Expansion Ideas for the Self-Hosting Section

I want to thank the team that added the self-hosting section! It’s a really important aspect of privacy, I do think however that it’s pretty short and could use some expansion so a user could host a larger array of services. Here’s some I’ve used or heard about so this is more of a discussion

DNS Services

I know these are elsewhere on the site but I think it would be good to put them here too.

  • Pi-hole (I’ve used this one for years and its an easy one to self-host)
  • Adguard

File storage

  • Nextcloud? (I haven’t had a great experience setting this one up but it’s popular)
  • Samba share (Super easy for most people to setup)

Photo Storage

I haven’t used any of these but I’ve heard about each of them

  • Immich
  • Photoprism
  • Ente Photos

Notes

I know standard notes is in here already but we could add more options

  • Joplin

VPN

  • Wireguard (I’ve used this one though setup is always tricky for me)

Media Servers

  • Jellyfin
  • Calibre Server

I’m sure I’m missing some other good ones but these are just of the top of my head. We could also recommend an operating system for self-hosting like Fedora Server/IoT and move the Freedombox recommendation here.

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