Hi all,

question to you: How many of your selfhosted Apps are improving your life? Which apps are you really using on a daily/weekly basis?

Many of my running containers are just for … running containers.

Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, Authentik, Uptime-Kuma, Wireguard … they are not improving my life, they are only improving Selfhosting. But we are not doing selfhosting just for the sake of it? Do we? …

Many of my running containers … are getting replaced by Open Source client software eventually

  • I’ve installed Trilium Notes - but I’m using Obsidian (more plugins, mobile apps, easy backup)
  • I’ve installed Vikunja - but I’m using Obisdian (connecting tasks with notes is more powerful)
  • I’ve installed Snapdrop - but I’m using LocalSend (more reliable)
  • I’ve installed Bitwarden - but I’m using KeePass (easy backups, better for SSH credentials)
  • I’ve installed AdGuard - but I’m using uBlock (more easy to disable for Shopping etc.)
  • …

So the few Selfhosted Apps, that improve my life

File Management

  • Paperless NGX - all my documents are scanned and archived here
  • Nextcloud - all my files accessible via WebUI (& replaced Immich/Photoprism with Photos plugin)
  • Syncthing - all my files synchroniced between devices and Nextcloud
  • Kopia - Backup of all my files encrypted into the cloud

And that’s a little bit sad, right? The only “Job to be done” self-hosting is a solution for me is … file management. Nothing else.

What are your experiences? How makes self-hosting your life better?

( I’m not using selfhosting for musc / movies / series nowadays, as streaming is more convenient for me and I’m doing selfhosting mainly because of privacy and not piracy reasons - so that usecase is not included in my list ;)My only SmartHome usecase is Philips Hue - and I’m controlling it with Android Tasker )

  • thisiszeevBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Started as a hobby with an old i5 laptop (sans keyboard and screen), running Jellyfin. I wanted to learn more than just using Debian as a desktop.

    Now my home lab consists of…

    • 2x PiHoles (synced using unison and entr)
    • 2x Jellyfin (1 for my use as a media server and 1 on a Unifi Cloudkey, which I am using for another little pet project).
    • 2x Nextcloud (1 for my business and colloborating with clients on the various projects I get from them, and 1 I am modifying to build myself an online school)
    • Gitea
    • My own software to do round the clock transcoding of videos using a GPU including videos I create myself in Kdenlive or Shotcut.
    • My own software to do managed downloading of content from a well known website
    • Transmission
    • Unifi (not on Unifi Hardware, the hardware was more useful for my other project mentioned above)
    • Calibre-Web
    • My own software to do daily incremental archives of my various production servers in the cloud.

    I love selfhosting at home, and I recommended it for anyone who wants to learn.

    Yes, I have fudged up a few times and had to nuke and start again, but with each time I get better and better at what I am doing.

    I am now planning on moving my Gitea and the main Nextcloud instance into the cloud, as my poor little fibre line is not coping with the traffic.