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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    • 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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      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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          One of the main things is that Paperless applies OCR to each uploaded document, so you’re not just searching for the message content and metadata, but also the whole content of the document. Maybe some email clients will do this too. It also has a tagging system which can automatically add tags based on document content. Mostly I just like having everything that’s relevant in one place, and only what what is relevant. So if I’m looking for concert tickets I don’t find the “order confirmed” and other related emails that do not actually contain the tickets.

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      This is an awesome resource! I already have what i need (file, torrent, gitea server), but im looking for software to try out just for fun.

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        Yeah, I get ya but when you scroll that list you can see why it’s a hard topic to reply to. There is a lot of fun to be had!

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    • dokuwiki
    • draw.io
    • gitea
    • woodpecker (ci/cd)
    • minio
    • postgres
    • freshrss (rss server and reader)
    • firefly3 (finance / budgets / expenses)
    • calibre
    • Pi-hole (primary on a pi, secondary on docker host)
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      Have you looked at Adguard Home instead of pi-hole? I had been on pi-hole for years and just recently switched to AGH. My primary is in docker and secondary on pi but I think I like your idea better so I’ll probably switch that around. I like AGH better so far.

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        I haven’t looked into it yet. What do you like better about it?

        (I put my primary pi-hole on a pi because it’s practically the only thing on it - I can reboot it quickly if needed and not have a lengthy downtime on my DNS - the was before I had the second one running)

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          I find the user interface to be more intuitive and it seems like it’s a bit more effective than pi-hole at ad blocking. It also has built in adult content filter lists if you want that which includes forcing safe search on multiple search engines, which is interesting. One thing I’ll miss about pi-hole is the local dns config. I had stuff set like “pi.local” and “unRAID.local” so I didn’t have to type IPs over and over. Afaik, AGH does not have that feature.

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            I currently have a server running dnsmasq just for DHCP/local DNS, and have it set with Adguard Home as its upstream servers. That way I can set up custom blocklists, and have local resolution as well.

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            Thank you for the review. I’m using the dns config pretty heavily with my pi-hole at the moment, but perhaps I can find another approach to name my home lab services.

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              Jumping back on to correct myself: AGH does have local DNS ability. It’s under ‘DNS rewrites’ and behaves like a host file. Works perfectly!

              Edit: well sort of. Doesn’t want to accept IP:port format. Damn. I’ll have to keep looking…

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                Thanks! I’m running caddy server on a raspberry pi (same machine as pi-hole). I use it for the reverse proxy mostly. It maps the domain to the specific machine. My pi-hole maps all the domains to the IP of the caddy server. Probably there’s a more efficient way to do this but I haven’t tried yet.

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      Great that you use Freshrss, too! For my curiosity, which app (android) do you use as client?

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        I am on iOS myself. I actually just use the built in reader. I just saved it to my home screen (PWA). Icon on Home Screen. Opens a browser view. Simple and didn’t need another app.

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    For a real hands off approach take a look at Yunohost or CapRover. Both are very easy installs and will give you a gui to manage your applications and other self-hosted services. It’s a great way to dip your toes in. The only difference is that with yunohost, they bundle most of the self-hosted services with their own local-sso implementation, so you only need one login for all your services. This is nice if you want a set it and forget it solution. With CapRover, you basically just have a nice gui to manipulate docker installs, so if you find it a bit too restricting, you could just manipulate the docker installs yourself via command line.

    Both are great entry points!

    EDIT: Honorable mention of DietPi !

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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 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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        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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        It’s a fun project that’s worth trying yourself once or twice. For me it was a huge learning experience but ultimately too much work to maintain so I ultimately went to a paid email service.

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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

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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.
    • 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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    • 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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                I think you might have confused it with something else. I will explain how to what you want :)

                1. Make an account with tailscale. You can login with your Google account.
                2. Install tailscale on the computer that has plex.
                3. Go to the terminal and run sudo tailscaled up or just run the tailscale executable in windows/mac.
                4. It will ask you to go to a url and Authorize it, login here with your tailscale account.
                5. Install tailscale in your gf’s computer.
                6. Ask her to send you the url, login and Authorize that.
                7. Now if you go to tailscale website you should be able to see both computers. Look up the IP of the Plex comuter.
                8. http://plexip:32400/web from your gf’s computer will let her access Plex.

                That’s it :)

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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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    I really like Memos. It’s a micro blogging site that is minimal, but has a lot of neat features. I’m using it as a replacement for DayOne’s journal app.

    And I’ll second Veloren. My kids and I are having a blast playing.

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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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    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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    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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          Is this effectively like having a Kindle account without needing a Kindle? I just ordered an eink tab and am immensely curious about ebook options now that are non-Kindle

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            KOreader is a great app for ebooks, and i’m pretty sure it can sync your progress with your phone as well. I’ve put syncthing on my e reader and phone so my books are synced across both devices. I’d also recommend you look into selfhosting wallabag, because you can set up koreader to fetch your saved articles and webpages as well. It’s really handy.

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            It’s more of an ebook manager. I haven’t used a kindle myself, so I can’t give you the best comparison there. It gives me an easy way to access my books from anywhere though since it’s essentially a website connected to my home lab. As long as your e-reader supports downloading epubs and pdfs from websites, this should be a good solution for maintaining your ebook collection

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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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    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.