<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>akkartik</author><text>How much time do you spend maintaining this stuff every month? Like upgrading versions, etc.? Do you subscribe to any security channels? Do you care what language it&amp;#x27;s built in, try to keep it all on a few languages to minimize maintenance burden, etc.? I&amp;#x27;ve been considering self-hosting, but put off thus far by the above concerns.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free.  I&amp;#x27;ve also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone.  This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven&amp;#x27;t had to test it yet.&lt;p&gt;Nextcloud - for caldav and carddav calendar, contacts, and tasks&lt;p&gt;Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device&lt;p&gt;Synchthing - backup data from my phone. I use Neo Backup to take a snapshot of all apps, so the phone should theoretically be restorable from scratch.&lt;p&gt;Jellyfin - Spotify replacement. The Finamp app is fantastic.&lt;p&gt;Home Assistant - automate my media center, as well as control outdoor lights and door locks, and check if any doors or windows are open or unlocked when I&amp;#x27;m away.&lt;p&gt;OPNSense on a protectli box - amazing open source gateway software that does everything.&lt;p&gt;AdGuard Home (on OPNSense) - DNS based ad blocking&lt;p&gt;Wireguard (on OPNSense) - allows me to have an always on partial tunnel VPN on my phone and laptops that allows access to home services while remote, and also allows me to use my Ad Guard DNS.&lt;p&gt;HAProxy + LetsEncrypt (on OPNSense) - setup to provide subdomains for each of the services at home. Only a couple are public (contacts and calendar), but the rest become available when the VPN is on.&lt;p&gt;Smokeping - use it to collect data to rub into Spectrums face when they go down.&lt;p&gt;Pintry - Pinterest clone</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>avh02</author><text>Funny, I used smokeping to run regular speedtests on top of pings to establish the cable connection in my neighbourhood was oversubscribed (daily slowdown to a crawl during work hours in WFH mandate, order of magnitude increased ping during the day time vs e.g 3 a.m.). Changed connection&amp;#x2F;provider and would consistently get max speeds and more consistent ping.</text><parent_chain><item><author>colordrops</author><text>My main goal is to replace cloud services so I can be Google-free.  I&amp;#x27;ve also got LineageOS + MicroG on my phone.  This is all running in docker containers on NixOS (other than OPNSense), with automated restic backups to a NAS as well as Backblaze. One of my goals is to be able to deploy all this again from scratch with minimal effort, and I think I succeeded, though haven&amp;#x27;t had to test it yet.&lt;p&gt;Nextcloud - for caldav and carddav calendar, contacts, and tasks&lt;p&gt;Xbrowsersync - sync bookmarks across device&lt;p&gt;Synchthing - backup data from my phone. I use Neo Backup to take a snapshot of all apps, so the phone should theoretically be restorable from scratch.&lt;p&gt;Jellyfin - Spotify replacement. The Finamp app is fantastic.&lt;p&gt;Home Assistant - automate my media center, as well as control outdoor lights and door locks, and check if any doors or windows are open or unlocked when I&amp;#x27;m away.&lt;p&gt;OPNSense on a protectli box - amazing open source gateway software that does everything.&lt;p&gt;AdGuard Home (on OPNSense) - DNS based ad blocking&lt;p&gt;Wireguard (on OPNSense) - allows me to have an always on partial tunnel VPN on my phone and laptops that allows access to home services while remote, and also allows me to use my Ad Guard DNS.&lt;p&gt;HAProxy + LetsEncrypt (on OPNSense) - setup to provide subdomains for each of the services at home. Only a couple are public (contacts and calendar), but the rest become available when the VPN is on.&lt;p&gt;Smokeping - use it to collect data to rub into Spectrums face when they go down.&lt;p&gt;Pintry - Pinterest clone</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>What are your most used self-hosted applications?</title><url>https://noted.lol/what-are-your-most-used-self-hosted-applications/</url></story>