• josefo@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    4 days ago
    • Pihole (if that service goes down, everyone in my house gets mad at me)
    • Jellyfin

    Everything else is a nice to have, not essential

    The arr family with a torrent client is great for feeding Jellyfin. If you are a developer, you can host your own shit there too. Game servers for playing with family and friends (so far Minecraft, Terraria, Project Zomboid, V Rising). I like to host a bunch of different telegram bots I wrote for fun. Discord bots are another interesting side. I also run some automation runners for helping out with testing, building and deploying my projects.

    Focus on your needs and what you want to improve of your online life, there is probably a project you can self host for it.

    • turmacar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      (if that service goes down, everyone in my house gets mad at me)

      I bought a PiZero and set it up as a redundant pihole for this reason. It’s slower because it’s wireless, but not super noticeable since it’s ‘just’ DNS. I have the router pointed at the main and backup all the time and if I need to do something (or break the main one messing with dockers) there’s still the backup until I get the main up.

      I messed around with some High Availability configs where they both had the ‘same’ ip but could never get it working smoothly. I just use the teleporter functionality within pihole any time I update anything to keep them in sync, which is rare.

  • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 days ago

    1. Samba (I can move files now, sweet!)

    2. Jellyfin (I can watch stuff, sweet!)

    3. Qbittorrent-wireguard (for pirating copyrighted material from the internet illegally)

    4. Somesuch Wireguard solution (for accessing the backend and doin stuff)

    5. A proxy somewhere else

    The rest is extra. This gets my usual goals completed pretty well.

    • 4grams@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Honest question, I’d love to host email but it seems like a huge pain in the ass these days with trying to keep from being delisted. Is there a decent, home user accessible email system that’s useable out there?

      A decade ago it was easy and doable but even in professional life I don’t deal with email backend anymore, all google or o365.

      • szemy@lemmy.oneEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Highly recommend purelymail. No nonsense mail, with straight forward pricing.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Depends on what your usecase is for what is “essential.”

    I think keeping household documents, taxes, medical bills, etc… In a local only paperless-ngx instance is quite essential to the organization of a household where everything is searchable and able to be organized on multiple levels compared to a simple document folder on 1 computer.

    Having a document or self-hosted wiki with an in - case - of - death document that gets backed up in an encrypted, but accessible by family place is probably the most “essential” thing.

  • somenonewho@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Nextcloud.

    I was hosting nextcloud at home for years. Then when I worked in a Datacenter I got to host some servers there from free so I set up a two-node proxmox with nextcloud and some other stuff. Now I don’t work there anymore and I really felt the hole nextcloud left, no more notes syncing for notes, tasks, calendar, podcasts no more place to upload my photos from my phone … So now I’m hosting nextcloud at home again.

    I also host jellyfin which is nice but if I don’t have it doesn’t actively hamper my workflow.

  • B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Pi-hole. Get rid of at least some ads on the network level. Maybe add unbound for a faster DNS response.

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    The only one I haven’t seen mentioned here that is a requirement for me is OPNsense. I’ve been using it for a couple years, and pfSense before that for a very long time. Never going back to commercial routers and their shitty / buggy / backdoored software. I highly recommend OPNsense over pfSense for the UI improvements alone, but there are other reasons to use/support OPNsense over pfSense.

    On my network it handles internet firewall, internal firewall, and all routing across 5 VLANs and between two internet gateways. It does 1-1 NAT for my public IPs, inbound VPN, outbound VPN for my *arr stack, and RDNS blocklists with the data source being a script I wrote that merges from several sources and deduplicates the list. It is my internal certificate authority (I don’t miss you at all, Windows CA), DHCP for the guest wifi, and does pihole-like ad blocking via DNS for my entire network. And it does all that running in a VM with 2GB of RAM, of which it only uses about 60% on my install.

    It is an incredibly powerful tool, not terribly difficult to learn, has a pretty damn good UI for FOSS, and in my opinion is a fantastic foundation for a complex home network / homelab. Unlike pfSense, which corrupted itself twice over the years I ran it, it has never let me down. And every update has been painless over the years.

  • JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Jellyfin/Plex like many have mentioned.

    I personally like Syncthing for petty much everything else. For general file syncing of course. But also with Joplin pointed to a synced directory for notes. With keepass as a password vault. With synced config directories for some apps across devices like newsboat for RSS, and neomutt for email. I also used to use it with rtorrent via a watch directory, though I currently am using a seedbox for that purpose.

    VPN (openvpn/wireguard) is a good idea if you want to access your services outside your local network, without exposing them all globally.

  • tychosmoose@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    It’s not very exciting, but: Network UPS Tools (NUT).

    Keep everything in good shape in the event of a power outage.