What do you prefer to selfhost?

I've been around selfhosting most of my life and have seen a variety of different setups and reasons for selfhosting. For myself, I don't really self host as mant services for myself as I do infrastructure. I like to build out the things that are usually invisible to people. I host some stuff that's relatively visible, but most of my time is spent building an over engineered backbone for all the services I could theoretically host. For instance, full domain authentication and oversight with kerberized network storage, and both internal and public DNS.

The actual services I host? Mail and vaultwarden, with a few (i.e. < 3) more to come.

I absolutely do not need the level of infrastructure I need, but I honestly prefer that to the majority of possible things I could host. That's the fun stuff to me; the meat and potatoes. But I know some people do focus more on the actual useful services they can host, or on achieving specific things with their self hosting. What types of things do you host and why?

earth_walker ,
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I self host jellyfin, nextcloud, owncast, tandoor, komga, photoprism and searxng. I use nginx proxy manager for a reverse proxy and SSL cert automation. Works great for me but I would like to get into traefik sometime.

I self host for privacy reasons, also it's fun, it's a learning opportunity and sometimes self-hosted services are functionally better than the other options out there.

zingo ,

I use nginx proxy manager for a reverse proxy and SSL cert automation. Works great for me but I would like to get into traefik sometime.

I got tired of the NPM and went to traefik for 2 reasons.

  1. NPM kept locking me out of my account (admin), like 4 times during the time I was using it. That meant that it was not reliable enough for daily use.

  2. From what I heard is that the NPM project only has 1 developer and so they can't really respond and fix security flaws in a proper timeframe.

I'm using traefik now for internal traffic while VPN in if I need internal services while out and about.

Jim's Garage has a great YouTube video on setting it up.

earth_walker ,
@earth_walker@lemmy.world avatar

How did you set up a VPN to securely connect to your services over the internet? I have looked for guides to do this and haven't had much luck. I would really like to implement this in my setup.

tburkhol ,

pihole, in front of my own DNS, because it's easier to have them to domain filtering.

mythtv/kodi, because I'd rather buy DVDs than stream; rather stream than pirate; but still like to watch the local news.

LAMP stack, because I like watching some local sensor data, including fitness equipment, and it's a convenient place to keep recipes and links to things I buy regularly but rarely (like furnace filters).

Homeassistant, because they already have interfaces to some sensors that I didn't want to sort out, and it's useful to have some lights on timers.

I also host, internally, a fake version of quicken.com, because it lets me update stock quotes in Quicken2012 and has saved me having to upgrade or learn a new platform.

SnotFlickerman ,
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Do you have any input on whether running your Pi-Hole as your DNS service versus how you have it, with pi-hole in front of a standalone DNS server, as to which is functionally "more better?"

I had been toying with making my pi-hole into a full DNS server using Unbound, but I had been debating if it would be better to have that service running seperately.

EncryptKeeper ,

Unbound is incredibly lightweight. There’s no reason not to just have it running on the same box as your pihole.

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
LAMP Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for webhosting
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex Brand of media server package
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
k8s Kubernetes container management package
nginx Popular HTTP server

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sk ,
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Public services: my social network(hubzilla), Email(mailcow), Matrix chat, Peertube.

Private: my media (jellyfin, audiobookshelf, calibre, homeassistant.

I enjoy the freedom that comes with this and its like having your own home on the internet. I have a very modest setup but its enough to host my friends and family so nothing fancy like k8s. Just a refurbished optiplex running docker :)

0x0 ,

(How/) Do you access your private stuff from outside your home?

sk ,
@sk@hub.utsukta.org avatar

@0x0 headscale/tailscale. I have a VPS that gives me a public IP so i use that to host a headscale control plane.

acceptable_pumpkin ,

PiHole, Plex and the related “*arr” apps. I also self-host my home automation platform (Home Assistant).

slazer2au ,

At the moment I am only doing jellyfin but I am looking to expand into pihole, audiobook shelf and some arr stack.

0x0 ,

The actual services I host? Mail

What do you use for that?

What types of things do you host and why?

Self-hosting as in at home, nothing to the outside world and i'm still sorting a local NAS; i have a VPS with a few websites but that's not self-hosting category i guess.

I'd locally-host media stuff but not even that is that important to me atm. Next on my list is 3-2-1 backups so i can reorganize my setup and eventually selfhost a wiregard VPN to access some data.

erev OP ,
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I set up a mail stack on Rocky Linux with Postfix, Dovecot, and rspamd. I don't need a database because it's all LDAP on the backend, and I don't have webmail setup right now because I'm lazy. It's a bit of a hassle to get up and running well but it's pretty solid and I'm careful about managing my domain reputation so I don't have any issues with my mail being delivered.

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