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

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Post by hobo_mark »

Msurrow wrote: post #67
derkades wrote: post #50

- Router in VM - Main workstation in VM with GPU passthrough (saves power by not having an additional machine running) - Nextcloud for files, calendar, contact sync - Joplin server for notes sync - Samba NAS for me and everyone else who lives in the house - Occasionally one or more Minecraft servers for friends - Jenkins CI for my open source projects - Mail server (using the ISP's mail proxy for outgoing) - qbittorr…

Thanks for the Joplin mention. I’ve been looking for a secure, gdpr compliant and preferably selfhosted note app for some time! Bingo, I guess

You do not even need to run a dedicated server if for example you already have an owncloud/nextcloud setup, since all clients (desktop and mobile) can sync from a WebDAV folder (among other backends).

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

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Post by cm2187 »

VPN client (VM which only access to the WAN is through a pfsense VM)

A database of all the files on my NAS to query them quickly in SQL (and uses ffprobe to get video info - codecs, audio and sub tracks, etc) + md5.

A copy of the imdb database (it is still downloadable), so I can index my films, get suggestions for high rating movies I don't own, or by director, or get notifications when new episodes of my favorite tv shows are released

Incremental daily snapshot of my important files (with hardlinks when the file hasn't changed).

Failover mail server to receive emails when your vps is down or you need to migrate it

I took the habit of scanning every important document and physical mail I receive, they then get OCR-ed and sorted automatically.

Keep an eye on all sorts of things you can scrape from the internet. Prices for real estate transactions around you, stock prices, prices for certain computer hardware, be notified when a product comes back in stock, etc.

Podcast downloader

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

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Post by pramji »

Locally:

Synology NAS - dockers:

  - monitoring: grafana, prometheus, alertmanager, bunch of exporters

  - consul + consul registrator (as service discovery for docker)

  - gitea (personal git repo, with some mirroring github repos)

  - media stuff (jackett, radarr, sonarr, plex)

  - ci (jenkins)

  - datastores (postgres, mongo, redis)

  - rutorrent

  - saltstack (config management for all home systems)

  - syncthing (currently testing to see if it's usefule to me)

  - hashicorp vault (secrets for things)

  - pihole
Intel nuc:

vms running on vmware:

  - active directory (auth across all devices are managed with this)

  - kubernetes (microk8s)

  - pfsense (running a couple of vpn and private vlans for iot devices)

  - license server for some applications
kubernetes

  - istio for managing routing and creating a service mesh with the cloud

  - argocd (deployment management for kubernets resources)

  - kafka (strmizi operator)
unifi + dnsmasq

  - internal dns
Cloud:

  - dns public ip's for things that are exposed publically

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

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Post by cm2187 »

guntherhermann wrote: post #107
asim wrote: post #86

Reading this thread, someone needs to put the home server in a tiny box, preinstalled with all the apps and put a slick user interface on it. I think https://umbrel.com is a thing but it's not packaged with hardware. Something that packages the hardware and software together would be pretty killer. Plug and play. Instant email. All the apps. Easy migration from existing services.

Part of the fun for me is the tinkering, and I'm not sure if non-techies "get" the benefit of running a home server. Maybe the tide is turning for the younger generation? I can only speak for most people my age (30-40), they are capable of interacting with technology but they have absolutely 0 understanding of how anything actually works. "Why when I can just use Spotify/Netflix/iCloud/etc"? Is the answer I got when…

I love tinkering but not with my data. For my data storage I want a stable and tested solution. I have done enough "shit I destroyed my RAID array" for my taste.

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

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

A single PVE box runs on an old thin client with some extra ram and hosts:

  - A Unifi Controller for the single AP I own
  - A Portainer instance hosting
    - An HTML5 speed test utility for internal testing
    - A Murmur instance
  - A uTorrent-nox frontend
The Synology DS1520+ acts as storage for the above and all sorts of other things, but also runs a Syncthing instance that, in addition to a $2/mo RackNerd VPS, acts as a backup for select folders on various devices.

And though it isn't exactly a server, my router is a Protectli Vault FW2B running pfSense.

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

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Post by cm2187 »

asim wrote: post #117
guntherhermann wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Part of the fun for me is the tinkering, and I'm not sure if non-techies "get" the benefit of running a home server. Maybe the tide is turning for the younger generation? I can only speak for most people my age (30-40), they are capable of interacting with technology but they have absolutely 0 understanding of how anything actually works. "Why when I can just use Spotify/Netflix/iCloud/etc"? Is the answer I got when…

I think it's like most home devices, it comes down to ownership. We've gotten into the habit of streaming everything from someone else e.g we're in cloud rental economy, but there's opportunity to restore ownership. Maybe there's a generation that just wants to rent but it wasn't really by choice, it's because ownership cost too much, ownership of homes, servers, storage, etc. We can reduce these costs and we can mak…

On the other hand one of the benefit of renting is that you don't have to deal with all the maintenance. It's fine to do a little maintenance but if you do that for everything it just absorbs all your time.

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

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Post by kotborealis »

An old laptop (i3-380M, 4gb RAM, 150gb SSD + 1tb HDD), currently running:

    * syncthing, as a backup host;
    * photoprism, had to migrate from google photos;
    * docker registry for pet projects;
    * qbittorrent, which is mainly unused nowdays;
    * pihole;
    * homeassistant;
    * mosquitto;
    * vscode code-server.
On top of that, there's tailscale, nginx proxy manager and dirt-cheap VPS for exposing some services to the internet.

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

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Post by jon-wood »

sgjohnson wrote: post #74
pjc50 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can run pihole in the cloud? That is very useful information.

Why wouldn’t you be able to? Pihole is just dnsmasq with a frontend.

The biggest curse of the Raspberry Pi is a whole heap of stuff that has gone from “needs a UNIX server” to “but surely that requires an underpowered UNIX server with a very specific distribution of Linux”.
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