I’m currently using Baserow, and so far it suits my needs well enough. I’m not a very demanding user, but part of what I love is how nicely Baserow documents the api. It made it very easy for me to implement some automations I wanted to use to record data.

Edit: fix stupid autocorrect errors

Oh dang. How fun. I never even considered thematically making my machines! Mine are super mundane.

• machine - main server
• osmc - Kodi media box for tv
• kmac - old iMac running kde neon
• tunnelpi - raspberry pi 4 wireguard tunnel access point
• mini- Mac mini my wife uses for day to day use.

Now I’m going to have to find a theme and start renaming machines! I might go with Magic the Gathering as my theme.

Edit: formatting, and added MtG as potential theme

Edit 2: fixed stupid autocorrect error (theatrically to thematically)

+1 for mealie. Been running it for maybe six months now and it’s great.

Also been thinking about doing something like this. Would love to hear about your experience deploying it.

Nice!!! I’ve been using the audiobookshelf beta for my server, but I like the look of Plappa. Gonna give it a spin!

Absolutely. I’ve burned a number of things to the ground as I figure out what tf I’m doing. I’ve learned a lot doing it too!

Also switched from homarr to homepage and have been happy with homepage.

FWIW, I was also looking for an ebook server solution. I looked at Calibre/Calibre-web and did not at all like how that worked and how Calibre-web was dependent on the Calibre library, and I hated how janky Calibre was as a docker container.

I settled on Audiobookshelf. I already had that up and running for my audiobooks, and they’ve been adding and improving ebook support, and I’ve been very happy with Audiobookshelf for both ebooks and audiobooks.

I didn’t care for Kavita because of the folder structure it required for ebooks. I may have been biased against Kavita’s folder requirements because I already had Audiobookshelf up and running.

For Audiobookshelf, the structure is:

Author > Series Directory (if applicable) > Book Title (directory) > Book file

I had the same question awhile back and found no alternative to Calibre with the de-drm (I’m on macOS). So I do the same. Download my ebooks from amazon, de-drm with calibre and upload to my server.

I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you.

I’d also suggest taking a look at Jellyfin.

As to the hardware, I’ve seen lots of recommendations for refurbished thin clients on eBay. Good value. Myself, I’m using a pc I had built for live streaming, and pivoted into a server. I think it’s got an i7 in it. I recently added some ram to bulk it up to 32g, and while it stared with a 240gb ssd, it’s now got a whole raid array in it.

You’re welcome!

Slow as a web server? I’ve only poked around it a little bit, the very little I did felt responsive, but I put no real load on it.

It’s another dashboard like homarr. I set up homarr and homepage side by side to pick one and landed on homepage. No specific reason, I just gravitated to it over homarr.

That it is!

When I was testing, I didn’t really notice it being overly obnoxious when I was logged in to the admin web ui. I wasn’t paying too much attention to that aspect of it since I have no intention of paying for premium. They may have toned it down since that kind of thing turns me off as well and I tend to notice if it’s egregious.

As others have mentioned, workspace is too vaguely defined for good answers. FWIW, I use the Blink Shell app on iOS to ssh into my server and/or computers from my iPad for my command line workspace. I also use my iPad to access/use many of the services I’m self hosting.

If you’re looking for a gui/DE, then something like guacamole would suit you better.

You might like Grav. It’s open source, a lot lighter weight than Wordpress, and you don’t need to know css, html, etc…

I started messing with it a few days ago and so far it’s pretty nice.

edit: removed open source redundancy

Available to the internet via reverse proxy:

• Jellyfin
• Navidrome
• Two websites
• matrix chat server
• audiobookshelf

LAN only:

• homepage
• NGINX Proxy Manager
• Portainer

There’s more in both categories but I can’t remember everything I have running.