The Ever-Expanding Home Server
Everything I self-host, in one convenient spot.
I run a lot of software, and minimal hardware. Maybe some day that will reverse course, but for now, it's quite a lot of software. Everything is routed behind Cloudflare, and private applications are behind Cloudflare Zero Trust (w/ GitHub for SSO)
My Main Server
Software
- apache2 (w/ PHP) - Web Server + Reverse Proxy
- Homepage - A Simple Dashboard to keep everything organized. Complete with Docker Integration so I can see what services are up/down.
- Nextcloud - Google Drive Replacement (w/ Photos Backup)
- Vaultwarden (Bitwarden) - Password Manager
- BookStack - Documentation Platform
- Ghost - Simple Blogging Platform (You're on it right now!)
- Gitea - Git Platform (+act_runner, +renovate)
- FreshRSS - RSS Aggregator
- PrivateBin - Encrypted PasteBin
- Gokapi - Firefox Send Alternative (Admin Upload only)
- Filebrowser - A Simple Web File Browser
- Teamspeak Server - VOIP Service
- Portainer - Web UI for managing Docker Containers
- Scrutiny - SMART Scans for Drives
- Healthchecks - Cron Job Monitoring (Sends notifications to ntfy when cron jobs fail)
- ntfy - Sends push notifications
- Speedtest Tracker - Daily Speedtests with Graphs
- phpMyAdmin - SQL Database Viewer
- Wireguard (wg-easy) - WireGuard VPN + Web Admin UI
- Uptime Kuma - Services Monitor
- Sonarr - Automatically "acquire" TV Shows
- Radarr - ^ for Movies
- Lidarr - ^ for Music
- Readarr - ^ for Books
- Bazarr - ^ for Subtitles
- subcleaner - Cleans subtitles downloaded from Bazarr
- Prowlarr - Indexers for Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Readarr
- qBittorrent (w/ VPN) - My Torrent Client of choice
- pyLoad - File Downloader
- Tautulli - Plex Statistics
- Overseerr - Requests for Plex
- Requestrr - Requests for Plex through a Discord Bot
- OpenBooks - Download books from IRC Highway
- Deemix - Download Music from Deezer (Technically I'm using lidarr-on-steroids which includes Deemix inside Lidarr)
- Wizarr - Invite System for Plex
- Umami - Website Analytics
- CyberChef - Web App for "computer science" things
- IT-Tools - Collection of handy online tools for developers.
- shields.io - shields.io instance for private GitHub repo badges
- Plex Auto Languages - Auto-Updating the subtitle language across an entire show
- Watchtower - Automatically keeps Docker Containers up to date
- MySQL - My database of choice
- Plex - Stream Content from my Home Server with a Netflix-like UI
- lidarr-true-singles - Automatically unmonitor promotional singles from Lidarr. (Disclaimer: I wrote it, also doesn't run on a schedule)
Hardware
- OS: Ubuntu Server
- Host: OptiPlex 3010
- CPU: Intel i5-3470
- RAM: 8Gb
- GPU: GTX 1050
- Boot Disk: 500Gb SATA SSD
- Media Disk: 14Tb Easystore
Game Server
Software
- Portainer Agent - Allows me to use my existing Portainer instance with this box
- Watchtower - Automatically keeps Docker Containers up to date
- Minecraft - Semi-Vanilla Survival on the latest game version
- Counter Strike 1.6
- Counter Strike Source
- CS:GO
- Half-Life: Deathmatch
- Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
- Team Fortress 2
- Quake 1
- Quake 3
- Halo Custom Edition
- Insurgency
Windows VM:
Hardware
- OS: Ubuntu Server
- Host: ThinkCentre M715q
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE
- RAM: 16Gb
Yes, I am running my own email server too. Granted it's not fully self hosted but it basically counts.
After setting everything up it's been rock solid for multiple years. I don't send a whole lot of email but I've had no issues sending to Gmail users, although I've heard Microsoft is a bit worse about receiving email from self-hosters.
I'm using the basic $5/mo Cloud Compute from Vultr with Mail-in-a-Box.
Backup
I don't have a very sophisticated backup system, eventually I'll bring it up to acceptable levels but here's what I currently do.
I run my backup system off of a Raspberry Pi 4B w/ 4Gb of RAM running Raspberry Pi OS Lite.
Nightly, I backup (using rsync):
- Docker Volumes
- My Home Folder(s)
- Website Data (
/var/www,/etc/apache2,/etc/letsencrypt) - MySQL Databases (w/
mysqldump) - My Mail-in-a-Box emails
- My Family iMac (Home Folder is backed up to my Media Disk on my Main Server)
And for now, that's about it. I want to get more into hardware but it's challenging for me right now.