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

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I'm looking for a good source code search solution that has navigation (browser based), and lets me add local repos. I have used Sourcegraph before and would use that, but perhaps there are better alternatives?

Opengrok: https://github.com/oracle/opengrok

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

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Oh just my kind of topic. - SearX, a selfhosted metasearch engine. Has almost entirely replaced Google search for me. - Gitlab, hosts my projects where I collaborate with some friends. Pretty resource intensive. - Invidious, alternate Youtube frontend - Nextcloud, syncs my contacts + calender aswell as notes with my phone, password manager, file sharing with family/friends - Mail, ol' reliable: postfix + dovecot

Have you ever had issues with search engines blocking your searx host? What do you still use Google for?

Yes, it sporadically happens, even though there are not a lot of users on it.

I still use Google for images mostly (or when the others are blocked).

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

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I finally got around to replacing my personal hosted WordPress site with a VPS, allowing me to get started with self-hosting apps (which is something I'd been planning to do for years).

I currently have a Hugo blog, repo hosting with Gitea, a self-developed travel microblog/tracker. I'm thinking about playing around with Mastodon and Matrix at some point, or perhaps Solid.

The last thing I really want is a cataloguing tool for tracking books I read/films + TV I watch/games I play/music I listen to. This would replace the various social cataloguing sites I currently use (Goodreads, Letterboxd, Followmy.tv, Grouvee and Last.fm, respectively).

I've not been able to find a suitable pre-existing tool though. Bookwyrm looked interesting with its ActivityPub social features, but AFAICT it's limited to books only. I also looked into Koillection which was much more flexible, but doesn't seem to have any import ability for my pre-existing data.

Does anyone know of anything that might suit my purposes? I would like if it could automatically download cover art and I am ambivalent towards social features. I could bash together something simple myself but I'd like to avoid that if possible.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever had issues with search engines blocking your searx host? What do you still use Google for?

Yes, it sporadically happens, even though there are not a lot of users on it. I still use Google for images mostly (or when the others are blocked).

> Not a lot of users on it

How many users? Presumably more than one?

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

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Uh, "everything" comes to mind:

- mail (Exim/Dovecot/Sieve/Spamassassin/greylistd)

- XMPP messaging (Prosody)

- Video (Peertube)

- Media (Airsonic, mpd, jellyfin, karaoke forever)

- "cloud" (Nextcloud running a host of services, Collabora office (libreoffice online), ...)

- wiki (Bookstack)

- revision control (gitea)

- search (SearxNG)

- "social media" (Pixelfed, Pleroma) (just for experiments)

- remote desktop/remote applications (Kasm, X2go through a VPN)

- VPN (Wireguard)

- privacy-protecting application proxies (Youtube -> Invidious, Twitter -> Nitter, Reddit -> libreddit, search -> SearxNG)

- ad block list provider for Bromite

- mapping/navigation (OSM Maps in Nextcloud)

- p2p (Transmission, MLDonkey, IPFS)

- surveillance (Zoneminder)

- build services (on-demand containers through Proxmox)

- minetest (Minecraft clone) server (for experiments)

- administration/bookkeeping (Elicon online, an old Swedish web-based system which I kept running)

- a virtual router to tie all this together (OpenWRT running in a container in Proxmox)

- Database services needed for the above (PostgreSQL, Mysql, Redis all running in a single container)

- Backup service (rsnapshot) with backup being mirrored off-site (and out of country) to my brother's network

- all the scaffolding needed for the above

...and more. All of this on a single DL380G7 "under the stairs", connected through gigabit fibre. Proxmox on the host, Debian on the containers, OpenWRT in a container as well. Some VMs for Windows-on-demand which hardly see any use. The machine serves my extended family as well as a number of public resources. Waste heat is used to dry produce. The machine hardly breaks a sweat. Power comes from solar panels on the barn roof.

My goal is to

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

#96
On my VPS, I have:

- SearXNG

- RSS Bridge

- Tiny Tiny RSS

- Mastodon

- Synapse + matrix-appservice-discord + mautrix-facebook

- go-jamming to receive WebMentions for my blog (so far: exactly one)

- Plausible Analytics (for my blog and marketing site)

- webhookd

On a big cheap box at Hetzner I have:

- A GitHub Actions runner

At home:

- Samba on a big ZFS array

- Duplicati

- Plex

- scanservjs

- Home Assistant

- Homebridge

Everywhere:

- Netdata

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

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I've been hosting the Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Prowlarr stack, Plex, HomeAssistant and a Misskey server and a Matrix server for close friends. I had considered Bitwarden too, but at $10/year I'd rather just pay to have it hosted reliably, while I self-host things that don't outright make it hard for me to do stuff if they happen to go down.

Keep in mind that Bitwarden also works offline. If ever your client cannot reach the server, it will still have all entries saved locally. You can then back up all that and restore later, if your server should ever have a problem

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

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I've been hosting the Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Prowlarr stack, Plex, HomeAssistant and a Misskey server and a Matrix server for close friends. I had considered Bitwarden too, but at $10/year I'd rather just pay to have it hosted reliably, while I self-host things that don't outright make it hard for me to do stuff if they happen to go down.

FWIW, BitWarden syncs your passwords locally. The only time you would run into issues is if you need to access using a new device, or a new password that you haven't synced (ex signed up today but haven't used the BitWarden app). The only scenario self hosting BitWarden is a problem is if I am away, there has been a power outage at my house and nobody I can ask to switch on the server, and I have misplaced my phone a…

I hadn't realized that Bitwarden would work fine locally (in hindsight it makes sense as otherwise it'd be useless without an internet connection). Maybe I'll try self hosting it then.

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

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Nextcloud (files, contacts, calendar, GPodder sync), Home Assistant (and Node Red for automations, Mosquitto MQTT server, ZWave JS), Joplin Server (notes sync), Plex, Vaultwarden, Miniflux (RSS server), Pihole, Syncthing, Linkding (minimal bookmarks with tags, description, etc), wireguard server, Valheim game server, ntfy (push notifications for server alerts and makes a nice websocket/SSE backend for some simple sel…

I am currently using Obsidian and thinking of moving back to Joplin. Is Joplin now able to sync changes when detected? or is it still limited to periodic sync?
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