Ask HN: What's on your home server?

I'm confused about Radarr / Sonarr, is that what's directly sourcing the torrents you're downloading or are they being sourced from separate tracker(s)?

Been using Jellyfin almost since it forked from Emby. Was a bit rough early on, but works a treat for me these days - I think there's a balance point where I've adapted myself to its idiosyncrasies as much as it has improved stability and compatibility throughout version upgrades.

I primarily use it via the Android TV app, and it's been a pretty smooth experience for at least the last couple of years.

Raspberry Pi 4 running Home Assistant with AdGuard as an add-on. I do have a handful of other add-ons installed, but nothing else I actively use.

Hardware: old laptop from ~2012 and some external hard drives (~25W total).

Occasionally used for things like yahoo answers archiving, fishnet (distributed lichess game analysis), random big computations or downloads, and other things I want to run overnight but don't need a big desktop PC for.

Services it more permanently hosts:

    - email for me and friends
    - websites of friends
    - game server (Factorio, OpenArena, custom games I made, etc.)
    - SSH -D functioning as a VPN when paypal or some such is being a bitch again
    - [web] blog
    - [web] grocery list (custom. It syncs between devices, stores recipes, frequently bought items, etc.)
    - [web] link shortener / pastebin / file sharing in one
    - [web] a data explorer for some game (with associated scraper running every few hours)
    - [web] a series tracker to note which episode file we're at because apple tv is garbage (for many reasons) and doesn't remember this
    - [web] browser-based latency test thingy, both as plain HTTPS and websocket (they're remarkably similar with HTTPS connection reuse, the main difference being that websocket breaks when your connection is down for 0.1s or your IP changes, so I use websocket more as canary and the HTTPS version for actual latency testing)
    - [web] proxies for certain sites, like to speed up the openstreetmap wiki by caching or to remove the 5MB unnecessary javascript from a news website
    - data scraper that emails me when the local river does something that interests me (like get close to flooding or drying up or a sudden large change)
    - other data scrapers
    - Telegram bot
    - IRC bouncer
    - Gitea
    - Restic backup server

And a ton of web things I'm forgetting, including little .php scripts not worth mentioning that I occasionally use to do this or that.

I'm really amazed what I can do with some hardware that would otherwise be thrown away or disappear into an old drawer never to be used again. I could probably host twice as many things and it would still work (CPU and network are basically idle the whole time, only RAM would be getting tight then... I could upgrade to 16 GB DDR3 which is cheap nowadays).

I have a box sitting under my router with my old gaming config inside: Ryzen 5 1600X 32 GB RAM So i have 12 cores to do basically whatever i want, connected to what is supposed to be 5 Gb/s fiber with a static ipv4.

I virtualize with promox (very happy with it): - my personal matrix instance (@Themoonisacheese:poggers.website) - my static homepage (https://poggers.website) - a minecraft server that rotates between modded and not whenever the crew feels like playing minecraft again - a discord bot that plays music, since the big ones get taken down - recently added a Magnetico host. Magnetico is a bittorent DHT explorer that finds publically available torrents and indexes them. This enables me to stop relying on public torrenting sites.

My router (ISP provided, name of the isp is "Free") also does: - router and firewall jobs - SMB server, sharing the contents of a 1Tb external disk - BitTorrent client, downloading to said disk, and that i can control from my phone or my browser. Both are registered as magnet link handlers so it's as seamless as a native client but works from anywhere using my phone. - Various file servers that i currently have off, but could turn on as needed. - DNS-level adblock (not pihole, just a built-in thing)

Over the years i have added and taken down services, such as a ShareX image host because i didn't use it, and various game servers that we no longer play. Notice also the lack of monitoring at all. I'm a sysadmin by day, so i'm familiar with monitoring tools, but i havent felt the need. Some day i might deploy nagios+thruk for the fun of it. Notice also the lack of DNS. I have found at this size i am able to recall IPs for everything that matters. Logins are also set in my VM templates and are standardized, so i don't use a central login solution.