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Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by DrPhish »

I self host everything I can at home, so this list might be a bit too exhaustive, but there wasn't any scope on this ask HN, so...

Overall hardware platform:

4 pcengines alix boxes for openbsd router/firewall appliances

3 supermicro Opteron servers with KVM/corosync/Sheepdog/csync2 for hosting all VMs

Software:

PF + CARP + pfsync + OpenBGPD for routing

Unbound + NSD + Bind for DNS

SSH/OpenBSD ipsec/apache Guacamole for roaming and permanent site-to-site VPN (pcengines ALIX hosted at my inlaws in Japan)

Apache + Lets Encrypt + awstats + relayd for serving web pages and analysis

ZoneMinder for video monitoring. Tied into legacy security system for automation

Postgres for database work. Some mysql/redis

NetDisco + Nagios + NagVis + NFSen + MRTG + Smokeping + PNP4Nagios + NUT + Splunk + Racktables for monitoring. All configs are dynamically generated from netdisco db

OpenSMTPD + Citadel (webcit) for email delivery and webmail

Minetest server for kids. We use this tons as a family, and the kids spend lots of time modding. TW2002 server. TShock server.

OpenELEC for diskless netboot KODI machines around the house

Samba4 Domain controller + NFS for sharing files in different applications

SVN for source control and Config diffs for all servers/tools/network devices

Asterisk via FreePBX / NCID for all phone/CallerID services, including remote handsets at VPN locations

And that's just the ones that I really enjoy using off the top of my head. I hope to find lots more things to try in this thread. Metabase already looks like an awesome candidate!

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by callahad »

Things I've actually kept self-hosting for personal use for more than a year:

- Wekan (Trello clone) https://wekan.github.io/

- Taskwarrior + Taskserver (Todo lists) https://taskwarrior.org/

- Syncthing (File sync) https://taskwarrior.org/

- The Lounge (IRC client) https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/

The "Awesome Selfhosted" GitHub repo is a decent place to discover things: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

nilved wrote: post #25
tchaffee wrote: post #5

I wish I had a success story to tell, but I've increasingly moved away from self-hosting. Whenever something breaks I have to pull myself away from the programming I'm enjoying and go fix it. And if something breaks when I've already had a long day working under a tight deadline for a client, it feels like a disaster.

That's precisely why I self-host. You can fix it yourself. Most people self-hosting GitLab will have a better uptime than GitHub.

This has not been my experience - it's phenomenalally cheaper to shell out a few bucks to GH than deal with self hosted self control.

Even an hour a month of lost dev time would make it worth it.

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by maddyboo »

tiangolo wrote: post #29

Everything with Docker: https://www.docker.com/ Rancher (to control Docker stacks, set up HTTPS with Let's encrypt, etc): http://rancher.com/ GitLab (git repositories): https://about.gitlab.com/ Rocket.Chat (internal chat): https://rocket.chat/ Sentry (production code error handling): https://sentry.io/welcome/ Metabase (DB analytics and graphs): http://www.metabase.com/ Mailu (email server): https://github.com/Mailu…

Is KeeWeb new? I went through an extensive search for a new password manager a few months ago when I transitioned from macOS to Arch Linux and yet I've never heard of it. I ended up settling on Enpass which is decent but not perfect. KeeWeb looks nice though, how do you like it?

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by zweicoder »

DrPhish wrote: post #31

I self host everything I can at home, so this list might be a bit too exhaustive, but there wasn't any scope on this ask HN, so... Overall hardware platform: 4 pcengines alix boxes for openbsd router/firewall appliances 3 supermicro Opteron servers with KVM/corosync/Sheepdog/csync2 for hosting all VMs Software: PF + CARP + pfsync + OpenBGPD for routing Unbound + NSD + Bind for DNS SSH/OpenBSD ipsec/apache Guacamole f…

Wow that is a long and awesome list! If you don't mind me asking, how much did it cost you to setup / maintain it? Also what is the main reason driving you to self host so much stuff?

Re: Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools?

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Post by jlgaddis »

maddyboo wrote: post #37
tiangolo wrote: post #29

Everything with Docker: https://www.docker.com/ Rancher (to control Docker stacks, set up HTTPS with Let's encrypt, etc): http://rancher.com/ GitLab (git repositories): https://about.gitlab.com/ Rocket.Chat (internal chat): https://rocket.chat/ Sentry (production code error handling): https://sentry.io/welcome/ Metabase (DB analytics and graphs): http://www.metabase.com/ Mailu (email server): https://github.com/Mailu…

Is KeeWeb new? I went through an extensive search for a new password manager a few months ago when I transitioned from macOS to Arch Linux and yet I've never heard of it. I ended up settling on Enpass which is decent but not perfect. KeeWeb looks nice though, how do you like it?

FWIW, I use KeePassX [0] on Arch Linux. I also use LastPass (because $work has an Enterprise account) but I prefer using lastpass-cli [1] instead of the browser extensions.

[0]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/keepassx...

[1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lastpass...

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