My Server

People often ask me what I do with my server, how many websites do i manage, what software do i run or host etc... So I will break it down a bit here.

Self-hosted Software & Apps

• NextCloud - Because I needed a backup to sync my files, calendar, photos and more to the cloud, and was tired of paying for extra storage.
• Home Assistant - All my smart devices connect to this as a control center. This will work well with N8N too for automation and scripting.
• Mattermost - For threaded Slack style communication, primarily for paying customers to communicate with me about their projects,
• Rocket.Chat - My personal favorite chat interface and daily driver, ALL my communication is routed here.
• Matrix - Primarily used to bridge all my communications and act as a hub between Whatsapp, Messenger, Mattermost, my website and Rocket.Chat to one place..
• N8N - This is my favorite automation powerhouse, many of my bots, scripts and apps run through here, great for logs, backups and cron jobs too.
• NTFY - It is installed but I barely use it since most of my notifications and alerts are hardcoded between N8N and Rocket.Chat.
• Peppermint - An open source support ticket app. I plan to write my own open source support ticket app after seeing how basic and frankly ugly this one is. And this has a hue following and tons on Githuib stars, who knew?
• Channels Server - All my streaming services go to this software, which is essentially a DVR, letting me save movies from the stream straight to my media server. This is NOT Open Source, the DVR service subscription costs me $80 per year. Massive media library for less than $7 per month, not bad.
• Jellyfin - My media server, huge hard drive storing my library of movies, documentaries and TV shows/series. This is the server software, then my laptop, phone, tablet and smart TV's a;; just run a client app. The cool thing is other people can connect to my server the same way they connect to Netflix. I AM Netflix now lol.
• Kimai - Open source time tracking tool, i U se to track total time for projects and invoices.
• Blinko - Open source, self-hosted AI-powered note-taking tool that has gained a lot of traction recently as a faster, more private alternative to apps like Google Keep or Notion, but way better.
• RustDesk - Open source, self-hosted alternative to TeamViewer or AnyDesk. It allows me to access and control my (or other people's) computers remotely from anywhere.
• OpenAI Codex CLI - Not the best, but it is my favorite.
• Google Gemini CLI - Decent and seems to be pretty cheap.
• Claude Code CLI - By far the best, but super expensive, I only use with paying clients for high end design and layout, or sever error diagnostics, troubleshooting and bug fixes.
• OpenClaw - IYKYK, if not you will, this is s a bigger thing t than ChatGPT was. Another daily driver for me, but do not install this. Unless you are a developer or linux admin you will get hurt - it is NOT SAFE for public use yet. I use it to manage multiple agents and models at the same time.

Other things like websites

That pretty much covers the software I run on my server. In addition to the software the server is also hosting about 15 websites of my SAAS apps, 30 client business websites, my personal webpage of JaeNulton.com, and about 75 project sites or pages, a few blog engines (including the one your reading this post on) and about 80 domain names.

Lately I am noticing my RAM usage is getting high, once in a while I need to reboot because something causes it to hang. Soon I will need to upgrade the specs a bit and migrate the data. But overall it is serving me well, not bad value for $10 per month, right?