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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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- Filestash: the file manager I made for myself

- Dispatch: IRC client

- Grafana: to create graphs for all sort of stuff

- Gogs: for private git repos

- minio: a selfhosted s3 compatible

- Apache: to host some files I want to share and a few api endpoint as a dirty lambda alternative

- Radicale: for caldav cardav with agendav for webclient

- Webmail-lite: for mails

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

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How much time do you spend maintaining this stuff every month? Like upgrading versions, etc.? Do you subscribe to any security channels? Do you care what language it's built in, try to keep it all on a few languages to minimize maintenance burden, etc.? I've been considering self-hosting, but put off thus far by the above concerns.

Initially I spent a lot of time as I used it as an opportunity to learn Nix/NixOS. I used Nix intentionally as it's a rolling release and also it's declarative and intended for reproducible deployments, so I don't need to deal with an OS like Ubuntu that slowly gets crufty and out of date and needs a clean-up or upgrade or complete re-install. And if I do need to re-install, it should be mostly a one-liner. For secur…

That's awesome, would you mind sharing your nix config. I have never used nix and would love to see an example

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much time do you spend maintaining this stuff every month? Like upgrading versions, etc.? Do you subscribe to any security channels? Do you care what language it's built in, try to keep it all on a few languages to minimize maintenance burden, etc.? I've been considering self-hosting, but put off thus far by the above concerns.

Initially I spent a lot of time as I used it as an opportunity to learn Nix/NixOS. I used Nix intentionally as it's a rolling release and also it's declarative and intended for reproducible deployments, so I don't need to deal with an OS like Ubuntu that slowly gets crufty and out of date and needs a clean-up or upgrade or complete re-install. And if I do need to re-install, it should be mostly a one-liner. For secur…

What setup did you use when you were learning NixOS? Server in the cloud or a desktop rig?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Initially I spent a lot of time as I used it as an opportunity to learn Nix/NixOS. I used Nix intentionally as it's a rolling release and also it's declarative and intended for reproducible deployments, so I don't need to deal with an OS like Ubuntu that slowly gets crufty and out of date and needs a clean-up or upgrade or complete re-install. And if I do need to re-install, it should be mostly a one-liner. For secur…

What setup did you use when you were learning NixOS? Server in the cloud or a desktop rig?

Started by getting it working on my new work laptop (Thinkpad), then putting it on my personal laptop (Dell XPS) to figure out how to split config into multiple hosts, then finally onto an HP proliant server I've got hosted at home.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Initially I spent a lot of time as I used it as an opportunity to learn Nix/NixOS. I used Nix intentionally as it's a rolling release and also it's declarative and intended for reproducible deployments, so I don't need to deal with an OS like Ubuntu that slowly gets crufty and out of date and needs a clean-up or upgrade or complete re-install. And if I do need to re-install, it should be mostly a one-liner. For secur…

That's awesome, would you mind sharing your nix config. I have never used nix and would love to see an example

I'd prefer not to share my personal git repo as it would reveal my identity, but I based it on these:

https://github.com/MatthewCroughan/nixcfg

https://github.com/hlissner/dotfiles

https://github.com/georgewhewell/nixos-host

https://github.com/ipetkov/dotfiles

There's also the DevOS project, which is an attempt to create a base of boilerplate than anyone can use as a start to build a system:

https://devos.divnix.com/

Recommendations:

* Definitely use flakes

* Use Agenix to store secrets out in the open (encrypted with your SSH key)

* Use home-manager

* Keep config modular so you can selectively include it in various hosts and domains (e.g. desktop vs server).

Think of it as building software when you figure out how to organize your config. The bulletpoints above can all be a bit difficult to figure out so don't feel bad if you don't get them installed right away. Try to start with a machine that isn't your daily driver and blocking your workflow.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What setup did you use when you were learning NixOS? Server in the cloud or a desktop rig?

Started by getting it working on my new work laptop (Thinkpad), then putting it on my personal laptop (Dell XPS) to figure out how to split config into multiple hosts, then finally onto an HP proliant server I've got hosted at home.

Most interesting. Did you feel confident you wouldn't mess up your work laptop too catastrophically?

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

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Over time I've tried to whittle down my homelab and move more of it to Microsoft 365/Google Suite/iTunes Store with mixed results. Currently my must haves are: * Router - pfSense - https://www.pfsense.org/ * Movies/TV/Home Videos - Plex * Minecraft Server - AMP - https://cubecoders.com/AMPInstall * Music - Roon - https://roonlabs.com/ * Automation - HomeAssistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/ * Unifi Controller *…

I'm also on self-hosted Zimbra and looking to move away from it, but I just can't bring myself to go to google or microsoft for something like that.

I'll probably end up with Roundcube or something similar.

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

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Unlike others here, my goal isn't to be "google free" or "apple free" but instead to have backups so that I'm not reliant on a cloud platform going away. To that end, my main server (self built around an Asrock Rack mITX motherboard with a low power Core i3 9100T which supports ECC RAM and 6 4TB IronWolf NAS drives in ZRaid2) has: - Urbackup - backup client and server for all desktops and laptops in the house - Seafi…

Urbackup looks interesting for backup of my kids Windows laptops. Does it take an "opportunistic" approach rather than a rigid schedule? I.e.: If the laptop and backup server notice they're on the same network, and there hasn't been a backup for a while, then initiate an incremental backup?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Started by getting it working on my new work laptop (Thinkpad), then putting it on my personal laptop (Dell XPS) to figure out how to split config into multiple hosts, then finally onto an HP proliant server I've got hosted at home.

Most interesting. Did you feel confident you wouldn't mess up your work laptop too catastrophically?

100%. I did already have another laptop that I used until this one became stable. Now I feel it's more stable and useful than my previous one though. It actually helps rather than hinders when it comes to avoiding messups and catastrophic mistakes. Each time you deploy, it creates a snapshot, so you can always roll back if you mess something up. And as you update your config, your system gets progressively more stable and to your liking. And it's forever, since it's just text files stored in a repo. I feel like it achieves the same thing as Chromebooks do, except without the involvement of a centralized corp. My laptop is my data rather than the hardware itself. You do need to backup anything stateful though, but I don't have much stateful data on my machine other than some code in my home folder which is already backed up in git.

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 reserv…

I am out of the loop. What is “*arr”?

I was curious about this too, and looked into it. It's referring to a suite of piracy apps, for automatically building libraries from trackers.

Wiki (linked from one of the githubs, has links to all apps and more info than the githubs): https://wiki.servarr.com/

Lidarr (Music): https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr

Radarr (Movies): https://github.com/radarr/radarr

Readarr (Books): https://github.com/readarr/readarr

Sonarr (TV): https://github.com/sonarr/sonarr

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