Any recommendations for my Homepage setup or services to add/replace?
1% CPU usages, 50% RAM usage. That checks out.
I'm guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.
Correct, most of that is ZFS cache. All of my containers are barely using 2-3GB.
I have similar stats on my server. I have ~40 containers running (some are duplicate because I am to lazy to combine all PSQL servers). And since I am the only user, most of them are idle for a lot of the time.
I'm always at awe when people do this for their home like I've been managing infra for almost two decades and don't have even quarter of the things some people install and manage. It looks overwhelming to be honest.
I've been managing infrastructure for over 3 decades and I don't have this.
I have something like homegrown pihole (dnsmasq with block lists) , jellyfin, qbittorrent and nfs/smb share. Everytime when such a post appears there is this irrational desire to create cool monitoring and homepage and homeassistant. Never materialises into anything, after all there is always emacs that requires tinkering if needed. :3
I can recommend Heimdall as a quick scratch for that itch. Not big on monitoring, but a great landing page for almost no effort.
Get crackin'. LOL For me, it's a toss up between Homarr & Homepage. I went with Homarr which can do some of the metrics like Homepage, but Homepage has all the candy.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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How are your backups doing?
I only backup specific folders in my NAS and some of my service DBs. I have test restored some files from Backblaze without issue. With Backblaze you pay for pulls, so I only chose to restore some small files to test restoral. TrueNAS encrypts the data before it goes to Backblaze and then Backblaze also encrypts the data in the buckets on their end, so double encrypted. I don't have another on site copy so not really following the 3,2,1 rule. I figure RAID and an off-site backup is enough for me.
Just speak to me like I’m a dumb person, but what the hell is the point of hosting proton stuff? I’m a proton user and never once has this thought ever crossed my mind. What am I missing out on?
This is such a good way of organizing services. Thanks!
I’m in the early stages of figuring out self hosting. This is beautiful
That’s pretty sick, kudos!
How do you find dockge over portainer? I tried it but it uses more resources and i couldn’t individually start/stop apps in a stack. It was all or nothing.
I only recently started using it, honestly couldn't say. I've never used portainer. I just started using dockge because that's what the guide I was following for the arr stack was using. Still haven't finished the arr stack setup yet. I did stand up changedetection with dockge though because trying to set it up in TrueNAS was a pain in the ass when trying to get it to play with playwright correctly.
I honestly don't understand the need for bentopdf. Why is hosting PDF manipulation useful?
You basically get all of the things an adobe subscription would get you for free? Also, I'm on Linux so no Adobe anyway. It all runs in the browser so no need to install software.
Could you point to how you get something like this started?
I run Home Assistant on a RPi4 but have a capable computer I would love to use for self hosting, especially immich.
Look into docker containers in general. If I was going to start from scratch in your position this is what I'd do:
Install a Linux distribution on the computer you plan to use for self hosting. I found Debian with the KDE plasma desktop environment to be pretty familiar coming from Windows. You could technically do most of this on Windows but imo self hosting is pretty much the only thing that a casual user would find better supported through Linux than Windows. The tools are made for people who want to do things themselves and those kinds of people tend to use Linux.
Once you have a Linux distribution installed, get docker set up. Once docker is set up, install portainer as your first docker container. The steps above require some command line work, which may or may not be intimidating for you, but once you have portainer functional you will have a GUI for docker that is easier to use than CLI for most people.
From this point you can find the docker installation instructions for any service you want to run. Docker containers have all the required dependencies of a given service packaged together nicely so deploying new services is super easy once you get the hang of it. You basically just have to define where the container should store it's data and what web port you want to access the service on. The rest is preconfigured for you by the people who created the container.
There's certainly more to be said on this topic, some of which you would likely want to look into before you deploy something your whole family will be using (storage setup and backup capability, virtual machines to segregate services, remote accessibility, security, etc). However, the above is really all you need to get to the point where you can deploy pretty much anything you'd like on your local network. The rest is more about best practices and saving yourself headaches when something breaks than it is about functionality.
Dont do this. OP built a security nightmare
OP built a security nightmare
How so?
Docker will happily download malicious containers. It doesn't use cryptography to verify what it downloads during the layer pull.
That's overly dramatic phrasing and you know it. Adding this kind of hyper technical quip to a thread aimed at beginners is insane. Stop doing that.
No. Just use apt. Don't fill your house with sensors that make you vulnerable
Linux can do that too from miners, backdoors/SSH credential stealers, bots, rare ransomware but they exist, rootkits, spyware, and supply‑chain attacks
Apt has done sig checking since 2002 iirc
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