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Ask HN: What do you self host

9 pointsjulietteeb7 comments

I was wondering what other people self host as I recently got a new server and wanted to use it for more. I'm currently self hosting Matrix, Gitea, and Nextcloud.

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Aside from saving more money on my hosting with a "managed server"... DreamHost was the one who taught me about the importance of that. DreamHost was my very first shared hosting and I loved it. But I outgrew it very quickly. Then I went and upgraded to one of their new services, DreamPress, at the time... which was great until it wasn't.

I left them simply because if my website went down... at first, they gave you control over at least restarting your server but that disappeared and I needed that. If I had to start, I had to contact their support team who might take a few hours to respond. I couldn't have my website being down for more than a few minutes. So I got on a server that allowed me to restart as I deemed fit. Being able to SSH into your own server for additional things you need to do also is a bonus. And I prefer having that control over something I am running then having to reach out to support any time I needed it.

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Fair Use. Air gapped. Recycled from work Intel Gen 3 HP Laptop HDD server. For initiating kindergarteners into the joys of "binary corruption" (and get ash ketchum to say silly things). But I am into it! SQLite3 hiscore persistence. WASM emulation. AI upscaling. As a hobby? It's provided wayyy more fun than Minecraft & Roblox combined ;)

I toyed with Umbrel[0] but only to try it out. I was unsure of the security model of having all my eggs in one basket. I only self-host things as separate and distinct instances now.

[0] https://umbrel.com/

Previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33657947

FWIW, my answer is still mostly the same as it was then:

- Mediawiki

- Apache Roller

- Apache HTTPD

- eJabberd

- SuiteCRM (a fork of SugarCRM)

- Bugzilla

- Mosquitto

- Jenkins

- Artifactory

I use windows as a file server to share media files with my streaming devices

I self-host HTTP, NNTP, SMTP, and QOTD.

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