What are some self hosted services that you think are essential?

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• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Immich/PhotoPrism/whatever you use for image backup. Cloud providers are snooping through your shit.

  Plex/Jellyfin for streaming

  Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, SABnzbd, qBittorrent to support the streaming service(s)

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The only one I haven’t seen mentioned here that is a requirement for me is OPNsense. I’ve been using it for a couple years, and pfSense before that for a very long time. Never going back to commercial routers and their shitty / buggy / backdoored software. I highly recommend OPNsense over pfSense for the UI improvements alone, but there are other reasons to use/support OPNsense over pfSense.

  On my network it handles internet firewall, internal firewall, and all routing across 5 VLANs and between two internet gateways. It does 1-1 NAT for my public IPs, inbound VPN, outbound VPN for my *arr stack, and RDNS blocklists with the data source being a script I wrote that merges from several sources and deduplicates the list. It is my internal certificate authority (I don’t miss you at all, Windows CA), DHCP for the guest wifi, and does pihole-like ad blocking via DNS for my entire network. And it does all that running in a VM with 2GB of RAM, of which it only uses about 60% on my install.

  It is an incredibly powerful tool, not terribly difficult to learn, has a pretty damn good UI for FOSS, and in my opinion is a fantastic foundation for a complex home network / homelab. Unlike pfSense, which corrupted itself twice over the years I ran it, it has never let me down. And every update has been painless over the years.

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  • militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I understood some of those words. It make network go?

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It make network go very good.

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  • coronach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Second OPNsense. pfSense also is maintained by some pretty shitty individuals.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I hinted at it but didn’t feel like going into it. It’s why I switched though, and happily I found OPNsense to just be better anyway.

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  • mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I highly recommend OPNsense over pfSense for the UI improvements alone, but there are other reasons to use/support OPNsense over pfSense.

    Can you list or summarize some of the other reasons?

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eh, I’ve forgotten a lot of the details and it’s drama that I don’t care to relearn about. Easy to find online with some basic searching if you want to read about it.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lemmy.sdf.org/comment/15885125

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  • Shimitar@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Went to try pfSense. Need to register to their shop to buy a free download link.

    Then during installation it won’t install unless it can phone home and report.

    OpnSense all the way.

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s new, it didn’t used to do that back in the days when I used it but that was a couple years ago. Sounds like it’s just getting worse.

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  • witx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How many NICs do you have on you opnsense machine?

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a VM so technically none I guess, but my hypervisor hosts have a 4 port gigabit card and a 10 gig fiber card, plus another gigabit port on the motherboard.

      OPNsense is using 6 interfaces, 2 WAN and 4 LAN, but it’s all virtualized.

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• thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one’s mentioned Forgejo yet? Solid git and artifact repository.

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• B0rax@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pi-hole. Get rid of at least some ads on the network level. Maybe add unbound for a faster DNS response.

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  • Shimitar@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using unbound on opnSense with blacklists. Works wonders and do not require an additional device.

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    • downhomechunk@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I use unbound with pi-hole inside an Ubuntu lxc container. No additional device needed.

      docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/

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• SirMaple__@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  vaultwarden, jellyfin, freshrss, nextcloud, and wireguard

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  • ghostface@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is fressrss?

    I am also running readarr and bookshelf

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    • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s perfect, better with themes

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    • krash@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used freshrss for quite some time, but the themes always looked a bit “off” for me. Went to miniflux and its awesome in its minimalism.

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• node815@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In no particular order, the most essential ones are those I constantly use throughout my day and also weekly.

  Proxmox holds all of these in different LXC’s and VM’s

  • Home Assistant
  • Pocket-ID - github.com/stonith404/pocket-id (Exclusive Passkey login system as in -no un/pw just your Passkey which - doubles as an OIDC provider)
  • Homepage (By Ben Phelps of gethomepage.dev)
  • Vaultwarden
  • TechnitiumDNS which handles all of my DHCP and Adblocking in a one system, extremely capable software especially useful for SOHO too.
  • Baserow - Airtable alternative. It holds certain items of importance like what MAC address each device in my home network holds and what IP It uses in an intelligent view. I also was using it for a while to log issues with my sleep where I deal with insomnia, so I logged how well I slept, how many times I woke up, how long it took me to fall asleep etc. That was a simple form I created using drag/drop in Baserow and called by a URL.
  • OpenVSCode server - makes editing my Homepage (above) yaml and my docker-compose files a breeze! It’s especially nice when you edit it something and it auto saves almost instantly. Makes some of my services change in real-time!
  • UptimeKuma - Simply one of the best out there for me
  • Gotify - I get alerted to my Tuya based dehumidifer tank being full via Home Assistant, Downtime alerts from UptimeKuma and a variety of other services which I deem higher priority alerts over “fix when you can” ones.

  Aside from that, i do have other services I use every so often like Memos, Joplin Server (holds most of my notes), Pingvin and a few others.

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  • spookedintownsville@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    +1 for UptimeKuma. Works great.

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  • qaz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I tried Baserow a while ago but decided not to use it because it started downloading the application after running the container and required an online account (that could also be NocoDB). How has your experience been after using it for longer?

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    • node815@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I had to create an account as per the usual process for these types of apps, but it was all local. I never had to do one to connect to their servers. I know it generates a unique instance ID which I believe phones home to their servers but I don’t mind personally.

      As for my experience, a lot of it is locked behind their paid plans, so I just keep it limited to what I use which is fine. I do like it as it does better than NocoDB for my needs (the input forms is what I needed) and it does better there. I don’t recall the other reasons for not using NocoDB otherwise, but it’s a long while.

      Their pricing is here: baserow.io/pricing

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      So, that’s mostly what is locked behind. My sleep form I built which feeds the database: Image

      Overall, it does meet my needs so that’s all I ask. :)

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  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does Technitium support DNS rewrites like Adguard Home?

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    • node815@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m about 99% sure it does, I don’t use it that way but It does allow DNS zones. For example:

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      It’s a lot more technical then Adguard Home for sure. Both work just fine though, I came from Adguard Home as I use a PXE server to provision some of my devices and Technitium is super easy to configure that.

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• Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paperless-ngx

  The rest is already in the other comments

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• d_k_bo@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A reverse proxy, in my case Caddy.

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  • gitamar@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How did you set up you SSL certificates, are you using a self signed certificate or do you use a custom subdomain?

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    • d_k_bo@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Caddy automatically sets up certificates for you. Since I don’t want my subdomain to appear in certificate transparency logs, I use a wildcard certificate which requires using a plugin for my DNS provider.

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  • gregor@gregtech.eu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Duh, you need a reverse proxy to host most of the stuff (if you want to run more than 1 service and use HTTPS). I use Traefik btw, though I heard Caddy is very easy to use.

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• Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In terms of most used for me, it would be:

  • Nextcloud: contains my contacts and calendar synced with my phone, as well as access to files on my server from any web browser.
  • Home assistant: both automated and remote control of your lights, thermostat, etc.
  • Audiobookshelf: only really useful if you have an audiobook collection
  • Vault Warden: self-hosted bitwarden. Not really all that important to self-host, since a bit warden’s clients are open source.
  • Frigate: only useful if you have security cameras.
  • Navidrome: only useful if you have a music collection.
  • Jellyfin: only useful if you have a movie / TV collection.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gonna also throw in: Nextcloud Memories.

    It makes the photo organizing part of NextCloud AMAZING. I’m so happy I got to dump Google Photos for good.

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    • spookedintownsville@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did not know about this, but it’s exactly the extension I was looking for! Thank you!

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  • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Audiobookshelf also supports podcasts (and ebooks, but I haven’t tested that).

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    • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cool, I didn’t know. Going to try it out.

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Podcasts are my primary use case (my partner uses audiobooks exclusively), and while it works rather well, I want to put in the caveat that there’s no working playlist functionality in the app, and IME headset controls don’t work from FF for Android.

      That’s not a deal breaker for me, but it was a massive disappointment when I switched over. But the lack of playlist functionality in the app only annoys me when I want to follow one of the shorter news feeds, since I have to stop and select the next track every 5 min as the episode ends. No issue with that feed from the browser, so meh.

      Works great through my reverse proxy/cloudflare tunnel setup, so not too many actual complaints.

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  • shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Audiobookshelf also finds, manages, streams podcasts. After Google killed off Google Podcasts, ABS has been an even better replacement in my experience.

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  • cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jellyfin is also useful for music collection. I tried both it and Navidrome to start with, and ended up only using Jellyfin.

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• JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends on what your usecase is for what is “essential.”

  I think keeping household documents, taxes, medical bills, etc… In a local only paperless-ngx instance is quite essential to the organization of a household where everything is searchable and able to be organized on multiple levels compared to a simple document folder on 1 computer.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • AdGuard home (usable also as private DNS on Android)
  • JellyFin
  • Homeassistant

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• nichtburningturtle@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nextcloud, vaultwarden.

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• somenonewho@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nextcloud.

  I was hosting nextcloud at home for years. Then when I worked in a Datacenter I got to host some servers there from free so I set up a two-node proxmox with nextcloud and some other stuff. Now I don’t work there anymore and I really felt the hole nextcloud left, no more notes syncing for notes, tasks, calendar, podcasts no more place to upload my photos from my phone … So now I’m hosting nextcloud at home again.

  I also host jellyfin which is nice but if I don’t have it doesn’t actively hamper my workflow.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to have a Nextcloud instance on a shared webhost… It ran like shit but you can’t beat the storage space… VPS storage is expensive.

    Now I use syncthing on my home server

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• poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some WebDAV server, can be Nextcloud but actually something more lightweight is better.

  Also a XMPP server is very nice to have. Even if you don’t have many contacts on it (yet), it works very well has a notification service and can even be extended to act as a Unified Push distributor.

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  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Radicale is next on my list

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  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and can even be extended to act as a Unified Push distributor.

    wait wait wait wait.

    That works? Teach me how!

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    • poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      joinjabber.org/tutorials/service/unifiedpush/

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• JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Jellyfin/Plex like many have mentioned.

  I personally like Syncthing for petty much everything else. For general file syncing of course. But also with Joplin pointed to a synced directory for notes. With keepass as a password vault. With synced config directories for some apps across devices like newsboat for RSS, and neomutt for email. I also used to use it with rtorrent via a watch directory, though I currently am using a seedbox for that purpose.

  VPN (openvpn/wireguard) is a good idea if you want to access your services outside your local network, without exposing them all globally.

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  • BertramDitore@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same, Syncthing is amazing. I use it with Mobius Sync on iOS and have it synching my keepass, Obsidian vault, photos, and a folder for random file transfers between devices. It’s so much better, faster, and more stable than all the most popular corporate cloud providers.

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  • Orbituary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I believe Syncthing has been discontinued unless someone else took up the project.

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    • eramseth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is absolutely not the case.

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    • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That would suck if so since I obviously utilize it heavily but this doesn’t seem to be the case? Latest release was just a month ago and their github repo is active.

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• Saltarello@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me it’s the first thing i learned how to self host: Nextcloud …which in turn allows me to sync Joplin notes, which I use constantly

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• tychosmoose@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not very exciting, but: Network UPS Tools (NUT).

  Keep everything in good shape in the event of a power outage.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use NUT with an Eaton Ellipse but it periodically stops working and I’m forced to restart the container

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    • tychosmoose@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Huh. Losing USB access?

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WireGuard on my VPS, because otherwise I’m stuck behind CGNAT and can’t access anything in my network from elsewhere. Or Tailscale, but that’s not really self-hosted.

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  • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    do you have a good guide on how it works/ho to set it up? I tried a little while ago but couldnt figure it out.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used the Arch Wiki entry about WireGuard. The trickiest part was some MTU nonsense.

      Tailscale is a bit simpler and I think I just figured it out with some docs on their website.

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• Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Audiobookshelf, Calibre-Web, Plex/Jellyfin, FreshRSS, NextCloud, DokuWiki.

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• rimu@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use my searxng instance several times a day.

  DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can't browse anything.

  I also selfhost a moderately successful SaaS that I built. It's essential to me that it's available to my customers although I don't use it personally.

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• ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My most frequently used are most likely vaultwarden, Memos, Trilium, Jellyfin, Frigate, Traggo, and beaverhabits. Also AdGuard and NPM but I don’t interact with them.

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  • nis@feddit.dk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m curious, is there a reason you use Baikal over Nextcloud for cal-/card-dav?

    I would probably be happy to not have to run an additional service, so I would have to have good reasons to run Baikal next to Nextcloud. Then again, if I had already setup Baikal and then, sometimes later, Nextcloud, There would probably be a great span where I ran both :D

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    • ComradeMiao@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It didn’t work with icloud

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• dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tailscale

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So headscale?

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    • dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Headscale is not essential. Of course in this context the “self-hosted service” would be the Tailscale client…

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    • GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pepsi or Coke?

      Yes.

      Honestly, I’ve used both. Tailscale edges out headscale by a tiny bit just because of the admin console’s GUI but other than that, yeah.

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• knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plex, channels, mail, calendar, contacts, wiki

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• GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Samba (I can move files now, sweet!)

  2. Jellyfin (I can watch stuff, sweet!)

  3. Qbittorrent-wireguard (for pirating copyrighted material from the internet illegally)

  4. Somesuch Wireguard solution (for accessing the backend and doin stuff)

  5. A proxy somewhere else

  The rest is extra.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    for pirating copyrighted material from the internet illegally

    I’m pretty sure that’s not the phase we use now

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Archiving legally purchased content as an insurance against corporate-sanctioned theft”?

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• SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For me, the most essentials are definitely:

  • PhotoPrism
  • Jellyfin
  • Navidrome
  • Wiki.js

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• josefo@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Pihole (if that service goes down, everyone in my house gets mad at me)
  • Jellyfin

  Everything else is a nice to have, not essential

  The arr family with a torrent client is great for feeding Jellyfin. If you are a developer, you can host your own shit there too. Game servers for playing with family and friends (so far Minecraft, Terraria, Project Zomboid, V Rising). I like to host a bunch of different telegram bots I wrote for fun. Discord bots are another interesting side. I also run some automation runners for helping out with testing, building and deploying my projects.

  Focus on your needs and what you want to improve of your online life, there is probably a project you can self host for it.

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• ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My three essential selfhosted services are :

  • an XMPP server\
  • a CalDAV server
  • a bookmark manager (Linkding)

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Immich (Photo backup), Vaultwarden (FOSS Biwarden server for passwords)

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• farcaller@fstab.sh ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a dedicated vm for things that are crucial to the home network, either latency-critical or network related.

  That’d be my dns resolver (I enforce it over VLANs by hijacking anyone trying to do DNS to other resolvers, like random IoT devices), homebridge for less important home automaton and my own matter controller for most important home automaton (controlling the lights).

  My router of choice is RouterOS in another VM. I tried opnsense, pfsense, vyatta, and a bunch of others (even a containerized Cisco route), and I settled on ROS, because it was the only one who could do IPv6 properly (apart from Cisco, but that has other issues).

  For the less important things I run them on k8s and really, there are only two bits worth mentioning as essential: ArgoCD and nixhelm. Together, they provide effortless and mostly automated software updates with very easy rollbacks. I don’t have to go and manually update every single bit of software and that saves huge amounts of time.

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• Boomkop3@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends on the situation of course, but for us:

  • immich: family photos are important
  • docker + ssh: we enjoy hobbying with code, nerds be nerds
  • samba: a file sharing protocol that works on all of our things

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