Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/esiy0676 on 2024-11-10 12:36:05.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Passenger_Available on 2024-11-10 12:21:19.

I'm looking to get started in self hosting at some point.

I want to start off with an existing desktop machine and looking for a sort of storage with replication for moving my files off google photos and other cloud platforms.

I was suggested Synology and have been doing some light research on those products.

If my goal at some point is a mini personal cloud that my phone can backup to over the internet, what am I looking at here that's cost effective?

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/JimmyRecard on 2024-11-10 11:46:22.

Hi. Can anyone point me towards a resource that talks about implementing SSO in my homelab?

Preferably, something relatively generic that will teach me the basics and the foundational concepts instead of having me depend on a single tool (I learned Docker via Portainer, and now that I know more, I should have just learned straight Docker).

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Longjumping-Wait-989 on 2024-11-10 11:44:02.

Is there an option to add album within an album?

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/RagnarLind on 2024-11-10 11:28:46.

Im trying to set up my own F-droid repository to use on my local Intranet.

I follow the instrutions here: https://f-droid.org/docs/Installing_the_Server_and_Repo_Tools/

I get as far as to run "sudo fdroid update -c"

Depending on what APKs I have in the /repo it works or it dosent.

Vivaldi 7.0.3505.47.apk is one of those that brakes the update -c.

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The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/ActualSalmoon on 2024-11-10 11:05:45.

I write in my spare time, and I want to make my books available. Due to the nature of the format, I publish chapter by chapter, and not the entire book at once.

I’m trying to find some self-hostable software that would allow me to publish these ongoing novels.

My ideal software would:

• Let me create a book, and then let me continuously publish chapters in that book. The readers would see an overview of all the books, and be able to click on one, which would then open the list of chapters inside that book
• Serve the text itself, with some basic formatting. I don’t want to export the books to other formats, like epub or PDF. I just want to show the text, maybe with some basic formatting, and images
• Have some sort of a system where a reader would be able to see a feed of the newest chapters from every novel
• Would be usable out of the box. Yeah, I know I could probably set up Wordpress or another CMS to work this way, but I want to write stories, not code
• Installable using Docker Compose

Performs I have already considered:

• Bookstack, which seems to be more about structured writing and guides
• WriteFreely, which feels to be more about blogging
• Writebook, which has an extremely convoluted install process that would mess up the rest of my system
• Various Wiki software, which is not what I’m looking for

I’ve been looking for a long time, and I can’t seem to find anything. I’d appreciate any suggestions!

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Calrissiano on 2024-11-10 09:06:33.

Hi gang

I've updated (read: deleted all container and redeployed) my Invidious instance due to the recent channel/subscription issues. It works normally again.

However I messed up with the configuration somehow. I think it's all related to these three lines in the docker compose file:

external_port:

domain:

https_only: false

I set external port and domain to the ip of the instance and the standard port 3000. When acessing the instance via IP on my PC in my browser, I can login and watch videos normally - great. When using my private domain and a self signed certificate via Nginx proxy manager, I can't login (always takes me back to the main screen) and when I'm logged in first (via IP) and then access it via domain, I can't play videos). I didn't change anything in NPM and before the redeployment it worked fine. On my phone via Clipious however (where I never logged out) I can use it via https when setting IP and port in the file, but not when setting a domain (then it neither shows previews nor plays video).

I've tried different combinations and it either works via https on my PC or via https on my phone.

First I thought it was a browser/cookie issue, but I tried four different browsers (even downloaded browsers I don't normally use freshly) but it's the same everywhere.

I don't want to open an issue in their Github cause they always seem kinda stressed.

Thanks!

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Squanchy2112 on 2024-11-10 07:41:56.

I need to backup one of my unraid servers to another server. I plan to do the initial backup over 10G lan and want to do incremental backups offsite going forward. I run Unraid on my main box but the second one I can run whatever I want, I am leaning towards Scale but I am flexible. What is the easiest way to achieve this? I tried syncthing but it would get stuck and crash truenas on the second server. Very interested in options thank you! I would prefer something that runs in docker or docker compose and that has some sort of easy interface thank you!

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/OP_will_deliver on 2024-11-10 06:50:20.

I'm looking for something where it will save a snapshot of the website (including those that require logins) + ideally support social media like Twitter and YouTube as well.

The closest I've come across is the tool provided by Bellingham, but unfortunately for regular websites it just passes the request to WebArchive.

Are there any github repos / projects / services you've found that meet (close to all) of the requirements?

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/04FS on 2024-11-10 03:57:04.

Hi there, as the title states, I would like to find a VPS host outside of Five eyes jurisdiction, preferably located in either Iceland or Switzerland. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Sygald on 2024-11-10 03:14:58.

I'm looking for some sort of solution that will allow a remote worker to open an app/site, snap a pic and send it over the service. The pic will be stored in a sender specific folder and manager at a frontend will be notified to review it.

The workers using it will be deployed in the field with access only to the phone, we're not talking about an office enviroment.

Use case:

I work with a lot of blue collar workers in a field where they are in demand. Most of these workers are literate so they can fill a form, but are tech iliterate and aren't able or willing to fill the same form on a computer. Add to that these workers are disperesed over a large area (think cities apart) making collecting the paper forms a hard task. Lastly I can't put them in one Whatsapp group as many of them are contractors and compete over pricing their services, putting them togother will allow them to price fix. Thus I came up with the idea of hosting another service on our servers where I'll provide each contractor/worker with a key that will identify him to the service, all the contractor needs to do is fill the form physically and snap a pic, the office team will review it.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Wuuub on 2024-11-10 02:46:50.

I've tried most if not all of the self-hosted music servers recommended on reddit over the past few weeks and not a single one seems to support my use case.

I have around 110k music files, all MP3, all tagged in ID3v2.4. The album artist is alone in the 'Album Artist' tag and the main artist and any features are in the 'Artist' tag, separated by semicolon - shown here in Mp3tag.

But my issue is that every server wont separate the 'Artist' tag by semicolon and instead treats it as one long artist, for example here is the same album is shown across different servers: Plex, Jellyfin, Navidrome & Subsonic.

If I manually edit the metadata in Jellyfin by right clicking > edit metadata and then clicking save without changing any values it will update and show how I expect, with separate clickable artists for each feature. Jellyfin devs say this is expected behaviour.

Are there any other self-hosted servers that will support this properly or any settings that can be fiddled to get this working that I may have missed, or has anyone else faced similar issues and managed to find a resolution?

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/ImpressiveAct on 2024-11-10 01:36:21.

Greetings all!

Recently had the chance to upgrade my HomeLab hardware and decided to start fresh security wise. (Previous lab used an amalgamation of open ports, bad firewalls, random VPN's and other not so secure stuff) Got to start experimenting somewhere right. Since I'm a little more versed in HomeLabbing now I want to do it 'right' from the get-go. I plan on exposing some services like websites and game servers to the world. Those services will run on VM's, no docker involved. Other, internal, services will remain internal and will only be accessible from within my LAN. The whole setup will consist of 1 proxmox server wherein everything will be virtualised.

First I experimented with the following physical proof op concept before doing anything on my lab itself: Traffic destined for the website example.com:80 first hits the VPS which runs Caddy Reverse-Proxy and acts as a WireGuard server. The actual website runs on a raspberry pi with Caddy as a webserver. Caddy listens on port 9123. The pi is connected to the VPN as a WireGuard client. When traffic hits the VPS it reverse-proxies it through the WireGuard tunnel to the pi to the correct port. I did it this way to avoid having to use port forwarding. This proof of concept was done at my girlfriends house with just a normal ISP router.

Now for the actual HomeLab I plan on using the same setup but with an OPNSense VM as router/firewall. I have the following setup in mind. (See added picture of a simple diagram). Traffic should go as follows Internet -> VPS(reverse-proxy, WireguardServer) -> OPNSense -> reverse-proxy -> webserver.

Now I'm asking myself where I should run the WireGuard client for tunneling. Do I run it on OPNsense since that will be the entrypoint of my network or do I run it on the reverse-proxy in my home network? AND When I run it on the reverse-proxy inside my network, does the traffic still go through the firewall? OR

Thanks in advance for any tips! Still pretty new to all of this.

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The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/deepspace on 2024-11-10 00:31:45.

I have a relatively simple requirement. I have a database pertaining to suites in an apartment building. The key is the suite number. Every suite can one or more Owners, Occupants , KeyFOBS, Parking spaces, Storage lockers, Bicycle stalls, Dogs, Cats, and so on.

Each of these is stored in a separate table, and each table has the suite number as the first column. They can each have multiple entries for each suite. The Owners table, for example, would typically have one or two rows per suite and the columns would be Suite, Name, Address, Email, Phone, etc. The Occupants table could have up to six rows per suite, with columns like Suite, Name, Age, Gender, Email, Phone, etc.

I want to pull up a form for a suite, and be able to modify, add, or delete all the information for the suite on the same page. Owner details, Occupant details, Parking details, everything. When I save the form, the data should be written to the appropriate tables.

I have been trying all the Low/No code app generators that I could lay my hands on, and they are all great when dealing with a single table. But as soon as you put multiple tables into the mix, things get very messy, very quickly. None of them have an intuitive way of linking data between tables.

Any suggestions for an app generator that makes it easy to work with many tables? Preferably self-hosted, but I would also consider low-cost cloud hosting.

I have considered just writing the thing in Laravel, or something similar, but it has been 20 years since I wrote PHP code and I have no experience with Laravel, but I might do it if I could find a good example somewhere that I could modify for my needs.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/GwimlinHowJones on 2024-11-10 00:21:31.

Does anyone know of an ebook server like calibre-web that supports adding an external library (e.g. Read only mount to my current library of books) and also allows SSO or sign in by matching username to a header? I thought Kavita would do both, but sadly there is no support for additional auth methods unless I missed something.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Losconquistadores on 2024-11-10 00:13:09.

Is there anything at all that even approaches Pirate Ship functionality but open-source and self-hosted?

A guy with a ship shop today said there's nothin. Wish I would have added this to the self-hosted wishlist post the other day!

FWIW I bought an industrial Zebra thermal label printer the other day. Got labels to print with Linux and LibreOffice which is pretty awesome, but still a super painful process overall dealing with printers.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/harperthomas on 2024-11-09 23:44:12.

My current setup is a intel N100 mini pc running proxmox. This runs, among other things a Plex lxc and an OpenMediaVault VM. An 8tb HDD is connected to the mini pc via usb and passed through to the openmediavault VM. The drive is then setup as a network share. In Plex the SMB share is mounted with fstab and Plex looks to that folder for content. My current backup system is another 8tb drive in my desktop pc which I mirror with FreeFileSync.

I want to improve this setup and for a long time I've dreamt of getting a proper nas but the cost puts me off. I've recently been considering buying the TERRAMASTER D4-320 External Hard Drive Enclosure Instead, putting 4X8tb drives in it and managing the RAID setup with the mini pc rather than a dedicated nas.

I'm thinking I could just connect up the Terramaster, pass it through to openmediavault, setup RAID 5 and carry on like I am but this seems like a good opportunity to see how I can improve how my current setup works.

Would love to hear some constructive feedback on how to improve this within the budget constraints. Should I stick with openmediavault? Should I be sharing the drives with smb? What else am I doing "wrong". We all end up with janky setups as we learn and stick to what we know but now is the time to learn how to do better.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/PM-Ur-DadJokes on 2024-11-09 23:06:00.

Howdy...I've been slowly expanding my self-hosting and would like to add retro gaming to my set-up to primarily serve through browsers and mobile devices. I've never been into the emulation hobby up to this point...but my research has brought me to RomM, which I plan to set up soon. My question, however, revolves around retro PC gaming (90s-2000s). Does RomM support this capability in any way? It appears to be geared primarily towards retro console gaming. Is there anything out there that would serve emulated retro-pc games to browsers and/or mobile devices? Or is that just not a thing?

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/kapectas on 2024-11-09 21:53:57.

I have two things; one Aluratek digital picture frame (model AWS10F), and a self-hosted Immich server. I'd love to use Immich Frame on the picture frame so it automatically stays updated with the latest photos.

However, this is definitely not possible out of the box and I'm unsure how to approach this. Does the frame run some sort of Android version that I could upload an apk to? Or is there some hardware flashing I could do to make it run Android? I'm a bit new to hacking/flashing hardware so I'm not 100% sure where to start.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/Substantial_Age_4138 on 2024-11-09 21:24:37.

Hello,

I'm looking for a self hosting RSS app that gets the headlines only and a link to the article. No reading capabilities, no images, nothing like that. Something like https://sumi.news or https://spike.news, but self hosted.

Thank you in advance for your help.

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/etay080 on 2024-11-09 20:08:46.

Unless I'm blind there seems to be no way to edit the watched date in Watcharr

You can edit the entry date but you can't even filter by it

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/CubanSanta20 on 2024-11-09 19:58:39.

Hoping this is a simple answer, but I’m using DDNS to update my public ip for a subdomain, and I have port 80 and port 443 on my WAN address forwarded to my Nginx server, but for some reason whenever I hit the subdomain from inside or outside my network, it takes me to pfSense web interface. Any suggestions? TIA

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/KSJaay on 2024-11-09 19:43:15.

I've recently bought a dedicated server and have been looking at this subreddit for the last few days for what I should be hosting. I'm not really planning on setting up Plex/Jellyfin and all the stuff that comes with that yet.

I want to setup tools that can help me out with everyday life (I'm a programmer) or just make life a bit easier :). A clean/aesthetically pleasing design is a big part of the tools I want to setup, just because I'm going to be looking at these pretty often and I'd just like something that looks nice.

I've setup the following tools, along with some personal apps:

• Dozzle: https://github.com/amir20/dozzle (Might replace with dockge)
• Glance: https://github.com/glanceapp/glance
• File Browser: https://github.com/hurlenko/filebrowser-docker
• Wireguard Easy: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy
• Adguard Home or Pihole (Still deciding)
• Authentik: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik
• Stirling PDF: https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
• It-tools: https://github.com/CorentinTh/it-tools
• Lunalytics: https://github.com/KSJaay/Lunalytics (Personal uptime-kuma alternative)

Is there anything else you have been using and would recommend??

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/jondotg on 2024-11-09 19:07:10.

I have a few domains I've accumulated over the years, and I've been consolidating some of them in an attempt to reduce the renewal costs. My question is about the cheap 1.111B .xyz domains you can get for $1. I am trying to move to one of these domains due to the low cost, but I also use my domains for SimpleLogin. I've seen in comments before that others mentioned numerical domains are often automatically filtered as spam. Does anyone have any experience with this and can confirm one way or the other whether a numerical domain is often filtered automatically by spam filters? Thanks!

The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/tcoysh on 2024-11-06 11:09:05.

I’m looking for a tool similar to SuperMetrics, Weld or Tableau that’s self hosted.

Ideally need to combine some of the following databases: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Google Analytics Social Media marketing stats Sage

We tend to use PowerBI for reporting but can be flexible.

Does anything exist?