🌟 Self-Hosting Journey Update! 🌟
After weeks of work, I’m excited to share my self-hosted setup! 🎉 I’m running everything on a Raspberry Pi 500 with Stormux (Arch Linux ARM-based), 8 GB RAM, and a 512 GB SD card (planning to upgrade to SSD or NAS as soon as I can afford it). Here’s what I’ve built so far:
🔧 Services in Action:
- Development: Forgejo, Code-Server, Woodpecker CI
- Productivity: Joplin Server, Monica CRM, Homepage dashboard
- Monitoring: Prometheus + Alertmanager, Grafana, Netdata, Uptime Kuma
- Networking: AdGuardHome + Unbound, Tailscale VPN
- Tools: MiniFlux, Linkding, TheLounge
- Management: Portainer, Cockpit, Watchtower
🔒 Security & Access:
- Caddy + Cloudflare Zero Trust/Access for reverse proxy & SSO
- FirewallD + Fail2ban for extra protection
📧 Emails Powered by Zoho ZeptoMail:
All email-capable services (e.g., Forgejo, Joplin) are configured for reliable notifications.
💾 Backups: Using IDrive’s 5 TB plan for peace of mind.
This journey has been challenging yet rewarding! 🚀 I’d love to hear your thoughts—especially tips on scaling storage or optimizing performance. Let’s chat! 💬
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It’s amazing what can be run on a single Pi board. It makes me (somewhat) ashamed of the massive compute that I’ve put behind my hobby projects. But then again, I like performance. I’m curious how responsive everything is on this setup?
@some_guy Everything is very responsive. I haven’t had any trouble with responsiveness at all. Lol right now the only trouble I’m having is that I removed Monica CRM and BookStack and BookStack because of Monica accessibility needs and BookStack not really being that useful, and I’m trying to install Pleroma to play with that, but Docker’s having some weird DNS issues where it keeps trying to use IPv6, which my ISP doesn’t support, even though I’ve disabled it in my daemon.json.
Thanks for the feedback. Now I know I fucked up by over-buying when I decided to return to playing with servers last summer. I at least had plausible deniability in my own head. Oh well, cheers.