Home server and VPS, what to host where?
Hi,
For some time i have been selfhosting stuff on my home server. Been using tailscale for admin remote access and pangolin cloud for public services for family. (I am behind CGNAT, no ipv6)
Recently i bought myself 3 VPS's.
2x very small (256MB RAM, 3GB storage) linux Alpine with limited networking - shared ipv4 with 3 ports for me and ipv6. I installed Tailscale on both of them, it doesnt run perfectly but works after few workarounds. On one of them i am running Beszel and Ntfy so i have monitoring and offline notifications for my homelab if it goes down.
I have no idea what would make sense to run on second one. Uptime kuma is to heavy and i am not sure of i need it anyway when i have Beszel already. I am now trying Glance dashboard on it but it could also run on my home server, there is no benefit of running it on vps.
My third vps is 2GB RAM 15GB storage with full networking. I plan to use it for my Pangolin instance + maybe Headacale. But i think there would be enough space to add something else if needed.
What services would you say benefit from beeing hosted on a VPS instead of home server? What are you hosting this way?
P. S. on my homelab i have full *are stack with Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Immich, Zerobyte, Home Assistant, Termix, Adguard Home.
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Best way to manage storage for a homelab
I have several 1tb drives that i want to use in a home lab. I would like a way to use all of these drives in a home lab. I will be hosting things like nextcloud and vikunja on this homelab. I would also like to make backups of all of the data on the drives. What would be the best way to organize these drives?
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Need Recommendation: A selfhosted solution to combine a media server plus team communication/collaboration?
First off I'm new to self hosting. My only experience is hosting my own modded Minecraft Server to play with friends.
I'm in a charity that works with at risk kids and I've started to help out more by filming our events on an action camera so we can go back and review footage to see where we can improve for safety reasons.
Looking for a selfhosted solution that combines both a media server (like jellyfin) and team communication/collaboration (like slack or discord) that can:
1. Give me great control on who has access with individual logins.
2. Make it easy for anyone with acces to stream my video files.
3. Collaboration/Communication tools so we can easily discuss feedback. Even better if people can tag "clips" and annotate them. No actual video editing capabilities are needed. Any editing will be done by me before uploading to the media server, and is mostly just me compressing them to reduce file size as much as I can without losing image quality.
4. Also what are the best solutions and practices for keeping my home network and server secure?
I realize I'm going to be doing a ton of learning, and that I'll likely need to selfhost multiple different solutions to accomplish all of my needs.
At the same time I'm hoping to limit the number of new apps and accounts to keep up with, and hopefully that number remains at 1 for the end users in my charity.
Thank you in advance for any recommendations or advice!
EDIT: I just found https://github.com/davidguva/OpenVidReview
Does anyone have any opinions or feedback on that? It seems like it could fit my needs.
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My lab domain got added to a DNS blocklist and broke my whole setup.
I setup the hagezi ultimate adblock list in pihole a few months ago and didnt think much of it after that. Today I am chilling and trying to avoid working too much on a Friday afternoon when I get an alert from uptime kuma that my nginx-proxy-manager stopped responding.
I check the docker container first, everything is green and logs look fine, weird but lets restart it just to be sure. No change, hmmm well I can access the demo page at the direct IP so maybe its not this, lets check the DNS resolve.
> nslookup proxy.homelab.com
Server: 10.0.1.66
Address: 10.0.1.66#53
Name: proxy.homelab.com
Address: 0.0.0.0
Name: proxy.homelab.com
Address: ::
Odd that should be resolving to the 10.0.1.66 server not 0.0.0.0 I wonder what changed. I dig around in the Pihole logs for a bit and discover that my domain was actually added to the offical blacklist. I am not really sure how since my public footprint is minimal, gets virtually zero traffic except for some bots to the root domain, and definitely doesn't serve ads. Either way I was able too lookup the commands to white list my domain in Pihole and bam everything was back to normal.
Just some friday fun.
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Migrated a client off shared hosting to a VPS last week, the difference was embarrassing
so i've been telling this client for 2 years their site was slow because of shared hosting
they finally listened after a competitor started ranking above them on google
moved them to a KVM VPS, same wordpress stack, nothing else changed
page load went from 3.2 seconds to 0.9 seconds. that's it. that's the whole story
the amount of money they lost over 2 years because they didn't want to spend an extra 15€ a month is genuinely painful to think about
if your site is on shared hosting and you're wondering why it feels slow, it's that. it's always that
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Selfhosted VPN Survey
Hi! I'm currently writing my master's thesis related to VPNs in the context of homelabbing/selfhosting.
If you could spare a few minutes and help out by filling out this survey, I would greatly appreciate it.
https://forms.gle/Pit9xzvPrTXf3EAm6
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Would you go back to using forums?
Something that’s really bothering in the last years is how much we’ve allowed information to be gatekept by Discord, especially in the selfhosting scene.
10 years ago if you ran into a problem installing software, you could just go to the devs forums and look for someone who already had this problem solved.
Nowadays you have to join a discord server, use their shitty search bar, don’t find what you want, and ask a burnt out dev who already gave out the same answer a million times.
From this observation I’m wondering the following question: would you use an open-source forums solution you can deploy in seconds, ready to use out of the box?
I already built an MVP of something like that mainly as an addition to my portfolio, but I’m now wondering if I should bother packaging it into a “one-click” deployment to be used by other people.
The concept is a minimalist & modern app to be used for small communities, events, or even friends & family. It is completely usable out of the box, yet still really customizable, with a nice search bar to actually find the stuff you want.
I’m not selling anything, I genuinely want to know if the data gatekeeping is a concern for you too, and if you would be interested in a solution like this for your own needs.
(also there is no vibecoding here, it’s a legit project for me to learn and develop my dev career)
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The Homelab Flowchart (*arr and beyond!)
https://redd.it/1snq7f1
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my comprehensive media stack diagram
https://redd.it/1snh8m7
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YT-DLP Web Player - Internet video player powered by yt-dlp
https://redd.it/1snd64g
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Homepage finally complete
https://preview.redd.it/uo48b5x58lvg1.png?width=1846&format=png&auto=webp&s=2e6ad33ba661eae001a7c8390dd928ea9b0df9bd
After many hours of configuration, I finally got it to how I want it!
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Alternative to SFTPGo and Serv-U
Hello everybody, does anyone know a SFTP/FTP(S) server with management options which I can use as an alternative to: SFTPGo or Solarwinds Serv-U?
The problem I am having with SFTPGo is their support policy being a "if you don't pay, then don't bother us" policy (with in my opinion quite high prices).
And with Serv-U also the pricing.
Does anyone know good options? I would like a web-interface and SFTP/FTP(S) but a Terminal Utility alone would also be ok!
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what’s the cheapest solid alternative to vercel?
need something similar to vercel, prefer a provider where prices don't usually strike when traffic also strikes up at some point. I don't want the bill scare again i also saw hostinger node js pretty cheap with pricing any thoughts??
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Whoogle just released v1.2.3 which will be their final version. As of April 14, 2026, the project will no longer be actively maintained.
https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
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Lightweight Markdown editor with slide support (VSCode alternative)
https://redd.it/1soq8ve
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What are the best options for self-hosted password/identity/authentication manager on edge infrastructure?
Basically, I want a password manager, and if it can do all other identity/alias management even better but optional (passkey, TOTP, emails, etc.). I had always thought that this is a perfect example of something that should be run on edge infrastructure: it requires almost no CPU time on average, very little storage, run extremely quickly per request, and it's important for it to be available anywhere, from any devices and should always be available unless the entire Internet is down. Cloudflare's Workers and Vercel's edge functions run natively on their edge infrastructure. I feel like it's wasteful to spin up an entire VPS just for password manager; meanwhile Cloudflare and Vercel are literally giving out edge compute for free because it's so cheap.
But I am having difficulty with finding anything that fit that. There are a few projects on GitHub that is like Vaultwarden but run on edge, like "Nodewarden", but they all look small and more like a hobby project. I can't find any battle-tested, community-accepted, fully audited solutions at all. Does anyone know anything like that?
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Release - Reclaimerr
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Homelab monitoring: Docker + Grafana + Loki for a small public site
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Personal Finance App Sure.am?
I've been sorely missing Mint finance since it was axed several years ago, and the commonly recommended budgeting apps like Actual Budget don't feel like suitable replacements, and Firefly III needed more investment than I was willing to put in at the time.
The primary way I used Mint was to keep track of trends first, and budgeting second. Envelope budgeting doesn't make sense to me, if I need 30 gallons of gas a month to get to and from work, it doesn't matter if it's $2 a gallon or $5. If I don't go to work, I'm getting zero dollars.
Mint was fantastic to track broader things that don't really fit into an envelope budget, like maintenance costs on an older vehicle. I could check the history of repairs I've made on my older car and compare that to the price of a monthly payment on a new car loan. And from what I've seen, Sure is the best replacement for Mint and it has even recently added splitting transactions. Bonus with the auto import of transactions, even if it does have a small monthly fee through a 3rd party provider.
I've seen a few posts about Sure, but the consensus seemed to be "I don't trust it." For anyone that has given it a deep look, why are you avoiding it? For anyone that's actively using it, what are your thoughts? They released an update 2 weeks ago and seem to be keeping on top of issues and feature requests to me.
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chithi - self hosted encrypted file/folder sharing platform (aka FireFox send alternative) - Now with CLI and a new landing page and a better speedtest page (inspired by windows task manager)
https://redd.it/1so23y4
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What am I doing wrong? (wrong answers only)
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Snacks - Automated Video Library Encoder
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Self hosting music genuinely sucks
You’re telling me that with Lidarr, I have to download an ENTIRE album if I want just one song? And the alternative is having to manually search and scour through Soulseek?
Not to mention the metadata. How is Jellyfin/Seerr so mature when it comes to identifying and categorizing metadata, but all my songs in Navidrome all have “Unknown Artist” and missing icons. From what I’m seeing, there’s no way similar to Jellyfin to automatically retrieve metadata.
Am I doing something wrong? Or is this just how it is?
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New Project Megathread - Week of 16 Apr 2026
Welcome to the New Project Megathread!
This weekly thread is the new official home for sharing your new projects (younger than three months) with the community.
To keep the subreddit feed from being overwhelmed (particularly with the rapid influx of AI-generated projects) all new projects can only be posted here.
How this thread works:
A new thread will be posted every Friday.
You can post here ANY day of the week. You do not have to wait until Friday to share your new project.
Standalone new project posts will be removed and the author will be redirected to the current week's megathread.
To find past New Project Megathreads just use the [search](https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/search/?q="New%20Project%20Megathread%20-"&type=posts&sort=new).
# Posting a New Project
We recommend to use the following template (or include this information) in your top-level comment:
Project Name:
Repo/Website Link: (GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.)
Description: (What does it do? What problem does it solve? What features are included? How is it beneficial for users who may try it?)
Deployment: (App must be released and available for users to download/try. App must have some minimal form of documentation explaining how to install or use your app. Is there a Docker image? Docker-compose example? How can I selfhost the app?)
AI Involvement: (Please be transparent.)
Please keep our rules on self promotion in mind as well.
Cheers,
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Cloudflare have announced Email Sending is a part of their Workers suite. [Open Beta]
https://blog.cloudflare.com/email-for-agents/
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Self Hosted API Server
Hi all!
I'm in the process of working towards learning more about Restful API's and have chosen Postman as my platform of choice (they also have an academy to help learn). However, i'd like to host some sort of API server so I can play with API data and work towards learning more. Does anyone have any recommendations for some sort of API server I can use? Extra points for it being available in docker, even more points for UnRaid's Docker apps.
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I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to TuneMyMusic to transfer my Spotify playlists to another service (eg Tidal, Deezer)
I couldn't find anything because I keep ending on self-hosted Spotify alternatives like Plex.
I want to transfer my favorite tracks, my playlists and my podcast subscriptions.
I believe it's "just" a matter of API calls wrapper that a Self hosted app could provide.
Thanks
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Open Source does not mean free as in free price
I keep seeing people mix this up a lot, so here is a quick clarification:
Open source (or "free software") does not mean software has to be free of charge.
It means you get certain freedoms:
* You can run it for any purpose
* You can study and modify it
* You can redistribute it (modified or not)
The important thing: You can **not** restrict those freedoms behind payment - but you can absolutely charge for distributing the software itself.
The GNU Project makes that perfectly clear:
>We encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish
You see this everywhere already: projects like GitLab or Nextcloud are open source, yet companies still pay for hosting, support, or **pro** features. Otherwise those software would not be free and self-hostable at all.
So both of these are valid:
* \+ Selling open source software
* \+ Charging for hosting / support / binaries
But this is not:
* \- Pay to modify the code
* \- Pay to redistribute it
Creating software is a lot of work. It's perfectly fine if someone wants to charge for it. If it's under Open-Source you can even fork it and remove the gate - but then you are responsible in maintaining the fork or the gate-removal.
Important: Im not saying you cannot critique a certain price, especially when it is low-effort or vibe-coded stuff - just clarifying a common misconception...
Recommended link: [https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html)
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so borg-webui was just a bait and switch?
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