Self-Hosted Ideas and Resources

Why self host?

All-in-one guides
The Monster — you might be able to find everything here: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide

Linux, generally
https://linuxhint.com/best_linux_projects_newbies/
https://pimylifeup.com/category/projects/server/

Virtualization and Containerization
While this is just for LAMP, it's a great intro to Docker generally: https://soupbowl.blog/2020/03/replace-lamp-with-docker-the-easy-way

File Management
https://syncthing.net/

Smart Homes and Devices

https://www.home-assistant.io/
https://nodered.org/
https://www.openhab.org/

Simpler (but maybe not easier?)
https://github.com/homettp/homettp
https://github.com/Domi04151309/HomeApp
https://platypush.tech/

Voice Assistants
https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy - HNthread (OFFLINE, no internet required.)
https://mycroft.ai/ - HNthread
https://github.com/openai/whisper - Open AI recognition model

Media Servers
https://www.plex.tv/
https://jellyfin.org/

Music Servers (also, see media servers above)
https://mstream.io/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Music_Player_Daemon

Networking Resources
https://zrok.io/


ADVANCED


What folks are doing:

People discovering open stores of interesting things
https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories/

The modern archivists
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

People who go past just e.g. a Pi and put big ol' racks in their house, mostly
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/


Communication tools

The Fediverse



Backlinks: Home