I went with a SciFi ship theme, my main server is VMS-HORIZON (Virtual Machine Ship). The VMs have ship component names like AUDIO-CORE (navidrome) and VISUAL-CORE (Immich).

My Raspberry Pi is named ORBITER, like a orbiting shuttle/satellite, and the VM it has is called BEACON (for Gotify)

I second Beszel, it’s such a clean interface, and I can also have it send alerts through Gotify if my shit breaks!

Hell yeah

The comments give some great advice on what to self host, but my advice to you before you start spinning up a million services is to DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.

Seriously, document as you go and you will thank yourself later. Document niche commands you found online that worked, docker compose files, IP addresses/hostnames, where you put that random config file.

There are some great self hosted wiki and documentation products out there, start with that, then build the fun stuff!

I haven’t really either, just from browsing their website it seems like a federated service you can either host yourself or join someone else’s, and then use their app (or a fork) to invite the people you specifically want to talk to.

I don’t know much about XMPP, but that is what it’s based on.

Ah, that makes sense. A bit aggressive for my needs. Thanks for the info!

Oh I’m not blaming the Immich devs at all, I love their product and will also continue to use it unless FUTO somehow ruins it.

There is an option in the Folderpair for instant sync, I believe that is what you’re looking for. I’ve never used it, as I also just do scheduled syncs

That’s what I currently use, it has a fantastic and easy to use UI. It also lets you migrate your desktop license between distros, which was super helpful while I was distro hopping a bunch in the beginning lol

This fuckin sucks, I JUST got my photos and everything migrated to immich, and there isn’t another alternative that I’ve tried that I like. Why are we never allowed to have nice things?

This is my current setup, couldn’t recommended it more!

Oh that’s really cool! I’ll have to keep that one in mind

This is cool as fuck! I wish I had gotten into Linux sooner, I might have been able to use this setup lol

One of us, one of us, one of us

For real though, find a distro that looks cool, and give it a whirl. A lot of distros have a live boot option that lets you try it out before installing. Ive tried a few myself, but I keep going back to Kubuntu. I might try bazzite soon, havent given that one a go yet!

Some of these are absolutely hilarious

Caddy is extremely easy to set up for reverse proxies! I have Caddy reverse proxy my headscale server and it’s been a dream. Literally three lines of config per proxy.

Seconding Beszel, it’s dead simple to install, and add systems to. I love the sleek interface, and the ability to send notifications to a slew of services (like ntfy)

I’ve honestly never tried it, since I have the only node in my home network serve the local subnet. It allowed me to statically assign IPs at home and still use them outside of the house. I suppose there’s nothing stopping you from using the overlay network, especially if you have all devices involved on the Tailscale network, but I didn’t feel like doing that :)

Something that might help with using Tailscale and reverse proxying: you don’t have to use the IPs given to you through the tailnet if you don’t want to. Something tailnet nodes can do is serve the local subnet theyre connected to, even if you’re running the self hosted version Headscale, which is what I do. This is how I am able to have my phone and one other pc connected through Headscale/Tailscale, but still access everything on my local network.

Im assuming your Jellyfin is on your local network, and you want to connect to it through Tailscale, but still use HTTPS? If that’s the case, you don’t need to do any kind of port forwarding on your router, as everything is funneled through Tailscale anyway.