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Re: Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?

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Post by dismalpedigree »

KronisLV wrote: post #49

Here's what I have so far: - Zabbix: for monitoring my servers - Uptime Kuma: for monitoring whether sites are up - Mattermost: for some communication, also automation (e.g. notifications from Uptime Kuma) - Portainer: for managing Docker Swarm or Kubernetes more easily - Gitea: for my source code - Drone CI: for my CI/CD needs - Sonatype Nexus: for storing everything from my code libraries, to container images - Son…

What did you use to replace bookstack?

Re: Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

At home: none, quite honestly. I do enjoy playing around with Linux administration occasionally, but I have limited free time and energy, and I don’t want to accidentally get pwned. I do have a NAS for backups, but that’s it.

At work: WordPress and an in-house ERP system. We also have a NAS for file sharing, but management wants to ditch it and go the Microsoft 365 route.

Re: Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?

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Post by KronisLV »

dismalpedigree wrote: post #52
KronisLV wrote: post #49

Here's what I have so far: - Zabbix: for monitoring my servers - Uptime Kuma: for monitoring whether sites are up - Mattermost: for some communication, also automation (e.g. notifications from Uptime Kuma) - Portainer: for managing Docker Swarm or Kubernetes more easily - Gitea: for my source code - Drone CI: for my CI/CD needs - Sonatype Nexus: for storing everything from my code libraries, to container images - Son…

What did you use to replace bookstack?

For when I want to keep track of stuff that's connected directly to the projects that I work on, OpenProject has Wiki functionality built in: https://www.openproject.org/docs/user-guide/wiki/

For when I want to keep track of stuff that's connected directly to a particular codebase that I'm working on, turns out that Markdown files within the project's repo are more than sufficient.

Nothing wrong with BookStack, of course, it just felt like I didn't need it as a separate system.

Re: Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?

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Post by yamtaddle »

- Jellyfin (like having a personal Netflix, comes with a built-in web interface and has clients on Roku, AndroidTV, and AppleTV, among others—I spent north of a decade fucking around with XBMC/Kodi before settling on this, way more watching stuff, way less fiddling with the system, vastly better than Kodi for my purposes, anyway, far more usable by the non-geeks in my house)

- A Minecraft server for the kids. [EDIT] Buying actual Minecraft is such a huge pain in the ass now that I did try to convert my kids to Minetest with a Minecraft-alike plugin, but they rightly called it out as both very different-feeling and worse. I felt the same way when I tried it but hoped they'd be OK with it, but no, rejected within a minute and it was hard to argue with their verdict when I'd come to the same conclusion myself.

- Pihole. (ad blocking, local-network DNS which is handy sometimes)

- Samba (alternative works-almost-everywhere access to all those files Jellyfin is serving)

- Prowlarr (torrent meta-search, lets you search across dozens of torrent search engines with one query, very handy)

All of these are hosted in Docker on an old Lenovo workstation I bought off Ebay, then added extra ECC ram and a bunch of hard drives to. Linux, but the bulk-storage drives use ZFS.

I'm considering adding:

- Nitter (much-better Twitter interface—though IDK how long this is going to be relevant, the way things are goin)

- Some kind of solution for hosting YouTube stuff. Jellyfin can kinda do it but it's far from ideal. And the 3rd party plugin for it breaks some Jellyfin clients, so that's useless, plus its mode of operation isn't ideal even if it did work, so it only really works OK for YouTube series that happen to have TVDB entries so you can treat them as TV shows. Ideally this would let me use admin-level accounts to browse actual YouTube and save videos from it, then make only saved videos available to non-admins (with the ability to filter some categories or channels out, as you can with "libraries" in Jellyfin, so I can save stuff the kids shouldn't be seeing yet, without their gaining access to it). I dunno what this will end up being, yet, if anything.

- Maybe something for music that's better at hosting music than Jellyfin is. It's OK but could be better.

Re: Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?

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Post by srcreigh »

KronisLV wrote: post #49

Here's what I have so far: - Zabbix: for monitoring my servers - Uptime Kuma: for monitoring whether sites are up - Mattermost: for some communication, also automation (e.g. notifications from Uptime Kuma) - Portainer: for managing Docker Swarm or Kubernetes more easily - Gitea: for my source code - Drone CI: for my CI/CD needs - Sonatype Nexus: for storing everything from my code libraries, to container images - Son…

Do you have a favorite software that you just love?

I'm also curious how you decide to self host vs host on cloud. Is it purely for public facing vs private stuff or is it different?

Also, what are the majority of your costs? Do you have a few different VPSs or one big shared one?

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