hi there, comrades! just curious, what do you all actually host for yourselves?

i currently run a two old PCs refurbished as Ubuntu servers and am looking at adding a Raspberry Pi 400 that i was gifted and don’t know what to do with. i have ideas though!

anyway, i’d love to hear what you’ve found useful, helpful, and/or fun to run. my own answer will be in the comments.

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We’re doing Christmas dinner this year.

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Hope you have enough RAM for that. I hear it’s quite resource-intensive.

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My CPU is only a single core, so while it’s really fast for single-threaded workloads, heavily multi-threaded applications like that are really a struggle. This gets especially bad when you need a translation layer for emulation of a different architecture.

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lol, fair. we did Thanksgiving this year so Christmas is at my mom’s. ha!

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Thanksgiving and Christmas, but by choice.

And alternating Easter.

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  • Openhab (smarthome controller)
  • Zigbee2mqtt (converts zigbee devices to talk mqtt)
  • Mosquitto (Mqtt server)
  • frigate
  • Jellyfin
  • Jellyseerr
  • Radarr, sonarr, lidarr, bazarr, prowlarr
  • transmission + a VPN tunnel
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Prometheus, Telegraf
  • Grafana
  • Influxdb, chronograf
  • Three PiHole instances, synced with Orbital Sync
  • Unifi Controller

And some small services to pipe metrics into Grafana dashboards for apps that don’t have native support for metrics. Most of this is managed through Docker with a Traefik reverse proxy with letsencrypt certs for https.

My most useful so far has to be openhab. I’m barely using it to it’s full potential but it’s so freeing to be able to buy (nearly) any smart device and know I can integrate it with the rest of my system. It also allows me to block Internet access to most of my smart devices completely for added privacy.

Second most useful is probably the Jellyfin/*arr stack to manage and view my collection. Soon I’m planning on adding either Calibre or something similar for books to sort my ebooks and old digital textbooks.

And once you have two or three services, monitoring obviously helps. I honestly wish I had set it up earlier, in particular Uptime Kuma for general uptime tracking. It would have saved me so much time pinging all my services to try to diagnose issues.

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Saving! Lots of great homelab ideas in here.

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Lol this is very similar to my setup. I also have an xmpp server (ejabberd), grocy, and fresh rss on digitalocean.

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@hamtron5000 For personal use:
- TrueNAS with some shares
- Plex
- jDownloader + Transmission
- IPFS node
- Jitsi meet

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I wish they would update jDownloader

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Does Jitsi Meet support screen control?

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@Bipta @hamtron5000 You mean screen sharing? Yes it does.

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I suppose he meants like on Teams, people can use your screen share and ask for control of the mouse and keyboard

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i am not sure - that’s why i installed Rustdesk, which is remote help tool. I’m IT in my daily life for an organization and also IT in my personal life for friends and family, so it’s helpful to have something like TeamViewer for personal use.

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TrueNAS… Niiice!

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Vaultwarden, forgejo and nextcloud. I tried matrix and email, but couldn’t get them to work, comrade.

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I self host whatever I can within reason. Like I don’t host my own email, used to though! Currently I have the following services on Proxmox:

And a few smattering of others that I spin up as needed or for testing things.

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What a list!

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There’s more… ><

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Would you recommend WikiJS? I’m looking for a wiki solution to document my homelab setup.

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I do recommend it. It’s easy to setup and does everything you need in a documentation knowledge base. I used to use confluence before their enshitification; WikiJS is much nicer for my use case.

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Hosting your own services. Preferably at home and on low-power or shared hardware.

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