Jellyfin: An unfederated alternative to Plex, with some pros and cons. Very lightweight, customizable with plugins. Decent iOS and tvOS client from the devs.
FreshRSS: Self hosted RSS + Atom reader, honestly the best way to read news ad free. I recommend using FreshRSS with lire if you’re on iOS.
I’m definitely looking into hosting PiHole down the line, and hopefully nextcloud once i get some more drives
Thank you for not just listing the names of some software. Everyone else in this thread is like "Crimble, JFlax, pIcomIco, Flerbl, and 17 Orangutans."
I usually just ask recruiters to point those that are pokemon
17 Orangutans isn't software, it's just a bunch of apes I'm hosting in my basement server room. I trained one to answer level 1 trouble tickets, but manager said we need highly available maintenance processes. So, I got another container and put an orangutan inside it, and kept doing that until either we hit our KPI or we exhausted the budget.
The Lounge - got like 7 people using it basically daily to chat
Lemmy, even though I'm the only one really actively using it.
E-Mail server, I don't get a whole lot of mail but it's a pretty important one!
Everything else tends to be a lot more idle, but I've also got NextCloud, an IRC server, soon a Matrix server, an internal VPN so all my devices can always talk to eachother no matter where they are.
You're self-hosting your email? Masochist.
It's been set up for almost a decade at this point, it's shockingly low maintenance once it's all set up and going. It is a pain to figure out Postfix's and Dovecot's fairly arcane configuration files, but smooth sailing afterwards. It's been a long time since I've even got a mail rejected/not make it to the recipient's inbox.
100%. I’ve been running my own mail server for 10-15 years now and you’re spot on. I’ve wanted to migrate it to a more modern platform but I’m loath to relive the process of configuring postfix and dovecot. DKIM/SPF and Let’s Encrypt certs for IMAPS were also a bit of a headache to get sorted, and warming up the sending IP so gmail would stop sending me to spam… but once that’s all sorted it’s been very very hands off. I log in once in a blue moon to update it but otherwise it just sits and does it’s thing.
I self host one of my emails on my VPS. I can't even remember the software I used it's been that long. One issue I have is spam. Have you found any way of controlling that?
I have my mail server set up as a catch all so you can send to anything at my domain and it’ll land in my inbox. I use this to create usage specific addresses. If it’s something I know will produce spam, I just dev null anything going to that address. I can then also track where a spam source originated. For friends and family who email me regularly; they also know to append the current year to my email address, this allows me to rotate my email address every year.
I also run spam assassin and implement greylisting as well as blocking IP ranges from countries I know I’ll never receive legitimate mail from… it’s been an evolution.
Oh wow that catch all thing sounds like a really handy alternative to disposable emails. Thank you! I will also look into spam assassin. Logged into my VPS to remember what software I'm using - dovecot and postfix.
EDIT: installed and configured SpamAssassin. Thank you, that was easy!
I also can't recommend greylisting enough. If you haven't already enabled it in postfix I strongly suggest doing so. It's one of the easiest ways to reduce spam. By simply bouncing emails from new sources the first time and forcing them to retry, it cut my spam tremedously.
I've considered Airsonic but I haven't found a good client that looks good and doesn't behave weirdly. I had one launch about 500 threads trying to transcode the same song which ate up my CPU time on my server resulting in a stern e-mailing from my host.
Actively used is definitely Plex. Based on pure usage though, it would be pihole.
Gitea
FreshRSS: RSS reader (TinyTTS is also decent, but the developer is kind of a richard)
Kanboard: For keeping track of all my client projects (though you can use it for any sort of project tracking)
Nextcloud: It's pretty full featured, but I only really use it for shared calendars and contacts so that I'm not hosting on Microsoft or Google.
Could you tell more about the developer of Tiny Tiny RSS?
I'm using this apps for years, never heard about the problems with development.
If you take a look at his forums, you'll see when people request features, or just ask how to set something up, his responses are usually demeaning or meant to put the person down. And a bunch of users there defend or support it. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
I dunno, it might have changed recently, but I doubt it. The app itself, if you ignore the forums is pretty solid. But it was enough to look for another dev, and the one who does FreshRSS is pretty cool, and the posts just seem to load faster through FeedMe (android app)
Plex, PiHole, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Syncthing in a hub and spoke config, Caddy for reverse proxy, custom containers for: yt-dlp, restic, and rsync.
Could you elaborate on syncthing hub and spoke?
Yeah I saw a post about it a long time ago on Reddit for users with lots of devices
Basically it is just setting up one or two "central devices" that know all the client devices, but not linking the client devices individually.
IE: One server is connected to your phone, laptop, tablet, desktop, etc. But the phone is not directly connected to your laptop or desktop or tablet.
To be fair I don't actually know if this is the best approach anymore or if just connecting all of them in a mesh is better 🤷
My guess would be that each of their devices (phone, laptop, etc) syncs back to their server/NAS, but they do not sync to each other. The server/NAS is the hub, and each device is a spoke.
AdGuardHome
Vaultwarden
Linkding (plus Injector Extension)
Jellyfin (plus Infuse and FinAmp)
Owntone
Caddy
Pocketbase
Uptime-Kuma
What is pocketbase?
Instant backend for web apps. Basically firebase lite
Adguard home, jellyfin and miniflux probably see the most use
ntfy and FreshRSS for me. Audiobookshelf recently joined and I am using it daily. (Inofficial probably the Arr stack though 😅)
I've switched recently to freshrss, and it's been fantastic
I liked Audiobookshelf but the RSS feed kept breaking for me. I’d pull new podcast episodes for several days then it would fail and I’d have to recreate the feed. I wonder if they’ve fixed that yet.
Never noticed anything in the last couple of weeks. I had one podcast missing new episodes because the schedule was turned off. But I might not have had it turned on in the first place.
Inofficial probably the Arr stack though
I've been wanting to set up Readarr, but I feel like it's one of those things that can be pretty annoying to do with Docker because of the volumes.
Readarr is still just not good enough compared to the others. I ended up spinning 1 for ebooks and 1 for audiobooks to help make it less frustrating
Do you know if it's any good at finding audiobooks on public sites?
I had to manually use audiobook bay as I couldn’t get it to work. Myanonymouse is amazing and pretty easy to get into
Syncthing
1- Pihole + wireguard
2- Searxng
3- Bookstack
4- qBittorentVPN + *arr suite
5- Jellyfin
Pihole, Wireguard, Syncthing, Jellyfin
Not all I self-host but pihole, plex, & homeassistant are certainly my most used.
In no particular order: jellyfin + *arr ecosystem, vaultwarden, wireguard, komga.
Paperless-ngx is better than any hosted equivalent.
Vaultwarden and git are in daily use. Everything else comes far behind.
from services that I host – gitea
That's a good one. I just switched from Gitlab to Gitea.
There are multiple ways to evaluate usage. I’ll go with what I would guess is your desired measurement, things that I use intentionally (as opposed to things like dns, which just happen incidentally to other things or automation based things which are continuously running but not necessarily interacted with):
Mastodon
An app I’ve written to collect personal data
Jellyfin
Lemmy
Bitwarden (I pay to self-host as opposed to vaultwarden as the latter probably won’t have a security audit)
Freshrss
Linkding
Gitea
Archivebox
Mailcow
In terms of services I use the most I guess it would be these:
My custom blog, Syncthing and now I'm trying Lemmy and Mastodon. Let's see how it goes!
Do you need to be able to port forward / have a domain to host a lemmy instance? Is it the same for Kbin?
For things to work properly, yeah. Other instances need to be able to connect to your instance to send updates/etc. You could use cloudflare tunnels or something like that instead of port forwarding though
Yes, I think port forward and domain name is required not just for Lemmy but for every ActivityPub service (Kbin too).
Adguard home
OpenMediaVault
JellyFin
Jellyfin and that is about it.
Love this post. I was just looking for a new project.
One of my favs is PufferPanel for managing game servers. Works incredibly well as an lxc in Proxmox.
Plex, Komga (like kavita), nextcloud, and all the ancillary apps that go along with those, and Home Assistant.
Also playing with jellyfin alongside plex but it's not quite there to changeover totally.
Definitely a combination of pi-hole and bitwarden
Pihole, Paperless, Mattermost, Gitea
Like most, Plex and the *arrs are the main ones, paired with overseerr
Others I use daily or frequently are:
Benotes for bookmarks and quickly saving links for later
Gotify so I have push notifications of anything that happens on the server
Koillection as an inventory of all my knitting and crochet digital patterns
Homepage this one is always a pinned tab on any browser and a shortcut on my phone, quick glance of my services with the widgets and just a click away from them.
Also hosting a minecraft instance with backups but so far no dashboard or anything
Using 'hours of use' as the metric, it would be Plex. The ones I use every day are Libreddit, TT-RSS, Huginn and Reddit-RSS - and my own journalling app and pocket clone.
I don't see Docspell mentioned anywhere, but it's really cool document management system. Similar to Paperless, but with pretty easy way to extend functionality via addons if you need to add some extra automation when ingesting the documents.
Thx for the docspell tip - looks like something i was searching for
Mostly... a Pterodactyl panel for my Minecraft server. Will run a lemmy tomorrow ish
Definitely my pictures folder
TTRSS and Jellyfin
Pi-hole (DNS resolver with blocklists)
Syncthing (sync files across all your devices)
Next- or ownCloud (contacts, calendar, task, files and more)
mailcow (complete mail server with web admin panel, SPAM protection, webmail, etc.)
Tiny Tiny RSS (web RSS reader - lol, I'm still using it)
Grafana (graphs for various sensors)
Checkmk (Nagios-like monitoring for my own servers and services)
Proxmox Backup Server (deduplication magic! like 20-22 times)
Blocky, unbound, and btop (which is not related to self-hosting, but its low memory plus cpu usage can be really handy on low power devices.)
In terms of what services do the most:
In terms of user activity:
Jellyfin: An unfederated alternative to Plex, with some pros and cons. Very lightweight, customizable with plugins. Decent iOS and tvOS client from the devs.
Vaultwarden: Unofficial open-source fork of Bitwarden.
FreshRSS: Self hosted RSS + Atom reader, honestly the best way to read news ad free. I recommend using FreshRSS with lire if you’re on iOS.
I’m definitely looking into hosting PiHole down the line, and hopefully nextcloud once i get some more drives
Thank you for not just listing the names of some software. Everyone else in this thread is like "Crimble, JFlax, pIcomIco, Flerbl, and 17 Orangutans."
I usually just ask recruiters to point those that are pokemon
17 Orangutans isn't software, it's just a bunch of apes I'm hosting in my basement server room. I trained one to answer level 1 trouble tickets, but manager said we need highly available maintenance processes. So, I got another container and put an orangutan inside it, and kept doing that until either we hit our KPI or we exhausted the budget.
Literally a coding monkey
lmaoooo ofc :)
Thanks
ofc! if you’re gonna get media and use jellyfin as a front end, contact me on matrix: @joshrandall@matrix.org
Pihole, Bitwarden and Plex.
Everything else tends to be a lot more idle, but I've also got NextCloud, an IRC server, soon a Matrix server, an internal VPN so all my devices can always talk to eachother no matter where they are.
You're self-hosting your email? Masochist.
It's been set up for almost a decade at this point, it's shockingly low maintenance once it's all set up and going. It is a pain to figure out Postfix's and Dovecot's fairly arcane configuration files, but smooth sailing afterwards. It's been a long time since I've even got a mail rejected/not make it to the recipient's inbox.
100%. I’ve been running my own mail server for 10-15 years now and you’re spot on. I’ve wanted to migrate it to a more modern platform but I’m loath to relive the process of configuring postfix and dovecot. DKIM/SPF and Let’s Encrypt certs for IMAPS were also a bit of a headache to get sorted, and warming up the sending IP so gmail would stop sending me to spam… but once that’s all sorted it’s been very very hands off. I log in once in a blue moon to update it but otherwise it just sits and does it’s thing.
I self host one of my emails on my VPS. I can't even remember the software I used it's been that long. One issue I have is spam. Have you found any way of controlling that?
I have my mail server set up as a catch all so you can send to anything at my domain and it’ll land in my inbox. I use this to create usage specific addresses. If it’s something I know will produce spam, I just dev null anything going to that address. I can then also track where a spam source originated. For friends and family who email me regularly; they also know to append the current year to my email address, this allows me to rotate my email address every year.
I also run spam assassin and implement greylisting as well as blocking IP ranges from countries I know I’ll never receive legitimate mail from… it’s been an evolution.
Oh wow that catch all thing sounds like a really handy alternative to disposable emails. Thank you! I will also look into spam assassin. Logged into my VPS to remember what software I'm using - dovecot and postfix.
EDIT: installed and configured SpamAssassin. Thank you, that was easy!
I also can't recommend greylisting enough. If you haven't already enabled it in postfix I strongly suggest doing so. It's one of the easiest ways to reduce spam. By simply bouncing emails from new sources the first time and forcing them to retry, it cut my spam tremedously.
vaultwarden
pihole, wireguard, qbittorrent, sonarr/radarr, Jellyfin, syncthing, NFS.
I've considered Airsonic but I haven't found a good client that looks good and doesn't behave weirdly. I had one launch about 500 threads trying to transcode the same song which ate up my CPU time on my server resulting in a stern e-mailing from my host.
Actively used is definitely Plex. Based on pure usage though, it would be pihole.
Gitea
FreshRSS: RSS reader (TinyTTS is also decent, but the developer is kind of a richard)
Kanboard: For keeping track of all my client projects (though you can use it for any sort of project tracking)
Nextcloud: It's pretty full featured, but I only really use it for shared calendars and contacts so that I'm not hosting on Microsoft or Google.
Could you tell more about the developer of Tiny Tiny RSS?
I'm using this apps for years, never heard about the problems with development.
If you take a look at his forums, you'll see when people request features, or just ask how to set something up, his responses are usually demeaning or meant to put the person down. And a bunch of users there defend or support it. It just leaves a bad taste in your mouth.
I dunno, it might have changed recently, but I doubt it. The app itself, if you ignore the forums is pretty solid. But it was enough to look for another dev, and the one who does FreshRSS is pretty cool, and the posts just seem to load faster through FeedMe (android app)
Plex, PiHole, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Syncthing in a hub and spoke config, Caddy for reverse proxy, custom containers for: yt-dlp, restic, and rsync.
Could you elaborate on syncthing hub and spoke?
Yeah I saw a post about it a long time ago on Reddit for users with lots of devices
Basically it is just setting up one or two "central devices" that know all the client devices, but not linking the client devices individually.
IE: One server is connected to your phone, laptop, tablet, desktop, etc. But the phone is not directly connected to your laptop or desktop or tablet.
To be fair I don't actually know if this is the best approach anymore or if just connecting all of them in a mesh is better 🤷
Here is a forum post describing it.
My guess would be that each of their devices (phone, laptop, etc) syncs back to their server/NAS, but they do not sync to each other. The server/NAS is the hub, and each device is a spoke.
What is pocketbase?
Instant backend for web apps. Basically firebase lite
Adguard home, jellyfin and miniflux probably see the most use
ntfy and FreshRSS for me. Audiobookshelf recently joined and I am using it daily. (Inofficial probably the Arr stack though 😅)
I've switched recently to freshrss, and it's been fantastic
I liked Audiobookshelf but the RSS feed kept breaking for me. I’d pull new podcast episodes for several days then it would fail and I’d have to recreate the feed. I wonder if they’ve fixed that yet.
Never noticed anything in the last couple of weeks. I had one podcast missing new episodes because the schedule was turned off. But I might not have had it turned on in the first place.
I've been wanting to set up Readarr, but I feel like it's one of those things that can be pretty annoying to do with Docker because of the volumes.
Readarr is still just not good enough compared to the others. I ended up spinning 1 for ebooks and 1 for audiobooks to help make it less frustrating
Do you know if it's any good at finding audiobooks on public sites?
I had to manually use audiobook bay as I couldn’t get it to work. Myanonymouse is amazing and pretty easy to get into
Syncthing
1- Pihole + wireguard
2- Searxng
3- Bookstack
4- qBittorentVPN + *arr suite
5- Jellyfin
Pihole, Wireguard, Syncthing, Jellyfin
Not all I self-host but pihole, plex, & homeassistant are certainly my most used.
navidrome and jellyfin
Home Assistant by far.
Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, Nextcloud, Syncthing, Invidious, SearxNG
In no particular order: jellyfin + *arr ecosystem, vaultwarden, wireguard, komga.
Paperless-ngx is better than any hosted equivalent.
Vaultwarden and git are in daily use. Everything else comes far behind.
from services that I host – gitea
That's a good one. I just switched from Gitlab to Gitea.
There are multiple ways to evaluate usage. I’ll go with what I would guess is your desired measurement, things that I use intentionally (as opposed to things like dns, which just happen incidentally to other things or automation based things which are continuously running but not necessarily interacted with):
In terms of services I use the most I guess it would be these:
I love Foundry. Hands down the best virtual tabletop on the market.
my most heavily used self hosted services are:
Audiobookshelf Jellyfin Homepage Matrix/synapse
DNS obviously, I use the Pi-hole compatible filtering in OpnSense Then Nextcloud, Email, Navidrome, Jupyter Hub, Code-Server
As of now:
I can't live without the first 2, though.
I use Gitea as project hosting and personal wiki. I also host Nextcloud for files and news and Jellyfin for movies and music.
In this order.
Immich, Lemmy and Mastodon 😌
Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, Plex, Overseer, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, Mattermost
My custom blog, Syncthing and now I'm trying Lemmy and Mastodon. Let's see how it goes!
Do you need to be able to port forward / have a domain to host a lemmy instance? Is it the same for Kbin?
For things to work properly, yeah. Other instances need to be able to connect to your instance to send updates/etc. You could use cloudflare tunnels or something like that instead of port forwarding though
Yes, I think port forward and domain name is required not just for Lemmy but for every ActivityPub service (Kbin too).
Adguard home
OpenMediaVault
JellyFin
Jellyfin and that is about it.
Love this post. I was just looking for a new project.
One of my favs is PufferPanel for managing game servers. Works incredibly well as an lxc in Proxmox.
Plex, Komga (like kavita), nextcloud, and all the ancillary apps that go along with those, and Home Assistant.
Also playing with jellyfin alongside plex but it's not quite there to changeover totally.
Definitely a combination of pi-hole and bitwarden
Pihole, Paperless, Mattermost, Gitea
Like most, Plex and the *arrs are the main ones, paired with overseerr Others I use daily or frequently are:
Also hosting a minecraft instance with backups but so far no dashboard or anything
Using 'hours of use' as the metric, it would be Plex. The ones I use every day are Libreddit, TT-RSS, Huginn and Reddit-RSS - and my own journalling app and pocket clone.
PiHole, Bitwarden, Bookstack, Grafana/Loki, Immich, haproxy, plex
Trilium for notes, Jellyfin, jupyterlab and komga
I don't see Docspell mentioned anywhere, but it's really cool document management system. Similar to Paperless, but with pretty easy way to extend functionality via addons if you need to add some extra automation when ingesting the documents.
Thx for the docspell tip - looks like something i was searching for
Mostly... a Pterodactyl panel for my Minecraft server. Will run a lemmy tomorrow ish
Definitely my pictures folder
TTRSS and Jellyfin
Pi-hole (DNS resolver with blocklists)
Syncthing (sync files across all your devices)
Next- or ownCloud (contacts, calendar, task, files and more)
mailcow (complete mail server with web admin panel, SPAM protection, webmail, etc.)
Tiny Tiny RSS (web RSS reader - lol, I'm still using it)
Grafana (graphs for various sensors)
Checkmk (Nagios-like monitoring for my own servers and services)
Proxmox Backup Server (deduplication magic! like 20-22 times)
Blocky, unbound, and btop (which is not related to self-hosting, but its low memory plus cpu usage can be really handy on low power devices.)
Komga (comics), Plex, Audiobookshelf
Jellyfin
AdGuard Home, Home Assistant and Zigbee2MQTT.