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What are you self hosting? (October 2025 Edition)

vitobottavitobotta Member
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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?

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  • shallownorthdakotashallownorthdakota Member

    ZNC

    Thanked by 1nobizzle
  • budi1413budi1413 Member

    self hosting navidrome + using symfonium client to stream the music

    Thanked by 1itzgeo
  • cosmossofacosmossofa Member
    • 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.

    Thanked by 6nullnothere sh97 Tommy_the_hatter BasToTheMax mikei ariq01
  • MallocVoidstarMallocVoidstar Member
    • 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
    Thanked by 1nullnothere
  • DrNutellaDrNutella Member
    edited October 2025

    Fresh install of Ubuntu
    And a bunch of custom apps

  • noisycodenoisycode Member
    • hackmd, good for markdown collaboration
    • WireGuard, let every idle server join the party
    • WebDAV, works great with Obsidian
  • iriskairiska Member
    • Ghost CMS: blog
    • Jellyfin: mmhm
    • ntfy: notification server
    • DoH/DoT/DoQ server(s) (dns-over-https + dnsdist + unbound + nginx)

    I'm probably missing something.

    Thanked by 1nullnothere
  • nghialelenghialele Member

    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
    Thanked by 1nullnothere
  • akaemuakaemu Member

    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.

    Thanked by 1nekomikoreimu
  • magicvpnmagicvpn Member

    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
    Thanked by 1nghialele
  • hatebreederhatebreeder Member

    • 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

    Thanked by 1onidel
  • JerryHouJerryHou Member

    seedbox (qbittorrent)

    sandbox (a debian 13 LXC to test some dockers)

    ...still thinking....

  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    @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?

  • braunibrauni Member

    Does anybody host a calendar that's not nextcloud?

  • eriseris Member
    • OpenVPN to access my infra when I am away
    • Websites
  • vitobottavitobotta Member

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

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

    Thanked by 1brauni
  • loayloay Member
    edited October 2025
    • 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)
    Thanked by 6BasToTheMax sh97 nghialele sipe nullnothere tux
  • Tommy_the_hatterTommy_the_hatter Member

    @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 o:)

  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    @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 o:)

    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.

    Thanked by 1Tommy_the_hatter
  • blip1945blip1945 Member

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

  • magicvpnmagicvpn Member

    @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.

  • CloudHopperCloudHopper Member

    @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

  • jamjam Member

    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)
    Thanked by 4nghialele oloke BasToTheMax nullnothere
  • suutsuut Member

    Any self-hosted bookmarklets?

  • buggedoutbuggedout Member
    • 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.
    Thanked by 2nghialele oloke
  • virtfhvirtfh Member

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

  • quicksilver03quicksilver03 Member, Host Rep

    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.

    Thanked by 2shallownorthdakota nullnothere
  • nghialelenghialele Member

    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.

    Thanked by 2oloke tux
  • barbarzabarbarza Member

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

  • MynymboxMynymbox Member, Host Rep

    We host some stuff here like SearX, Whoogle etc

    https://cypherpunktools.com/

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