In the What are YOU self-hosting? thread, there are a lot of people here who are self-hosting a huge number of applications, but there’s not a lot of discussion of the platform these things run on.

What does your self-hosted infrastructure look like?

Here are some examples of more detailed questions, but I’m sure there are plenty more topics that would be interesting:

  • What hardware do you run on? Or do you use a data center/cloud?
  • Do you use containers or plain packages?
  • Orchestration tools like K8s or Docker Swarm?
  • How do you handle logs?
  • How about updates?
  • Do you have any monitoring tools you love?
  • Etc.

I’m starting to put together the beginning of my own homelab, and I’ll definitely be starting small but I’m interested to hear what other people have done with their setups.

  • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I have 3 servers other than my laptop: two “1-liter” ultra small form factor PCs from HP and Dell, and a Dell small form factor. Roughly, they’re my personal / desktop virtualization / dev server, my webserver, and my data store.

    Everything is containers on top of Proxmox, mostly VMs but a few LXC containers as well.

    Most of it runs some flavor of Debian.

    A number of the services are reverse proxied thru a $5/mo VPS.

    Internet access is via 24/7 VPN thru a similar $5/mo VPS.