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What are your most used self-hosted applications?

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Anyone running Postfix should integrate Postal in front of it.

It's been a pain in the ass to even view what emails came and went with what volume, it will let you run event hooks as well and can integrate with rspamd as well and view each email's score as well.

Interface is very clean too.

https://github.com/postalserver/postal

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

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Listing the docker images. All this is hosted on a 45 Drives unraid server.

adguard/adguardhome - Blocks ads on devices that don't support ad block extensions

charlocharlie/epicgames-freegames - Bot that will automatically "purchase" free games from the epic game store. I have it setup to telegram me a link to enter the captcha.

chuckmacdev/adrfinder - Checks for Disney dining reservations and emails a link to reserve

fusengine/apaxy - Decent web file browser

linuxserver/*arr - ya'll know why :)

linuxserver/smokeping - Really useful to troubleshoot network issues

plexinc/pms-docker - I want to switch to jellyfin but I have so much data in Plex now it'll probably be a huge pain

jlesage/nginx-proxy-manager - I'm lazy and hate setting up reverse proxies

jlesage/qdirstat - Pretty useful when dealing with a server that has as much data as mine does

adolfintel/speedtest - Good for troubleshooting networks that might preferentially give speedtest.net better speeds, also good for internal network testing

linuxserver/sabnzbd - Obvious

haugene/transmission-openvpn - I don't feel comfortable downloading any torrent unless it goes through a vpn

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…

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.

Pi's are so hard to find. A second hand small form factor (SFF) Dell off eBay is cheaper and more powerful/flexible.

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

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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…

Wow, this sounds great! Did you happen to write up any details on your blog or someplace? I'm greatly interested in learning more about this!

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

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Top two are definitely Syncthing and Navidrome. I really couldn't live without either of these.

Organizing music is always a pain. But I use MusicBrainz picard on a desktop or laptop over an sshfs mount to my server. It works quite nicely.

I use Calibre-Web, but the whole Calibre system is just plain awful. It's straight out of the 1990s in terms of UI and work flow. I'd like to replace it one day, but I haven't found anything better.

I also self-host an instance of Cyberchef[1] which is an incredibly cool web app that does a variety of data conversions and other things. No real point to hosting it I guess, but nice if you're working with private data.

[1] https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

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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 currently use and host both, plex while non free is more friendly to less advanced users and has native iOS and apple tv apps (which jellyfin does not (the jellyfin ios app is a webview and dosen't always behave well for me))

There are 3rd party apps for jellyfin on apple tv, but it's just not as smooth of an experience as plex.

I'm hoping that jellyfin will push plex to get better, as some of the most requested features for plex have gone unanswered for years, which is quite frustrating for software that is paid.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I was reluctant to switch from Emby to Plex for this same reason but it turns out you can run plex self-hosted without any account. I have Plex running on a server and streaming from the Plex app on an LG TV without requiring an account.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/207538527-do-i-need-a-plex-... has more detail

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

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My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free. I've also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone. This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven't had to test it yet.

Nextcloud - for caldav and carddav calendar, contacts, and tasks

Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device

Synchthing - backup data from my phone. I use Neo Backup to take a snapshot of all apps, so the phone should theoretically be restorable from scratch.

Jellyfin - Spotify replacement. The Finamp app is fantastic.

Home Assistant - automate my media center, as well as control outdoor lights and door locks, and check if any doors or windows are open or unlocked when I'm away.

OPNSense on a protectli box - amazing open source gateway software that does everything.

AdGuard Home (on OPNSense) - DNS based ad blocking

Wireguard (on OPNSense) - allows me to have an always on partial tunnel VPN on my phone and laptops that allows access to home services while remote, and also allows me to use my Ad Guard DNS.

HAProxy + LetsEncrypt (on OPNSense) - setup to provide subdomains for each of the services at home. Only a couple are public (contacts and calendar), but the rest become available when the VPN is on.

Smokeping - use it to collect data to rub into Spectrums face when they go down.

Pintry - Pinterest clone

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