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Always enjoyed scrolling though these posts, figured I'd give it a go here:

What are your must-have selfhosted services?

Some of mine:

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Didn't see Paperless in these comments yet. Great way to never again search for documents, bills, receipts, warranties, manuals, etc cetera ad nauseam.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

I installed paperless a couple of months ago, and then needed a document from it this week, for the first time. Standing at my front door, with a contractor waiting, I retrieved a contract in about ten seconds.

I will never stop using this software.

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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Syncthing - No introduction needed. Couldn't live without it.

Healthchecks.io (you can self host this) - Dead man's switch monitoring for all my automation. Most of my automated scripts hit up a Healthchecks endpoint when they run, and if they fail to hit the endpoint on a regular schedule I get notified. Mandatory for my anxiety.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I have a network drive that I put all my documents on. Would using syncthing have a better workflow than that?

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[–] pdavis@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

After looking at other's lists I think I am missing a good document server. Emby isn't the best music and photo server so I could look at improving that, but it has been good enough for those purposes that I haven't felt like going to the trouble of installing anything else.

  • Aster: Multiseat software for Windows allows several users to work on the same PC.
  • LaunchBox: Frontend for DOSBox, modern PC games and emulated console platforms.
  • Blue Iris: Video security and webcam software
  • Calibre: E-Book management and server
  • Emby: Server for videos, music, audio books, and photos.
  • Firewalla: VPN server, internet monitor and control
  • Foundary Virtual Tabletop: Online role-playing game server.
  • Grafana: Dashboard interface
  • Hubitat: Home automation
  • Hyper-V Manager: Tool that allows users to manage Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines (VMs)
  • InfluxDB: Real-time database server.
  • IotaWatt: Open WiFi electric power monitor
  • Microsoft SQL Server: Database Server
  • Octoprint: Web interface for 3D printers.
  • PCem: Emulator for various old 8086 through Pentium PCs.
  • SmartSync Pro: File sync program
  • SnapRaid: Backup program for disk arrays.
  • Stablebit DrivePool/Scanner: Disk pooling, file duplication, protection, disk surface scanner, and disk health monitoring
  • Steam Link: Access and play steam games remotely
[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Highly recommend ditching emby for jellyfin!!

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[–] Lena@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Thank you for taking the time to link everything and formatting the post

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)

One of my favorites is Whoogle, a simple Google search proxy. It accepts search requests and forwards them to Google anonymously, then strips out the AMP links and tracking. There's even an option for it to use Tor so your IP address changes frequently.

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[–] node815@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Under Proxmox, I have the following running currently:

**As LXC Containers: **

  • AdguardHome
  • Psono Password Manager
  • Zitadel SSO and
  • One I'm trying to get Pomerium installed on

As a VM

  • Home Assistant

The rest is all docker on the host OS which is Debian 12, this is not my complete list but the most used ones in my world:

  • Dozzle (great docker log viewer)
  • Uptime Kuma
  • Authentik configured to allow passkey login (Simply awesome!)
  • IT-Tools - https://it-tools.tech/
  • Homepage by Ben Phelps
  • WyzeCamBridge (So I can have RTSP for Home Assistant)
  • SterlingPDF (MultiTool for PDFS)
  • sshwifty - SSH within your browser - your logins are locally stored in your session only. https://github.com/nirui/sshwifty
  • Portainer
  • Vaultwarden

Protected by Authentik's SSO

  • Portainer
  • Statping
  • Proxmox
  • Wordpress (I'm evaulating this for a suitable Joplin replacement ) In short - I found that it's easier to reference a site instead of installing Joplin when I rebuild my computer.
  • Psono password manager

You may wonder why I am using Zitadel and Authentik, I first started with Zitadel, and moved to Authentik, but am evaluating both. They both have their positives. So far Authentik has been the most useful for me. And about the two password managers, I use Vaultwarden as it supports everything I need including Passkey support. My step daughter who is an adult is disabled so having an easier password like Psono makes it easier for her.

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[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Immich for photos (the only proper Google photos alternative) Nextcloud for storing documents and photos (read by immich). Jellyfin to replace Plex.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago
[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

According to my continued survival on the planet, none.

[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Not all of us are so lucky. I was hospitalized for 3 weeks until I was able to get my PiHole back up. I was nearly a goner.

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[–] itsnotits@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago
[–] LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nextcloud, after setting it up it gives me everything I love about Google and Apple's cloud services without the privacy invasion or any of the other cons. And I even find it more stable and less buggy. 10/10

[–] Aurix@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Same for me. But there is work involved in the maintenance, there are awkward transitions at times with PHP migrations. But I would not go back to Google. I have tons of storage space without having to pay the associated service fees at the cost of slower speeds.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HA Home Assistant automation software
~ High Availability
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
LXC Linux Containers
NAS Network-Attached Storage
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex Brand of media server package
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSO Single Sign-On
VPN Virtual Private Network
nginx Popular HTTP server

11 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

[Thread #285 for this sub, first seen 17th Nov 2023, 17:05] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

[–] archengel@nichenerdery.duckdns.org 7 points 11 months ago

PiHole - blocking ads Home Assistant - home automation, smart lighting & more Nginx Proxy Manager - easy reverse proxying Lemmy - here we are, on Lemmy Immich - Google photos replacement Motioneye - for putting video streams into home assistant and getting motion detection WyzeBridge - connecting my Wyze doorbells to Motioneye Doods2 - quick to set up object/person recognition for video and camera streams

[–] aordogvan@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I often see wireguard and adguard or pihole mentioned. There's a service that provides a combination of wireguard and pihole in 1 docker compose file and has a web interface for wireguard clients (wgeasy) called wirehole. Been using our for 2 years or so, very happy with it.

In my opinion the most elegant solution for an ad blocking VPN.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago

Nextcloud and jellyfin

[–] mmagod@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I like Keepass - Password manager housed in an encrypted database. (dont' lose your master password)

[–] giddy@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago

Home assistant is high on my todo list right after i set up my new proxmox host

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can someone tell me the difference between Wireguard vs Wireguard Easy?

I already have Wireguard installed, so I just wanted to know if I should switch.

[–] ptrckstr@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wireguard-easy is plain old wireguard with with a nice web interface for management, that's all.

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[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Pfsense, Bitwarden, NAS running Debian, Kubernetes cluster. I have plans to expand And add more services when I get some of my newer hardware online.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Immich for image sharing and backup

Readeef for RSS reader

Blocky for dns

Jellyfin for multimedia streaming

[–] clavismil@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Syncthing, Gitea, jellyfin (with arr stack), audiobookshelf, Kavita.

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow Change Detection seems like a much better alternative to curling a webpage and using grep to search for particular elements... :/

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[–] giddy@aussie.zone 5 points 11 months ago

Currently running

  • speedtest tracker
  • uptime kuma
  • paperless
  • viewtube
  • airsonic
  • transmission
  • linkding
  • vaultwarden
  • nextcloud
  • audiobookshelf
  • code server
  • freshrss
  • rss bridge
  • nginx proxy manager
  • homepage
  • libreddit
  • gitea
  • pivpn
  • pihole
  • borg backup
  • time machine
[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 11 months ago

XMPP server and a basic WebDAV server.

My own Forgejo is nice to have.

[–] bnjmn@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

I hardly ever see people talking about Pocketbase in threads like these, but as a dev I love it

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[–] hismoom@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
  • hedgedoc - formerly known as HackMD/CodiMD - documentation (mainly for teaching and lecturing)
  • dendrite - next gen Matrix server
  • coturn - Matrix signaling
  • WhatsApp-/Signal-Matrix Bridge
  • nginx
  • pi-hole
[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can't live without my Nextcloud + Email server. Having all my personal files, contacts, email, calendar, and other personal information immediately accessible synced and backed up with a single app on any device or platform I want to use, is a dream come true, and I get to do it without any Big Tech, avoiding their lock-in and privacy invasion and without any fees or limits beyond my own hardware.

OpenVPN is how I can access it from anywhere in the world, so that gets an honorable mention too.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A proxy to go to blocked sites (which is pretty much my justification for paying the price), potentially some obfuscating solution later if shit hits the fan. An IRC bouncer (what I actually get the most use of). A hobby website. An XMPP server. Mumble in case I ever have friends to play video games with.

[–] cron@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (7 children)

My personal setup:

  • Nextcloud - For files, backup, contacts and calendar
  • Vaultwarden - Password Safe
  • Paperless - Document management, combined with a compatible scanner a true blessing (with scan to SMB)

I have been playing with some other tools, but these are the most important for me.

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