I just launched a business to help non technical people identify and selfhost their business tools. I faced such problems when I lived in a fascist country and now that I live in a fascist country again, I figured its a good way to go.

I do! I have a small kubernetes at home where I try to host everything I can.

NAS, Jellyfin/Plex, Copyparty (Google Drive replacement), Kiwix (Wikipedia), Joplin, Searxng, Ollama (LLM). Plus all the various searching tools, the maintenance tools, etc. I have pretty strong compartmentalization of my storage into separate media pools that all have their own RAID setups, plus an external backup.

It's a bit of work to get all set up, but I use docker compose and autoheal / watchtower to keep the services going. I use Caddy and my own domain to make the services I want available externally to my network.

I try to selfhost wherever possible. There are a few exceptions where it's not practical (email for example), so I prefer not Google/Apple/Microsoft when that happens. In those cases, I also like to diversify so any potential enshitification is less painful to resolve.

*Raises hand*

DNS, Jellyfin and game servers mostly; occasionally will tinker with other stuff but those are the ones that have lasted

Self hosting looks interesting, but I'd generally rather keep things offline. Even as a software developer, I value simplicity, and most online "services" I find entirely superfluous ; self hosted or no.

Jellyfin ? How about a big external drive with movies on it, just plug it into your viewing device of choice.

Hosting my notes ? I take my notes on physical paper. (Loose sheets, because notebooks have the same scaling issues computer notes have. Sometimes I just want to splay everything out on the table and do big picture work. That's also why I only use one side of the sheet.)

Music streaming ? I dont even know if you can self host this one (probably yes) but I'd rather just copy the file over ; even a huge library doesn't take that much space.

Photos ? I just have folders on an encrypted drive, with some backups elsewhere. Though I guess Immich looks interesting...

Documents ? Okay, I should self-host this one. For now it's all local, on-disk (encrypted of course, there's no good reason not to), but it can be quite inconvenient if my only copy is at home on my desktop.

So no, I don't self-host yet, and when I do (hopefully soon) it will be only in a limited capacity ; mostly out of a convenience concern, privacy being a distant second.

Self-hosting for a bit less than 10 years. My main pain is that my setup is now stable and I have nothing left to tinker with.

Have a NAS, Jellyfin server, and LLM on my LAN so far. Next step is to make them available outside my home, but I've been procrastinating.

I only p2p but I can't do much, NAS is so expensive in my country :(

I don't know if I'd call myself a privacy pioneer but I self-host some stuff and share/trade services with a few friends.

I have a couple Minecraft servers using pterodactyl :3

I probably will self host a lot more when I have my own place and money tho

I'm not a pioneer - but I selfhost.

I self-host a decent bit of stuff. My setup has been to rent rack space in a datacenter to put my own storage server in, plus a second server at my house that I mirror backups between. I run my own VPN, "Cloud" storage, lemmy instance, game servers, websites, CI build systems, media streaming, etc... You can find some cheap server hardware on eBay that's only a generation or two old, which you'll need if you're running in a datacenter, but for home servers it's super easy to just set up an old desktop with a battery backup.

I self-host my own Monero node and I self-host my password manager and my files

I've been selfhosting for about 4 years now. I wanted to break away from services like Google and find tools I could control on my own hardware.

I went from bare-metal Jellyfin and Nextcloud on my NAS to running the NAS with an NFS share and a Raspberry Pi as a pod orchestrator through quadlets. That little sucker is running pods for:

• media (audiobookshelf, kavita, Jellyfin)
• Immich
• Invidious
• Navidrome
• Peertube
• SearXNG
• Servarr suite (flareresolverr/jackett/prowlarr, gluetun/qbittorrent, jellyseerr, lazylibrarian, lidarr, mylar3, radarr, sonarr)

It's also running instances of:

• mumble
• nginx-proxy-manager
• sftpgo
• syncthing

I've only opened a few services for family usage, but everything else is VPN-accessible.

Also, no more Nextcloud. Syncthing balances everything out, and I can use sftpgo's webdav option to host my own seedvault backups. Now Google is collecting dust.

I recently got the homelab going and plan on expanding to a few family members as well.

12 nodes (some new Epycs for encrypted memory, some centreon ewaste for cold storage and background tasks, and a few in-between) so far. All Harvester HCI and Rancher. I run game servers, Ollama, and NFS for storing my encrypted back ups on it mostly at the moment, with a sync to send encrypted to Proton for that off-site.

I was running a server hosting a Gutenberg mirror at home 30+ years ago. And no, it's not public.

services

• gitea (forge)
• pmwikis (PIM) e.g. fabien.benetou.fr including... notes on self-hosting
• affine
• wg-easy (WireGuard, VPN)
• copyparty (prototype collaborative filesharing)
• ntfy (notifications)
• peertube (videos) e.g. video.benetou.fr
• Jitsi Meet (video meetings)
• immers (federated Metaverse, really)
• WebDAV (files)
• networked-aframe (live collaboration in XR)
• open-easyrtc
• telegram-pim-bot
• transmission (seeding linux ISOs)
• fireflyiii

meta

• nginx (reverse proxy)
• grafana
• cadvisor
• pushgateway
• prometheus
• caddy
• nodeexporter
• alertmanager

also locally (and beyond thanks to WireGuard)

• HomeAssistant
• Immich
• miniDLNA

I'm currently running 2 Proxmox hosts with 3 LXC containers and 3 VMs between them, and on my NAS - 2 VMs and... 50 docker containers.

I reeeeeally don't like centralized services. 😂

Still shopping around for a cheap enough Optiplex or ThinkCentre that has bare minimum encoding (HEVC 10-bit) and RAM (16 GB), but once I find my baby I'll be running Nextcloud, Immich, and Jellyfin in Proxmox. I want to leave Google behind very badly, especially for my files and photos I got in the cloud, but also for music streaming since I'm a daily YT Music user.

Me, hi

Oh god, where do I start?

3 node proxmox setup:

Net node:

• opnsense (dns, dhcp, edge firewall, wireguard)
• caddy
• ssh hub

Compute node:

• a few game servers
• wiki (kiwix), full copy of wikipedia
• searxng
• docker host (portainer plus 10ish containers)
• forgejo
• testing vms
• a separate zfs mirror

Storage node:

• all drives, zfs + mirror
• proxmox backup server
• home assistant
• immich
• ARR stack
• jellyfin

Oh and a monitoring node made out of a rpi 4b with an nvme hat,running dietpi, prometheus, grafana and homepage (gethomepage.dev)

Thats about it plus automations and stuff, wireguard so I can access it from anywhere. Not separated properly, no network zones, just a few vlans for now, work in progress.

Yep! I just started self hosting a lossless music and 1080p movie server for my dad and I! It goes online soon. I'd say self hosting is an integral part of gaining true digital sovereignty.