Heyyy, I started because I wanted save money and move away from Google to hosting mini cloud for my whole family that we rely on.

1. I have TrueNAS Server with i5-8400, 32GB of RAM, 256gb nvme for OS, 512gb SSD for appdata dataset, 8tbx2 and 4tbx2 mirrored totaling 12TB of usable space with 512gb SSD for cache for main storage dataset.

TrueNAS hosts these containers:

• immich_machine_learning
• paperless-ngx
• immich_server
• immich_postgres
• ix-adguard-home-adguardhome
• flaresolverr
• joplin
• plex
• content_pipeline
• pinchflat
• seerr
• jupyterlab
• sonarr
• bazarr
• prowlarr
• radarr
• filebrowser
• calibre-web
• ix-speedtest-tracker-speedtest
• qbittorrent
• bookshelf
• paperless-db
• scrutiny
• gitea
• gluetun
• audiobookshelf
• baikal
• beszel
• posting_worker
• vikunja-db
• vikunja
• ix-cloudflared-cloudflare
• grocy
• ntfy
• watchtower
• vaultwarden
• beszel-agent
• immich_redis
• paperless-redis
• wireguard-tunnel
• kavita

2. I also have AI Server with i5-9400, 40gb of RAM, 128gb nvme for OS, GTX 1070 8GB for local Qwen3.5 9b model and openrouter API for deepseek model.

Containers that it runs are:

• Open WebUI
• GPT-Researcher
• Hermes
• open-terminal
• Mem0
• Ollama
• DDGS
• Caddy
• Tailscale

3. Then I have a VPS for proxy, crowdsec, fail2ban to expose my services.

4. And also I pay for iDrive e2 bucket to backup everything.

Well this my small production server infrastructure that i am very proud of. And I’m so glad I have UPS for both of the server. Thank you)))

My stack (Docker on Pi 5/Debian) is much bigger than this, but my top three favourites (not in any particular order) are:

• Adguard Home (browsing on my phone is finally bearable).
• Wireguard (using wg-easy) to not deal with port forwarding.
• Ignis, which I heavily prefer over WebObsidian. Aside from CouchDB giving me hell, it doesn’t use VNC to stream to your browser–it’s built on Electron and all the hard work is done in-browser (am happy to glaze this project further).

My Current Self-hosted Setup

Hardware

Server 1

• Trycoo / Peladn mini pc
• Intel n97 CPU
• Integrated GPU
• 32gb of 3200mt/s ddr4 (Upgraded from 16gb)
• 512nvme
• 2x 2tb ssd’s (Raid1 + LVM)
• Startech usb to sata cable
• Atolla 6 port powered usb 3.0 splitter
• 2x 8tb hdd’s
• 2 bay usb 3.0 Fideco dock
• Each 8tb HDD is split into 2 equal size partitions, making 4 x 4tb partitions
• Each night, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating first partition of the HDD’s .
• Each 1st of the month, the 2tb SSD array backups to the alternating 2nd partition of the HDD’s .

Server 2

• Raspberry pi 4b
• 32gb SD card
• 4gb ram

Services

Server 1

• Nginx web server / reverse proxy
• Fail2ban
• Crowdsec
• Valutwarden
  Bit warden reimplantation for storing credentials
• Forgejo
  Remote federated git
• rs_maps
  Simplified Google Maps replacement, with tagging and GPX creation.
• Matrix / Continuwuity
  Federated IM protocol
• Immich
  Google Photos replacement
  External libraries only
  4 users
• Radicale
  Calender and contacts
• Lemmy
  Federated replacement for Reddit
• Navidrome
  Spotify replacement
  2 users
• Adguard home
  1st instance
  Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
• Unbound
  Provides recursive DNS
• Go-notes
  Rich Text formatting, live, real time multi-user notes app
• FMD
  Find my device
• Transmission
  Torrent client
• PIA VPN
  Network Namespace script to isolate PIA & Transmission
• Searxng
  Meta search engine - integrates with Go-llama
• StirlingPDF
  PDF editor
• File browser
  This is in maintenance mode only so I am planning to migrate to File Browser Quantum soon
• Syncthing
  Syncs 3 android and 1 apple phone for immich
• Custom rsync backup script
• Darkstat
  Real time Network statistics

Server 2

• Fail2ban
• Crowdsec
• Honeygain
  Generates a tiny passive income
  I’m UK based and in the last 6 months it has produced £15
• Adguard home
• 2nd instance
  Provides Network wide DNS filtering and DHCP server
• Unbound
  Provides recursive DNS
• Custom DDNS update script

Overview

Been running this hardware setup since July 2025, although a couple of services have been added in that time. All works really well and has minimal maintenance as everything is fully automated with scripts. -

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Main one I use right now is a media center running FreeBSD and XFCE, and KDE Connect for remote-like functionality.

I just play files with mpv manually, but might write a front-end for it one day.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
AP	WiFi Access Point
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
LTS	Long Term Support software version
LVM	(Linux) Logical Volume Manager for filesystem mapping
LXC	Linux Containers
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NUC	Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
NVMe	Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
PIA	Private Internet Access brand of VPN
PoE	Power over Ethernet
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSO	Single Sign-On
VNC	Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access
VPN	Virtual Private Network
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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Hey, I’m new here - but not new to self-hosting :-)

Self-hosting started for me via hosting a few services on my NAS - and then it escalated a bit…

At home:

• 2 Proxmox hosts (Miniforum MS-01 & GEEKOM XT12 Pro), services running mostly as Docker stacks in LXC containers, deployed via Komodo
• (several) Synology NAS (DS918+, DS1520+, DX517, RS2423+) for storage and backups
• UniFi network hardware (UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6-Lite APs) with a couple of VLANs. 10 GbE where possible.
• Technitium as DNS (recently replaced my old setup with AdGuard Home)
• Authentik for SSO in front of almost everything
• Nginx Proxy Manager as reverse proxy, Uptime Kuma to monitor stuff, Homepage as dashboard
• The actual fun stuff: Immich, Home Assistant, Paperless-NGX, Mealie, Bar Assistant, Stirling-PDF, Forgejo, Dawarich, LubeLogger, Umami, PBS, Grafana, AFFiNE, Actual, lifeGLANCE, Grocy, Rallly, Rackula, SnapOtter, Wallos, Homebox, RomM, Excalidraw my media stack… the list keeps growing, as I’m sure you all know.

Outside:

• a small server at a German hoster for the real public-facing stuff (WordPress blogs etc.). I just recently revived my old blog, started blogging again and - old school - created a personal website :-D

More about me can be found there. Also my new blog posts are and will be mostly about self-hosting topics after a longer blogging hiatus of about 15 years. Yes, I know, blogs aren’t exactly in fashion anymore :-)

Looking forward to discussions & fresh ideas from the community!

@devve

- Nextcloud
- Miniflux
- Gitlab
- HomeAssistant
- Wallabag
- Ghost (for my personal blog)
- Umami analytics
- Searx NG
- OnlyOffice document server
- ntfy
- Lychee
- LAMP Stack
- TheLounge (IRC web client)
- Cockpit (server manager)
- RSSHub
- Jellyfin
- Adguard

On an Intel NUC in my closet.

vSphere cluster on 3 HP Mini EliteDesks:

• 2x PiHole servers with local unbound resolver; synced with Gravity Sync
• 3x Active Directory DCs
• Homebridge Instance
• Jenkins Instance
• Portainer Instance Hosting:
  • Authelia
  • Code Server
  • CyberChef
  • Guacamole
  • NGINX Proxy Manager
  • PairDrop
  • SMEE Client
  • Your Spotify
  • Docker-SMTP
  • Vaultwarden
  • A couple of personal websites using NGINX
• Kubernetes (k3s) (3 Managers, 6 Workers) Hosting:
  • ArgoCD
  • AWX
  • Rook Ceph
  • Cloudflared
  • My main personal website using a container image built with Jenkins and deployed with ArgoCD.

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Standalone Lenovo TS140:

• Plex (GTX 1650 Super for Transcoding)
• SABnzbd
• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Ombi
• Tautulli
• MP4 Automator
• Veeam B&R for backing up vSphere hosts.

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Synology DS1821+:

• 64TB Raw, 2TB NVMe Cache
• MeTube
• Backup Sync to Google Drive

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Misc:

• RIPE Atlas Probe
• All networking gear is Unifi. UDM Pro, USW Aggregation, USW Pro 48 PoE, U6 Pro, U6 In-Wall, 3 USW Flex Minis. 10G SFP+ connections between UDM Pro and switches.

My Self-Hosting Journey

I began my self-hosting journey in 2021 with the goal of hosting a game server for friends so they would not need to pay for external hosting. Through onsite IT work, I acquired several 6th and 8th generation i7 systems from companies that were downsizing or upgrading. After adding inexpensive NVMe storage and APC battery backups, the environment grew quickly.

What started as a single server eventually expanded to three dedicated game servers running 27/4, supporting up to 270 concurrent players at peak. These servers have been up for almost 4 years now.

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Internet Connection

• ISP: Optimum Fiber (1 Gbps / 1 Gbps symmetrical) – $65/month
• ISP router configured in bridge mode if I return it they take away a discount.

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Network Infrastructure

• Router: UDM Pro
• Switch: USW 16-Port PoE
• Access Point: AC Pro

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Infrastructure Services

DNS Server

• Raspberry Pi 4 (4 GB RAM)
• DietPi OS
• Running Pi-hole for DNS filtering

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Game Server Infrastructure

All game servers are connected to APC battery backups and maintain approximately 99% uptime, with downtime only occurring during scheduled maintenance. A custom watchdog script automatically restarts servers if a crash occurs.

• Game Server 1

  • i7 6th Gen
  • 24 GB RAM
  • 500 GB NVMe storage
  • Windows Server 2019

• Game Server 2

  • i7 8th Gen
  • 32 GB RAM
  • 500 GB NVMe storage
  • Windows Server 2019

• Game Server 3

  • i7 8th Gen
  • 28 GB RAM
  • 500 GB NVMe storage
  • Windows Server 2019

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Virtualization / Homelab

Proxmox Server

• i7 12th Gen
• 40 GB RAM
• 1 TB NVMe storage
• External USB Media Drive – 22 TB (with backup)

Current Services

• Jellyfin – Replacing all commercial streaming services (currently LAN only, working on secure remote access)

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Planned Additions

• NGINX – Reverse proxy for secure external access
• Apache Guacamole – Replace RemotePC for remote access
• Tailscale – Replace Surfshark for private networking
• Vaultwarden – Replace RoboForm for password management

If you think there are better options please let me know so I can do my research!

not much, just sftp nas for me and my friends and a website

A 6 node k3s cluster with a Synology for network storage running:

• Nextcloud
• Authentik SSO
• Paperless
• Vikunja
• Joplin Sync
• Matrix
• Immich
• Mealie
• Gitea
• Home-Assistant
• Node-Red
• Zigbee2mqtt
• MQTT server
• Frigate
• UptimeKuma
• Prometheus and Grafana
• AdGuard Home
• Minio
• Longhorn
• Unifi Controller
• Jellyfin
• Homepage

Managed with FluxCD.

Host all the things!

Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT…

I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven’t even realised it yet.

Hello selfhosters.

Here’s my list of stuff:

On a VPS hosted in Germany:

• Nextcloud
• Mailcow for my own domain
• A blog (https://www.ninjazumbi.com/)
• Wallabag
• FreshRSS
• WireGuard VPN

On my home server (my old gaming PC, repurposed)

• Proxmox to manage several containers/VMs:
  • OPNsense Firewall
  • HomeAssistant
  • Pihole
  • Gitlab
  • Jellyfin

i don’t self-host yet, but i have an old pc in my house, i just need to bring it with me to colege, so i can learn and start self-hosting