Didn't see Paperless in these comments yet. Great way to never again search for documents, bills, receipts, warranties, manuals, etc cetera ad nauseam.
I installed paperless a couple of months ago, and then needed a document from it this week, for the first time. Standing at my front door, with a contractor waiting, I retrieved a contract in about ten seconds.
I will never stop using this software.
Syncthing - No introduction needed. Couldn't live without it.
Healthchecks.io (you can self host this) - Dead man's switch monitoring for all my automation. Most of my automated scripts hit up a Healthchecks endpoint when they run, and if they fail to hit the endpoint on a regular schedule I get notified. Mandatory for my anxiety.
After looking at other's lists I think I am missing a good document server. Emby isn't the best music and photo server so I could look at improving that, but it has been good enough for those purposes that I haven't felt like going to the trouble of installing anything else.
Thank you for taking the time to link everything and formatting the post
One of my favorites is Whoogle, a simple Google search proxy. It accepts search requests and forwards them to Google anonymously, then strips out the AMP links and tracking. There's even an option for it to use Tor so your IP address changes frequently.
Whoogle vs SearXng in your experience?
I used both, I ended up settling on searxng because Whoogle seemed to be unable to retain my settings. Might be something with my cookie configuration, but searxng has no problem remembering my preferences. If that is not a problem for you then they are comparable; Whoogle is pretty simple to get going and works well, searxng is slightly more complicated to set up (but not that much with docker) but has a ton more features.
Under Proxmox, I have the following running currently:
**As LXC Containers: **
As a VM
The rest is all docker on the host OS which is Debian 12, this is not my complete list but the most used ones in my world:
Protected by Authentik's SSO
You may wonder why I am using Zitadel and Authentik, I first started with Zitadel, and moved to Authentik, but am evaluating both. They both have their positives. So far Authentik has been the most useful for me. And about the two password managers, I use Vaultwarden as it supports everything I need including Passkey support. My step daughter who is an adult is disabled so having an easier password like Psono makes it easier for her.
Immich for photos (the only proper Google photos alternative) Nextcloud for storing documents and photos (read by immich). Jellyfin to replace Plex.
PiHole
According to my continued survival on the planet, none.
Not all of us are so lucky. I was hospitalized for 3 weeks until I was able to get my PiHole back up. I was nearly a goner.
Jellyfin
Syncthing.
Nextcloud, after setting it up it gives me everything I love about Google and Apple's cloud services without the privacy invasion or any of the other cons. And I even find it more stable and less buggy. 10/10
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 |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
11 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.
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My whole infrastructure is designed so that my homeserver is expendable.
Therefore my most important tool is Syncthing. It is decentral, which is awesome for uptime and reducing dependance on a single point of failure. My server is configured as the "introducer" node for convenience.
I try to find file-based applications, such as KeePassXC or Obsidian, whenever I can so that I can sync as much as possible with Syncthing.
Therefore there is (luckily) not much left to host and all of it is less critical:
So the worst thing that can happen when my server fails is: I need to import my OPML to a cloud provider and I loose syncing for some less important stuff and my homepage is not accessible.
Since I just rebuilt my server, I can confirm that I managed a whole week without it just fine. Thank you very much, Syncthing!
PiHole - blocking ads Home Assistant - home automation, smart lighting & more Nginx Proxy Manager - easy reverse proxying Lemmy - here we are, on Lemmy Immich - Google photos replacement Motioneye - for putting video streams into home assistant and getting motion detection WyzeBridge - connecting my Wyze doorbells to Motioneye Doods2 - quick to set up object/person recognition for video and camera streams
I often see wireguard and adguard or pihole mentioned. There's a service that provides a combination of wireguard and pihole in 1 docker compose file and has a web interface for wireguard clients (wgeasy) called wirehole. Been using our for 2 years or so, very happy with it.
In my opinion the most elegant solution for an ad blocking VPN.
Nextcloud and jellyfin
Home assistant is high on my todo list right after i set up my new proxmox host
Can someone tell me the difference between Wireguard vs Wireguard Easy?
I already have Wireguard installed, so I just wanted to know if I should switch.
Wireguard-easy is plain old wireguard with with a nice web interface for management, that's all.
Currently running
Pfsense, Bitwarden, NAS running Debian, Kubernetes cluster. I have plans to expand And add more services when I get some of my newer hardware online.
Syncthing, Gitea, jellyfin (with arr stack), audiobookshelf, Kavita.
Wow Change Detection seems like a much better alternative to curling a webpage and using grep to search for particular elements... :/
XMPP server and a basic WebDAV server.
My own Forgejo is nice to have.
I like Keepass - Password manager housed in an encrypted database. (dont' lose your master password)
I can't live without my Nextcloud + Email server. Having all my personal files, contacts, email, calendar, and other personal information immediately accessible synced and backed up with a single app on any device or platform I want to use, is a dream come true, and I get to do it without any Big Tech, avoiding their lock-in and privacy invasion and without any fees or limits beyond my own hardware.
OpenVPN is how I can access it from anywhere in the world, so that gets an honorable mention too.
A proxy to go to blocked sites (which is pretty much my justification for paying the price), potentially some obfuscating solution later if shit hits the fan. An IRC bouncer (what I actually get the most use of). A hobby website. An XMPP server. Mumble in case I ever have friends to play video games with.
I hardly ever see people talking about Pocketbase in threads like these, but as a dev I love it
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