This is an awesome resource! I already have what i need (file, torrent, gitea server), but im looking for software to try out just for fun.
Edit: Fixed PiHole from saying "VPN" blocker to "AD" :-D
Are we sure Libreddit will stop working? The latest post from Reddit states that less than 100 api calls per second will remain free if you're logged in. I'm not exactly sure how Libreddit works (I use a self-hosted Troddit instance) but it's my understanding that API calls tied to your own user should be fine as long as you stick under than 100/sec limit.
Just going off what they said:
Here are some I find really useful:
First time hearing of Paperless. That's super cool!
One of the main things is that Paperless applies OCR to each uploaded document, so you're not just searching for the message content and metadata, but also the whole content of the document. Maybe some email clients will do this too. It also has a tagging system which can automatically add tags based on document content. Mostly I just like having everything that's relevant in one place, and only what what is relevant. So if I'm looking for concert tickets I don't find the "order confirmed" and other related emails that do not actually contain the tickets.
Have you looked at Adguard Home instead of pi-hole? I had been on pi-hole for years and just recently switched to AGH. My primary is in docker and secondary on pi but I think I like your idea better so I'll probably switch that around. I like AGH better so far.
I haven’t looked into it yet. What do you like better about it?
(I put my primary pi-hole on a pi because it’s practically the only thing on it - I can reboot it quickly if needed and not have a lengthy downtime on my DNS - the was before I had the second one running)
I find the user interface to be more intuitive and it seems like it's a bit more effective than pi-hole at ad blocking. It also has built in adult content filter lists if you want that which includes forcing safe search on multiple search engines, which is interesting. One thing I'll miss about pi-hole is the local dns config. I had stuff set like "pi.local" and "unRAID.local" so I didn't have to type IPs over and over. Afaik, AGH does not have that feature.
I currently have a server running dnsmasq just for DHCP/local DNS, and have it set with Adguard Home as its upstream servers. That way I can set up custom blocklists, and have local resolution as well.
!selfhost@lemmy.ml https://lemmy.ml/c/selfhost
(still don't know how to link communitys here)
Here are a few I like:
For a real hands off approach take a look at Yunohost or CapRover. Both are very easy installs and will give you a gui to manage your applications and other self-hosted services. It's a great way to dip your toes in. The only difference is that with yunohost, they bundle most of the self-hosted services with their own local-sso implementation, so you only need one login for all your services. This is nice if you want a set it and forget it solution. With CapRover, you basically just have a nice gui to manipulate docker installs, so if you find it a bit too restricting, you could just manipulate the docker installs yourself via command line.
Both are great entry points!
EDIT: Honorable mention of DietPi !
I also host my own mail and there's been little issues.
Microsoft is a pain in the ass if you're in an IP space they don't like like DigitalOcean. Which is ironic because they have the worst spam filter by far in the industry.
If you want to get through to everyone you will have to:
I can't recommend mailcow enough, it makes setting up a mail server a breeze.
https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized
Use the MXToolbox to verify your server(s).
It’s a fun project that’s worth trying yourself once or twice. For me it was a huge learning experience but ultimately too much work to maintain so I ultimately went to a paid email service.
I have had issues with it over the years. Many will blacklist entire cidr nets for a single bad actor. I get this on my linodes frequently if I proxy traffic through them. Ie: tons of captchas on google/YouTube.
When I ran my own mail it was similar. Often having to spend time getting IPs off rbls and the like because some other node on my subnet was malicious.
In the end, I just moved my email over to workspace. Not ideal. But it works.
One thing I did notice was that as soon as I registered my domain in workspace (but hadn’t even setup mx records or began moving mail) a lot of issues with google immediately stopped, and thus, same with Office.com. I actually ran this way for a while but then google axed freed accounts and I just moved my stuff to them and pay.
Maybe because I use a gTLD? I dunno. But it was a headache.
Ok I may have to set up uptime Kuma. I have some services that I don't realize are down until I need them, and it gets frustrating
Caddy is simpler for the reverse proxy. Just sharing for people that get scared when they try to set up Traefik.
Ngnix-proxy-manager is even simpler :) But along with the automatic router creation using labels, I've found traefik to be the most robust of all three.
The traefik syntax and configuration using yaml is really initutive. I can link a good guide here if someone wants it. The official documentation isn't that good.
One of my favourite guides explaining the configuration files for traefik.
Nginx proxy manager is simple, but I can't manage to make it work with https on porkbun. Nginx-proxy works just fine and it's probably the simplest i've seen.
That is pretty cool :) I have a domain on porbunk too but even up putting DNS on cloudflare because porkbum uses cloudflare anyway but doesn't expose most of the features. Kind of a loss loss. Cloudflare works with pretty much everything.
I'll check out nginx-proxy. Have heard good things about swag too. How is the setup on nginx-proxy compared to other options?
Please do! I have been trying to set up remote access to a server I have, and there seems to be so many solutions and all seem very complex.
Have linked one :) For remote access, I wouldn't necessarily use traefik at the edge. The safest solution would probably installing zerotier/tailscale on the remote server and accessing traefik through that. That way you don't have to expose unnecessary parts or worry about robustness of authentication etc.
If it is a single computer you can easily make a two computer network using the instructions from wireguard archwiki page and you're all set :)
Honestly I started using traefik first and I agree, the learning curve is steep. I'm only just now starting to understand what my labels are doing. But now, I've tried caddy and literally cannot get it to work, or find how to port what I have on traefik over to caddy lol.
Here are all the steps after installing Caddy to create a reverse proxy with SSL:
/etc/caddy/Caddyfile filesubdomain.example.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:8080}
systemctl restart caddyI really like Memos. It's a micro blogging site that is minimal, but has a lot of neat features. I'm using it as a replacement for DayOne's journal app.
And I'll second Veloren. My kids and I are having a blast playing.
These are the ones I use most actively, on my FreedomBox:
One of my most used softwares on my server is calibre and calibre-web. It allows me to self host my own book server with a very nice looking front end
Ohh that is very interesting. I really like hosting media like that. I feel it’s very important to share knowledge with people in what ways you can, especially literature
I was unaware of that, and I really shouldn't have been. Thanks.
How is the workflow with this? Also what kind of frontend client can be used for reading? I'm curious to try but haven't got the time to set this up so far.
So I use calibre as my backend client essentially. My library is managed through there, and I load my books in there as I get new books. It’s a bit clunky, but it’s reliable for what it does, and can even be set to auto tag your books and grab new covers for them
Calibre-web is what I mainly use to interact with it in my day to day uses. It’s a very clean front end that connects to my calibre server, and even has account management if that’s your thing. It’s hosted as a website, so I can access it from anywhere in the world. When I click on a book, I can either read it in the browser, or I can download it. Usually I just download them to my tablet and read them there as you would any other pdf/ebook. It’s a super clean way to manage a ton of books
KOreader is a great app for ebooks, and i'm pretty sure it can sync your progress with your phone as well. I've put syncthing on my e reader and phone so my books are synced across both devices. I'd also recommend you look into selfhosting wallabag, because you can set up koreader to fetch your saved articles and webpages as well. It's really handy.
It’s more of an ebook manager. I haven’t used a kindle myself, so I can’t give you the best comparison there. It gives me an easy way to access my books from anywhere though since it’s essentially a website connected to my home lab. As long as your e-reader supports downloading epubs and pdfs from websites, this should be a good solution for maintaining your ebook collection
You may be way ahead of me on this, but I highly recommend using docker for this endeavor(or podman), as it really allows you to try a lot out without making a mess of your system.
I run pihole, syncthing, and gitea locally(among less interesting things.)
I just started using podman yesterday, and only used docker for about a week before that, im excited for the learning to be had in this area. A couple days ago i tried pihole, for some reason it didnt serve the web interface, but i will definitely kepp on trying.
Yacht is a great UI for starting a container, especially for self hosting, there are a good amount of tutorial online.
I personally also host
Some other things you can try:
So PiHole is a little special if I recall correctly, you have to give it a dedicated virtual interface. Or at least I did. I'd highly recommend using docker compose(or the podman equivalent) for setting up your various containers. It makes it very easy to bring them up and down and modify them quickly and easily.
Not to overload you here, but if you do get PiHole going, I recommend setting up a docker to act as a proxy so you can setup an internal domain. PiHole can manage the internal DNS entries, then the proxy will translate them into the various docker services. So you could have, say, DNS entries that say miniflux.beerd.local to make it very easy to remember.
Can you share with me what OS you are running? At the moment I am using MX Linux because it is familiar to me, but is likely suboptimal for running a server.
I think docker is really cool, but felt like a lot of work compared to using flatpaks or a package manager, but I am really limiting myself and it is probably not that hard to learn.
Oh, as for os, i'd recommend dietpi on a SBC that uses a memory card, because it logs to RAM so you don't wear the card as much, and Debian for everything else. You don't run I.to problems with Debian. Unless you like snaps, then go with Ubuntu. As much as I hate snaps, they are good for some services that tend to break on upgrades, like has been my experience with nextcloud.
Ooh. I have a RPI 3 that I never use. Maybe I am overcomplicating this. I tried to use it for managing my 3D printers but it was just a hassle. I think it is actually cheaper to get one of those Creality boxes at this point instead of rolling my own.
Plus SBCs are quiet. Okay, I will try it.
Octoprint on a pi is great for 3d printers. You can even use a pi zero of you disable Bluetooth (it uses the better serial chip otherwise). I've never seen the creality boxes. I'll have to look into it.
Strange, Lemmy didn't tell me you replied. Well, I run mostly Ubuntu Server OSs for Linux for work, but at home I am cheating and using a Synology NAS as my home server with docker installed on it. CentOS used to be a good go-to for servers, but I think Redhat made some changes to the way it releases and I think a lot of the CentOS users moved to other distros.
Interesting. I never used CentOS, but I think it makes sense to run an OS designed to be used in servers. That would probably make my life a hell of a lot easier than setting up everything on my own.
Good call.
Honestly, with Linux, the biggest difference between server distros and desktop distros is if a GUI is installed by default. But one advantage of using a well known server distro like Ubuntu Server is that most articles on the Internet assume you are running it.
CentOS still works great for servers. The problem with classic CentOS and other RHEL clones is that they can't fix bugs or accept contributions that change the OS. CentOS finally fixed these problems by moving upstream of RHEL (but still downstream of Fedora). It is now the major version that RHEL minor versions branch off from, so it's still very stable and highly compatible with RHEL. I've got a thread with diagrams that may help.
The thing about docker is, you can set it up with all your data mounted into a folder in your home directory. So, for instance, ~/docker/jellyfin/data, and your docker compose file for jellyfin is in the jellyfin folder. So if you want to move it to a different system, you just rsync the folder over and run docker-compose up and it's done. Also, backups are super simple, because you just stop the container, rsync (or Borg or duplicati, restic... whatever) your container's folder over. Of your server gets completely trashed, you just restore your backup to another computer and you're good. Usually the better maintained projects are even architecture aware, so you can move from Intel to arm or whatever. It's totally worth learning.
Okay. Awesome. I was seriously thinking about getting NAS or a specialized media box like an NVIDIA Shield or Dune HD, but I have plenty of older computers that can do the job, so it seems like a waste. I have Rokus that handle video playback, so I just need to set up streaming.
I do need to get better at backing up! My computer has like, 250 GB SSD and a TB HDD I never mount, but definitely need to use for offloading all my data. Just downloading a few games really eats up my disk space. Need to get that sorted out too.
Damn I am so lazy with computers.
I used a really old laptop with a bunch of USB disks for quite a while. Then I made a naskiller 4, and it was super easy to migrate because I used docker for everything. I'd recommend searching up the nasskiller builds whenever you do want a NAS. They price everything out and tell you exactly what you need and what options you have, and it emphasizes getting used hardware off eBay for cheap.
Backing up is always a challenge. I'd suggest looking into duplicati, because it's super easy for servers and desktops.
Personally, as well as NextCloud, I'd host instances of LibreX, CloudTube, PiHole, Gitea, XMPP, and CryptPad.
If it's fun you're after, though, why not try hosting a Minecraft server? And how about XMPP or Matrix, to keep in touch with friends?
I haven't really looked into it much, as I don't currently have enough time or money to self-host anything, but I'd probably go with Prosody to start with.
Miniflux as an RSS reader
This will create rss feeds with the full article. It can then be used in your aggregator/reader of choice to allow offline reading. I use it in combination with FreshRSS and Feeder on android.
I suppose so, but I'm not sure since it's a web app
Nextcloud, Bitwarden (vaultwarden is the name of the OSS server), Adguard Home / Pihole and Paperless-NGX might be some things which can have a pretty big impact in your daily life.
Home Assistant! You can host it inside a VM.
I attempted to use different home assistant softwares, but i always ended up deciding that i will wait till offline voice recognition is a bit more usable (not being a native englis speaker its a rougher experience). I will pobably try it again soon though.
Home Assistant, despite the name, isn't an Assistant like Alexa or Google Home, it is actually a home automation integrator. It connects to practically everything, and then workflows can be triggered off the states of your IOT stuff. In my house, I use it to, among other things, turn down/off the light when grid power goes down and I'm running on battery power, as well as send me a notification that I've lost grid power.
I have two instances of BookStack. A public-facing one for bird stuff, and one for home stuff. I also self-host an instance of Plausible Analytics as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics.
I've got a pretty booring setup compared to most 🤣. Ubuntu Server running the following in docker,
Audiobookshelf has come a really long way. The version out now is heaps and bounds better than what it was 1 year ago.
Also, if you want to actually learn, I would strongly recommend against using Docker containers for everything. Besides being stuck with what the developers prefer, all the work of installing things is already done.
I really disagree on this point. You should use docker or podman (preferably Podman) to containerize your applications on your server to keep them ephemeral and separated from the host OS wherever possible. This improves security, makes setups reproducible, and eases backup and restore procedure. If you want to build from source do so with a containerfile/docker file to keep your build environment fresh and clean.
On my 2 raspberry pi's I am running Pihole, Pivpn, Syncthing, Photoprism, Unify controller, Heimdall (webpage that has all my servers....locally accessible, or non local via wireguard connection via pivpn) Might be more can't remember! Prob more from other suggestions on here over next few days 😂
Might I suggest Dashy/Homarr? Heimdall has been abandoned I think. I went from Heimdall to Organizarr to Dashy/Homarr.
Heimdall still being maintained via linixserver, but just looked up dashy/homarr....and looks pretty nifty! Think I might spin this up and run both until I figure which one I like best 😊 thanks!
No worries :) I didn't know that. Last time I checked the GitHub looked kind of dead. It is a great project so I'm glad it's alive.
Homarr is kind of good for a very simple page and is very robust but dashy is really powerful. It has become an essential part of my homelab.
This reminds me that I need to learn how to use SSH so I can put files on a server.
I have been doing everything the hardway, but I have a few capable older computers I want to put to work.
Self-hosting is going to be my new hobby, I know it.
SSH, and then docker compose. Are you familiar with linux CLI? Also, if you're interested in putting files on a server, you can always mount the folders locally with sshfs. SSH is basically enough to make linux preferable to windows for anyone who likes to tinker or do anything remotely. And it's not going away either. The SSH knowledge I gained a decade ago is still completely relevant.
I know have used this before. Hell, I am pretty sure I have taken a class on Unix. I just need familiarise myself with it again.
Thank you! Reading man pages can be unecessarily confusing.
I'm using the following:
Plex for music/anime/tv/movies, calibre webserver for ebooks/manga, qbittorrent web+Prowlarr to search for and download content, SyncThing to keep things in sync between my server and desktop, and I'm also file sharing with nicotine++
thanks for using Leebra!
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You may need to work backwards, identify a service as a need and then figure out which software to run.
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