A simple question to this community, what are you self-hosting? It’s probably fun to hear from each-other what services we are running.
Please mention at least the service (e.g. e-mail) and the software (e.g. postfix). Extra bonus points for also mentioning the OS and/or hardware (e.g. Linux Distribution, raspberry pi, etc) you are running on.
I host:
Fedi servers
- lemmy.world
- mastodon.world
- calckey.world
- pool.social
- musicworld.social
- akkoma.nl
- ruud.social
- fotofed.nl
- fediland.nl
- blog.mastodon.world
- play-my.video
Software I use
- Nginx Proxy Manager
- Portainer
- Kimai
- Xwiki (3 of them)
- Cryptpad
- Grafana
- Hedgedoc
- Matrix/Synapse
- Thelounge
- Vaultwarden
- Gitea
- Nextcloud
- Paperless-ngx
- Zabbix
- Zammad
Probably forgot some…
My long and mostly complete list:
- Audiobookshelf (GH)
- Using for audiobooks. Ebooks, comics, and podcast support in early stages.
- Authelia (GH)
- Using for two-factor authentication in front of all of my services. Critical infrastructure.
- Bazarr (GH)
- Using for automated subtitle management. Have not needed to rely on it much.
- Code-Server (GH)
- Using for a plethora of things. I could write an entire post on this alone.
- Courier
- Using (occasionally) for package-tracking from various carriers.
- EmulatorJS
- Using for retro-emulation.
- Gitea (GH) x2
- Using as a git repo server, package repository, and for CI/CD automation. Is critical infrastructure in my lab. Could also write an entire post on this one.
- Headscale with Headscale-UI. Tailscale clients on various VMs LXCs, etc.
- Using to securely network with my remote servers.
- Homepage
- Using as a “single-pane-of-glass” to get an overview of service health with links to the various services.
- Invidious
- Using in-place of YouTube.
- IT-Tools (GH)
- Using for the myriad of various useful tools it offers.
- Jellyfin (GH)
- My media player of choice. Using for movies and television, but supports music, ebooks, and photos in addition.
- Kopia Server (GH)
- Using for data backups to my Minio instance on local NAS and Wasabi. Simple, fast, and reliable.
- Librespeed (GH)
- Using for the occasional speedtest to my remote servers.
- Matrix stack using Conduit back end and Element-Web front end
- Federated Discord essentially. Using as a private instance for friends and family.
- Minio
- Using primarily as a gateway to storing backups, also serves git-lfs for Gitea.
- N8N (GH)
- Using for home-automation, backing up my Reddit saved posts to a database, deal-alerts, and part of a CI/CD pipeline.
- NTFY (GH)
- Using for infrastructure notifications mostly. Very simple and versatile alerting solution.
- NZBGet
- Using for getting “usenet articles”.
- Paperless-NGX
- Using for document archival. Important receipts, documentation, letters, etc. live here.
- Portainer (GH) with multiple agents on VM’s LXCs and VPSs
- High level management of my various docker containers.
- Prowlarr
- Using to provide torznab API to websites that dont natively have it. Integrates with Radarr and Sonarr
- Radarr (GH)
- Using for movie management.
- Radicale
- Using for contacts and calendar server.
- Raneto (GH)
- Using as a knowledge base. Lab documentation, lists, recipes, lots of things live here. Using with with code-server and Gitea.
- Readarr (GH)
- Using for book management
- Recyclarr (GH)
- Using for Radar and Sonarr to sync search terms for their automations. Very useful, hard to summarize.
- Requestrr
- Using (very rarely) as a requests bot for Radarr and Sonarr.
- SFTP-Go
- Using mostly in-place of Nextcloud. Used to back up phones mostly.
- Shaarli (GH)
- Using as a read-it-later service. Went through lots of these, and Shaarli has been good enough.
- Singlefile-Archive
- A hacky way of presenting pages saved with the singlefile browser extension. Not exactly happy with the solution, but for my ocasional use it does work.
- Sonarr (GH)
- Using as TV series manager
- Speedtest-Tracker (GH)
- Using to get periodic speedtests. Plan to automate results to blast my ISP if my service speed gets too low.
- Traefik (GH) on each seperate host
- Using as a web proxy in front of my various services. Critical infrastructure.
- Transmission (GH)
- Using to get “Linux ISOs”
- Uptime Kuma (GH)
- Using to monitor site and services status along with a few others. Integrated with NTFY for alerts.
- Vaultwarden
- Using as my password manager. Have been using for years, cannot recommend enough.
- A handful of static websites served with NGINX
- The old standby, its been reliable as a webserver.
These services are the result of years of development and administrating my lab and while there is still some cruft, it’s mostly services that I think have real utility.
As far as hardware:
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Running pfsense on a toughbook laptop as a router-firewall.
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A SuperMicro 24 bay disk-shelf with Proxmox and ZFS for NAS duties and a couple services.
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Lenovo Tiny boxes with a Proxmox cluster for the majority of my local services.
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Dell managed switch
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A few Raspberry-pi’s with Raspbian for various things.
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Linksys AP for wifi
Edit: Spelling is hard.
- Audiobookshelf (GH)
As an offensive security worker… I can’t help but read people listing out their attack surface 😂
Oh my jesus, does this thread really have 400+ comments
Edit: respectfully as an atheist
Yep, people are enthusiastic about self hosting and like talking about what they host :)
And talk about it on a self-hostable platform, no less.
I sure can tell. It’s probably also a major demographic on here
Which is why I like it here
No one in my afk spaces wants to hear about it. So I’m very enthusiastic when the subject comes up online or otherwise!
Currently all LAN only, still in the experimental stage finding out what’s useful/preferable to me and what I want to keep:
KEEPING
Pi-Hole - ad/malware/tracker blocking
Portainer - Easy Docker
Syncthing - Sync folders between devices
Planka - Kanban board
I.T. Tools - Handy I.T. Tools
Bookstack - Personal documentation
Mealie - Recipe manager/meal planner
Jellyfin + usual accompaniments - Media Management
Navidrome - Music library
Changedetection - Stock monitoring
Gotify - For push notifications from other apps
Filebrowser
That Word Game ;)UNDECIDED (may swap for alternatives or just remove)
Organizr - Homepage
Jump - Homepage
Homepage - Yup, another homepage!
Linkding - Bookmarks
Shiori - Pocket replacement
Etebase - CalDAV & CardDAV
Whoogle - Google without the crap
Photoprism - Photo management
Libreddit (not being used now!)
QBittorrent - for Linux ISOs
Uptime-Kuma (for when I do open a few services to family)
Ryot (beta) “Roll Your Own Tracker” - Media TrackerPLANNING TO ADD
Reverse-proxying (likely NPM) + Security (Fail2Ban, Autheilia?)
Audiobooks
Comic book management
Translation service
Document manager
Home Assistant on its own Pi4 when I can get hold of one- Matrix Synapse
- Paperless-ngx
- MediaTracker
- Lychee
- Immich
- AudioBookShelf
- Baikal
- Monica
- Nextcloud
- Calibre-web
- Piwigo
- Pinry
- Prosody
- Shaarli
- Wallabag
- mygpodder
- Peertube
- Mealie
- Mastodon
- Firefox sync
- Seafile
- Dokuwiki
- The Lounge
- Redmine
- Gitea
- Castopod
- Portainer
This assortment is run under a combination of Proxmox LXC containers, docker containers, and Yunohost. Mostly I use it to play around, but most are heavily used by my wife and I. I’m planning to rebuild everything and making things more “official”. Looking to convert from a “lab” to actually making it “production” with solid failure routes and backups. I am looking to move anything currently under Yunohost to docker/lxc and to start making use of podman. Recently saw CosmOS and think it might be a good alternative to portainer.
Hardware:
- Node 1: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
- Node 2: Lenovo m93p tiny with 16GB RAM and 250GB SSD - Proxmox
- Node 3: Gigabyte Brix with 16GB RAM and 500GB Sata SSD, 128GB m.2 SSD - Proxmox
- Node 4: Trigkey Green G3 with 16GB RAM and 1TB Sata SSD - Proxmox
- TPLink managed switch
- TerraMaster 2-bay NAS with 2x 2TB HD (NFS host for containers)
- Synology ds220j NAS with 2x 8TB HD (backup of home desktops, laptops, cell phones, and lab systems)
You’re doing that as a full-time job, right?
LOL
No, just a hobby. Been playing around for about a year. It started small with an old mac mini and Yunohost. Then I decided to play with Proxmox and bought a used m93p. Then I read about Proxmox clusters, so I got another m93p. I was going to use the mac mini in the cluster, but it was getting too slow, so I bought the Brix. Then I decided to migrate the Yunohost setup over to a VM in Proxmox. Then I figured I should learn a bit about docker. And it spiraled.
I spend maybe 10-12 hours a month on installation and configuration. I spend way more time using it. A couple of weeks ago I spent about 15 hours over the weekend importing/uploading my audiobooks into AudioBookShelf. Last year I spent several weekends getting my Calibre library in shape and moving it to the web.
I figure this is a much cheaper and safer hobby than drinking.
- Lemmy Instance
- VaultWarden - Password manager
- Jellyfin - Movies/TV Shows
- Roon / Roon ARC - Music
- OneDev - Used to use Gitlab but couldn’t afford the self-hosted instance anymore and want the paid features, which this mostly has.
- Dokuwiki - Used to use as a wiki, switched to…
- Trilium - Similar to Obsidian but open source.
- Kavita - Comics/books
- TubeArchivist - YouTube video downloader/viewer
- PodGrab - Podcast manager
- Wallabag - Website article saver/bookmarker etc. If anyone has a better suggestion for FOSS bookmark management please let me know!
- Mealie - Recipe manager (grabs recipes from a ton of different sites)
I use TrueNAS Scale for my NAS and Ubuntu server for my VM’s/home server. I probably am forgetting something, but, that’s what’s listed in my Portainer :).
trillium sounds awesome, I love obsidian but was wanting something open source. plus this has some features I felt it was missing, thanks!!
Happy to help! Trilium is really awesome, just the web based view/syncing with it’s desktop app is a killer feature. If I lose internet for a second and I’m using the app it syncs the next time I’m connected and open it. A lot of the more “hidden” stuff and things you need to install plugins for in Obsidian come by default in Trilium as well.
I’m thinking of switching to trillium from obsidian too. Most important point for me here is mobile support and note sync. How does trillum web support mobile phones ?
Thanks for this list! Lots of new things to me that I can explore tonight!!
How has Scale been on Linux vs BSD? Any complaints or plug-in compatibility issues?
I would go back if it was easy. The speed difference from just getting a listing of contents in a large directory over SMB is insane. It used to be instant and it takes like 10-15 seconds now. I’m not even using their app setup anymore, I gave up on it after a while because of a bunch of random issues with updates over time and switched to a dedicated box with Portainer installed. I really wish I could go back to core.
I’m sure they’ll iron everything out but BSD is still king at the moment.
That’s disappointing, thanks for the info. I had hoped with OpenZFS things would be improved, but sounds like native Linux performance just isn’t there yet.
That’s disappointing, thanks for the info. I had hoped with OpenZFS things would be improved, but sounds like native Linux performance just isn’t there yet.
Oh jeez… there’s quite the list. I have a Ceph cluster of 3 nodes with 15x HDD’s and 3 SSD’s… on that cluster I run some VM’s that in turn run a Docker swarm. All Ubuntu 22.04, all commodity hardware. Currently I’m running;
- NGINX which proxies all my web facing services on multiple websites.
- Wordpress for my personal site which sync my Instagram pictures to it as well
- MariaDB Galera cluster
- Nextcloud for file sharing but also provides lots of plugin services like a password manager, email client and so on
- Photoprism for my photos… I use the Nextcloud client to automatically upload new pics from my phone to Nextcloud then Photoprism is attached to that same library
- OnlyOffice as a plugin to Nextcloud to allow O365-like functionality
- ElasticSearch plugged into Nextcloud for full-text searching
- OpenProject for project management in my own businesses
- Jellyfin and Plex both attached to the same media library
- E-Mail using Docker-Mailserver… so Postfix with a bunch of ancillary tools for 3 domains
- Droppy as a quick-and-dirty file repo for when I need to get files to people easily
- FreePBX (Asterisk) with 4 extensions around the house
- MeshCentral for managing my family’s PC’s and also doing remote tech support for family, friends and customers as necessary
- FOGProject for imaging PC’s and VM’s as necessary
- ReactiveResume
- Docker Registry set up as a caching proxy
- YoutubeDL-Material
- Karaoke Eternal for those nights when you just get drunk enough to karaoke
Then there’s a whole host of ancillary services; BackupPC, Unifi controller container, piHole on a couple of Raspberry Pi’s, ts-dnsserver for internal DNS management… probably a dozen other containers and tools I’m forgetting.
Oh yeah, and a Synology NAS as a backup target :)
I respect the enterprise-level IT operation you run for your family lol
Updoot for MeshCentral. I can’t believe how excellent and capable this free software is.
Fellow self-hoster, you mention Droppy – I can only find an archived repo (https://github.com/silverwind/droppy). Do you have any other source?
No, that’s what I’m using. Thankfully it works fine and I don’t worry too much about security because I just leave it turned off until I need it. The “/droppy” url directs to it but if it’s off then it just throws an error back.
Thanks a bunch!
Script kiddies these days got really fast. Configured a new subdomain, started droppy, within a couple seconds, all types of requests were visible in the log.
What’s it like hosting your own mail? Been considering it for a while but Gmail features/spam filter/deliverability has been tough to beat.
Well, consider I’ve run my own mailserver on one of those domains since 2001 so I’ve had plenty of time to “grow” with it. I have no issues with GMail and the like but as I said my domain has been around a long time and so I may well be grandfathered in a lot.
Having said all that, even with my newest domain (less than a year old) I don’t have any issues so long as I make sure to comply with all the caveats around ensuring my MX records are good, making sure my DMARC, SPF, DKIM and even PTR and reverse DNS records are all in place (the latter is one a LOT of people forget when self-hosting but reverse lookups are a big deal with mail). The amount of mail that my mail server spam-buckets from domains with only forward lookups and no reverse is astounding. But having said that it’s a GREAT way to block spam.
Finally, mail on residential IP blocks or even a lot of cloud provider blocks are just plain not good for mail hosting. One of my MX hosts is on a Linode which gets blacklisted periodically in one of the less reputable blacklists, but it usually doesn’t affect mail flow all that much. I do subscribe to services to monitor for blacklist listings and delistings for my IP’s as well mostly to keep track but it’s handy to know if there might be something wrong with your mailserver.
Mail hosting isn’t for the faint of heart… but once it works it pretty much just works. My primary personal domain I haven’t changed anything in a couple of years… and I’ve had no need to change much with the mail server itself. It comes out of the box with some nice secure settings and it’s kinda nice to have two decades of mail I can refer back to on an IMAP server :)
- Plex and Jellyfin for movies and TV shows. I want to switch from Plex to Jellyfin but it is not quite there yet. It‘s very little effort to keep Jellyfin running in parallel though. I am keeping it around to regularly compare the two and re-evaluate.
- Tube Archivist for archiving and watching YouTube videos.
- Miniflux for reading feeds.
- Nextcloud, mainly for calendars and contacts; occasionally for sharing files with others.
- Syncthing for syncing files.
- Financier for budgeting.
- Paperless-ngx for managing documents.
- Qbittorrent for downloading and sharing Linux ISOs.
- Prowlarr for searching Linux ISOs.
- Copyparty for sharing Linux ISOs with friends.
- Shaarli for saving bookmarks.
- Jekyll for statically generating my personal blog.
- Caddy as HTTP server / reverse proxy for all of the above. Automatically provisions certificates from Let‘s Encrypt.
- PostgreSQL as database for Nextcloud and Miniflux.
- Simple Nixos Mailserver for emails with Postfix, Dovecot and rspamd.
- Dehydrated for getting certificates from Let‘s Encrypt for the mail server.
- Btrbk and Restic for backups.
Most of this stuff runs on my server at home (ASRock J4105-ITX, 8 GB RAM , 250 GB SSD, 18 TB HDD). The mail server and the blog run on a cheap VPS (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD). Both servers run NixOS.
- Jellyfin - film/tv, both locally and on a seedbox.
- stable-diffusion-webui - self explanatory
- Matrix/synapse - private instant messaging for myself and tech minded friends
- MeTube - web UI for youtube-dl
- Stash - like Jellyfin/Plex but for any adult media you may have (link is SFW).
- Lemmy - only privately just seeing how it all works, I don’t intend to make a public instance.
- A fairly typical LEMP (Ubuntu, Nginx, MariaDB, PHP) stack on my VPS
Stuff I used to use or have at least tried out:
- Plex
- Calibre-web
- Typical LAMP (CentOS, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack back in the old days (PHP4/5) when I did a bit of web dev.
Why Jellyfin over plex? I looked at JF but the lack of a good Xbox app made me stick with Plex.
I jumped ship due to privacy concerns - I didn’t like that my internally-hosted Plex web home had like 12 things blocked by uBlock, and I really like open source software!
Tbh I liked Plex when I used it years ago, then I stopped using it as I went full on Netflix/Amazon Prime out of sheer laziness. Having now come back to self-hosting and acquiring media myself, I went with Jellyfin mostly because it’s FOSS and it does everything I need it to. I noticed Plex has some features locked behind a subscription which I don’t like the idea of, and iirc there were some privacy issues at some point? So those things made me hesitant to give Plex another go.
Also, I had used a friend’s Jellyfin before hosting it myself and I was really impressed with how well it worked on my devices, whereas when I used to use Plex I’d see stuttering/buffering issues from time to time, especially if watching a foreign film for example and the subtitles wouldn’t load/render from the .srt file properly.
As for apps… my TV runs Android and the Jellyfin app on that works great, and no problems with the iPad app either. I can’t speak for consoles though as I don’t use mine any more so have no idea what the JF app is like on those.
Hmm, OK. I’ve had some issues here and there with buffering, but always chalked it up to the machine it was running on, and (I think) needing to transcode those specific files. If I were to pay for plex that wouldn’t be as big of a deal since it would do hardware transcoding.
The Xbox app is pretty much just the website, and not optimised for a controller at all. It makes you use the left stick to control the mouse and use the triggers as left/right click. This is the main reason I’ve stuck with Plex over JF. Gotta have a decent app for my Xbox.
Because Jellyfin is plain and simple and does not try to sell me “services” or “content” made by plex. It just plays what is on my drive
Whenever I try and use Plex I run into buggy permissions, I’ve never had that issue with jellyfin.
Weird. I never have had permissions issues. How are you hosting it?
I liked jellyfins customization but I had to go back to Plex after it kept fucking up on me constantly. And trying to use the app to stream stuff to my phone was annoying as fuck, always wants the IP address, cant just log in like you can on plex
I never had to provide the server address kr to relogin in the app personally. That’s an annoying bug you had!
You could use Stash for Linux ISO CD cover images.
Part of my Reddit exodus plan was to get serious about my RSS setup.
I’ve settled on:
- FreshRSS as my feed manager (supported by Reeder app in iOS and MacOS)
- FiveFilters Full Text extractor
- rss-proxy site scraper
I may experiment with some replacements for rss-proxy, as I’ve run into a couple sites it doesn’t scrape well, but FreshRSS and FiveFilters have been smashing successes.
Nice, RSS is great indeed. I use it extensively as well, but I didn’t even realize it was a thing people ran as a service on a server. I hadn’t heard of FreshRSS etc. I personally just run newsboat from my desktop/laptop, even my phone if need be.
Using a backend service provides things like synchronization, which is useful to me. Previously, I was using Feedly as that backend, but FreshRSS let me self-host that functionality and was pretty trivial to setup and start using.
I will look into FiveFilters, sounds like it would solve some issues for me. Thx
Ubuntu server(Xeon CPU E5-2650 v4 with 86 GB Ram) running k3s(My home server):
- App-daemon(Used with home assitant for more complicated automation)
- Bazarr
- Browserless(Currently used for rendering js pages for huginn)
- Dpaste
- Filerun
- Homeassistant
- Homer(My dashboard)
- Huginn
- Jellyfin
- Kaizoku(For downloading manga)
- Nzbget
- Nzbhydra
- Ombi
- Paperless
- Photoprism
- Pihole
- Plex
- Prowlarr
- Radarr
- Scrutiny(For checking my drives)
- Sonarr
- Qbittorrent with vpn
- Wiki.js
- Christmas-Community(Wishlist)
- ZwaveJS(For homeassistant)
2 Ubuntu servers running k3s(VPS used for my infrastructure services)
- Keycloak
- Offical docker registry
- Bitwarden
- Gitea
- Headscale
- Healthchecks(For checking backups)
- Uptime-kuma - Hashicorp vault
Infrastructure services runing on all servers
- ArgoCD(For deploying everything on k3s)
- Longhorn(For storage)
- Vault-secrets-operator(For getting secrets from vault into k3s)
- Traefik(My reverse proxy)
Lastly I’m hosting Lemmy on a leftover VPS, that I hadn’t used in a while. Might move to a bigger server though.
I run everything in docker on Ubuntu 22.04 with the exception of Plex, which runs on bare metal on the same server. The server is a 16 core threadripper 1950, with 2 quadro gpu’s, m2000 and a p400, 128gb ram, mirrored ssd for system, platter HDD for media, CoralTPU pcie.
I also run Home Assistant on a separate Lenovo MiniPC(forget which model), I did this so I can take down the server for various reasons without losing smart home stuff. Helps with the Partner Acceptance Factor.
In no particular order the server runs:
Calibre-web - Library management
Sonarr - TV series downloads
Radarr - Movie Downloads
Lidarr - Music Downloads
QbittorentVPN - Torrents over vpn, guarantees no leaks
Jackett - tracker management and proxying
Podgrab - downloads podcasts
Frigate - NVR, camera recording with object detection
DoubleTake - Facial recognition middleware, works between frigate/homeassistant and Compreface/Deepstack
Octoprint - 3d printer spooler
Tautulli - Plex statistics
Portainer - Docker Management
Ombi - Media request app, users can request shows/movies and they can be automatically added to sonarr/radarr
MeTube - Webui for youtube-dl/dlp, useful for downloading Youtube videos for offline and ad free use
Spot-dl - parses spotify playlists and downloads them from youtube
Ok the cameras with face recognition are REALLY cool.
On 3 Rpis and a NAS around my home:
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Nextcloud - Google replacement
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Actual Budget - YNAB type server that’s super simple and meets my needs
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Apache web server - portal to my projects
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PiHole - DNS pass/allow list
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PiVPN - Allows me to connect to my home VPN when abroad
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2009Scape - A little RuneScape Private Server I turn on and off on my desktop when I’d like to afk at work
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Docker - A couple docker instances - one on my test pi I use to roll out onto my “prod” servers
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Backup server - 14TB backup with an offsite copy :D
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Joplin - Note-taking app - barely a server connected through Nextcloud
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Plex - Everyone knows about Plex - I’m thinking of switching to JellyFin
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rtorrent - kinda old-school compared to the *arr programs but I enjoy manually downloading all my media :)
Hope I’m not forgetting any!
Does Actual offer a self-hosting option? I’d like to escape my Excel sheet of doom, but haven’t found anything I can run in a container.
It does indeed! https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server
Building from docker-compose is super straightforward. Generating the keys is the hardest bit of the ordeal but I have it locked into just my local network since it saves your most recent sync on your device.
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I have a small and humble set up. Pihole on my old Pi3, OpenMediaVault, Kavita, Qbittorrent on my Pi 4 and my other Pi 4 is running fucked up Lemmy and Mastodon instances because I’m new to this stuff.
I’m considering throwing a pi4 at Lemmy. How’s it going for you? Can you tell me about specific struggles you’ve had?
