I rely on docker-compose, Traefik, and a few simple shell scripts for most of my setup. Each service I have in its own directory with their own data/ and config/` drectories. Overall, self-hosting has been far less work than I expected. Generally speaking, things don't break and are quite easy to get up and running. I will put * beside strongly recommended services.

- changedetection This monitors webpages for changes and sends you notifications on multiple streams when they change. This is the service I have found the most awkward and least useful! (https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io)

* ghost for blogging (https://ghost.org/)

- gotify for notifications to my phone (https://gotify.net/)

- grafana for streaming logs and metrics from these services (https://grafana.com/)

- heimdall for a vanity dashboard (https://heimdall.site/)

- homeassistant for all home automation needs (https://www.home-assistant.io/)

- matrix synapse for communication (https://matrix.org/)

* mealie for recipes and meal planning (https://mealie.io/)

- photoprism for photo storage (https://photoprism.app/)

- plausible for privacy respecting analytics (https://plausible.io/)

* portainer to do light admin on these containers (https://www.portainer.io/)

* send to replace wetransfer (https://gitlab.com/timvisee/send)

- splunk for logs/visualizations (https://www.splunk.com/)

* traefik to handle all the routing to the containers. When it doesn't work, it's very awkward to fix, but it almost always works just as you expect it to (https://traefik.io/)

* vaultwarden as a password manager (https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden)

* vikunja an incredible todo list service. I cannot recommend this highly enough! (https://vikunja.io/)

* wallabag a straightforward article saver/reader (https://www.wallabag.it/)

I have also hosted Mastodon in the past, and while it was easy to host, it would eat storage space too quickly for my small setup. It also doesn't lend itself well to being a single-user instance in my experience as it makes finding organic content difficult.