Fellow self-hosters,

If you could wave a magic wand and create the PERFECT self-hosted tool that doesn't exist yet, what would it be?

Something that would: - Save you countless hours - Solve your biggest frustration - Fill that annoying gap in your setup

Don't hold back. Dream big. Be specific about what would make your self-hosting life significantly better.

I'm asking because this community has given me so much, and I'd love to see what collective wisdom emerges when we all share our biggest pain points.

(I'm a developer looking for my next project and would genuinely love to build something useful for us all.)

Hi selfhosters,

I've release an update to my little bookmark manager Linkstash. V1 was announced here at the begining of the year.

I wanted to release on at the end of March (31/3) as it coincide with the birthday of my first child—would've been a nice touch to tag version 1.1 with his name. But with Eid preparation taking over, the project got pushed aside. Now with all the obligations of Eid out of the way, I bring you v1.1

v1.1 is an incremental update that improves the experience of sorting and filtering in the main bookmarks page and I am very happy with this update.

I am happy to share this and hear any comments or suggestion that anyone would have.

Thanks all.

For me it has been paperless and now paperless-ngx. Curious since people like to treat running services in a similar fashion to collecting baseball cards. Cheers!

I've recently just deployed komo.do, in a hope to replace dockge+portainer. It's definitely managed to replace dockge for stacks management, the git deployment is amazing!

But, it's lacking a few features to fully replace portainer for container management.

Few of the missing key features which I've noticed.

1. Cannot docker exec into containers

2. Cannot add/remove containers from a network

3. Update indicator for container images

4. Per container usage stats

5. Quickly create a new volume/network from the GUI

What's you current setup for docker management? have you managed to fully replace portainer with alternatives yet?

Hi everyone, for a number of reasons, I'm thinking about Cloudflare. DNS, Pages, and Argo Tunnel are my favorites.

Besides the free option, what alternatives do you have in Europe? Would you be happy with a small annual fee? What do you think?

What are some good self-hosted alternatives to Cloudflare services? Cloudflare is a massive umbrella of services, and I'm not looking at alternatives for their distributed CDN and DDoS (which is what they are most known for), but for some of their other services. I have mentioned some alternatives that I know of, and will be grateful for more suggestions.

R2 (S3 compatible object storage) - Minio

WAF - CrowdSec (?)

Image hosting - ?

Zaraz (proocesses third party javascript server side to improve client side performance) - ?

Web Analytics - Matomo, Umami

Turnstile/bot detection - Anubis (?)

AI bot blocking/rate limiting - ?

Tunnels/cloudflared - Wireguard, Tailscale

Zero Access - Authelia, Authentik (?)

Anything else?

Despite having spent the last year getting more and more into self-hosting and spinning up all maner of servers using ZFS vdevs and zpools for underlying data structures etc, truth be told im not as fluent in navigating ZFS as I am with other file systems. I've somehow ignorantly bumbled my way through all of it, 'fake it till you make it' approach as they say, pretending like I know what Im doing, lol

Reason I am asking this is I want to add another mirrored vdev to my NAS but I want to redistribute the existing data equally across the existing and new vdevs. The current zpools have child datasets and have different SMB shares created on them and fstab mounted into multiple different servers

I'm just not sure what would be the most efficient way to do that. My current thought is that when I purchase the 2 new disks for the new mirrored vdev also purchase another large enough disk that can accomodate all the existing data as a temporary store. However I'm not exactly sure what process would 'transfer' all the existing data out and then back in while maintaining its existing structure withotu having to re-jig everythign around or break anything.

Example: Currently I have multiple zpools with child datasets on a mirrored vdev. I know I could manually mount the temp disk into my NAS and just drag and drop everything from each SMB share to its own location on the temp disk and then drag it all back once the additional vdevs and pools/datasets have been recreated.

but is there a simpler way that maintains my existing pools and datasets that doesnt involve SMB 'drag & drop' cheat method?

I've had Caddy running for a while (very successfully) as a reverse proxy for a number of services I'm hosting. I've also been running Adguard Home (via my OPNSense router) for DNS (mostly for adblocking, parentak controls) successfully for a while.

I'm trying to set up DNS rewrite for some of my services so I can still access the by the proper domain even when my internet is down. I've been testing on my Stirling PDF service, but I keep getting a net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID error (seems like the Let's Encrypt cert from Caddy has some issue with the redirect).

Relevant Caddyfile line is a simple reverse proxy:

pdf.my.domain { reverse_proxy 192.168.x.x:port }

Adguard rewrite is a simple: 192.168.x.x pdf.my.domain

pdf.my.domain works fine when outside the local network (i.e. caddy is working). Direct access by IP:port works fine inside the network. But trying to access pdf.my.domain give the error: net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

What do I need to change?

Thanks for any advice!

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to share our project development guidelines and standards. A few years ago, I’d have simply used tools like Docusaurus or even traditional documentation solutions like Word. However, with the explosion of AI-based tools these days, I’m wondering if there’s a solution that can transform a source repository (or markdown files) into a chatbot that can describe the codebase and answer questions about it.

Such a tool would be incredibly convenient for synchronizing information and guiding my fellow developers. Since I usually work offline, I'm especially looking for options that I can host myself. That said, if you know of any effective tools that are not self-hosted, I’d be interested in hearing about those too.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions and insights!

What are the current technologies y'all are using for groupchats. In the past used BBS's and IRC/ventrillo, mumble, since then both family and friends chatgroups have moved over to slack and discord.

Between privacy issues and constant downgrading of features been looking at alternatives, have a pretty strong network and homelab and not opposed to hosting one. The biggest issue is getting friends to adopt it, so want to make sure pick the option before we migrate. Been testing a few options

• Mattermost - Nearly identical to slack easy customization. Was about to pull the trigger on this option but I got worried when I saw how they were limiting the unlicensed version. I'd like this to also take over discord, and it wouldn't. Did like I could host familychat and friendchat on same server without crosstalk.

• Zulip - Gave off a real corporate vibe. Woulda been a bit of a switch might investigate further.

• Matrix - This was a can of worms, seems a lot like discord which was nice. Got it working nicely with video, setup for new users was confusing for some testing with me. Despite that I still think this may be best option.

• RocketChat - Next on the list to try, have not launched this one yet but I see a lot of features I like.

Looking forward to hearing your experiences, and if there is service I'm missing from my list.

Hi everyone.

I'm currently running an odroid m1s as my home server with 4TB non raid on usb3 and a 1TB SSD on the device with headless Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (afaik stuck on that for the time being)

I mainly use it as my home server to store backup data from my desktop, share a couple of directories and files via Syncthing, as a batch downloader for gog and Samba network drive for my movies, pictures and music. I'm also planning to host a VPN for me and my family to get secure internet access and to access my network on the go.

So far I've been running all of this bare metal. Is it bad? What are the advantages of containers in my case? What would be a better solution to run that small amount of stuff. Keep in mind I'm limited kernel wise for now as there are no new distro updates yet by hardkernel. Also I'd prefer to keep it free (as in freedom) and open source if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Hey guys!

I'm fairly new to this, installed CasaOS on a RaspberryPi 5 mainly for Immich. I have a Wireguard connection to my phone, to access my photos remotely. I had to forward the Wireguard port in my router.

I am experimenting with other apps like Nextcloud and I noticed for every new app I install, I have to open a port in my UFW. Tbh I am not really sure if I need UFW at all, since everything is local except for this wireguard connection? I started to get paranoid because I couldn't quite wrap my head around what I really need to be safe, so I even installed an SSH key and mapped it solely to my main PC.

After I installed UFW I did:

(1) deny all incoming
(2) allow all outgoing
(3) allow from 192.168.178.0/24 to anywhere
(4) allow wireguardport from anywhere
(5) allow and timing 22 from my PC only (including SSH Key only, is this even necessary in my case?)

so far so good (?)

Although I did (3) I could'nt run immich or nextcloud even locally. ChatGPT said something like docker's running on a different subnet? Didn't really understand what that's supposed to mean.

So I allowed immich/nextcloud ports from anywhere, then I am able to run those programs. Maybe I am confusing the concept behind it all but I figure that if I open my wireguard port both on ufw and the router, which is the only open port on my router btw, I could also just delete my firewall altogether.

If I am using Tailscale in order to get remote access to i. e. Immich I won't need an open port on my router. Does that mean, that I won't need UFW even less than with Wireguard?

I understand, that if you want to access your homeserver via a domain, and therefore have it to be publicly available you might need extra security like UFW, but in my case also?

Sorry for this noob question. :)

So living in the UK i was wondering if i should have the Arr stack (Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, etc) behind the Gluetun VPN?

With qBitTorrent of course I know it's a must but what about NZBGet? will i get in trouble if its not downloading with a VPN?

Ive read that some of the arr apps would be fine without a VPN but could you explain like im 5 why ? 😅 Thank you