This will be my journey to self-hosting everything so that i can become as sovereign as possible.

WHY

i don't like data collection and i'd rather not be apart of a data breach if i can. Companies can also abandon, change or sell off to a far worse company. FOSS software isn't immune to this, but it has one key advantage! it can be forked.

I, have a good history of hosting various stuff, but i never went full in.

THE STACK

Right now i am running (ill updat as i go) all my software locally or on my servers, besideds email.

Hardware stack

server inferstruture:

1. 3 proxmox cluster nodes in high avability mode(no ceph) but using zfs
2. Proxmox on a teramaster 2 bay nas in a zfs raid using proxmox backup server. with a unifi nas as a second backup target, no offsite backup, yet.
3. UDM PRO, (i know it's not open source, but they allow me to host the contoroller locally, and i want a single glass panel, i also have used openwrt and pfsense, they offer nothing to my intrest.)
4. unifi MAX PRO 16 port PoE ++ switch
   5.unifi 10gb aggergation switch.

sofware stack (still building)

1. Proxmox as my hypervisor
2. my dashboard
3. my server stats
4. My DNS - (i tested techtinium dns and its cool and all, but i did not care for it.)
5. MY nuts
6. for warrenties

(building still.........)

{jan-2-2026}