I've just read the homebrewserver manifesto, looked at the stack of unused laptops on my shelf, and I feel inspired!
What do you guys actually do with your home servers though?
I established a home server when I ran out of free storage on Dropbox. Having a dedicated place to upload and share files was important for my job, so I needed something.
That's why I ended up running Nextcloud on my server. It took days (for me) to set up. I've now been using it happily for about 2 years.
Nextcloud's add-ons and integrations make it even more useful to me personally. The "News" add-on serves as my RSS reader, synched to my phone via Readrops. Recently I've also been using Joplin for note-taking, which can sync to Nextcloud.
So yeah, pretty much just Nextcloud. I haven't had to install anything else on the server because Nextcloud has me covered.
there's a bunch of things I'm planning to do but haven't implemented
I'm planning on setting up Dynamic DNS so that i can log into my home server from anywhere using a domain that i bought
What i'm doing right now is setting up a Xen virtual machine server to host multiple websites and services in a fairly secure manner
You can also run a propper website in a virtual machine and use a vpn like wireguard to pipe that VM to a VPS somewhere else so you don' give out your home IP address
Tor or I2p hidden services are also a nice option
>>90
> What i'm doing right now is setting up a Xen virtual machine server to host multiple websites and services in a fairly secure manner
Isn't Xen kinda overkill? You can host multiple sites with an Nginx reverse proxy, unless you're doing some kind of interesting interactivity.
Good luck and have fun anyhow!
>>90
How easy is it to set up Xen?
I looked into it a few times for distro-hopping but it looked a bit overwhelming.
>>86
What do you guys actually do with your home servers though?
The most useful things I've found:
- Pihole to block ads at the network level (helping free lazy housemates who won't even get an adblocker from the thought-control machine)
- Jellyfin to stream torrented TV and movies, I give logins to a circle of friends so they can easily watch some decent media instead of whatever Netflix pushes on them