Summary

I built a home server. It's running on Proxmox and is hosting a bunch of random services.

Why?

I used to have unlimited Google Photos storage with my university Google account, but they got rid of that. So, I was stuck with either paying a dollar or two monthly for storage, orrr I could shell out several hundred bucks to host my own photos server. I mean, the answer was obvious here. My server is gonna pay itself off in like, 10 years.

On top of that, I quickly found out that having my own server was much more useful than just for hosting my photos. If there's software I want, it probably exists out there in some open-source form. There's also software I did not know I wanted that I'm now hosting for myself. I can host personal projects, game servers, you name it, I can host it (probably, if we don't take into account resource limits). No longer do I need to bribe AWS employee to host my things for me 8)

Cool Services

• Immich: amazing self-hosted alternative to Google Photos.
• Actual Budget: super sleek budgeting software.
• occ-loo-pied: my bathroom occupancy checker's server :D
• ntfy: notification server. I use it to get push notifications on my phone for various services.
• Pi-hole: dns that lets me block ads at the router level.