I run a couple of self-hosted services from Raspberry Pi 5s:
- Home Assistant for Home automation
- Paperless-ngx for document management
- Jellyfin for media on a couple of Raspberry Pi 4 in my home
- Booklore for ebook management. I’m planning to move to Grimmory though as in the spring of 2026 there was a lot of drama around Booklore. The Booklore repository seems to be back up / public again but I haven’t checked on the current situation.
- code-server for when I need to write code that lives in the homelab itself. It gives me access to a VS Code instance running in the server through browser.
- Some custom web services and shell scripts for specific personal use
I use Tailscale to be able to connect to my services through a secure network without having to expose my home network to internet directly.
I use Caddy to configure the network so that I can use subdomains to point to my Raspberry Pi’s Tailscale IP address and to then point those to the right ports at localhost.
In /etc/caddy/Caddyfile, I define the following
https://jellyfin.hamatti.org {
reverse_proxy localhost:8096
}
https://paperless.hamatti.org {
reverse_proxy localhost:12345
}and in my domain provider’s DNS console, I point jellyfin.hamatti.org to the IP address from my Tailscale network.
About homelabs in general
- selfh.st - Self-hosted content and software is a great newsletter about self-hosted software and homelabbing news
- awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers
- If you can stomach reddit, I find the r/homelab quite okay subreddit. But even a good subreddit is still reddit so proceed at your own risk.