Ask HN: What do you self-host?

#1

Post by aeleos » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 8:24 PM UTC

I know this is has been posted before but that was a few years ago so I wanted to restart the discussion, as I love hearing about what people host at home.

I am currently running an Unraid server with some docker containers, here are a few of them: Plex, Radarr, Sonarr, Ombi, NZBGet, Bitwarden, Storj, Hyrda, Nextcloud, NginxProxyManager, Unifi, Pihole, OpenVPN, InfluxDB, Grafana.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

#2

Post by Mave83 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:17 PM UTC

powerdns, wireguard, gitlab, nginx, pgsql, mariadb, zabbix, nextcloud, Grafana, graphite, prometheus, haproxy, postfix, and a lot more

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

#3

Post by lostmsu » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:22 PM UTC

I tried to host OwnCloud, but could not figure out how to make fully automatic updates to function (including host OS - e.g. Ubuntu).

Now I only host my own project: http://billion.dev.losttech.software:2095/

Also regular Windows file sharing which I use for media server and backups.

Though I'd like to expand that. Maybe a hosted GitLab.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by Spivak » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:23 PM UTC

Plex, Bitwarden, Nextcloud, Unifi, Pihole, OpenVPN, IPSec VPN, Gitea, OpenLDAP, Portainer, My Personal Site, Cloud Torrent, TTRSS, Grafana, Loki, FreeRADIUS, Kanboard, Dokuwiki, SMTP, Goitfy, php*Admin, Container Registry, Python registry, Matomo, PXE Server.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

#5

Post by peterangular » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:30 PM UTC

I'll bite because I love threads like this! I run an Intel NUC with an i5, 8G RAM, a OS SSD, and an external USB3 4TB RAID attached. OS is Debian 9. I've always ran a "general utility" Debian server at home due to projects and SSH tunneling (yeah yeah I should setup a proper VPN I know ha).

* It's a target for my rsync backups for all my client systems (most critical use); Docker TIG stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana) which monitors my rackmount APC UPS, my Ubiquiti network hardware, Docker, and just general system stats; Docker Plex; Docker Transmission w/VPN; Docker Unifi; A custom network monitor I built that just pings/netcats certain internal and external hosts (not used too seriously but it comes in handy); and finally a neglected Minecraft server.

I went for low power consumption since it's an always-on device and power comes at a premium here + fanless. I highly suggest the NUC as it's a highly capable device and with plenty of power if upgraded a bit!

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by zzo38computer » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

On my computer I host HTTP (with Apache), SMTP (with Exim), NNTP (with sqlnetnews), QOTD (TCP only, no UDP), and Gopher. I might add others later, too (e.g. IRC, Viewdata, Telnet, Finger, etc). And on the HTTP server I host several Fossil repositories.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

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Post by rolleiflex » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:52 PM UTC

I’m pretty vanilla compared to most people here, I just host my own email and I have a Synology box that provides a few utilities like an Evernote replacement.

I also host Aether P2P (https://getaether.net) on a Raspberry Pi-like device, so it helps the P2P network. But I’m biased on that last one, it’s my own software.

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

#8

Post by fractalf » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

Gitea for an easy gui git access to repos with personal/sensitive data and Resilio for backing up my phone

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

#9

Post by fractalf » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 9:58 PM UTC

lostmsu wrote: post #3

I tried to host OwnCloud, but could not figure out how to make fully automatic updates to function (including host OS - e.g. Ubuntu). Now I only host my own project: http://billion.dev.losttech.software:2095/ Also regular Windows file sharing which I use for media server and backups. Though I'd like to expand that. Maybe a hosted GitLab.

Try Gitea instead og Gitlab if all you need is just a simple online gui for git. Its like a lightweight version of github, super sweet

Re: Ask HN: What do you self-host?

#10

Post by pjc50 » Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 10:09 PM UTC

I used to host email and a blog. I even had a server in a rack on which I let people have shell accounts.

I still have the email domain, because it's easier to run it forever than migrate all the things you signed up for. But actually running my own email is too much of an obligation and need to keep up on all the anti spam measures.