Everything is running on a Synology NAS. Media lives on a 16TB raid array of HDD, and the containers themselves on a RAID 1 of two NVMe SSDs. This helps with spinning down the HDD when not in use and overall power consumption is very reasonable.

On the host:

• Tailscale to connect remotely
• Synology Photo as a great photo library

Then everything in Docker containers, deployed via compose stacks from Git and Portainer, very easy to update! Also using Watchtower to automatically updates containers that are using the “latest” tag.

• arr stack. With notably Recyclarr that allows to sync from TrashGuides the recommended media quality profiles
• Jellyfin
• Miniflux for RSS. Recently switched from Feedly… it’s so much better. Allows full text extraction when the feed isn’t.
• Calibre + Calibre Web for the interface, ebooks management
• Home Assistant + Zigbee2mqtt for home automation
• Nginx proxy manager to reverse proxy a handful of services (those with shared logins, e.g. Jellyfin…)
• Paperless-Ngx for documents management
• Change detection for websites monitoring (e.g. price changes…)
• Flame for a simple “dashboard” with all these links