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?
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.
Neat website that might help: https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
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Fewer Letters More Letters 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
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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!
certbotjust worked for me.I’ve got Immich with ML enabled on my Rpi (8GB) along with many other services
