Hardware (you don’t need much!)
Mini atx tower, 8TB usable storage, Debian, AMD processor, 8GB memory
Pfsense Firewall (Tailscale exit node)
Plume Wi-Fi (would like to replace, owned by comcast now)
Solution stack:
Portainer + Docker Compose to manage everything
Nextcloud
Photo Prism
Tailscale (remote WireGuard based access from all my devices. Integrates well with Pfsense)
Home Assistant (amazing platform for home automation and more). I love the new voice control features and mission!
Used to self host Email with Helm hardware company (not k8s Helm) but they went out of business. Self hosting email is annoying thanks to the big email providers and their control over the spam filtering world.
Matrix chat server bridging all the chat interfaces I use. This is managed by an awesome open source Ansible playbook https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
Pihole