When I wanted to start blogging again, I decided to also self-host. I don't fully self-host (at my home) everything—this blog, for instance, is on PikaPods. In general, if I want it to be publicly accessible or used by anyone other than me, I don't want it running on my home network. What I do host at home runs on either my Synology NAS, Home Assistant Green, or a Beelink headless mini PC running Ubuntu Server.

PikaPods

• Ghost
• Linkding
• Wallabag

Home servers

• Tailscale (my post)
• go/ links (my post)
• Homepage: Landing page for my home server and handy repository of widgets and links.
• Home Assistant: Runs my home automation and unifies the increasingly enshittified services under one roof.
• InfluxDB: For collecting metrics from services.
• Grafana: For displaying metrics from services.

Stuff I could host but don't

• Email: If you run your own email server, stop. Get some help. I use Migadu as my email host.
• Newsblur: I could self-host Newsblur, but the hosted service is both high-quality and inexpensive, and I want to support the developers. I love my feed reader.

Stuff I tried hosting but stopped

Nothing wrong with these, but I found that either I wasn't using them or they didn't meet my needs.

• Readeck
• Joplin

Stuff I want to try hosting

• Linkwarden: I like Linkding a lot, and its simplicity feels like home. It's very similar to Pinboard, which I used for years until I learned about Maciej's political leanings. That said, Linkwarden promises better archiving.
• Joplin: I stopped hosting it because I didn't have the time to mess with the config, but I would like to stop hosting my notes in Obsidian.