I’d probably have to go with Audiobookshelf and Kavita. Behind those would be Invidous and Immich.
Jellyfin: An unfederated alternative to Plex, with some pros and cons. Very lightweight, customizable with plugins. Decent iOS and tvOS client from the devs.
Vaultwarden: Unofficial open-source fork of Bitwarden.
FreshRSS: Self hosted RSS + Atom reader, honestly the best way to read news ad free. I recommend using FreshRSS with lire if you’re on iOS.
I’m definitely looking into hosting PiHole down the line, and hopefully nextcloud once i get some more drives
Thank you for not just listing the names of some software. Everyone else in this thread is like “Crimble, JFlax, pIcomIco, Flerbl, and 17 Orangutans.”
I usually just ask recruiters to point those that are pokemon
17 Orangutans isn’t software, it’s just a bunch of apes I’m hosting in my basement server room. I trained one to answer level 1 trouble tickets, but manager said we need highly available maintenance processes. So, I got another container and put an orangutan inside it, and kept doing that until either we hit our KPI or we exhausted the budget.
Literally a coding monkey
lmaoooo ofc :)
Thanks
In terms of what services do the most:
In terms of user activity:
- Plex and the utilities installed alongside it
- Minecraft (Paper) with BlueMap
- Mealie
vaultwarden
Pihole, Bitwarden and Plex.
Plex, PiHole, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Syncthing in a hub and spoke config, Caddy for reverse proxy, custom containers for: yt-dlp, restic, and rsync.
Could you elaborate on syncthing hub and spoke?
Yeah I saw a post about it a long time ago on Reddit for users with lots of devices
Basically it is just setting up one or two “central devices” that know all the client devices, but not linking the client devices individually.
IE: One server is connected to your phone, laptop, tablet, desktop, etc. But the phone is not directly connected to your laptop or desktop or tablet.
To be fair I don’t actually know if this is the best approach anymore or if just connecting all of them in a mesh is better 🤷
Here is a forum post describing it.
My guess would be that each of their devices (phone, laptop, etc) syncs back to their server/NAS, but they do not sync to each other. The server/NAS is the hub, and each device is a spoke.
Gitea
Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, Nextcloud, Syncthing, Invidious, SearxNG
pihole, wireguard, qbittorrent, sonarr/radarr, Jellyfin, syncthing, NFS.
I’ve considered Airsonic but I haven’t found a good client that looks good and doesn’t behave weirdly. I had one launch about 500 threads trying to transcode the same song which ate up my CPU time on my server resulting in a stern e-mailing from my host.
- AdGuardHome
- Vaultwarden
- Linkding (plus Injector Extension)
- Jellyfin (plus Infuse and FinAmp)
- Owntone
- Caddy
- Pocketbase
- Uptime-Kuma
What is pocketbase?
Instant backend for web apps. Basically firebase lite
Paperless-ngx is better than any hosted equivalent.
Pihole, Wireguard, Syncthing, Jellyfin
In no particular order: jellyfin + *arr ecosystem, vaultwarden, wireguard, komga.
navidrome and jellyfin
- DNS server, because everything depends on it
- The Lounge - got like 7 people using it basically daily to chat
- Lemmy, even though I’m the only one really actively using it.
- E-Mail server, I don’t get a whole lot of mail but it’s a pretty important one!
Everything else tends to be a lot more idle, but I’ve also got NextCloud, an IRC server, soon a Matrix server, an internal VPN so all my devices can always talk to eachother no matter where they are.
You’re self-hosting your email? Masochist.
It’s been set up for almost a decade at this point, it’s shockingly low maintenance once it’s all set up and going. It is a pain to figure out Postfix’s and Dovecot’s fairly arcane configuration files, but smooth sailing afterwards. It’s been a long time since I’ve even got a mail rejected/not make it to the recipient’s inbox.
100%. I’ve been running my own mail server for 10-15 years now and you’re spot on. I’ve wanted to migrate it to a more modern platform but I’m loath to relive the process of configuring postfix and dovecot. DKIM/SPF and Let’s Encrypt certs for IMAPS were also a bit of a headache to get sorted, and warming up the sending IP so gmail would stop sending me to spam… but once that’s all sorted it’s been very very hands off. I log in once in a blue moon to update it but otherwise it just sits and does it’s thing.
I self host one of my emails on my VPS. I can’t even remember the software I used it’s been that long. One issue I have is spam. Have you found any way of controlling that?
I have my mail server set up as a catch all so you can send to anything at my domain and it’ll land in my inbox. I use this to create usage specific addresses. If it’s something I know will produce spam, I just dev null anything going to that address. I can then also track where a spam source originated. For friends and family who email me regularly; they also know to append the current year to my email address, this allows me to rotate my email address every year.
I also run spam assassin and implement greylisting as well as blocking IP ranges from countries I know I’ll never receive legitimate mail from… it’s been an evolution.
Oh wow that catch all thing sounds like a really handy alternative to disposable emails. Thank you! I will also look into spam assassin. Logged into my VPS to remember what software I’m using - dovecot and postfix.
EDIT: installed and configured SpamAssassin. Thank you, that was easy!
I also can’t recommend greylisting enough. If you haven’t already enabled it in postfix I strongly suggest doing so. It’s one of the easiest ways to reduce spam. By simply bouncing emails from new sources the first time and forcing them to retry, it cut my spam tremedously.
Home Assistant by far.
