Uptime Kuma maintainer here. The reason why I made this because I have some services like databases and websites cannot be down for a long time. I need someone send a notification to me if they are down.

If you think it is not improving your life, it is probably because you don’t have such similar scenario and you probably don’t need this indeed.

My point is that it may be not improving your life, but it improves my life at least, or others’. That’s just a choice.

I’d say I am 95% homelaber and 5% selfhoster. Most of my stuff is for experimentation and learning. And most of my services are vanilla ones, like samba. So in essence I am self-hosting not much more than a few linux environments.

The things that are indispensable to me are samba, my docker development stack, uptime kuma, and a simple wordpress installation that I use for notes and documentation. Oh and lately Stirling-PDF. That thing is just awesome.

I have tried various tools, but I keep coming back to vanilla samba for most stuff. Like paperless-ngx. For my needs, it’s just a fancy way to tag documents. I don’t need full text search or OCR, and I can find most of my files quickly using a simple directory hierarchy. I do not really need the extra overhead of maintaining paperless-ngx. The same for things like Immich, plex or Owncloud. Samba and file explorer preview works perfectly for me.

Mainly for privacy reason:

• TeamSpeak
• Seafile

And something I find really useful: ChangeDetection, to monitor changes on webpages, like prices, stocks, news…

Paperless has improved my life by at least 12%. There’s a “before paperless” era in my life when there was a 20-40% chance I would be able to find a sheet of printed paper that the bureaucracy of my country thought was more important than Life itself.

Now, it’s a solid 100%.

Nextcloud has improved my life by 3% I’d say. It basically does the same as Google. But I fell 3% better overall to not be so incredibly dependent on Google. If google imploded today, I’d still feel it because of Google Play Services on Android. But that’s pretty much the only thing.

I don’t run any containers.

I own my own data.

I back up my own computers.

My email is mine.

You don’t need to overcomplicate it, it’s not a competition, and you don’t have to do what everyone else does.

Having Nextcloud, PiHole and LibreELEC/Kodi is something I wouldn’t want to miss

It’s all shits and giggles for me. Whatever service I fancy gets spun up, poked at and then left running until I need to free up resources for the next thing. It’s a wonderful mess.

Rely on a lot of my selfhosted stuff like my media stack, immich, syncthing (phone backups), home assistant, vaultwarden. Saves me a bunch of money from subscriptions

Selfhosting a VS Code server was one of the best decisions to increase my productivity.

I started just for funsies, and in the end narrowed it down to just those items that make life better for us. Primarily, I run 2 Technitium DNS (network wide ad blocking), Jellyfin (for media), Home Assistant (to control lights and other devices without internet access), Mealie (recipes), and Ubooquity (books and comics). I have run NextCloud, among other services, but none of them got enough use to make it worth it to continue.

Self-Hosting helps organizing my life, on productive days i plan every minute of the day,

from my self-hosted services i use multiple times a day:

iobroker

wekan

nextcloud

gitlab

mail

grocy

multiple telegram bots

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sure for all of this is a commercial alternative, but i really hate paper and i’m fully organizing my life with this. All paper i have is scanned and saved, i don’t think it’s a good idea to give this amount of detailed data(including health and tax data) and important documents a commercial provider.

And i would feel everyday bad about my data being scanned. Self-Hosting is really important for me every day and makes me everyday happy

Yes and yes. I do actually use a bunch of stuff but a lot of it is for experimenting. I regularly use Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, PiHole, Nginx, among a few others but for experimenting, I recently set up a container will Mullvad vpn so I can use that vpn networking for my qbittorent container.

Little bit of both I suppose. I find it very enjoyable to have a server at home to tinker with, I’m also enjoying providing media to my friends and family (and myself). I don’t use many self-hosted apps outside of media though, really only nocodb, immich and memos

Pi-Hole, Nextcloud, local storage and email are used constantly. All bring great improvements.

Ansible and Zabbix provide ‘support’ for these applications.

Media streaming is a ‘nice to have’ but not essential. Wireguard is seldom used but still very important.

I moved to self hosting so that I have more control over my data and it’s fun. The services below except for GNS3 are what I use on a daily basis

- Homeassistant for all my home automation needs

- OpenMediaVault for my NAS

- Nextcloud for storage, calendars, backups etc.

- Emby and Audiobookshelf for family to stream media

- Netbox to document network installations for work

- Rustdesk as an alternative to Teamviewer/Anydesk etc

- GNS3 to simulate and test network topologies

- Partkeepr as an inventory management system to keep track of my companies inventory