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

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Post by jraph »

- Emails (Postfix, Dovecot and their friends)

- Nextcloud (files, contacts, agendas, picture sharing),

- Invidious

- WordPress I guess for the few websites I maintain.

- PeerTube (to host videos for my choir)

- Trivabble [1], a network Scrabble game I started, which is used quite a bit, so I guess it counts, but not by me (because I don't enjoy playing Scrabble).

I probably forget something but those are the most used.

[1] https://trivabble.org/demo/ | https://gitlab.com/raphj/trivabble

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

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Post by dervjd »

nwellinghoff wrote: post #59
klinquist wrote: post #52

Perhaps only barely fitting the definition, my most used application is ESXi on a intel Mac Mini which runs VMs for Ubuntu & Windows. I lost the ability to use Windows software that interfaced with devices over USB when I got my M1 MBP - or so I thought - until I learned that you can share USB devices over the network to a VM running on ESXi. So now I have my windows ham radio programming software (uses a USB-Serial…

Can you flesh out the whole “share usb devices over the network”? What are you using to do that? Thanks!

Not the OP, but it's a feature of the vSphere client ("Client Connected"). https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1022290

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

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Post by no-dr-onboard »

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 think you may have changed my disposition on smart home automation. A lot of these integrations seem really useful. Thank you for this comment.

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

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Post by mekster »

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…

AdGuard Home is great too.

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

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Post by tenebrisalietum »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #86
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?

I keep hearing Plex requires a plex.com account to log into your own personal self-hosted server. Jellyfin definitely does not.

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

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Post by npteljes »

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…

My first home server was an old beaten laptop, the CPU was not even 64 bit. Even the current one is assembled of basic office hardware and some HDDs. My suggestion is that you grab the first unused hardware available, and use that.

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

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Post by jeroenhd »

We're dong lists? Okay then, here's mine, in order of guesstimated value/effort: PiHole, Jellyfin, Matrix Synapse, Vaultwarden, several Matrix bridges (Telegram and WhatsApp mostly), Mailcow (postfix+dovecot+sogo+rspamd+…), Home Assistant, Gitlab, Keycloak, Selfoss (RSS), Sonarr+Radarr+Jackett, Nitter, Nextcloud, Seafile.

I've also got a bunch of smaller services that I don't really use as often. I used to run Grocy and Firefly III quite intensively for a while, but Grocy's UI started annoying me too much and tracking finances became too annoying to do every day. I should look into updates on those or alternatives, because they served quite a useful purpose.

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

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Post by iwebdevfromhome »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #56
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 look at Oracle Cloud. They have a "free forever" plan that looks quite nice (4 ARM CPUs, 24 GB RAM and 200 GB storage).

TIL! With those specs it might even be possible to run a k8s cluster

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

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Post by npteljes »

speakspokespok wrote: post #16

I’ve never been one for the managed password apps like onepass or lastpass. Instead for years now I’ve kept everything in keepass shared out through Caldav. There’s an application on every single OS or marketplace that’s compatible.

Same here, with a self-hosted Nextcloud.
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