Do you have a "server" in your home? If yes, what do you use it for? If no, why not?
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Nice try fed 😂
In the past I used to. It was great and my isp gave me multiple public ips but I moved and my new isp blocks port 80 so I can't anymore.
Running severs from home saved me a lot of money
I almost made a joke about my wife but instead I will just imply the joke.
This is something I want to learn about very badly
🧐 name and badge number?
Yes. Make old computers useful again.
VPN, file sharing & backups, torrents
Yes... Plex, Home assistant, Immich, BTC Node
Yes, they bring us afternoon drinks each day.
Lenovo ThinkCentre(s), Umbrel Home, RPi 4, among others.
Yes, 2 Bitcoin nodes and a NAS
The NAS I use for archive files, photos and videos.
Umbrel for BTC/Lightning nodes, Alby hub, BTCPay, IPFS Podcasting and Restreamer and a Raspberry Pi running Pihole
I don't even have a computer. 😂 This should answer the rest.
If you don’t have a home server, are you even on NOSTR?
Pi4 for pihole and alby hub. Shifty old laptop for bitcoin node
I have two. A Ras Pi 4 that backs up my passwords and photos etc... The other is for money, on a repurposed mini pc, I separate the two on purpose. I use #Start9
Please hand over your MAC address.
So I can't have root access?
Btc Node and Nostr Relay.
A few... 😂
Damn. What software stack are you running?
I read this as “do you have an in home waiter”
I run the arr ecosystem (sonarr, radarr, readarr, lidarr, prowlarr, bazarr,etc), telegram bots, airsonic, bookmark, rss managers, home assistant, the list goes on.
We're not all as fancy as you 🥹
I'm a chronic self-hoster. Over 30 years. Can't give it up.
I run all of these too! 🔥
Good shit, Mike. I guess I technically have 4.
My favourites are audiobookshelf 😎 and azuracast
That's why you're the boss 😂
You have me beat by a decade.
Yunodrunk
lidarr and readarr don't work anymore. ☹️
Public services
But I have a bunch of private services on another server.
immich, arr services, jellyfin, Bitcoin node, lightning node, regtest node, elements, I'm sure I'm forgetting something...
Happy Tavern Services
Yes, for coordinating coinjoin transactions for others at
CoinJoin.nl
But seriously, I run two, the Yunohost runs ActivityPub apps, Nextcloud and Navidrome for music.
I fixed readarr with 
And lidarr… I haven’t checked but that would suck. I have a modified version of lidarr that comes with Deemix, a Deezer client
GitHub
GitHub - blampe/rreading-glasses: Corrective lenses for curmudgeonly readars in your life
Corrective lenses for curmudgeonly readars in your life - blampe/rreading-glasses
I'm following you 👍
Ha, I love the name of this one. Switched to lazy librarian myself... It works, but the UI is blah.
A Proxmox virtualizing truenas, start9, a media server and pihole. Before year end i’ll add a second one for a high availability setup. Eventually i want to add a personal nostr relay and possibly blossom server. Claude will have to help me out with that.
My first home server was an OG Xbox modded to run Gentoo Linux. It served movie files to the other Xbox in the house. That would be around 2003 so I've been for over 20 years 👀
R640, kubernetes, freepbx, frigate
No this is a good joke. A decade ago when our dishwasher broke I asked @npub1jrcf...jdcc how she was feeling because I didn't want both to be out of commission 😂
Awesome. Well if you look at the comments, you can see that we have dozens of experienced people here that can probably help you out! Ask any questions that you may have.
I’ve got some trays and spatulas, that’s about as high tech as I get.
Try haven, it is a relay that has everything including a blossom server and super easy docker setup.
GitHub
GitHub - bitvora/haven: High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr
High Availability Vault for Events on Nostr. Contribute to bitvora/haven development by creating an account on GitHub.
Hell yeah. I had an XMBC too somewhere around then.
Hah; if I went there, I might end up missing a few teeth! 😜🤣😂😮
Just about everything self-hostable. If there is a paid service out there and there is an open source self-hostable equivalent, I am either running it or it's on my list.
A Start One I bought in Nashville last year, running all the good, sovereign stuff...💖🥰😆
Just setup a Promox box for some home services.
I’ve got some rigs at work, that will get recycled in my basement too.
I run so many things. Most of the *arr ecosystem. Vaultwarden, all my bitcoin crap, audibookshelf / jellyfin / jellyseer. My own dns, a recipie vault, immich for photos, a caldav server, syncthing, web server amd a vpn for some external access.....and a few more tools that im sure im forgetting about at this moment.
I made it a cottage industry. Modded hundreds of them, I didn't need a real job for a year and a half 😂
Saving this for later lol. Been meaning to try and fix readarr.
Home assistant 🤦♂️
Said the dentist during a long and uncomfortable wisdom tooth extraction
oh yeah i did something simlar, modding PS1's with mod chips and burning CDRs for people in college <3
this is a good list. i run all of these as well.
Yes.
1. The "arrs" ecosystem integrated with the Jellyfin/JellySeerr combo.
2. Nextcloud
yes.
running a lightning node.
but will soon shut it down gracefully.
can‘t compete with the reliability of a Lightning node on a VPS datacenter somewhere
Immich, and Public Pool 🤙 keeping it simple. All I need really
And that's just the crap on my home network. This is not talking about anything I run externally. 😅
You run a full data center basically 😂
Nice. I have thought about running my own pool. I just have too many side projects and not enough time.
Sames.
I run most things in docker containers. Years ago I ran everything on ESXi.
Luckily this was done over text messages 😂 I think she still has the screenshot.
What about port 443?
You guys have homes ? So retro , I like it
Yes. Server things.
She will always have that screenshot.
Yes. For multiple use cases
Nice try fed :)
I've never heard of the 2 options in #1. Looks very interesting. How do you manage all your data/backups? With a synology or something else, own source diy?
Normally they block most ports. So yes they will block that one too. You can still run a website without port 80 but normally it's used to redirect to 443 ass best practice.
If you buy business internet, no ports are blocked but business internet is more expensive
My server is my home, I only exist in the cloud ☁️
Yes. Make old computers useful again.
nice try
Yes, and I'm running TrueNAS on it.
n8n
Proxmox based, homeassitant, dokuwiki with photos/notes of home repairs/wiring/etc., zomboid server, factorio server, some monitoring stuff, failover boxes for work related stuff...
Kinda did at one point, had 3 node cluster but i simplified it because of the work required to modify the setup. Or if something broke, it would take so long to resolve.
Knots
My home server does lots of things people here have already mentioned that they do. So what might be unique to me, I run about 4 streaming radio stations, personal to me and my LAN.
One is a long-off-the-air local gospel station that used to play some really weird shit. So much of it was singers who were way out of tune. I’m really glad I recorded a month of it before it disappeared.
One is a 12 GB collection of techno and other electronic music my friend M gave me. I call it “M Radio.” It took about 10 years of listening to really get to know the collection, but having it as a streaming radio station really helped.
One is an archive of about 15 years of the “Mysterious Universe” podcast, playing in a loop. Whenever I want to hear some good storytelling, I tune in.
The fourth is a live stream of my local campus radio station, with a secret radio receiver in the city that sends the stream back to my location where the FM signal isn’t so strong. I stream it at a very high fidelity.
I have a Squeezebox Boom in my kitchen with preset buttons on it that can call up any one of these “stations” at will. I love it!
Proxmox with an instance under it running various docker containers of Immich, SearxNG, Ollama, Invidious, Adguard (DNS), Kavita, my vacuum cleaner, and several media adjacent services for demo purposes only. 😉
Which vacuum cleaner can you self host?
Good ole media demos are the best kind of self hosted apps 😂
I run one for my own node, lightning channels, Immich server, pihole, and a private git server.
Jellyfin
I use if for Nostr relay, blossom server, vpn, minecraft server, tor and bitcoin node
Yes, my wife is serving me a beer right now 😃
I might self-host my recipe collection someday.
I have a file and database server. Also run core, electrs and LND on it.
Have to ask nicely
nice. what OS does it run?
I have a PC in a small rack in the closet. The main use is media server (Jellyfin) and then the automated pirate software suite (sonarr, radar, usenet downloader etc). Next use is self hosted photo backup from phones via Immich. Then a bunch of other stuff, music, recipes etc. it’s a small hobby to get running and change/update as you go.
To run bitcoin knots
You're still an ass 😘 
Indelibly recorded and signed forever on NOSTR. You have developed your own downfall @Derek Ross
you tell us?
One for my umbrel node
One for media, streaming, relay, blossom storage... etc.
One for btcpayserver
One for a bunch of docker services via docker
And like 5 or 6 PI4s running static sites.
Yes, several; they run Jellyfin, Samba, Transmission, Mattermost, Gitea, Minecraft, and Bitcoin Core.
I fibbed slightly, the vacuum hosts itself via Valetudo:
It supports a finite list of smart vacuums, mine is a recent-ish roborock model I bought from eBay. It typically requires disassembly of the vacuum and flashing things onto its board, but totally worth it!
Valetudo
Valetudo
Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
Is the quirky gospel station publicly available? And Squeezeboxes….I haven’ t heard that name in …. 🤔 Good stuff.
nextcloud (file storage), immich (photo backup), pi-hole (network wide ad blocking), gittea, jellyfin (music + movies). mostly just trying to move away from iCloud
Oh nice. Thanks.
BTCPay server counts?
Sad what Broadcom did to ESXi.
Proxmox seems to support Linux containers nativity.
You’re on to something, setting up VMs for each service seems overkill
I gotta get a freepbx image going again! I have a few ATA's I'd like to test with a Nostrfied calling card system I was working on.
I got all the way through the setup a couple of weeks ago, and went, meh... Gonna run debian for awhile.
Might try to look for a PiBX iso later 🫠😂
3 computers all running various services (mostly Nostr 😜)
All of them headless. I'm more of a cli kinda guy.
For the things that require a gui I'll use either x11 forwarding, or Rustdesk
Build
Goo try, NSA ... 😸
Our family uses Nextcloud Cookbook for this.
I just got it all up and running again on a new server, and haven't configured backup yet.
Typically cronjob rsync daily for critical data, and full-disk backup every few months by rebooting to a live-disk and cloning the drives with pv.
I don't use closed source solutions like synology.
I'm dreaming about have one