Plex and an FTP/Samba server on a DS418play.
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MeshCentral for providing remote IT support. I run it in a lightweight VM on very modest hardware (ancient Core 2 system I had kicking around) and it works great. The sheer breadth of features is damn impressive and I'd consider it among some of the best open source projects in terms of UI. No middleman like TeamViewer or Splashtop, and it only costs me a bit of time and hardware.
I have a few Raspberry Pis hosting
- PiHole/Wireguard
- Synching
- Jellyfin
- Home Assistant
- Motioneye
Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
I really want to get something like a Synology NAS to run a media server / VPN server / PiHole / NAS server on, but I don't have $500-$1000 to drop on new hardware right now.
Mostly WordPress sites. But do have experience with Mastodon self hosting
Currently running OPNsense on my primary router/firewall appliance, with a WireGuard VPN so I can access my self-hosted stuff remotely without exposing more of an attack surface.
Actual things I’m hosting:
- Vaultwarden
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Pi-hole
Those are all running on a Libre LePotato.
Currently that’s all the hardware I have, but I’m hoping to expand as time goes on. Next step is setting up a proxmox machine (I have an old desktop but it generates too much heat for where I want to store it)
Server 1 OS: Debian Nextcloud Plex
Server 2 (raspberry pi) OS: Raspbian Lite PiHole PiVPN
My general rule is to not self host things that are good enough / free (as in $$ not FOSS). So I don't host email or music. I'm not a huge music person so spotify does the job, and gmail's been great since it started.
Things I do host
- media server (jellyfin + sonarr/radarr etc)
- stable diffusion image generation server
- games (starbound mostly, killed minecraft after microsoft takeover)
- lemmy
- comics/manga server (komga)
- yt-dl web interface
All my servers are running NixOS, including the router. And no containers except for Pterodactyl :^)
First server - Hetzner dedicated server, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of storage
- CI (Hydra)
- Filesharing, calendar, contacts, tasks (Nextcloud)
- Game servers (Pterodactyl)
- IRC (Weechat)
- VPN (Wireguard)
- My homepage (nginx)
Second server - Hetzner VPS, 2GB of RAM, 20GB of storage
- Mail (Postfix, Dovecot, rspamd)
Third server - Oracle Free Tier VPS (aarch64), 24GB of RAM, 100GB of storage
- Git server and frontend (cgit)
Fourth server - old box at home, 8GB of RAM, 6TB or so of storage
(this one is currently turned off due to power usage)
- Network shares (samba)
- qbittorrent
Home router - Turris Omnia (armv7l), 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage (system is currently installed on an USB stick)
- nothing currently running here yet except routing and WiFi AP but I want to set up central authentication and AltServer for iOS sideloading
I run Nextcloud for myself and extended family plus a wireguard vpn, airsonic music streaming, calibre web for books and pi-hole for killing ads.
EDIT - pi-hole and wireguard are running on a raspberry pi and the rest on an Ubuntu NUC.
Nextcloud, Calckey, HomeAssistant, AdGuard Home, Serge, Octoprint (probably forgot something)
Some of it running in a data center. Some of it running local either on dedicated hardware or on Proxmox.
- immich
- homeassistant
- jellyfin
are used daily, also lots of other services.
I use the following a lot:
- Nextcloud for files, calendar and contacts
- synapse + a few brudges for IM
- mail server
- tandoor for recipes and grocery shopping lists
- gitea
- wireguard
- miniflux
- rmfakecloud And from time to time:
- jellyfin
- wallabag
Tandoor is imho somewhat overlooked and really nice.
I don’t host anything public, but I’ve got two Proxmox nodes hosting various local services in virtual machines . Currently I have
- My gaming rig, running windows with a GPU passed through. With this I stream games to my laptop, steam deck, tv, etc
- My router, running Vyos with a dual port nic passed through. The configuration is all done through ansible
- TrueNAS for general network storage
- a handful of vms created on the fly for specific projects
I've been trying to get docker swarm running across my 4 rpi's, but traefik hasn't been able to discover services (can find them on the same node if the network is a bridge, can't find anything with overlay network) which has been frustrating to try to figure out the problem. That said, here is what I plan to host on the swarm:
- traefik
- grocy
- nextcloud
- vaultwarden
- plex
- nginx (portfolio website that I currently just have on GitHub pages)
- lemmy instance (for some of you beautiful bastards)
- readarr, sonarr, readarr, lidarr, prowlarr, sabnzb, and qbittorrent
a wiki for a fraternal organization...
Raspberry Pi 3
- Home assistant
- syncthing