- Plex
- Tautulli
- Jellyfin
- Transmission
- Pihole (and DoH proxy)
- npm proxy manager
- Flexget (similar to radarr)
- bedrock minecraft servers
- Home Assistant
- TPLink Omada controller
- Netdata dashboard
- Portainer
- VSCode (web version, to easily edit files on my servers)
If you share your Plex library with friends and family like I do, highly recommend looking into Overseerr! I had tried using OMBI before but it was a pain to get set up--actually I never succeeded and gave up. Overseerr was very simple, just another Docker container like so many others, really. Integration with Radarr and Sonarr was seamless for me.
the watchlist sync feature is amazing, I dont even go to overseerr anymore I just browse directly in plex now and add to watchlist
I've never got what the point of Home Assistant is, seems to be it'll talk to a load of smart devices and advertises you can control it with Alexa but at what point why not just have Alexa itsself control the devices?
You can write custom automations between all your smart devices. So I can connect Home Assistant to my phone, a Google Home mini, and Google Translate TTS, so whenever I plug in my phone to charge at night while I'm at home, the speaker tells me "Remember to brush your teeth" in an Italian accent. Or whatever specific weird thing you want. It puts a lot more control in your hands.
Not all smart devices are intercompatible with each other, but Home Assistant is agnostic and tries to work with everything. Most people tend to have automations based on things that Alexa or Google Assistant can't handle.
It may be overkill if you only have a few smart lights that Alexa can handle, but once you have a hundred or more different devices... yeah, managing all of that becomes pretty complicated!
I believe I'm at 42 Docker containers now, lol. Some of the notable ones:
- Plex
- Vaultwarden
- Home Assistant (plus Node-RED, zwave JS, and mqtt)
- NPM
- Pihole
- All the "arr" stuff
- Nextcloud
- Portainer
- FreshRSS
There is a lot of support stuff too like MariaDB and orbital-sync.
I'm going to be working on Lemmy when I get back from vacation but I leave in like 2 hours so that's going to have to wait, lol.
By in large, the docker makes it stupid easy for the vast majority of my containers and portainer makes it even easier since you can manage everything through a web UI.
If you are using the arr stuff to download your Linux iso's which vps you use or it is homelab?
Yep it's for all my linux ISOs. I have it in my homelab. I probably WAY over-complicated things but I use OPNsense for my firewall and selectively route traffic from specific containers down a ProtonVPN tunnel. I'm using macvlans within docker to give those containers dedicated IP addresses which allows the selective routing to working.
Question about Vaultwarden. How does sync work? My browser extension for Bitwarden auto syncs to their server, is that possible with Vaultwarden? Or is it more for manual backup?
It’s the same thing. There’s an option before you sign into the extension to choose a different server.
Chad.
NextCloud and Pihole are definitely being added to my list. Does self-hosting NextDNS seem worthwhile to you? 👀
I don't know that it's really necessary to use both nextdns and pihole. You may look at a couple of comparisons and decide what's best for you. I just use pihole (two of them actually, one in docker and one on an actual pi).
Can home assistant be used without the ad-ons (I want to learn some smart home stuff, but do not want the overhead of a vm)
Yes it can, though it is easier to set some things up with the built-in addons. Most addons can be set up independently as docker containers (like z2mqtt or node-red) but may require additional configuration.
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Home Assistant OS (in a VM)
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- MariaDB
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- Matter Server
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- Mosquitto Broker
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- Z-Wave JS
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AdGuard home
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SWAG (Ngnix proxy)
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Emby
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Airsonic Advanced
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Komga
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Immich
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FreshRSS
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Owncloud
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Organizr
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Duplicati
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Portainer
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Virtmanager
The "arr" family -
- Gluetun (routes all the below containers through my VPN)
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- Readarr (print)
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- Readarr (audio)
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- LazyLibrarian (magazines)
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- Mylar3
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- Sonarr
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- Lidarr
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- Radarr
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- Prowlarr
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- Flaresolverr
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- SABnzbd
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- qBittorrent
There's a few other support containers for the above items like redis and postgres. This is all done on Ubuntu Server. But I'm slowly prepping to switch over to Unraid as I prefer the storage management on that. For me file storage and redundancy is a huge part of why I run all this.
- PiHole
- NextCloud
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barcode buddy
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bookstack
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borgmatic
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Stirling PDF
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dashy
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filestash
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grocy
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joplinServer
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paperless
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portainer
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StoreDown
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taskcafe
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trilium
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watchtower
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home Assistant
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git
This is likely not the thread for it, but I've been wanting to look for some kind of guide to self hosting for someone who's never done it before. Once I get out of my lease that, while it includes internet, prohibits me from running any kind of servers, I want to potentially look into starting something, although that would also involve me getting a dedicated machine for this. I do have a somewhat old Raspberry Pi 3 from like 2016 I want to say (it has built in WiFi and Bluetooth but as I am currently home, I don't have the specs on hand atm). The only other two machines are my desktop, which is way too overpowered to be running a server even some of the time, and my laptop, which I want to be able to take with me if I need to go work on something at a coffee shop.
I have an old laptop that i'm selfhosting a few services on. Right now i'm hosting:
- nginx proxy manager as a reverse proxy (all requests go through the reverse proxy and it redirects to the app based on the domain name)
- mealie and tandoor(for recipe management, dont know which one to choose yet)
- immich (for photo backup and management, kind of like Google photos)
- media stack with jellyfin, bazarr, sonarr, radarr, prowlarr jellyseerr, sabnzbd, and qbittorrent (jellyfin for streaming movies and shows, qbittorrent and sabnzbd for downloading movies and shows from either torrent or usenet sites (basically torrents but better), sonarr and radarr for telling them what to download, prowlarr for telling sonarr and radarr where to download from, and jellyseer is an interface where users select movies to download)
- gluetun (only use it sometimes, it's a VPN client that I use with qbittorrent)
- archiveteam warrior for helping out archiving reddit, they have some other cool archival projects too.
- And finally, Lemmy.
I host most of my important things on the cloud because of my situation meaning that my laptop is not too reliable. If you are curious:
- actual (a pretty cool budget management app)
- nginx proxy manager
- gotify (sends and receives messages)
- ntfy (same but a bit simpler and more configurable)
- headscale (selfhosted control server for tailscale)
- metrics stack with grafana, prometheus and node exporter (node exporter scrapes my cloud server every, I think, minute and then sends it to prometheus and grafana scrapes Prometheus for the metrics then visualises it if I request it to)
- authentik single sign on (single sign on means you log into authentik and then you can log into every other app through authentik, it's a bit complicated to setup but it's very nice when you do)
And that's about it.
Trust me, I had to go through A LOT of tutorials to get to even this point, so it may be daunting at first, but you'll get there. Eventually.
If you'd ask me what the hardest to set up was it was probably the media stack, probably because it was my first project 😅 and a close second would probably be authentik, it requires learning the different authentication types that you need, then actually setting it up on your server.
If you decide to selfhost something through docker and are new to doing stuff through the command line then i would recommend portainer, because it has a nice GUI and is maybe a bit better understandable to people who don't understand all the commands In docker. Even if you are, it's still nice for monitoring IMO. Incase you don't know what docker is, you should check it out. I'm not gonna go into it here, but it's pretty cool.
You should consider joining !selfhosted@lemmy.world (I realize that beehaw federated but I feel like I should still bring It up) and !selfhost@lemmy.ml
Anyway sorry for the long post, I'll shut up now.
Lemmy Jellyfin Wireguard so I can access my home network from outside
All three are easy to manage(so far).
Have you tried tailscale? It uses wireguard under the hood, but is much easier to connect multiple devices.
Yes, i have used tailscale. I just use wireguard alone because I find it has better performance in my experience.
That's good to know. Perhaps I will start using wireguard for direct connections
Nginx Nextcloud Lemmy Emby HomeAssistant Paperless-ngx Podgrab Gokapi Snippet box Opnsense Deluge Pihole 3CX Omada SDN controller Gitea iredmail Hashicorp Vault Portainer Heimdal Firefox browser
- a few ancillary databases and management tools
I'm pretty happy with this lot and at the moment I'm not sure what I want to add. Perhaps some RSS reader, but I don't think that'll see much use tbh.
Just Nextcloud on an intel NUC at the moment, bare metal.
All Dockerized:
- Pihole
- Plex
- Lemmy
- Matrix
- SimpleLogin
- Ntfy
- Plex
- Photoprism
- FreshRSS
- Linkding
- Paperless
- Nextcloud
- Wallabag
- Syncthing
definately adding ntfy to my list
It is amazing, especially when you are on Android and use it as a unified push provider for other apps to circumvent Google as much as possible while saving battery power.
yeah I am. I am just using their default server I gues... never occured to me that I could just one myself...
Not as much as I probably should be! I have a nice little Proxmox cluster, backed by a UPS and a beefy NAS, but mostly I use it for fussing around with stuff, playing with instances, nothing really mission critical.
I run everything off a Synology NAS using Docker, except for Plex which runs directly so I can take full advantage of hardware transcoding.
- Portainer
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- NZBGet
- NZBHydra
- Overseerr
- Jellyfin
- Nextcloud (only using this for GPodder sync right now)
I also have a separate mini-computer for Home Assistant. That runs on HA Blue, which was the limited run predecessor to Home Assistant Yellow. May seem silly to have separate hardware, but I was tired of my whole system going offline every time I needed to reboot HA (which means possibly interrupting a family or friend watching a remote Plex stream, the horror!)
I've got a Synology NAS running Home Assistant and basic NAS stuff (mostly backing up NextCloud).
I've got a Linode (might move if I get less lazy) running NextCloud, and a setup for a Minecraft server I haven't run for years. That NextCloud server replaced BTSync/Syncthing and TTRSS servers, and also now does my password syncing via KeePass, and contacts through webdav.
-nextcloud -email with mail-in-a-box -invidious (youtube frontend) -lemmy -matrix -jabber -radarr -sonarr -nzbget -qbitorrent -LibreTranslate -SearX -Personal Tor Bridge -Lemmy
Possibly some others I cant remember, but if I do I will update this post
At some point what's hosted and what's infrastructure becomes a bit blurred, but just on the user facing services side:
AdGuardHome, Bitwarden, CalibreWeb, a DHTC scraping database thing that I rarely run because it eats up the CPU and network, Emby, Hemdal, Homechart, a website copier based on HTTrack, Lemmy (ya don't say?) Librespeed, Mailcow, Mastodon, a video downloader based on youtube-dl call MeTube, NextCloud, PhotoPrism, Portainer, RocketChat (being replaced by nextcloud talk once I get the stun/turn working), SmokePing, Transmission, XbrowserSync, Zabbix,
and a handful of others for more monitoring and management style tasks.
Not a ton of stuff, but I'm currently looking at some more, thanks to this thread.
At home:
- Open Media Vault on an RPi 4, with some containers, namely:
- qBittorrent
- PhotoPrism (not especially functional, more a proof-of-concept)
- mariadb
- PiHole on an RPi 3
- Volumio on RPi3s + DAC (x2)
On a Singapore-based VPS:
- Nextcloud
I use a truenas server running off old gaming rig parts (except storage)
- plex
- tautilli (plex analytics)
- sonarr and radarr
- jackett
- transmission
- pihole that I dont use
- home assistant
- a very basic personal website, more of a placeholder for if I need to go job hunting
- qBittorrent (+gluetun)
- some arr apps
- Simply Shorten
- PhotoPrism
- Wiki.js
- Fileshelter
- Nginx Proxy Manager
Off the shelf stuf:
- Lemmy
- Mastodon
- Tinc VPN (for retro gaming with friends)
- Nextcloud
- docker-mailserver (including roundcubemail)
- feedbin
- GitLab
- MediaWiki (set to private for personal notes)
- Minecraft
- Etherpad
- Munin
- Several wordpress instances for friends
Selfwritten:
- Discord bot that implements the basic rules for some TTRPGs
- Character generation tools for some niche TTRPGs
- Personal blog
- Signup website for a local community meetup
- Nextcloud
- Commafeed
Commafeed is interesting! I’ll have to explore that one as I stopped paying for Feedly and a self hosted open is better. If they have an app that would be awesome.
Keeping it mostly simple, hosting:
- Gitlab
- Nextcloud
- Vaultwarden
- Various management tools (Portainer, grafana/Prometheus/cadvisor, uptimekuma, etc).
- Minecraft and recently Veloren At the end of the day, really only things that myself and a few friends utilize. Looking into hosting some combination of -arrs, but frankly it's a bit intimidating.
Navidrome music server is really the only thing that I actually use. I love it.
Do you have any recommendations for Android clients? I use song titles rather than albums and I couldn't find a client that was title oriented.
- Nextcloud. Not too complex but I feel like it's getting heavier month by month and I'm scared of having it turn into full-fledged bloatware. It already has an autoplaying video in the about screen so the slope is getting ever so much slippier...
- Forgejo, swapped from Gitea just a while ago. They're more or less identical but I have stronger trust in Codeberg
- Nitter
- Some half-assed nginx build with nginx-http-flv so I can stream stuff between friends. It works OK but it feels like there's newer better options, I just haven't cared to look into it
- Weird half-assed email setup that does conform to all funky modern bells and whistles somehow despite being an unholy mixture of Postfix, rspamd, Dovecot and Maddy. I'm scared to touch any part of it. Not used for anything too overly serious
- Headless qBittorrent but I don't think I've actually used it in years
Ha, sounds like you're doing alright. Just don't poke anything XD
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