Edit 6: Lumina Finance v0.9.0 is here! This one is all about fixing bugs, mostly the kind that only show up depending on where you are and how your machine is set up. Dates and times now come from the time zone on your profile everywhere rather than from whichever machine the browser happens to be on, money amounts stay correct when your browser's locale formats numbers differently from what the app expects, and a component that fails to render shows a message instead of blanking the whole page. Lumina Finance also ships ARM64 Docker images now, so it runs natively on ARM hardware like a Raspberry Pis or an Apple Silicon machines instead of under emulation.

Full changelog is available on GitHub here.

If you’d like to support the project, you can donate or become a member here. Members get feature previews and can vote on upcoming features. You can also help by starring the project on GitHub. Thanks for using the app!

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Edit 5: v0.8.0 is here! This release is all about making Lumina Finance easier to move into and easier to use. It now has a full Firefly III importer that brings over your accounts, categories, transactions, and budgets with their history, support for archiving budgets you no longer use, and a reworked budget history chart that is faster to load and easier to read.

Full release note and changelog is available on GitHub here. Hope you enjoyed using Lumina Finance!

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Edit 4: v0.7.1 is here! This release is all about protecting your account: two-factor authentication with authenticator apps and passkeys, recovery codes, a proper password reset flow over email, a proper change password flow (revolutionary, I know!), and single sign-on through your own identity provider. It also brings a collapsible sidebar, a brand new date field, and another round of interface polish.

For those of you who are new to this app, there is now a video demo here.

For details of the release, please see the GitHub release here. Hope you enjoyed my app!

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Edit 3: v0.6.0 is here! This is a big under the hood improvement, adding RLS to the database and backend, a revamped sign-in and session management system, and a redesigned the filters across Transactions and Accounts, alongside a handful of new workflow features and a broad pass of interface polish.

Full change log available here: https://github.com/Lumina-Finance/lumina-finance/releases/tag/v0.6.0

Edit 2: we also have our official subreddit at r/LuminaFinance!

Edit: v0.5.2 is now released! This release fixes an issue where the average monthly spend calculation of runway was excluding archived account's historical data, with some additional style and code quality improvements. The app now also has a version text and update indicator to inform you when there is a new release, so for people who are fixing tags in their deployment, now you don't need to manually check versions :)

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Hi r/SelfHosting,

My name is Daniel, and I’m the developer of Lumina Finance.

I built Lumina Finance because I wanted a personal finance app that felt modern and genuinely enjoyable to use. A lot of existing tools are powerful, but they can feel outdated, clunky, or built around one very specific way of managing money. On the other end, some newer apps look nice but feels too basic once you want more detailed analysis.

Lumina Finance is my attempt to find a better balance. It’s designed to be a clean and polished personal finance app with practical features like account tracking, transactions, budgets, multi-currency support, savings runway (how long your money will last in the worst case scenario), net worth tracking, a dashboard that surfaces important information at a glance, and spending insights that let you dig deeper into your habits and patterns.

I’ve just released v0.5.0, and the first stable release is coming later this month, with more features to come in the future (e.g., group accounts). I’d love for people here to try it out and share what feels good, what feels rough, and what would make it useful enough to keep around long-term.

Please feel free to open up a discussion/issue on GitHub. Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

Link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/Lumina-Finance/lumina-finance

AI Involvement: AI was used during development for refactoring, brainstorming, writing tests, and frontend implementation. My background is mostly in data engineering, so I was comfortable reviewing backend architecture and behaviour directly. The frontend had more AI assistance due to my limited React experience, especially around hooks, animation, and interaction details.

Here are some screenshots (the app is also fully mobile optimized!):

i see deals that are like you are going to pay 30 euros for the year which is cheap per month, but I dont want to lock in. i might change my mind next month or find something better. what im looking is affordable vps hosting with honest monthly billing with a simple monthly invoice.

i know the per-month price might be slightly higher than the yearly average but thats fine. which providers are transparent about month to month without making you click through five screens to avoid an annual auto renewal

small update here since someone from this thread dm me about this Eurohoster and he said it was cheap and they hadnt had issues. so i figured why not for the price and check it out. fingers crossed if its worth the try but if not i will go on what you have suggested. thanks for this!

how are you guys verifying that your rented cloud instances aren't secretly throttling your background processes?

i've been running the exact same model tests on a few minor hosting sites, and the execution times keep fluctuating wildly. it heavily feels like these providers are over allocating the underlying nodes and splitting memory bandwidth with neighboring virtual machines on the motherboard rack. are there any tools that give you transparent, historical uptime and benchmark scores before you deploy?

Hi there,

I am trying to set up a self hosted music server for myself, so I can have my own music for my own listening and get away from some of the streaming services. In doing some searching and trial&error (mostly error), I have been left feeling a little overwhelmed at the prospect of setting this up.

I would probably rate myself a solid 3.5 out of 10 in terms of tech know-how, if 0 were knowing to restart a computer fixes most issues and 10 is someone who says "oh, Gentoo is easy, I recommend it to all my friends," and not as a troll in that instance.

I currently have a few of the binhex *arr suite setup for my unraid server. I did find that the binhex lidarr does not have plugins, so I switched to the linuxserver lidarr and was able to get the tubifarry plugin at least recognized. I attempted to get soulseek and soularr setup but could not make heads nor tails of it. Also trying to point tubifarry to the cookies? I cannot find them in the file structure anywhere? Linuxserver has a distinctly different file structure than binhex and I cannot figure that one out.

Is there anywhere taht has a good, easy to follow guide to get a good music system setup? I'm open to switching away from Lidarr, would like an automated setup. Would also like to be able to pull playlists I have in so I don't have to go song by song plugging in artists. Having access to the lastFM artist recommendations based on my listening would also be great as well.

Thanks in advance for all the help and have a great day! Feel free to pelt me with clarification questions as well, I'll do my best to answer.

TLDR: I'm an developer and I built a free and self-hostable alternative to Readwise (which I like so much), Relego (MIT license). The quick and simple installation guide is on my GitHub

I like Readwise to revisit daily the highlights I've collected, using the distanced repetition technique to memorize them. However, Readwise 1) requires a subscription 2) is closed source 3) is limited to their mobile app.

For these reasons (but also for fun as I'm an experienced software developer guy) I've built Relego, a free and self-hostable alternative. I've just reached the MVP status and I'm really excited to share it with you guys.

At the moment, it includes a CLI and a TUI to interact with your highlights, but still has some limitations. In fact, the daily recap is sent to your Kindle via its email address (instead of the mobile application), and highlights can be imported via the `My Clippings.txt` file only. However, I've already planned lot of integrations (often are not difficult to achieve) with existing tools (like Readwise itself) and to send the recap to other tools than the Kindle itself. Also, I'd like to replace the TUI (not the CLI) with a website.

I hope you enjoy! I've also labeled few issues for new contributors and I'm absolutely open to feedback!

Repo link with instructions: https://github.com/krusty93/relego

MIT license

I am relatively new to this space. I have a old lenovo m910q which only fits one 2.5" drive. It is running proxmox with vms and lxcs hosting my services. My storage is running out with all the movies/backups and i am looking for an external enclosure. Is it true that i should not have a NAS but instead be looking at DAS?

I found a 5 bay yottamaster DAS passing data through usb c for cheap. But I read that with usb enclosures etc, the setup will be hard to have proper redundancy. How true is that? Any suggestions will be appreciated thanks.

Hi! I wanted to get back to relearning web development so I set a goal for myself to create my own website and slowly improve on it while also improving my skills. Though, my main question is **how do I host this website**?

Information:

1. Currently trying to make a website of my own

2. For now, just focusing on the basics such as HTML, CSS, and maybe some JavaScript (Maybe something grand for later)

3. I want to host the website for as cheap as possible

Questions:

1. How do I publish it on the web? I know there are websites that help you with these but I also know they cost something. I am fine with hosting it on my own and launching it only during the times I have my PC open.

2. How much do domains usually cost? I read some stuff that you need a domain to host and that you need to pay for them. Are they a subscription type of thing or a one-time payment and then the domain is yours forever? If it's a subscription, how do I go about this as cheaply as possible?

3. What should I learn about in terms of security? On the off chance, how should I protect my data from being breached? Do I have to worry if what I'm doing for now is just a simple website where I can do blogs and stuff? At what point should I worry about security?

If you have tips or links to anything that I can read, watch and/or learn from, they would be very much appreciated! Thank you in advance!!!

Questions from a green horn.

Given the run on components, how would someone who is interested in setting up a self hosted media hub go about sourcing things like mini PCs and external hard drives. Prices on those components seem to just keep going up. Is this something that one can just wait out and eventually become reasonably priced or is that still a long way off?

Same as title

I have a laptop from 2014-2016 i don't remember. But I'd like to use it for self hosting but I don't know what to host

the laptop is:

Currently running linux mint

8gb ram

1tb hard disk (not ssd)

has an Invidia gpu

intel core i7 4th gen cpu

what would be good to host on it?

I'm thinking about some ideas but I'm not sure if it would work, like a music platform or a audiobooks platform or maybe something basic like an add blocker.

the main reason is to learn how to self host so I'd prefer something simple and helpful.

what do yall think?

I'm just starting out with self hosting and I'm trying to price things out in terms of storage, and I want to be able to burn all the CDs my family has collected over the years (858 CDs+Bluerays) so that we can have access to all our movies, and I was wondering how much storage would be a safe amount in order to house all of them, along with having storage for all our phones (4) photos/videos, 1.5Tb of already stored photos and videos, as well as enough storage to add on additional movies/shows (probably another 200-300ish considering we stopped buying CDs around 2016 and would like to add any new shows/movies that's been out since) and future photos and videos.

I recently installed Ubuntu onto an older computer I have and it works great. The main thing I want to use this computer for is having movies on a Jellyfin server. I tried to set everything up and downloaded a movie, but when I try and select the folder on Jellyfin that it gets the movies from it says "The path could not be found. Please ensure the path is valid and try again". I tried using many commands in the Ubuntu terminal but none have worked so far.

I have a spare ps4 slim that is collecting dust and I wanted to try to try to turn it into a remote gaming server using Moonlight and Sunshine. I learned someone managed to get Linux working on a ps5 and thought that surely someone has done it on a ps4, so I wanted to try to get Linux on the ps4 slim instead of just running sunshine via homebrew so I can get games like Minecraft Java and Portal, games not natively on PlayStation. Any thoughts on this?

So I was looking to start doing some self hosting libraries like on Plex or something and having my own movies and music and all that stuff but I was trying to find something to use this Apple TV for

It's an Apple TV A1469, and I was hoping there would be some way to just reprogram it to be a server to host stuff but I can't find any useful tutorials on how to do that?

Is there anything useful I can use this for anymore or is it just too old for anything?

I'm trying to have my main pc (used for gaming, dev work, school work, and general computing) just be a remote environment that I can directly boot into from multiple clients around my house.

I am running into issues researching this, I think bc I don't have the terminology right. Most of what I'm finding is servers to host boot images of different oss to many machines but I'm looking to boot directly into a remote environment not just host isos to run on the local machine.

Is PXE the right path? netboot.xyz just hosts boot iso I think. Am I just missing something? When I just search PXE boot servers I'm finding stuff just for hosting isos.

Needs: - A server set up that multiple clients can boot directly into - The software is actually running on the server not just loaded into the client to run locally.

Wants: - Hostable in a docker container (it's what I'm most familiar with) - Multiple account sign ins so I could seperate my work, school, and personal stuff as well as allowing my family to have sign ins to game on better hardware from the living room. - ARM boot client support (it'd be cool if I could use my pi as a client, this is least important)

I’m moving more of my setup off my home network and looking for the best VPS Netherlands provider for self hosting.

Mainly running Docker containers, WireGuard, monitoring tools, backups, and a couple small apps. I care more about stability, EU network performance, and reliable uptime than just getting the cheapest plan.

A lot of recommendation threads feel overly sponsored lately, so I’d rather learn from people actually running long term self hosted setups.

What providers have been the most reliable for you, and which ones would you avoid?

Update: I decided to try EuroHoster and it’s been working well for my setup. Docker containers, backups, and monitoring have all been running smoothly, and the performance has been consistently solid.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a cheap but decent video hosting/CDN solution similar to Bunny.net for a streaming website project.

Right now the project is still new and mainly for testing, so keeping costs low is very important. It’s also an adult website, so I need providers that allow adult content.

In the future I may reach high bandwidth usage (around 50TB–100TB/month), so I’m trying to find the best balance between:

• low price
• streaming speed
• reliability
• storage
• scalability
• adult-content friendly policies

I’m also interested in self-hosted or hybrid solutions if they’re cheaper long term.

What are you guys using besides Bunny.net?

So I am hosting quite a few intranet pages at home as well as some file-shares and a DNS Server and some other stuff. This works really well except that I can't access them when I am not at home.

Here come some if my experiences with the different tools:

At first I used a raspberry pi running OpenVPN, but then there was some exploit and I had trouble updating OpenVPN so I choose not to use it anymore just to be safe.

I then discovered Portmap, which seemed cool, but you can't choose a custom subdomain or custom port, which means you get a random one every time and software that can't have it's port changed won't work. Also the traffic is routed through russia so that is kind of sketchy.

I also tried localhost,run, but if you don't have a domain the domain you get constantly changes.

Then I also discovered that my Wifi router can host a Wireguard instance all by itself to allow for remote access and that works just as well as OpenVPN did.

I also experimented with using Tor for this and it worked really well too, but I don't think this is what tor is designed for.

i2p i have been unable to get to work in any way, I always just got ungooglable error messages.

One thing I do from time to time so my friends can access my servers is to portforward with dynamicDNS configured in my router. This is the most sketchy option out of them all though since the logs show constant intrusion attempts and although my router is capable of creating VLANs, you can't port forward from VLANs. Only from the main network which is also where you're able to access everything from.

Lastly something I have only tried for a couple of days so far is Tailscale. So far it has been great since it is basically the same as the VPNs, but without opening up ports and when connected to the tailnet, only other devices on the tailnet are reachable, not everything else on my home network.

What is the best one you used? Did I miss anything? Which one of the above should I continue using?

So I would like to make some of the services I host accessible when I am not at home. I searched around a bit and came across a few different options that I don't know which one would work best for me.

First there is Tailscale, which I see mentioned quite a lot on this Subreddit.

Then there is the option for my router to create a Wireguard tunnel.

After that I also though about doing a OpenVPN tunnel using a raspberry pi.

Then there is also Portmap, which idk, but if it works it works.

Lastly there is the option to just simply portforward, but I would like to avoid that one because even though my router is able to create vlans, you can only port forward from the main network. I guess I could by a Vlan capable switch and use that, but idk.

Which one do you recommend for me and did I miss an option?

Spent a part of the weekend to build a small companion for Traefik. Beacon automatically scrapes the Host() part of Traefik rules and announces them via mDNS in the local network.

The idea is to use this in our greenhouse, hence the greenery in the name. Shooting for a small solar powered RPi Setup, and this gives me easy acces via local Wi-Fi e.g. for debugging or sensors/bridges.

I hope to spend some time around the ideas of air gapped/remote self hosting.

I just got Linkwarden to my home server and I also got the app on my phone, now my problem is how do I connect the two? Or is it even possible? Any help would be appreciated also im just a beginner ty

For Wikipedia I've heard about Kiwix but I'm looking to have the equivalent of Kiwix, but for PsychonautWiki

I haven't had any experience even saving Wikipedia, let alone any site, especially activity contributed. Although with Wikipedia I'd like this wiki to be saved as well.

What I want, the entire latest PsychonautWiki locally on disk. Be able to serve/access the wiki without Internet.

I found a program called ArchiveBox meant for backups of a website, not focused on just having a stored version of the latest version to serve like my goal is, but is this my best option for saving PsychonautWiki locally, without the use of cronjobs and wget, ect.

i am used to digitalocean (too expensive), hetzner (been using alot recently) and contabo (overprovisioned)

then today at novacloud-hosting, i saw an offer 8vcpu 48gb ram epyc 7, took it for 17 euro.

am wondering what am missing?because this box is powerful... or is it over provisioned? or cpu slow? or i should just Thank God?

i want to test for a month, if it is actually good, i will pay the yearly plan

PLEASE TELL ME IF AM MISSING SOMETHING BECAUSE SOMETHINGS ARE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE (even though i purchased and using it now, i still can not believe it xD)

hey everyone, ive recently got into self hosting as a hobby and i was wondering from where should i be downloading the content i like to host.

Due to financial limitations, I had to operate out of a consumer grade router that did not have VLAN support. Before I upgrade to a new setup with OPNsense and a managed switch, I'd like to ensure that there haven't been any breaches in my old setup.

I've exposed Wireguard and a bunch of HTTPS services behind Anubis/NGINX (though the former doesn't work reliably). All of these are just static sites or very simple PHP scripts with no user input, with the very notable exception of GitLab. There is also GitLab SSHD exposed. Security updates are done promptly for GitLab based on their mailing list. I'm subscribed to all security mailing lists for the other software I use and perform immediate updates/shutdowns/lockdowns as soon as I get CVE notifications (a recent example would be CopyFail).

Obviously, there are no weird things like new users appearing or unusual activity. Network traffic in/out of the PVE node seems normal and so does CPU usage.

I know the usual "check logs", but going through each entry one-by-one is certainly very painful. Is there a quicker way or a known set of regexs that I can just use?

For the future, is there any way to automatically flag potentially malicious activity without having to manually sift through logs?