Self-Hosted Alternatives to Popular Services

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Lunar2K0 on 2025-04-18 20:47:03+00:00.

Due to the ongoing issues at the US border, US citizens and non citizens alike are getting harassed by Customs and Border Patrol with more frequency. One of the tactics they use is seizing your phone and forcing you to give up the password through intimidation, or else a non citizen will be denied entry and a citizen will have their phone confiscated and they will be detained.

Self hosting your own services and making sure your sensitive information is stored on your own personal cloud is a great way to maintain your privacy at the border. They will go through anything that is LOCALLY stored on your device, but are specifically not allowed to go through any service that connects to the internet. Tailscale, Immich, PaperlessNGX, Jellyfin, TrueNAS, etc, all of these services are our tools against getting harassed at the border over a picture of a Palestinian flag.

Good luck and be safe everyone

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/BlackBird2a on 2025-04-18 19:11:23+00:00.

Hello all. I recently switched internet providers and I am trying to self host a minecraft server, which I have done many times before succesfully. I have not tried since switching ISP's. I just tried, and my friend is unable to join. My IP address says I am in Denver, while I live a state away. I remember briefly hearing a term for this, where ISP's put public IP's behind one, or something like that I don't really know. But, does anybody know what this is and how to get around it?

Edit: thank you all for such quick responses and for your knowledgable responses, i'm looking into requesting a designated IP from my ISP, if that doesn't work then it looks like i've got a new concept to learn.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Aiko_133 on 2025-04-19 02:10:32+00:00.

Hello everyone, for maybe half an year or more I am now using a android phone that I not use anymore (poco f3) as my home lab

I am running: Technitium; Mailcow (Yes I am running email on my phone and it works and it gets delivered and gets perfect score :) ) Forgejo; Nextcloud; Dockge; Paperless; Nginx; Synapse for matrix; Fail2ban; Navidrome; Stirling-pdf; Vaultwarden; Watchtower; Searxng; Calibre-web; Homepage

All of this in running in a phone indeed without making it hot. Public services accessible via cloudflare tunnels. Private services I access via tailscale. All running on docker natively with the help of this guide

It sure was a lot more fun then just buying a pre-made nas :)

TL;DR: You can make anything possible as long as you have time and patience. Heck I even made email work.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/gxvicyxkxa on 2025-04-18 18:24:48+00:00.

Just discovered on the latest episode that Jupiter Broadcasting's Selfhosted Show podcast will be finishing up in May.

Selfhosting is one of the first things I ever considered to be a hobby, and the podcast was a window into a world that was new to me, especially during covid when I had more time to get to grips with the basics.

There's a great back catalogue of episodes there that I'll probably relisten to and see if there are any suggestions or strategies that I missed the first time round.

Anyway, I know he lurks and pops the head out from time to time, so just wanted to say thanks to u/ironicbadger for the work he, Chris and Drew (don't know the reddit handles, sorry) have done over the years.

And to fill a void come May, I'm also gonna ask the community what podcasts, matrix channels, youtubers, sites, rss feeds you subscribe to, what sources you consume from, to keep up to date with the selfhosted space.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/idris3396 on 2025-04-18 19:59:42+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/LeIdrimi on 2025-04-18 08:04:54+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/jglelacheur on 2025-04-18 13:55:13+00:00.

I know this answer historically was security, reliability, portlets, but aside from portlets, is security and reliability still the primary reason? In my research of top enterprise portals, I find Adobe Experience Manager (alot), Magnolia CMS, even Liferay as the go to for the big brands with scaled portals.

It looks like they've all been modernized as headless while retaining the content editors used by marketing and with next.js support they are speeding apps up, so all good there. Is it a time to market/lower operational overhead thing that you wouldn't decide to build a more cloud native interpretation of these java CMS solutions?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think everything should be a microservice, in fact, modular monolithic seems to be making a comeback for applications where that choice in design results in less complexity and cost than building out more infrastructure to make everything a microservice.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/BazimQQ on 2025-04-18 13:18:17+00:00.

Hello guys, do you have any alternatives instead of Portainer?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Caseyrover on 2025-04-18 13:08:22+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/shol-ly on 2025-04-18 11:53:47+00:00.

Happy Friday, r/selfhosted! Linked below is the latest edition of This Week in Self-Hosted, a weekly newsletter recap of the latest activity in self-hosted software and content.

This week's features include:

• State of the open home updates from Home Assistant
• Software updates and launches
• A spotlight on Papra -- a self-hosted document management platform (u/cthmsst)
• A ton of great guides, videos, and content from the community

Thanks, and as usual, feel free to reach out with feedback!

This Week in Self-Hosted (18 April 2025)

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Still-Cover-9301 on 2025-04-18 08:47:27+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/deathofsentience on 2025-04-18 04:06:37+00:00.

I know that there's a bunch people do with raspberry pi's in terms of self hosting, but I plan on restoring some old PC's which I know will do a much better job for pretty much all self hosting/home assistant stuff. So my question is, what are some things I can do with a leftover pi which are best suited to a pi vs other things?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/MrCyclopede on 2025-04-18 07:33:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/gottoesplosivo on 2025-04-18 06:47:43+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/strich on 2025-04-18 01:43:33+00:00.

Despite being an IT professional and pretty security aware, my main Google account was recently hacked and taken over by hackers targeting a popular YouTube channel I brand manage so they could upload their crypto scams. It was extremely scary and I was a breath away from losing this 15 year old account _forever_, GPhotos GDrive and all. My whole digital life effectively.

Side note for those curious - If you have a backup email recovery account set, it is possible to overcome full 2FA on the primary account on Google as an attacker if you gain access to the recovery account. Make sure it is itself secure!

Now of course its not great to lean so heavily on a third party like Google, but that's the trade off I've chosen. What I WOULD like to do now is setup automated backups of my Google account to my UNRAID NAS. My research so far has uncovered that it is not so easy to do in an automated fashion.

For GDrive, it seems relatively easy and a solved problem with things like rclone. But GPhotos has no such API that lets you download original content with EXIF metadata.

Can anyone recommend any frameworks/scripts that utilize maybe Google service accounts and APIs to create Takeout archives to download?

Ideally I don't have to manually perform some step every n months so I'm not a point of failure, but auth seems to be a real stick in the mud for this stuff.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/GraysLawson on 2025-04-17 15:45:04+00:00.

I remember at some point someone posted a link to a github project that had a full stack of docker containers including stuff like internet archive, a tor relay, etc that people were running with spare network/server resources. I can't for the life of me find it anymore. Could someone point me in the right direction?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/musicman1601 on 2025-04-17 21:17:01+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/DutchBytes on 2025-04-17 17:09:03+00:00.

Hi all!

I've just added a feature to Vigilant, an open source all-in-one website monitoring application.

This feature monitores your certificates so that you get notified when they expire or when automatic renewals fail.

I am curious, does anyone here take the time to monitor certificates or do we all just hope that the automatic renewal works?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ponzi_gg on 2025-04-17 14:33:41+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ajmandourah on 2025-04-17 14:12:58+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ducbao414 on 2025-04-17 13:16:04+00:00.

I wrote a minimal iOS app called PocketServer (~1MB in download size) for creating multiple persistent local HTTP/WebDAV servers that can actually run in the background, simultaneously.

The WebDAV Server is Class 1 (Basic), compatible with WebDAV clients like CyberDuck (GUI & CLI).

There are already iOS apps for local HTTP/WebDAV servers, the reason I wrote PocketServer:

• Background HTTP/WebDAV servers that keep running even when you switch apps or lock your phone screen.

• A lightweight app you can download even on slow connections (1MB is 2 minutes on 2G) and dead simple to setup.

• ~~Ramen for next month.~~ Already covered, so maybe for the month after next.

Available on the App Store.

Pricing: core functionality is free, with no ads. You only need the Pro upgrade ($2.99 one-time purchase, no subscription) for extra customization.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Isolated_Hippo on 2025-04-16 22:46:46+00:00.

Sorry for the scattered information.

My uncle died in a motorcycle accident last night(please skip the condolences, I appreciate it but I have heard them 4500 times today).

One of the significant issues I am going to run into is he ran the email server for me, my mom, my grandparents, his sister in his basement. Everybody uses this as their primary email and is going poof would be problematic.

As the former second and current smartest tech person in the family, it has fallen on my shoulders to not let this become a problem.

What the hell do I need to know/do? I am across the country and am flying out Monday and will have 3 days to grab whatever I need but I do not have physical access to the hardware until then. The web version I use is through roundcube. I looked at my settings through my email program and its a SMTP Server. We do all login with out full emails but on his domain. So if my email is isolatedhippo@oogabooga.com I go to mail.hisdomainheuses.com to login with isolatedhippo@oogabooga.com as the username

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/nbtm_sh on 2025-04-17 12:19:31+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/SillyServe5773 on 2025-04-17 11:51:36+00:00.

So I recently tried out OpenCloud and the experience has been... quite smooth. Easy to setup with docker compose, the webui is minimal and blazingly fast. The keycloak sso integration is pretty neat, too.

Went with nextcloud for the past few years and has been through all sorts of issues, constant crash and database corruption, and it's laggy as hell. Now I just want something simple, fast and reliable, and OpenCloud seems to do just that.

The major downside is lack of mobile and desktop apps (for now) , but it looks pretty promising to me. Have anyone else gave it a try, what are your thoughts?

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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/humming6 on 2025-04-17 10:49:01+00:00.