Uptime Kuma maintainer here. The reason why I made this because I have some services like databases and websites cannot be down for a long time. I need someone send a notification to me if they are down.

If you think it is not improving your life, it is probably because you don’t have such similar scenario and you probably don’t need this indeed.

My point is that it may be not improving your life, but it improves my life at least, or others’. That’s just a choice.

Mainly for privacy reason:

• TeamSpeak
• Seafile

And something I find really useful: ChangeDetection, to monitor changes on webpages, like prices, stocks, news…

It’s all shits and giggles for me. Whatever service I fancy gets spun up, poked at and then left running until I need to free up resources for the next thing. It’s a wonderful mess.

I’d say I am 95% homelaber and 5% selfhoster. Most of my stuff is for experimentation and learning. And most of my services are vanilla ones, like samba. So in essence I am self-hosting not much more than a few linux environments.

The things that are indispensable to me are samba, my docker development stack, uptime kuma, and a simple wordpress installation that I use for notes and documentation. Oh and lately Stirling-PDF. That thing is just awesome.

I have tried various tools, but I keep coming back to vanilla samba for most stuff. Like paperless-ngx. For my needs, it’s just a fancy way to tag documents. I don’t need full text search or OCR, and I can find most of my files quickly using a simple directory hierarchy. I do not really need the extra overhead of maintaining paperless-ngx. The same for things like Immich, plex or Owncloud. Samba and file explorer preview works perfectly for me.

Paperless has improved my life by at least 12%. There’s a “before paperless” era in my life when there was a 20-40% chance I would be able to find a sheet of printed paper that the bureaucracy of my country thought was more important than Life itself.

Now, it’s a solid 100%.

Nextcloud has improved my life by 3% I’d say. It basically does the same as Google. But I fell 3% better overall to not be so incredibly dependent on Google. If google imploded today, I’d still feel it because of Google Play Services on Android. But that’s pretty much the only thing.

I don’t run any containers.

I own my own data.

I back up my own computers.

My email is mine.

You don’t need to overcomplicate it, it’s not a competition, and you don’t have to do what everyone else does.

Having Nextcloud, PiHole and LibreELEC/Kodi is something I wouldn’t want to miss

Music server for my father. He will get a new iPhone and want to download his old songs. He don’t know anything about the subscription based service so I will make one for him!

I’m running home assistant and have bunch of automations that improve my life.

I’m also running a WhatsApp/signal not that transcribes voice messages for me. But that’s running on a vserver

I run my entire home automation, DVR, streaming system, voice command system, local file backups, etc; from my self hosted setups. I also built all the systems and since it is self-hosted it all works when the internet goes out except for a couple of things I one-time read from the cloud (like guide data lookup, media data, etc).

On top of that there is value in doing it just to learn if it is anywhere near your career field, which for me it is (software & electrical engineering).

Both. I have things that I host simply for fun, but most of my homelab is for experimentation.

I practice with different technologies so I can try to learn how they work.

Little bit of both I suppose. I find it very enjoyable to have a server at home to tinker with, I’m also enjoying providing media to my friends and family (and myself). I don’t use many self-hosted apps outside of media though, really only nocodb, immich and memos

Yes and yes. I do actually use a bunch of stuff but a lot of it is for experimenting. I regularly use Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, PiHole, Nginx, among a few others but for experimenting, I recently set up a container will Mullvad vpn so I can use that vpn networking for my qbittorent container.

Mostly for improving my administration skills. I am a Linux Systems Administrator and gaining experience with Docker will almost certainly help me in the long term. The self hosted and Nginx proxy, has also contributed.

But in my day to day life? PiHole has reduced the number of ads I see, I believe. And I am migrating the sites that I watch for work from Follow That Page, to self hosted Change Detection. Storing recipes in Mealie might be helpful. Oh, I also want to set up that bookmarking tool that saves pages for me.

Bitwarden, Pi-hole, Calibre, Jellyfin, *arr apps. Caddy for reverse proxy which is the only “meta” docker I am running.

That is it for me.

I started down the Authentik SSO path but am thinking that it isn’t worth it and I’ll probably walk that back.