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What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Depending on how pedantic you want to get, my most-used self-hosted application is SSH followed closely by nginx and gophernicus.

To give an answer more in line with what the post author appears to want, I've been playing around with Pleroma lately, so it's my most-used self-hosted application until I find something newer and shinier to distract me.

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I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner. While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now. My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden. What would be a good way to get started? Any sugg…

I don't know your situation, but can't you use an old PC to start your self-hosting journey?

It's what I did. It costs me less in electricity than a VPS but it's way more powerful.

The only thing I eventually bought was an UPS, because for some reason I regularly have micro power cuts at home.

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I have a home server running Plex, but access is local only. I'd love to run some other applications as well, but I need to access these remotely. Anyone have a simple, straightforward and secure process for remote access to a home server?

I'm not affiliated with either, but I use rathole (https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole) and kamatera (https://www.kamatera.com/) as my own kind of ngrok. But I've also heard good things about tailscale (https://tailscale.com/pricing/) which has a free hobby tier. Gonna give that a try after work today.

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I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner. While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now. My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden. What would be a good way to get started? Any sugg…

You can pick up an HP MicroServer for around $400 on ebay… this is my plan, as I am also on a tight budget, and burning cash, even a $5/mo Droplet, is just more than I wish to spend.

Bonus, those MicroServers are supported by ESXi, IIRC

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner. While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now. My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden. What would be a good way to get started? Any sugg…

> What would be a good way to get started?

Rent a Linux server, deploy the Tailscale client, run apps on it.

> should I really self-host on shared CPUs

That shouldn't generally be a problem unless you're a very high value target (or really unlucky), but if you're that worried, rent a bare metal server.

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I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner. While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now. My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden. What would be a good way to get started? Any sugg…

Why not just use a Raspberry Pi? It's cheap and uses almost no power (=very low electricity cost.)

Re: What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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If we're going to be cheeky, it's almost certainly BIND (behind unbound and nsd, driven by blacklists fed by minemeld), followed by ISC DHCP and other plumbing running in the background like mrtg/sflow/pnp/netdisco. If we're going to just talk about user interactive self-hosting then it would be a toss-up between my private searx instance and kodi via diskless netbooted openelec. Roundcube, sandstorm and invidious ge…

yep i definitely know some of these words

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I REALLY want to start self-hosting but I can't afford a separate homeserver. I have a personal list of software to self-host and have looked into VPS providers like DO, Vultr, Linode & Hetzner. While they're cheap, should I really self-host on shared CPUs because that's all I can afford right now. My basic system would be Pi-Hole, Miniflux, Linkding. Maybe Bitwarden. What would be a good way to get started? Any sugg…

A Raspberry Pi is the perfect playground to get started with self-hosting. It is cheap and barely takes up any physical space.

Pi-Hole and bitwarden are simple enough applications that you can host both of them on a pi. Plus there are plenty of guides available online to guide you thru the process if you do get stuck.

I got started with self-hosting pi-hole on a raspberry pi myself.

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