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My selfhosting setup so far (slrpnk.net)

submitted 18 hours ago by innocentz3r0@programming.dev to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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Cross-posted from "My selfhosting setup so far" by @innocentz3r0@programming.dev in !selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hey everyone! I'm sort of still green for selfhosting, but I wanted to share my setup so far:

The following services are selfhosted in docker

Audiomuse (smart music tagging, mood based and all that)
Navidrome for music hosting
Jellyfin for TV shows (not a lot) and Films (not a lot again, but steadily increasing)
Radicale for serving contacts/TODOs/calendar
SFTPGo to act as my drive
Kavita for ebooks and manga (I have tons of both)
Glance for homepage
forgejo for git forge hosting

The system specs are kind of visible in the homepage, so I won't spell them out here again. Mostly an old optiplex running arch, though I want to change it to nixos later on.

System tools:

nushell for shell
calibre for ebook management and tagging + fanficfare plugin to download fanfictions
Caddy for reverse proxy (so I don't have to remember ports)
netbird for VPN (also because it allows me to set wildcard DNS resolution for nodes, so I don't have to set up a dedicated pi-hole or adguard)
Handbrake and ffmpeg for processing videos and such
beets for tagging music
a sysinfo script to generate system information for glance to consume
Probably other things too, I'm forgetting

Everything is accessible only via netbird, and external inbound connections are firewalled off

Apart from that, I eventually plan on adding the following as well:

Immich for photo hosting
Vaultwarden for passwords
Gollum (still debating on alternatives) for a webUI for my notes
Paperless-NGX

I'm still thinking on more that I can add. Note that whatever I add should not need an inbound connection/stable IP address, since I don't intend to expose the server to the public. Any suggestions/tips? Thanks!

UPDATE: Forgot to add, I'd probably add homebox too, for inventory management 😅

UPDATE 2: I'm silly, I forgot that I'm also looking into self-hosted RSS feed readers 😆

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I looked into using homebox myself, but ended up using Grist instead

Also nice to see another nushell user

[–] H3L1X@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I have been using freshRSS for a while and I really like it.

How do you like Radicale? I have been looking to selfhost cal/todo/contacts, and have been trying to figure out what to use.

[–] innocentz3r0@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago

Ah, I asked around and people recommended miniflux over freshrss since the former is written in Go and is lighter and faster.

Radicale is pretty nice, fits my bill well, and just works. Some people say Baikal is better, but Radicale fits my bill very well so I didn't bother changing.

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I always enjoy seeing what and how others run their home lab setups.

I have been doing a lot of work on mine as of late. Spun up a lot of new containers, as well as enhanced security on some of it.

I haven't posted my setup, or anything like that. But I have a total of 51 containers running on an old Lenovo Small Form factor pc that has an 8th gen i5 and 16gb of DDR4. Outside of that, I just have a pi running one of my vpn connections and my backup DNS of PiHole, whereas my main DNS is Technitium running in a container.

I have checked out Glance a while back, but never did end up using it really.

[–] innocentz3r0@programming.dev 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

51 containers

whoaa! I'd love to see your setup some time!

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'd love to share!

I'll likely get a post put together tomorrow and tag you!

I just went through every compose file I had and removed all exposed ports (it possible that is) and required access only through my Caddy instance. Enabled HSTS for all sites.

And the entire lab is separated between 3 devices. A small form factor lenovo box (16GB of DDR4 with an i5), a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB of ram, and an old synology that was given to me. . Redundant DNS, a Technitium container, and my pi running Pihole.

DNS records and Caddy directives are set via Docker labels.

A combination of Signal notifications and Ntfy to alert me where necessary. That setup including unified push for a number of apps.

Music streaming, with a companion container that scribbles music, as well aa helped scripts that run on systemd timers thar sync music from live location, to backup 1, to backup 2 aka my desktop HDD. I have a heller script being run on a disposable docker container that searches for LRC files so I have synchronized lyrics for my music.

And a bunch more I am forgetting.

I like nerding out about this, and Lemmy is the only place I can talk about this where anyone understands. No one in my life IRL are tech savvy

[–] g5pw@feddit.it 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Uh, setting up DNS entries via docker docker labels is on my todo list since the beginning… what are you using to do it? I don’t run PiHole but Blocky, more lightweight and I like the yaml only config.

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

DNSWeaver the way I have this setup is DNSWeaver reads the labels, and connects to both PiHole and Technitium.

I was only using PiHole for many years. But in learning I could automate DNS entries with DNSweaver, I needed something more powerful. The issue I have with PiHole for DNS with DNSWeaver is that DNSWeaver can't delete DNS records. DNSWeaver uses txt records and well PiHole doesn't support that.

So I installed Technitium.

I've never heard od Blocky.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Definitly missing an XMPP server 😅

[–] innocentz3r0@programming.dev 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Well, as I mentioned, I don't think I can host an XMPP server without having a fixed IP address and exposing it to the public internet and allowing inbound connections.

So it's probably a no-no (for now) 😅

Also, idk if xmpp is lightweight, but as a user, I quite like matrix

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Super lightweight, and a fixed IP is not necessary, but yes you need to expose it somehow if you actually want to use it outside your home.