Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?

• Tiny-Tiny-RSS

  63 181 0.0 PHP

  A PHP and Ajax feed reader

I've been hosting a fork of Tiny Tiny RSS[0] since 2005. Moving it between servers and Postgres instance has been easy and I like having the old data in perpetuity.

[0] https://tt-rss.org/

• home-gallery

  7 697 8.7 JavaScript

  Self-hosted open-source web gallery to view your photos and videos featuring mobile-friendly, tagging and AI powered image discovery

Home Gallery[1] for my photo collection. It has (local) face and object detection.

AdGuard for ad blocking

OctoPrint for 3d printing

[1]https://github.com/xemle/home-gallery

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• hnrss

  68 489 3.5 Go

  Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News

  

I don't think there is any website I care about checking regularly that does not have an rss/atom feed. All wordpress (and pretty much every other blog engine) sites do, subreddits do, https://hnrss.github.io/ for hacker news...

That said, I personally only use rss for slow-updating sites (pretty much just for personal weblogs and the news/announcements for some projects).

• Joplin

  771 43,083 9.9 TypeScript

  Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

• Hauk

  23 569 4.6 Java

  Open-source realtime location sharing

• audiobookshelf

  95 5,349 9.8 JavaScript

  Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server

• sish

  33 3,778 6.4 Go

  HTTP(S)/WS(S)/TCP Tunnels to localhost using only SSH.

- Sish : Because I don't want to pay for ngrok anymore (https://github.com/antoniomika/sish)

• SaaSHub

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• tubearchivist

  153 4,080 9.3 Python

  Your self hosted YouTube media server

  

For the YouTube you can try this: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

I've set it up on my NAS and I've downloaded a couple of videos, but I haven't used it extensively yet.

• Portainer

  337 29,024 9.8 TypeScript

  Making Docker and Kubernetes management easy.

  

> Do you have a favorite software that you just love?

I'd say it's actually hard to decide.

Personally, I like being able to host my own source code and build software myself, for which the combo of Gitea + Drone CI + Sonatype Nexus worked out nicely for me: https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/goodbye-gitlab-hello-gitea-...

Apart from that, the combination of Portainer + Docker Swarm is a really nice and lightweight way to run containers, I'd say even a bit nicer than Hashicorp Nomad: https://www.portainer.io/ (though lightweight Kubernetes distros like K3s are okay for personal usage)

Also, NextCloud is really nice (for my needs), though some prefer Seafile to it: regardless of what you use, freeing yourself from a cloud storage subscription is nice, provided that you think of backups and such.

> I'm also curious how you decide to self host vs host on cloud. Is it purely for public facing vs private stuff or is it different?

For the most part, it's about the uptime.

I let my homelab servers sleep roughly when I do. They only draw 100 W from the wall due to 35 W TDP CPUs, but electricity bills are still a thing. Plus they do generate some noise, even with passive cooling for the CPUs.

But they're great as CI nodes or backup nodes as well, especially due to the fact that a 1 or 2 TB HDD is pretty cheap compared to most cloud offerings, even if you get multiple drives for backups and some spare ones.

Also, it's nice to host the public stuff in the cloud not just because of uptime concerns, but also because of a residential connection possibly being overwhelmed under load.

> Also, what are the majority of your costs? Do you have a few different VPSs or one big shared one?

I think either approach is valid.

Way back I had just 1-2 VPSes, at one point I had around 10 of them, then I gradually moved some of those into VMs in my homelab before consolidating them down further. Those VMs lead to a lot of unnecessary I/O due to multiple OS installs, as opposed to just containers running on the box instead.

Now the total amount of nodes that I have is under 10 and will probably probably remain that way. Thankfully, the cloud provider that I use does static (predictable) billing for a set amount of resources, so no AWS/GCP/Azure horror stories, as long as I only need VPSes instead of managed services.

Here's the one I use, Time4VPS: https://www.time4vps.com/?affid=5294 (affiliate link, you can remove affid if you prefer)

I've also used Hetzner for when I needed more powerful nodes for a shorter amount of time (they don't do up front monthly billing): https://www.hetzner.com/

As another affordable option, Contabo is also pretty okay: https://contabo.com/en/

There are also some better known options that were a bit more expensive when I last used them: DigitalOcean, Linode, Scaleway, Vultr and so on. I guess it's about finding a good fit of features vs pricing and other factors.

• mblaze

  11 416 4.5 C

  Unix utilities to deal with Maildir

I self‐host mostly because local copies of things give me some privacy (sites won’t know what my IP is searching for), and it also lets me work easily when Comcast is down… which is annoyingly frequent in my neighborhood.

All of these machines are running OpenBSD, except the gaming machines and the HTPC.

• Outgoing Email: OpenSMTPD, with mandatory TLS. Since I’m the only one sending email from my domain, the outgoing relay is hidden behind my LAN and my DKIM keys never leave my network. Outgoing mail gets routed via Wireguard through a VPS so it doesn’t look like it’s coming from a residential IP block.

• Incoming Email: OpenSMTPD on my MXes, with MTA‐STS and DNSSEC/DANE so as many senders use TLS as possible. Delivers to Maildir on my LAN, which I access directly using mblaze over SSH (https://github.com/leahneukirchen/mblaze) and IMAP via Dovecot (which supports Maildir backend).

• Roundcube webmail.

• DNS zones: NSD running on two VPSes, slaves pulling their config via WireGuard from the master which runs in a VM on my LAN.

• Public webserver, with personal (public) homepage, Git repositories (clonable and browsable via CGit), photo gallery, files/images/random files when I need to share them by sending a link in IRC, etc.

• Matrix: Synapse for the server, Element for the client. Besides hanging out in Matrix rooms I use this for one‐on‐one audio calls with my friends (generate a link, send it to them, and chat through the browser).

• Pleroma, so I can interact with the Mastodon network.

• Apertium for text translation. The range of languages is a bit limited but for supported pairs it’s nice to avoid Google Translate.

• A home theater PC in my living room running Kodi, which pulls all my Blu‐Rays from a home NAS.

• A powerful gaming machine that uses Steam to stream games to either the HTPC or my Steam Deck. I only use this at home… I wonder how bad the latency would be if I connected to it when on a trip?

• My music collection, whether ripped from CD or bought digitally, is automatically tagged and sorted with Beets, and I run the web plugin to access it over the web. Beets’s web interface is kind of primitive; I would love to replace it with something like FunkWhale.

• Full mirrors of websites with free content: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Stack Overflow, Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks

• Full OpenBSD package mirrors

• OpenStreetMap, running OSRM (routing) on top of an open source Leaflet/Mapbox demo I set up years ago. I’ve been meaning to update this to something more modern and less reliant on Mapbox software.

• Radicale for CalDAV/CardDAV, so my calendar and contacts are synced across all my devices automatically.

• Home adblocking with Unbound (what most people use PiHole for I guess). DNS lookups for my home network are anonymized with DoH over Tor (CloudFlare provides documentation for how to do this).

• Ways to access my home network when away from home: WireGuard VPN in a roadwarrior configuration; public‐facing SSH (with WebAuthn‐backed keys); failing that, an HTTPS proxy with Squid. (Yes, I have been stuck at conferences where the wifi network blocked SSH, WireGuard, and all traffic that wasn’t HTTP/HTTPS or DNS from the blessed server!)

• personal-server

  13 3,048 8.4 just

  Personal server configuration with k3s

• opengrok

  11 4,243 9.0 Java

  OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java

  

• pmm

  10 553 9.7 Go

  Percona Monitoring and Management: an open source database monitoring, observability and management tool

  

• uptime-kuma

  352 49,945 9.7 JavaScript

  A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

• Nextcloud

  608 25,704 10.0 PHP

  ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

  

• SaaSHub

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