Hi guys I'm self-hosting for a year or so, I'm currently using for hardware:

• CPU amd ryzen 5 pro

• RAM: 32 GB

• SO: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

• NVMe 1tb for system

• HDD 2tb, and 8tb for storage

• Case fractal node 804

software:

• Dockhand

• Adguard

• Gluetun

• Seer

• Radarr

• Sonarr

• Bazarr

• Lidar

• Soulsync

• Prowlarr

• Jellyfin

• Qbittorrent

• Grimmory

• Shelfmark

• Suwayomi

• Flaresolver

• Navidrome

• Slskd

• Jellystats

• File browser

• Immich

• Lubelogger

• Paperless-ng

• Homepage

Experimenting with

• Sublarr

• Ollama and webUI

• LibreTranslate

I'm trying to find something to create Portuguese subtitles for my kids animes, there are a lot of pt_br and I use those when avaliable but there is a lot animes that I can't find any and I really prefer that they watch in pt_pt ( yes, I'm nagging them to get better in English but read while watching is tricky for them yet)

Hey, I'm new here - but not new to self-hosting :-)

Self-hosting started for me via hosting a few services on my NAS - and then it escalated a bit...

At home:

• 2 Proxmox hosts (Miniforum MS-01 & GEEKOM XT12 Pro), services running mostly as Docker stacks in LXC containers, deployed via Komodo
• (several) Synology NAS (DS918+, DS1520+, DX517, RS2423+) for storage and backups
• UniFi network hardware (UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6-Lite APs) with a couple of VLANs. 10 GbE where possible.
• Technitium as DNS (recently replaced my old setup with AdGuard Home)
• Authentik for SSO in front of almost everything
• Nginx Proxy Manager as reverse proxy, Uptime Kuma to monitor stuff, Homepage as dashboard
• The actual fun stuff: Immich, Home Assistant, Paperless-NGX, Mealie, Bar Assistant, Stirling-PDF, Forgejo, Dawarich, LubeLogger, Umami, PBS, Grafana, AFFiNE, Actual, lifeGLANCE, Grocy, Rallly, Rackula, SnapOtter, Wallos, Homebox, RomM, Excalidraw my media stack… the list keeps growing, as I'm sure you all know.

Outside:

• a small server at a German hoster for the real public-facing stuff (WordPress blogs etc.). I just recently revived my old blog, started blogging again and - old school - created a personal website :-D

More about me can be found there. Also my new blog posts are and will be mostly about self-hosting topics after a longer blogging hiatus of about 15 years. Yes, I know, blogs aren't exactly in fashion anymore :-)

Looking forward to discussions & fresh ideas from the community!

My Current Self-hosted Setup

Hardware

Server 1

• Trycoo / Peladn mini pc
• Intel n97 CPU
• Integrated GPU
• 32gb of 3200mt/s ddr4 (Upgraded from 16gb)
• 512nvme
• 2x 2tb ssd's (Raid1 + LVM)
• Startech usb to sata cable
• Atolla 6 port powered usb 3.0 splitter
• 2x 8tb hdd's
• 2 bay usb 3.0 Fideco dock
• Each 8tb HDD is split into 2 equal size partitions, making 4 x 4tb partitions
• Each night, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating first partition of the HDD's .
• Each 1st of the month, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating 2nd partition of the HDD's .

Server 2

• Raspberry pi 4b
• 32gb SD card
• 4gb ram

Services

Server 1

• Nginx web server / reverse proxy
• Fail2ban
• Crowdsec
• Valutwarden
  Bit warden reimplantation for storing credentials
• Forgejo
  Remote federated git
• rs_maps
  Simplified Google Maps replacement, with tagging and GPX creation.
• Matrix / Continuwuity
  Federated IM protocol
• Immich
  Google Photos replacement
  External libraries only
  4 users
• Radicale
  Calender and contacts
• Lemmy
  Federated replacement for Reddit
• Navidrome
  Spotify replacement
  2 users
• Adguard home
  1st instance
  Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
• Unbound
  Provides recursive DNS
• Go-notes
  Rich Text formatting, live, real time multi-user notes app
• FMD
  Find my device
• Transmission
  Torrent client
• PIA VPN
  Network Namespace script to isolate PIA & Transmission
• Searxng
  Meta search engine - integrates with Go-llama
• StirlingPDF
  PDF editor
• File browser
  This is in maintenance mode only so I am planning to migrate to File Browser Quantum soon
• Syncthing
  Syncs 3 android and 1 apple phone for immich
• Custom rsync backup script
• Darkstat
  Real time Network statistics

Server 2

• Fail2ban
• Crowdsec
• Honeygain
  Generates a tiny passive income
  I'm UK based and in the last 6 months it has produced £15
• Adguard home
• 2nd instance
  Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
• Unbound
  Provides recursive DNS
• Custom DDNS update script

Overview

Been running this hardware setup since July 2025, although a couple of services have been added in that time. All works really well and has minimal maintenance as everything is fully automated with scripts. -

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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I've got a couple VPSes, hosting

• Mailcow, because email is identity.
• Asterisk, because phone #s are also identity.
• Matrix-Synapse, for personal messaging even though XMPP is probably better.
• ttrss, even though it's junk software with a jerk developer.
• A bunch of self-developed web apps

Self hosting email is obnoxious, but it's also one of the only remnants of the traditional distributed internet that's still broadly accepted.

Main Server - 37 Containers, 4 VMs

• Media: Plex, Audiobookshelf, along with everything for a complete *arr stack
• Network: Cloudflared, NginxProxyManager, Tailscale, Gluetun (for *arrs)
• Other: Authelia, OpenVSCode, Filebrowser, SFTPGo, Bitcoin Node to support the network
• VMs: Parrot, Windows 11 for local and remote gaming, Windows 3.11 (because why not), currently spun up myNode to see if I want to explore hosting a Bitcoin Ligtning Node

Smarthome Server - OptiPlex 3050

• Containers: mqtt, NodeRed, zigbee2mqtt, homebridge, tailscale, pihole (paired with my phone usually)
• VM: HomeAssistant

Testing Server - OptiPlex 7060
Lately been testing and making stuff using linuxserver/docker-baseimage-kasmvnc.

• Arduino-IDE running in a container - with USB hotswap.
• Featherwallet and Electrumwallet (I use a HW-Wallet for HODL).
• Lutris, got it working with Hearthstone, but didn't really have a use for it.
• Nomachine in kasmvnc, to (somewhat) smoothly access my VMs through the webbrowser when I just need something fast.
  Linuxserver Firefox.

XMR Mining Server - Old tired HP SFF
Basicly everything from this guide by seth for privacy; monerod, p2pool, tor, watchtower, and a python-webserver to expose metrics/api.

I've been getting deeper in to how this can go over the summer. I've done plex for a good few years at this point, but i've got this now: -Ubuntu bionic -Dockge (for easy rebooting when i'm just not feeling the CLI) -Arr stack -Gluetun (VPN for stack) -Firefox (LAN access only, no other access from gluetun) -Radarr -Sonarr -qbittorrent -prowlarr -Immich -Plex

A few I've tried but can't get to work on docker-compose yet: -searxNG -Heimdall (just can't get the graphs I wanna see for the systems processes) -homarr (not bad, just same as heimdall)

I wanted to cut over to proxmox from ubuntu just to have more server efficient since i'm not running ubuntu server. However I'm still fairly new to this and the cut over from docker desktop and docker run to docker-compose was a lot for a bit, so it'll still be on the list, but probably when I upgrade this old cpu (i5 6500) to something newer since this is an old thinkcenter. I'm hella open to any suggestions anyone's got

A cobbled together Ryzen 2400g with 16GB of ram. Open Media Vault/Docker: Plex Nextcloud stack with dns refresh/ssl/nginx Sonarr/transmission stack with VPN PiHole Octoprint

Occasionally I run a game server or two when the need comes up, mostly Valheim lately.

Proxmox on a self-built rackserver (Will be building a second one for a proxmox cluster):

• Pi-Hole (primary)
• Home Assistant
• 2 Docker Hosts (One for Eval, one for Prod)

Raspberry Pi Zero for Pi-Hole (secondary)

On my Docker Host (All in docker-compose):

• Heimdall (Personal Dashboard)
• Portainer (Docker GUI)
• baikal (CAL & CADdav)
• vaultwarden (Password Manager)
• bookstack (Documentation, kinda abandoned because im lazy)
• changedetection(.)io (Monitoring Websites for Changes, useful for changelogs or price monitoring)
• cloudflare-ddns (DDNS because dynamic IP Adresses...)
• Grafana & InfluxDB (Dashboard and Database for Stats)
• linkding (Bookmarks aka "Have to read someday")
• mealie (Reciepe manager)
• neko (Watch2gether but in selfhosted and more capable imo)
• nginx proxy manager (Reverse Proxy with GUI)
• paperless-ngx (Document manager with OCR)
• semaphore ui (Ansible GUI with sheduled tasks)
• Uptime Kuma (Status Monitoring)
• watchtower (Automatic updates of my docker containers because im lazy)

A Synology DS220+ for local Storage

A 5TB Hetzner Storage Box for Backups (encrypted)

A Rootserver for Games and some testing in the wild (Currently Windows, will be switched to ubuntu)

Hetzner Cloud Server with mailcow on it

Feel free to take it as a chance to present yourself to the community!

Hello, my name is Zingo and I have a selfhosting addition going back to 2016 when I bought my first NAS with docker capabilities.

Community: Hi Zingo! Welcome!

Thank you.

Currently struggling more than even as it starts to take over my life. I have tried over hundreds of services.

I'll try to find strength to list some at a later stage in this healing process. Sorry no bonus points. Maybe in the next session.

Thank you all for this awesome support. I would be lost without you. 💓

I want to setup opencloud. . .nextcloud are getting too bloated

Main one I use right now is a media center running FreeBSD and XFCE, and KDE Connect for remote-like functionality.

I just play files with mpv manually, but might write a front-end for it one day.

I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.

I'm hosting Trillium Note for my personal note taking.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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Thank you for all for sharing 🤩 I still havent determine if I'm going self hosting at home or with a VPS, but I discovered cool projects!

(I'll add links / descriptions later)

I host the following fediverse stuff:

• Lemmy (you're looking at it)
• Mastodon (3 instances)
• Calckey oh sorry, now FireFish
• Pixelfed
• Misskey
• Writefreely
• Funkwhale
• Akkoma (2 instances)
• Peertube

And these are other things I host:

• Kimai2
• Matrix/Synapse
• Silver Bullet
• XWiki (3 instances)
• Cryptpad (2 instances)
• Gitea
• Grafana
• Hedgedoc
• Minecraft
• Nextcloud
• Nginx Proxy Manager
• Paperless-ngx
• TheLounge
• Vaultwarden
• Zabbix
• Zammad

A 6 node k3s cluster with a Synology for network storage running:

• Nextcloud
• Authentik SSO
• Paperless
• Vikunja
• Joplin Sync
• Matrix
• Immich
• Mealie
• Gitea
• Home-Assistant
• Node-Red
• Zigbee2mqtt
• MQTT server
• Frigate
• UptimeKuma
• Prometheus and Grafana
• AdGuard Home
• Minio
• Longhorn
• Unifi Controller
• Jellyfin
• Homepage

Managed with FluxCD.

Presently I'm self hosting:

• NextCloud
• ArchiveBox
• Lemmy
• Ntfy
• Calibre Web
• ByteStash
• Etherpad
• RustDesk
• GitLab Community
• Peertube
• Matrix
• Minecraft Java Server (I mean, it is self hosted)

I think sometimes my servers complain about what I'm hosting. lol

One of my favourite is Immich, to replace Google Photos: https://immich.app/

• website
• email
• dns
• adblocking
• home assistent
• home gallery
• eve-ng
• check_mk
• nagios
• git
• ansible
• backuppc
• zoneminder
• unifi controller
• central syslog
• syslog2irc
• kodi
• 3x moodeaudio

Hello

Let's have a look at the inventory

• RPI 4B

  • OpenHab (Openhabian actually, so some additional services like Zigbee2MQTT or Grafana)

• HP EliteDesk 800 G2 i5-6500T, 8GiB RAM - this one is currently the mainstay of my lab, running containers with docker-compose

  • Nginx as reverse proxy (+ fail2ban, letsencrypt)
  • Paperless-ngx (+ Redis, Tika, Gotenberg)
  • Jellyfin
  • Minecraft server (+ Mapcrafter)
  • ddclient
  • Heimdall

• Dell OptiPlex 7060 Micro i7-8700T 32GiB RAM

  • I've gotten this one fairly recently. A real bargain - costed as much as the CPU alone and was in pristine condition. I will be migrating the workload from EliteDesk to this one. I decided to try ProxMox this time though, so I need to learn a bit first. Also perhaps add a second SSD

Got a proxmox node with a couple of vm's, mostly for hosting docker.

I'm considering switching proxmox for kubevirt, but I'd have to deploy all my container as either k8s deployments or create new vm for docker...

Been using prometheus at work lately and I want to create a push setup with thanos backend, but for now it's just an idea

Wait why is r self hosted soon to be dead?

Hi there. My first post in this community.

I'm currently running:

• Pi-hole
• Plex Media Server
• Grafana
• Torrent server
• Monica
• Shaarli
• Matrix instance
• Arch package cache
• Several game servers such as Minecraft and Terraria
• VM running Volvo software to troubleshoot my cars.

My hardware: I used to run it all on a Supermicro x9drd-7ln4f-jbod with dual Xeon E5-2670 v2 with 16x16GB ECC ram and 6x 3TB disks in raidz2 for storage and 2x 60gb Intel SSDs for OS. I started with less and upgraded towards this configuration but it was consuming 300 watt idle which was just unacceptable.

So earlier this year I upgraded to an ASRock Rack x470D4U with Ryzen 7 5700x and 4x32GB ECC (non-registered) ram and 6x 2TB SSDs in raidz2. 1 ssd is in the nvme slot on the motherboard, 4 are in a 4x4 bifurcation card in the 16x slot and 1 more in a 4x riser. All PCIe lanes of the CPU are used. This setup is not possible with an AMD CPU with integrated GPU since it will take up 4 PCIe lanes (you can guess how I know). It uses about 20 watt idle without any containers and VMs running. I initially didn't want to move away from Supermicro but the ASRock Rack motherboard has IPMI so I'm not missing out on much.

Hardware and software suggestions are welcome :D