Anyone else have it ? The more work I do setting things up like dockers, reverse proxies, single sign on, etc. the more I want to do it. But I’m running out of ideas of things to host that would actually benefit me. But I have that itch where I want more lol.
So far I have the following: (EDIT: added descriptions for those who aren’t familar with all of it. )
- Caddy - use this primarily as a reverse proxy to access my applications via my domain and outside the house
- Nextcloud - mainly using it for cloud storage but also some of their other apps likes decks and tasks as well as contacts and calendar.
- Memos - simple note taking app similar to twitter but personal.
- Miniflux - rss
- Authentik - sso
- Portainer - web view of dockers and status / health
- KitchenOwl - groceries / recipe management
- Actual - zero budgeting (like YNAB)
- Firefly iii - finances management
- Immich - images / iCloud replacement
- Organizr (barely using it. Trying to think of more use cases) - dashboard of all my services
- Speedtest - runs daily speed tests and monitors.
- Plex - host my media library
- Plex_Debrid / rclone - sync real Debrid with plex.
- rsync to backup data to one onsite and one off site location. Automated backups
- Watchtower automated docker updates
- Home Assistant - home automation
- Home bridge - Apple home automation
- Zigbee2mqtt - manage zigbee smart home devices
- Unifi controller - manage my network
I think that’s everything!
Edit: Thanks for the overwhelming responses! I really appreciate everyone with their opinions. First things first I did get borg setup for both my server and my desktop so thats awesome! I am waiting for response from my backup server admin if they can install rdiff-backup for me so I can utilize that as well for my cloud backups.
Going to take a look at a few other of the many suggestions here! More than a few I like!
Yet another note about your list, OP… instead of plain rsync, take a look at rdiff-backup which uses rsync as its backend but it creates incremental backups. Very handy when you made a change a month ago and just noticed a problem! (I actually keep a year’s worth of backups for each of my servers and it’s very easy on the storage space.)
My rsync does do incremental backups. But I will look into rdiff-backup!
Interesting, I wonder if rsync itself has been updated to include this? The whole point of rdiff-backup was to provide a wrapper for rsync to add this functionality. I dunno, I’ve been using it for many years and it’s never let me down.
Hmm now you got me curious lol. I am newer to this so I could totally be wrong. I told it to make logs so I’ll have to check out the logs. I thought I remember it only backing up new / changed data and then deleting deleted data. I’ll have to look into it more !
Maybe we’re talking about different types of ‘recursive’ backups? In the sense I am referring to, it means that I can tell it to recover a specific file from a specific date, and it will provide the file as it appeared on the server on that given date. If I want to know what options I had in fstab on January 1st, I can recover that.
Ohhh yeah we definitely are. I think what you are referring to is like snapshot backups I think. Which you are right I don’t believe rsync can do that without some major tweaking.
Thanks for clarifying now I’ll definitely check it out !
How are you liking KitchenOwl? I saw it in your list and looked it up, definitely seems like something I’ve been wanting for years, but also appearing to be a very new project that still needs a lot of development.
Basically what you said. It seems really cool with a lot of potential. But too early to say. Someone else suggested this I might try : https://davideshay.github.io/groceries/
Someone else mentioned some other grocery / recipe apps on my post but now I can’t find it. I know Nextcloud has one.
There was a point I had a minimum of one service from each category of the awesome-selfhosted repo. I’ve since scaled down to a more minimal approach, but still enjoy looking for new services to try out.
Monitoring is one that’s interesting, graphs can be fun to look at though, so Grafana for that, and it’s fun for family to see, even if they don’t exactly know what it means, lines and charts are pretty.
I have since setup most of my monitoring to only alert if there is something that is unusual or outside of some threshold. Previously I had it alert me when a process or script had finished, however it was too noisy, and instead now it checks to make sure the script succeeded and if it didn’t to alert me.
Thanks for that link, I had no idea it existed. Great resource to keep on hand!
PiHole or AdGuard Home, rutorrent, GitLab.
I love posts like these just to look for more stuff to host!
My current list -
hex - main server (Intel NUC 8GB) Nginx Proxy Manager (reverse proxy) Dokuwiki Nextcloud (file sync) - also used for the following Bookmarks Contacts Calendar Location tracking Notes Airsonic (music streaming) Audio Bookshelf (audiobook streaming) Calibre-Web (e-books) FreshRSS (RSS reader) Kavita (comics) Batch monitoring scripts N8N (workflow automation) Transmission (bittorrent client) Vaultwarden (password and 2FA sync for Bitwarden) Glances (fancy top replacement) Paperless-ngx (process attachments and scanned documents) Uptime Kuma Dozzle charon - Raspberry PI4 Pi-hole (Ad blocking DNS server) PiVPN (wireguard VPN server) PiAlert (network intrusion detection) Time Machine (backup for MacOS) Borg Server (backup for main server) coeus - Raspberry Pi Zero PiHoleOoh, self hosted location tracking? Tell me more!
I already run Nextcloud for file sync. One of the apps available in Nextcloud is called PhoneTrack which is a compatible server for collecting and displaying data collected by the owntracks app on my phone. Nextcloud sits behind an nginx reverse proxy
I haven’t tried it on Nextcloud yet but I do this already on home assistant with my girlfriend and I. We can basically replicate the iOS find my app with it.
In no specific order
goaccess-for-nginxproxymanager
filebrowser
smokeping
searxng
duplicati
whoogle
nginx-proxy-manager
flaresolverr
linkding
ntfy
librex
shlink
portainer
speedtest-tracker
pihole
unbound
wg-easy
bookstack
memos
epicgames-freegames
mind-reminders
teddit
vikunja
uptime-kuma
Bloben
stash
jackett
gluetun
prowlarr
mstream
jellyseerr
sonarr
nextcloud
qbittorrentvpn
komga
bazarr
duplicati
Tube-archivist
homepage
radarr
picoshare
audiobookshelf
lychee
scrutiny
youtubedl-material
deemix
Jellyfin
Invidious
Wefwef
Serge
Your own Lemmy instance.
Also if you’re running out of ideas on what to do, try to Nixify it. Install NixOS, learn modules, maybe make some modules yourself. Fun journey.
Host a containerized Bitwarden instance.
I’ve considered this. Since I use it. I always read how people say that’s the one thing they rather leave to the pros lol
I disagree, you’ll have your backups, so even if everything breaks you will have a failsafe. If you get compromised it’s still not an issue: Everything server side is encrypted, the safety is in the clients and your master password length.
So, I see no particular differences with other services. Considering I hear of some issues with bitwarden servers that are constantly under attack, selfhosting could even increase the availability.
Yeah that’s a good point. I don’t see why not. Thanks I’ll probably give it a shot.
I got it working in my local Kubernetes cluster, by writing all the yml files myself. Then realized someone built a Helm chart for it, which is much easier to maintain. The hardest part was generating the TLS cert.
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Observability stack?
I’m currently using Authelia, but would like to see what Authentik provides. The last time I tried it, I remember circling through multiple sections in the web app to add authentication and bypass certain endpoints.
Also, it was considerably heavy compared to Authelia. Still, I would like to give it a chance again to see what I’m missing.
Yeah I haven’t tried authelia yet. I saw a lot of people talking good about authentik so decided to try it and I like it ! Yeah you have to set up both a provider and app which I believe is different but it’s easy!
You could set up specifically clementines and tell me how you got it working 😅😅
I recently started using https://silverbullet.md (note taking with PWA offline support). And nforwardauth (authentication). I like both so far.
I see you are also missing paperless-ngx, syncthing and gitea
What is clementines? I use memos for my note taking and has a real nice iOS app.
Paperless-ngx sounds nice. I’m so bad with physical papers and storing them so that could be big for me.
I use Nextcloud for my file syncing.
Gitea sounds cool if I get back into coding.
clementines is a shopping list program. it sounded nice, but I couldn’t get the installation working https://davideshay.github.io/groceries/
I have been using memos too, but I am switching to silverbullet now. I was trying to take/read some notes on an airplane, and memos didn’t work offline. So that is the reason for switching. The developers said offline support is on the roadmap, and suggested using telegram integration for offline note taking until then.
I mainly use gitea for revision control of my docker compose file these days.
Ah, yes when I had iPhone I also didn’t use syncthing. But now I use Android and like syncthing better than Nextcloud. NC stopped working for me a few times, syncthing has been solid
Oh cool. I am using KitchenOwl and someone else on this post suggested a few recipe managers. I’ll definitely check out clementines (if I get it working haha)
For memos I never realized it doesn’t work offline. Thankfully it’s rare I am offline but that does worry me that when it does happen I won’t have access to my notes. I’ll definitely take a look at silver bullet!
Version control of docker compose files why the heck didn’t I think of that before lol. Would have helped me more than a few times. Going to get that setup as well.
Makes sense. I think I did use sync thing years ago when I was on android. Thankfully the only issues I’ve had with Nextcloud have been user error.
Start automating your backups / maintenance and orchestrate deployments …
Any guides/resources on how to get started on that? I have backups and could probably get my stuff up and running after some tinkering but I love the idea of some script I can just run on a fresh environment that would bring all my containers up and restore all the data.
My backups are automated via cron jobs and rsync both on and off site. Deployments / maintenance are also partially automated via docker compose files and cron jobs to identify issues with mounts or something and fix and restart.
Any other ideas ?
Borg backup for deduplicated backups
Monitoring. Try out Prometheus/InfluxDB and Grafana, throw Loki in there too… It’ll keep you busy for a few days to a week at least.
I did all of that and I just use Netdata now.
Ill add few that no one mentioned here:
- Upsnap - wake-on-lan to wake up my PC when I need remote control
- Code-server - txt editor / file browser
- *arr - next level torrenting
I get it from time to time. It’s why I have 89 containers running and why the https://powerg.love Mastodon instance exists
89! That’s impressive lol. I didn’t know about that mastodon instance. Thanks !
