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What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 3 months ago by tofu_oligarch@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hello everyone!

I recently switched my Android phone to a custom ROM, and while setting things up, I wanted push notifications without relying on Google. That’s how I discovered UnifiedPush.

Really liking the concept, I decided to rent a small VPS (1 vCPU, 2GB RAM) and started hosting NTFY. So far, it's been working great. Over time, I’ve added a few more services like FreshRSS and Audiobookshelf.

All of this is just for personal use, so the resource usage is minimal (the whole setup only uses around 500MB of RAM). I really enjoy how much value you can get out of such a small machine.

That brings me to my question:

What other lightweight, self-hostable tools would you recommend? I’m especially interested in small, resource-efficient services that you’ve personally found useful.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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[–] VeryVito@lemmy.ml 84 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I feel like the world is sleeping on ForgeJo — it’s such a capable and easily hostable alternative to gitlab/github/bitbucket.

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's literally the core foundation of my entire self-hosting configuration. I could not live without Forgejo. I can't imagine being shackled to Github or some other hosted provider anymore for something as important as my git repositories.

Gitea's okay too in every practical respect, but Forgejo is the more community-led fork and in my opinion less likely to be corporatized and enshittified far in the future, so I've hitched my wagon there and couldn't be happier. The fork is starting to diverge slowly, so it seems like direct migration is no longer possible. That said, git repositories are git repositories, and they have most of the important history and stuff inside them already, so unless you're super attached to stuff like issues and whatever you can still migrate, you'll just lose some stuff.

[–] iambeingheldhostage@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Huge shout-out to Forgejo. It's blazingly fast, even on low resource devices. Throw it on a Raspberry Pi and chuck it in a closet. I betcha it would have better uptime/reliability than GitHub.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

I love forgejo!

[–] ntn888@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

just wait till it gets federation.. it'll be the nail in the coffin for github!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The CI turned me off though. It's like they saw how bad GitHub is for CI and said "no notes. Just like that"

And I use the CI config a huge amount.