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Fun/interesting things to self host? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by halloween_spookster@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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What things do you self host (or know about) that are fun/interesting/useful to you? I'm thinking of setting up a home server and am looking for things that would be useful or fun for me to run on it. I want to host things that are useful/fun, but not a project itself (I've got enough projects), if that makes sense.

Most of the lists I see online are mostly lists of technical projects like docker, kubernetes, grafana, nginx, etc. I see these as infrastructure rather than the interesting project itself. ETA: the infra is important, but not "interesting" in this context as I deal with infra at my day job.

Examples of the type of service I'm looking at: a media server, photos app (to replace Google Photos), game servers, recipe management, home automation... What other things do you know about that are fun/interesting/useful?

Edit: thank you everyone for your awesome responses!

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on what part of "set up" you're referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from "here is a packaged Electron based Windows application" to "here are the node.js source files". All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.

Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that's going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.

[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ah ok, I was mostly talking about hosting Foundry itself but that sounds promising if it's relatively easy. I have some stuff set up but I'm very inexperienced when it comes to hosting etc

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.

https://foundryvtt.com/kb/

[–] xamino@feddit.org 1 points 7 months ago

And here is a Docker version (key still required though worth it IMHO): https://github.com/felddy/foundryvtt-docker