What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services?

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Hello everyone!

I recently switched my Android phone to a custom ROM, and while setting things up, I wanted push notifications without relying on Google. That’s how I discovered UnifiedPush.

Really liking the concept, I decided to rent a small VPS (1 vCPU, 2GB RAM) and started hosting NTFY. So far, it’s been working great. Over time, I’ve added a few more services like FreshRSS and Audiobookshelf.

All of this is just for personal use, so the resource usage is minimal (the whole setup only uses around 500MB of RAM). I really enjoy how much value you can get out of such a small machine.

That brings me to my question:

What other lightweight, self-hostable tools would you recommend? I’m especially interested in small, resource-efficient services that you’ve personally found useful.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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I made a solar powered phone server. It was great!

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Oh cool! So like an android phone running services? What did you manage to get running?

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Just a nginx server. And it would show the cirrent battery. I had plans for other stuff, but the pixel 6a is a fire hazzard. And its too hot now for cells outside (almost 100 today). So it got decommisioned.

Now theres a meshtastic node connected tp the solar panels.

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Reminds me a bit of the webserver on a vape: https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

Supporting the network with a node is honorable work too :)

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