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So, I am soon going to finally set up my first home server. Exams are not that far away, I am motivated as shit, my first own domain is bought and I want to level up my sysadmin skills.

Currently my plans look like this:

  • Host Jellyfin
  • Host my own NAS
  • Some form of hosted musicstreaming integration with my local music
  • Automate Backups and push them on my server
  • make all of the above things available where ever I want using my own self hosted domain.
  • run my own dns

In the long term I also want to be able to host my own webapps, since I will soon start to develop one for someone.

Now I want to know what suggestions do you have, for stuff thats really cool and that I can selfhost.

Edit: thanks for all the replies. Definitely going to look into this.

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[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

Syncthing so you never have to mail files to yourself again.

FreshRSS for RSS reading

Readeck for saving articles for later (or wallabag, many alternatives)

HomeAssistant

Calibre-web for ebooks

PiHole

Joplin for self hosted notes

Searxng is fun for self hosted metasearch but has sadly been having trouble with Google lately

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (13 children)

I wish you didn't have to do things the Calibre way to host ebooks, but whatever effort it takes to sort out ebook hosting must be a pain in the ass, because everything is built on top of Calibre despite Calibre being perhaps the most obtuse piece of "programmer-knows-better" software ever engineered.

Almost every other ebook self-hosted app is just a wrapper on top of that nonsense. I hate it.

You can try to use Komga instead, but it's mostly meant for comic books and it's kinda heavy, honestly.

[–] portnull@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have you tried out https://booklore.org/ ?

It seems different enough from calibre and kavita et al. 

[–] HeavenDeparts@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I love Booklore. Infinitely better than Calibre hands down. I haven’t setup Kobo access yet, but that is just going to push it over the edge for me.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Have I? I tried so many so quickly I can't even remember.

In any case I'm part of the problem now, because my dealbreaker was having to organize my library in the obtuse alien way Calibre wants instead of the nice, human-readable way I already had. I bit that bullet, so now I'm married to a Calibre format library and thus perpetuating the terrible standard.

[–] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Export all fixes that... Doing that to my syncthing to sync my files to the ereader. Still looking for a way to get rid of calibre :(

[–] portnull@anarchist.nexus 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, it's hard exit that directory structure once you have gone all in.

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