# What are you self hosting in your HomeLab? **URL:** \ **Category:** HomeLab\ **Tags:** self-host\ **Created:** [March 29, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/what-are-you-self-hosting-in-your-homelab/294 "2023-03-29T16:07:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/user_avatar/forums.spacerex.co/will/32/14_2.png) [@Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/u/Will)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/what-are-you-self-hosting-in-your-homelab/294/1 "2023-03-29T16:07:27Z")
# What are you self hosting? I have an upcoming video going over what I am self hosting, so I figure it would be fun to hear what other people are self hosting in their homeLabs! Also let me know if anyone wants a deeper write up on any of theses. # My Rack Currently located in @katie’s office! Not too loud! ![My Rack](https://forums.spacerex.co/uploads/default/original/1X/14d4b6f5db93366e3e792580069dd823f7ec7041.jpeg) # Overview Overall I mostly use a new VM for every single service that I want to self host. This allows me to really limit downtime / monitor every single item individually. Plus it makes IPv4 networking pretty easy! The downside of this setup is ram usage! But thankfully both my hosts have 128 gigs of ram / 48 gigs which is more than enough. Each service is normally a ubuntu server 20.04.2 (LTS) VM, so they only need 512 megabytes of ram min (I normally start with 1 gig) # What I am self hosting: :spacerex: | Service | Description | | --- | --- | | Plex | Share ripped DVD’s on my LAN + really great for music (closed source software) | | Gitea | Really lightweight git client with a web interface, used for version controlling all of my code / scripts | | MariaDB | SQL database server that is a drop in replacement of MySQL (make sure to backup) | | phpMyAdmin | Great web interface for my MariaDB server. Lets you easily add users / tables, without typing any SQL | | NextCloud | Used as a google drive / suite replacement. I personally do not use this a ton, though I am planning on using this to replace Synology Drive for sharing data to clients | | bind | bind is a DNS server that can run on any linux box. I created a subdomain `.sr.spacerex.co` which has local DNS entries for everything that I am running | | homebridge | home bridge allows you to take pretty much any smart home device, and bring it into the Apple HomeKit ecosystem. | | Xen Orchestra | Xen Orchestra is a phenomenal interface for managing XCP-NG virtual machines. It has some of the best backup software out there for VMs too! | | Zabbix | Zabbix is a crucial part of how I manage / monitor, well everything and anything! I use it to monitor my own services, as well as client NAS units | | Synology | Can’t forget this! Synology has tons and tons of stuff that you really can use. I probably will do a similar post over there just going over Synology services! | | OpenVPN | I have created an OpenVPN server that allows client Sinology’s to connect to a VLAN for both monitoring and backups, without having any ports open to the internet | # What Hardware I am using: (just going to include the software) | Type | Device | Use Case | | --- | --- | --- | | NAS | TrueNAS Scale | Used for both bulk file storage, and my fast video editing NAS (25GbE) | | NAS | Synology | Used for tons of stuff, Synology Photos, Synology Drive, backing everything up, you name it, it does it | | VM Host | XCP-NG | Used as the hypervisor for all of my virtual machines, managed by Xen Orchestra | | Router | UDM-Pro | Using a UDM pro for my router, right not its just easy and has enough features that it does everything I need, without having too much customization to get me in trouble | I am sure I missed something here! This will be updated as I add more things! ---
**Author:** ![Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/user_avatar/forums.spacerex.co/will/32/14_2.png) [@Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/u/Will)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/what-are-you-self-hosting-in-your-homelab/294/2 "2023-03-29T16:08:42Z")
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**Author:** ![SteveD](https://forums.spacerex.co/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@SteveD](https://forums.spacerex.co/u/SteveD)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/what-are-you-self-hosting-in-your-homelab/294/3 "2023-04-03T16:29:30Z")
> so they only need 512 gigs of ram min yikes! 🤔 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/user_avatar/forums.spacerex.co/will/32/14_2.png) [@Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/u/Will)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2023, 4:55pm UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/what-are-you-self-hosting-in-your-homelab/294/4 "2023-04-03T16:55:08Z")
Whoops! Meant to be megabytes of ram! Updated ---
**Author:** ![Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/user_avatar/forums.spacerex.co/will/32/14_2.png) [@Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/u/Will)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/what-are-you-self-hosting-in-your-homelab/294/5 "2023-04-05T14:51:19Z")
Link to the video going over all of this! [![](https://forums.spacerex.co/uploads/default/original/1X/bebc9fab6be932f78268544a6c965d7c2eb34f10.jpeg "What is on my Home Servers? - Virtualization, Databases, Services & More") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqormlDJLz0) ---
**Author:** ![Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/user_avatar/forums.spacerex.co/will/32/14_2.png) [@Will](https://forums.spacerex.co/u/Will)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/what-are-you-self-hosting-in-your-homelab/294/6 "2023-04-10T12:23:54Z")