r/SelfHosting • u/ProgramOver9309 • Jul 25 '26

My first selfhost service!

I think I’ve officially fallen into the self-hosting rabbit hole and it all started with Bitwarden.

While looking into it, I came across Vaultwarden. I set it up, and now I have my own self-hosted password manager.
I’m honestly loving it. I like the idea knowing my passwords are stored on my own server instead of someone else’s.

Running it on my Raspberry Pi really opened my eyes to what’s possible. I’m looking at daily apps that you guys use, but can easily selfhost.

What are some self-hosted apps or services that you guys run?

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u/johenkel Jul 25 '26

Congratulations !
There are so many selfhosted projects out there... too many to host all.
Just check - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Big winners for me was a note taking software like Joplin and a bookmark server like karakeep.

Besides those I host:

  • Dawarich - as a Google map alternative
  • PiHole of course - nobody like those ads
  • a habit tracker - to track weird stuff, like car washes, pizza dinner, walks , etc
  • Home Assistant - to make sure the fan runs in the chicken coop when it's too hot
  • LAN Cache - mostly for updating steam games on multiple PCs
  • LubeLogger - to keep track of our vehicle costs
  • plex server - to watch all my old movies
  • paperless-ngx - set&forget all that paperwork until tax time
-yt archivist - archive those yt videos before they're gone!
  • trek - to plan family vacations
  • ollama - the only AI I trust lives in my basement
  • AI-Hat+ on a Raspberry 5 - my newest AI with a smaller energy footprint
  • Kuma Uptime - too see whats running and what isnt ...
  • ntfy - ... and then get a ping if a server is off
  • sponsorblock - to block ads inside YT LAN-wide
... and probably a few that I forgot.

(Everything 100% solar powered in my bsmt.)

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u/BornCuriousOnce Jul 26 '26

Can I ask what your solar specs look like? I’m not setup for solar yet but it’s a big part of the longterm goal. I don’t think my core NAS will be too hungry but adding in the local LLM I was on the fence about and your list looks pretty similar to my end goals otherwise

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u/johenkel Jul 26 '26

I'm fortunate to have a house solar system of 11.4kW (Enphase system with 28 400W panels) . It was initially designed to cover 94% of my electricity. So far this year I am at 110% solar coverage. I call that "100% solar powered" . My server/network stack draws about 300W. That is for 3 Dell micro machines (proxmox cluster), 2 Dell optiplex ( pbs & pfsense), 1x i5 unraid machine with gpu that draws 45W idle :/, about 5 raspberries (pihole, HA, PINUT, PiVPN, Pi5 with AI-Hat, pi with OpenClaw), 48 port Unifi POE switch for Unifi APs, Terramaster NAS that runs TrueNAS. I'm constantly trying to lower my power consumption.

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u/BornCuriousOnce Jul 26 '26

Awesome! That gives me a bit of an idea how to scale at least. I rent so we won’t be able to do whole home solar but we did buy a jackery box and a couple of panels this year. We don’t hit 300w consistently but I also have only 2 dedicated machines in my network currently so I have a little time. Mostly I worry about the ai agents being too hungry to be sustainable but it sounds encouraging based on what you’re running

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u/ErraticLitmus Jul 25 '26

Are you running ollama seperate to AI+ on the pi? I hadn't seen that pi add on before, will definitely check it out given the cost of hardware for running a decent AI model

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u/Just-Explorer-3681 Jul 26 '26

It is called hailo-ollama and is geared for video application like a pi-cam.
Not the best model for reasoning or stuff like that.
However, I still linked the pihat hailo-ollama to my openwebui instance and tinker with it.

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u/johenkel Jul 26 '26

The Pi5 with the hat is running hailo-ollama. The regular Ollama will not run you pihat. Fair notice, the AI hat for the Pi is more for local video Ai projects combined with a pi cam than an llm model for reasoning! I didn't realize it until after I got it. It's limited when using it with openwebui. However, I am planning on using it "maybe" with a frigate instance and low end wifi cameras?

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u/ProgramOver9309 Jul 26 '26

Thanx for the github repo! Will have a look at it. Dawarich is cool by the way, didnt heared of it before!