What's on your personal server?
Either self-hosted or cloud, I assume many of you keep a server around for personal things. And I'm curious about the cool stuff you've got running on your personal servers.
What services do you host? Any unique stuff? Do you interact with it through ssh, termux, web server?
This might be a better question for !selfhosted
Lenovo ThinkStation P330 Tiny. Debian + Podman systemd quadlets, running these services:
P330 tiny is so good I just wish there was a ryzen version with a pcie slot. Quicksync is great but I hate Intel.
Do you have any tips (or examples) using quadlets? I tried using them but I couldn't wrap my head around them.
I used this guide https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/quadlet-podman
I have a folder on my in my home folder called containers symlinked to /etc/containers/systemd with my .container files. This is my jellyfin.container for using the Nvidia Quadro on my server.
[Unit] Description=Podman - Jellyfin Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target Requires=nvidia-ctk-generate.service After=nvidia-ctk-generate.service [Container] Image=lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest AutoUpdate=registry ContainerName=jellyfin Environment=PUID=1000 Environment=PGID=100 Environment=TZ=America/St_Johns Environment=DOCKER_MODS=ghcr.io/gilbn/theme.park:jellyfin Environment=TP_THEME=dracula Volume=/home/eric/services/jellyfin:/config Volume=/home/eric/movies:/movies Volume=/home/eric/tv:/tv Volume=/home/eric/music:/music PublishPort=8096:8096 PublishPort=8920:8920 PublishPort=7359:7359/udp PublishPort=1900:1900/udp AddDevice=nvidia.com/gpu=all SecurityLabelDisable=true [Service] Restart=always TimeoutStartSec=900 [Install] WantedBy=default.target
I use sudo podman auto-update to update the images to utilize the AutoUpdate=registry option.
Two old HP thin client PCs configured as 4TB SFTP file servers using vsftpd on Debian. Each one uses software RAID 1 with both an NVMe and SATA SSD internally, and are in two separate locations with a cron job which syncs one to the other every 24 hours.
People who actually know what they are doing will probably find this silly, but I had fun and learned a lot setting it up.
If it works reliably who cares?
tell me about the cron thing. im thinking of doing just that on mine for backup.
are you scping them together?
I am using lftp and mirror. One server functions as the "main" server, which mirrors the backup server to itself once per day at a specific time (they both run 24/7 so I set it to run very early in the morning when it is unlikely to be accessed).
In my crontab I have:
# # * * * /usr/bin/lftp -e "mirror -eRv [folder path on main server] [folder path on backup server]; quit;" sftp://[user]@[address of backup server]:[port number]
You might like to search this community, and also \c\self_hosted, since this question gets asked a lot.
For me:
I created two things - CodeNotes (for snippets) and a lil' Weather app myself 'cause I didn't like what I found out there.
how do you like freshrss? do you use it on mobile too?
I love it. I do use it on mobile, in my browser too. I've been meaning too see what other clients are available for android.
I have an orangepi zero 3 with pihole
Then an ITX PC with
As a person that actually torrented a Linux iso on Friday, thank you! Lol
On my Raspberry Pi 4 4gb with encrypted sd is:
Pi is overkill for this kind of job. Load average is only 0.7% and ram usage is only 400M
findmydevice server
What server are you running for this?
can you tell us how you got this running with an encrypted SD card?
That was really hard to do. I created a note for myself and I will also publish it on my website. You can also decrypt the sd using fido2 hardware key (I have a nitrokey). If you don't need that just skip steps that are for fido2.
The note:
Download the image.
Format SD card to new DOS table:
As root:
xz -d 2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img.xz losetup -fP 2023-12-11-raspios-bookworm-arm64-lite.img dd if=/dev/loop0p1 of=/dev/mmcblk0p1 bs=1M cryptsetup luksFormat --type=luks2 --cipher=xchacha20,aes-adiantum-plain64 /dev/mmcblk0p2 systemd-cryptenroll --fido2-device=auto /dev/mmcblk0p2 cryptsetup open /dev/mmcblk0p2 root dd if=/dev/loop0p2 of=/dev/mapper/root bs=1M e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/root resize2fs -f /dev/mapper/root mount /dev/mapper/root /mnt mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/boot/firmware arch-chroot /mnt
In chroot:
apt update && apt full-upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y && apt install cryptsetup-initramfs fido2-tools jq debhelper git vim -y git clone https://github.com/bertogg/fido2luks && cd fido2luks fakeroot debian/rules binary && sudo apt install ../fido2luks*.deb cd .. && rm -rf fido2luks*
Edit /etc/crypttab:
root /dev/mmcblk0p2 none luks,keyscript=/lib/fido2luks/keyscript.sh
Edit /etc/fstab:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot/firmware vfat defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/root / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
Change root to /dev/mapper/root and add cryptdevice=/dev/mmcblk0p2:root to /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt.
PATH="$PATH:/sbin" update-initramfs -u
Exit chroot and finish!
umount -R /mnt
Have you integrated your matrix instance with keycloak? Ive been wanting to set it up to allow local matrix users the ability to SSO with other stuff like jellyfin with just their matrix ID.
countless "read later" pdfs ...and cat pictures
Cat pictures ? Definitely the best possible use of a server 😄
Minetest server, arr suite, plex, Pihole, calibre, homesssistant, Nextcloud.
Interact with it through a Homarr webpage and all of it is virtualized through proxmox.
I've been a software engineer for 8 years and I've had my own Jellyfin server (and before that, Plex) set up for 4 years on a server that I built myself.
Despite this, I don't have a damn clue what "virtualized through Proxmox" means any time I read it.
You use Homarr with Proxmox? I should look into that.
Ya I have it running as an LXC. Here’s a script you can run in your proxmox shell that will create it for you:
bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/raw/main/ct/homarr.sh)"
Plex, transmission, home assistant, some SSH tunnels, some custom home automation endpoints.
Main server is a ML110 G9 running Debian. 48G/ram. 256 ssd x2 in raid1 as root. 4tb backup drive. 4tb cctv drive. 4x4tb raid 10 data drive. (Separating cctv and backup to separate drives lowers overall iowait a lot). 2nd server is a baby thinkcentre. 2gb ram, 1x 128gb ssd.
Edit: Also traccar, tracking family phones. Really nice bit of software and entirely free and private. Replaced Life360 who have a dubious privacy history.
Edit2: Syncthing - a recent addition to replace GDrive. Bunch of files shared between various desktops/laptops and phones.
NUC 8i5, 32GB, 500GB NVMe (host), 8TB SSD (data), Akasa Turing fanless case, running Proxmox:
I also have a Pi 4 running LibreElec for Kodi on the home theater. Nothing fancy yet and it more than meets our current needs. Most maintenance done over SSH.
Would like to eventually get a proper web and email server going (yes, I know).
I use Docker and (currently) VMware and host whatever I need for as long (or short) as I need it.
This allows me to keep everything separate and isolated and prevents incompatible stuff interacting with each other. In addition, after I'm done with a test, I can dispose of the experiment without needing to track down spurious files or impacting another project.
I also use this to run desktop software by only giving a container access to the specific files I want it to access.
I'm in the process of moving this to AWS, so I have less hardware in my office whilst gaining more flexibility and accessibility from alternative locations.
The ultimate aim is a minimal laptop with a terminal and a browser to access what I need from wherever I am.
One side effect of this will be the opportunity to make some of my stuff public if I want to without needing to start from scratch, just updating permissions will achieve that.
One step at a time :)
Just Jellyfin and modded Minecraft right now. Nothing super interesting, but great fun.
I'm using SSH to interact with the Minecraft server in tmux, and the web interface for Jellyfin.
ATM I have the following running:
Curious about the specs of your machine.
it's an i5 13xxx with 64GB ram and a HBA passed through to TrueNAS with 7 disks on it and a second network card passed through to OpnSense for WAN/LAN
All the above runs in Proxmox and has a bit of room for expansion still ;) This was a 50th to myself to replace an IBM M4 space heater
here is my deploy
For local use only I use Docker Rootless hosting:
I've found problems using Docker Rootless and Tumbleweed as my server's OS, since some configurations are different and some containers don't even work, but I've also learned a lot :)
I can't change my router's DNS
Do you mean you can't change the DNS server in the DHCP settings or the server the router itself uses? In the first case you might be able to use Pi-Hole's DHCP server instead, while for the latter it shouldn't be an issue - I actually usually leave upstream servers configured there to avoid loops. BTW, you might also be able to flash OpenWRT to your router
You could turn off the DHCP server on your router and let your server handle it. You can then tell your clients to use Pi hole via the DHCP running on your server
What do you use as a replacement for Caddy and Redis?
Nothing for Redis since it's optional and I had problems running SearXNG with it. For Caddy, I forgot to mention that I use Nginx-Proxy-Manager as my reverse proxy for HTTPS hehe
Nothing yet, I'm still trying to figure out how to get my orange pi working... not much progress yet because I am just starting and making a server is very intimidating 😅 For now I'd like to just get it working so I can access a hard drive, and if I manage that and feel very daring, then pihole, jellyfin and home assistant.
Have you tried DietPi?
I've got servers all over the place. A sample of what I have running on all of them:
Current setup:
Main server (HP ProDesk 600 G3 MT):
Workstation (HP Z440):
Soon I'll move to a setup where the Workstation runs all services, and there are two servers (HP ProDesk 600 G3 MT) whose only purpose is to run a DHCP+DNS server (one authoritative) as well as a Wireguard bridge to connect the two servers, located at two different networks (and cities), together. I'll also set up Jellyseerr, Vencloud (settings sync for the Discord Client Vencord), revamp the backup system and introduce my Laptop to the ecosystem.
Nice try fed won't get my ssh keys that easily
Homework worth of TBs
Self-hosted machine. It was basically my old computer I bought back in '09. It's a i5-750 on a Asus P5P77. It started with the 4 GB RAM I hadn't sold until I upgrade to 8. I used a borrowed Nvidia GT730 and a 1 TB HDD at first until I upgrade my main PC GPU and bought a new HDD for the server so now it runs in a 4 TB HDD and my old GTX 1060 3 Gb. It's a beast for my needs.
The more time passes the more I realize self-hosting is the best idea ever. I get new ideias every day.
I settled on a Fujitsu Q920 with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. Runs FreeBSD 14.1 and each service has its own Jail.
Services:
DNSmasq - local DNS and adblocker Wireguard Navidrome MPD - Media server Vaultwarden - password save Radicale - cardav and caldav server TinyRSS - RSS aggregator Zabbix - server and service monitoring Postgresql Gitea - git repository Emby - jellyfin alternative Mariadb Bhyve VM with Debian running 2 apps (invoiceplane and leantime) which use a quite old php version and I never had time to port to Freebsd.
A second machine that starts daily and creates a backup of machine 1 by using ZFS autobackup.
Nothing fancy but it does what I need.
I use my home server for everything. It’s an i5-13500 system, 48GB of RAM, an RX6650XT, and currently 14 drives all packed into a 4U case.
I virtualize my desktop on it, just passing through the GPU, P-Cores, and 16GB of RAM. That’s my primary dev workstation at home, and also my gaming machine (which runs sunshine for streaming games). I also have a Mac VM set up with OSX-KVM and minimal resources for Bluebubbles.
My drives are set up in several pools. I have two SSD pools: a boot pool running ZFS for the host server system (Debian), and a VM/Container ZFS pool for docker container images and configs as well as the Mac VM. I also have a whole NVMe SSD dedicated to the workstation VM. Finally, I have two large HDD pools: A mergerfs/snapraid setup for media storage (4 drives) and a large ZFS pool (5 drives) for important personal data like pictures and documents.
Services I run:
Always looking for new self hosted stuff to try! I’m thinking of getting into the *arr stuff soon but I’m a bit intimidated by it. Also I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 5 on the way that I’m gonna use for Jellyfin, moonlight, and music streaming to my living room TV
Headless server accessed via SSH. Hosting Jellyfin, FoundryVTT, a Discord bot that I just mess around with, and also use it to run an IRC client inside screen.
-Jellyfin: for playing media that I totally own and surely did no obtain by any obscure way.
-Qbittorrent: for reasons completely unrelated to the previous one.
-Amule: see above.
-Synapse (matrix server): overly complex way to send myself notifications from the server to my phone.
-FreshRSS: to have a self hosted RSS feed server. Could I use an android app for the same thing? Sure. But it's more fun and headache inducing this way.
-TubeArchivist: Because I want to offload some of that cost inducing bandwidth that is making those poor YouTube executives to keep pushing more aggressive ads on their platform. I'm just that nice.
-Caddy: because I'm just lazy.
-Crowdsec: Because I'm just paranoid.
Self hosted retro private EQemu, I also use the server for Jellyfin, just for music.
I used to use it to control my window AC from work too, but sadly the smart plug I use for that died over the winter, was nice to pair with those tuya-alternative through http since my cheapo phone needs to save all the storage it can. Its on a very old rig, so I'm always impressed that it still works.
On an orangepi5, managed via webUIs and SSH: -Home Assistant and associated programs (notably zigbee2mqtt and nodered) -Pihole
8TB Unraid NAS managed via Unraid's webui -Whooole *arr stack -Jellyfin -Mealie
Thinking about nextcloud for the next one.
I've been running my own nextcloud for around a decade now. I use it for my calendar, contacts, and file storage. It's basically replaced all the google services for me, and has been effectively zero maintenance. It just works.
Pi-hole DNS and dhcp + home assistant and a bunch of other related containers.
Multiple hosts. Win2024/hyperv and proxmox
And some minor, less important ones.
All backup to a central server, which does a daily backup of the backup onto another nas. In case of emergency,just grab nas.
A lemmy server, and my experimental Tenfingers sharing protocol nodes.
How come you don't post from your own lemmy
Because I had lots of problems with my lemmy.mindoki.com server, so I shamefully uses an accunt on lemmy.world.
Just wiped the server a coupla of days ago (snif), so if everything works out well this time you'll see valmond from mindoki the next time :-)
Pi-hole on an ancient pi zero w.
I've got a little MSI box with 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD, and a quad core i3 running Proxmox. Home Assistant is in its own VM, I have a VM for a bastion host/jump box of sorts for a client's network (yes, I know VPNs exist), and then a VM running a few Docker containers: CheckMK, Dozzle, Uptime Kuma, and The TP-Link Omada Controller software. I intend to migrate those to Podman eventually.
On my desktop in Podman, I'm running Dashy, Redlib, and Dozzle regularly. Sometimes I run other services but those are pretty persistent. I use Podman on my local machine for my development work and it's just handy to have Redlib and Dashy right here.
I tend to interact with things via SSH unless it's a webshit.
Nextcloud, Syncthing, PeerTube, Vaultwarden, Gitea (+drone, drone-qemu, gitea-pages), Wireguard, FreshRSS
truenas: plex/jellyfin, *arr stack
working on another (debian) machine to run nextcloud and immich, plan is to have a failover. Redundant machine would ideally be wake on LAN to save power. I already have commodity hardware for these two identical machines, otherwise I'd probably just go for a more robust single machine.
Mikrotik routerboard out front providing wireguard for one subnet. pi4 providing pihole on the wireguard subnet. This is a new router and I'm very happy with it. This coming weekend the goal is to correctly implement mangle rules (policy based routing) to combine my two WAN connections seamlessly.
So very standard setup for selfhosting with the exception of two ISPs
truenas is easiest to manage through the web service, debian ssh and VNC, mikrotik's WInBox is just amazing, but it's also the first "grown up" router software I've ever used. It's so much better than managing PF through a ssh session.
I managed to install Nextcloud (not the docker) and I called it a success since I find nginx, ports, firewalls and port forwarding a meta headache.
Half a dozen WordPress sites
@sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org my home one runs:
Some vegetables
I started to answer your question with a list of stuff and then deleted the lot and started again:
What are you really after? Do you fancy a challenge or what?
Steam and Jellyfin torrent setup. I'm considering adding nextcloud setup for fun.
NFS and Minetest (Asuna) server.
AMP for game servers Plex The arrs Rss stuff Nextcloud NUT Pihole Bunch of stuff for plex like maintainer, shuffle Jellyfin and watch state sync between plex Speed test tracker Krita Excalidraw Actualserver Mealie Grav Tons of databases
Permanently Deleted
RedLib (former Libreddit) Piped, e-mail server and Nextcloud
One game server, seedbox, some discord bots. And I ain't telling how I interact with my servers but they are cloud.