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What do you guys/gals host in your #homelab currently (Services etc.)?

Curious to see what services people provide! 😎

#FreeBSD #Debian #Linux #Ubuntu #Rocky #Homelab <img class=" title=":linux:"/> :freebsd:

in reply to jhx

IT people are odd in the sense that they often take their work home with them, constantly playing with gadgets and labs and such, just for the fun of it. i haven't built a home lab in several years, and i'm not sure i miss it... 🙂
in reply to apgarcia

@apgarcia
IT people sure are weird 😂
A #homelab is not mandatory by any means... it just is fun to fiddle around a little 😎
in reply to jhx

I have a media server (Plex), carddav and caldav server (radicale) at home hosted by FreeBSD. Wireguard, email, prosody servers on a VPS hosted by OpenBSD. Password manager (Vaultwarden), Nextcloud, security camera (MotionEye), syncthing, DNS filter (AdGuard home) servers again at home, hosted either by Debian Linux or containers.
in reply to hakayova

@hakayova
Really neat! 😎
Beastie and puffy at it's finest I must say :openbsd: :freebsd:
I currently use KeePassXC with a shared password db on my Synology. Vaultwarden was pretty cool, had it running via #Docker before.
in reply to jhx

Not much, just a web desktop OS (ArozOS, pretty much handle all my needs), a few Apache servers for reverse proxy (my #homelab is distributed) and one of them also got php installed to host my homepage 😎
in reply to tobychui

@tobychui
Sounds pretty cool 😎
You said your #homelab is distributed... can you elaborate on that? 🙂
I'm looking into getting a cheap VPS again to host my website. Currently, GitHub takes care of that 😉
My #homelab is quite small since I try to save electricity as much as possible.
A Synology, a Intel NUC (#Debian) and soon a #BSD machine (A NUC also)
in reply to jhx

I built my first Windows server with G3258 when I was in high school, and that machine stays at my parent house even after I moved out. I also place a few ARM based DIY NAS in uni (Armbian), my lab, my friends homelab (vm, Debian) and more. All linked together with reverse proxy with zerotier as backup. 🙌
in reply to tobychui

@tobychui
That for sure is a distributed #homelab 😉
Ah backups, many understimate that too often - but you are covered from what I can tell 😎
Pretty neat all in all! 😀
in reply to jhx

Oh, if I exactly had one, most likely I'd host a pleroma instance.

Not many ideas come right now, but things like temporary file hosting, imageboard, matrix, fediverse, stuff I'd like to host, but only if I have a homelab xD

in reply to nightquick

@nightquick
Maybe you will have a #homelan in the future - never say never 😎
Besides: Having huge machines is not important, the services offered are 😉
in reply to jhx

Nextcloud, Pihole, Librespeed, Cryptpad, Home-Assistant, FreeIPA, Matrix, Uptime Kuma, Transmission, Forgjeo, VSCode Server, Authelia, AWX, Outline, Umami and Mastodon. All Running on a 3 Host Proxmox Cluster with ZFS.
in reply to jhx

It‘s not really a “home”-lab. It’s 3 relatively cheap servers rented at Hetzner.
in reply to Larvitz

@Larvitz
Let's call it a outsourced homelab 😉
Still, it provides many services to you!
in reply to jhx

mostly stuff to make day to day life easier and help my gf.
Nextcloud - file sharing and backups, alternative to Google drive
Wiki (don't remember app name) - planning to document my homelab and findings
Jellyfin +*arr - Netflix like experience
Mail - mostly experiment
Bitwarden - password manager
Duplicaty - backups
Everything runs on rpi 4 and custom PC on docker. Connecting to it using cloudflare tunnels.
Planning to host pihole too.
in reply to Untriex

@untriex
Always great when the hosted services are also usable to other people besides oneself 😉
Really cool stuff here.
I have to fiddle a little with nextcould and jellyfin
Neat 😎
in reply to jhx

@jhx :freebsd: :linux: Website, email, mumble, podcasts (mpd+castget+icecast to make a nice podcast host), Koha (library management), homeassistant, Emby (for media)

Basic suite of tools. ya know

@jhx
in reply to silverwizard

@silverwizard
Used mumble before to!
The basics are the most important part 😎
Great setup! 🙂
in reply to jhx

@jhx :freebsd: :linux: I've got a bunch of plugins for jjmumblebot to let me roll different kind of dice and track init for the RPG I play
@jhx