Do you have a "server" in your home? If yes, what do you use it for? If no, why not?
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In the past I used to. It was great and my isp gave me multiple public ips but I moved and my new isp blocks port 80 so I can't anymore.
Running severs from home saved me a lot of money
What about port 443?
Normally they block most ports. So yes they will block that one too. You can still run a website without port 80 but normally it's used to redirect to 443 ass best practice.
If you buy business internet, no ports are blocked but business internet is more expensive
I almost made a joke about my wife but instead I will just imply the joke.
No this is a good joke. A decade ago when our dishwasher broke I asked nostr:nprofile1qqsfpuyj8re4zneync4nx0npr8h0f95hqg8e2m7hkeejecgcm5d48jcprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yurvv438xtnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkc6t5v4ejummjvuhsz8mhwden5te0dehhxarj94ex2mrp0yhxgetjv44k2mmnwvhx6ef0g9a028 how she was feeling because I didn't want both to be out of commission 😂
You're still an ass 😘 
Indelibly recorded and signed forever on NOSTR. You have developed your own downfall nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwfjkccte9ejx2un9ddex7umn9ekk2tcqyqlhwrt96wnkf2w9edgr4cfruchvwkv26q6asdhz4qg08pm6w3djg3c8m4j
This is something I want to learn about very badly
Awesome. Well if you look at the comments, you can see that we have dozens of experienced people here that can probably help you out! Ask any questions that you may have.
Yes. Make old computers useful again.
VPN, file sharing & backups, torrents
Yes... Plex, Home assistant, Immich, BTC Node
Lenovo ThinkCentre(s), Umbrel Home, RPi 4, among others.
Umbrel for BTC/Lightning nodes, Alby hub, BTCPay, IPFS Podcasting and Restreamer and a Raspberry Pi running Pihole
I don't even have a computer. 😂 This should answer the rest.
Pi4 for pihole and alby hub. Shifty old laptop for bitcoin node
Btc Node and Nostr Relay.
I have two. A Ras Pi 4 that backs up my passwords and photos etc... The other is for money, on a repurposed mini pc, I separate the two on purpose. I use #Start9
A few... 😂
Public services
https://0ceanslim.github.io/upptime
But I have a bunch of private services on another server.
immich, arr services, jellyfin, Bitcoin node, lightning node, regtest node, elements, I'm sure I'm forgetting something...
I run the arr ecosystem (sonarr, radarr, readarr, lidarr, prowlarr, bazarr,etc), telegram bots, airsonic, bookmark, rss managers, home assistant, the list goes on.
I run all of these too! 🔥
My favourites are audiobookshelf 😎 and azuracast
lidarr and readarr don't work anymore. ☹️
I fixed readarr with https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses
And lidarr… I haven’t checked but that would suck. I have a modified version of lidarr that comes with Deemix, a Deezer client
I'm a chronic self-hoster. Over 30 years. Can't give it up.
You have me beat by a decade.
My first home server was an OG Xbox modded to run Gentoo Linux. It served movie files to the other Xbox in the house. That would be around 2003 so I've been for over 20 years 👀
Yes, for coordinating coinjoin transactions for others at https://coinjoin.nl
I'm following you 👍
A Proxmox virtualizing truenas, start9, a media server and pihole. Before year end i’ll add a second one for a high availability setup. Eventually i want to add a personal nostr relay and possibly blossom server. Claude will have to help me out with that.
Try haven, it is a relay that has everything including a blossom server and super easy docker setup.
R640, kubernetes, freepbx, frigate
You run a full data center basically 😂
Kinda did at one point, had 3 node cluster but i simplified it because of the work required to modify the setup. Or if something broke, it would take so long to resolve.
I gotta get a freepbx image going again! I have a few ATA's I'd like to test with a Nostrfied calling card system I was working on.
I got all the way through the setup a couple of weeks ago, and went, meh... Gonna run debian for awhile.
Might try to look for a PiBX iso later 🫠😂
I’ve got some trays and spatulas, that’s about as high tech as I get.
Just about everything self-hostable. If there is a paid service out there and there is an open source self-hostable equivalent, I am either running it or it's on my list.
A Start One I bought in Nashville last year, running all the good, sovereign stuff...💖🥰😆
Just setup a Promox box for some home services.
I’ve got some rigs at work, that will get recycled in my basement too.
I run so many things. Most of the *arr ecosystem. Vaultwarden, all my bitcoin crap, audibookshelf / jellyfin / jellyseer. My own dns, a recipie vault, immich for photos, a caldav server, syncthing, web server amd a vpn for some external access.....and a few more tools that im sure im forgetting about at this moment.
Yes.
1. The "arrs" ecosystem integrated with the Jellyfin/JellySeerr combo.
2. Nextcloud
Sames.
I've never heard of the 2 options in #1. Looks very interesting. How do you manage all your data/backups? With a synology or something else, own source diy?
I just got it all up and running again on a new server, and haven't configured backup yet.
Typically cronjob rsync daily for critical data, and full-disk backup every few months by rebooting to a live-disk and cloning the drives with pv.
I don't use closed source solutions like synology.
yes.
running a lightning node.
but will soon shut it down gracefully.
can‘t compete with the reliability of a Lightning node on a VPS datacenter somewhere
Immich, and Public Pool 🤙 keeping it simple. All I need really
Nice. I have thought about running my own pool. I just have too many side projects and not enough time.
You guys have homes ? So retro , I like it
Yes. Server things.
Yes. For multiple use cases
Nice try fed :)
My server is my home, I only exist in the cloud ☁️
Yes. Make old computers useful again.
nice try
Yes, and I'm running TrueNAS on it.
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Proxmox based, homeassitant, dokuwiki with photos/notes of home repairs/wiring/etc., zomboid server, factorio server, some monitoring stuff, failover boxes for work related stuff...
Knots
My home server does lots of things people here have already mentioned that they do. So what might be unique to me, I run about 4 streaming radio stations, personal to me and my LAN.
One is a long-off-the-air local gospel station that used to play some really weird shit. So much of it was singers who were way out of tune. I’m really glad I recorded a month of it before it disappeared.
One is a 12 GB collection of techno and other electronic music my friend M gave me. I call it “M Radio.” It took about 10 years of listening to really get to know the collection, but having it as a streaming radio station really helped.
One is an archive of about 15 years of the “Mysterious Universe” podcast, playing in a loop. Whenever I want to hear some good storytelling, I tune in.
The fourth is a live stream of my local campus radio station, with a secret radio receiver in the city that sends the stream back to my location where the FM signal isn’t so strong. I stream it at a very high fidelity.
I have a Squeezebox Boom in my kitchen with preset buttons on it that can call up any one of these “stations” at will. I love it!
Is the quirky gospel station publicly available? And Squeezeboxes….I haven’ t heard that name in …. 🤔 Good stuff.
Proxmox with an instance under it running various docker containers of Immich, SearxNG, Ollama, Invidious, Adguard (DNS), Kavita, my vacuum cleaner, and several media adjacent services for demo purposes only. 😉
Which vacuum cleaner can you self host?
I fibbed slightly, the vacuum hosts itself via Valetudo: https://valetudo.cloud/
It supports a finite list of smart vacuums, mine is a recent-ish roborock model I bought from eBay. It typically requires disassembly of the vacuum and flashing things onto its board, but totally worth it!
Oh nice. Thanks.
Good ole media demos are the best kind of self hosted apps 😂
I run one for my own node, lightning channels, Immich server, pihole, and a private git server.
Jellyfin
I use if for Nostr relay, blossom server, vpn, minecraft server, tor and bitcoin node
I might self-host my recipe collection someday.
Our family uses Nextcloud Cookbook for this.
I have a file and database server. Also run core, electrs and LND on it.
I have a PC in a small rack in the closet. The main use is media server (Jellyfin) and then the automated pirate software suite (sonarr, radar, usenet downloader etc). Next use is self hosted photo backup from phones via Immich. Then a bunch of other stuff, music, recipes etc. it’s a small hobby to get running and change/update as you go.
To run bitcoin knots
One for my umbrel node
One for media, streaming, relay, blossom storage... etc.
One for btcpayserver
One for a bunch of docker services via docker
And like 5 or 6 PI4s running static sites.
Yes, several; they run Jellyfin, Samba, Transmission, Mattermost, Gitea, Minecraft, and Bitcoin Core.
nextcloud (file storage), immich (photo backup), pi-hole (network wide ad blocking), gittea, jellyfin (music + movies). mostly just trying to move away from iCloud
BTCPay server counts?
3 computers all running various services (mostly Nostr 😜)
All of them headless. I'm more of a cli kinda guy.
For the things that require a gui I'll use either x11 forwarding, or Rustdesk
Build
Goo try, NSA ... 😸
I'm dreaming about have one