Ask HN: Just got a brand new server, what do I do first?

• Jellyfin

  1,034 29,579 9.9 C#

  The Free Software Media System

  

- https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin (Media management)

• Outline

  194 24,001 9.9 TypeScript

  The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

  

I've been long wanting a playground to host my own e-mail, website, media and miscellaneous utilities to break free from subscriptions and "free" services which are data hogs, but due to extrenuating circumstances, paying for and maintaining a server has just been too much of a monetary and temporal investment for a broke college kid.

After a bit of research I came across Oracle's Free Tier (https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/faq/) which offers a LOT, and in my eyes seems like the perfect test-bed to try out homebrew before I invest in my own DIY VPS at home.

Currently thinking of setting up the following:

- https://www.getoutline.com/ (Notion alternative)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Radarr

  403 9,154 9.9 C#

  Movie organizer/manager for usenet and torrent users.

  

- https://github.com/Radarr/Radarr (Movies)

• vaultwarden

  489 32,926 8.8 Rust

  Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs

• wildduck

  15 1,829 9.2 JavaScript

  Opinionated email server

  

- https://wildduck.email/ (E-mail)

Even though I have self-hosted things individually (eg: my Ghost blog on a RasPi connected to my home WiFi), something which I've always been concerned about is the separation of all these services, since they must have APIs and access rules. What's an ideal way of setting up a multi-service server like this, and what security policies should I implement. Additionally what are some must haves that you have running on your servers?

I understand self-hosting is a huge labour of love, and I have no qualms in investing time/effort learning :)

• borgmatic

  61 1,639 9.5 Python

  Simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers and workstations

  

Oh yes, thank you! Thinking of using https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ for my server backups and https://github.com/immich-app/immich for my photos and videos. Any x-platform solutions you may be aware of?

• immich

  289 30,404 10.0 TypeScript

  High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.

  

Oh yes, thank you! Thinking of using https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ for my server backups and https://github.com/immich-app/immich for my photos and videos. Any x-platform solutions you may be aware of?

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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