I often see wireguard and adguard or pihole mentioned. There’s a service that provides a combination of wireguard and pihole in 1 docker compose file and has a web interface for wireguard clients (wgeasy) called wirehole. Been using our for 2 years or so, very happy with it.
In my opinion the most elegant solution for an ad blocking VPN.
Wordpress (I’m evaulating this for a suitable Joplin replacement ) In short - I found that it’s easier to reference a site instead of installing Joplin when I rebuild my computer.
Psono password manager
You may wonder why I am using Zitadel and Authentik, I first started with Zitadel, and moved to Authentik, but am evaluating both. They both have their positives. So far Authentik has been the most useful for me. And about the two password managers, I use Vaultwarden as it supports everything I need including Passkey support. My step daughter who is an adult is disabled so having an easier password like Psono makes it easier for her.
Because, for Home Assistant, I moved it from Raspberry Pi 4 to a KVM and found it faster. I use Proxmox for that which I found to play nicer with it than just setting up a Debian Server and spinning up a KVM via QEMU on a desktop. I’ve been there and had issues over time. As for why LXC’s they are smaller and the only ones I use are from https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ which makes them super simple to set up and run!
My whole infrastructure is designed so that my homeserver is expendable.
Therefore my most important tool is Syncthing. It is decentral, which is awesome for uptime and reducing dependance on a single point of failure. My server is configured as the “introducer” node for convenience.
I try to find file-based applications, such as KeePassXC or Obsidian, whenever I can so that I can sync as much as possible with Syncthing.
Therefore there is (luckily) not much left to host and all of it is less critical:
Nextcloud AIO: calendar, contacts, RSS, Syncthing files via external storage
Webserver: Firefox search plugins (Why is this necessary, Mozilla?!), custom uBlock Origin filter list, personal website
So the worst thing that can happen when my server fails is: I need to import my OPML to a cloud provider and I loose syncing for some less important stuff and my homepage is not accessible.
Since I just rebuilt my server, I can confirm that I managed a whole week without it just fine. Thank you very much, Syncthing!
After looking at other’s lists I think I am missing a good document server. Emby isn’t the best music and photo server so I could look at improving that, but it has been good enough for those purposes that I haven’t felt like going to the trouble of installing anything else.
Aster: Multiseat software for Windows allows several users to work on the same PC.
LaunchBox: Frontend for DOSBox, modern PC games and emulated console platforms.
I bought both Plex and Emby. I started with Plex but had some technical issues related to my machine having multiple IP addresses so I switched to Emby. I tried Jellyfin before switching to Emby but it wasn’t as capable as Plex or Emby (at least at the time) and I wanted something with some commercial support behind it. I have been pretty satisfied with Emby, but do wish it would get requested features added in a much more timely manner.
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Vaultwarden AdGuardHome + Sync Jellyfin + FinAmp + Supersonic Linkding + Linkding Injector LLDAP Calibre-web + Kobo
Immich for photos (the only proper Google photos alternative) Nextcloud for storing documents and photos (read by immich). Jellyfin to replace Plex.
I often see wireguard and adguard or pihole mentioned. There’s a service that provides a combination of wireguard and pihole in 1 docker compose file and has a web interface for wireguard clients (wgeasy) called wirehole. Been using our for 2 years or so, very happy with it.
In my opinion the most elegant solution for an ad blocking VPN.
Syncthing.
Wow Change Detection seems like a much better alternative to curling a webpage and using grep to search for particular elements… :/
It’s easy to set up and use, I’d recommend it.
Under Proxmox, I have the following running currently:
**As LXC Containers: **
As a VM
The rest is all docker on the host OS which is Debian 12, this is not my complete list but the most used ones in my world:
Protected by Authentik’s SSO
You may wonder why I am using Zitadel and Authentik, I first started with Zitadel, and moved to Authentik, but am evaluating both. They both have their positives. So far Authentik has been the most useful for me. And about the two password managers, I use Vaultwarden as it supports everything I need including Passkey support. My step daughter who is an adult is disabled so having an easier password like Psono makes it easier for her.
Any specific reason you’re running Proxmox? Why not run everything in containers with one VM for HA? Why LXCs?
Because, for Home Assistant, I moved it from Raspberry Pi 4 to a KVM and found it faster. I use Proxmox for that which I found to play nicer with it than just setting up a Debian Server and spinning up a KVM via QEMU on a desktop. I’ve been there and had issues over time. As for why LXC’s they are smaller and the only ones I use are from https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ which makes them super simple to set up and run!
I like Keepass - Password manager housed in an encrypted database. (dont’ lose your master password)
My whole infrastructure is designed so that my homeserver is expendable.
Therefore my most important tool is Syncthing. It is decentral, which is awesome for uptime and reducing dependance on a single point of failure. My server is configured as the “introducer” node for convenience.
I try to find file-based applications, such as KeePassXC or Obsidian, whenever I can so that I can sync as much as possible with Syncthing.
Therefore there is (luckily) not much left to host and all of it is less critical:
So the worst thing that can happen when my server fails is: I need to import my OPML to a cloud provider and I loose syncing for some less important stuff and my homepage is not accessible.
Since I just rebuilt my server, I can confirm that I managed a whole week without it just fine. Thank you very much, Syncthing!
Baby Buddy for tracking my kid’s… Everything.
After looking at other’s lists I think I am missing a good document server. Emby isn’t the best music and photo server so I could look at improving that, but it has been good enough for those purposes that I haven’t felt like going to the trouble of installing anything else.
Highly recommend ditching emby for jellyfin!!
I bought both Plex and Emby. I started with Plex but had some technical issues related to my machine having multiple IP addresses so I switched to Emby. I tried Jellyfin before switching to Emby but it wasn’t as capable as Plex or Emby (at least at the time) and I wanted something with some commercial support behind it. I have been pretty satisfied with Emby, but do wish it would get requested features added in a much more timely manner.
Can someone tell me the difference between Wireguard vs Wireguard Easy?
I already have Wireguard installed, so I just wanted to know if I should switch.
Wireguard-easy is plain old wireguard with with a nice web interface for management, that’s all.
Thanks, I’ll switch when I get my RaspPi5 for sure.
Immich for image sharing and backup
Readeef for RSS reader
Blocky for dns
Jellyfin for multimedia streaming
Pfsense, Bitwarden, NAS running Debian, Kubernetes cluster. I have plans to expand And add more services when I get some of my newer hardware online.