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Ask HN: What do you self host

9 pointsby julietteebalmost 2 years ago
I was wondering what other people self host as I recently got a new server and wanted to use it for more. I'm currently self hosting Matrix, Gitea, and Nextcloud.

7 comments

mattbgatesalmost 2 years ago
Aside from saving more money on my hosting with a &quot;managed server&quot;... DreamHost was the one who taught me about the importance of that. DreamHost was my very first shared hosting and I loved it. But I outgrew it very quickly. Then I went and upgraded to one of their new services, DreamPress, at the time... which was great until it wasn&#x27;t.<p>I left them simply because if my website went down... at first, they gave you control over at least restarting your server but that disappeared and I needed that. If I had to start, I had to contact their support team who might take a few hours to respond. I couldn&#x27;t have my website being down for more than a few minutes. So I got on a server that allowed me to restart as I deemed fit. Being able to SSH into your own server for additional things you need to do also is a bonus. And I prefer having that control over something I am running then having to reach out to support any time I needed it.
ArtWombalmost 2 years ago
Vintage Nintendo Pokemon Rom Collection<p>Fair Use. Air gapped. Recycled from work Intel Gen 3 HP Laptop HDD server. For initiating kindergarteners into the joys of &quot;binary corruption&quot; (and get ash ketchum to say silly things). But I am into it! SQLite3 hiscore persistence. WASM emulation. AI upscaling. As a hobby? It&#x27;s provided wayyy more fun than Minecraft &amp; Roblox combined ;)
legrandealmost 2 years ago
I toyed with Umbrel[0] but only to try it out. I was unsure of the security model of having all my eggs in one basket. I only self-host things as separate and distinct instances now.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umbrel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umbrel.com&#x2F;</a>
mindcrimealmost 2 years ago
Previously on HN:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33657947">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=33657947</a><p>FWIW, my answer is still mostly the same as it was then:<p>- Mediawiki<p>- Apache Roller<p>- Apache HTTPD<p>- eJabberd<p>- SuiteCRM (a fork of SugarCRM)<p>- Bugzilla<p>- Mosquitto<p>- Jenkins<p>- Artifactory
shortrounddev2almost 2 years ago
I use windows as a file server to share media files with my streaming devices
zzo38computeralmost 2 years ago
I self-host HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, and QOTD.
flamboyant_ridealmost 2 years ago
Syncthing