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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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Post by cosmiccatnap »

I feel like this has to be someone who doesn't do this for a job.

I host a VM for my router I host a VM of open media vault I host an arch box for my development.

Any notes or projects I have are edited in vim and committed to GitHub. Any networking stuff that isn't supported by openwrt isn't bothered with and I spend my free time mostly reading books. Actuall paper books and occasionally taking actual paper notes.

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

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Post by FerretFred »

Mosquitto MQTT Broker. Its main purpose is to receive published system status (free disk space, memory, load, temperature) messages from other servers. The clients all use mosquitto_pub in a 5-line bash script run by crontab every 5 minutes. It's secure, has a very low overhead all round and I can access the topic from any device that has an MQTT client without needing SSH, VPN etc access.

I also use it for publishing file upload status messages, and recently, the carbon-zero fuel power generation percentage for my neighbourhood.

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Post by enobrev »

jmnicolas wrote: post #43
kretaceous wrote: post #26

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.

This is exactly my setup. I build a new desktop from scrath every 5-7 years (upgrading incrementally in between) and my last desktop is now my server. Added 5 pairs of 10tb drives using zfs and the thing is so reliable I sometimes forget I'm hosting it at home.

I have it connected to a small UPS due to the occasional random brown-out in my neighborhood. The server only runs on the UPS for about 15 minutes, but during the rare substantial power outage, that's enough for me to power it down gently.

I also have a little desktop Lenovo PC I found cheap (used) at microcenter that I use as my primary zwave hub with a custom MQTT/JS based home automation script. This replaced a Raspberry Pi, which I loved, but after losing the storage a couple times, I no longer rely upon as a primary server

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

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Post by miloignis »

Synapse (Matrix homeserver), mautrix-telegram (bridge for Telegram to Matrix), Element Web (Matrix client) Mastodon (federated, activitypub Twitter-like) SyncThing (P2P Dropbox) - fantastic for syncing my purchased music & ebooks between devices and sharing with my wife.

These are all on my small NixOS VPS (or individual devices for SyncThing) - I've been meaning to setup an old laptop as a server at home for home automation and media.

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Post by cassianoleal »

dotnet00 wrote: post #51
cassianoleal wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you federate your Matrix server with the main network? Which implementation do you use, if you don't mind me asking, and what has been your experience?

Yes, I do federate (I also use it for IRC and you need federation to access the liberachat IRC-Matrix bridge). Besides that I have just one other active user. I use synapse as the server and Element as the client. I had tried out a bunch of other clients a few months ago, but found Element to be the most mature. My experience has been pretty great overall. There were a few early issues (relating largely to a slightly…

Thanks for the writeup!

I've tried running Synapse (and was partially successful) a little while ago but didn't try to federate as I never took the basic hosting of it anywhere.

I will try again when I have my new home infra set up.

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Post by brimble »

hn_version_0023 wrote: post #45
kretaceous wrote: post #26

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

I got an ecc-ready used workstation on Ebay. After adding a smallish SSD for the system drive and upgrading the memory to 16GB I think my total cost was in the neighborhood of $200. Cost about as much as two top-end fully-equipped (case, heat sinks, disk) Pi4s, but is much more powerful, and, conveniently, includes space & ports for my SATA spinning-rust bulk storage disks.

It is a (fairly small) desktop tower, so it takes up quite a bit more space than a couple of Pis, though, again, it also encloses some internal hard drives, which is nice. I'm not sure about power use but I'd just gut-instinct guess it's equivalent to four or five Raspberries Pi, even if you take out the power to run the hard drives, so it is (probably) worse on that front.

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