u/Degenurtle

Has anyone here successfully replaced their entire tech stack (might be bad terminology) with self hosted alternatives?

E.g. All your visual media is on Jellyfin, all your music on Navidrome, your phone uses Nextcloud, etc.

I've been interested in doing a massive overhaul. As it stands I'm only running Jellyfin, Navidrome and Vaultwarden. The only reason to hesitate is should my server go down while I'm away from home, accessing my data would be such a pain.

I want to hear about your experience and how you navigate having your entire life so to speak tied to a home server.

I am currently using Ubuntu however because it was my first server I mindlessly encrypted the drive which has become quite a pain given I turn my server off every night.

I am planning on taking the time to redo my setup from scratch. My question is should I use Ubuntu or Fedora. On one hand, Ubuntu has been pitched as ol' reliable with good documentation to boot but on the other hand, I am using Fedora as my daily driver so I assume the familiarity will help.

The apps I plan on hosting are: Vaultwarden, Filebrowser, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, and Navidrome.None of the apps I plan on self-hosting would be open to the internet. All of them will only be reachable through a tailscale tunnel.

Would love to hear your opinions on what I should choose and your reasonings as well.

Note: Thank you everyone for your replies! I didn't expect to get this many responses so I'm really grateful. I'm probably going to go with Debian instead of Ubuntu/Fedora. I'll also look into Proxmox but will save it for when I have some better hardware as I'm setting this server up on a really old laptop. There's also some context I could have provided in that I'm running it completely headless and SSH in from my desktop hence why the encryption was really annoying.