I’ve had a “home lab server” for a while now, it’s nothing special but I think I can do more with it, I just don’t know what to do with it… I currently use it just for a pihole and (sometimes) a Minecraft server or a web server… I used to also have a nexcloud and a searxng instance (which I will probably bring back)… Any ideas for other things I can run on it?

  • no surprises@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    You can find ideas here by looking at other posts. People are constantly asking questions about different services.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    VPN Virtual Private Network
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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  • Bristlerock@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    That’s a really open-ended question. Depends purely upon your interests and appetite for risk, etc.

    Might be worth looking at, from a Docker perspective:

    • AdGuard Home (I think it’s better than Pi-Hole)
    • Wireguard or similar. Great for reaching your services when away from home.
    • Audiobookshelf. Audiobooks. There are good apps.
    • Calibre-Web. Ebooks.
    • RSS feed reader, for non-social media websites you visit. Plenty to choose from: FreshRSS, TT-RSS, Sismics, etc.
    • Gitlab CE. If you’re a developer or can otherwise make use of version control.
    • Gotify. Alerting on your containers. Has a good mobile app.
    • Heimdall. A dashboard for everything you’re running.
    • Komga. If you’re into manga. The best iOS app is meh, but the best Android app is awesome.
    • Mealie. Recipe database.
    • Paperless-ngx. Excellent for storing your PDFs and other digital life.
    • PhotoPrism. Basically Google Photos.
    • Portainer. Great for managing Docker containers/stacks.
    • qBitTorrent. Guess what that’s for.
    • SWAG with Authelia. SWAG does reverse proxying with a Let’s Encrypt certificate, and automatically renews it for you. Authelia provides MFA (Authy, Google Authenticator, etc) on top of it.
    • Vikunja. Todoist or Toodledoo without having to pay for features.
    • Wallabag. Basically Pocket.
    • Watchtower. Automatically updates containers for you. Can exclude the ones you don’t want to update, etc.
    • Webtrees. Family tree research, if that’s your thing.
    • YouTransfer. Useful for sharing files without having to use Dropbox, etc.

    I have in the past run a Valheim server and a VRising server, too. FWIW.

  • Anafroj@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Take back the control on your data, that’s the whole point… :) Where are you regularly saving data? Those are the prime candidates. Look at self-hosted alternatives for those services. I know big webapps hosted in docker containers managed by kubernetes is all the rage around here, but you can often find Unix style equivalent for such services, the main advantage of putting it on a server being to be able to access it from multiple devices. But you do you, if you prefer hosting big webapps, that’s fine too. :)

    • Presi300@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thing is, I already have control over my data, now I’m wondering what else I can do with it. I mostly save data locally, the only things I’m really missing are a sync for my password manager and for my Firefox stuff (I don’t use ff sync), but I’m also planning to upgrade my “server” and am wondering what to upgrade it with, that’s why I’m asking for ideas, because idk what to upgrade it with… It’s got a fairly decent CPU (some AMD FX 8core), 16GB ram, but no GPU ( fully headless rn) and only 128GB storage… So yeah, that’s why I’m asking for ideas…

  • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m a huge fan of Immich (Google Photos clone). I disabled the ML features which kneecaps it a little, but it runs totally fine on an rpi 4 (4GB).

    There are other self hosted image solutions, e.g. PhotoPrism, so check out the options first. I used PhotoPrism for a while, but I like the Immich mobile apps (Android and iOS!), so am sticking with it.

    I’m also running pihole, Wireguard, and Home Assistant (and fail2ban). Simple nginx web server handles the proxy business for Immich, and I also use that for sharing stuff with friends and family (e.g., a link to a PDF or something). I finally got around to installing SSL certs, and it was almost disappointingly simple! certbot just worked for me.