2025 self-hosting wrapped

Let’s review which self-hosting service really worked for me in 2025.

I rarely talk about the one that just work. That’s the problem with good work … if something just works, and doesn’t bother you… you tend to forget about it even exists because using it is more a habit than an effort.

Paperless NGX

My almost daily work horse is Paperless NGX. It’s my default for all documents. My local printer-scanner has the Paperless Inbox set as default scanning target. All incoming snail mail that is worth archiving get’s scanned and sent to Paperless.

Paperless does the tagging automatically (with local machine learning models). Sometimes I have to correct a correspondent or a tag. But mostly it get’s it right.

Immich

This is my Google Photos replacement. A client on my iPhone constantly backs up my photos to my self-hosted Immich instance. It archives and indexes the photos (also with local machine learning models) so that I can search for faces and other objects.

NextCloud

My document sync backend. Mostly using it share files between devices and host contacts. Not using any fancy features or plugins. Really just for file sharing.

Occasionally sharing files with 3rd parties via temporary links.

My Joplin notes and OmniFocus files are synced via the NextCloud WebDAV interface.

Mastodon

Of course… one of the most widespread Fediverse software out there.

LinkDing

Hosting my own Bookmark service for years. Using the robust Links software for this.

BookWyrm

Another Fediverse service. This one around sharing books one has read or wants to read including reviews and quotes. Very lovely developer with great support for his community.

Wallabag

Wanna read an article later in a distraction free interface? Use Wallabag!

FreshRSS

This is my default RSS-Reader. Rock solid, self-hosted RSS fetcher.

Forgejo

Quitely serving all my public & private git repos. Simple, elegant, robust. Don’t need more

Peertube

being able to host your own video streaming to embed videos in various websites … awesome. And it’s also able to fetch and archive videos from various sources (online mediatheks, YouTube etc.)

WordPress

Of course WordPress … this is what you’re currently reading. And with the ActivityPub Plugin it’s even part of the fediverse.

Pixelfed

The Instagram alternative in the Fediverse. There is a bit of a love/hate relationship with this. It works. But there is not really much development going on for the self-hosted version… despite the buzz around it.

Ich habe mal fix #Syncthing auf Proxmox, meinem Laptop und dem Phone aufgesetzt.
Jetzt synchronisiere ich erstmal den halbfertigen Verhau, den ich mir durch #Nextcloud und #Opencloud eingehandelt habe und schaue dann.
Wenn das so reibungslos funktioniert, wie ich mir das erhoffe, dann räume ich den Mist danach auf und das war's dann.

Ja, es gibt keine Userverwaltung in Syncthing.
Aber vielleicht funktioniert es dafür wenigstens.
Zur Not bekommen halt alle Familienmitglieder ihre eigene Instanz.

I have an old nextcloud box that I wanted to repurpose: plug it in a friend's router and do remote daily backups.

I've been using Borg and a friend recommended Kopia. Any recommendations here?

#nextcloud #backup #borgbackup #kopia

Guess what, #Nextcloud? #OneDrive has a "Copy Link" in the file context menu. And guess what? They also open a dialog, like with whom to share, for editing or for viewing, but this dialog is fully accessible. Webbish, yes (I would prefer a native Windows API one), but fully accessible. #Accessibility

J'ai un petit VPS sur lequel j'ai installé #nextcloud et #cryptpad

Je ne pourrais pas avoir les deux car mon vps et petit et les 2 applications font la même choses.

- Cryptpad semble plus léger et mieux fournis de base.
- Cryptpad est long à charger à chaque page
- Nextcloud a un client de synchronisation
- Nextcloud a ma faveur.

Vous voyez d'autres différences pour m'aider à choisir

@Larvitz @jwildeboer I just re-tooled the Ansible for my "private cloud" to use the Traefik configuration from that blog post and tested it on a VM at Hetzner. 20 minutes to a private cloud with the following components:

- #Keycloak
- #OneDev
- #Vaultwarden
- #Nextcloud AIO
- #SearXNG
- Static blog site using #VitePress

I also have a playbook to automate the backups (on and off-site)

@markstos @jwildeboer @homelab for me I self host what makes sense to me. I have #nextcloud #immich #forgejo #jellyfin #keycloak #audiobookshelf . my current goal is to have email #ryoms

#Nextcloud löscht heimlich Nutzerdaten … 🚨

https://borncity.com/blog/2025/12/18/vorsicht-nextcloud-server-32-0-x-loescht-heimlich-daten/

Einen großen Schritt weiter zu meiner eigenen, souveränen Cloud #souvereignCloud, mit #linux mit #nobigtech und #nextcloud. Bin schon gespannt 😀

Auf @gnulinux habe ich gerade veröffentlicht

"Dokumente gemeinsam bearbeiten mit Nextcloud-Text"

https://gnulinux.ch/dokumente-gemeinsam-bearbeiten-mit-nextcloud-text

#nextcloud #markdown

Journeys für Nextcloud: Rückblickvideos mit Musik laufen jetzt auch mit FFmpeg 7

Journeys für Nextcloud rendert Rückblickvideos jetzt sauber, auch wenn auf dem Server FFmpeg 7 läuft. Für mich war genau das der letzte Grund, bei Google Fotos zu bleiben – und der fällt damit endlich weg.

#Nextcloud #journeys #Foto_Management_Anwendung #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/journeys-für-nextcloud-rückblickvideos-mit-musik-laufen-jet

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113667636910565210

Good morning Fedi friends! Today is the 1 year anniversary of the start of my #selfhosting adventures with #YunoHost.

I'm currently self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube and #NextCloud – and I'm always on the lookout for the next great app to install.

Thank you @yunohost for making me a more empowered digital citizen 💖

To give back, I'm writing a simple #selfhosting guide for newbies. ICYMI, here's the latest chapter: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-2-installation-setup/

Wishing you all a great day!

Wat is een goede Nederlandse provider die de hele #Nextcloud suite ondersteund? Zie meerdere Duitse providers. Niks op tegen, maar zou ook graag een paar Nederlandse leveranciers in de afweging mee willen nemen.

Dokumente gemeinsam bearbeiten mit Nextcloud-Text

Soll ein Dokument von mehreren Personen gleichzeitig bearbeitet werden, so denkt man meist zuerst an Collabora. Doch das Online-Officepaket verursacht oft zusätzliche Kosten. Übersehen wird, dass mit Nextcloud-Text bereits eine Funktion vorhanden ist, die ideale Möglichkeiten der Zusammenarbeit bietet.

#Nextcloud #Markdown #kollaborativ #Notizen #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/dokumente-gemeinsam-bearbeiten-mit-nextcloud-text

I DK slås et ministerium med nogle få linuxcomputere. I mellemtiden i Frankrig:

"550,000 students, teachers, and school staff in the Paris region collaborate using Nextcloud 💪

Discover the success story of île-de-France, where our partner Leviia provides a sovereign collaboration platform based on Nextcloud."

https://nextcloud.com/blog/ile-de-france-sovereign-cloud-collaboration-platform/

#linux #nextcloud #degoogle #demicrosoft #dkpol

Dear Fedi friends,

I just hit "publish" on my blog post "A newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements". It's here if you wanna read it:

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

This guide is intended for true newbies who are curious about self-hosting some essential digital services. I'm hoping to dispel some myths about self-hosting and make it appear accessible to all. Well, at least to people curious about it but hesitant to get started because they think it's too complicated. That was me up to a year ago.

Special thanks and shout-out to @ilja for setting my journey in motion. And eternal gratitude to @yunohost for the way they are empowering us all with the tools to self-host

#MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #BigTech #rebellion #digitalsovereignty #NextCloud