I am in the process of getting homelabbed up as well, I have been running piholes for years but I have gotten deeper into doing my stuff recently. My ISP is finally running fibre to my place this week and I had a game plan to get a lot of things setup so that I could do a switch over to my own firewall the day or two before the fibre was installed. I have a pi 5 with 1gb ram running openwrt, the plan was to do the switch over to it the day before the fibre was installed so I listed out all the things that would need to be changed, and on what days I would do it. My plan kept getting more compact as I am excited to do the actual switch, I have been crash testing things across my LAN but all the stuff I had planned on working on until Wednesday got comprised into this weekend so that I could do the important switch over and crash testing Monday and Tuesday and some fun stuff on Wednesday for the fibre to be installed on Thursday.

Talking about parents and setting things up for them I plan on showing my father the things I can do and try and convince him to join me use my services for the small price of off site backup.

I only really started getting deep into self hosting when the orange guy started threatening to make Canada the 51st state. So that is when I found immich, not sure how far I was into Lemmy when I found it but I have no complaints.

I am a fan of Immich but know nothing about Synology. Does Synology have a subscription or something? Immich has done a much better job at tagging things and putting them in to albums than Apple’s Photos ever did for me, it took the stuff that Apple had tagged and than did a much better job.

I run immich on a pi 5 8gb ram with a bunch of other services, highly suggest.

Last time my power was out all of my vaultwarden passwords were on my bitwarden install on my phone.

Run your own vaultwarden, you get to use all the bitwarden things for free. With rumours of enshitification coming let the people who do not do the self hosting pay for the development. If I had the money to donate I would have stopped the moment I heard the enshitification rumours.

I only pay for two .ca domain names, I originally was not self hosting when I got the first one so it is rather expensive as I use a different email address for every service/site I sign up for. I get next to no spam. The next domain I have as a test domain, I will be using it to test out things before I commit to them being on my main domain.

The first domain is something expensive, as they are currently doing all the hosting, the second one was something like $11 or $12. Once I get my test setup running I will move my main one over to my self hosted system.

I have a pi 4 running HAOS, I have an 8 gb pi 5 running a bunch of services, with head room to spare. I have a pi 5 with 4gb ram running Jellyfin with headroom to spare. Both pi 5’s are also running pihole.

I also have a pi 5 with 2gb that will hopefully handle my personal blog and email, hopefully! I have a pi 5 with 1 gb showing up on Thursday that will run my OpenWRT and LuCI. I had a pi zero 2 that handled wireguard but it could only handle it for DNS, with OpenWRT on a pi 5 I will be able to do more than just DNS over wireguard.

I personally have a handful of pi’s doing things, with plans to get more to do more (I have one in the mail to become my OpenWRT router). I was thinking of getting something simple to be able to do STT and TTS as I want to replace my HomePods as I slowly leave Apple and have have no interest in joining Amazon or Google for home automation, so I looked at my university’s used computers. I am not really a fan of buying some random persons old hardware but maybe a business is selling their old stuff.

My ISP does not have a data cap or anything like that so I pay no attention to that. What are you doing that you only use that much?