I started to answer your question with a list of stuff and then deleted the lot and started again:

What are you really after? Do you fancy a challenge or what?

Pi-hole on an ancient pi zero w.

I’ve got a little MSI box with 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD, and a quad core i3 running Proxmox. Home Assistant is in its own VM, I have a VM for a bastion host/jump box of sorts for a client’s network (yes, I know VPNs exist), and then a VM running a few Docker containers: CheckMK, Dozzle, Uptime Kuma, and The TP-Link Omada Controller software. I intend to migrate those to Podman eventually.

On my desktop in Podman, I’m running Dashy, Redlib, and Dozzle regularly. Sometimes I run other services but those are pretty persistent. I use Podman on my local machine for my development work and it’s just handy to have Redlib and Dashy right here.

I tend to interact with things via SSH unless it’s a webshit.

I’ve got servers all over the place. A sample of what I have running on all of them:

• YaCy
• SearxNG
• Kodi
• Shaarli
• Huginn
• Part-DB-server
• Bookstack
• Cyberchef
• Efflux

Multiple hosts. Win2024/hyperv and proxmox

• domain/dns/dhcp/ncp 2x
• pihole
• iobroker (smarthome)
• sonarr/radarr/orowlarr
• emby
• sabnzbd
• vpn-vm for torrent/soulseek
• searxng
• dav for calendar
• caddy (for emby/dav from outside)
• firefly (banking)

And some minor, less important ones.

All backup to a central server, which does a daily backup of the backup onto another nas. In case of emergency,just grab nas.

This might be a better question for !selfhosted

I settled on a Fujitsu Q920 with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. Runs FreeBSD 14.1 and each service has its own Jail.

Services:

DNSmasq - local DNS and adblocker Wireguard Navidrome MPD - Media server Vaultwarden - password save Radicale - cardav and caldav server TinyRSS - RSS aggregator Zabbix - server and service monitoring Postgresql Gitea - git repository Emby - jellyfin alternative Mariadb Bhyve VM with Debian running 2 apps (invoiceplane and leantime) which use a quite old php version and I never had time to port to Freebsd.

A second machine that starts daily and creates a backup of machine 1 by using ZFS autobackup.

Nothing fancy but it does what I need.

Homework worth of TBs

@sebastiancarlos@lemmy.sdf.org my home one runs:

• Nginix PM
• DuckDNS
• Glances
• Home Assistant
• Jellyfin
• AdGuard Home
• Syncthing
• Paperless-Ngx with Tika and Gotenberg
• OpenMediaVault
• Heimdall

Some vegetables

I managed to install Nextcloud (not the docker) and I called it a success since I find nginx, ports, firewalls and port forwarding a meta headache.

• OrangePi with HomeAssistant and PiHole.
• Old gaming PC turned 24/7 server with Jellyfin, V-Rising server
• Hetzner cloud with Matrix server for Messenger and Discord bridging.
• Synology NAS for SMB and sharing stuff with others through Synology Drive, which also serves as a seedbox for Redacted.ch, with Headphones and Transmission.

I’ve been running my own nextcloud for around a decade now. I use it for my calendar, contacts, and file storage. It’s basically replaced all the google services for me, and has been effectively zero maintenance. It just works.

truenas: plex/jellyfin, *arr stack

working on another (debian) machine to run nextcloud and immich, plan is to have a failover. Redundant machine would ideally be wake on LAN to save power. I already have commodity hardware for these two identical machines, otherwise I’d probably just go for a more robust single machine.

Mikrotik routerboard out front providing wireguard for one subnet. pi4 providing pihole on the wireguard subnet. This is a new router and I’m very happy with it. This coming weekend the goal is to correctly implement mangle rules (policy based routing) to combine my two WAN connections seamlessly.

So very standard setup for selfhosting with the exception of two ISPs

truenas is easiest to manage through the web service, debian ssh and VNC, mikrotik’s WInBox is just amazing, but it’s also the first “grown up” router software I’ve ever used. It’s so much better than managing PF through a ssh session.

Pi-hole DNS and dhcp + home assistant and a bunch of other related containers.

NUC 8i5, 32GB, 500GB NVMe (host), 8TB SSD (data), Akasa Turing fanless case, running Proxmox:

• samba
• syncthing
• pihole
• radicale
• jellyfin
• minidnla

I also have a Pi 4 running LibreElec for Kodi on the home theater. Nothing fancy yet and it more than meets our current needs. Most maintenance done over SSH.

Would like to eventually get a proper web and email server going (yes, I know).