
- Nextcloud + OnlyOffice
- *arr media management series (Lidarr, Sonarr, etc)
- Gitea
- Vaultwarden
- PiHole
- Jellyfin
- Wiki-js
- Lemmy
- Prometheus/Grafana/Loki
Currently all containerised running on a debian VM on a Rockylinux Qemu/KVM hypervisor. Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷
Hardware is an circa 2012 gaming machine with a few ZFS raids for all of my Linux ISOs. It lives an extremely tortured existence and longs for the sweet release of death.
Toying with the idea of migrating it all to on-prem virtualised kubernetes cluster using helm charts to manage the stacks and using NFS mounts for persistent storage because I hate myself (and to upskill I guess)
What about you?
I self-host a ton of software. For context, I’m leveraging docker-compose on top of TrueNAS SCALE:
- Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- the basic dockprom exporters: nodeexporter, cadvisor
- NUT Exporter (UPS statistics)
- PiHole exporter
- UptimeKuma
- Ad blocking
- PiHole
- unbound (censor-resilient DNS resolver)
- dnsproxy (in order to use PiHole on my smartphone and laptop outside my home network)
- Media
- Plex
- Transmission
- Sonarr
- Radarr
- Bazarr
- Jackett
- Flaresolverr
- Services exposed to the outside world
- Bunkerweb (security-hardened nginx reverse-proxy)
- Bird.makeup (Twitter to Mastodon bridge)
- FreshRSS
- n8n (automation software, think IFTTT or Zapier, but open-source and on steroids)
- Self-Host Planning Poker (my very own software!)
- Courier (parcel tracking software)
- Overseerr (user-friendly interface for friends and family to request movies and shows, plugs into Sonarr, Radarr and Plex)
- Lemmy
- Kresus (personal finance)
- Wireguard (VPN I use as a gateway into my home network)
- Caddy (reverse proxy with HTTPS, I use it for serving locally everything I do not expose to the outside world)
- Restic server (an HTTP server to push Restic backups from various computers at home)
- wakeonlan-cron-docker (because TrueNAS doesn’t allow installing WoL package. Once again, I made it myself)
What I’m looking into at the moment:
- Tandoor Recipes (deployed but I cannot make CSRF work with my reverse-proxy so far)
What I’ll be looking into in the near future:
- Promtail + Grafana Loki to aggregate Docker containers logs in Prometheus/Grafa
- Immich (Google Photos alternative with automated backups from smartphones)
How did you do Caddy on TrueNAS Scale? Docker-compose also? Im currently hosting a lot of stuff you are, but all with truecharts apps via docker. Ultimately used traefik this time, but I like the simplicity of the caddyfile a lot.
When I read through your post, it feels like you are me in 5 years if everything goes well.
I run everything on top of the docker-compose chart, which allows me much more flexibility that I would ever have with official TrueNAS apps and TrueCharts.
I see, thanks! Wanted to get my stuff up and running as quick as possible, but Ill be looking into doing things this way next.
I don’t know how I haven’t ever heard of n8n before but I finally was able to get my old ass mFi controller to be able to completely talk to Home Assistant again. Thank you!
- Monitoring
Nothing 😀but I’m still enjoying the community
Far quicker to share a screenshot of my dashboard

- Categories
- House
- Home Assistant: front-end
- Frigate: CCTVs and NVR
- Node-RED: node.js automations
- ESPhome: IoT devices
- Homelab
- Grafana: Monitoring data
- Pi-hole (primary): Local DNS & ad blocking
- Pi-hole (secondary): Local DNS & ad blocking
- Portainer: Docker container management
- Proxmox #1: PVE node: chewy
- Proxmox Backup #1: PBS node: chewy
- Proxmox #2: PVE node: hansolo
- Proxmox Backup #1: PBS node: hansolo
- Nginx Proxy Manager: Reverse proxy server
- Media
- nzbget: Usenet downloading
- Deluge: Torrent downloading
- Plex: Media server
- Overseerr: Media library management
- Tautulli: Plex reporting
- Prowlarr: Indexer managerment
- Data
- Paperless-ngx: Document management
- Photoprism: Photo library
- Calibre: eBook library
- Readarr: eBook management
- Sync thing: File sync
- Joplin Server: Notebook sync
- Homelab Devices
- Firewall: OPNsense on Proxmox
- Primary NAS: Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ V2
- Secondary NAS: Qnap TS-410
- Switch: Netgear GS324TP
- Wifi: Aruba IAP-225 Virtual controller
- Printer: Fuji Xerox CM115w
- Health
- rey: Raspberry Pi 4
- lando: Raspberry Pi 3
- quigon: Raspberry Pi 3
- bobafett: Raspberry Pi 2
- jangofett: Raspberry Pi 3
- Databases
- Prometheus: Pi-hole stats
- InfluxDB: Timeseries databases
- Radius DB (Adminer): PostgreSQL database
- Tools
- VS Code: Remote code editor
- searxng: Private web search
- Changedetection: Monitor website changes
- Octoprint: 3D printing
- Shellinabox: Ajax console client
- Media Libraries
- Sonarr: TV show library
- Sonarr (anime): Anime TV show library
- Radarr (4K): 4K movie library
- Radarr: Movie library
- Radarr (Anime): Anime movie library
- House
- Categories
Is there an anime radarr / sonarr setup guide you followed?
I haven’t finished setting those up, but will be using TRaSH Guides as a starting point. I used their guides for my regular 1080p and 4K setups, and have been pretty happy with them.
Thanks a lot, wallabanged and will look at it later 😁
wow! Very long list!
Edit:
What dashboard are you using for the app overview?Dashy I see in the answersWhat software is the dashboard in? I’ve seen similar ones here before but not sure what people are using to see it all at a glance like that.
That’s Dashy. I’ve only just started using it recently. I like it because I can edit it on the fly - no need to dive into the YAML behind it (which I had to do when I was using Homer).
Quicker but not ideal for users with visual impairments :/
Hello, I went through and wrote down all the applications and services from the image, enjoy.
Well, instead of being a victim and fucking whinging about it just ask. Not my job to guess if people have a vision impairment, but I’ll happily oblige if asked nicely.
- Scheduled Jobs
- script to update subdomain ( E.g. home.domain.com) with external home IP address
- script to run snapraidrunner
- script to check docker services and report healthchecks
- script to update and clean kodi libraries
- script to backup with borg
- Snapraid on 4x8TB
- NAS - Samba shares
- backups
- computers
- phones
- public
- media
- music
- tv
- movies
- backups
- SSH Tunnel
- WireGuard (primary way to access services away from home)
- Print server
- Docker
- Server 1 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570T 8GB RAM)
- healthchecks (monitors services and makes sure scripts run otherwise notifies me)
- smtp_to_telegram (most services support email notification, this is a way to use the built in notfication of most services but be notified instantly)
- trilium (notes with tree structure organization)
- pinry (image board, think pinterest)
- portainer (GUI to manage docker services)
- adguardhome (DNS adblocking like pihole but better in my opinion)
- rustdesk (remote admin software, think remote desktop)
- ulogger (what I use to map my motorcyle rides)
- dozzle (docker log viewer)
- mariadb (database for services that require mysql)
- postgres (database for services that require postgres)
- Server 2 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570, 20GB RAM)
- omada-controller (controller for my tp-link router/switches/aps)
- home assistant (control smart devices, setup automations)
- airsonic (stream my music)
- airsonic-refix (an alternative GUI for airsonic)
- paperless-ngx (searchable document archive, I keep manuals and some receipts and tax documents)
- redis (dependency for some services)
- lidarr (manages music and auto downloads monitored artists/albums)
- jackett (manages torrent trackers and can combine them into one query for things like lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
- openbooks (download ebooks for my paperwhite)
- sabnzbd (client for usenet downloads, integrates into lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
- sonarr (manages tv shows and auto downloads them)
- esphome (makes flashes firmware on devices easier)
- agendav (web calendar, integrates with baikal or any caldav service)
- baikal (keeps my calendar and contacts)
- photoprism (photo manager, prefer over immich until immich has better read only integration)
- stash (nsfw)
- deluge (torrent client, integrates with lidarr/sonarr/etc.)
- portainer (GUI to manage docker services)
- dozzle (docker log viewer)
- nginx proxy manager (use it to set subdomains for the services… E.g. arisonic.home.lan)
- wallabag (save webpages for later viewing, doesn’t seem to work on a lot of sites so I usually just use SingleFile and save to a folder on the NAS instead so I might down this)
- syncthing (mainly use it to backup all the photos and /sdcard/ dir on my phone, but also keep some configs synced between laptops/desktops)
- adguardhome (backup to the other adguard dns)
- nginx
- Homer dashboard (my favorite dashboard, but been looking at homepage lately)
- DokuWiki (favorite wiki, prefer the classic styling)
- minimalist-web-notepad (very fast and easy notes for quick and temporary notes)
- Server 1 (ThinkCentre M93p, Intel i5-4570T 8GB RAM)
This individual fornicates
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This guy just said “I’m gonna make my own internet, with blackjack and hookers”
- Scheduled Jobs
- apache - web server/reverse proxy + PHP-FPM interpreter
- rsnapshot - remote/local backup service
- dnsmasq - lightweight DNS server
- gitea - Git service/software forge
- graylog - log capture, storage, real-time search and analysis tool
- custom homepage/dashboard
- jellyfin - media center
- jitsi - video conferencing and screen sharing
- libvirt - virtualization toolkit
- dovecot - IMAP mailbox server
- matrix + element-web - real-time communication server and web client
- netdata - lightweight real-time monitoring and alerting system
- rsyslog/lynis/debsecan/fail2ban/various log and security scanners…
- mumble - low-latency VoIP/voice chat server
- nextcloud - file hosting/sharing/synchronization and collaboration platform
- openldap + ldap-account-manager + self-service password - LDAP directory server and web management tools
- postgresql - database server
- samba - cross-platform file sharing server
- shaarli - bookmarking & link sharing
- ssh/sftp - remote access and file transfer
- transmission - bittorrent client/web interface
- tt-rss - web-based news feed reader
- wireguard - fast and modern VPN server
All running on Debian 11/12 physical hosts, VMs or VPS, deployed and managed through https://xsrv.readthedocs.io
- *arr media services
- tailscale
- mullvad
- Jellyfin
- qbittorrent
- pihole
- unbound
- Minecraft server
- Portainer-CE
On an OrangePi with a powered USB hub using a bunch of SSDs.
All except the Minecraft server running on Podman.
How’s the support for the Orange Pi SBC?
As far as ARM SBCs go, I’d say B tier. Not as good as a RaspberryPi or RockPi but armbian installed great. Had a pain debugging the rockchip video decoder in a container, and still have issues with USB hard drives.
If you’re coming from x86_64, be prepared for some unique challenges.
- Vaultwarden
- audiobookshelf (Best audiobook and podcast server)
- Teamspeak3
- Sinusbot (music bot for Ts3)
- SWAG (reverse proxy with built-in fail2ban)
- Plex
- Sonarr / Radarr / Overseerr / Jackett
- Lemmy
- Uptime-Kuma
- Nextcloud
- Bookstack
- LanguageTool (Grammar and spellcheck)
- Multiple game servers depending on what our group is playing. Currently, Minecraft with PaperMC
- calibre / calibre-web (calibre with guacamole to manage library and calibre-web to access it with a webpage and send to kindle)
- DailyTxT (Diary server)
- Libreddit (Alternative reddit front end that doesn’t use the official API)
- Rallly (scheduling for groups)
- Tandoor (recipe manager and shopping list)
- Tautili
- Grafana
- Pihole
Does send to kindle go through amazon?
Wouldn’t you have your kindle disconnected from the net since ur pirating?
Amazon has always turned a blind eye to the ‘send to kindle’ backdoor for getting pirated content onto the kindle
I only self-host a MediaWiki website at the moment, along with a PPSSPP adhoc server for said game that the wiki is related to. I want to self-host a lot more stuff, but storage space is expensive, and I don’t really want to leave things running at home all the time either as it will eat into my electricity bill.
Nextcloud and OnlyOffice are what I’m interested in next, and perhaps a Fediverse platform.
e-mail, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, koel (pretty good music server imo), Minecraft server for the homies, Grocy, CalDAV and CardDAV, Nextcloud and probably something else I forgot and can’t look up right now
Nice, what’s your email stack look like?
Postfix and cyrus, but I had to ask for help to set it up, so sooner or later I’ll just move to mailcow :P
File sharing / storage via SSH, Minecraft server.
Initially I was using rocky+podman but inevitably hit something I wanted to run that just straight up needed docker and was too much effort to try and get working. 🤷
As someone who’s used Podman for a while, though possibly not as extensively as you, what was it you hit that needed Docker? So far I’ve gotten everything to work with Podman, though sometimes I’ve had to RTFM and specify some extra command line parameters.
I’ve never used podman but always wondered if it was able to use the host’s network stack to perform things like sending ICMP packets.
osTicket, Radarr, Sonarr, Bazarr, Plex, SABnzbd
the webpage you see in the pic is flame (also hosted)

Is there a noob breakdown somewhere of what each of those are?
Most are self explanatory if you google their names individually. If you need any specific explanations, just let me know I’ll fill you in.
- Lemmy
- Searx
- Matrix
- Xmpp
- Soapbox
- Lotide
- Peertube
- Nextcloud
- Nostr
- Wordpress
- Plex (sorta borderline of this counts)
- Invidious
- Pfsense
Running on a total of 5 fanless commercial grade sign PCs. That’s why the motto of my websites is “this site runs of parts scavenged from a roadside sign”
1x core 2 duo running Lemmy
2x atom d2550s running xmpp, matrix, lotide, searx, nostr, and invidious
2x core i5 4000 series running everything else
I try to run bare metal so I can stick my fingers into things.
I don’t really know what I’m doing so I’m currently banging my head against a wall trying to get nextcloud to work alongside a wordpress site both in docker, and this Lemmy is on a linode. I know a lot more about self hosting than I did a month ago that’s for sure, I wonder how long until I start trying to use ssh in my dreams.
I feel this pain. Trying to figure out how to get my HomeAssistant docker install to talk to the rest of my network and HomeKit is driving me up a wall. Integrating things by IP address is not fun lol But I know so much more than when I started doing it!














