I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I’ve got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

  • Acid@startrek.websiteEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Honestly Plex/Emby/Jellyfin whichever you prefer is a gamechanger because if you have a large library of content then it just cuts the cord from the subscription services.

    I’ve always been happy to pay for them until I went on holiday last January and realised that none of my services were working due to going to a country that was out of the way and the only way to access them was to use a VPN.

    So having my own Netflix is a great thing.

    Tailscale while doing the above is also really cool

    • HamSwagwich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep. 100% agree. I have a 175TB server. Sure it was expensive to set up initially, but I have all shows and movies I want, always. From all the different services I would have to subscribe to, I imagine I have recovered my initial outlay and I never have to worry about media being removed from the service or it going out of business.

      I have things that aren’t even available if I wanted to subscribe. Best thing you can do for yourself.

      No commercials, always high quality. Available anywhere, at any time.

  • sylverstream@lemmy.nzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Home Assistant. It’s a rabbit hole, but it’s great. I’ve got motion enabled lights, thermostats for “dumb” heaters, and I track device usage (tablet, xbox) of my kids.

  • slackj_87@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Vaultwarden is pretty game changing. No more reusing passwords and they aren’t in the cloud.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is a rare one for which i wouldnt bother self hosting; i trust the centralized server provider, i can take an offline backup of my passwords and it only costs $10. And im the sort to run my own email server because i don’t trust the cloud providers.

      • peregus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I second your opinion about not selfhosting Bitwarden. About email, have a look at Proton mail. All the emails are encrypted in the server and are decripted client side with your password only when you open them.

    • haleywm@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Thanks for teaching me about LiveSync, not being able to sync my notes with mobile without an obsidian account has been annoying, but none of the web based interfaces look at nice or as usable as obsidian. Being able to sync everything between desktops and mobile will be really handy.

    • Gecko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      While Vaultwarden is great I would not suggest selfhosting your password manager unless you do regular backups. Losing all your password cause your server went down is a great way to ruin your day.

      • Amcro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I don’t think that’s true. Even when Bitwarden server is down you can still access your Bitwarden vault, use and export all passwords. You can’t save new passwords but using existing ones should work perfectly fine. So, when your server is down/broken, export your vault, fix server and get new Vaulwarden instance up and import your vault again. Thats it. I still find it safer to selfhost it than getting my passwords leaked.

        • zeitgeist@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Nevertheless, are backups crucial. But it is relatively easy with vaultwarden-backup and the free object storage of AWS, Oracle and so on.

  • ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Nextcloud to replace Google drive/docs. Jellyfin or plex for media. The arrs to aquire media (if you have the patience). A blog? A game server to play with friends.

    I suggest using docker and docker-compose as it makes everything way easier. It does still take time and it can be frustrating but it is very rewarding.

    Crosspost from the duplicate

    • mim@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Docker is definitely worth the time investment.

      If OP wants to go one level deeper: Ansible.

      • ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Does ansible make sense for a single server? I like the concept but I don’t know if It makes sense for my purpose.

        • mim@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It makes sense in terms of reproducibility.

          Imagine if your server gets compromised, you accidentally break it, or you just want to move to a cheaper provider or a different server. Do you want to have to tweak it all over again, and fix bugs that you figured out how to fix 6 months ago and you don’t remember?

          I’d rather have some yaml files that do it for me. And it’s a new skill as well.

      • einsteinx2@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I guess it’s not so much “hosting” as having it on your home NAS with some scripts to backups channels and videos that you like. At least that’s what I do.

        Thought I should make a point to mention youtube-dl is dead, yt-dlp is the replacement and it works great. Even has a command line flag to make its options work the same as the options in youtube-dl so it can be a drop in replacement for existing scripts.

  • ryncewynd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Self hosting nothing changed my life.

    So much free time and less stress once I abandoned self hosting 😅

    • Broken_Orange_Juice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      As others have worded it, it’s a hobby. Self hosting is only necessary for a very small number of people, less than one percent of people on here, but it’s a fun hobby, and I’ve learned a lot about software and networks from messing with self hosting stuff.

  • fedonr@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Stay away from Plex, if you like to go with Free and Open source.

    I’ll start with Jellyfin, and Arr family (sonarr,radarr,prowlarr or Jackett), Vaultwarden and immich

    Edit: Learn to spin up docker instances first, as above services would be easier to manage in docker containers and for back ups I prefer Duplicati. And if you run it 24x7 add AdguardHome or PiHole to the mix

    Edit1: if you are extremely new to docker instances and find it hard to learn, just spin up CasaOS and you’ll be good to go as it makes spinning up docker containers so easy.

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    You can self host a local chatgpt like ai known as a local large language model. Searx and Searxbg are great customizable meta search engines that you can customize to scrape whatever you want

  • bajabound@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Running a Tor exit node could certainly be life changing. Not sure in a good way, guess it depends which country you live in.

    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I did that for a while to try and learn about filtering malicious traffic from the network. Doing that long term would definetly change my life, but very much not in a good way. It’s a endless whack-a-mole game and the winning prize is that your ISP doesn’t give you a call weekly.

      It took couple of weeks until the ISP first called and told me that I have malicious traffic coming from my IP. I explained the situation and their representative was very understanding and handled the thing as well as he ever could. I tried to adjust filters, blocklists and all the jazz which was pretty much a full time job already and I still couldn’t make it work on a sufficient level. I got another couple of calls from ISP (again, handled spectaculary considering I was pushing several hundreds Mbps dirty traffic out in the wild) and eventually they just plainly said that they’re forced to kill my connection if situation doesn’t improve. I ran a node without exit for a while but as that’s not a interesting thing to run I eventually shut it down to free resources for more interesting things.

      If you have the time and knowledege to do that, I really encourage that, but for me it was too much to keep in the network while trying to maintain some sanity on my everyday life. I firmly believe that my goal of filtering malicious traffic out and keeping an exit node runnig is achievable goal, I just don’t have enough knowledge nor time to gain enough of it to keep exit node running.

      And of course there’s legal issues as well and severity of them heavily depends on where you’re living, so really do your homework before doing anything like that.

    • Silver Golden@lemmy.brendan.ieEnglish
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      1 year ago

      for better or worse it is, (though I don’t recommend newcomers to boot up a bind server to manage their dns, pihole is probally the best starting point)

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Indeed, dnsmasq would be much easier to handle than BIND OOTB. I have personally not come across a reason to use BIND for myself, and struggle to see its appeal out of the enterprise/enterprise-like labs, but I don’t really know much about homelabbing either

        • Silver Golden@lemmy.brendan.ieEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          In my (our) case we use bind to run an authoritative resolver for our domain (I am sysadmin for a uni computer society, we have our own (physical) servers)