What do you self host?
(1) By Josh (jturgeon) on 2026-09-02 22:58:40 [link] [source]
The talk about self-hosting email has sparked my interest in what others self-host. I understand people self-host things for the love of the game, but I'm more interested in services that are practical to self-host, and hold a purpose in an individuals life/workflow/etc.
I self-host my website, git repos (on website) and that's about it at the moment. I want to self-host more of the services I use so I'm not reliant on a provider (if practical), but I also don't want to spend hours configuring and maintaining things. I have NUC device with a N100 CPU, which could probably do the job for some basic services.
Things I pay for and would rather self-host:
- Storage (NFS, Samba)
- Password Manager
- Music - I'm a Spotify user, I really like the discoverability feature which has stopped me from using anything else.
(2) By joshuablais on 2026-09-03 01:41:10 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
I essentially self host everything that I possibly can that makes sense to do so. I still use Spotify, but in the coming months that will be the last subscription I cut.
All three of the things you mentioned are what I would classify as "very self hostable" in that you can easily get them local or on a VPS. I'd recommend password-store for password manager, storage, any S3 compatible object storage or storage box will do.
(3.1) By mattken on 2026-09-04 18:38:21 edited from 3.0 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
Media
- Jellyfin: Music and some movies
You can use Explo for music discovery.
- Audiobookshelf: Audiobooks
- Kavita: eBooks
- Immich: Photo backup
- Miniflux: RSS aggregator
- Readeck: Bookmark manager
Development
- Forgejo: Github alternative
- OpenGist: Github Gists alternative
Other
- SearXNG: Search aggregator (Google and DuckDuckGo alternative)
- Radicale: Calendar and contacts sync
- Soju: IRC bouncer
Traefik manages the proxies for all the services, and it gets domain traffic via Wireguard proxy routed through a public VPS.
(4) By SquatnDog on 2026-09-10 23:29:40 in reply to 3.1 [link] [source]
- pihole
- nginxproxy manager
- nextcloud
- jellyfin
- searxng
- immich
- nvr (video recorder)
- owntracks
(5) By cashmere on 2026-09-11 19:32:29 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
atuin.cashmere.rs
A self hosted service to keep your shell history in sync across multiple hosts with support for encryption.
send.cashmere.rs
rss.cashmere.rs
My self hosted Tiny Tiny RSS which comes with some goodies.
irc.cashmere.rs:6697
My personal IRC instance for research and dev purposes. Feel free to say hi ^^.
bouncer.cashmere.rs:6699
A soju instance with file sharing enabled.
copland
fossil instance
this bbs obviously lol
(6) By joshuablais on 2026-09-13 20:38:04 in reply to 5 [link] [source]
I am going to be slowly moving my web services and client work to a Lenovo p360 I just got in the mail today. Will probably poast an article about the migration.
(7) By cashmere on 2026-09-13 22:00:26 in reply to 6 [source]
I am interested in the services you are going to host.
Do you have some heavy services that you could replace with simpler alternatives?
For example, Jellyfin and the *arr stack in general were very annoying to set up, migrate, and configure, at least for me. I like to have my shows in German and English, and while it was possible to set that up at some point, I just made a cut there. My replacement nowadays is just to SSH into my VPS, download the stuff I need, and then stream the media I want over SSHFS and mpv.
While it involves some "manual work," it removed for me all the overhead and annoyances I had previously.