Hey,
I know it sucks to rely on cloud services but it is what it is. I use Apple iCloud, Bitwarden and GitHub.
Technically, I could self-host all three but I want my backups not at my place or at least have them in both places cloud/at home.
I do have two spare Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and one small computer with an old i5 / 8 GB RAM.
What do you personally self-host?
You found a solution and you are looking for a problem.
This is not the way it goes. You identify a problem, and if the solution involves self-hosting then you solve it with self-hosting.
I started with a Minecraft server, once the PC was in the basement…
I think MC servers are the #1 gateway drug to self-hosting.
Something that is really fun to selfhost is your DNS. You don’t need to worry about backup, only maintaining. It help me a lot to analyze my network.
Yes, this. As long as your router lets you changed your dns, then its simple, just point to the internal ip of your dns server and ‘bobs your uncle’. Technitium dns, adguard home, and pihole are all good options to play around with; each with pros and cons but i find pihole is the easiest, then adguard home, then technitium dns. Play around with them find your fav, and worst case just change your router dns back.
Gets more complicated when you learn some devices are hard coded dns and you need special firewall rules to straight up block or forward those requests so they still hit your dns server but dont worry about this until you are comfortable with dns server you choose.
I have three servers running these days.
One is a NAS that hosts the .arr suite and my torrent client. This is just to keep the media management in one place.
A N100 NUC that runs a lot of stuff in Proxmox, like Jellyfin, Heimdal, HomeAssistant, PiHole, Tailscale. I hope to add Caddy to this in the future, but I’ve never played with a reverse proxy before so I’m a tiny bit scared hehe.
Lastly is a inudstrial PC I got from work that hosts game servers. Right now it’s down as we haven’t had time to game, but usually it’s either a Minecraft server or Valheim.For backup I have one copy on the NAS and I upload the most critical data to a cloud service I trust and pay for. This is now Proton.
My dream is finding a tech friend with his/her own NAS so we can set up a encrypted partition on each others NASes for automatic backup. I give you 1 TB, you give me 1 TB, life’s good!Caddy is extremely easy to set up for reverse proxies! I have Caddy reverse proxy my headscale server and it’s been a dream. Literally three lines of config per proxy.
Thank for mentioning Caddy. I’m currently using Nginx. Caddy seems to be awesome!
Just get a vps it still counts as self hosting if you run all the software yourself.
