Self-Hosting
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I got bit by the self-hosting bug this weekend, and boy it's been fun! You see, I've had a Synology DS923+ and HP Victus 15L that have been sitting around gathering dust in the basement. In a desire to stop spending subscription fees to Apple and Google for photo storage, I decided to move the machines to my upstairs office and put them to use.
I added a new router to direct connect the HP and Synology with my laptop dock. From there, I imaged the HP with Ubuntu Server and got it setup with Dockge. I mounted the Synology via NFS so I have direct access to it's storage on the HP.
My new "server rack"
So far I've installed two services that I absolutely love. First is a Google Photos alternative called Immich. It supports local facial detection, mobile backup and features a really nice app available on F-Droid. I can create public share links, organize into albums and view photos I've taken on a map.
The Immich app is so good
Second, I installed Memos, basically a personal Twitter feed to dump thoughts, notes, images and tasks. I built a dead simple CLI app that connects via the API so I can just run memoscli "Remember Dockge runs on port 5001". You can organize by tags, separate spaces and tasks. You can even post publicly to turn it into a microblog of sorts (which I very well might do).
Both of these services are behind a Caddy reverse proxy. I forwarded HTTP(S) ports through my UniFi Dream Machine to the HP and added subdomains to thatalexguy.dev to support the services. Caddy takes care of SSL certs automatically!
I'll probably add Jellyfin in the near future, especially since the HP is rocking a pretty decent graphics card for transcoding media. I'll likely move this blog off of my DigitalOcean VPS onto the HP as well to save a few extra bucks every month.
If anyone has additional suggestions on services I should install, let me know!