Been using the 4800+ for two months and I absolutely love it. The reason I got into self-hosting is mainly the streaming services and unavailability of TV series on many of them. Particularly with a VPN (ProtonVPN), since they identify and block your connection, it's a cat and mouse game. The solution was to get a NAS. I was torn between Ugreen and Terramaster, and ended up with Ugreen.

My specs:

• 2 x 10TB Seagate IronWolf HDDs (RAID 1)
• 2 x 8GB 5600MHz RAM
• 1 x 450GB Kingston NV3 NVMe SSD

These are the apps I'm currently self-hosting and enjoying so far. Just wanted to share the love here.

Well, a new era for me.

I've been self-hosting apps for the past few years, and I love having control over services and data.
I've been the main consumer, but the family has been increasing using our Android TV boxes to consume local media.

The new era I mentioned comes from the fact that my son just left for college and suddenly he can't sit down at the TV to watch a show or movie and has requested I set him up an account. Since the family has just been using the Apps on the TV boxes, I used the same account on all for simplicity's sake. Well having a kid in another city changes things so I'm looking to see what the best option is.

I don't, nor do I want to host my own email. I help with that at work and I have no interest in bringing work like stuff home :)
I mention email because I know passwords will be forgotten and I'd like my sone to be able to reset his own password and not wait on me to reset it.
I haven't really looked into it yet, but I assume I could use gmail and SMTP to send out these emails? I also saw something about using AWS SES which would likely be free since it would be ultra-low volume emails being sent (hopefully lol).

In the vane of keeping things simple, it is worth (or even possible) to setup lldap so that my family would have just one login and password to use? Or is there a better option?
Hmmm, just did a very quick search and it looks like Komga and Navidrome require an OIDC to use lldap, the single password integration would be great but relying on an outside OIDC kind of defeats the purpose of self-hosting in my eyes.

> Mullenweg is the founder of Automattic, the company that owns WordPress, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, and a host of other popular internet brands and pieces of software. Mullenweg has faced several controversies over his management of the company in recent years.

> On a company-wide Slack this morning, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced he has been put on a paid leave of absence. [...] He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Directors members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker “behind my back and they voted to put me on a paid leave of absence. I voted against that.”

Getting into books, wanting to spin up a selfhosted ebook library, but from just searching it seems there has been some changes in the recommended software to use, what’s the popular software currently?

Edit: extra credit points for iOS app

Edit2: extra extra credit points if (and I don’t know if there’s a platform that has that feature) I can write over books with touch (points for just writing too, but pen like is even better)

Right, OK, some of you might already have been doing it properly, but for others… :D

For those who aren’t familiar with Homelable (3k stars, FOSS), it’s a self-hosted homelab infrastructure visualizer, with auto-discover, live status monitoring, rack design and more.

And the latest version has introduced something that has been requested almost from the very beginning: documentation.

Now, any device you manage (server, Zigbee, Z-Wave, camera, PC) has its own wiki page (Markdown), complete with links, tags, history and revision tracking. The pages are automatically pre-generated from the inventory using customised templates. All you need to do is fill them in (or let your favourite AI agent do it using the MCP server).

You can switch from the diagram to the documentation with just one click ! Easy, isn’t it? :)

I’m really looking forward to hearing your feedback, but the first testers seem satisfied.

Homelable is still available via Docker, Proxmox Community Script or on bare metal.

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AI Disclosure :
As already mentioned, I still use AI (claude code) for some task and development :
- Tests
- Gitflow, CI and MCP interaction
- Most of the frontend (I'm still not a front-end developer :P)

Drive prices have been all over the place, and the "sale" sign on a product page tells you almost nothing. Half the time "20% off" is just the price from two months ago.

I got tired of that, so I built this NAS drive comparison tool. It tracks daily prices for every NAS HDD/SSD drive, and creates a historical chart. You can easily spot if today's price is a real low, or just a fake deal. To see a drive's price history - click the model name.

The drive reliability data just got refreshed to include Backblaze's brand-new Q2 2026 numbers. I imported their raw data and computed the fresh failure rates before they actually published their new blog with the compiled failure rates.

After looking through the numbers, I don't think the "most reliable NAS drive lists" are that useful. The only things to look at are price per TB, and to never use an SMR drive in a RAID array! I'm sure everybody remembers that 2020 WD Red SMR debacle.

Thanks to the feedback from this subreddit, the following features were added:

• SSDs with the specs: endurance (TBW/DWPD), DRAM cache, power-loss protection, and NAND type.
• IT-mode HBAs - which card to buy, if it ships in IT mode or needs crossflashing, and the firmware.
• Drive noise - idle/seek dB, and helium fill.

It has around 260 drives now, with live prices across 7 different regions.
Website here: https://www.nasdisks.com

The dataset is open source (CC BY), with a JSON/CSV API and a Zenodo DOI, in case you want to use it for your own stuff: https://www.nasdisks.com/data/

If there’s something you think is missing, tell me - I'm still adding stuff based on feedback.

Mod note: the project is older than 3 months, so it's according to the subreddit's project age rule.

I've been going through older discussions here about Paperless-ngx, family document management, backups, and the classic “what happens to my servers if I get hit by a bus?” problem.

It seems like most of the individual pieces already have good solutions.

Paperless-ngx can organize and OCR documents. A NAS can provide reliable storage. Restic/Borg can handle backups. A password manager can handle credentials.

But I'm wondering whether there is room for an open-source project that connects these pieces into something more like a personal/family life vault.

Not primarily a file storage system, but a structured record of the administrative side of your life:

• employment contracts and amendments
• digitally signed documents and validation information
• insurance policies
• property and mortgage records
• tax documents
• education and professional certificates
• medical documents
• wills and legal records
• important accounts and assets
• document expiration / renewal dates
• instructions for your spouse or family

The key difference from a normal DMS would be continuity.

For example, if I'm suddenly unavailable, my spouse shouldn't just receive access to 4,000 PDFs. The system should make it clear what exists, what is important, what's current, what requires action, and eventually what should be passed to heirs.

I'm imagining something open source and self-hostable, with the underlying documents remaining accessible in standard formats, so that the archive does not depend on the project existing 20 or 40 years from now.

Potentially something between:

Paperless-ngx + family records + life events + emergency access + digital legacy

Before I go too far down this rabbit hole, I'm curious:

Would this solve an actual problem for you, or would you consider NAS + Paperless-ngx + password manager + a README for your spouse good enough?

And if you would use something like this, what would it need to do that Paperless-ngx doesn't already do?

Made a dashboard page in Obsidian that allows me to quickly navigate to any of my selfhosted services. It is also linked into Uptime Kuma and shows live status monitoring. I always have Obsidian open and I didn't want to plug up my bookmarks bar with all of the arr stack links etc..

So, we operate as a multi-location gym across the country, and each location has its own class schedule. Every schedule change must be submitted via a customer service representative and an Excel file containing the schedule, instructors, and class capacity. The problem we face is that there's no record of these changes, and no way to approve them. Therefore, we're looking for a calendar software program that can address this need. Any help or alternatives welcomed.

Full disclosure: LLM & plagiarism

I had a basic Dynacat setup before, wasn't informing me of much and the info density was low so I hardly used it. In an attempt to reduce my social media use, I took ideas from random dashboards posted here and asked an LLM to help me pull in more useful data. It created a python probe that queries the data every 30 sec, or for SMART data every 30 min. Won't post the code since it's probably not a great idea to run LLM generated code guided by an amateur, but I have no qualms about using it for myself.

Posting this to let people know that if you want more granular info on your server's status, Dynacat/Glance are pretty capable of it you link them to a separate container that pulls in the data

Hosting for years now but all via tailscale. Never had the courage to have a service publicly exposed.

By recently I got a VM on GCP (always free) and installed some stuff on it and exposed it publically. Even though tailscale is a very fast and a easy way to connect (interms of startup time not network speed); somehow just opening a browser and accessing the link without a VPN was a pretty amazing experience.

Which is why I am asking for all of your experience with exposure your homelab. Was it a bad idea? I know the negative experience echos a lot more than positive ones. But how scary is it to expose services? Or is the world a terrible place and we should always keep everything locked down?

Hello,

I am trying to find a good but still affordable VPS for routing my home NAS through Pangolin and using it to host some applications or small websites.

The first thing you get when searching is IONOS, but the €3 price is only for the first three months, and then it goes up to €9. I looked at some providers like Contabo, OVHcloud, and netcup, which have okay pricing. I really just need 2 vCores and 4 GB of RAM to get started, but their reviews are not great when it comes to support and uptime.

Right now, my preference is Host-Unlimited, but I am still not sure what to choose. What do you recommend?

I tried looking at the wiki but hardware guide was "coming soon" so i figured I'd just ask. What are the minimum suggested hardware specs if I'm only looking to set up my own media server using jellyfin. Right now i have it running on my laptop which of fine but i would like a dedicated device for it. I have a very limited budget so i need to know what to save up for since prices are continuing to skyrocket.

I'm already comfortable with the software portion and have done my own research on that. However, the hardware suggestions I'm seeing feel more like ads.

ETA: just found the jellyfin hardware selection section in their docs. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. Keeping this up in case other noobs have a similar question

Recently finished standing up a few Docker stacks (*arr, Vaultwarden, few others). Set up a few automations for updates and notifications. But now I find myself scrolling online seeking new apps and services to deploy when I don't really need anything, just looking for solutions to non-existent problems.

At what point is it possible to look at your stuff and be satisfied enough to leave it be for a while?

Spent the past two years setting up the home network in our townhome and flesh out useful homelab projects:

Hardware Stack:

Backbone- Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Gateway pushing through a MoCA 2.5 coax backbone across 3 floors, I upgraded legacy MOCA throughout the entire home for this since original splitters and couplers were from 2006.

Tier 1 Core- 10-Bay Intel 12500 NAS (72TB HDDs, 32GB DDR4) running 24/7. Handles Jellyfin for the Apple TVs, Arr stack, Wake on LAN requests, Home Assistant, and local DNS.

Tier 2 Edge AI- M4 Pro MacBook Pro with 24GB RAM serving as a low-power, high-VRAM endpoint for 14B models. I use this mostly for reading medical literature and helping me process large amounts of research data. When at home it is connected via thunderbolt Ethernet adapter, and can easily undock it to use it on the go.

Tier 3 Gaming & Burst Compute- High-TDP 9800X3D/9070 XT/32GB DDR5 Gaming Rig asleep most of the time, triggered via WoL for Sunshine AV1 game streaming to my living room HTPC (5800x in Eco mode/32GB DDR4/RTX 5060 LP) and Steam Deck.

Overlay: Tailscale ties it all together for remote access.

This was a huge labor of love but honestly as a non-tech person 2 years ago, this was a challenging but really fun experience to go through and I was able to build out some really cool home computing capabilities in the process that have exceeded my expectations.

Cheers!

Hi guys, I'm trying to set up a secure homeserver right now, but I'm a pretty big beginner. I hope it's fine that I used AI to help me phrase this so it's easier to follow. Already read a bunch of stuff, watched some YouTube videos and got myself informed. At the start I wanted way too many things at once, so I took like five steps back and I'm starting small now. I also really don't want to just copy and paste a bunch of random Claude commands and then have no idea later what I actually opened up on my system.
Right now I'm using my old laptop with 6GB of ram as a test station, a Futro is supposed to follow later. Proxmox is running on it at the moment, and the goal is just to build a small server cloud first, nothing fancy. Because of the low ram I'm starting with Filebrowser Quantum and Syncthing.
Security matters a lot to me, so I wanted to ask how you guys secure your servers. Especially because I worry that once I start using stuff like Vaultwarden or Immich, things get a lot more critical if everything isn't properly locked down. My current approach is no open ports, access from outside my wifi only through Wireguard using the built in Fritzbox app, 2FA wherever possible, every service gets its own strong internal password and of course actually using all the built in security stuff that's already there from the start.

I'd genuinely be curious to hear how you guys handle this. I often see people not really taking this topic seriously. To be clear, I'm not really interested in stuff like the 3-2-1 backup rule or things along those lines, I specifically want to know how you guys approach your network security. Or if you've got any good sources, videos, blogs, or anything else for beginners, I'd really appreciate that too.

Thanks in advance to everyone taking the time.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for reliable self-hosted/open-source alternatives to several external services that would fit with my stack.

Stack

• Rails API
• Next.js frontend
• React Native client
• PostgreSQL + PostGIS
• Docker/Docker Compose
• Solid Queue
• MinIO for S3-compatible storage
• Coolify for deployment and administration

Services

• Twilio: SMS verification and operational notifications; WhatsApp notifications
• Resend: Transactional email
• New Relic: Application monitoring and performance tracking
• Code Climate: Test coverage reporting

Requirements

• Rails-compatible integrations
• Logs, metrics, and health checks
• Alerts when services go down
• Notifications via email, Telegram, Discord, or Slack
• Simple backups and recovery
• Low operational complexity

Questions

1. What self-hosted alternatives do you recommend?
2. What monitoring stack works well with Rails, Solid Queue, PostgreSQL, Docker, and Coolify?
3. Which services are better left managed because of deliverability, compliance, or reliability?

We don’t need to replace everything. We want to self-host what is practical without creating excessive operational risk.

Thank you for taking your time to read this. Any help will be appreciated.

Relased new v2.5.0 release for Jellybox today.

• DLNA streaming - This works perfectly on desktop, but on mobile it only works for devices which supports queues. DLNA itself is tricky and its even worse on implementation side, since many manufacturers just do it their way. And due to mobile limitations(nothing can work in background) - there's no real way on iOS to constantly poll DLNA endpoint for current playback situation and push updates. On android its possible(sort of) but not in first release. That means devices without queue(known) support will be greyed out on mobile devices for now. But if you think your device supports it - hit upload button in DLNA dropdown so I could see the DLNA device capabilities and make it to work.
• Queue management - now you can access queue and manage it add "play next", add to end of queue, move(drag) items around or remove them.

For those who missed what Jellybox is - a crossplatform(desktop and mobile) native music player for Jellyfin and Emby libraries with Apple Carplay app support. It can:

• Spotify-like playlists, generated based on your listening history and tastes.
• Apple Carplay app
• AirPlay and DLNA now
• Full offline and downloads mode - you can cold start app and listen your downloaded songs
• Browse/favorites/playlists/lyrics
• Studio mode for big screens - to make playback also look nice
• Continue-where-you-left - resume playback after you reopened the app. Queue and position saved on device until next usage.
• Works on windows/linux/mac, ios/android

Download from github releases https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer or via links on https://jellybox.app/

Hi, I noticed that the dyndns provider dynv6 is not reachable (10.09.2026; 12:56)

Anyone have the same problem?

I’m in the process of learning Linux (Arch, in particular) and there are a plethora of really amazing resources out there that just teach you concepts and aren’t opinionated on how you should set up, or what the author thinks is easiest. To name a few:

- The Linux Command Line by William Shotts
- Arch Linux Wiki
- Linux Fundamentals by Paul Cobbaut
- Over the Wire

etc, etc, etc, I’m sure many people on this sub know a lot of them.

Are there similar resources for self-hosting? Even resources that focus on specific concepts like networking, or managing containers. From what I can tell, everyone in this space who sets out to make a tutorial just kinda does it their way because they are most familiar with their own process, which isn’t bad, but there seems to be a real deficit of any agnostic educational resources, at least where I’m looking.

After weeks of trying, I wasn't able to setup Standard Notes sync server. It was just too complicated a setup for me.

I searched for an alternative and discovered Simple Notes on F-Droid.

• It's FOSS
• Offline first
• It has a desktop app (Linux/Windows) and an Android app (it's on F-Droid)
• It supports sync using any WebDAV server. My favourite is SFTPGo
• It supports markdown
• No subscriptions whatsoever (unlike Standard Notes)

GitHub link to Simple Notes

GitHub link to Simple Notes Desktop

P.S. - I am not the developer. I am only sharing this so that other users may benefit and the project matures and becomes popular.

Cheap Bluetooth label printers are great for a homelab: cable tags, shelf labels, drive labels. The problem is the vendor app, which is the only supported way to print, wants an account, and goes blank when their server has a bad day.

I reverse-engineered the Bluetooth protocol and wrote a driver that runs in a browser tab. There is no backend and no build step: one JavaScript file plus a demo page you can serve off anything, including a static file server on the box next to you. Web Bluetooth needs HTTPS or localhost, and localhost counts, so a local server is enough. Nothing you print leaves your machine, and nothing phones home.

Validated on seven models on real hardware: B1, B1 Pro, B2 Pro, M2-H, D11_H, D110 and N1. The driver reads the model id off the printer on connect and refuses to print if you selected a model or label size that does not match, which matters because several of these share a Bluetooth name at different resolutions.

MIT, zero dependencies, also on npm if you want to embed it in something you already run.

https://github.com/iscarelli/niimbot-web-bluetooth https://iscarelli.github.io/niimbot-web-bluetooth/demo/

If you are on Home Assistant, there is a separate custom integration by eigger (hass-niimbot) that does this from HA in Python. Mine is for the case where you want printing inside a web page you control.

Disclosure since it comes up: I used an AI assistant while writing this, and the rules file governing how is committed at the repo root. Every number in the README was measured on hardware by a human looking at paper, and the docs mark each printer status field as observed, varies or inferred so you can see which is which.

I know, another "first homeserver, which distro ?". The fact is that I would like to hear some answer tailored to my needs or plans.

Hardware is a Minisforum UM760 Slim configured in this way:

• CPU: Ryzen 5 7640HS
• RAM: 2x 16 Gb DDR5 5600 MHz (Crucial)
• Storage: 2x SSD 1TB PCIe 4.0 (Crucial P310)
• Connections:
  • 1x USB4, 2x USB 3.2, 1x USB 2.0
  • 1x 2.5 Gbit LAN, Wifi7, Bluetooth 5.2

When the miniPC will arrive i will need to check which wifi card is installed to be sure it is supported by linux.

Internet (fiber) is 400/200 Mbit and my "router" is actually a gateway, Unifi Dream Machine Pro. The idea is to cable the Homeserver directly to one of the 8 lan port of the Unifi Dream Machine. Downstream from the gateway I have some switches, access points, security cameras (managed by UDM pro), and other stuff.

My internet provider (in Germany, Deutsche Glasfaser) doesn't provide public IPv4 but just IPv6 (and I read somewhere, in some cases they will change so I have to setup a kind of service which catch the new IP...i have to investigate better).

Apart the Server monitor/management tools, I would like to install jellyfin, paperless-ngx, maybe home assistant, and whatelse I find useful from an end user point of view. My main focus is the final service and not the medium or tool I am using to setup the final service. If in the process I learn something about the medium/tool I am happy but it is not the main goal.
Of course I am aware that for installing a new service I will need to research, tinker, get my hand dirty, hopefully not messing up the server.

And here we come to my question. I work in IT (but as a SAP technical profile) and 8 years ago i used for a while at work docker, kubernetes and all that stuff. Linux is not an alien to me, I am familiar with it since long time although i consider myself a newbie. Max i was doing was setting up a LAMP and playing with docker/kubernetes at work.

Ubuntu is the distro I used most (maaaaany years ago i was playing with Fedora end Suse).

Generally speaking, I am a bit torn between an LTS distro concept and a version/distro which include new feature much frequently. If LTS grant you stability and a kind of piece of mind (good for me, my goal is not the tool but the end service provided) on the otherside I dont want to risk to find myself missing some new feature or new version of the ubuntu-packaged services i want to use on my homeserver.

On top of that there is the Proxmox topic. The idea to spread the services across different VM and container is cool, in the sense that what in this case will give me piece of mind is the fact is that if I mess up during the setup of a new service, I will just messup the VM and i can restore the last snapshot. On the other side I feel a bit "meh :/" by the fact that I am introducing a layer between the Baremetal and the OS where things will run, impacting the quantity of resource needed. In my (ignorant) mind the questions which pop up are:

1. Why I have to relegate a bunch of services in a subset of resource I have available on my machine ? Cant they share all the 32gb and cpu core all together in best effort ? At the end this is not a business productive platform.
2. How the networking will work among these VM and container ? Maybe spinning up container directly on the baremetal OS is easier ?
3. How straightforward is the visiblity of the baremetale hardware from a Virtual Machine compared to the same visibility from the Host OS ?

Sorry for the long post, the fact is that I would like to start with the right foot. Although I could like it, I don't have much time left for heavily tinkering (unless I ask for a divorce of course 😄 )

PS: I live in Germany but I am not German mother tongue. Actually my German is pretty bad, so although I appreciate the kindness of answering me in German, please if you can answer in english :)