[–] Zookeeper@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I just started months ago, but I have a yunohost server ona raspberry with nextcloud and forgejo on it :)

[–] ronflex@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I run one main hypervisor with a bunch of different Ubuntu server VMs that I spin up as I mess with different things. I'm old-school so I am not a fan of cloud computing or even docker. Services I host that I use the most are NAS (samba), plex, pi-hole, dokuwiki (huge documentation nerd), and zoneminder which is a great open-source security cam software.

[–] Teng@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have some massive server home or using VPS/VDS?

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know it's been 2 months but I just stumbled upon your question.

Here's what my massive home server looks like. : )

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[–] easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Raspberry 4 No.1 (HassOS)

  • Home Assistant - smart home management
  • HA extension Vaultwarden

Raspberry 4 No.2 (Ubuntu LTS)

  • Pi-Hole - network ad filter
  • Navidrome - music library
  • Beets - music tagging
  • Lidarr/Deluge/Hydra/Jackett - music collection, downloading
  • Baikal - CalDAV & CardDAV
  • Nginx - Reverse-proxy
  • Filebrowser
  • Vaultwarden - Backup of HA extension
  • Raneto - Knowledge base
  • Pyload - Download manager

Fileserver custom built (Ubuntu LTS, local only):

  • Sonarr - Series management
  • PostgreSQL - Data management for Kodi/MPD
  • Snapserver
  • Mopidy

Raspberry 4 No.3 (Raspian, local only)

  • Kodi

All services dockerized but Kodi.

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[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got

  • A RAID NAS for general
  • A Firefly-iii instance for expense analysis and stuff
  • And MQTT broker for my ESP32 projects
  • A webdav server for calendar and address book syncing and general file syncing for some things like joplin

There are probably other things that I don't remember right now.

In terms of hardware I got a 6 core AMD 5600X machine with a 5700XT GPU and 16GB of ram for almost all my services and personal use.

I also have an AMD 3600 machine with 3x8TB harddrives for network storage.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hi, could you tell me the kinds of IoT projects you dabble in? I have always wanted to use the ESP32 and other microcontrollers and build something useful but I can't really find any ideas/lack technical expertise. Would be great to know what you're working on/the projects you have built and what they are used for.

Thanks!

[–] spookedbyroaches@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

There's an existing project made by a youtuber called Dave Plummer. He made a project that controls a strip light using the FastLED library where he made several effects here. You can fork or straight up copy his project. There is also the MQTT library where you can communicate withyoutr ESP32 in a very simple and mature protocol so you can do some crazy things there, like controlling a solid state relay for lights or something.

[–] tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Hyunta@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for all for sharing 🀩 I still havent determine if I'm going self hosting at home or with a VPS, but I discovered cool projects!

[–] I_am_the_Carl@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I run everything I can out of containers. It makes remembering all the changes I made easy, and reverting them even easier. My hardware is a generic PC in my closet.

I'm running:

  • Jelly Fin
  • Transmission Torrent
  • Next Cloud (I have mounted Jellyfin and Torrent's volumes within the Next Cloud instance so I can access them from there, very convenient)
  • Home Assistant
  • Wire Guard
  • A printer daemon so my old printer from 2008 can do wifi printing (I refuse to upgrade)
  • A scanner daemon so I can wifi scan too (scanservjs)
  • A tool to expose my UPS as a battery Home Assistant can monitor
  • Traefik (big pain but great payoff)
  • Watch Tower to keep the public facing stuff automatically updated
  • Automatic Ripping Machine which... is almost good but I'm generally disappointed with. It's still worth using though.
  • ESPHome which lets me make my own smart home devices with ESP family microcontrollers. I've made my own smart window blinds and smartified an air conditioner.
  • Minecraft/Factorio depending on the mood of my friends and I.

But that's not all, I also installed OpenWRT on my router, more out of necessity because it didn't have features my ISP required. That's running:

  • ... actually everything else about it is pretty standard.

I have a Raspberry Pi running OctoPrint for a 3D printer in the corner. I would have preferred to have ran that on my server to save on power and save a Raspberry Pi but I don't have a long enough USB cable.

[–] ProfessionalHandJob@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

currently, I selfhost https://beyondcombustion.net and now https://lemmy.beyondcombustion.net for /r/vaporents and hopefully others. There's other stuff I self host too, this is the fun new stuff though.

[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm glad to see vaporents coming here. Is this an official migration or enthusiastic former redditors?

[–] ProfessionalHandJob@lemmy.beyondcombustion.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As official as it gets lol.

I'm one of the mods, have a stickied post on this with a link at the end. Just haven't made a separate official post about it yet.

BeyondCombustion.net has been our wiki, formerly at github.io, for the last few years.

Decided to point that domain at some dell R720xd/R730xd boxes I picked up and setup a whole new entry into the fediverse, along with a number of other things for our users.

[–] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's great having you here. I'll stick around, and maybe post something to the community soon with my modest setup to have a little talk :)

[–] flexnsniff 1 points 2 years ago

I selfhost a lot of the normal stuff everyone else does. Plex, AdguardHome, etc...

I also have a 96+ port dial-up server system: https://2600.network

[–] maya329@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Currently self-hosting on an old HP Z600 I bought second hand with the following specs:

CPU β€” 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz RAM β€” 96GB ECC DDR3 (6*16GB) Disks β€” 4TB HDD for Ubuntu, 10TB HDD for NextCloud and 2TB Sata SSD for Docker

For services, I'm currently running the following:

Docker

Portainer β€” CF Tunnel

FreshRSS β€” CF Tunnel

ArchiveBox β€” CF Tunnel

Adguard Home β€” Local

2x Uptime Kuma β€” CF Tunnel

LinkAce β€” CF Tunnel

TheLounge β€” CF Tunnel

Watchtower β€” Local

#For public access dockers

Feedropolis

Mirotalk SFU

FiveFilters RSS

Taiga

2x Mattermost Servers

8x Wordpress Staging Sites

1x Wordpress Dev Sites

For ubuntu, I'm running a few services and apps like:

ScreamingFrog

9 sites using LAMP stack

Aria2c with AriaNG

NextCloud

Plex

4x WebHooks server for communities

Couple of API end points using Apache reverse proxy

OpenVPN

CrowdSec

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