I just recently started playing around with an old pc as my homeserver and am curious of any recommendations for lesser known self hostable foss software that you would recommend

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    Here are a few I like:

    • Jellyfin - a media server software that allows you to organize and stream your personal media collection.
    • NextCloud - a self-hosted file sync and sharing platform. Not as good as Google Drive (of course), but it can do the job.
    • Bitwarden (with a Rust-written alternative named vaultwarden) - a password manager for storing and autofilling login credentials.
    • Matrix - an open network for secure, decentralized communication. WhatsApp, but in the Fediverse.
    • PiHole - a DNS sinkhole that blocks ads and other unwanted content.
    • Mycroft - an open-source voice assistant. You can make your own Google Home with it.
    • OctoPrint - web interface that allows you to control 3D printers. Pretty handy if you have one!
    • Gitea - a lightweight self-hostable GitHub
    • Home Assistant - an open-source home automation platform. Can integrate a lot of other things in your house, including some of the things I mentioned above.
    • The X-arr initiative - a collection of tools for managing and organizing media libraries. Pretty good if you deploy your own media server:
      • Sonarr - Select TV shows and it will automatically download episodes for you.
      • Radarr -> movies
      • Lidarr -> music
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    • Caddy - Reverse proxy
    • Owncast - Twitch alternative
    • Jellyfin - Home video streaming application
    • Joplin - Note taking app that syncs
    • Syncthing - syncs files from my LineageOS (Android) phones to PC
    • PiHole - AD blocker
    • Minetest - open source voxel game engine (basically Minecraft)
    • Veloren - open source adventure game
    • Invidious - frontend for Youtube
    • Libreddit - frontend for Reddit (about to stop working)
    • Proxitok - frontend for TikTok
    • Nitter - frontend for Twitter
    • Rimgo - frontend for Imgur
    • Libremdb - frontend for IMDB

    Edit: Fixed PiHole from saying “VPN” blocker to “AD” :-D

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    One of my most used softwares on my server is calibre and calibre-web. It allows me to self host my own book server with a very nice looking front end

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      How is the workflow with this? Also what kind of frontend client can be used for reading? I’m curious to try but haven’t got the time to set this up so far.

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        So I use calibre as my backend client essentially. My library is managed through there, and I load my books in there as I get new books. It’s a bit clunky, but it’s reliable for what it does, and can even be set to auto tag your books and grab new covers for them

        Calibre-web is what I mainly use to interact with it in my day to day uses. It’s a very clean front end that connects to my calibre server, and even has account management if that’s your thing. It’s hosted as a website, so I can access it from anywhere in the world. When I click on a book, I can either read it in the browser, or I can download it. Usually I just download them to my tablet and read them there as you would any other pdf/ebook. It’s a super clean way to manage a ton of books

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      Thanks, i think this will be my next project. By the way it migt interest you that you can self host the entire gutenberg project using kiwix

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        Ohh that is very interesting. I really like hosting media like that. I feel it’s very important to share knowledge with people in what ways you can, especially literature

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    • Portainer server and agent for monitoring all docker hosts in one place
    • Traefik as reverse proxy
    • Dashy (complex) and Homarr (simpler) as dashboards
    • Gluetun for VPN access for containers and proxy for everyone on the network
    • Radarr/Sonarr for managing Movies and TV shows
    • Navidrome for music
    • Audiobookshelf for audiobooks
    • Transmission/qbittorrent/rtorrent/deluge as torrent clients
    • Pinhole for DNS
    • Technitium for more advanced DNS and DHCP (might replace all piholes with this or blocky in the future)
    • Plex/Jellyfin for media streaming
    • JellyfinVue - awesome frontend to jellyfin
    • Bazarr - for subtitles
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      Caddy is simpler for the reverse proxy. Just sharing for people that get scared when they try to set up Traefik.

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        Ngnix-proxy-manager is even simpler :) But along with the automatic router creation using labels, I’ve found traefik to be the most robust of all three.

        The traefik syntax and configuration using yaml is really initutive. I can link a good guide here if someone wants it. The official documentation isn’t that good.

        One of my favourite guides explaining the configuration files for traefik.

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          Nginx proxy manager is simple, but I can’t manage to make it work with https on porkbun. Nginx-proxy works just fine and it’s probably the simplest i’ve seen.

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            That is pretty cool :) I have a domain on porbunk too but even up putting DNS on cloudflare because porkbum uses cloudflare anyway but doesn’t expose most of the features. Kind of a loss loss. Cloudflare works with pretty much everything.

            I’ll check out nginx-proxy. Have heard good things about swag too. How is the setup on nginx-proxy compared to other options?

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              I didn’t know that about porkbun.

              Basically you run the container and then put a couple environment variables in the containers you want to proxy and it handles all of it for you, including certs. Just works.

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                Thanks. Seems pretty much identical to traefik which makes sense because I think most of reverse proxies just use LetsEncrypt underneath.

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          Please do! I have been trying to set up remote access to a server I have, and there seems to be so many solutions and all seem very complex.

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            Have linked one :) For remote access, I wouldn’t necessarily use traefik at the edge. The safest solution would probably installing zerotier/tailscale on the remote server and accessing traefik through that. That way you don’t have to expose unnecessary parts or worry about robustness of authentication etc.

            If it is a single computer you can easily make a two computer network using the instructions from wireguard archwiki page and you’re all set :)

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              Ooh. I signed up for tailscale, but havent gotten the configuration right I think. Also signed up for NextDNS. Got some work to do but no longer have the time.

              What I actually want to do is make it so I can give out accounts to services to my family and girlfriend so they can watch movies and whatever.

              Tailscale is one step to many. I think I will need to purchase a domain name or set up a VPN, which seems a little scary to me.

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        Honestly I started using traefik first and I agree, the learning curve is steep. I’m only just now starting to understand what my labels are doing. But now, I’ve tried caddy and literally cannot get it to work, or find how to port what I have on traefik over to caddy lol.

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          Here are all the steps after installing Caddy to create a reverse proxy with SSL:

          1. Open the /etc/caddy/Caddyfile file
          2. Add the following, replacing the domain and port with those that you want to use.

          subdomain.example.com {

            reverse_proxy localhost:8080
          

          }

          1. Restart Caddy with systemctl restart caddy
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            Super interesting. I’ll have to experiment with this, the guides I found were not this straight forward. Thanks!

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    These are the ones I use most actively, on my FreedomBox:

    • bepasty for moving around or sharing temporary files
    • Quassel for staying connected to IRC servers
    • Radicale for synchronizing my calendar and tasks.
    • Syncthing for files I want to have available between my laptop, desktop, phone.
    • Tiny Tiny RSS for following blogs.
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    Personally, as well as NextCloud, I’d host instances of LibreX, CloudTube, PiHole, Gitea, XMPP, and CryptPad.

    If it’s fun you’re after, though, why not try hosting a Minecraft server? And how about XMPP or Matrix, to keep in touch with friends?

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        I haven’t really looked into it much, as I don’t currently have enough time or money to self-host anything, but I’d probably go with Prosody to start with.

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    I have two instances of BookStack. A public-facing one for bird stuff, and one for home stuff. I also self-host an instance of Plausible Analytics as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics.

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    Syncthing to replace Google drive and Photoprism for Photos. Both have a great functionality and run well on my 12yrs old home server with 2gb of ram.

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      I’m really happy with Photoprism as well, it’s great to have facial recognition without relying on Google Photos

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        Yeah, and syncing is so easy, I just press a button and don’t care about it.

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    Jellyfin with Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and some torrent client makes a great automated media server. Just don’t forget a VPN!

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    Nextcloud, Bitwarden (vaultwarden is the name of the OSS server), Adguard Home / Pihole and Paperless-NGX might be some things which can have a pretty big impact in your daily life.

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      I use all of these and can confirm they’re really good! I can’t believe I used to just search through multiple email accounts instead of using Paperless.

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    I’ve got a pretty booring setup compared to most 🤣. Ubuntu Server running the following in docker,

    • Plex
    • Audiobookshelf
    • Komga

    Audiobookshelf has come a really long way. The version out now is heaps and bounds better than what it was 1 year ago.

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    I’m using the following:

    Plex for music/anime/tv/movies, calibre webserver for ebooks/manga, qbittorrent web+Prowlarr to search for and download content, SyncThing to keep things in sync between my server and desktop, and I’m also file sharing with nicotine++

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    From the things I use:

    • Uptime Kuna, for monitoring the availability of websites/services
    • Gitea, for hosting code
    • PicoShare, for sharing files
    • Maddy, for email
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      How has your experience hosting your own email been? I often hear that the big providers (Google, Microsoft, etc.) will simply drop your sent mails.

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        I have had issues with it over the years. Many will blacklist entire cidr nets for a single bad actor. I get this on my linodes frequently if I proxy traffic through them. Ie: tons of captchas on google/YouTube.

        When I ran my own mail it was similar. Often having to spend time getting IPs off rbls and the like because some other node on my subnet was malicious.

        In the end, I just moved my email over to workspace. Not ideal. But it works.

        One thing I did notice was that as soon as I registered my domain in workspace (but hadn’t even setup mx records or began moving mail) a lot of issues with google immediately stopped, and thus, same with Office.com. I actually ran this way for a while but then google axed freed accounts and I just moved my stuff to them and pay.

        Maybe because I use a gTLD? I dunno. But it was a headache.

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        I also host my own mail and there’s been little issues.

        Microsoft is a pain in the ass if you’re in an IP space they don’t like like DigitalOcean. Which is ironic because they have the worst spam filter by far in the industry.

        If you want to get through to everyone you will have to:

        • Use a “good” TLD ( not .to, not .xyz, …)
        • Don’t use cloud platforms that are regularily used for spam (mostly DigitalOcean)
        • Use SPF
        • Use DMARC
        • Use DKIM
        • Use a PTR record
        • Don’t make an open relay by accident
        • Use proper ports and certificates
        • Register an abuse account at the big players (Google, Microsoft, …)
        • Don’t use an dynamic IP
        • Keep it up to date
        • Minimize downtime

        I can’t recommend mailcow enough, it makes setting up a mail server a breeze.

        https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized

        Use the MXToolbox to verify your server(s).

        https://mxtoolbox.com/diagnostic.aspx

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      Ok I may have to set up uptime Kuma. I have some services that I don’t realize are down until I need them, and it gets frustrating