I am completely new to self hosting. Though I have had a server for about a year, I only know so far as using a VPS and putting up and managing docker containers.

Yesterday I bought a storage box from Hetzner so as to move my family's archive of photos and documents onto it and and use something like immich/pigallary2 to manage images and paperless to manage the documents.

Though it's all cool and fun to use, my dad asked what advanted there is over using something like a Google plus subscription and I really couldn't answer properly. I can't say that my data is my own because at the end it is being stored on a storage box provided by a company. And even if it is true (I did bring it up) my dad just said "so?"

now I'm at a weird position where I understand the convenience of using provided services, so why should I self host at all other than the fact that it's cool?

I'll still keep my server because I also use it to deploy web projects, apis and stuff but really my dad put me in a weird position of self doubt.

Nextcloud got on my absolute last nerve with all of the problems. So, I decided to give OpenCloud a whirl and I am I converted my setup to it. OpenCloud is faster by an order of magnitude. I got Radicale integrated with it so I have carddav and caldav capability. Yes, the whole setup is not as pretty as Nextcloud but it hauls ass by comparison and I expect it only to get better.

Rather than enjoying the fireworks this 4th of July, I spent the day installing a bunch of services on a new Raspberry Pi. During some troubleshooting, I found a config file containing the database admin credentials I entered during setup.

One of the main components of this service is storing secrets (passwords, keys, tokens, etc.) and their website even touts that "Security is a top priority" and "Managing secrets securely is a core feature".

Is this a common occurrence with software developers? Am I putting in hours of work figuring out how to secure my homelab just for a well known piece of software to display my admin credentials for any user to see?

Am I just over thinking this and it might not that big a deal? I've seen my CISO at work terminate vendor contracts for doing the exact same thing.

What is Trailarr?

Trailarr is a Docker application to download and manage local trailers for your Radarr and Sonarr libraries.

What's New?

• Added Profiles similar to Quality Profiles in Radarr and Sonarr.
• Profiles also come with Filters. Essentially this lets you download trailers in different Resolutions and Languages for different Media.
• Option to disable conversion of downloaded trailers.
• Hardware acceleration (NVIDIA only for now) for converting trailers.

Docs

• Most of the Docs have been completely rewritten to make it easy to install and use Trailarr.
• One of the pain points for installing Trailarr was setting up volumes - Docs will now explain different scenarios and how to configure them to work with Trailarr.

Github - https://github.com/nandyalu/trailarr

Docs - https://nandyalu.github.io/trailarr

Discord - https://discord.gg/KKPr5kQEzQ

I am very new to the world of home labbing. I have an Intel 12600k machine running unraid, a beelink ser5 ryzen 7 running proxmox, and an off-site raspberry pi 5 running headless Ubuntu as an uptime monitor. I have a raspberry pi 3b just collecting dust and I don't know what to do with it. Can I get some ideas? How can I incorporate it into my slow growing home lab?

I run a home server that hosts several utilities and a few virtual machines. Some of these utilities sit behind a Cloudflare + Nginx reverse proxy, nothing fancy.

I also maintain a Linux VM running CubeCoders AMP to host game servers for my friends and me. The setup works great. We first connected through VPNs, but performance was inconsistent, sometimes fantastic, sometimes unusable. On top of that, a few friends aren’t very technically inclined, so I end up walking them through the connection process every time.

To simplify things, I’ve portforwarded the individual game servers, and everything now runs smoothly.

My question:
Is there a way to automate portforwarding, more generally, an easy way to manage inbound UDP/TCP traffic? I’m looking for something that feels like “Nginx for raw ports.”

I’d prefer not to adjust the router manually each time, especially since some friends have access to the AMP panel and can spin up servers on their own.

I’ve looked into UPnP, but I’d love to hear about your experience or any other ideas.

thank you.

How many virtual machines / containers are you using to get your homelab running?

I'm using proxmox and I am running 2 VMs and 26 LXCs at the moment, it's at least up to 10 LXCs per proxmox node and I have 3 nodes in a cluster.

My setup basically: I've divided 8 different LXCs into docker hosts that is sorted by function/purpose, e.g. "dc1-monitor" will be monitoring related, "dc2-arr-stack" is arr related, "dc3-tools" is tools and so on... the rest is in it's own container that is running DNS, ssh jumphost, some game servers, cloud storage etc.

I still feel like I have too many, and I would probably be fine with removing some of them, but at the same time I won't, since it works right now.. I can't be bothered to change my setup now because of the hours I've put into it :p

How is it for you, is it a headache or is it structural and logical?

Hi!

I've got some hardware that I want to use together to create a nice personal server environment.

In an ideal world, I'd like to host almost everything at home and just have an off-site backup for redundancy, but this is unfortunately not really an option due to my limited internet.
In my country, coax internet is still the norm, and even though fiber is slowly starting to be rolled out, it's still going to take years before it's actually the norm.

We currently pay around 160EUR/mo for 300mbps down, 20mbps up (In reality, my speedtest just showed 278 down and 18.5 up). This also includes TV and 3 phone plans, but it's still quite expensive for what we get. Due to the low upload speeds, self-hosting a lot of stuff doesn't seem too viable atm. A few months ago, My ISP also limited our internet to 20ish down, 5 up due to me using "too much data". Granted, it was like 2TB in a single month but yeah.

So, this is what I've got:

• a synology NAS (DS224+ with 2x 4TB Ironwolf Pro HDDs)
  • Currently holds all my files, music, etc.
• a small HP ProDesk Mini G4 with an i5 8th gen and 16GB of RAM
  • Got this for like 90EUR at an auction. It's alright but I'd have to swap out the fan as it rattles like crazy for some reason, and it sounded like a plane when I installed Linux on it. Not sure if I should keep it or sell it.
• a Hetzner dedicated server with a XEON E-2176G, 2x SSD U.2 NVME 960GB Datacenter, 4x RAM 16GB DDR4 ECC, 1gbit network, and one ipv4.
  • Got this from their server auction for like 42ish EUR/mo, for this price I'd definitely like to keep it to maybe just experiment with it or do some cool projects that require more power, but it doesn't absolutely need to be part of my personal setup.
• a Hetzner StorageShare (managed NextCloud)
  • (Almost) an exact copy of my Synology in terms of which files I have on it.
  • Cause it's quite cheap and it's nice that they manage NextCloud for me. I already do a bit of IT at work and even though I like to tinker, I want my actual files and own data to be a solid XP.

And now I'm wondering how I can set all of them up to work together beautifully.

Ideally, I would have my own cloud-like environment similar to Google One, MS365, etc. where I have all my files saved. I don't have that much data, especially not that many documents, but I do have quite a few pictures, and around 120GB of music/sample packs as I try to be a bit of a DJ.

I would also like to do some stuff on my own home network like a PiHole/Adguard, and running my own DNS as my ISP doesn't allow to change dns on the router itself...

• I like the idea of using the Hetzner StorageShare as my main document/cloud storage that has everything in it as they manage NextCloud for me and I value stability, but I'd want a remote backup at home for redundancy (maybe with the ProDesk Mini or something else).
• Ideally, I'd like to sell my Synology NAS and its HDD's for a few reasons:
  • Synology's decision regarding their drives
  • It's currently in my room (still live at home, but might move out soon-ish), and the drives are a bit noisy and often also randomly spin up in the middle of the night. I already configured an auto turn on/turn off at certain hours, but then I'm not able to get to my synology docs if I'm stranded somewhere at night during traveling/not being at home.
  • Honestly, I'd also like to minimize my hardware as I feel like I got several things that are being used for the same/similar tasks.

Do you have any advice/feedback/recommendations? I've got a lot of projects that I'd love to do, but I'm a bit overwhelmed atm and want to get everything well-structured so that it doesn't become a giant mess in the future.

While we are all waiting on OpenMaxIO to pickup, there is now a working Minio Console image you can checkout if you need Minio to work properly right now:

https://github.com/georgmangold/console

This is a stopgap measure for now and all functionality works correctly with the latest Minio server version RELEASE.2025-06-13T11-33-47Z.

Also, a lot of missing features were re-implemented:

• OIDC SSO
• Health/Performance Profiling
  
• Site Replication
  
• Tiering
  

Credits to georgmangold for their work!

I've been wanting to have a local ai mostly to get organized in some stuff, don't forget important dates and helping me to research and answer some questions, i have 0 knowledge about programming,and i have a laptop with rtx 4060 ryzen 8845hs and 16 gb of ram(although I'll soon upgrade to 32) which is the best model i could use?

Hello,

I have recently turned an old laptop into a minecraft server and the tutorial recommended using playit gg but after testing the server lags (blocks only drop after waiting a little, crafting isnt instant etc.) only when connecting over the tunnel. when using the direct ip address everything works fine. since i dont want to share my private ip address im now looking for an alternative to playit. can someone help?

Any pilots on here? I am beginning to build a self hosted logbook to track flights as a backup to my paper logbook. Currently using Google sheets and just want something more visually appealing. Curious if anyone else would be interested in the project.

Hey everyone,

Let's try this one last time. The journey of the 2025 Self-Hosted Survey has been a bit of a bumpy ride, to say the least. After the persistent technical issues with the previous survey provider, I’ve decided to practice what this subreddit is about and have migrated the survey to a self-hosted platform!

I'm now using HeyForm. While the software is far from perfect, I'm grateful to the developers for making it open-source. You can check it out here: https://github.com/heyform/heyform

If you haven't participated yet, now is your chance!

Take the (self-hosted) Survey Here: https://heysurvey.deployn.de/form/JwXNdSb7

Important for those who already responded: A huge thank you to the 600+ of you who already filled out the old form! Your responses are saved, and you do not need to fill out the survey again. Your data will be included in the final results.

Check Out the First Insights! As a thank you, and to show that your input is already creating interesting data, I've published some preliminary results from the initial 600+ responses. You can see the current standings here: https://selfhosted-survey-2025.deployn.de/

A quick reminder of what's inside: The survey has up to 80 questions (depending on your answers), mostly single or multiple-choice, it takes approx. 5-10 Minutes to finish. The core of the survey remains the "Most Valuable Programs" (MVPs) section, where you can list the 5 apps you can't live without.

Let's Discuss! While you're here, let's get the conversation going again:

• Any cool new services you’ve started using in 2025?
• What makes these services stand out for you?

Thanks for your patience and for being part of this. I'm really looking forward to digging into the data and sharing the final results with you all!

So long story short, I have a dynamic IP, too cheap to pay for dedicated, but I'm trying to find easier web UI type stuff I can self host to maintain my records.

Currently I use https://github.com/qdm12/ddns-updater to set my subdomains and keep them updated. Does anyone use something similar?

I need to play music for teaching purposes and since I'm already selfhosting other stuff, I want to selfhost a music server that meets some specific needs.

I've looked a bit into some options on awesome-selfhosted, but since so few options offer a demo I don't know which of those would fit.

I'm looking for a selfhostable server with a compatible android client (not necessarily from the same project like jellyfin server + jellyfin client, I just want an android client) that allow me to do the following (in decreasing order of necessity):

- Download the songs client-side so that I don't need to be connected to use them
- Organize the songs with tags or something similar (I would manually tag them) so that if I want to see all the rock songs at 180bpm in 4/4 I can search for #rock #180 #4/4 and it would filter for those. I'm okay with doing this with playlists instead of tags, but it would be a bit more tedious and it must not rely on having multiple copies of the same song in multiple playlists (I don't have much storage)
- Allow me to change the music speed (x0.9, x0.8, ...), ideally autoadjusting the pitch so that it doesn't sound weird
- Configurable in docker

I have already tried jellyfin (since I already use it for movies) but I find it a bit cluncky with music. It works more like a "Music collection" rather than "huge index of music to reproduce at will". In particular I don't need any of that Album/Artist grouping, I just need something to serve a huge catalogue of music which is easy to filter for tags that I manually add.

What I do like of jellyfin is the accounts part, which would be useful since I might share the music collection with other teachers but I might want to restrict access to some collections.

I am aware that my needs are quite specific and it might be difficult to find something that fits all of them. Do you have any suggestions?

Thank you all in advance!

I am considering moving to self hosting (looking for Aoostar WTR Pro or Minisforum n5 pro NAS). I have yet to figure out the distro, but in terms of services I would like : - network share hosting (so I can mount the share like a drive on on computers on the LAN). In particular I am interested to share our documents with my wife, and some with my son. - remote file sharing (equivalent to drive.google.com), ideally with sync on laptops, but not critical. - I would like automatic backup of phone photos to the file sharing (say to a /pictures subfolder) (this pretty much requires an app I guess ?) - I would like an equivalent to photos.google.com (that points to that /pictures subfolder)

I read the wiki and saw that there is NextCloud/Owncloud/Seafile for file sharing, I have used NFS and Samba before, and for Photos there is Cheveretto/ZenPhoto/Piwigo. My question are : - which combination plays well together ? - does it require some form of IAS / activedirectory to identify who can access what across the services, or does it rely on unix users ? - how do you secure remote access ? I understand VPN is an option, so is CloudFlare, but again, which plays nice with phone apps / remote access ?