stupid question I know but let me explain. I self host only because I love learning random things and this was just another thing that I convinced myself I needed to learn, not out of necessity. I am hosting an *arr media system right now but that is pretty much the only thing I actually need, I have unlimited google photos so I don’t need Immich, I am happy with bitwarden so I don’t need vaultwarden, don’t need home assistant, nextcloud, bookstack etc so what I should I self host? throw any idea you have at me.
If you’re happy with those services … maybe you shouldn’t?
I self-host because I prefer to house my data locally when possible. It’s easier for backups and I’m not subject to the whims and financial decisions made by a company about whether their service will remain available, what it will cost, what functions it will offer. The tradeoff is work on my part, but I enjoy tinkering and learning.
In my case, I self-host a NextCloud instance for remote access to my docs, a Calibre Web server for eBooks (and to share those with a few trusted friends), a Vaultwarden instance because I’d prefer my vaults not be stored by a company whose servers are likely a major target for bad actors and that could change its TOS or offerings in the future.
Network wide Adblock, using pi hole or AdGuard home
I’d focus more on the infrastructure instead of choosing what apps to run if you want to improve your knowledge. Running an application is easy. Automation, security, observability, etc. is the hard part.
Learn about Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, backup solutions, logging, network security, etc.
No problem, I thought there was an awesome list of awesome GitHub’s lists but can’t find it. There are multiple “awesome” lists, like awesome-docker, awesome-web-archiving and more!
You can start by getting out of reddit and hosting your own Lemmy instance. :)