What does your self-hosted server setup look like?

I've been thinking of taking on a home server as a project lately, and the software suggestions you gave are a great jumping off point. Thanks!

I have 3x Lenovo M920q systems running Proxmox, each with two USB 1GbE, and a single 10Gb SFP+ for Ceph/Synology storage.

I am not very impressed with Proxmox, but I am impressed with these little micro PCs. Plex runs great as a VM and the 10Gig fibre means pulling media off my Synology is painless.

I also have a kubes cluster that I'm trying to use for a *arr stack, and I would really like to get this working: https://github.com/ressu/kube-plex/pkgs/container/kube-plex. Aside from that, other software includes a three node Hashicorp Vault cluster running on pi zeros/ClusterHat, Netbox VM, dual PowerDNS with recursors and resolvers, and a Minecraft server.

I have plans for a Free IPA deployment for central auth and possibly Keycloak for IDP/2FA.

One thing I've held myself to (for the most part) - everything is either Terraform or Ansible driven. No (or very little) manual steps and everything is documented.

Synology NAS

jackett
radarr
sonarr
plex
syncthing
qbittorrent
deluge
other backups/sharing are mostly handled by synology apps

nzb360 on phone makes managing the *arr and torrent stuff a breeze

thinking about standing up a soulseek but I use it so infrequently I just boot it up and nab the song I'm looking for on my computer

I guess I'll be the first to rep Unraid!

My only server, currently, is a custom Unraid box - honestly a great homelabber OS, imo, with a great community behind it. Also I'm a software guy by day and I don't really want to have to learn enterprise-level complexity to get something up and running at home, which was my first mistake when I got into selfhosting.

I've got dozens of containers running, split into a few logical groups or application/docker-compose stacks. Network stuff (TPLink Omada controller, DDNS updaters), dependency stuff (databases, etc), a bunch of custom web projects big and small, a few FOSS web apps... and then the usual suspects. Media stack (radarr, sonarr, Jellyfin), cloud storage stack (Seafile), youtube clone stack (MediaCMS), and a huge smart home stack based on Home Assitant that grows in complexity every month.

I have a few general purpose VM's as well but I actually don't think any are running right now. I have one Windows VM to host servers for old windows games when needed, e.g. Halo.

I'm running a self-built system that's getting a bit long in the tooth. Gigabyte AX370X Gaming motherboard running a Ryzen 1800X cpu with 64 GB of ECC memory. Has about 10 spinning disks (formerly 15) - 4 WD Gold 5 TB drives running raid 6 equivalent in software, 5 WD Red drives that are quite old at this point running as a spare backup, and 1 WD purple drive that I used to use for DVR when I still had a cablecard tuner. Has one m.2 samsung 960 pro for boot.

It runs bare metal Hyper-V with storage pools for the hard drives, and i run two linux VM's on it, one for a tinker console and web server, along with an AirSonic server. This also serves as a reverse proxy to multiple various webui's I have for admin stuff. Then I run another Debian VM with Pterodactyl game server administration panel and backend game servers for me and friends - things like minecraft, 7days2die, valheim, etc.

I've got some stuff (Navidrome, filebrowser, Minecraft servers) on a VPS running Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS, but I'll be switching over to Debian 12 Bookworm once that's out.

Currently running on an SFF PC at home, Debian 11:

• Caddy
• Jellyfin
• *arr suite (just Sonarr, Radarr, and Bazarr for now)
• Tailscale

Everything except Tailscale and the Minecraft servers are created with compose files. I'll probably move my Navidrome setup to my home server once I get Lidarr and Soulseek (as a web UI) going.

I didn't know about rdt-client, I'll definitely check that out. I'm using *arr with Usenet nowadays, but still got the debrid subscription. As you said, it's pretty cheap. Cached torrents are always nice.

Pretty basic so far, mine is running from an old Dell laptop (i7-4th gen, 16GB of RAM, with the battery removed) plugged to a UPS, along with a 4TB HDD that is running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (with Livepatch) and running the following

• Deluge (controlled remotely through a Deluge client on my desktop, and using Transdroid on my smartphone)
• Plex
• IPFS
• Syncthing

Mostly to stream media files locally and over the Internet. The media itself is backed up remotely once in a while, but nothing that I wouldn't be able to find if something major happened to it.

I mostly use RSS feeds to automate the torrent downloads in Deluge, and it works well enough for me. I also have it auto-extract archives if the torrent is compressed upon completion, and it moves the files at the path I specified for each TV show.

I have a cobbled together mishmash of a bunch of different machines:

Shuttle DH110: Runs Proxmox 7.1, on which is a Home Assistant VM with a Coral TPU passthrough and an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS VM that has all of my media services running in docker containers via docker compose (*arr stack set up for usenet + Jellyfin).

Lenovo m910q: Also running Proxmox 7.1. A bunch of VMs here, not all of which run at the same time:
Win 10: (for when I HAVE to do something in Windows)
Fedora 36: Need to upgrade this one. For testing.
Debian 11: Runs most of my "productivity" stuff, like Paperless-NGX, Vikunja, etc.
This server also runs a few specialized RHEL 9 VMs that are used for teaching Red Hat Academy classes.

HP ProDesk 600 G5: Another Proxmox box, but this one runs 7.4 for testing. Also has an ancient Nvidia GT730 card in it passed through to a Debian 11 VM that I use as my main working environment. I remote into this VM via ThinLinc from a Dell Wyse 5070 Ext on my desk that runs Pop-OS. The VM is displayed on 2 of my 3 monitors, with the other one used by Pop for local things like USB drives, my webcam, etc.

Then there's a file server in an old janky box running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on bare metal with 3 12 TB Ironwolf drives that hold all of my media. Those drives will be moved to my current project soon:

A beefy server built from parts from my old gaming PC. Currently has an old RX 580 in it, but will be adding a Tesla P4 soon so I can do CUDA and AI stuff. It's in a Fractal R5 case that just happens to fit exactly on a shelf in my rack.

There's also Raspberry Pi 3b+ floating around somewhere that acts as a q (quorum) device for my Proxmox 7.1 cluster.

I also have a few Hetzner VPS' that run specific things, like Authentik, Gitlab Enterprise, Bookstack, Zammad, Vaultwarden, Seafile and a few other things I can't remember right now. Some of these will be moved to BeefyServer when it's ready to go.

I have an old HP Microserver Gen8 brought of eBay last year. Came with TrueNAS, but I found Unraid to be a lot easier to use. Currently running Jellyfin for all my ripped movies (can't rip movies on this which was a bit of an oversight), syncthing, vaultwarden and a MineCraft server for my son and I to play together. Was running a mix of Tailscale and Cloudflare tunnel for remote access, but currently am using Twingate which is working great.

It was a great learning curve, and I'll be building my own server from scratch in the near future, just because I like to tinker.

I run a VPS now but currently no self hosting at home. But some years back I set up a fleet of Raspberry Pi’s each with a ribbon camera and a free, open source security camera software to use as a home security system. I was never deeply worried about home security (knock on wood) so it was largely for fun, and I eventually configured it to amuse the kids by doing things like playing barnyard noises whenever motion was detected in some rooms. But everything takes maintenance so I eventually disassembled the system after the novelty of proving I could do it wore off.

More recently I’ve been thinking about reviving that RPI+motion system to create a home video-intercom system. I’m wondering if anyone here has done that and wants to share stories?

So far, just Navidrome (for music) and Jellyfin (for movies + shows). Right now I have Navidrome running on an Intel NUC with a USB external drive, and Jellyfin on my desktop PC which I do shut off from time to time. I'm in the process of building a DIY NAS/server with a J5040-ITX board and two 14TB drives (planning on doing ZFS pool) and once that's complete I'll move both services and all the data to that machine.

10000-foot view of what I have self-hosted or am currently self-hosting. Tho is not an exhaustive list, and I recently did "spring" cleaning on services I hardly used

== Hardware ==

OS: Everything is running Debian Bullseye, started upgrading some servers to bookworm today.

=== Servers ===

• 3 x Dell Optiplex 9020 SFF rescued from a local water district office. Hardware, RAM, Processor, and SSD completely maxed. Downsized from rack mount Dell R610's/HP G1 series
• 2 x Dell 9020s act as a 2-node Proxmox cluster
• 1 x Dell 9020 running OpenMediaVault as NAS
• 1 x rPi v4 8GB - misc
• 3 x rPi v3 - misc

=== Network ===

• 1 x ASUS RT-AX11000 acting as a primary node of a 3-node mesh
• 2 x ASUS RT-92U acting as satellite nodes
• 1 x 8 port bargain bin netgear switch, three servers connected to a switch which is connected to 2.5Gb port on primary ASUS
• The network is simple and flat now as my needs have changed.

=== USB ===
Primary ASUS and one secondary ASUS have USB drives attached, acting as a redundant backup/NAS storage

=== Security ===
Primary ASUS and one secondary ASUS have Arlo camera hubs connected which run 12 cameras across the property that consists of Arlo Pro 2 (legacy) and Arlo Pro 4 camera. Most cameras utilize solar panel chargers.

=== Proxmox ===

• 2 x Pihole server is utilizing keepalived and gravity-sync for redundancy. Pihole provides DNS blackholing and custom internal DNS forwarding for anything in my home lab. The primary ASUS router handles DHCP, and conditional forwarding is enabled on the pinhole
• 5 x Node Docker swarm, with three as managers running portioner for docker services. Service Deployment is automated with custom tooling with the entire environment config located in 1Password. Docker services that require a database server are consolidated to be either a MariaDB or PostgresDB VM so management and backups are easier
• 1 x Node Docker server, a management server that runs my external dynamic DNS and other base automation (n8n/ansible, etc.) that restarts/controls the rest of the environment.
• 1 x Zabbix VM for monitoring
• 1 x MariaDB server
• 1 x PostgreSQL Server
• 1 x Windows 11 VM - Outlook/Office365 use, only Windows device in the house.
• 3 x Misc - VMs cycled as needed for development work related to my job or personal needs.

=== Services ===
atuin - Saves all my bash/zsh history for everything to PostgreSQL
bookmarks - linkding instance, current writing my replacement
bookstack - Environment documentation and area to fine-tune documentation for work before pushing to confluence.
booter - NetBoot.xyz for PXE booting, provisioning
control - Home Assistant to control allow my IoT devices, smart plugs/lights, etc.
dashy - Currently testing as a replacement for Homar.
door - Homar dashboard
gitea - Interal git server for all my personal and backup work repos.
groceries - Gocry instance for kitchen inventory management.
homebox - general asset database for recording serial numbers, warranty, etc.
jupyter - Jupyper notebooks for fun and profit
markdown - Silverbullet Markdown editor. I use this to access my pkm, which I primary maintain with Obsidian
mastodon - Self-hosted mastodon server
mealie - Recipe storage and meal planner. I love to cook.
oauth - Authenik to handle Oauth for everything internal and external services I host on digital ocean.
paperless - Document management, currently sorting through years of neglected filing cabinets, drawers
photoprism - Photo manager.
plex - Video Media, etc. However, it's used less and less, and I am considering sunsetting it.
proxy-intranet - Internal Traefik reverse proxy instance; see DNS section.
proxy-public - Public Traefik reverse proxy instance see DNS section
resilio-swarm - Resilio Sync to sync files between my devices, etc
rss - FreshRSS for all my RSS feeds
search - Searxng MetaSerch
uptime - Uptime Kuma to monitor url uptime
youtrack - Jetbrains Youtrack Jira alternative
misc - multiple one-off services for code Im writing/testing for my work and personal.
n8n - Automation

=== DNS ===
I use multiple subdomains internally and externally.
MY_SERVICE.int.xyz.example.com - Internal Only services
MY_SERVICE.service.xyz.example.com - Internal Automation that controls everything, from deployment to recovery from power outage
MY_SERVICE.xyz.example.com - Services that are accessible externally are self-hosted internally
MY_SERVICE.example.com - Services that are external and hosted externally at a cloud vendor.

Running separate Trefik proxy instances internally allows me to dual home any service as both internal and external. It also allows me to disable either without disrupting the other. For example, I have automation that only opens some internal services as accessible externally based on the time of day. Via wireguard and shortcuts on IOS, I can trigger an automation to allow external access for services like FreshRSS or Linkding. This is very useful as I live in the country. Sometimes, due to poor cell service, the overhead of having a wireguard connect running can bog down my connection if it's already performing poorly.

I have a Dell Poweredge R730XD running TrueNAS Scale acting as my NAS. I have a R630 running Proxmox which runs 7 VMs for my Kubernetes cluster which all of my services (except for Home Assistant OS) run on. I'd like to replace the R630 with some kind of SFF PC (preferably made by Dell) but I'd want more than 1gbit networking which would require a network infrastructure upgrade which is expensive.

I have a dedicated server in France, at scaleway. Doesn't really count as self-hosted, but I've had it for almost twenty years (the hardware and location/country changed many times). It runs Debian and DirectAdmin (I bought a lifetime license back in the day, more than paid for itself!) Stuff like deluge goes in the server, personal web projects (also some professional websites), an openvpn and netfilter based system I made years ago that allows me and other users to quickly switch routes without disconnecting, and even the odd minecraft server at times.

I've wanted a NAS at home for years but it never seemed worth the cost. I never turn off my desktop computer anyway. Unfortunately it has to run Windows 10. It has five hard drives, all SSD, and gaming-friendly specs. When I moved here in November I had all the rooms in the house wired with cat6 cable, so the desktop computer can also be the media server (I'm using Universal Media Server, since it has worked fine for years so I haven't had much of a reason to change). Because it's apparently optimal for VR, I have three routers, including the ISP's locked down POS I have no control over.

Also in this network is currently one raspberry pi 3 running retropie. It's in the living room, where the controllers can easily be plugged. If I want to run linux stuff on a permanently connected device at home I can put it there. I own more raspberry pis but they are not currently in use.

I have a Dell PowerEdge T620. Got it when I worked at an MSP when a client was upgrading their server, so it's about 10yrs old now (I got it 2-3yrs ago). Think it's got 2 Intel Xeon E5-2640 CPUs, ~80GB RAM, and about 3TB (in a RAID-5 configuration).

It's running ESXI, with multiple VMs. 3 VMs of Windows Server (2016 & 2019). A few of my computers are on a domain, for testing and playing purposes, so those instances are acting as DCs. Also serves as my main home archive (just using Windows Server Backup to an external for backup) with lots of my music, movies, shows, etc that I've collected over the years.

Another VM hosts Ubuntu, which further hosts my Ubiquiti Unifi Controller and Wireguard VPN server, the latter which is in a Docker container (not that I really know anything about Docker yet). I've been wanting to set up a Plex (or alternative) server on this server, along with PiHole. Just been super lazy about doing those. Also need to invest in a UPS.

I have a couple of other Dell servers. I was messing with Unraid on one of them a couple years ago, but otherwise they just sit unpowered and in a closet. At least until I can figure out something else to do with them.

• PiHole for DNS ad block
• Navidrome, a media server
• Syncthing
• Calibre ebook server
• Minio for S3 compatible storage
• Outline for wiki/notes
• Dex for authentication (currently only with Outline)
• Gitea for private source hosting
• vaultwarden
• Prometheus + InfuxDB + Grafana for monitoring
• Paperless for automatic OCR of PDFs
• Radicale for Caldav/CardDAV sync
• Plausible for blog analytics

I'm honestly surprised a single Raspberry Pi 4B with 8G memory and 240G SSD can handle this much and not even touch 50% utilization.

Everything is configured declaratively with NixOS, cannot imagine ever doing this without it. Secrets are almost all deployed with agenix, although I might experiment with Hashicorp Vault with stack of Pi Zero WS I have lying around.

It is really addictive, though :)

I put up an i5 11400 with 16Gb to work as a cloud file hosting, for starters.

I want a Coreboot based mother board (think the MSI X670-A) to avoid firmware backdoors. The idea is to set it up with a Container based Server for DNS, DHCP and other basic services for myself. Still, I am short on money to set up any HDD farm.

I mainly gave up on VMs, since they involve a lot of maintenance, while Podman Rootless gives high-security and I have it all in one interface.

Currently my home server is a Mac Pro 5,1 (2x Intel X5680 CPUs, 48GB of RAM, Radeon Pro WX 3200 4GB, Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SSD main disk plus a bunch of spinning rust storage disks) which used to be my main desktop. While it does perform home server duties, it also serves as an HTPC and is hooked up to my TV. I have limited space, so currently using this same machine for both purposes works best for me even though it would probably be more ideal to switch the HTPC duties to a separate mini PC or whatever.

It now runs Gentoo (because I always run Gentoo on any personal device which runs Linux ;-) ). The main things I run on it are Apache, NextCloud, SABnzbd, ProFTPD, Samba. Occasionally I'll spin up some random game server on it (e.g. Minecraft) depending on what I'm currently playing.

Since I depend on this machine for HTPC uses too, I try to keep all these services running in Docker containers to somewhat isolate things from the host OS. For a long while, I used to install these services directly on the host system, but occasionally I'd accidentally break something and that ended up becoming annoying especially if it somehow broke my ability to watch some show or movie at the end of the day until I fixed the problem. For a brief while years ago I switched to running most of the services in VM's hosted on this machine (via VirtualBox headless), but in recent years I just switched this all to Docker and have spent time to ensure everything is set up nicely, starts up automatically, and most importantly, is documented for my future self! Much easier than VM's and containers provides enough isolation that I'm happy with. I briefly dabbled with the idea of something like K3S, but decided I didn't want to over-complicate for my future self.

For the HTPC stuff, nothing special, I just use Kodi.

I've got everything split between a PCengines APU and an old gaming PC to which I added six platter drives in RAID 10.

The former hosts a small IRC network where my IOT-type devices send alerts and logs to a channel, as well has hosting the Unifi wlan controller software, a syncthing node, and a few other things.

The latter is basically a media server.

Finished this build a few months ago, so far I'm really happy with the hardware and software config.

Hardware:
Ryzen 5 5600g
16GB of memory
4x 4TB Ironwolf drives
2x 500gb nvme SSD

Software:
AlmaLinux 9
Hard drives are for the bigger storage (ssd backup, jellyfin libraries, ...) and are in md RAID5
SSDs are used to boot and for docker volumes and are in RAID1
All of my services are run with docker using docker compose (git repo where I push/pull the .yml files)
Restic for backups from SSD to HDD, from SSD to backblaze and from SSD+HDD to external HDD

Services:
TailScale for ext access (I really should set up full WireGuard some day...)
Jellyfin
qBitTorrent
NextCloud (storage, contacts, calendars, ...)
PaperlessNGX (document scanning)
Gitea
Grafana + Prometheus
HomeAssistant

And some other minor ones I probably forgot about

For my build, I pretty much drank the Serverbuilds kool-aid and followed their lovely NAS Killer 4.0 guide on how to assemble a LGA 1155-based server for cheap. For some of the software decisions I defaulted to the wisdom of Perfect Media Server. Both Serverbuilds and PMS are fantastic resources for those new to the idea of building a NAS, I can't recommend them enough.

The weirdest design decision I made for this was to get a free domain from freenom (sadly, all new registration is discontinued) and map it to the intranet IP. Companies like Google and IBM use this tactic all the time so it's not too weird but it allows for my entire self-hosted system to sit within my home network while still allowing for SSL certs thanks to the DNS challenge feature of letssncrypt/traefik.

The Hardware

• A cheap storage cupboard from wayfair filled with mounting brackets made of wood planks and custom 3D printed bits and bobs for the mobo, power supply, and stack of hard drives. Cooling fans with mesh filters are mounted on the back panel to keep cool, cat hair free air circulating from the back to the front.

• Tyan S5512WGM2NR LGA 1155 Motherboard. Bought secondhand for $25 on ebay. It has a built in SAS2008 controller with a big collection of SAS ports (that are disguised as SATA ports, weirdly enough) for connecting loads of drives.

• Intel Xeon CPU E3-1270 V2, also secondhand from ebay. It's been performing like a champ but I wish I could have used a CPU with built-in quicksync for hardware video transcoding.

• 16 GB of DDR3 1600MHz ram. Even with all the software I run, I never seem to use more than maybe 7GB of it.

• Loads of mixed SAS/SATA hard drives. I run a JBOD made up of a bunch of various size drives; some newly shucked from WD My Book storage, others are industrial SAS drives from sellers that offer custom pricing for serverbuild folks on their discord. The usable unified storage total is 38TB over three drives with one snapRAID parity drive.

The Middleware & OS

• Pretty boring but I run Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. It's stable, I'm very familiar with it, it's well supported by all the software I need (mainly docker), and supports updates till 2027.

• Docker is the tool of choice for hosting all the applications I want to run.

• Traefik (within a docker container) is the reverse proxy I reach for after struggling with nginx-proxy for years. It's simple, well documented, has community support for weird setups, and the in-line-with-compose.yml configuration means I define my containers and how they connect to the outside world all in the same place.

• For some level of data security, I use SnapRAID as defined by Perfect Media Server so that I can recover from an eventual disk failure and Restic for onsite/offsite backups of service configuration and any databases.

The Software

Main Stack

• traefik - Reverse proxy, maps all the containers to servicename.domain.tld addresses so anyone on my intranet can access things. Also sorts out letsencrypt for the domain.
• homer - Awesome frontend/homepage for all my services.
• miniflux - RSS Reader, is my most used self-hosted app and a great example of how self-hosted software should be made.
• scrutiny - SMART drive health frontend for all connected drives. Also is set to email me if any of my hard drives have issues when tested for quick replacement.
• plex - Self-hosted Netflix. The reason I started this entire venture.
• jellyfin - Not used but kept around in case Plex goes nuts.
• sonarr - *arr
• radarr - *arr
• jackett - *arr
• autobrr - *arr
• unpackerr - *arr
• overseerr - *arr
• gluetun - VPN middleware with kill-switch.
• qbittorrent - Torrent client, it's not bad but rtorrent is probably better if you hoard.
• flood - mobile-friendly frontend for qbittorrent, loads faster than the default webUI but has less features.
• pyk-m-s - Self-hosted registrations server so I can use stuff like office or LTSC.
• youtube-dl - Automated downloader of youtube videos, uses sponsorblock to magically edit out any burned-in ads or outros/intros before dumping them into plex.
• calibre - All-in-one eBook managment with user accounts and send-to-kindle support. Makes uploading and editing ebook metadata really easy.
• kavita - eBook reader with mobile support and better UI than calibre.
• miniserve - File browser webUI. Used to download stuff directly from the server.
• syncthing - File syncing for mobile and PC.
• samba - Windows share server. What a bear to setup.
• reddit-save - Saves all the saved items from my reddit account, now disabled.
• portainer - WebUI for my docker compose stack. Useful for checking container logs and restarting/updating things.
• gitea - self-hosted github alternative. Used to mirror my private github repos mainly.
• thelounge - IRC web client. Works solidly and looks pretty for those that still linger about in IRC servers. They also send out free stickers if you ask them.
• jupyter - python notebook for those times when you just need to test something.
• wallabag - Read-it-later webpage archiver/bookmarking service. Pretty mucn self-hosted Pocket. Is tripped up by
• vaultwarden - self-hosted bitwarden server. I need to actually migrate to this. I don't trust massive external password safe servers after the lastpass debacle.
• node-red - Weird web automation thing. Tried to use for scraping food prices from local stores but they all use anti-scraping tech so it just sits there doing nothing.
• navidrome - The first try at moving my massive music collection onto the server so I could use subsonic clients anywhere within the house. Is too opinionated about Various Artists albums, dropped but still around.
• gonic - The better subsonic server. It's lightweight, scans instantly, and is more sane about tagging, filesystem setup, and UI. Does not offer a webUI.

Backup Stack

• apprise - Notification middleware. Really neat project. Allows for creating a custom webAPI that takes in messages from other apps (usually as POST requests via curl) and generates formatted messages to send to anything like discord, email, slack, ntfy, etc. Used to alert me of any oddness with the backups.
• 6 different copies of resticker (AKA mazzolino/restic) for compressed, de-duped backups of docker container configuration and databases. Three each for onsite and offsite restic repos: backup, check, prune. All are configured to run at different intervals in the dead of night when everyone is asleep and it can go about its "stop containers, backup, restart containers" business without kicking someone out.

Feel free to message me about any of the services if you're curious. Sometimes getting things to work fully takes some time and hunting around on reddit threads that are probably long-gone at this point.

EDIT: small english fixes since I wrote this all in one messy go.

So since moving to a new home with solar panels, I've been working to lower my power footprint as much as possible.

My one Ryzen Gigagabyte motherboard was having problems I didn't have time to troubleshoot, and the RMA already came back with 'no issue'. So I took a different tactic.

Picked up a 5 disk USB enclosure. Plugged in my three 6 TB drives configured in a BTRFS raid 5. Flashed raspbian, to a Pi4, did initial user setup and enabled SSH, then 1 ansible script and a reboot and I am back online.

I stripped down my config to Vaultwarden, Home Assitant, Transmission, and Grocy with Traefik for proxy, all in one docker-compose.

I use pcloud for important backups (have lifetime 2TB plan), with secrets encrypted first. Use rclone for replicating.

(may edit later with more).

I'm surprised at the number of micropcs running server VMs, I thought I was weird for doing that but it appears to be the norm for self-hosted servers nowadays.

rdt-client sounds really cool

I've been using a service called plex-debrid that lets me mount my debrid account as a folder for Plex streaming that I've really liked

This sound like the next iteration of that