Self-Hosted Home Server

June 2026

TrueNASDockerNetworkingLinuxSelf-Hosting

Outcome Six self-hosted services that family and friends use daily — including the website you're reading — replacing paid subscriptions with hardware I run.

I run a TrueNAS Community Edition server at home that has slowly become real infrastructure for my family, friends, and business.

What’s running

Jellyfin — a personal media server, routed through Nginx Proxy Manager and a Cloudflare tunnel so friends and family can stream from anywhere.
Nextcloud — personal cloud storage, replacing paid cloud drives.
Navidrome — self-hosted music streaming.
Nginx Proxy Manager — reverse proxy handling routing and SSL for every service.
WordPress — hosting for the Halcyon Systems storefront as it migrates off Shopify.
This website — the portfolio you’re reading is built with Astro and served from this server.

What it taught me

DNS, reverse proxying, TLS certificates, Docker networking, and ZFS storage — learned the practical way, by keeping services alive that other people actually use.