So, I am soon going to finally set up my first home server. Exams are not that far away, I am motivated as shit, my first own domain is bought and I want to level up my sysadmin skills.

Currently my plans look like this:

  • Host Jellyfin
  • Host my own NAS
  • Some form of hosted musicstreaming integration with my local music
  • Automate Backups and push them on my server
  • make all of the above things available where ever I want using my own self hosted domain.
  • run my own dns

In the long term I also want to be able to host my own webapps, since I will soon start to develop one for someone.

Now I want to know what suggestions do you have, for stuff thats really cool and that I can selfhost.

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    11 hours ago

    Syncthing so you never have to mail files to yourself again.

    FreshRSS for RSS reading

    Readeck for saving articles for later (or wallabag, many alternatives)

    HomeAssistant

    Calibre-web for ebooks

    PiHole

    Joplin for self hosted notes

    Searxng is fun for self hosted metasearch but has sadly been having trouble with Google lately

    • French75@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      10 hours ago

      I remember reading a thread like this a while back and saw Home Assistant. I thought I don’t need that.

      It’s probably the most used self hosted app we have.

    • MudMan@fedia.io
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I wish you didn’t have to do things the Calibre way to host ebooks, but whatever effort it takes to sort out ebook hosting must be a pain in the ass, because everything is built on top of Calibre despite Calibre being perhaps the most obtuse piece of “programmer-knows-better” software ever engineered.

      Almost every other ebook self-hosted app is just a wrapper on top of that nonsense. I hate it.

      You can try to use Komga instead, but it’s mostly meant for comic books and it’s kinda heavy, honestly.

      • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        41 minutes ago

        It is a little convoluted how it’s set up, but I have a debt of gratitude to the Calibre community for their various add-ons freeing my legally purchased books of their DRM! Which is what enabled me to have centralized library in the first place, since they were all on different services. But now I’ve quit Amazon and have everything accessible from KOreader on my Kobo, via Calibre-web

        • MudMan@fedia.io
          1·
          10 minutes ago

          There’s a reason Calibre-web is called Calibre-web. Calibre-web itself is a mitigation for how dumb Calibre is.

          A lot of a very cool ecosystem is built on top of this one core piece of weirdness this one nerd made in his own alien mindspace and nobody likes any of the choices in there, but it’s inescapable now, precisely because all these other cool, important tools are built around it.

          See also: Gnome.

        • MudMan@fedia.io
          4·
          7 hours ago

          Have I? I tried so many so quickly I can’t even remember.

          In any case I’m part of the problem now, because my dealbreaker was having to organize my library in the obtuse alien way Calibre wants instead of the nice, human-readable way I already had. I bit that bullet, so now I’m married to a Calibre format library and thus perpetuating the terrible standard.