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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Saw this on hackernews, seemed interesting so thought I will share it here. to r/selfhosted
Proxmox Backup and Uptime Kuma
have set up backup alerting for my PVE cluster using Uptime Kuma push monitors driven by a vzdump hook script, and wanted to share the parts of the hook API that were not obvious. https://preview.redd.it/aah1b6e0evnh1.png?width=1068&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4e794ac8f97a8689ef37b2faf33dbe8ad988ffd App…
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what more services should i sh.
i am new to sh, iirc barely a week and a half, and yes this is an addiction, i wanna selfhost everything i can lol the hardware i am using is a spare old decapitated laptop i had lying arround. havent bought a domain yet so forgero and nextcloud arent setup properly also writefreely and feishin's lo…
Built a search engine for my 2+TB radio show archive: Unorganized NAS folders became a searchable, playable library with 6 Python scripts + SQLite
https://preview.redd.it/9i9l7jo1ounh1.png?width=1199&format=png&auto=webp&s=4dbf7753f5690d15684338d3501879437df57f9d https://preview.redd.it/pfur6it8ounh1.png?width=1340&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e93c845078edca9918a5fad219ae522a0b6c7cf I have ~2TB of a daily radio show archived on my home NAS with tho…
How do you Download a Spotify Playlist on slskd?
Hi, Very new to all this. I have around 3000 songs on Spotify from 1000 different artists that I would like to download on my server from Soulseek. I'm currently running Lidarr with Tubifarry and slskd in a Docker compose. As you probably all know, when you upload your Spotify playlist to Lidarr, yo…
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What do you use for update notifications?
I have DIUN email me when an update is detected and it works good, but sometimes it sends notification out when there is not an update (confirmed via podman auto-update) or like just now, I updated Dawarich, after DIUN notified me of the update, but as soon as I finished the update, it emailed me ag…
Jellyfin / Plex / Emby, Which integrates IPTV the best?
I watch a good amount of live tv using IPTV and ideally id want an all in one solution with catch up, vods etc that way I dont need seperate apps and have to teach family how to juggle between different players across different platforms. Which solution would be best? I value a good UI (EPG guide) h…
Looking for advice on a game streaming/library setup
I’m looking for a little help with a project I’ve been working on. I’ve done some research and have already put together a basic setup, but I haven’t quite been able to get it working the way I’d like, and I’m not even sure if what I’m trying to accomplish is possible. I’m looking to build out somet…
Grimmory vs Bookorbit
Curious what everyone thinks. Between the two, which is better and more actively maintained? I've been messing with Kavita, komga, stamp, and grimmory and found grimmory to be the nicest. Just heard of Bookorbit recently so I was wondering if I should look into it before plunging headlong into grimm…
Solution suggestions for config backup, and hardware map management?
Hello self hosters, there are a couple of problems I haven't found a really good way to solve and wondering if anyone knew of any hidden gems out there to accomplish: Config file management For example go in to your router, export config. I'd love some kind of made for purpose management system for …
Sanity check for beginner: Budget Dual RTX 3060 12GB build for Qwen 3.8
Hey everyone, I'm a complete beginner diving into local LLMs. I live in a country where PC hardware prices are heavily inflated and part availability is scarce, so I have to make every dollar count without room for expensive mistakes. My main goal is running Qwen 3.8 27B (Q4\_K\_M) locally for dev…
Should PiHole (and/or local DNS) be installed on separate hardware from media server (Jellyfin) and other apps?
Mostly just the question in the title. I just started a jellyfin server (2-3 weeks old) and I've been thinking about running pi hole as well for the obvious ad blocking but also was thinking of using it as a quick/easy way to add local DNS records to accessing my other services. Is there any good re…
Easy S3 backups for self-hosted SQLite apps
Built-in Litestream replication and automatic restore for SQLite databases is a new feature I added in OpenRun. OpenRun is a self-hosted declarative deployment platform for web apps. If you are building SQLite apps and want continuous backup to S3 compatible endpoints, then OpenRun makes it very eas…
Need advice on eventually moving to a NAS
I'm currently running a media server on a JBOD setup either in external enclosure docks, or external WD drives. I've got about 60TB across 4 drives for media and a 3TB for system images and backups. All of these drives are shared across a network using SMB and rclone for some drive management needs,…
should i use my main pc or an old laptop for a home server i only turn on occasionally?
i have a powerful desktop pc running cachyos, and i also have a very old laptop with only 4gb of ram. i want to use my pc as a kind of personal cloud while i'm away for long trips. basically, i'd like to access my photos, movies, tv shows, music, ebooks and files remotely. i'm thinking about using t…
Does open source matter if you still depend on someone else’s infrastructure?
Been thinking about this after looking at different Discord alternatives. A lot of projects advertise themselves as open source but the community still ends up depending on infrastructure controlled by someone else. You can inspect the code or fork it but if moving your members, permissions, data an…
Open, future-proof, multi-room audio
You want high-quality connected speakers for your home without depending on shitty apps that stop working in a year? You want to stream from your own hardware and control everything with Free Software? Then this article is for you! I wrote a blog post on my audio setup! Quite happy with the result. …
Built a 3-node Kubernetes homelab with Talos Linux
I recently set up a 3-node Kubernetes homelab on bare metal (on Dell OptiPlex) using Talos Linux, mainly to have a proper environment for learning, testing failures, networking, storage, GitOps, observability, and general Kubernetes experiments. The setup uses three control-plane/etcd nodes with a s…