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Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by fdw »

derkades wrote: post #52
bmitc wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2x of docs.paperless-ngx.com/ (one for me and one for my partner) - I scan and destroy most of the letters I get. Ah, interesting. I have been considering finding a solution like that. How do you like it? Are there other alternatives you considered?

I used paperless for a while but ended up just saving pdfs to directories instead. I can find what I need without fancy OCR features by organizing and naming files sensibly. And I am fairly certain this will still work in 40 years, while paperless, or even Linux, might no longer exist.

In the end, paperless also stores the original pdfs in a directory. You get some more goodies from it, like automatic OCR and a web interface, but your baselines is also included.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by 4ggr0 »

Debian as the OS, Portainer to have a WebUI so that I can manage containers a bit more easily. Jellyfin to stream movies, Transmission-OpenVPN to download movies, Blog container and caddy to manage the traffic. Wireguard so that I can connect to my home network remotely.

The server has a GTX 1050Ti so that it can transcode the movies, was a bit of a challenge to be able to successfully use the GPU in the Jellyfin container, but works flawlessly now.

I plan to setup a Nextcloud or maybe Syncthing to backup my own files and photos, but I'm not sure how I want to handle backups, maybe just an external SSD. Cloud backup would be cool.

A local Bitwarden server would be nice as well, but maybe I'll just switch to good old Keepass.

Has a Ryzen 3, 16GB RAM, 3TB storage (2x 3TB in a mirrored RAID).

What stresses me out a bit is that I don't really monitor the state of my RAID, so theoretically it could currently be broken without me knowing. I'm not doing anything against this because I currently only store movies and shows which are also copied to an external SSD for travel, so I don't really care if it goes tits up.

But if I want to start hosting my files and passwords, I gotta make that more stable.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by Dries007 »

On premise I have:

    - Fritz!Box 7530 AX (purchased router, connected to fiber endpoint hardware from ISP)
        - OpenVPN
        - Dynamic DNS update of domain name
    - Synology DS220+ (bought new with 2x4TB, running striped/RAID0, uses ~30W under load)
        - Download center with various RSS feeds
        - Plex
        - Primary media collection
        - Adguard in a Docker container
        - Google Cloud/... drive sync
        - Backup target for all non scheduled backups.
    - Synology DS1817+ (second hand, together with extension bay hold ~35TB worth of drives)
        - On a power cycle schedule + Wake-On-LAN (it uses 200W idle and power is expensive here)
        - Backup target of my entire DS220+ and all other devices where I can schedule backups.
        - Media archive
    - Raspberry Pi 4B (no SD card, boots via SSD over USB3)
        - Home Assistant OS
        - Used to run Adguard, but moved to NAS for stability (I play too much with the HA install)
        - Various hardware attached to read out smart meter, control lights. Hardwired as much as possible, Zigbee for wireless IOT stuff.
    - (Linux) Workstation
    - PiKVM attached to my workstation.
        - Not required because SSH, but useful since I use PiKVMs at work, so I have a test one at home.
    - Chromecast on TV
Off premise:

    - Hetzner AX41-NVME
        - Various websites for hobby projects (nginx+...)
        - Pterodactyl (Game server panel)
        - Backups to included 100GB Storage box and DS1817 via Borg
    - Backblaze
        - Important stuff gets an immutable backup here. Costs are currently
Future plans:

    - Replace 1G network with 2.5G
        - I can have symmetric gigabit fiber here, so I'd like to (ab)use it.
        - Requires a new router, I'm thinking of getting one of those NUCs with 6x2.5G.
        - May require a few new cables to be pulled, but the runs are so short I think the existing wiring will manage.
    - Setup cross backups between my and my parent's NASs to have a free off-site backup.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by bfly »

- Infra - Portainer - Caddy - Wireguard / Netmaker - RSS: TT-RSS - Files and Backup: - Seafile - Duplicacy - Search: Searx - Automation - Automation scripts, should probably replace by Home-Assistant - Telegraf, Influx, Grafana - Mosquitto - Task and personal information management: - Monica - Vikunja - Development - Git / Fossil (trying to move to Fossil) - VSCode server - Adminer - Nocodb

Actually not in a home server, since it is in the cloud, but still...

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by hrrsn »

ornornor wrote: post #49
gorgoiler wrote: post #32

Every digital asset I’ve ever created and backups of every machine I’ve had since graduating college. I have a rule of forbidding remote access so it’s not really a server — you can only get onto this host if you are sat in front of it. Everything is backed up offsite by a combination of borg and USB “tapes”. It was very liberating to put all my data on one filesystem (ZFS zpool) instead of having it littered over ma…

How do you do backups? I’ve had a homelab for a decade and I could never figure backups out properly. I use proxmox with containers, VMs when I have no choice, and a portainer machine that runs docker containers when I have no choice. I use ansible so in each playbook I have a task to backup periodically to rsync.net But that requires a lot of work because it must be setup for each service, doesn’t work with the dock…

Check out Proxmox Backup Server - you can install it on top of PVE. My home server backs up locally to it's own PBS datastores, which then get synced over to a $6 dedicated server running PBS in Europe.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by fkzle »

main server at home:

- VDR - For receiving and recording TV shows

- samba - filesharing

- mosquitto - mqtt broker

- wireguard - vpn

- cups - printserver

- influxdb - time series database

- grafana - showing stuff from influxdb

- apache - webserver. Also for some self-built python stuff

additional RPI:

- rtl433 - receiving cheap wireless temperature sensors

another additional RPI:

- homeassistant

- ESPhome

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by conor_f »

I rely on docker-compose, Traefik, and a few simple shell scripts for most of my setup. Each service I have in its own directory with their own data/ and config/` drectories. Overall, self-hosting has been far less work than I expected. Generally speaking, things don't break and are quite easy to get up and running. I will put * beside strongly recommended services.

- changedetection This monitors webpages for changes and sends you notifications on multiple streams when they change. This is the service I have found the most awkward and least useful! (https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io)

* ghost for blogging (https://ghost.org/)

- gotify for notifications to my phone (https://gotify.net/)

- grafana for streaming logs and metrics from these services (https://grafana.com/)

- heimdall for a vanity dashboard (https://heimdall.site/)

- homeassistant for all home automation needs (https://www.home-assistant.io/)

- matrix synapse for communication (https://matrix.org/)

* mealie for recipes and meal planning (https://mealie.io/)

- photoprism for photo storage (https://photoprism.app/)

- plausible for privacy respecting analytics (https://plausible.io/)

* portainer to do light admin on these containers (https://www.portainer.io/)

* send to replace wetransfer (https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send)

- splunk for logs/visualizations (https://www.splunk.com/)

* traefik to handle all the routing to the containers. When it doesn't work, it's very awkward to fix, but it almost always works just as you expect it to (https://traefik.io/)

* vaultwarden as a password manager (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)

* vikunja an incredible todo list service. I cannot recommend this highly enough! (https://vikunja.io/)

* wallabag a straightforward article saver/reader (https://www.wallabag.it/)

I have also hosted Mastodon in the past, and while it was easy to host, it would eat storage space too quickly for my small setup. It also doesn't lend itself well to being a single-user instance in my experience as it makes finding organic content difficult.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your home server?

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Post by hyperdunc »

Frigate for object detection on RTSP streams. It integrates with Home Assistant so you can include detections in automations.

Also Proxmox, Prosidy (XMPP), AdGuard Home, Jellyfin, Paperless and Photoprism.

Also see this list for more ideas: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

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