Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting?

My side and pet projects, all on one server:

- https://en.openspanish.org (spanish dictionary, still improving)

- https://en.openrussian.org (russian dictionary)

- http://weeks.michel-helms.de (overview over your life, alpha)

- http://nextmovie.co (german movie discovery website)

- http://veryinteresting.io

- https://finsheets.io (import PayPal/Stripe transactions into G Sheets)

- Email with hmailserver (Windows only unfortunately, but easy to install and configure and with an optional web interface).

- websites (apache, php), on which I host: personal websites, friend's websites, a synchronised grocery list for my gf and I, an URL shortener with file upload capabilities that has some handy features (I'll show-hn this one day, but currently the server is too underpowered and https too unstable), some front ends for websites whose front end I don't like, and a gazillion other scripts written since I was 17 or so.

- ftp (Filezilla server) for friends to change their website

- mysql which can be publicly logged into as read-only for some databases

- openvpn

- I'm a member of the ntpd pool (surprised that nobody abused that one yet)

- backups

- irc bouncer (quassel)

- Factorio (game) server and other games when desired

I also used to host my own dns servers, but after becoming an amplification vector this wasn't really worth it. I might again in the future though, because it seems like rate limiting a source IP should mitigate it for 99%.

And I used to seed torrents (also illegal, admittedly, but also some foss) but I've been using that less with Spotify, little gaming, and just generally less free time on my hands. There's no need for it anymore.

Finally I'd like to be a Tor node but my server can't handle the crypto. It'll get a few kbps of bandwidth and annoy clients because it's so slow. No point to that.

This costs me about 300 euros in hardware and 25 Watts of power. Next upgrade is scheduled for this summer, after my degree, when I can retire my current laptop. It'll draw a bit more, some 71W peak (24W idle), but it'll also be a huge upgrade in speed and will allow me to virtualize things. The current hardware is from 2014ish and while my own software works fine, something like WordPress takes 25 seconds to generate a single page. (For comparison, a custom written blog does a few mysql queries and rendering in some 15ms.)

If you are self-hosting services for your own use then I don't think GDPR could be a problem.

I don't trust the cloud, so I self host everything.

Internet facing:

1. Custom SMTP Mail Server. Does specific filtering and anti-spam (using SpamAssassin)

2. Various Websites, both personal and professional:

- http://www.Jaruzel.com (personal bits and bobs)

- http://www.MattOwen.com (.net, .org, .co.uk)

- https://www.weegeeks.com (rss reader app)

- http://www.fuzzybuttons.com (small webshop, self written e-commerce code)

- http://www.writersgifts.co.uk (small webshop, self written e-commerce code)

- http://www.Greblord.com (keeping the memory of a dead friend, alive.)

- A custom web-chat server that works through ALL corporate proxies. ;)

I'm in the process of migrating to a new Webserver, and then I can finally switch to SNI based HTTPS, and secure ALL the sites properly.

Internal Servers:

1. SpamAssassin (Ubuntu)

2. 2x Active Directory Servers

3. File Server (12Tb) (Windows Storage Server)

4. IoT Server (runs tasks, listens to events etc)

5. MS SQL Server

6. MS Exchange Server

7. Several other small single-purpose servers. (Various OS's)

8. Dedicated set of VMs for Lab work (I'm a systems architect)

With the exception of the File Server, everything is virtual. My Production VMs run on one large HP Tower workstation and my Lab VMs run on another similar HP box (both are 32Gb, 4Tb, 2x Xeon CPUs). My File Server is self-built tower PC stuffed full of disks as several RAID arrays.

Future stuff:

1. I'm about to launch a Gopher Server, running on my own custom software.

2. I've installed a weather station and will be logging all that info to a dedicated website.

3. At some point I'll start re-running my MUD server as well.

If the sites store other users info, then they fall under GDPR regardless of whether you are a company or not. I'm in the same boat here and this week will be purging all identifiable user data that is over 90 days old, and emailing the remaining users with 'opt in' emails. Then I will be updating my backends to do this automatically on a schedule.