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What are you self hosting? (October 2025 Edition)

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  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    @JohnFilch123 said:
    I use both local storage and S3 (both VM and S3 are in the same region, same provider) with Nextcloud and happy with both options.

    For the s3 version, which providers do you use for the VPS and the bucket?

  • philipjensenphilipjensen Member, Patron Provider

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

    https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#calendar--contacts

  • seenuseenu Member
    edited October 2025

    @Ympker said:

    @akhfa said:

    @Ympker said:

    @akhfa said:

    @Ympker said:
    CasaOS,

    How do you manage the backup?

    There is no backup :tongue: It's mostly trying things out.

    Hahaha got it. I was very interested with casaos since the UI looks good. But since it doesn't have proper built in backup method, I go with coolify.
    But migrating all to kubernetes now.

    CasaOS doesn't receive updates anymore since the devs are pushing their ZimaOS now (freemium model). With a fresh install I'd probably just use Portainer

    I never knew about this but still that has generous free tire and their lifetime paid tier is fking cheap

    so incase, they discontinue CasaOS i can happily move to this OR aaPanel.

    Thanked by 2akhfa Ympker
  • akhfaakhfa Member

    @seenu said:

    CasaOS doesn't receive updates anymore since the devs are pushing their ZimaOS now (freemium model). With a fresh install I'd probably just use Portainer

    I never knew about this but still that has generous free tire and their lifetime paid tier is fking cheap

    so incase, they discontinue CasaOS i can happily move to this OR aaPanel.

    Ah you are correct. ZimaOS looks interesting. It also has built in backup feature

    https://www.zimaspace.com/docs/zimaos/How-to-Use-3-2-1-Backup-on-ZimaOS

    And yes the lifetime license is cheap. $29. Definitely buy it if I have the use case. Hope they don't limit the OS upgrade period

    Thanks for sharing!

    Thanked by 1Ympker
  • YmpkerYmpker Member
    edited October 2025

    @akhfa said:

    @seenu said:

    CasaOS doesn't receive updates anymore since the devs are pushing their ZimaOS now (freemium model). With a fresh install I'd probably just use Portainer

    I never knew about this but still that has generous free tire and their lifetime paid tier is fking cheap

    so incase, they discontinue CasaOS i can happily move to this OR aaPanel.

    Ah you are correct. ZimaOS looks interesting. It also has built in backup feature

    https://www.zimaspace.com/docs/zimaos/How-to-Use-3-2-1-Backup-on-ZimaOS

    And yes the lifetime license is cheap. $29. Definitely buy it if I have the use case. Hope they don't limit the OS upgrade period

    Thanks for sharing!

    ZimaOS and CasaOS both seem very nice. So far it seems like ZimaOS Plus only gives you unlimited users and unlimited disks (VS 4 disks in free tier), so not sure the purchase is worth it for me. I might try it out in Virtualbox though, and eventually use it for my next fresh install of my NAS. Plus seems to be device bound and license can only be transferred after a 12 month waiting period (which then getrs triggered again if used).

    Get ZimaOS Plus permanently for free: Seems like by upgrading from ZimaOS v1.4.x to 1.5.x you can unlock Plus permanently if done before June 2026: https://www.zimaspace.com/zimaos/pricing

    https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS/releases/tag/1.4.4-1

    Will the Plus benefits obtained through upgrade remain valid forever?

    Absolutely! The Plus benefits you receive through a free upgrade are identical to those from a purchase — permanently valid.

    Who is eligible to receive Plus benefits for free?

    Just upgrade from v1.4.x or earlier to v1.5.0 to automatically unlock Plus. We guarantee manual support if needed.

    Quickly try out ZimaOS (taken from zztop007's tutorial on Zima Community):

    https://community.zimaspace.com/t/the-fastest-way-to-try-zimaos-out-virtually/5149

    Docker Compose from GitHub - qemus/qemu: QEMU in a Docker container.

    Latest ZimaOS IMG: https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS/releases/download/1.4.1/zimaos_zimacube-1.4.1_installer.img

    services:
qemu:
image: qemux/qemu
container_name: qemu
environment:
BOOT: “https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/ZimaOS/releases/download/1.4.1/zimaos_zimacube-1.4.1_installer.img”
devices:
- /dev/kvm
- /dev/net/tun
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
ports:
- 8006:8006
volumes:
- ./qemu:/storage
restart: always
stop_grace_period: 2m
    Thanked by 4lovelyserver plumberg nullnothere TimboJones
  • lwtlwt Member

    A few things but what I'm most proud of is that I built a 2-node (+independent quorum agent on a google free VPS) HA cluster - active/standby - (using pacemaker/corosync, drbd, wireguard cluster links).

    The cluster is running a simplelogin.io clone by the way.

    And I did it using debian on zfs root, on two 2GB RAM VPS (one in NL and one in US), with guaranteed OS sync (I update one node and then zfs send the entire setup to the other).

    And when I had one of the VPS deleted because of a provider mistake, the cluster failed over and I rebuilt the node in less than two hours (yes, using zfs send/receive).

    And after all that, I still have 300MB free on the active cluster.

    :-)

    Thanked by 3zed nullnothere mbjones
  • Kevinf100Kevinf100 Member

    @seenu said:

    @Kevinf100 said: Coolify

    are you able to set it properly for any laravel projects?

    I had very high hopes but after few hours, i gave up on it.

    Never used laravel.

    Thanked by 1seenu
  • NekoparaNekopara Member
    edited October 2025
    • UptimeKuma
    • Adguard Home
    • 1Panel
    • Blinko
    • Beszel
    • Yamtrack
    • Plex
    • Qbittorrent
    • Autobrr
    • Sonarr
    • WG-Easy
    • File-Browser
    • Dockur (windows 11 inside a docker-container)
      :)
    Thanked by 1nullnothere
  • unsafetypinunsafetypin Member

    @holojondrew said: Gatus

    Gatus is fucking awesome. Postgres is super lightweight. Being able to manage my monitoring configs with Git is awesome. I have a public and private instance running in Oracle Cloud connected to my site-to-site and its been absolutely the best monitoring software I've used.

    Thanked by 1NetPIMP
  • meditatingsurgeonmeditatingsurgeon Member

    I managed to get Kasm workspaces running inside an LXC container in Proxmox, absolutely love it. I’ve set it up with persistent storage etc,

    Thanked by 2nghialele nullnothere
  • gigazilgigazil Member

    Currently only self-hosting vaultwarden and a few api-based utils like seaweedfs for s3 endpoint.
    Tried nextcloud, immich and jellyfin etc before, turns out I generally can't stand the subpar UI/UX of these OSS web apps. Though the big tech are continuously raising prices to remind me opinion can change.

    Thanked by 1nullnothere
  • CloudHopperCloudHopper Member
    • Headscale (self-hosted Tailscale)
    • Unbound (DNS and adblocking)
    • Zabbix (server monitoring and alerts)
    • Prometheus/Node Exporter/Grafana (Nice charts because Zabbix is fugly)
    • Uptime Kuma (uptime monitoring)
    • GrayLog (Centralised log storage/management)
    • Wazuh (SIEM and EDR)
    • OPNsense (Firewall and fancy reverse proxy)
    • Safeline WAF (really nice web application firewall)
    • Authentik (SSO and Identity management)
    • Gitea (Git for infrastructure as code deployments)
    • Docker Registry (private container registry and build server)
    • Self-built Tailscale Exit Nodes connected to VPNs (like Mullvad Exit Nodes but free)
    • Ollama (7b LLMs)
    • Open Web-UI (frontend for interacting with LLMs)
    • Jellyfin (movie player)
    • Navidrome (music player)
    • Audio Bookshelf (podcast player)
    • Owncloud (file storage)
    • Immich (image storage)
    • OnlyOffice (office suite)
    • LibreTranslate (translates text and documents)
    • Radicale (calendar)
    • Stirling PDF (nice online PDF editor)
    • Invidious (YouTube frontend without the Google tracking and ads)
    • Nitter (frontend for Twitter that strips the algorithmic bullshit and has RSS for following)
    • FreshRSS (for RSS feeds)
    • ChangeDetection (for monitoring changes on websites and sniping deals)
    • NTFY (really nice push notifications without Google/Apple)
    • Vikunja (task lists)
    • MyIdlers (server inventory)
    • Mealie (recipe planner)
    • Vaultwarden (password manager)
    • SearxNG (search engine)
    • N8N (low effort automations)
    • Lidarr/Soularr (arr stack for music)
    • Platinum Notes (enhances/standardises/converts music files)
    • Beets (metadata manager for music files)
    Thanked by 11maverick BasToTheMax OhJohn sh97 vicaya nghialele ransomshell nullnothere nagasaki_castella TimboJones ariq01
  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    @CloudHopper said:

    • Headscale (self-hosted Tailscale)
    • Unbound (DNS and adblocking)
    • Zabbix (server monitoring and alerts)
    • Prometheus/Node Exporter/Grafana (Nice charts because Zabbix is fugly)
    • Uptime Kuma (uptime monitoring)
    • GrayLog (Centralised log storage/management)
    • Wazuh (SIEM and EDR)
    • OPNsense (Firewall and fancy reverse proxy)
    • Safeline WAF (really nice web application firewall)
    • Authentik (SSO and Identity management)
    • Gitea (Git for infrastructure as code deployments)
    • Docker Registry (private container registry and build server)
    • Self-built Tailscale Exit Nodes connected to VPNs (like Mullvad Exit Nodes but free)
    • Ollama (7b LLMs)
    • Open Web-UI (frontend for interacting with LLMs)
    • Jellyfin (movie player)
    • Navidrome (music player)
    • Audio Bookshelf (podcast player)
    • Owncloud (file storage)
    • Immich (image storage)
    • OnlyOffice (office suite)
    • LibreTranslate (translates text and documents)
    • Radicale (calendar)
    • Stirling PDF (nice online PDF editor)
    • Invidious (YouTube frontend without the Google tracking and ads)
    • Nitter (frontend for Twitter that strips the algorithmic bullshit and has RSS for following)
    • FreshRSS (for RSS feeds)
    • ChangeDetection (for monitoring changes on websites and sniping deals)
    • NTFY (really nice push notifications without Google/Apple)
    • Vikunja (task lists)
    • MyIdlers (server inventory)
    • Mealie (recipe planner)
    • Vaultwarden (password manager)
    • SearxNG (search engine)
    • N8N (low effort automations)
    • Lidarr/Soularr (arr stack for music)
    • Platinum Notes (enhances/standardises/converts music files)
    • Beets (metadata manager for music files)

    That's quite a list!

    Thanked by 2nghialele CloudHopper
  • OhJohnOhJohn Member
    edited October 2025

    @CloudHopper I'd say you win in this competition.

    I mean, nearly everyone hosts probably all those as well - but no one hosts Mealie so far. /s

    Thanked by 4nghialele nullnothere CloudHopper COLBYLICIOUS
  • nghialelenghialele Member
    edited October 2025

    @CloudHopper said:

    • Headscale (self-hosted Tailscale)
    • Unbound (DNS and adblocking)
    • Zabbix (server monitoring and alerts)
    • Prometheus/Node Exporter/Grafana (Nice charts because Zabbix is fugly)
    • Uptime Kuma (uptime monitoring)
    • GrayLog (Centralised log storage/management)
    • Wazuh (SIEM and EDR)
    • OPNsense (Firewall and fancy reverse proxy)
    • Safeline WAF (really nice web application firewall)
    • Authentik (SSO and Identity management)
    • Gitea (Git for infrastructure as code deployments)
    • Docker Registry (private container registry and build server)
    • Self-built Tailscale Exit Nodes connected to VPNs (like Mullvad Exit Nodes but free)
    • Ollama (7b LLMs)
    • Open Web-UI (frontend for interacting with LLMs)
    • Jellyfin (movie player)
    • Navidrome (music player)
    • Audio Bookshelf (podcast player)
    • Owncloud (file storage)
    • Immich (image storage)
    • OnlyOffice (office suite)
    • LibreTranslate (translates text and documents)
    • Radicale (calendar)
    • Stirling PDF (nice online PDF editor)
    • Invidious (YouTube frontend without the Google tracking and ads)
    • Nitter (frontend for Twitter that strips the algorithmic bullshit and has RSS for following)
    • FreshRSS (for RSS feeds)
    • ChangeDetection (for monitoring changes on websites and sniping deals)
    • NTFY (really nice push notifications without Google/Apple)
    • Vikunja (task lists)
    • MyIdlers (server inventory)
    • Mealie (recipe planner)
    • Vaultwarden (password manager)
    • SearxNG (search engine)
    • N8N (low effort automations)
    • Lidarr/Soularr (arr stack for music)
    • Platinum Notes (enhances/standardises/converts music files)
    • Beets (metadata manager for music files)

    Nice list you got there <3

    P/S: You also write about some of it? I mean, tutorials or guides of some kind.

    Thanked by 3nullnothere BasToTheMax CloudHopper
  • CloudHopperCloudHopper Member

    @OhJohn said:
    @CloudHopper I'd say you win in this competition.

    I mean, nearly everyone hosts probably all those as well - but no one hosts Mealie so far. /s

    I really like Mealie. It has web scrapers for gathering recipes from hundreds of websites, so if you get enough of them and classify them properly, (using the LLM integration), you can come up with all sorts of nice things to cook without needing to go grocery shopping, (or at most just needing a few ingredients), so it more than pays for its server rental.

    Thanked by 1OhJohn
  • CloudHopperCloudHopper Member

    @nghialele said:

    @CloudHopper said:

    • Headscale (self-hosted Tailscale)
    • Unbound (DNS and adblocking)
    • Zabbix (server monitoring and alerts)
    • Prometheus/Node Exporter/Grafana (Nice charts because Zabbix is fugly)
    • Uptime Kuma (uptime monitoring)
    • GrayLog (Centralised log storage/management)
    • Wazuh (SIEM and EDR)
    • OPNsense (Firewall and fancy reverse proxy)
    • Safeline WAF (really nice web application firewall)
    • Authentik (SSO and Identity management)
    • Gitea (Git for infrastructure as code deployments)
    • Docker Registry (private container registry and build server)
    • Self-built Tailscale Exit Nodes connected to VPNs (like Mullvad Exit Nodes but free)
    • Ollama (7b LLMs)
    • Open Web-UI (frontend for interacting with LLMs)
    • Jellyfin (movie player)
    • Navidrome (music player)
    • Audio Bookshelf (podcast player)
    • Owncloud (file storage)
    • Immich (image storage)
    • OnlyOffice (office suite)
    • LibreTranslate (translates text and documents)
    • Radicale (calendar)
    • Stirling PDF (nice online PDF editor)
    • Invidious (YouTube frontend without the Google tracking and ads)
    • Nitter (frontend for Twitter that strips the algorithmic bullshit and has RSS for following)
    • FreshRSS (for RSS feeds)
    • ChangeDetection (for monitoring changes on websites and sniping deals)
    • NTFY (really nice push notifications without Google/Apple)
    • Vikunja (task lists)
    • MyIdlers (server inventory)
    • Mealie (recipe planner)
    • Vaultwarden (password manager)
    • SearxNG (search engine)
    • N8N (low effort automations)
    • Lidarr/Soularr (arr stack for music)
    • Platinum Notes (enhances/standardises/converts music files)
    • Beets (metadata manager for music files)

    P/S: You also write about some of it? I mean, tutorials or guides of some kind.

    I don't write about it publicly but I keep notes and config files etc. Most of it's either running in Docker or easy to setup/install, but if there's anything particular that you're interested in then I'm happy to offer some pointers.

  • czedczed Member

    I host two backends: Appwrite (mobile app with thousands of active users), and Pocketbase (deep linking/referral system).

    Everything else (front-end/media files) I use a CDN and shared hosting for because tbh that's what those services are there for.

  • DrNutellaDrNutella Member

    @CloudHopper said:

    @OhJohn said:
    @CloudHopper I'd say you win in this competition.

    I mean, nearly everyone hosts probably all those as well - but no one hosts Mealie so far. /s

    I really like Mealie. It has web scrapers for gathering recipes from hundreds of websites, so if you get enough of them and classify them properly, (using the LLM integration), you can come up with all sorts of nice things to cook without needing to go grocery shopping, (or at most just needing a few ingredients), so it more than pays for its server rental.

    Can you share more about your setup for this?

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    @holojondrew said:
    I self host a lot of stuff that have already been mentioned.

    But if I have to add something I'd say:

    • Gatus

    I still use Uptime-Kuma for redundancy but Gatus can monitor and parse endpoints like healthcheck urls and also it works better with my deployment workflow with ansible (just need to append some yaml to Gatus). I'd like to move my UK instance to Peekaping once they implement the feature I need, I feel that UK uses too much resources on low end specs.

    • Seaweedfs for S3
    • Matrix (synapse)
    • Pi-hole nodes on my WG servers to have my custom DNS available everytime I connect to one.
    • Smallstep-CA for acme challenge on my custom domains

    I was much happier after removing all piholes and paying $25/year for NextDNS. Pihole was a time suck for dealing with all the issues. Maybe they're stable now, but at the time, the creator was an attention whore and cared more about fame than decent usable product.

  • TimboJonesTimboJones Member

    Two decades ago, spent time trying to make custom HTPC, the word WAF will forever translate to "wife approval factor".

  • daviddavid Member

    I used pihole years ago, but I'm using blocky + unbound now. And for a long time, I just used dnscrypt-proxy. Both blocky and dnscrypt-proxy can handle the blocklists, which is what I needed from pihole, without the gui.

  • DankkDankk Member
    edited November 2025

    Recently purchased a storage VPS with 10GB of SSD and 4TB of HDD. Had a hell of a time configuring the snap version of Nextcloud to use the secondary storage drive, but I finally got it working and I'm pretty pleased with it. Installed an EPUB app to read ebooks, and also installed the Gpodder sync + RePod extensions so I can listen to podcasts and sync my progress with the Antennapod app. Still messing around and seeing what other things I want to do with it.

    Thanked by 1Deepak_leb
  • bookstackbookstack Member

    Question for anyone self-hosting wireguard:

    Have you tried Tailscale with exit node, or simply prefers wireguard. I find managing the wireguard cert is quite tedious.

  • daviddavid Member

    Just using wireguard, no tailscale. The certs may be a little tedious, but also straight forward. And once it's setup, I'm rarely making changes to it.

    To create a private/public key pair.

    wg genkey | tee privatekey | wg pubkey > publickey

    To create a preshared key.

    wg genkey
    Thanked by 1bookstack
  • tall_icetall_ice Member

    Does anyone do openbao? Or stick with vault? I am looking for secret management(obviously someway of providing backup is important). I don't think I can afford to do a cluster, but a single solid vps would be enough??

  • vitobottavitobotta Member

    @tall_ice said:
    Does anyone do openbao? Or stick with vault? I am looking for secret management(obviously someway of providing backup is important). I don't think I can afford to do a cluster, but a single solid vps would be enough??

    never heard of it before, sounds like an interesting project

  • tuxtux Member

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

    Yes, with KS-LE-B with large spinning disks

    Thanked by 1nghialele
  • reddwarfreddwarf Member

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

    I use radicale as server and davx as client

    Thanked by 1brauni
  • ebietsyebietsy Member
    • beszel
    • kutt
    • flame
    • code-server
    • pangolin
    • pi-hole
    • supabase
    • fumadocs
    • vikunja
    Thanked by 1nghialele
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