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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also interested, after all the *arr apps I would say:

  • EDIT: I forgot about PiHole !
  • IRC bouncer - ZNC for example
  • Minecraft (fabric with phosphor and sodium plugins for performance)
  • Picoshare or Sharry (eikek/sharry on gh)
  • Libreddit

Also a neat web tool for messing with data there is cyberchef.

Thanks to this post I realized there is really only one or two services I really use or need haha (ZNC and the other one is a web tool for a popular ttrpg ->pm).

All of this and more is inside docker containers so if you don't know that I would highly recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, if you don't know yet what you're doing, I wouldn't host anything critical yet, but I'm using:

https://yunohost.org/

And so far, very few troubles. It's a layer on top of Debian to ease self-hosting. Comes by default with email and XMPP server. You can add Nextcloud and many other services as you wish.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Since no one else has mentioned it, I’ll give a shout out to documentation engine Outline, which allows for self-hosting. Definitely on the trickier side to set up (requires three auxiliary services to be configured) but creates great looking docs that share easily, allows for collaboration and is super fast.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you are into RPGs Foundry VTT is a great replacement for roll 20 or any of the other virtual tabletops.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

TandoorRecipes is a great little recipe-hosting service, and it's available as an app on Unraid. No more saving recipes in my notes app, I actually have nicely-formatted ingredient lists and instructions.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Whats a good way for me to take the dive into self hosting without getting myself in trouble security wise? I would love something that is basic to build off of as I experiment with it to teach myself the more advanced stuff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Stick to local stuff, no need to open ports at all. I got myself a Raspberry Pi and I just have it next to my router.

Once I felt like using it outside my network, instead of opening ports and doing complicated stuff that didn't work cuz I am behind a Nat, I just used Tailscale instead, it's a private VPN that is free for a limited amount of devices (like 10 or more I think so it's fine for you and family). It's the best easiest thing ever

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Joplin.

You don't strictly have to self host it but it's gotten pretty good with a WYSIWYG editor now and everything.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

https://snikket.org/

Is very nice as a personal messenger for friends and family.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nextcloud-snap is surprisingly easy to setup. snap install nextcloud is all you need to have a functioning setup. Then run a second command to setup HTTPS and you're good to go :D

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