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Since I haven’t seen these mentioned yet:
Clipcascade (clipboard sharing across multiple OSes, handy when “copy from this VM and paste to that VM gets funky with the intermediary rdp client)
Infisical (self hosted secrets management, used for n8n automation pulls so I’m not storing credentials and api keys on a VPS)
Plus a Debian 13 VM for Claude+Hermes and a Fedora workstation VM to pretend I have a central workstation somewhere.
Apache webserver, very low level only the la part of a lamp. File server. Two proxmox, one to fuck around with vms on, one "production" hosting a HA instance, middleman on alpine that lists symlinks of contents on the file server in kodi-friendly naming format for the kodi machines in the lounge / bedroom /brewery and firewalled XP machine for legacy drivers on older camera equipment. Win7 machine physically airgapped and KVM'd on my main monitor/keyboard for my old school games and programs. Also has a CRU for drive recovery / backups. OpenWRT firewall.
Only external access is from my phone via tailscale. I also run Claude code on there so I can remotely do stuff on the server using natural language while away from home.
The server is just a mishmash of old parts I had lying around. I only needed to purchase a case and a drive to get it going.
Server runs ubuntu lts I5 4690k 16gb ddr3 Rtx 2060 6gb Currently about 11tb storage
Docker containers:
The setup is on a bare metal Debian mini PC server with storage on a Synology 2 drive NAS.
Thanks for asking
How did you get kopia running on your server? Even on the kopia github they pretty much just say "use one of the other options like a S3/B2 bucket or one of the file transfer options".
Only local, without certificates for example doesn't even work to test and there is nearly no documentation on hosting it yourself (decent documentation with the rest)
It's running in Docker on my Debian server: https://kopia.io/docs/installation/#docker-images
One HDD in my NAS is dedicated to only have encrypted backup data that Kopia creates. The same Kopia deployment can't upload data to the cloud, so Kopia only makes local backups every night. Then Synology's cloudsync app is scheduled to send the backed up files to a Backblaze bucket online.
Ah so it isn't the kopia server receiving the backup, it is the client making a server backup to a dedicated drive? Not connecting to a different computer's kopia instance
Yup. That's it.
Thank you for sharing 🙂
What this thread has showed me is that I'm over here playing tiddlywinks.
I use proxmox on one server, but currently my layout is:
LXCS:
VMs:
Also thank you for making this post, it helped me realize I have a few containers and services I don't use and I don't think have activity on them anymore so I can start a deprecation cycle on them lol
Good luck cleaning inactive containers !
Current Self-hosted Setup
Hardware
Server 1
Trycoo / Peladn mini pc
Intel n97 CPU
Integrated GPU
32gb of 3200mt/s ddr4 (Upgraded from 16gb)
512nvme
2x 2tb ssd's (Raid1 + LVM)
Startech usb to sata cable
Atolla 6 port powered usb 3.0 splitter
2x 8tb hdd's
2 bay usb 3.0 Fideco dock
Each 8tb HDD is split into 2 equal size partitions, making 4 x 4tb partitions
Each night, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating first partition of the HDD's .
Each 1st of the month, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating 2nd partition of the HDD's .
Server 2
Raspberry pi 4b
32gb SD card
4gb ram
Services
Server 1
Nginx web server / reverse proxy.
Fail2ban.
Crowdsec.
Valutwarden
Bit warden reimplantation for storing credentials
Forgejo
Remote federated git
Immich.
Google Photos replacement.
External libraries only.
4 users.
Radicale
Calender and contacts
Navidrome.
Spotify replacement.
2 users.
Adguard home
1st instance
Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
Unbound
Provides recursive DNS
Go-notes
Rich Text formatting, live, real time multi-user notes app
FMD
Find my device
Transmission
Torrent client
PIA VPN
Network Namespace script to isolate PIA & Transmission
Searxng
Meta search engine
StirlingPDF
PDF editor
File browser
This is in maintenance mode only so I am planning to migrate to File Browser Quantum soon
Syncthing
Syncs 3 android and 1 apple phone for immich
Custom rsync backup script
Darkstat
Real time Network statistics
Server 2
Fail2ban
Crowdsec
Honeygain
Generates a tiny passive income
I'm UK based and in the last 6 months it has produced £15
Adguard home
2nd instance
Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
Unbound
Provides recursive DNS
Custom DDNS update script
And the award goes too...... Respect my brother!
Honeygain
I'm a bit skeptical. How does that work and how long have you been using it. Have you noticed any weird noise on your firewall?
Been using it 18 months. Have drawn out $20 so far. Be another 6 months till I get another $20 which is the minimum withdrawal. Network has been solid and nothing dodgy showing up in the firewall or on my DNS. It's not amazing, but it's free money
Ty for taking this time to share your setup 🙏
Everything I have is either for entertainment or home automation. Most of it is running on a mini-PC running Proxmox.
And I’ve got a containerized Audiomuse-AI instance for music analysis and instant playlist generation.
Nice ! Thanks for that list !
Audiomuse-AI looks interesting imo
Audiomuse-AI looks interesting imo
If you decide to deploy Navidrome, there is an Audiomuse-AI plugin for it as well.
It’s pretty cool. I have it integrated with Lyrion via a plugin so I can generate a list of related tracks to a song, album, or artist in my play queue, and with lyrics and CLAP analysis it can also generate a music queue via text prompts via phrases like “classical music with cellos” or “relaxing ambient without bass” “aggressive melodic rock” “soothing female vocals” and so on.
As a bonus, we use Wiim Pros and Pro+ units at home to integrate with Lyrion and they can be linked and synced for whole house playback across multiple audio setups.
NAS
RaspPi
VPS
Personal Workstation
And of course all the basic security measures and Borg backup on everything.
May I ask what VPS provider do you use pls ?
I use Hetzner, they’ve been easy to work with, reasonably priced and I’ve never had a problem.
Thank you!
Incus, all services running in lxc. Ansible and templates to run startup stuff for new containers (ssh keys, etc). My docker setup is primitive, I regressed down to individual containers for each with docker compose. It's so trivial to restore last night's lxc backup that k3s/k8s doesn't really help me. In fact, i've been simplifying everything to suit my use case, including hardware.
Plus lots of transient trials that come and go with interest. Rotating 7 day/4 week/3 months backups by NFS with pruning, includes snapshots, but I set expires on these.
This is running on 2x minipcs with 48GB ram each, but they are way overkill. I just received a mini itx i5 board, which will house all of the containers, save VPN and 1x DNS, which I will run on an SBC.
So I'm going down from 2x servers + 1 NFS nas to one 1u server for everything plus one SBC so I can reboot it.
Power consumption is king factor for me now.
What would you suggest for a prowlarr replacement when you get rid of it? And what would be the reason for getting rid of it? Just curious since I use prowlarr.
I initially set it up because both sonarr and radarr were making their own api calls to indexers and I would get some "daily max exceeded" for certain sites. The idea was that if one host made the calls instead of 2, I wouldn't get rate limited as much.
Now I only have my nzb and pb indexers, the first has no such limits because I pay for it, and the second is only used as a second priority, so I don't really hit limits anymore.
If you have a bunch of arr services, this is useful. But I only have the two, so I don't think it's much work to set indexers up individually.
Edit: this ^^ is my suggestion. Add the indexers manually.
Ahhh ok. I mainly just run lidarr, sonarr and radarr. I do pay for an nzb subscription as well, so yeah dont really need prowlarr for that. I do use torrents as well though. I'll probably keep prowlarr as is at least for now as its all setup and stays out of the way. Thanks for answering.
Not much these days. While it used to be "everything", now it's:
hi! first time posting from this account, but a long time lurker.
I have Adguard Home on my router, but here are my other machines. I'm currently working on overhauling the NUC, mostly because I didn't know what I was doing when I got it.
I use Dokploy for my services right now, I like it more than Portainer.
currently running on a Raspberry Pi 4:
things I'm going to be running on my NUC:
I currently have a 10TB NAS in RAID 1 for storage, though I've found it a bit difficult to map storage to docker containers while leaving the databases on the NUC because I have very little experience and am still learning. thankfully, I'm taking notes this time around.
I would love to get more storage, but man. prices.
I saw that GPUs prices is slowly going down for now, maybe storage will too ?
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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A lot on docker and yunohost.
Gotosocial is the most used service for the family.
I'm currently only hosting Jellyfin (movies and TV) and Komga (books and comics) on a LAN, but I already bought a domain, and I'll be exposing them via reverse proxy within the next few weeks; maybe even this weekend if everything goes well. After that, Nextcloud is a must for sharing large files, as Google Drive's limits are coming up on me fast, and I'll start test driving Fluxer as a replacement for Discord.
Your Spotify
Shame there isn't a "your deezer" that sounds really cool. Anyways user facing service LXCs (eg. Jellyfin) have Tailscale installed. Here's my services by box:
NAS: Ugreen DXP4800 pro
-Proxmox
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-Homarr
-Audiobookshelf
-Jellyfin
-Seerr
-Immich
-Syncthing
-Searxing
-Paperless
-Vaultwarden
-Mealie
-Joplin
-Docker host #1(Romm, LibroFM downloader, audiobookshelf/hardcover integration)
-Docker host #2 (*arrs)
Local back up: Beelink eq12 (I think, anyways an Intel N100 thing.
-Proxmoxx
-Redundant pihole
-Redundant NginxProxyManager
-Syncthing
-Immich machine learning
Satalites, usually a RPi3. These act as a relay in users' houses so nothing touches the open web.
-DietPi
-Tailscale
-Pihole
-NginxProxyManager
-One poor soul has syncthing and a couple of drives for a remote backup.
I have a spare no name n100 box that I would like to turn into a network box one day, then I can manage my Airvpn and Tailscale access through that. But for now the ISP router is fine, I guess.
On all of my raspberry pi’s excluding my HAOS pi I have Docker; (I am thinking of adding something so I can see all my images visually, funny story I was looking on docker to see everything I have running and I guess I do have a service for this).
2 instances of pihole across 2 of my pi’s; (one primary, which has been migrated to docker and a secondary which is still running bare metal I have docker on that pi but just have not got around to migrating it yet maybe that is a today project) highly recommend you start with a linux distro that is right for you and start with docker and pihole (You could probably stick with windows or MacOS if you want but I highly recommend linux, there are other whole LAN ad blockers, pihole is just the one that works for me. Just to be funny I run them on port 31415!) on a device or two you are not afraid to leave running 24/7 that is why my homelab is spread across different 4 different pi’s and a Flint 2 router.
Maybe on two pi’s I have Nebula-sync; to keep my piholes in sync but I know I have it on one of them.
On my pi 5 with the most RAM I have:
Caddy; this could go on prior to pihole, but it is to give everything easy to remember domain names and to allow some to be open to the world while keeping others to the LAN/VPN
After those four things I would suggest searXNG; to replace whatever search engine you use when you go through and pick which engines it uses to do searches please do not select the Google. With searXNG you do not get all that AI crap I hear people get now, or the paid advertisement links at the top of the results, you also get to weigh which engine you want to use more.
Vaultwarden; with that I can use all of bitwarden’s services for free
Immich, because I am not paying a third party to store just my photos
Nextcloud, but I am getting off of that, it does all of the file sharing that I need with my devices that cannot use rsync calendars and contacts but it tries to do to much.
Down detector; to tell me if there are problems with my devices (sends me emails if one of my devices goes off line).
Paperless; to keep important documents in a easier place to find.
On another pi 5 I have:
The arr stack, I should really get jellyseeerr working!
Transmission, the bittorrent client it is running CLI with a web interface. I have it setup to download a copy of the raspberry pi OS every time there is a new release and to host it until the next new release, everything else I have a ratio of 3.
Jellyfin; (I will fight you if you think plex or emby are better), if I wanted to share my media with people I could create another VPN exit that only allows people to Jellyfin.
I guess I have Navidrone; for music streaming? I should probably remove that because I have Jellyfin that I plan on using.
Cowrie, is the honey pot sitting on port 22.
On another pi 5 I have
Ghost; for my blog/web design service, I am considering exploring more options as it is more geared towards people wanting to get money.
I guess I have matomo; to monitor my self hosted blog, did not know that.
On a pi 4 I have
HAOS; I have so many things running in HAOS, but the one service I am most proud of is my reminders. The reminders just started as a reminder for me to take my medication because the app I had purchased decided that the fact that I had purchased it was not good enough and they wanted to charge me a subscription, so I setup Home Assistant to remind me and that quickly became reminders to do other things as well all on my apple watch.
I have a retired ipad running a HA kiosk in my kitchen; it tells me things like what lights are on, how many times I have had bots try to penetrate me, speedtest, transmission stats, and my ecobee settings. I am thinking of setting up an old phone to run as a separate kiosk in my bedroom as a clock/weather screen on my bedside table and I am hoping to get a hand me down old ipad to act as another kiosk in my living room, more to watch for docker containers needing updates, maybe the also the weather and bandwidth monitor.
OpenWRT on a Flint 2 because the firewall my ISP’s firewall/modem like most ISP’s is a joke so I have it set to pass through to my own with 2 static IP’s one of them was originally going to be for mail but I quickly discovered how silly of an idea that was.
Wireguard; I think it is on my firewall, on one of the IPs I was going to host mail on the other but I came so close to ripping out my hair trying to do that so I got a hosted service through easydns it has a wildcard function so I can still get unlimited free trials to whatever instead of going into hosthero’s cpannel and spinning up a new address)
Crowdsec so I get to watch how many bots try to penetrate me in a day, week, month, or ever. It is in the 100’s a day, before I knew I could/should change my SSH port I had port 22 open to the WAN, this was long ago but still it was a bad idea. 22 is now open as a honey pot.
I have Crowdsec-bouncer that stops known bad actors from trying to get in.
I am sure I have other services on my firewall but I cannot tell what is an actual openwrt service and what is something I have added, but it is a vanilla install with all kinds of things added extra. .
Don’t know if you would count CUPS or scanjs as self hosted but those are run for my printer/scanner on a pi.
I have an old mac mini I am thinking of plugging in so that I can download all my music and add it to Jellyfin, than I am debating on if I want to install debian on part of the drive and keep MacOS on part of the drive so that I can actually use the bluray drive I have as far as I know there are no bluray drivers for linux because the big movie producers are scared of piracy, not like they are trying to rape us consumers over the hot coals.
Jellyfin doesnt handle music as well as Navidrome fyi. I love jellyfin but I found navidrome being specifically for music handles it way better and also recognizes and handles artist metadata better.
Thanks for letting me know.
No problem. Also Feishin client is awesome for Navidrome, probably the best. Try it out and I think you'll agree Navidrome is better for music. Aside from that, I love Jellyfin for everything else.
I decided that living on a hope and a dream of maybe someday seeing if my Mac Mini still worked I can now gleefully say it is working* if I cannot figure out how to update it further oh well I will just continue on with it as is and harden it the same way I do everything else. But right now it is downloading my music library, which I will promptly backup before trying to update it further.
*I need to figure out how to update it to the last OS version it can handle.
Wow, thank you for sharing all of this !
I will probably get Cowrie and try it ! Btw, I totally agree about the fact that Jellyfin is better
You should really have a good hardware firewall before you do that. Change ports, change ports for everything you can nothing I run is on the standard port I make sure of that other than 80 and 443 for unbound I would if I could but I like having access to the internet I should have mentioned that with pihole.
Here is my copypasted documentation
== PROXMOX CONTAINERS & VIRTUAL MACHINES ======================
C:TorRelay - 192.168.78.160 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0160
C:Gonic - 192.168.78.161 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0161
C:Corrade - 192.168.78.162 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0162
C:MeshCore - 192.168.78.163 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0163
C:Apache - 192.168.78.164 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0164
C:Backups - 192.168.78.165 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0165
C:PiHole - 192.168.78.166 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0166
C:WireGuard - 192.168.78.167 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0167
C:qBitTorrent - 192.168.78.169 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0169
C:OwnCast - 192.168.78.170 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0170
C:i2pd - 192.168.78.172 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0172
C:endlessh - 192.168.78.174 / 2a05:f6c7:8321::0174
Main services:
Infrastructure supporting the above: