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What else should I self-host? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Today I set up my old laptop as a Debian server, hosting Immich (for photos), Nextcloud (for files), and Radicale (for calendar). It was surprisingly easy to do so after looking at the documentation and watching a couple videos online! Tomorrow I might try hosting something like Linkwarden or Karakeep.

What else should I self-host, aside from HA (I don’t have a smart home), Calibre (physical books are my jam), and Jellyfin (I don’t watch too many movies + don’t have a significant DVD/Blu-ray collection)?

I would like to keep my laptop confined to my local network since I don’t trust it to be secure enough against the internet.

edit: I forgot, I’m also hosting Tailscale so I can access my local network remotely!

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[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 5 points 5 days ago

Syncthing for files syncing, to replace stuff like OneDrive, Dropbox etc.

I use to sync files between my NAS, laptop, Steam Deck and phone, each with different dirs based on what I need synced there.

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want to add dockge, for making it easy to manage / update your docker containers.

https://github.com/louislam/dockge

Love it. Saves me lots of time.

[–] TurboLag@lemmings.world 3 points 5 days ago

If you don't want a GUI, dockcheck is an easy way to update many containers at once from the CLI.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I host a number of alternate frontends. Alexandrite for Lemmy, Redlib for Reddit, Invidious for Youtube. And then I have the Privacy Redirect extension make any links to Reddit or Youtube go to my local.

[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Is Invidious still working? After the latest round of API patches on Youtube's end, I didn't think it was.

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Ah, that seems pretty cool :D

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Why Radicale when you have a caldav-capable calendar in NC?

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

I hosted Radicale first, so already had my calendar events and such set.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 6 days ago

If you're just looking for something to chew up CPU cycles and don't know what to host, consider something like BOINC where you're "self-hosting" (extremely loose term) scientific research, like cancer, new drugs, etc.

[–] SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Karakeep is fantastic, I know you mentioned it already, but I just wanted to shout it out. The AI tagging is a little gimmicky and pointless, but it's super nice to have a really searchable, automatically organized bookmark manager.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I look at what services I use and see if I can replace any of them w/ a self-hosted solution. Rinse and repeat.

Looking for more stuff to host will just overcomplicate things. I instead try to look for ways to consolidate services down.

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Straying away from utilities, games are always fun to host. I got started with self hosting by hosting a minecraft server, but there are plenty of options.

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