Since selfhosted clouds seem to be the most common thing ppl host, i’m wondering what else ppl here are selfhosting. Is anyone making use of something like excalidraw in the workplace? Curious about what apps that would be useful to always access over the web that aren’t mediaservers.
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- Immich backs up photos from my phone and camera with tagging and search
- Archivebox is like a personal internet archive, I use it to save youtube videos and important memes
- Homeassistant does home automation stuff, currently I only use it to turn the speakers on/off with the tv
- Forgejo is a git host like Github, and can regularly pull external repositories to keep a personal mirror
- Actual budget is a budgeting app, nice for tracking expenses across multiple accounts
>no media servers
>mentions immich as the first one
As a backup :p
Homeassistant is like shortcuts? You can have it do stuff if something else does something?
Home assistant is lights, switches, sensors, blinds, fans, heat/cooling, and more. I have an automation that tells me 5 minutes after the wash is done so I can move laundry into the dryer, and another one that tells me if anyone left the back door open, telling me to close it. (My dog can open it from outside).
Among other things, yes.
- ActualBudget for finances.
- Radicale for calendar/contacts.
- Immich for photos/videos.
- Redlib as a frontend for Reddit (LibRedirect ftw).
- TheLounge as an IRC client.
- Bitwarden/Vaultwarden as a password manager.
- paperless-ngx for documents
Mumble and Wireguard
Some of my friends are heading back to mumble because discord is getting too bloated with useless features.
Wireguard is to be able to access my local network when I am away.
Wireguard + adguard means home ad blocking anywhere I want it.
Calendar and contacts (i.e. CalDAV/CardDAV). A blog. Media is just remote-mounted since all my systems are Linux.
I’m always leery of “one app for all” solutions, or in German, “eierlegende Wollmilchsau”.
Hence, no Nextcloud for me.
Which Calendar software do you use?
Glad you asked. I left that open on purpose because my server probably got hacked and I have only just reinstalled. So far I’ve been using DaviCAL - for many years - but I’ll revise this choice. It’s a little dated and quirky, and so ist PostgreSQL which it depends on.
Currently working to move away from Nextcloud myself, it’s PHP nature causes IO storms when it tries to check if it needs to reload any code for incoming requests.
Eh, my Nextcloud LXC container idles at less than 4.5% CPU usage (“max over the week” from Proxmox). I use PostgreSQL as the backend on a separate LXC container that has some peaks of 9% CPU usage, but is normally at 5% too.
I only have two users, though. But both containers have barely IO activity.
Oh yeah, CPU usage is basically zero, and memory usage of the PHP code itself is also basically nil compared to other software I run. It’s just the sudden storms of IO requests that causes issues, and since those come over a network pipe it causes issues for other pieces of software as well.
You can optimize php a lot for performance. See my config https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/91
Yep, those values are actually somewhat tame compared to my own cache tuning, the issue remains that the code requires reloading PHP files from disk during runtime in order to support applications and updates, which - even if it doesn’t happen often - causes IO storms that temporarily break both Nextcloud as well as other software.
No. That is why I shared my configs. With opcache and opcache.validate_timestamps = 0 you don’t have this problem anymore.
Of course you also need to enable opcache itself as well.
Or you have really slow spinning disks or something. Also be sure to use php 8.4.
Again, it works until it requires reloading, i.e. the next update of any component or the next restart of the server.
I’m also running an inode cache on the client side, on top of the persistent opcache, but due to the sheer number of files that Nextcloud consists of it still generates a frankly ridiculous amount of calls when it needs to invalidate the cache. If you’re running on local drives then that’s likely much less of an issue, regardless of what kind of drive it is, but this is hosted on machines that do not have any local storage.
Uh I see.
Actual budget, nextcloud
KitchenOwl is my latest addition and I am getting a lot of use out of it - s/o and I use it to share a grocery shopping list, slowly starting to add my recipes to it as well. I used to use a shared google keep list but KitchenOwl works a lot better.
Was trying this, but I’ve had issues with the app not properly synchronizing with the server. Does that work for you and if so, what’s your setup?
Was supposed to replace “Bring” and due to the issues, currently using grocy, where sync works, but is otherwise very tedious to manage inventory.
Dang sorry to hear that - I just followed the docker compose instructions and setup Caddy (which was also new to me) on my VPS and I was off the races, no issues yet.
Alright, might have to do some deeper investigation for why it’s messing up. Anyhow glad to hear it does work in principle and it may be something I’m doing - thanks!
Mealie for recipes
Mealie is so underrated. They have meal planning, recipes, recipe parsing from the internet, grocery lists based on recipes and meal plans, like 4 different ways to organize recipes, and OIDC/SSO on top of it all!
I keep everything documented, along with my infrastructure as code stuff. Briefly:
- Nextcloud
- Vaultwarden
- Miniflux
- My blog
- Takahe (a multi-domain) ActivityPub server
- My health tracker CRUD data entry
- https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/
- Grafana (for health stats and monitoring data from Nagios)
- Nagios
- FreeIPA/Ipsilon (SSO)
edit: plus a few things that do not have a web UI.
Like others have mentioned, Actual is great. Couldn’t recommend it enough for anyone looking to start budgeting. Others I run but haven’t seen mentioned yet: ChangeDetection, Adguard Home, Homepage, BambuStudio, and Statistics-for-strava
Why dont they sell routers that come with adguard built in, or is that a newer thing? Well, googled it after typing that and it comes preinstalled on some routers now
All OpenWRT-based routers have the option of built-in DNS-based adblock, can thoroughly recommend the Turris routers for such things.
!mikrotik@lemmy.world routers are made in Europe and have adblock built in
Besides a media server, I self host my email, a blog, an IRC bouncer, syncthing, SPFToolbox, and in my house I run ADS-B plane tracking.
- Calibreweb
- FreshRSS
- Grampsweb
- Emacs
- Gitea
- Stirling-PDF
- Vaultwarden
- Pihole
- Pyload
- Glances
- Syncthing
- Homepage
- Karakeep
Web-accessible Emacs? What are you using?
You can use the Linuxserver.io VSCodium Image and replace VSCodium with Emacs in the Dockerfile.
Actually Budget for finances, Nextcloud for everything office and organization, Home Assistant for home automation, paperless–ngx for storing and sorting documents, freshrss for news, ntfy.sh for notifications.
- Wekan for Todo list /kanban.
- GitLab for my source code and projects.
- synapse for my own matrix server
- mastodon for fediverse
- mbin for fediverse
- mumble for voip
- nextcloud for my files, calandar and contacts
- plantuml server
- many self created telegram bots
- many websites. Like blog.melroy.org, explorer.melroy.org or Libreweb.org or techwiki.org and so much more…
And then the list goes on and on. Like prometheus, grafana, uptime Kuma, mariadb, Valkey, postgresql, unbound dns, all those things…
Vpn, nas, home assistant, dns, reverse proxy, adblocker, specialty controller units, misc project vms/containers.
Forgejo Jellyfin Navidrome PiHole AudioBookshelf Manyfold FoundryVTT sometimes
