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

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

FerretFred wrote: post #62

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 publishin…

That sounds like a great use case of MQTT. Do you have any tips or references to copy your approach?

Is it easy to display the last message received on a collection of topics? It would make it easy to watch a custom summary of a large system.

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Post by dervjd »

On an old Dell Optiplex Micro:

- AdGuard for DNS blocking.

- HomeAssistant for all of my smart home stuff.

- Confluence for my wiki (back when you could get a $10 license, and yes I know it's overkill/unnecessary pain).

- Postgres (for Confluence)

- Nginx for reverse proxy.

I also have a Synology NAS (DS1618+) with a bunch of 10TB drives. The stock Synology apps are pretty decent and the entire package is polished compared to using something like FreeNAS. I use the built-in Photos app to manage my photo collection, ActiveBackup handles backups across all my PCs, and the Synology Drive software replaces Dropbox for me (complete with the ability to share a file via a password protected link). I run a dockerized version of SabNZBd/Sonarr/Radarr as well right on the NAS. Synology's CloudSync utility copies my most important files to a Backblaze B2 bucket.

I have the NAS connected via a 10 gig NIC for the NAS and a cheap Mikrotik 10 gig switch (with a gigabit uplink to the rest of my network). Combined with a QNAP Thunderbolt to SFP adapter for my MacBook, it's more than fast enough to use like local storage, including running VMs.

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Post by lfmunoz4 »

Ourgon wrote: post #74

I've self-hosted more or less everything from the get-go back when I was working at a telco which provided me with a 4 Mb/s fixed line back in 1996. One of the first things I did was change to a self-hosted mail server with my own domain, the rest quickly followed. Just to name a few, used daily: - Proxmox to run all mentioned services - Software router to bind them all together (OpenWRT in a container) - Database se…

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

brimble wrote: post #53

Pihole. DNS-level ad-blocking for my network. Jellyfin. Movies/TV/Music server with a variety of clients, including a built-in web client, but also AndroidTV/Shield, Roku, Kodi, and more. It's like having a personal Netflix. Minecraft. The old Java kind. May be leaving for something open-source soon because MS has fucked up the account transitions so badly, and also make buying new copies bizarrely painful, error-pro…

I’ve been considering setting up plex so my mom and brother could access media. Would jellyfin be better for this?

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Post by drosan »

qwertox wrote: post #60
alligatorplum wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes but only a Raspberry Pi 4. The improvement compared to 3 is so big, that it's not worth getting a 3. And it's nearly impossible to get any of them. I've been trying to buy another 4 with 8 GB for over a year now, but am not willing to go beyond 80 € for just the board.

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Post by ortusdux »

tra3 wrote: post #25
isoprophlex wrote: post #8

Home assistant. Incredibly versatile and complete home automation software.

Home assistant is fantastic. The number of integrations available is unbelievable (and also somewhat scary, security wise): What I have right now: - integration with Tuya lights/electrical outlets - integration with AirThings air quality sensor - integration with EcoBee thermostat/presence sensors - integration with an LG Oven (status only as far as I can tell) - integration with Garmin ecosystem - integration with p…

I wanted sleep tracking without a fitness band or watch, so I got a sleep mat from Withings. It works as intended and is also great for bedtime triggers.
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