selfhosting-blogposts/hive/selfhosting/index.md

Self-Hosting (NO LONGER MAINTAINED)

Showing how you can install any service yourself, where you can own your data, guaranteeing privacy.

DISCLAIMER: these tutorials are meant to be used as a "how to get started on XYZ", these tutorials may miss some details here and there, they have a lower quality standard than the ones i maintain in Privacy / Anonymity / Plausible Deniability

CONTRIBUTORS :

1. Nihilist
2. Notorious

LEGAL DISCLAIMER:
Across the entirety of my blog, in all articles that I made, I advocate for the legal use of technologies, even when I am talking about Privacy-enhancing and Anonymity-enabling technologies. In no way am I advocating for any illegal use of any technology showcased in any article on my blog, as the goal of this blog is to remain stricly informative and educative.

I decline any and all responsibility for any mis-use of any of the technology i showcase in the entirety of my blog. I also decline any and all responsibility for any physical, digital and psychological damage caused by the mis-use of any showcased technology, as the responsibility of such acts remains with the perpretating third-party. By reading this blog, you permanently, irrevocably and world-widely agree that I am in no way am responsible for any illegal action done by you or anyone that uses any of the showcased technology in my blog articles.

Setting up Servers

📝 Security

1. ✅ Physical Surveillance (rpi + webcams)

📝 Privacy Front-ends

1. ✅ SearxNG: privacy front-end for web-browsing
2. ✅ 4get: privacy front-end for web-browsing
3. ✅ Whoogle: privacy front-end for Google
4. ✅ Invidious: privacy front-end for Youtube
5. ✅ Nitter: privacy front-end for Twitter
6. ✅ AnonymousOverflow: privacy front-end for StackOverflow
7. ✅ Teddit: (DISCONTINUED) privacy front-end for Reddit
8. ✅ SafeTwitch: privacy front-end for Twitch
9. ✅ Wikiless: privacy front-end for wikipedia
10. ✅ Proxitok: privacy front-end for tiktok
11. ✅ Librex: privacy front-end for google

📝 Productivity

1. ✅ RSS Feeds
2. ✅ RustDesk (open source teamviewer alternative)
3. ✅ Perlite (Obsidian Notes)
4. ✅ Gitea
5. ✅ Nginx Nextcloud Server
6. ✅ Nginx Kanboard
7. ✅ Privatebin
8. ✅ Jitsi
9. ✅ CyberChef
10. ✅ GLPI
11. ✅ FreshRSS
12. ✅ PlainPad
13. ✅ MyMind+Mindmaps
14. ✅ hat.sh file encryption

💻 Collaborative Work

1. ✅ Matrix chat with VoIP support
2. ✅ Etherpad
3. ✅ Cryptpad
4. ✅ CodiMD
5. ✅ ShareLateX

⭐ Personal Favorites

1. ✅ Anonymity Management (Whonix, Veracrypt Plausible Deniability)⭐
2. ✅ Public Mail service over VPN over Tor ⭐
3. ✅ GTX 1050 PCI Passthrough to QEMU VM
4. ✅ Lainon Radio (mpd, icecast, nginx)
5. ✅ NGINX - RTMP HLS + HTTPS
6. ✅ Perlite (Obsidian Notes)
7. ✅ Openvpn Over Tor Server Setup
8. ✅ HTTP Service over VPN over Tor
9. ✅ Nginx Zabbix Server, with SNMPv3 Hosts
10. ✅ Nginx Nextcloud Server
11. ✅ Leela Chess Zero

🪟 Windows Server

1. ✅ WS2019 QEMU setup
2. ✅ DNS setup
3. ✅ Active Directory (AD) setup
4. ✅ AD + Users and Groups setup
5. ✅ WS2019 DNS + AD Proxmox setup
6. ✅ LDAP + SSL setup
7. ✅ WS2019 Triple DFS Share replication

🎦 Media

1. ✅ Stable Diffusion (Easy Diffusion) AI text to image generation
2. ✅ NGINX - RTMP HLS + HTTPS
3. ✅ Lainon Radio (mpd, icecast, nginx)
4. ✅ Neko (rabb.it replacement)
5. ✅ Hydrus Network Client
6. ✅ Asciinema Server

🟦 pfSense Administration

1. ✅ pfsense on virt-manager
2. ✅ pfsense on proxmox
3. ✅ pfsense Site to Site VPN

🐐 Debian Server Administration

1. ✅ Debian 12 Bookworm Upgrade
2. ✅ Mdadm raid 1 setup
3. ✅ External Drives with LUKS encryption
4. ✅ Simple NGINX setup with HTTPS
5. ✅ NGINX + fail2ban
6. ✅ Protect SSH with fail2ban
7. ✅ Haproxy Load Balancing
8. ✅ NGINX Load Balancing
9. ✅ XRDP
10. ✅ Apt-Cacher Linux Proxy

🔁 Automation

1. ✅ Automatic Debian updates (via unattended upgrades)
2. ✅ Automatic Debian / Arch Updates
3. ✅ Updating Debian10 Clusters with Ansible

🖥️ Monitoring

1. ✅ Uptime Kuma
2. ✅ SNMP (Debian, Windows, PfSense)
3. ✅ Nginx Zabbix Server
4. ✅ Nginx LibreNMS Server
5. ✅ Nginx Observium Server
6. ✅ Prometheus Grafana Server
7. ✅ CheckMK Server
8. ✅ T-Pot Honeypot

📧 Mail

1. ✅ VPS PUBLIC Mailserver (postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, OpenDKIM)
2. ✅ Rainloop
3. ✅ Local hMailServer + Thunderbird with self-signed SSL

📜 Scripted Setups:

1. ✅ Openvpn Server
2. ✅ Wireguard Server
3. ✅ Simple SSH Server
4. ✅ RDP Connections
5. ✅ Simple FTP server
6. ✅ Simple WebDav server
7. ✅ Snapd Nextcloud Server

🚧Complete Professionnal Projects

1. ✅ E4 Network Monitoring (SNMP + GLPI)
2. ✅ E4 - SP1 Nextcloud 🇫🇷
3. ✅ E4 - SP2 pfSense VPN 🇫🇷

🗄️ Databases

1. ✅ PostgreSQL Master-Slave Replication
2. ✅ PostgreSQL Master-Master (Bucardo)
3. ✅ PostgreSQL Front-End: PgAdmin4
4. ✅ MySQL Master-Slave Replication
5. ✅ MySQL Master-Master Replication
6. ✅ MySQL Front-End: PHPMyAdmin

🚢 Docker - Management

1. ✅ Docker automatic image updates setup
2. ✅ Docker setup
3. ✅ Dozzle (Docker Logs)
4. ✅ Portainer.io
5. ✅ Nginx Proxy Manager

🚢 Docker - Containers

1. ✅ Dillinger
2. ✅ Kutt URL Shortener
3. ✅ Searx

📦 Backups

1. ✅ Rsync Automation with SSH Keys (PUSH backups)
2. ✅ Borg Backup Usage (PUSH backups)
3. ✅ Borg Backup Automation (PUSH backups)

🔍 Search Engines

1. ✅ Gomez (Torrents)

⚠️ Minimal / Experimental / Games

1. ✅ KVM/QEMU : Multiple displays per VM + clipboard copy paste
2. ✅ Port forward from local services to VPSes
3. ✅ Bedrock Linux: kali tools on arch linux
4. ✅ GTX 1050 PCI Passthrough to QEMU VM
5. ✅ PHP LainSafe
6. ✅ CGI LainSafe
7. ✅ Colored MOTDs
8. ✅ Leela Chess Zero
9. ✅ TF2 Server (ubuntu)
10. ✅ Modded Minecraft Server

📡 DNS

1. ✅ Bind9 dyndns + dnssec + slave master
2. ✅ Tor Anonymous DNS
3. ✅ pihole DNS

📑 Blogging

1. ✅ Ghost

💬 Chat

1. ✅ Clearnet Matrix server (federated clearnet chatting)
2. ✅ XMPP Chat Server Setup (Clearnet + Onion + OMEMO E2EE)
3. ✅ rocket.chat
4. ✅ TheLounge (with inspircd)
5. ✅ inspIRCd (no ssl, with password)

🧊 General Virtualisation

1. ✅ virt-manager with NAT setup
2. ✅ VMWare Workstation Pro

Anonymity-friendly VPS providers

1. ServersGuru (KYC-Free reseller of cloud providers like Hetzner)
2. nicevps.net (KYC-Free registrar)
3. Other Non-KYC Cloud Providers

Inspirations

1. awesomeopensource self-hosted
2. awesome self-hosted
3. awesome sysadmin
4. Awesome Self Hosted