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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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[–] 7EP6vuI@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

do you already have monitoring solution for your vps? maybe prometheus/altermanager and the node_exporter?

otherwise i join the forgejo praise, and also enjoy etherpad (self hosted (limited) google doc)

how do you handle backups? recommendation: borg

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

No, so far I just hope nothing breaks :) will take a look!

With so many recommendations in this thread, Forgejo must be great. I've used it with Codeberg, but self-hosting seems a lot better (especially if they introduce federation at some point).

Thanks!