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What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 13 hours ago by tofu_oligarch@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone!

I recently switched my Android phone to a custom ROM, and while setting things up, I wanted push notifications without relying on Google. That’s how I discovered UnifiedPush.

Really liking the concept, I decided to rent a small VPS (1 vCPU, 2GB RAM) and started hosting NTFY. So far, it's been working great. Over time, I’ve added a few more services like FreshRSS and Audiobookshelf.

All of this is just for personal use, so the resource usage is minimal (the whole setup only uses around 500MB of RAM). I really enjoy how much value you can get out of such a small machine.

That brings me to my question:

What other lightweight, self-hostable tools would you recommend? I’m especially interested in small, resource-efficient services that you’ve personally found useful.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

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

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
Git	Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
SFTP	Secure File Transfer Protocol for encrypted file transfer, over SSH
SSH	Secure Shell for remote terminal access
XMPP	Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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[–] 7EP6vuI@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

do you already have monitoring solution for your vps? maybe prometheus/altermanager and the node_exporter?

otherwise i join the forgejo praise, and also enjoy etherpad (self hosted (limited) google doc)

how do you handle backups? recommendation: borg

[–] tofu_oligarch@sopuli.xyz 2 points 12 hours ago

No, so far I just hope nothing breaks :) will take a look!

With so many recommendations in this thread, Forgejo must be great. I've used it with Codeberg, but self-hosting seems a lot better (especially if they introduce federation at some point).

Thanks!

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