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freedombentoday at 11:43 AM0 repliesview on HN

Getting to this point with my homelab has always been my goal, and I've also arrived. I mainly just want a stable, reliable Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, archivebox, Navidrome, ollama/openwebui, and a place with plenty of RAM and CPU to spin up and run a half-dozen various VMs at a time, without having to mess around to use them.

Building/tinkering/playing around is fun, but once you are actually self-hosting services you rely on, it needs to "just work" or you will eventually burn out or lose interest. Especialy when you take on more users than just yourself. The day my wife cancelled her audible subscription because audiobookshelf was just as good (IMHO better) was a good day, but that only happens because it is stable/reliable.