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?
Multiple hosts. Win2024/hyperv and proxmox
- domain/dns/dhcp/ncp 2x
- pihole
- iobroker (smarthome)
- sonarr/radarr/orowlarr
- emby
- sabnzbd
- vpn-vm for torrent/soulseek
- searxng
- dav for calendar
- caddy (for emby/dav from outside)
- firefly (banking)
And some minor, less important ones.
All backup to a central server, which does a daily backup of the backup onto another nas. In case of emergency,just grab nas.
Plex, transmission, home assistant, some SSH tunnels, some custom home automation endpoints.
Self hosted retro private EQemu, I also use the server for Jellyfin, just for music.
I used to use it to control my window AC from work too, but sadly the smart plug I use for that died over the winter, was nice to pair with those tuya-alternative through http since my cheapo phone needs to save all the storage it can. Its on a very old rig, so I’m always impressed that it still works.
You might like to search this community, and also \c\self_hosted, since this question gets asked a lot.
For me:
- Audiobookshelf
- Navidrome
- FreshRss
- Jellyfin
- Forgejo
- Memos
- Planka
- File Storage
- Immich
- Pihole
- Syncthing
- Dockge
I created two things - CodeNotes (for snippets) and a lil’ Weather app myself 'cause I didn’t like what I found out there.
how do you like freshrss? do you use it on mobile too?
I love it. I do use it on mobile, in my browser too. I’ve been meaning too see what other clients are available for android.
This might be a better question for !selfhosted
Homework worth of TBs
countless “read later” pdfs …and cat pictures
Cat pictures ? Definitely the best possible use of a server 😄
On my Raspberry Pi 4 4gb with encrypted sd is:
- pihole
- wireguard server
- vaultwarden
- cloudflare ddns
- nginx proxy manager
- my website
- ntfy server
- findmydevice server
- watchtower
Pi is overkill for this kind of job. Load average is only 0.7% and ram usage is only 400M
can you tell us how you got this running with an encrypted SD card?
That was really hard to do. I created a note for myself and I will also publish it on my website. You can also decrypt the sd using fido2 hardware key (I have a nitrokey). If you don’t need that just skip steps that are for fido2.
The note:
Download the image.
Format SD card to new DOS table:
- Boot: 512M 0c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
- Root: 83 Linux
As root:
xz -d 2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz losetup -fP 2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img dd if=/dev/loop0p1 of=/dev/mmcblk0p1 bs=1M cryptsetup luksFormat --type=luks2 --cipher=xchacha20,aes-adiantum-plain64 /dev/mmcblk0p2 systemd-cryptenroll --fido2-device=auto /dev/mmcblk0p2 cryptsetup open /dev/mmcblk0p2 root dd if=/dev/loop0p2 of=/dev/mapper/root bs=1M e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/root resize2fs -f /dev/mapper/root mount /dev/mapper/root /mnt mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/boot/firmware arch-chroot /mnt
In chroot:
apt update && apt full-upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y && apt install cryptsetup-initramfs fido2-tools jq debhelper git vim -y git clone https://github.com/bertogg/fido2luks && cd fido2luks fakeroot debian/rules binary && sudo apt install ../fido2luks*.deb cd .. && rm -rf fido2luks*
Edit
/etc/crypttab
:root /dev/mmcblk0p2 none luks,keyscript=/lib/fido2luks/keyscript.sh
Edit
/etc/fstab
:/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot/firmware vfat defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/root / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
Change
root
to/dev/mapper/root
and addcryptdevice=/dev/mmcblk0p2:root
to/boot/firmware/cmdline.txt
.PATH="$PATH:/sbin" update-initramfs -u
Exit chroot and finish!
umount -R /mnt
Thank you so much! will make a note of this
findmydevice server
What server are you running for this?
ATM I have the following running:
- Caddy
- NextCloud
- Webpress
- Plex
- Actual Budget
- Portainer
- Vaultwarden
- Grafana
- Stable Diffusion
- QBT
- *arr stack
- 4 Debian instances with differing bits and bobs on
- MIT Scratch
- Neon KDE (Drives lounge TV)
- Win10 and 11 vms
- TrueNAS
- OpnSense
- Homepage
- Navidrome
- SoulSeek
Curious about the specs of your machine.
it’s an i5 13xxx with 64GB ram and a HBA passed through to TrueNAS with 7 disks on it and a second network card passed through to OpnSense for WAN/LAN
All the above runs in Proxmox and has a bit of room for expansion still ;) This was a 50th to myself to replace an IBM M4 space heater
Headless server accessed via SSH. Hosting Jellyfin, FoundryVTT, a Discord bot that I just mess around with, and also use it to run an IRC client inside screen.
Just Jellyfin and modded Minecraft right now. Nothing super interesting, but great fun.
I’m using SSH to interact with the Minecraft server in tmux, and the web interface for Jellyfin.
Two old HP thin client PCs configured as 4TB SFTP file servers using vsftpd on Debian. Each one uses software RAID 1 with both an NVMe and SATA SSD internally, and are in two separate locations with a cron job which syncs one to the other every 24 hours.
People who actually know what they are doing will probably find this silly, but I had fun and learned a lot setting it up.
tell me about the cron thing. im thinking of doing just that on mine for backup.
are you scping them together?
I am using lftp and mirror. One server functions as the “main” server, which mirrors the backup server to itself once per day at a specific time (they both run 24/7 so I set it to run very early in the morning when it is unlikely to be accessed).
In my crontab I have:
# # * * * /usr/bin/lftp -e "mirror -eRv [folder path on main server] [folder path on backup server]; quit;" sftp://[user]@[address of backup server]:[port number]
til about lftp. i’m gonna be testing that one out thanks
No problem! Glad I could be of help, and best of luck on your project.
If it works reliably who cares?
- OrangePi with HomeAssistant and PiHole.
- Old gaming PC turned 24/7 server with Jellyfin, V-Rising server
- Hetzner cloud with Matrix server for Messenger and Discord bridging.
- Synology NAS for SMB and sharing stuff with others through Synology Drive, which also serves as a seedbox for Redacted.ch, with Headphones and Transmission.
NUC 8i5, 32GB, 500GB NVMe (host), 8TB SSD (data), Akasa Turing fanless case, running Proxmox:
- samba
- syncthing
- pihole
- radicale
- jellyfin
- minidnla
I also have a Pi 4 running LibreElec for Kodi on the home theater. Nothing fancy yet and it more than meets our current needs. Most maintenance done over SSH.
Would like to eventually get a proper web and email server going (yes, I know).
Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tiny. Debian + Podman systemd quadlets, running these services:
- Jellyfin
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Qbittorrent w/ VPN
- Linkwarden
- Calibre Web
- Immich
- Lidare
- Postgres
- Prowlarr
- Vaultwarden
Do you have any tips (or examples) using quadlets? I tried using them but I couldn’t wrap my head around them.
I used this guide https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman
I have a folder on my in my home folder called
containers
symlinked to/etc/containers/systemd
with my .container files. This is my jellyfin.container for using the Nvidia Quadro on my server.[Unit] Description=Podman - Jellyfin Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target Requires=nvidia-ctk-generate.service After=nvidia-ctk-generate.service [Container] Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest AutoUpdate=registry ContainerName=jellyfin Environment=PUID=1000 Environment=PGID=100 Environment=TZ=America/St_Johns Environment=DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/gilbn/theme.park:jellyfin Environment=TP_THEME=dracula Volume=/home/eric/services/jellyfin:/config Volume=/home/eric/movies:/movies Volume=/home/eric/tv:/tv Volume=/home/eric/music:/music PublishPort=8096:8096 PublishPort=8920:8920 PublishPort=7359:7359/udp PublishPort=1900:1900/udp AddDevice=nvidia.com/gpu=all SecurityLabelDisable=true [Service] Restart=always TimeoutStartSec=900 [Install] WantedBy=default.target
I use
sudo podman auto-update
to update the images to utilize theAutoUpdate=registry
option.
P330 tiny is so good I just wish there was a ryzen version with a pcie slot. Quicksync is great but I hate Intel.