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I feel like I'm late, but
I'm running a single node microk8s cluster on a dual xeon (20 cores each for a total of 40 cores) server with (only) 64 gb ram. Wish I could do more but this is on a microatx dual slot motherboard that maxes at 64gb.
I have this attached to a 72tb das.
I currently live in an RV so I had to downsize my bare metal cluster to 1. It's sufficient for now π
Failed to get working:
Got 2 24/7 runners in my home:
In addition, I'm hosting a couple of Wireguard VPS in the US and a Nordic country to give me access to regional content (I pay for a few regional services through friends living there - i.e. they pay monthly and I pay them yearly for an account on a region-locked service) - not sure if that counts as "self-hosting" :)
I run an I2P instance and I'm starting to look at Plex. I wonder if those can be combined.
Raspberry Pi 4B
Here's mine:
Unraid OS: Docker:
Unraid OS: Virtual Machines:
Unraid OS: Plugins:
My unraid server is my "jack of all trades" machine running the primary services apart from my Pihole instance (as below).
Ubuntu Server LTS:
This is running on an old thin client machine and is my primary Pihole/VPN machine with a backup music/media server running Emby.
Currently running on an old HP Prodesk G2 with Debian 11:
Plus grafana and prometheus for monitoring, although I haven't fully configured them so they're not terribly useful at the moment.
All are running as rootless docker containers. I've considered switching back to normal rooted containers, since there are some oddities with file permissions and networking (e.g., pihole only sees one client IP address).
All data is backed up to BackBlaze B2 via restic.
I haven't actually started self-hosting anything yet, though at least I've bought a domain and I'm paying for an email service using that domain. It's nice and easy while still giving me some control my e-mail address and not being beholden to the likes of Google. I did so after my long time e-mail I had had all my life through my parents' internet provider was deleted with no warning.
I've also been looking into buying a NAS for use as a media server and backup target. I'll probably go with a Synology one for now, just to keep maintenance to a minimum. Maybe in the future I'll do something more advanced.
I dockerize everything, but services like media streaming, content downloading, but my favourite part is the minecraft server for my friends and I. Itβs fun to write your own custom plugins and scripts and things to use with it which I find incredibly rewarding.
I'm currently working on redoing my homelab stack but here is what I have running so far.
Hardware:
3x Pi 4 4GB - Debian Bookworm
1x Pi 3 - Debian Bookworm
1x 8-core AMD, 24 GB RAM, 1.5 TB of space frankenstein server - TrueNAS (might forgo the TrueNAS installation for Bookworm and just host NFS shares natively)
1x TP-LINK POE Switch
1x FriendlyWRT router
Software:
- Consul/Nomad
- Pihole (DNS/Adblock)
- Traefik (routing)
- Hashicorp Vault (secrets management)
- Authelia (authentication)
- Rabbitmq
- Bitwarden
- PostgreSQL
- Mariadb
- pgadmin (considering switching to adminer)
- Redis
- Gitea
- Drone
- AWX
- Watchtower
I've been redoing that stack for a couple of years now, and it's never quite finished; it started out as docker containers on the Pi3, went to Kubernetes, went back to containers, and finally landed on Nomad which I am loving.
I have a list of about 30 services I want to host on that stack, but I'll probably start with Foundry VTT, Paperless, and Calibre.
Forgot to mention my cloud stuff
- Lemmy instance: https://pathfinder.social for all your Pathfinder and Starfinder TTRP needs.
- Resume website based on The Cloud Resume Challenge (https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/) that I want to redo and just self-host pretty soon
I've got some Dell 2U I got from work.
Currently running Proxmox for a hypervisor.
OPNsense - Main Gateway,Firewall,etc. Also Reverse Proxy
UnFi Controller for AP
OMV as my NAS which also hosts an emby container to keep it close to the data.
Wireguard VPN
Mumble Music Bot
Game servers.
OMV is set up with SnapRAID and mergerfs.
EmbyContainer just mounts the localdrives.
Mumble server is on a VPS which also handles the domain and email I use as well.
Basically whatever my group of friends is playing
I would like to upgrade the server for 10gbit. My ISP has 3000/3000 fibre I could get.
cluster (two old laptops, and 3 PI 3s):
containers on nomad:
docker (on unraid):
Stand alone hardware:
I'm actually not that into actual self-hosting (it feels too close to my day job). But i love the idea of it, and actually do host my own RSS Reader: It's selfoss (PHP + SQLite, so, very simple) and i have been using ever since google reader shut down. It runs on my uberspace.de instance.
Basic stuff
Got a Pi 4 (Raspberry Pi OS) set with an USB3 HDD with Systemd mount dependency for the following services:
Planning for:
I configured it for mobility since I am always moving with it, so this is why the Systemd dependency is very handy. Also, its wifi connection defaults to my hotspot when not at home.
I also got 3 Pi3Bs remaining from an old Kube cluster project with HypriotOS, but I didn't know what to do with them and it pains me to renew the cluster certificates
My longest running self-host is the RSS reader Tiny Tiny RSS running on a Digital Ocean droplet with Ubuntu 22.04
I have proxmox running on PC in my closet. So far not a ton of things hosted on it:
Current:
Planned:
At home:
Remote:
I'm selfhosting a Terraria server, with a medium size world
Newbie here. Trying to learn the ins and outs of self-hosting by messing around with Discord Red on my Pi 3B (on Raspberry Pi OS). Working great-ish so far! Need me some more free time to tinker with cogs.
In my homelab I have two main servers
Esxi: Opnsense VM --Running Wireguard VPN Docker VM --Vaultwarden --Portainer --FreshRSS --Heimdall Dashboard --SponsorBlockCast --Portainer Agent Home Assistant VM --Node Red --Frigate --DoubleTake --zigbee2mqtt --Mosquitto --ESPHome SecureVM --NGINX Proxy Manager --Portainer Agent
Ubuntu Media Server 40tb zfs Running Docker: --Scrutiny --Plex --YTDL Material --Lidarr --Radarr --Bazarr --Sonarr --Sabnzbd --Compfreface --Portainer Agent Cockpit
Pretty much everything to be fair:
EDIT: For those wondering, I use @yunohost@mastodon.social ( https://yunohost.org ) as my server manager
Everything runs in a kubernetes cluster hosted on my homelab, except the public services access point which is a VM hosted on a non-profit ISP and service provider infrastructure, which I contribute to, through a wireguard VPN between the VM and home:
Public-facing:
Work related (I work from home 75% of time), not public-facing:
Home stuff, not public-facing:
all of this running on a 3 control-planes/6 workers talos linux k8s cluster, itself hosted on a franken-proxmox cluster (a mix of server/"old" desktops/Ryzen NUCs) and a bunch of NAS (VM dedicated NAS, data storage NAS, backup NAS).
I've got a Nextcloud instance that I've run for a few years. Love it. At home I have an Odroid H3+ with 64GB of ram running Openmediavault. Got about a dozen containers running on that. I need to play with it more and use that ram. I did try to get Boinc running on it but it, sadly, kept shutting down. I'll have to find a another way to contribute to science.
Home server is currently running;
All the above are running in Docker.
On the to-do list;
I run:
A full setup around managing and download multimedia content
Speedtest Tracker to keep an eye on my internet speed
Uptime Kuma to keep track of my uptime
2x Plex server for redundancy
Sonarr/Radarr/Readarr/Jackett
Qbittorrent/VPN combo
NGINX Reverse proxy
And of course, my own lemmy instance
Home Assistant
Nextcloud
Veeam
Need to get a Bitwarden instance going.
I've got a Raspberry Pi running Portainer on DietPi OS hosting a Discord bot, ACME certificate manager, reverse proxy; a second DietPi pi hosting Sonarr and Radarr and an automatic ripping machine; a pi NAS ruining open media vault; and my Linux gaming system also has Portainer running Jellyfin.
36 TB server:
Raspberry pi:
Just Jellyfin on my Win10 PC. Been thinking of getting a NAS but it's quite daunting for me to start that process. Been looking for a Synology to at least start somewhere
Portainer
Adguard home
Home assistant
Influxdb
Grafana
Frigate NVR
Sonarr
Lidarr
Jackett
Plex
All on Debian mini PC N5095
I did also have a wordpress site but that was too much hassle so the container is stopped at the moment.
All on docker (except OMV, and home assistsnt on its own pi4) and using portainer for sanity.
Internal SSL using a domain and nginx proxy manager.
I've been running Arch Linux on a Gigabyte Brix with two USB HDDs for... years now. At least 8. On and off, there were several services, but mostly, this device is meant to host
Since Arch Linux is rolling, it sometimes simply breaks after an update. But since the services have gotten more critical for me over time (especially plex :) ) I plan on putting some of the services to a host in the cloud behind a WireGuard VPN. Also, the Brix should be re-installed with Ubuntu or Debian some day.
It's still in the works, but I'm planning on:
It's definitely a lot of stuff, but I'm trying to reduce my reliance on cloud services. Really excited to get this stuff going.
Navidrome, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud are the services I use the most, and all the related stuff, MySQL, NPM, Redis, Collabora, etc.
Jellyfin is running on my Unraid server (28tb usable), the rest are running on an Ubuntu Server system (1tb, raid 1 SSDs).