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Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?

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In a similar thread 8 months ago I broke down my self-hosting infrastructure : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106197

Since then I have added a few things, partly from that thread.

The big things were hosting Sandstorm.io, which is a complete self-hosted google-apps/office365 type setup that is very easy to use and has great functionality. My entire family uses it for a variety of things that we used to use independent files or google apps for. Nicely collaborative.

I have also recently started self-hosting a meta-searchengine called Searx in order to extricate myself from google on another front. It has also been pleasantly easy to set up, and the aggregated and collated search results have been excellent. Its much faster and more usable than I dreamed of when I decided to test drive it. It anonymizes all browser/os/etc fingerprints to keep the search engines that you query in the dark about your habits. I've toyed with tunneling it over TOR to make the whole thing even more private, but that may slow things down too much. Again, my family have pretty much all switched to it.

I even use both of these things externally (protected by https, geoip blocking and simple auth)

I have also added a minemeld server for IP blocking and DNS blackholing of malware/spyware/C&C servers etc. This is an excellent Ubuntu based free server put out by Palo Alto networks. I combine this with the existing blocking/blackholing I do with the someonewhocares blocking lists. It really keeps browsing from my home network faster, safer and mostly ad free.

Also hedgewars and teeworlds for mindless family multiplayer action

Re: Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?

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I've started doing this as a hobby, to see how many services I regularly use can be replaced. They're all behind an nginx reverse proxy + letsencrypt cert on a hetzner box.

IRC: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/ (Use a lot, and it works decently well)

Cloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/ (Works surprisingly well, however, I've heard there are security issues)

Analytics: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/ (I'm comparing how much I'd lose out compared to google analytics, if I ever move away from it)

Chat: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/ (never really use it, just wanted to see how it works)

Git: https://github.com/gogits/gogs (Mostly for mirroring git repos)

Browser IDE: https://icecoder.net/ (I'm able to edit the code for the bots/projects I host from the browser itself)

Calibre library front end: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

Pastebin: https://github.com/LINKIWI/modern-paste (never use it)

Linkshortener: https://github.com/LINKIWI/linkr (occasional use)

Mail + mailbox + webmail: https://mailcow.email/ (Had to spend a bit more time, but now it is able to deliver mails to gmail/outlook/icloud without issues. I use it as a mailing solution for all the selfhosted projects which need smtp)

Online Markdown editor: https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger (Used quite a few times)

Minecraft server

Music streaming: https://github.com/phanan/koel/ (I'm not a native english speaker, so quite a few songs I listen to aren't on spotify)

Neo4j, mongodb, mysql and postgres: For all database needs.

Server monitoring: https://github.com/firehol/netdata

Photos: https://github.com/Chevereto/Chevereto-Free (I use it quite a lot to host images I'd have used imgur instead)

R Studio server, and Jupyter notebooks: For work/hobby programming

I've had a lot of help from https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/

I"ve had to move from one VPS provider to another while testing, so I have a handy guide for setting up quick here: https://github.com/itsmehemant123/basic-vps-setup .

I have a separate guide for hosting each of the above projects behind an nginx with https, but its quite rough right now. So its private.

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