Either self-hosted or cloud, I assume many of you keep a server around for personal things. And I’m curious about the cool stuff you’ve got running on your personal servers.
What services do you host? Any unique stuff? Do you interact with it through ssh, termux, web server?
I have an orangepi zero 3 with pihole
Then an ITX PC with
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mealie (meal planner, recipe parser, grocery list maker with a bunch of features and tools)
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immich for self hosting a google photos alternative
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*arr stack for torrenting Linux ISOs
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Jellyfin for LAN media playing
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home assistant for my VW car, our main hanging renovation lights, smoke and CO monitors, and in the future, all of the KNX smart systems in our house
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Syncthing for syncing photo backup and music library with phone
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Bookstack for a wiki, todos, journal, etc… (Because I didn’t want to install better services for journals when I don’t use it much)
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paperless-ngx for documents
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leantime for managing my personal projects, tasks, and timing
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Valheim game server
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Calibre-web for my eBook library backup
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I had nextcloud but it completely broke on an update and I can’t even see the login fields anymore, it just loads forever until it takes down my network and server, so I ditched it since I never used it anyway
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crowdsec for much better (preemptive) security than fail2ban
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traefik for reverse proxy
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I use Docker and (currently) VMware and host whatever I need for as long (or short) as I need it.
This allows me to keep everything separate and isolated and prevents incompatible stuff interacting with each other. In addition, after I’m done with a test, I can dispose of the experiment without needing to track down spurious files or impacting another project.
I also use this to run desktop software by only giving a container access to the specific files I want it to access.
I’m in the process of moving this to AWS, so I have less hardware in my office whilst gaining more flexibility and accessibility from alternative locations.
The ultimate aim is a minimal laptop with a terminal and a browser to access what I need from wherever I am.
One side effect of this will be the opportunity to make some of my stuff public if I want to without needing to start from scratch, just updating permissions will achieve that.
One step at a time :)