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

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Post by ccll »

ghuntley wrote: post #174
ccll wrote: post #130

I have a standard 42U server rack in my home and 7 2U servers in it now, all of them are retired E5-v3 generation from local datacenters which are so cheap. All my homelab services run on a single 2U huawei rack server with dual E5-2680 v3, 128GB RAM, Intel P3600 for OS, and 120 TB HDD for storage, with 10Gbps networking, the other servers are used for testing and messing with. The OS is Debian 10, and I deployed a s…

What are you going to move to now that Gitpod has retired self hosting?

Haven't updated the installation for month so I just learned the unfortunate news from your comment. Guess I'll continue using it until it breaks, then maybe switch to vanilla VSCode Remote SSH, or try some alternatives like [coder](https://github.com/coder/coder).

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

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Post by aspyct »

Pretty simple setup here at home.

One RPI4 running 24/7, hosting my files with encrypted ZFS on two external drives. I access the files through SFTP, Syncthing and Samba. It also runs various nightly backups to/from the cloud. Oh, and it runs Pi-Hole.

It runs OK, but is a little slow when transferring files because of the encryption. The max throughput is 20MB/s which is not awesome, but not terrible at the same time. I have spare machines around that I should use instead, but it works well enough that I can't be bothered to do it. I'm also a little worried about data corruption, because apparently that happens with ZFS without ECC ram, so...

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

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Post by manibatra »

I have a 3 node (Raspberry Pis) k3s cluster with the following :

- Pi-Hole : https://github.com/manibatra/kube-pihole (might be a little rough around the edges, I have to push a few updates)

- Homebridge

- A custom Golang app to poll metrics from my Solar setup and export them as Prometheus metrics

- Prometheus

- Grafana Mimir for long term metrics storage to S3

- Tailscale on all the nodes and all my machines so that I can access my homelab and Pi-Hole when I am on the move.

Bunch more things to add but it's a start!

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

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Post by boloust »

cassianoleal wrote: post #167
boloust wrote: post #115

Running k3s on a small cluster of mini pcs and RPis. Use Tailscale for MagicDNS and access from any network. Have a custom wildcard domain pointing to my tailscale k3s node ips, and a traefik ingress controller. This means exposing a service from my cluster on a subdomain just requires creating an ingress object in k3s, and it's only accessible via tailscale. cert-manager and let's encrypt handle TLS. All services ar…

> The native Jellyfin app works very well on modern LG TVs. My experience on a CX OLED has been hit-and-miss. Freezes, crashes, and some times it just hangs when skipping and I have to force-close it. I really want to like Jellyfin. I run it beside Plex and use both. I find Plex user-hostile but it still gives me a better video playing experience more consistently.

Interesting, I have a CX and a G1 and it works flawlessly. I didn't do anything special so might have just gotten lucky.

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

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Post by public_defender »

cantagi wrote: post #137

I have 3 rpi4s running my entire home network. One is a vpn router and a wifi AP, it also has Uptime Kuma. I need this to be reliable and rarely touch it except to improve its reliability. - Openvpn - HostAPD - Uptime Kuma (in docker) - A microservice invoked from Uptime Kuma that monitors connectivity to my ISPs router (in docker) - nginx, not in docker, reverse proxies to Uptime Kuma The second acts as a NAS and ha…

I have been thinking of setting up a pi4 as a wifi AP. Can you comment on the hardware performance? I am worried that the range or throughput might be poor, and thinking I might need to use an Intel ax200 or similar.

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

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Post by zimpenfish »

benplumley wrote: post #175
zimpenfish wrote: post #171

Beelink with AMD Ryzen 7 3750H and 64GB running Home Assistant (with Caddy for external proxy), Sonarr[1], nzbget, Minecraft[2], Tailscale, Photoprism, and it also acts as a NAS[3] via a Yottamaster enclosure with LVM'd disks. [1] Sucks up RAM which meant a switch to Medusa but the Medusa web interface chokes badly on Safari and it proved to be much less reliable at fetching episodes hence returning to Sonarr [2] Onl…

Very similar to my setup! I really like my Beelink, I was initially sceptical because it was so cheap. I run Pi-Hole, Tailscale, Photoprism, Syncthing, and Terraria, amongst other things.

Oh, I forgot to mention Syncthing. Probably because it's one of those services that Just Works Quietly and almost never gives any trouble.

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

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Post by me551ah »

I have a pretty elaborate media downloading setup. Though this is a cheap 16TB server that I brought on the cloud for myself.

I use Radarr and Sonarr to automatically download movies and tv shows. I use mdblist.com to autogenerate movie lists based on criteria like imdbrating, number of votes etc. And use these lists directly in Radarr, one plus point is that these lists are autoupdated with new movies and Radarr automatically downloads them. I've configured Radarr/Sonarr to download items automatically with usenet and debrid(no direct torrents).

I have setup Plex, WebDAV(for Kodi), ftp and a generic http server with basic authentication on the media folder. I have 1Gbps unmetered connection and have added a bunch of my friends to plex. I can easily stream 4k remux blu-ray rips to my smart tv from the Plex server.

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

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Post by apeters »

ralgozino wrote: post #120
apeters wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though I sold mailcow and stopped working on it in the past months, it warms my heart SO MUCH to see people using it. :) Really, thank you. I have some ideas for a proper successor which would be much more scaleable, modern, flexible and would be more focused to use existing transports for piggybacking mail. A fully and safely encrypted mail storage as well as a cool interface to invite for encrypted sessions et…

Hi Andrè! I just wanted to thank you for mailcow! We used it a few years ago at my previous job to getting a new domain up & running and got a porfessional, best-practices-configured email server in no time. Great experience also for day 2 operations! Nothing like the other mail solutions available at that time. Wishing you the best in your next endeavors!

Thank you! :)

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

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Post by apeters »

tsujamin wrote: post #149
apeters wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though I sold mailcow and stopped working on it in the past months, it warms my heart SO MUCH to see people using it. :) Really, thank you. I have some ideas for a proper successor which would be much more scaleable, modern, flexible and would be more focused to use existing transports for piggybacking mail. A fully and safely encrypted mail storage as well as a cool interface to invite for encrypted sessions et…

I absolutely _loved_ mailcow. Worked out of the box way better than my hand rolled solution, and ended up using it for some small orgs too. Thanks for all your work on it!

Thank you very much. :)

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

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Post by zeendo »

Ohhh, glad you asked this. Can't wait to read what others have running.

Here's my setup.

I have a mini-pc with 32gigs of ram running as my combo "compute" and "storage" server.

It has an attached 5 bay enclosure with 8TB of storage on it.

On it I run

- Caddy to host static sites (my blgo) and to terminate HTTPS for other services - audiobookshelf (mostly unused)

- calibre-web (organizes ebooks)

- diun (notifications about docker image updates)

- gitea (personal git repos, mostly useless honestly but I do put some things in here before they go to GitHub)

- home-assistant (heavily used)

- mealie (heavily used)

- mpd (music player daemon, moderately used throughout my house)

- a VPN container for things that I want to only run inside a VPN and never when the VPN is down

- plex (heavily used to organize and play media elsewhere in the house)

- postgres

- scrutiny (for consolidated reporting of disk issues across my machines)

- shiori (read-it-later style bookmark manager)

- snapcast (coordinates multi-room audio throughout my house on a bunch of raspberry pis attached to speakers, heavily used)

- syncthing (heavily used)

- vaultwarden (heavily used)

- woodpecker (self-hosted CI, moderately used)

- zwave-js-ui (manages the zwave based smart home devices I have...about 20 or so)

My router/firewall is a separate devices running OPNsense and I use Wireguard to remote in - also works wonderfully.

I run all the services with docker-compose. The server itself is a bit of a snowflake but all the critical parts of the services are in their respective docker directories so backup is a snap (aside from postgres which has a separate backup process).

Currently I'm working on documenting a recovery procedure for Vaultwarden from our Backblaze backups so that in the event something happens to me my wife will be able to recover the Vaultwarden instance and our passwords. That's a fun exercise in documentation and simplifying the process.

Snapcast has really been a dream for multi-room audio setup. It presents a Spotify Connect device to anyone on my wifi. It has a separate stream which comes from whatever is being played on MPD and it is easily configured to play audio from whichever of those two streams is actively playing music...so I don't have to manually switch between them.

Caddy has been great for organizing everything and ensuring each service has HTTPS. I understand Traefik is somewhat more purpose built for doing this with a bunch of containers but I haven't had a need to switch.

I do use https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy for letting the containers themselves describe their respective domains and mapping.

I do have a VPS and use it for the occasional site that needs to be more reliable than my home internet (which itself is quite reliable but I'm not counting 9s there). More and more I find I'm comfortable putting random static sites on my machine at home, though.

Parting thought: Exposing all of these details is a bit of a security concern, for sure. But ultimately I think it's (a) Not a huge security concern -- I need to assume any attacker knows what I'm running anyway, and (b) part of the fun is talking about it so I lose some value if I don't.

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