What it actually runs

Every service here is open source and named. You can look up its security history, read its code, run it yourself, or hand the whole estate to another administrator without asking me for anything.

That is the point of the list, not a boast about the choices. Software nobody else can name is software nobody else can take over.

The foundation

Email

Your own domain, webmail and IMAP, spam filtering.

Runs: Stalwart / mox

Files

Synced storage on every device. Sharing without a third party.

Runs: Nextcloud

Single sign-on

One login for everything here. Revoke a device once, everywhere.

Runs: Zitadel

Passwords

Bitwarden apps, your vault. Shared vaults for family or staff.

Runs: Vaultwarden

Calendar & contacts

Syncs with iPhone, Android, Outlook and Thunderbird.

Runs: CalDAV / CardDAV

Photos

Auto-upload, face and place search, shared albums.

Runs: Immich

Backups & status

Nightly encrypted backups, offsite copy, a status page you can check.

Runs: Restic + Gatus

Available on request

VPN

Your own exit. Reach every service as if you were at home.

Runs: WireGuard

Private AI

Ask questions of your own documents. Nothing is sent to OpenAI or Google.

Runs: Ollama + Open WebUI

Documents

Scan once. OCR, full-text search, automatic filing.

Runs: Paperless-ngx

Bookkeeping

Accounts, budgets and reports that stay on your server.

Runs: Firefly III

Projects

Tasks and boards for the household or the office. No per-seat billing.

Runs: Vikunja

Media

Your films and music, streamed anywhere. No licence expiring.

Runs: Jellyfin

Remote support

I fix it on your screen, only when you let me in.

Runs: RustDesk

Code & documents history

Private repositories and a wiki, for those who need one.

Runs: Forgejo

What is deliberately not here

No hyperscaler. Not AWS, not Azure, not Google Cloud. The premise of the service is that your data is not sitting in an account somebody else controls, and renting the machine back from Amazon would defeat it.

No private tooling. Nothing here is written by me and understood only by me. Every component has documentation you can read and a community that maintains it.

No proprietary licences that expire. If I disappear, nothing stops working because a subscription lapsed.

How the machine is secured, who holds which key and where it physically sits are on the security page.