Let’s keep it simple. I’m sure most of us are proud of Docker CPU cycles charted in Grafana via Prometheus, but I’m talking about the house as a whole.
My personal favorite is turning out to be Mealie.
I self-host a bunch of things for my personal use, but Mealie definitely takes the cake in terms of benefitting the entire household. I like the meal planner and the ability to hit the supermarket once to get all the necessary groceries for the week (I’ve never been able to achieve this before). I don’t think there is anything in my stack that even compares with the benefits my house gets of out Mealie.
My runner up would have to be any of the self-hosted media players (Plex, Jellyfin, etc.), but we also have Netflix and a bunch of streaming services, so not that impactful. Home Assistant would also be a close runner up, but it only provides great benefits for me, not the rest of the house. I think Immich will be on this list shortly, when it matures a bit more (are we able to import existing photos yet?)
Offsite backups.
I was going to say … someone who knows what to do when it all comes crashing down …
A proper firewall
Caddy. A reverse proxy / web server with automated LE certs that is easier than this does not exist.
Why did you choose Caddy instead of Traefik or Nginx? I’m on Nginx, but wondering if I’m missing out on anything.
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Automated certs (from 2 different CAs, not just LE) are baked in and require ZERO configuration.
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Configuration simplicity, most of my proxied services take 3 lines total each.
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What should every self-hosted household have? a back up
I think Immich is now able to work with pictures in an existing folder structure.
Tried Immich and immediately uninstalled it after a number of problems. My photos are too valuable to be screwing around.
I like Mealie too, just installed it the other day. I also found a companion app for Android that add it to the Share-with button so if you are browsing a recipe on your phone, you can share it to Mealie and it will import it for you.
A properly configured router/firewall.
Pi-hole, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.
Jellyfin! It was the reason why I got into self hosting in the first place.
Awareness of security and vulnerabilities.
Hosting anything is easy doing it secure is the hard part.
Crowdsec for security.
Does mealie have a simple storage-system? Like, whats the stock on rice and noodles and whatever at home for the recipe?
I looked at grocy and its incredible bloated and complicated to set up. If grocy would have a set of default-stuff included it would probably be amazing but the set up process is… annoying.
/u/apperrault as well maybe?
Immich (yes you can add external libraries now), pihole, jellyfin, backups.
Vaultwarden. With all the password breaches who trust anyone with your passwords?