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Hey everyone! I'm sort of still green for selfhosting, but I wanted to share my setup so far:

The following services are selfhosted in docker

  • Audiomuse (smart music tagging, mood based and all that)
  • Navidrome for music hosting
  • Jellyfin for TV shows (not a lot) and Films (not a lot again, but steadily increasing)
  • Radicale for serving contacts/TODOs/calendar
  • SFTPGo to act as my drive
  • Kavita for ebooks and manga (I have tons of both)
  • Glance for homepage
  • forgejo for git forge hosting

The system specs are kind of visible in the homepage, so I won't spell them out here again. Mostly an old optiplex running arch, though I want to change it to nixos later on.

System tools:

  • nushell for shell
  • calibre for ebook management and tagging + fanficfare plugin to download fanfictions
  • Caddy for reverse proxy (so I don't have to remember ports)
  • netbird for VPN (also because it allows me to set wildcard DNS resolution for nodes, so I don't have to set up a dedicated pi-hole or adguard)
  • Handbrake and ffmpeg for processing videos and such
  • beets for tagging music
  • a sysinfo script to generate system information for glance to consume
  • Probably other things too, I'm forgetting

Everything is accessible only via netbird, and external inbound connections are firewalled off

Apart from that, I eventually plan on adding the following as well:

  • Immich for photo hosting
  • Vaultwarden for passwords
  • Gollum (still debating on alternatives) for a webUI for my notes
  • Paperless-NGX

I'm still thinking on more that I can add. Note that whatever I add should not need an inbound connection/stable IP address, since I don't intend to expose the server to the public. Any suggestions/tips? Thanks!

UPDATE: Forgot to add, I'd probably add homebox too, for inventory management ๐Ÿ˜…

UPDATE 2: I'm silly, I forgot that I'm also looking into self-hosted RSS feed readers ๐Ÿ˜†

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[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. I've heard of Arcane, but never dabbled. From the demo, it looks pretty tight. I see it also gives you 'vulnerabilities' kind of like Maintenant, but built in. Nice!

[โ€“] Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yeah it has a lot of nice features and the vulnerabilities it pretty in-depth, once it done it provides recommendations for fixing the vulnerabilities as well.

I currently have mine configured to check for updates, update and prune automagically then provide a report of what's been done to a private discord server

[โ€“] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Wow! So it's Maintenant, watchtower, Portainer, and a few other apps rolled into one. That's pretty awesome. I'm using Portainer and have been for a long while. It's good for what it does, and I know how to drive that bus. I'll definitely have to check out Arcane tho. Especially if it replaces several apps that I don't need to run, and make room for others. LOL

Thanks for sharing.

[โ€“] Kangy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

No problem! Once I'd trialed it for a week or so I dropped portainer completely. Arcane has been a pleasure for me to use and was relatively simple to set up and start using