What are you self hosting? (October 2025 Edition)

vitobotta

Over time I have reduced a bit what I am self hosting but I am still running these:

• Mailcow (email hosting, but I use Mailpace for the actual delivery so I don't have to deal with deliverability issues)
• Nextcloud (file sharing and syncing and more)
• OnlyOffice (document editing with realtime collaboration and integrated with Nextcloud)
• Actual Buget (personal finance)
• Uptime Kuma (uptime and cron jobs monitoring)
• Gitea (source code hosting; I mainly use it to mirror Github repositories as a backup)
• Planka (Kanban project management tool)
• Change detection (to be notified about changes on some websites)
• Postfactum (a tool I buit to handle retros at work)
• SearxNG (search engine proxy; I use it mainly because for security testing I switch VPNs from different locations quite often, and Google doesn't like it and shows me a captcha challenge often. SearxNG acts as a proxy for Google basically, solving the problem with VPNs but also removing ads and crap from Google results; today I switched to the Mullvad Leta backend for ridiculously fast search thanks to caching)
• Vaultwarden (password manager/open source clone of Bitwarden, accessible only via Tailscale)
• Wastebin (to share gists etc with others)
• Lorito (a tool I use for security testing/hacking, for things like SSRF)
• ezXSS (a tool I use for security testing/hacking, for XSS)
• Some custom built tooling for security testing/hacking for various things

I am planning to add again some things that I used to run in the past and I might need again, like

• Wireguard-easy for VPN (at the moment I am using a half-managed Wireguard instance with Hostkey which I don't like)
• Reactive Resume (to keep my resume up to date and in a nice format etc)
• Invoice ninja (to raise invoices when I do occasional consultancy on Kubernetes and stuff, especially around my tool hetzner-k3s)
• YoPass (to share secrets with others, since Vaultwarden is only accessible via Tailscale and I cannot use its "Send" feature)
• Picoshare (for super quick file sharing where Nextcloud is overkill)

What are you self hosting at the moment or are you planning to self host?

shallownorthdakota

ZNC

budi1413

self hosting navidrome + using symfonium client to stream the music

cosmossofa

• Anytype – my personal knowledge management
• Blinko – for quick note and brainstorm with partner
• Filegator – good looking interface
• Navidrome – for streaming my own music compilation
• Kavita – for my comics and manga collection
• WebDAV – a good option
• DNS64/NAT64 – Viva ipv6！
• WireGuard – hello world
• MTProxy – hello world
• Beszel - light and easy
• Change detection - yes, a snitch

I use them almost every day, incredibly useful.

MallocVoidstar

• Miniflux for RSS (some news, music, LET deals)
• SearxNG
• Uptime Kuma
• DNS-over-QUIC servers (dnsdist) + Adguard Home for DNS-based adblocking
• Some proxies (juicity) so I can route some of my traffic through them (e.g. if I visit microsoft.com in a browser it goes via EU so they have to apply GDPR)
• Some site proxies (breezewiki, scribe, etc) with a redirector in my browser so I visit faster/more private versions of fandom wikis, medium.com, etc

DrNutella

Fresh install of Ubuntu
And a bunch of custom apps

noisycode

• hackmd, good for markdown collaboration
• WireGuard, let every idle server join the party
• WebDAV, works great with Obsidian

iriska

• Ghost CMS: blog
• Jellyfin: mmhm
• ntfy: notification server
• DoH/DoT/DoQ server(s) (dns-over-https + dnsdist + unbound + nginx)

I'm probably missing something.

nghialele

i am currently self-hosting these:

• Listmonk for my team monthly newsletter
• Formbricks for my team internal survey & customer survey
• Chatwoot as customer portal & omnichannel for internal team
• Grav Multicourse as fast & lightweight replacement for Moodle
• TriliumNext for my personal KB
• Forgejo to mirror my GH starred repos

ideas:

• Nextcloud for the office suites & cloud storage

akaemu

WG-easy (recently implented ip6 too)
Jellyfin
Shrimpcast for my onPatrol watch party's.
rutorrent for goon material.
Adguard-home. The WG uses it for default dns.

magicvpn

What I'm running:

• pfSense: a bunch of these ran on VPS'es either as proxy for a service (over VPN) or just as VPN. And for my home router
• mailcow: runs at home using one of those pfSense VPN's 10/10 delivery score (found no alternative that wasn't overpriced for my use-case, could send using MXRoute or so later if needed, but for now it's perfect)
• Jellyfin
• smokeping: to keep track of my network's performance and to see if it's a service, ISP, or my local network having issues.
• proxmox: to run all of the above
• Adguard home: to block ads and make all the outgoing DNS queries encrypted
• Cloudpanel: to run some local sites I use to make life a little easier
• Proxmox Backup Server: offsite, storing backups just in case

hatebreeder

• Wireguard - Angristan/wireguard-install ( Currently resting on @onidel SG 2 core )
• Public Adguard Home which is restricted to a certain IP range - Linode
• Uptime Kuma - Linode
• Plausible - Speedypage

JerryHou

seedbox (qbittorrent)

sandbox (a debian 13 LXC to test some dockers)

...still thinking....

vitobotta

@MallocVoidstar said:

• SearxNG

SearxNG stopped working with regular Google and they are still looking for a solution. Have you tried Mullvad Leta as backend for SearxNG? It's so fast!

@magicvpn said:

• mailcow: runs at home using one of those pfSense VPN's 10/10 delivery score (found no alternative that wasn't overpriced for my use-case, could send using MXRoute or so later if needed, but for now it's perfect)

What do you mean about pfSense VPN? How does Mailcow deliver email for you?

brauni

Does anybody host a calendar that's not nextcloud?

eris

• OpenVPN to access my infra when I am away
• Websites

vitobotta

@brauni said:
Does anybody host a calendar that's not nextcloud?

yes, with Mailcow I get Calendars and Contacts together with Email

loay

• Ollama (local LLMs; I use it for AI experiments with Open WebUI and AnythingLLM)
• Open WebUI (chat frontend for Ollama; adds a clean interface to local models)
• AnythingLLM (RAG tool for documents and chats; indexes notes for AI powered queries)
• Uptime Kuma (servers monitoring)
• Beszel (another servers monitoring)
• ChangeDetection (website change monitor)
• code-server (VS Code in the browser; lets me code remotely without local IDEs)
• NocoDB (spreadsheet based database, self-hosted alternative to Airtable)
• Memos (simple note taking)
• Ghost (headless blogging CMS)
• Filebrowser (file manager; easy browsing and uploads)
• OpenVPN (VPN server; secures remote access to my homelab/remote machines)
• MeTube (YouTube downloader; queues and downloads videos for offline use)
• RSS-Bridge (RSS aggregator; converts non-RSS sites into feeds)

Tommy_the_hatter

@vitobotta said:
Over time I have reduced a bit what I am self hosting but I am still running these:

• Mailcow (email hosting, but I use Mailpace for the actual delivery so I don't have to deal with deliverability issues)
• Nextcloud (file sharing and syncing and more)
• OnlyOffice (document editing with realtime collaboration and integrated with Nextcloud)
• Actual Buget (personal finance)
• Uptime Kuma (uptime and cron jobs monitoring)
• Gitea (source code hosting; I mainly use it to mirror Github repositories as a backup)
• Planka (Kanban project management tool)
• Change detection (to be notified about changes on some websites)
• Postfactum (a tool I buit to handle retros at work)
• SearxNG (search engine proxy; I use it mainly because for security testing I switch VPNs from different locations quite often, and Google doesn't like it and shows me a captcha challenge often. SearxNG acts as a proxy for Google basically, solving the problem with VPNs but also removing ads and crap from Google results; today I switched to the Mullvad Leta backend for ridiculously fast search thanks to caching)
• Vaultwarden (password manager/open source clone of Bitwarden, accessible only via Tailscale)
• Wastebin (to share gists etc with others)
• Lorito (a tool I use for security testing/hacking, for things like SSRF)
• ezXSS (a tool I use for security testing/hacking, for XSS)
• Some custom built tooling for security testing/hacking for various things

I am planning to add again some things that I used to run in the past and I might need again, like

• Wireguard-easy for VPN (at the moment I am using a half-managed Wireguard instance with Hostkey which I don't like)
• Reactive Resume (to keep my resume up to date and in a nice format etc)
• Invoice ninja (to raise invoices when I do occasional consultancy on Kubernetes and stuff, especially around my tool hetzner-k3s)
• YoPass (to share secrets with others, since Vaultwarden is only accessible via Tailscale and I cannot use its "Send" feature)
• Picoshare (for super quick file sharing where Nextcloud is overkill)

What are you self hosting at the moment or are you planning to self host?

YoPass is awesome

vitobotta

@Tommy_the_hatter said:

@vitobotta said:
Over time I have reduced a bit what I am self hosting but I am still running these:

• Mailcow (email hosting, but I use Mailpace for the actual delivery so I don't have to deal with deliverability issues)
• Nextcloud (file sharing and syncing and more)
• OnlyOffice (document editing with realtime collaboration and integrated with Nextcloud)
• Actual Buget (personal finance)
• Uptime Kuma (uptime and cron jobs monitoring)
• Gitea (source code hosting; I mainly use it to mirror Github repositories as a backup)
• Planka (Kanban project management tool)
• Change detection (to be notified about changes on some websites)
• Postfactum (a tool I buit to handle retros at work)
• SearxNG (search engine proxy; I use it mainly because for security testing I switch VPNs from different locations quite often, and Google doesn't like it and shows me a captcha challenge often. SearxNG acts as a proxy for Google basically, solving the problem with VPNs but also removing ads and crap from Google results; today I switched to the Mullvad Leta backend for ridiculously fast search thanks to caching)
• Vaultwarden (password manager/open source clone of Bitwarden, accessible only via Tailscale)
• Wastebin (to share gists etc with others)
• Lorito (a tool I use for security testing/hacking, for things like SSRF)
• ezXSS (a tool I use for security testing/hacking, for XSS)
• Some custom built tooling for security testing/hacking for various things

I am planning to add again some things that I used to run in the past and I might need again, like

• Wireguard-easy for VPN (at the moment I am using a half-managed Wireguard instance with Hostkey which I don't like)
• Reactive Resume (to keep my resume up to date and in a nice format etc)
• Invoice ninja (to raise invoices when I do occasional consultancy on Kubernetes and stuff, especially around my tool hetzner-k3s)
• YoPass (to share secrets with others, since Vaultwarden is only accessible via Tailscale and I cannot use its "Send" feature)
• Picoshare (for super quick file sharing where Nextcloud is overkill)

What are you self hosting at the moment or are you planning to self host?

YoPass is awesome

Nice. I am planning to set it up because sometimes I need to share something more sensitive and I don't want to use Wastebin for this or email/Slack/Discord.

blip1945

Bind9 as a hidden master for 1 of my domain and as slave axfr-ing icann root zone, and adguardhome pinging the bind9 recursively.

magicvpn

@vitobotta said: What do you mean about pfSense VPN? How does Mailcow deliver email for you?

VPN runs on a VPS that allows email and has good reputation, from there I have portforwards setup so that certain ports are allowed to reach my mailcow.

CloudHopper

@brauni said:
Does anybody host a calendar that's not nextcloud?

I'm using Radicale. I don't know if it's the best solution, but it was the first one I got setup and was reasonably happy with. It's a bit simple but it serves my purposes.
https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale

jam

In my local Proxmox Mini PC:

• Dokuwiki (for self-documentation)
• Smokeping (to monitor my local network)
• VaultWarden (password manager)
• Joplin Server (encrypted notes and TODO)
• Immich (Image manager)
• forgejo (git repository)
• Jellyfin (Media Manager)
• Beszel (for monitoring all my idling vps)
• Librespeed (local network speedtest)
• Netbird Client (expose some services to a external proxy)

In a RPI 4:

• UptimeKuma (Ping test)
• DockSTARTer (all arr!!! suite + Usenet tools + Torrent tools)
• Homepage (simple local homepage)

In another RPI 4:

• LibreNMS (SNMP monitoring for my Router, Switch, NAS, etc)

In a RPI 3:

• Smokeping (for monitoring my internet connection)

In my idling vps:

• Netbird manager (vpn for remote access to my local network)
• Caddy (proxy)
• Technitium DNS server (DNS over TLS)
• Tor Entry node (access to tor network)
• Smokeping (yes another, so i can compare result with my local smokeping)
• TeamSpeak 3 Server (voice chat when play online games with friends)

suut

Any self-hosted bookmarklets?

buggedout

• Beszel
• Immich
• Unbound + Dnsdist
• Forgejo (to replicate github repos as github once took down my account when I changed git ssh keys 3 times in 1 day)
• At present I use cloud version of Netbird but I am thinking to self host it too.
• wireguard
• Dokploy
  And planning to try Snapp, Opencloud and Netgoat.

virtfh

anybody self-hosting nextcloud? I plan to deploy it but didn't find a right vps for now.

quicksilver03

From a quick look:

• email with Exim, Dovecot and Rspamd
• Miniflux for reading RSS feeds
• WordPress for a number of sites (my old rugby club, a local shelter for abandoned cats, a couple of personal sites)
• Syncthing to share files between phones and computers
• Restic and Borg for backups
• Git (over SSH and HTTPS, nothing fancy like Gitlab or Gitea)
• Jenkins for CI, Reposilite and Nexus as package repositories
• Jellyfin as media server, and also Serviio for DLNA
• UniFi controller for my home wifi
• Netdata, Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring
• Redlib to browse Reddit without their annoyances

and of course PowerDNS, dnsdist, Keycloak and all oher software powering the PTRDNS project.

nghialele

Let me add Garage as my latest setup, on a nice Host-C box. Self-hosted S3.

Garage is a lightweight geo-distributed data store that implements the Amazon S3 object storage protocol. It enables applications to store large blobs such as pictures, video, images, documents, etc., in a redundant multi-node setting. S3 is versatile enough to also be used to publish a static website.

barbarza

I have recently started to successfully self-host the world. More details to follow at a later stage.

Mynymbox

We host some stuff here like SearX, Whoogle etc

https://cypherpunktools.com/