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What else should I self-host? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Today I set up my old laptop as a Debian server, hosting Immich (for photos), Nextcloud (for files), and Radicale (for calendar). It was surprisingly easy to do so after looking at the documentation and watching a couple videos online! Tomorrow I might try hosting something like Linkwarden or Karakeep.

What else should I self-host, aside from HA (I don’t have a smart home), Calibre (physical books are my jam), and Jellyfin (I don’t watch too many movies + don’t have a significant DVD/Blu-ray collection)?

I would like to keep my laptop confined to my local network since I don’t trust it to be secure enough against the internet.

edit: I forgot, I’m also hosting Tailscale so I can access my local network remotely!

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[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)
  • AdguardHome/Pi-Hole (for DNS Filter)
  • DrawIO (MS Visio equivalent)
  • Invidious (Youtube privacy frontend)
  • SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)
  • Vaultwarden (Self-hosted Bitwarden server)
  • Miniflux (RSS Reader)
  • linkWarden (Link aggregator)

Also, checkout https://selfh.st/apps/

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)
  • SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)

SearXNG is more than just a front end for google search, it’s an aggregator, if configured properly can collect results from Bing, Startpage, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, Brave.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm no expert, but I read that self hosting your own instance doesn't actually help with privacy since the search providers still track those requests and if you're the only one using it, that's just tracking you with extra steps.

Of course if you use a public instance, you have to then trust that the instance isn't tracking you

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

While true, they still collect data on the results hosting your own instance can prevent you from hitting rate-limits as often.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unless you are routing traffic through a VPN.

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I just recently started routing mine through a gluetun container, but now I'm hitting timeouts pretty consistently. Not sure if there's a solution to that or just deal with it.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

For which self-hosted app? Invidious?

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 11 months ago

Gotta be better than being tracked everywhere... and of course I personally use a vpn (and encrypted traffic to the server)

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

That's correct. Thanks for the correction.

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

Yacy is a web crawler/search engine that IIRC you can self host and use as a SearXNG backend

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How safe is it to self host something that you open up to the web? I've been thinking about a keepass self host, but I need it to be accessible from anywhere... I'm just really worried what that does once you open up your local server to the world

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you want to expose a container based service just for yourself over internet, you can -

  • If you have static IP4 or IPV6 - Setup Wireguard VPN on your homelab/server, and wireguard client on client devices[1].

  • If you are behind NAT or CGNAT - either Cloudflared Tunnel[2] or Tailscale[3].

In either scenarios, you need to setup firewall of your server to allow connection from LAN to port of your docker container/services. By default you should set your firewall to block all incoming request from anywhere except LAN.

I'm personally using Cloudflared Tunnel, but planning to migrate to Tailscale.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-wireguard-on-ubuntu-20-04

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

[3] https://tailscale.com/