Self Hosted

Server Specs

• Model: HP ProDesk 600 G2 Microtower
• OS: Debian 13 (Trixie) XFCE
• CPU: Intel i7-6700 (8 core)
• GPU: N/A
• Memory: 16GB
• Storage:
  • Kingfast 500GB SSD
  • 2x Seagate IronWolf 12TB NAS HDD
    • live Drives
  • 2x Seagate Exos X14 12TB (Recertified)
    • mirrored backup drives

Service List

Most services are running on Nomad, but some are just directly installed on the server.

• Nomad
  • Container Orchestration
  • Rating: 2/5; it's just user unfriendly enough to be bad for a home server, and has much less online presence for solving issues. Unfortunately I think Docker Compose + Swarm or Kubernetes would ultimately be easier to manage. Nomad was a fun experiment, I like the concept of less batteries included, but I wouldn't do it again.
• Caddy
  • Static/Templated Sites and Reverse Proxy
  • Rating: 5/5; does everything I need with fairly easy configuration, nice after coming from HAProxy and Nginix.
• Plex
  • Movies and Shows
  • Installed
  • Rating: 4/5; it has some minor things I don't like, but in the end I haven't been affected by most of the more controversial issues and it has done the job well.
• Photoprism
  • Google Photos Replacement
  • Rating: 3/5; it's missing some features I'd like, especially multi-library per user support, but it does well enough as a bucket for photos.
• AudioBookShelf
  • Audiobook and Podcast hosting
  • Rating: 4/5; It's a bit rough around the edges, but has been doing well all things considered.
• Calibre
  • EBook Management
  • Installed
  • Rating: 5/5; It's hard to give it anything less, despite a ... less than modern UX, since this is one of the oldest self-host services I have while also being one of the most hands off - it just chugs along.
• ddclient
  • DNS updates to keep domain name records correct
  • Rating: 4/5; does the thing easily now that I've set it up, despite going through a maintainer change that slowed development.
• Vector, Loki, Grafana
  • Log collection and monitoring
  • Vector: metric collection
  • Loki: Log aggregation
  • Grafana: Visualization
  • Rating: 3/5; This stack took alot of setup and research, and I'd like it to be simpler, but it's working fine.
• Syncthing
  • File syncronization across devices
  • Installed
  • Rating: 5/5; I haven't missed cloud storage for file sync at all
• Postgres
  • Database
  • Rating: 4/5; sure does do database things.
• Gitea
  • GitHub Replacement
  • Rating: Too new to rate, but seems ok so far
• Odin Storm Builder
  • Model footprint builder for Odin's Eye
  • This used to be in GCP, but I pulled it back to self-host
  • Rating: 4/5; self hosting this is much easier
• OpenVPN
  • VPN
  • Installed on Router
  • Rating: 4/5; setup could be easier, and there's a couple configurations I still haven't been able to do properly, but it has been solid.
• rsync
  • Disk backup
  • Rating: 4/5; does backup things

Things to Try

• Garage (object storage)
• Kubernetes flavor (orchestration)
• Plausible (website analytics)

Rating Scale:

• 5: Rock solid, easy, would recommend, no (real) complaints
• 4: Some complaints, but good overall
• 3: Functions fine, but very meh personally for whatever reason
• 2: Would not recommend, would not do again
• 1: I need to replace this soon