Hey everyone! I’m sort of still green for selfhosting, but I wanted to share my setup so far:

The following services are selfhosted in docker

  • Audiomuse (smart music tagging, mood based and all that)
  • Navidrome for music hosting
  • Jellyfin for TV shows (not a lot) and Films (not a lot again, but steadily increasing)
  • Radicale for serving contacts/TODOs/calendar
  • SFTPGo to act as my drive
  • Kavita for ebooks and manga (I have tons of both)
  • Glance for homepage
  • forgejo for git forge hosting

The system specs are kind of visible in the homepage, so I won’t spell them out here again. Mostly an old optiplex running arch, though I want to change it to nixos later on.

System tools:

  • nushell for shell
  • calibre for ebook management and tagging + fanficfare plugin to download fanfictions
  • Caddy for reverse proxy (so I don’t have to remember ports)
  • netbird for VPN (also because it allows me to set wildcard DNS resolution for nodes, so I don’t have to set up a dedicated pi-hole or adguard)
  • Handbrake and ffmpeg for processing videos and such
  • beets for tagging music
  • a sysinfo script to generate system information for glance to consume
  • Probably other things too, I’m forgetting

Everything is accessible only via netbird, and external inbound connections are firewalled off

Apart from that, I eventually plan on adding the following as well:

  • Immich for photo hosting
  • Vaultwarden for passwords
  • Gollum (still debating on alternatives) for a webUI for my notes
  • Paperless-NGX

I’m still thinking on more that I can add. Note that whatever I add should not need an inbound connection/stable IP address, since I don’t intend to expose the server to the public. Any suggestions/tips? Thanks!

UPDATE: Forgot to add, I’d probably add homebox too, for inventory management 😅

UPDATE 2: I’m silly, I forgot that I’m also looking into self-hosted RSS feed readers 😆

  • ignominous_wombat@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    You could look into:

    • SearXNG (aggregated search engine)
    • Mealie (recipe collection & meal planning)
    • CryptPad (replaces Google Drive)
    • oPodSync (gPodder-compatible podcast syncing server)
    • Sure or Actual (personal finance tracking)
    • Diun or Watchtower (container update tracker; IIRC Watchtower auto-updates by default, Diun does not)

    Thanks for posting, I gotta add the random facts to my Glance dashboard now.

    • innocentz3r0@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I’ve heard good things about SearXNG. I’ll be sure to check that out.

      I don’t see the need for cryptpad, since SFTPGo serves my purposes.

      I’d look into mealie, since I’m going to live alone and need to figure my own meals out. Perhaps Sure/Actual too!

      I am still looking at container management, right now I just manually update/backup everything.

      • ignominous_wombat@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, no worries if they’re not all useful to you. I still do the actual updates manually, Diun just tells me when to do them so I don’t have to routinely check project pages or follow an RSS feed.

      • ignominous_wombat@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        So a few podcast apps support a service called gPodder, which provides cross-device syncing of subscriptions and episode progress, but the gPodder servers are slow and often time out, rendering the service useless.

        oPodSync is essentially a drop-in replacement for gPodder. My use case is that I listen to podcasts on both my desktop and my phone, and I want episodes to be seamlessly accessible on both devices without having to manually do anything.

        It’s very resource-light, so if you have any interest in podcasts at all it’s another piece of cool tech that gives you more control over your data. I used to use Player.FM, which is still a cool app, but I was paying them $13/year for a small handful of premium features I didn’t really think were worth that much.

    • innocentz3r0@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Thanks! Still remember the good old days, when I didn’t know how to set up docker compose properly (I don’t think I still do 🤣)

      But I’ve certainly come a long way, and it’s really fun! Also, I’ve seen you post here often! Cheers!

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        (I don’t think I still do 🤣)

        Learning is one of the facets of selfhosting that I genuinely get a kick out of, and as you say, it is much fun. It’s a very useful, very practical, and entertaining hobby for me. My servers are like a huge playground. I’m still that kid running out to the mailbox to get the latest edition of Byte magazine.

        Also, I’ve seen you post here often!

        Much to chagrin of some I am afraid. LOL I am an expert at nothing, but if I may be of service in any way, please do inquire. There are a lot of people here willing to help.

  • Reannlegge@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    What do you have against pihole? If it is you want to see ads you can turn off the adblocking and see ads but you can use it for internal dns naming for services with Caddy as I find it more reliable than just Caddy across multiple systems.

    • innocentz3r0@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I don’t have anything against Pihole. It’s wonderful! I don’t have additional resources (like RPi), and I want to keep everything on one system, and my usecase is simple enough that netbird covers it, and I don’t know if I should pass all my DNS requests on both my phone and PC through my server (because iirc it’s finally the pihole system that’ll make the request?)

      Also I hate ads lol