In the What are YOU self-hosting? thread, there are a lot of people here who are self-hosting a huge number of applications, but there’s not a lot of discussion of the platform these things run on.
What does your self-hosted infrastructure look like?
Here are some examples of more detailed questions, but I’m sure there are plenty more topics that would be interesting:
- What hardware do you run on? Or do you use a data center/cloud?
- Do you use containers or plain packages?
- Orchestration tools like K8s or Docker Swarm?
- How do you handle logs?
- How about updates?
- Do you have any monitoring tools you love?
- Etc.
I’m starting to put together the beginning of my own homelab, and I’ll definitely be starting small but I’m interested to hear what other people have done with their setups.
I have 3 servers other than my laptop: two “1-liter” ultra small form factor PCs from HP and Dell, and a Dell small form factor. Roughly, they’re my personal / desktop virtualization / dev server, my webserver, and my data store.
Everything is containers on top of Proxmox, mostly VMs but a few LXC containers as well.
Most of it runs some flavor of Debian.
A number of the services are reverse proxied thru a $5/mo VPS.
Internet access is via 24/7 VPN thru a similar $5/mo VPS.