digital ownership

Self-Hosting

Modern digital life is defined by The Rental Economy. We rent our media, our financial privacy, and our storage from centralized giants. Self-Hosting is a functional counter against this trend. By decentralizing information from the internet and hosting it on local hardware, one shifts from being a client to being a server.


The Architechture

I chose the Raspberry Pi 5 for its high performance-to-efficiency ratio and ease of use.

  • HomeLab: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B (16GB RAM).
  • Operating System: Ubuntu Server (No UI to maximize efficiency).
  • The Vault: Samsung T7 SSD (2TB), physically housing my critical data independent of the cloud.


Applications

I use Docker containers within the Pi 5 to isolate and manage services.

  1. Media: Jellyfin
  2. Streaming services can remove access to their content at any moment, Jellyfin ensures media permanence.
  3. The 2TB SSD Vault hosts the entire library.
  4. Finance: Firefly III
  5. Finance trackers typically pass your banking information through several third-parties, Firefly III keeps the data between the bank and user.
  6. I import bank statements as raw CSV files into Firefly III and can visualize my financial history.

 

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