Do you have any advice or suggestions about it?

  • Hardware (what should be enough for a local PC, or VPS…)
  • Software (OS [Debian, Yunohost, other…], “containerization” (Docker, virtual machines?), dashboard, management, backups, VPN tunneling…)
  • “Utilities” to host (Lemmy, Peertube, Matrix, Mastodon, Actual Budget, Jellyfin, Forgejo, Invidious/Piped, local Pi-Hole, email, dedicated videogame servers like for Minecraft, SearXNG, personal file storage like Drive, AI [in the future, when I can afford a rig that can run a local model decently]…)

I’m aware it’s a lot of stuff to take on, so, do you have any advice on where to start? (how to find a cheap PC to experiment with, if not get a VPS, what to test on it, what “utilities” to try self-hosting first…)

  • electrochemistry@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    58 minutes ago

    I run Bitwarden and Forgejo on an old Raspberry Pi 3 B+. On my PC I run Fedora Kinoite and the following services (podman quadlets):

    • *arr stack
    • Jellyfin
    • Seerr
    • qBittorrent
    • Shelfmark
    • Grimmory

    I use my PC for everything, including gaming, and the services running in the background aren’t even noticeable in terms of performance degradation (unless you’re for example transcoding 4k files on Jellyfin). You don’t necessarily need to buy new hardware, use what you have. When it comes to Lemmy, Mastodon, etc., I’d probably get a VPS. I recommend Anubis when you expose stuff to the internet, especially Forgejo.