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Why I self host my servers and what I've recently learned

A short story on why I still go through the effort of self hosting servers and some things it taught me recently.

PiHole as DNS resolver (redundant) RouterOS (probably stretching the “self hosting” a bit, but it does DHCP, VLANs, Firewalls, DNS routing and such) UniFi controller as a WiFi controller heimdall as a landing page TrueNAS as a file server (redundant) gitea as a local git server wiki.js for general knowledge storing VS Code as a browser based editor A Ubuntu dev VM for general code shenanigans (Debian otherwise) mariadb for database needs redis for forgetful database needs InfluxDB for specific database needs (aka “projects I mean to get back into”) LibreNMS as a network manager and monitoring suite Calibre Web for E-Books and papers Komga for comics Jellyfin for general media Homebridge for internet of sh*t (tm) devices I don’t need Meetings, office hours, architecture chats, that sort of thing Write text with funny colors, these days usually Python, Scala, go, typescript, and sql Deal with actual infrastructure and tooling: K8s, Terraform, Docker, VPCs, EC2s, nix and other fun stuff Perhaps related, stare at AWS Cost Explorer or spreadsheets Babysit a bunch of OSS services, manage updates etc. Overall a pretty promising concept, but once you need to attach said disk to a server to make the local storage bigger and usable w/in Nextcloud, your options are somewhat limited and the official docs recommend samba/ cifs.

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