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What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 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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[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

KOreader Sync if you use KOreader. Easily pick up where you leave off on other devices!

I also run Wiki.js to (inconsistently) document what I'm doing with my apps and server.

[–] tofu_oligarch@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Thanks! I own an e-reader, but as the stock software has served me well so far, I haven't had any reason to switch. Is KOReader worth it?

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 points 2 months ago

KOReader is great, basically swiss army knife, you can configure everything. Not the most intuitive UI though.

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I moved all my books out of Amazon last year and host them for my family with Calibre Web. Jailbroke my Kindle and use KOreader exclusively, so I use Sync so that if I need to read while I'm out, I can just pick up on my phone.

[–] tofu_oligarch@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The chance that I will do anything else but reading when using my phone is big, so the sync maybe not as relevant. That said, using KOReader with a centralized ebook library still sounds really useful. Thanks!

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Ha. Heard. I mostly don't want to carry another device when I travel for work, so will use my phone to read.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

My favorite part of koreader is the reading statistics and historical calendar view