Apparently the cat I'm catsitting in my house has taken to sleeping on my old desktop which serves as my Truenas server and accidentally turning it off, thus interrupting my movie night. She has been forgiven though on account of her cuteness. I did not prepare for this in building my homeserver in the last few weeks.
 | Hey all, Just wanted to share a little project I’ve been working on called Nomad, it’s a tiny, fully offline media server built around the ESP32-S3. The entire thing fits in your pocket (literally USB thumb drive-sized), costs around $30, and serves up a web interface for watching videos, reading books, and listening to music over local Wi-Fi, no internet needed. You just flash the ESP32, drop your media onto a FAT32 SD card (even if its over 32gb, check the docs), and power it via USB. When powered, it spins up a captive Wi-Fi portal that works like in-flight entertainment systems. It streams I built it originally because I was road-tripping a lot and wanted something like my Jellyfin server, but lighter, smaller, and way more portable than the typical homelab gear. I posted it to r/homelab where it got a great reception, but I figured this community might also appreciate the completely self-hosted and air-gapped aspect. It’s super WIP, more features like USB file upload, GPS maps, and HTML5 games are planned. Links: Would love feedback, feature suggestions, or just to see if anyone else is into tiny self-hosted stuff like this. Happy to answer questions too! [link] [comments] |
| | Started this journey 2 years ago. Proud of what I've been able to accomplish so far :) [link] [comments] |
| | Hey everyone, I’d like to share a tool I developed for my personal use because I couldn’t find any open source solution that lets me centrally archive and backup my IMAP mailboxes and, importantly, search across all of them at once. What does Mail-Archiver do?It automatically archives incoming and outgoing emails from multiple IMAP accounts into a local PostgreSQL database. This allows me to:
This helps me keep my inboxes clean while having full offline access to all my emails without relying on any provider. There’s also a handy dashboard with statistics and storage monitoring. Why am I sharing this?I found there’s a real lack of solid turnkey selfhosted solutions for centralized mail archiving with search capabilities. So if you’re juggling multiple IMAP accounts and you are looking for a way to back up and search your emails in one place, this might be useful to you. 📦 GitHub repo: https://github.com/s1t5/mail-archiver Contributions, feedback, or feature requests are very welcome! [link] [comments] |
| | Hey folks, I recently built a macOS app called Wallper - it lets you set 4K animated wallpapers on your desktop. It’s completely native, open-source, runs fully locally - no account, no login, no telemetry. Main features: – 600+ 4K animated wallpapers Built this because I missed having something visual and customizable that didn’t feel bloated or invasive. Would love to hear what you think. Site: https://wallper.app Thanks! [link] [comments] |
Im curious what TLDs people decide on for their domains and why. So many choices at varying costs.
EDIT: I’m leaning toward .me. Some decent 1st year promos but the renewal seems a little high. The cheapest renewal I’ve found so far is 17-18.
EDIT 2: I chose this subreddit over r/Domains because I wanted perspective from self hosters.
| | One cert manager to rule them all, one CA to find them, one browser to bring them all, and in encryption bind them. So after a month of tapping away at the keys, I’m finally ready to show the world SphereSSL(again). Last month I released the Console test for anyone that would find it useful while I build the main version. This isn’t some VC-funded SaaS trap. It’s a 100% free, open-source (BSL 1.1 for now) SSL certificate manager and automation platform that I built for actual humans—whether you’re running a home lab, a small business, or just sick of paying for something that should’ve been easy and free in the first place. What it does
Why?Because every “free” or “simple” SSL tool I tried either:
I wanted something I could actually trust to automate certs for all my random servers and dev projects—without vendor lock-in, paywalls, or giving my DNS keys to a third party. What’s different?
Dashboard:SphereSSL Dashboard. Create certs, View Certs Verify Challenge:Live updates on the whole verification process. Manage:Manage Certs, Toggle Auto Renew, Renew now, or Revoke a cert. Release: SphereSSL v1.0License
Features / Roadmap
Who am I?Just a solo dev who got tired of SSL being a pain in the ass or locked behind paywalls. I built this for my own projects, and I’m sharing it in case it saves you some time or headaches too. Feedback, issues, PRs, and honest opinions all welcome. If you find a bug, call it out. If you think it’s missing something, let me know. I want this to be the last SSL manager I ever need to build. WIKI: SphereSSL Wiki Screenshots: Image Gallery Not sponsored, no affiliate links, no “pro” version—just the actual project. Enjoy, and don’t let DNS drive you insane. [link] [comments] |
After seeing DataDog Synthetics pricing, I spent the last year building a distributed uptime monitoring system that we've been using internally.
What makes it different:
Currently supports HTTP/HTTPS endpoints with 1-10 minute check intervals. Planning to add email alerts in the next few days, and then features like internal network monitoring (which I know many of you would find useful for homelab setups).
Since this community has given me so much over the years, I'd love your feedback on what features would be most valuable. Also planning to open source most of the codebase once it's cleaned up.
Check it out at: https://synthmon.io/
| | Example usage on https://formstr.app for form creation via local AI and https://pollerama.fun for translations via local AI. [link] [comments] |
Ran into a project on GitHub called TEN VAD and thought it was worth sharing here. If you've ever had to deal with voice activity detection, you know the options can be kinda limited. This one looks like a solid open-source alternative.
What really stood out to me is their approach to being open. This isn't just some open-source project. The devs went the extra mile and open-sourced the full inference stack: the C/C++ core, the ONNX model, and all the preprocessing code. This means you can see exactly how it works from raw audio input to the final decision. It’s a true "no black box" approach for anyone who wants to actually use and integrate the model, which is super refreshing.
Plus, they actually put effort into the docs. The cross-platform support is nuts, with clean build scripts for everything from Linux to WebAssembly. You can tell they want people to actually use it.
And it's not just open for the sake of being open. The thing is a beast. It's tiny (306KB), seems more accurate than the big players based on their benchmarks, and it fixes that annoying lag you get in most voice apps.
The repo is active and they seem genuinely open to PRs, so it feels like a real community project.
Anyway, just cool to see a foundational tool done this well and given to the community. If you're in this space, definitely check it out.
Hey all,
Long time selfhoster here. I have been using Synology NAS backed to Google Drive for my storage needs.
I am setting up a 5 Node K8s cluster with intention of using Ceph. I have worked with Ceph at my work so know about it.
Do you trust your hardware with your data or you all backup to cloud as well? What do you use for 3-2-1 backup?
Hoping to understand the trend here
| | if you don't know, OliveTin is a UI for executing shell commands with button presses and (although I'm still learning it) it's really great. e.g. I have two Pi-Hole instances and from time to time I want to disable ad blocking and it was a bit of a faff to disable both of them. But you can see from my screenshot there I have two buttons that disable pi-hole (for 5 / 10 / 15 mins) or enable them again with a click. That's great and much more convenient, but you still have to load up the OliveTin UI and click the buttons etc and I was wondering if I could do it more easily from my phone. Enter Macrodroid (android device automation app). I was messing around with this and only just realised you can create quick tiles, and you can use OliveTin's API to trigger actions from a third party service, like Macrodroid. You create the macro that executes an action in OliveTin, and trigger it using a quick tile (or voice command, or nfc tag, or shortcut or geofence or whatever other trigger you want to use). So as you can see here, I can now disable two pi-hole instance for 5 mins with a quick press on my phone's quick tiles. Or restart my calibre container (which i have to do now and again because we live in hell) This is fantastic, but i had a search and no one ever seems to have mentioned it? Is it something really obvious that everyone's already doing.. and it's so mundane that it's not even worth mentioning? Why have a web UI and button presses to execute commands when you could restart your jellyfin container by tapping your phone on an NFC tag stuck to the fridge or whatever. If I am late to this, I feel really dumb tbh. You could have told me earlier. [link] [comments] |
I’m thinking about adding a GPU to my homelab to experiment with locally hosted LLMs. This is purely for education and learning rather than relying on them for productivity.
I’ve read that AMD support for LLM workloads has improved quite a bit recently with Vulkan and ROCm developments. With Prime Day sales happening, I’m wondering if it makes sense to pick up any of these cards:
As a total noob, I keep hearing “CUDA is king” and “VRAM is king,” but it feels like it’s not that simple. Surely GPU architecture and raw compute matter a lot for inference speed, not just VRAM size. So, two 16GB cards might perform very differently in real-world LLM tasks.
I’ve struggled to find good, direct benchmarks comparing the same LLM model running on all these cards, so it’s hard to get an apples-to-apples comparison. Also, I’m trying to figure out if spending an extra £100 for a faster card really makes a meaningful difference in inference performance.
Would really appreciate advice or pointers to real-world benchmarks and experiences, especially from folks who have tested these cards on local LLM inference!
| | Happy dashboard Wednesday - been looking here for a while getting inspiration from you all, and I'm finally happy with my Homepage and how it turned out. Been homelabbing for about 5 years now, and have spun up my fair share of services in that time. Let me know what you all think! [link] [comments] |
| | I have created a Raid 5 Storage with 3 hdds and while installing a new GPU I aciddentaly disconected a HDD. After starting the server ZimaOS told me its read only because a hdd disconnected. I turned of the Server and reconnected the HDD. The Raid is no longer read only but when i try to install Jellyfin with my Media on the Raid it tells me its read only, but i can make folders and files on the Raid. Can someone please help me? Edit: ZimaOS also doesn't say the Raid is Read only in Storage Settings page [link] [comments] |
I need to archive 10PB of scientific data. Aerospace stuff. Anyone here have any thoughts on managing this kind of scale? Notes below:
So far I'm coming back with a $150k budget requirement to purchase a boatload of 20TB storage drives, and that's before backup/RAID. Cloud cost is something like $15k/mo, so it's commensurate. Seems to me there's got to be a better way to do this.
Any crazy ideas?
** Edit **
Appreciate all the responses already. Just to clarify, there will be professional advisors involved and I'm not betting the farm off of a Reddit thread. I'm just curious if anyone here has crazy ideas that the pros might not have top of mind, or if nothing else maybe someone has a cool annecdote to share that make for a neat thread.
Hello everyone, in short, I want to replace Google and other online services for a cheaper option.
I have been trying nonstop for the past 2 weeks to make it work to no avail (proxmox OS) because GPU passthrough won't work (even with BIOS tweaks) and I probably don't have enough knowledge on the subject.
Another problem is my motherboard has 4 SATA ports and 2 NVMe slots (my case has 8 SATA slots).
Would you be willing to give me some instructions on how to make this happen?
I would be very grateful...
## 1. Purpose & Use Cases
### Here's what I want to host:
- AI
- Game servers
- Reverse Proxy
- Media streaming
- File storage and backup
- Virtualization
- Home automation
- Web hosting / development
- Monitoring
- Log Aggregation
- Password Manager
- Note Taking
- Ad Blocking
- Automation
- Torrenting
- VPN server
- e-mail hosting
- (open to suggestions)
## 2. Focuses
### I'll keep this brief as I don't even know what host OS I want:
- Main OS: I would rather not use proxmox as the main OS as I have been traumatized but will do it if necessary
- Prioritize security to a reasonable degree (ufw, VLANs, backups, etc...)
- Preferably use scripts
- Make it easy to use so my family can access it too
## 3. Hardware
### CPU
- Model: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
- Cores/Threads: 6/12
### Motherboard
- Model: MSI B550M PRO-VHD (MS-7C95)
- Form factor: Micro ATX
- BIOS Ver: Latest
### RAM
- Total capacity: 64GB
- Type: DDR4
### Storage
- OS drive: 1 TB NVMe drive
- Data drives: 1 2TB HDD, 1 4TB HDD (Will expand to 8 4TB HDDs eventually)
### Network
- Ethernet ports (speed, count): Standard motherboard Ethernet port (Will eventually upgrade to 10GBit Ethernet)
### Power Supply
- Wattage: 550W Cooler Master power supply
### Case
- Form factor: Very small (Barely enough space for 8 3.5" HDDs a Micro ATX motherboard, a GPU and the rest)
- Drive bays: 8
- Cooling: Only the CPU fan
## 4. Notes
- Planned upgrades: 10 GBit network card, better graphics card, storage (open to suggestions)
- Suggestions regarding hardware/software of the home server are more than welcome
- If I have missed important info, please tell me
But most importantly: Thank you for those taking time out of their schedule to help me.
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