I’ve had a “home lab server” for a while now, it’s nothing special but I think I can do more with it, I just don’t know what to do with it… I currently use it just for a pihole and (sometimes) a Minecraft server or a web server… I used to also have a nexcloud and a searxng instance (which I will probably bring back)… Any ideas for other things I can run on it?
I use mine for FreshRSS, Komga, Nextcloud and Syncthing.
Neat website that might help: https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
What public services do you use that you think you’d want to self host? I’m trying to reduce the data i give to big companies so i starred running an instance of Audiobook-shelf and use it to auto grab my podcasts from an rss feed and keep a copy on my server plus it serves up all my audio books too. Or you could set up a vpn back to your network via wireguard and get the benefits of pihole when you’re not home. If you feel like really digging into things you could host your own lemmy instance, or matrix chat and bridge in other serviced but that requires a bit more advanced knowledge.
I already have wireguard setup to pass my pihole through a VPN. As for my own Lemmy instance, I’ve thought about it, but I don’t have the storage nor bandwidth for it…
If i remember correct the vm i’m running lemmy on has less than 300gigs of storage and i’ve used less than half of that with running lemmy for a couple of months with a hand full of users. I can’t speak to the bandwidth aspect but i’d imagine self hosting lemmy would almost be better suited for low bandwidth so it can pull down the posts over time and hold them locally for you when you’re ready, but thats just a guess.
Bitwarden for hosting your own password manager.
Not sure if you have any smart home devices, homeassistant is another great self host program
I use KeepassXC for my password manager and I’m happy with it, though I’d be happy if I can figure out a way to setup password fole sync within my LAN without having to setup nexcloud. As for smart devices, got none, I’m not lazy enough to spend 100s of dollars on automatic lamps and stuff… Not yet anyways
I switched from keepass to vaultwarden (self hosted bitwarden) and am glad I tried it out as am finding it so much better on all my devices. I definitely recommend giving it a try if you’re just looking to tinker with things
Vaultwarden? Sounds interesting! Does it support the .kbdx format or will I have to re-make my whole database?
a quick search on the net did not answer my question…
therefore:
do you use it also outside your lan? (with port forwarding, ssl cert etc.)
if no, are you able to use the passwords nonetheless on your phone even when youre not in our lan?
If you want to keep using Keepass within your LAN. I highly suggest picking up Syncthing. I use it to sync my files between all my devices.
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