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

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- 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]…

What is your take on Plex vs Jellyfin? I am considering the move, but haven't really had a lot of problems with Plex other than it not being open-source

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

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Maybe not what you expect for an answer, but I'm self-hosting a telegram bot that does a bit of scrapping of a certain site I'm interested in, and serving those messages to a couple of subscribers (around ~10 people). I know, it is a very low user count, the interesting bit is, I wrote this bot in Rust using async with Tokio, and it's running on a Raspberry Pi 2011.12 with 256 megs of ram and a single ARMv6 core. I w…

>>> but I'm self-hosting a telegram bot that does a bit of scrapping of a certain site I'm interested in, and serving those messages to a couple of subscribers (around ~10 people).

Very interesting, I can see how this can be more practical than you think

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

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Local: Proxmox host with Homeassistant Jellyfin Unifi Controller Paperless NGX MyMedia for Alexa (streaming local music to Alexa) InfluxDB VPS: NextCloud FreshRSS Theoretically also Monica and Linkding, but I haven't managed to get into using either so far

Great selection, I need to check the Alexa music streaming. I didn't know it was possible. thanks

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

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I used to run a lot at home. But i realized that "support" stops when i would die.

My family, who is a- technical, would have not even have a clue on where would be what (since they freak already out if an icon on their phone is move 1 millimeter). So from that nonfunctional requirement for my own home solutions, I decided that self-hosting would not be the best choice, since it would be too dependent on me.

My family's knowledge stops somewhere at the concept of that pressing the B makes a word bold in Microsoft Word. Trying to explain how to run a script on a certain OS via a certain connection would be abracadabra.

The only thing i can imagine is if there would be some kind of paid service that would mirror your own home solutions and provide support for the long run if you fall away and which offers, when there would be again someone more technical to again transfer it to a home environment. (they would take care of new versions, bugfixes, change requests, databackups and so on).

Something like that, but that does not exist (well... as far I know).

So therefore, i try to host every solution at the places which are the simplest to understand and document what needs to happen if I would fall away. I also try to minimize the number of services. So I use office365 and onenote to document everything. (This used to be on my own hosted wiki).

Based on the nonfunctional requirement of maintainability.

I think there is however a need for a service that offers something like the above, to provide long term support for selfhosted environments taking into account all kinds of standards. That would possibly enable the self-hosted direction again.

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

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Local: Proxmox host with Homeassistant Jellyfin Unifi Controller Paperless NGX MyMedia for Alexa (streaming local music to Alexa) InfluxDB VPS: NextCloud FreshRSS Theoretically also Monica and Linkding, but I haven't managed to get into using either so far

Great selection, I need to check the Alexa music streaming. I didn't know it was possible. thanks

It's awesome. 5€ per year, but more importantly: overrides. When Alexa understands "famous artist", you can set it to instead always play artist X that you actually requested ;)

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

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At home:

- a FreeNAS with a bunch of Samba file shares and a Plex. I tried Jellyfin, because I got annoyed with Plex trying to force me to create an account on their cloud stuff, when I just want to use it locally. But the Playstation wouldn't play videos from Jellyfin, so I stuck with Plex.

On a dedicated server with public IP addresses:

- mail (opensmtpd + rspamd + dovecot)

- blog (made with Hugo, a static site generator)

- git (gogs)

- Nextcloud

- XMPP (ejabberd)

- VPN (tinc)

Each of those services is in a separate jail and the jail with the blog has an nginx that serves as a reverse proxy for all http-speaking services.

I'm considering replacing XMPP with Matrix (looking at conduit) and tinc with Wireguard. With the latter I might wait until FreeBSD 14 with in-kernel Wireguard is out.

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

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post #9

Maybe not what you expect for an answer, but I'm self-hosting a telegram bot that does a bit of scrapping of a certain site I'm interested in, and serving those messages to a couple of subscribers (around ~10 people). I know, it is a very low user count, the interesting bit is, I wrote this bot in Rust using async with Tokio, and it's running on a Raspberry Pi 2011.12 with 256 megs of ram and a single ARMv6 core. I w…

Sounds like an interesting blogpost in and of itself. Have a blog somewhere?

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

#80

- 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]…

What is your take on Plex vs Jellyfin? I am considering the move, but haven't really had a lot of problems with Plex other than it not being open-source

Never tried it. From reading others' comparisons of them in the past, I think the main material difference is that Plex has clients on a few more-obscure platforms than Jellyfin does (mostly TV operating systems other than Roku or AndroidTV). Me, my server's not strong enough to live-transcode past maybe SD resolutions, and a bunch of my stuff's in h.265, so I'm stuck buying nicer streaming boxes that have hardware h.265 decoding, rather than relying on e.g. Samsung's built-in OS (I eventually even had to give up on Roku, when I got enough h.265 content) so it doesn't matter a bit for me.
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