In terms of what services do the most:
In terms of user activity:
- Plex and the utilities installed alongside it
- Minecraft (Paper) with BlueMap
- Mealie
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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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.
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lmaoooo ofc :)
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Pihole, Bitwarden and Plex.
- DNS server, because everything depends on it
- 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.
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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.
vaultwarden
Actively used is definitely Plex. Based on pure usage though, it would be pihole.
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.
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Gitea
Plex, PiHole, Photoprism, Home Assistant, Syncthing in a hub and spoke config, Caddy for reverse proxy, custom containers for: yt-dlp, restic, and rsync.
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- AdGuardHome
- Vaultwarden
- Linkding (plus Injector Extension)
- Jellyfin (plus Infuse and FinAmp)
- Owntone
- Caddy
- Pocketbase
- Uptime-Kuma
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Syncthing
1- Pihole + wireguard
2- Searxng
3- Bookstack
4- qBittorentVPN + *arr suite
5- Jellyfin
Not all I self-host but pihole, plex, & homeassistant are certainly my most used.
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.
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Pihole, Wireguard, Syncthing, Jellyfin
Home Assistant by far.
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
Paperless-ngx is better than any hosted equivalent.
navidrome and jellyfin
In no particular order: jellyfin + *arr ecosystem, vaultwarden, wireguard, komga.
Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, Nextcloud, Syncthing, Invidious, SearxNG
In terms of services I use the most I guess it would be these:
- OpenHAB + HABapp + zigbee2mqtt + mosquitto (home automation)
- Foundry VTT
- piHole (DNS)
- OpenMediaVault (NAS)
- Grafana + Loki + Prometheus (monitoring)
I love Foundry. Hands down the best virtual tabletop on the market.
DNS obviously, I use the Pi-hole compatible filtering in OpnSense Then Nextcloud, Email, Navidrome, Jupyter Hub, Code-Server
my most heavily used self hosted services are:
Audiobookshelf Jellyfin Homepage Matrix/synapse
from services that I host – gitea
That's a good one. I just switched from Gitlab to Gitea.
Vaultwarden and git are in daily use. Everything else comes far behind.
As of now:
- vaultwarden
- linkding
- Mumble server
I can't live without the first 2, though.
Immich, Lemmy and Mastodon 😌
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.
My custom blog, Syncthing and now I'm trying Lemmy and Mastodon. Let's see how it goes!
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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.
Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd, Plex, Overseer, Mastodon, Kbin, Pixelfed, Mattermost
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.
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