I just recently started playing around with an old pc as my homeserver and am curious of any recommendations for lesser known self hostable foss software that you would recommend

  • beerd@beehaw.orgOP
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    1 year ago

    I just started using podman yesterday, and only used docker for about a week before that, im excited for the learning to be had in this area. A couple days ago i tried pihole, for some reason it didnt serve the web interface, but i will definitely kepp on trying.

    • derived_allegory@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Yacht is a great UI for starting a container, especially for self hosting, there are a good amount of tutorial online.

      I personally also host

      • syncthings that will sync my app settings on the phone, and push it to my cloud drive,
      • pi-hole to block trackers. I generally let ad through, but not trackers.
      • jellyfin for media library
      • transmission for (cough, cough) seeding fedora, mint and other free and open source, and 100% legal stuff.
      • home assistant for automations.

      Some other things you can try:

      • a home Minecraft server, not exactly FOSS, but if you are into it, you should do it.
      • Nextcloud for syncing photo and documents, but remember to keep a offsite backup.