In general, to everyone who finds Yacy as an interesting project, just give it a try!

It’s relatively light weight, and having millions of pages indexed does not take that much disk space, in my case: 3.5 million indexed pages is around 200 gigabytes only.

Yacy is far from perfect, and it’s an ancient project. But it’s still alive and kicking strong!

Hi!

I’ve been selfhosting Yacy for some years, even tho I rarely use it (I’m mostly using Kagi these days).

But some tips:

• Set up something like this to your browser, this sends Yacy to crawl pages that you visit https://github.com/JeremyRand/YaCyIndexerGreasemonkey .
• Get familiar with blacklists and try to find some public ones to filter out bad sites and adult content.
• Tinker with Ranking & heuristics -> Solr boosts to get results that fit your use case more.
• And in general, tinker with all the settings you can find!

And not directly Yacy related, but you can use your own Yacy through Searxng as well, even in ‘private’(non P2P) mode.

Yacy.

I’ve been toying with Perplexica over the last few weeks occasionally, it feels really restrictive.

I’ve had to modify the internal prompts to make it generate better search terms with my SearxNG (And depending on what LLM model you use, you need to fine tune this…) and having to rebuild the container image to do this has just been annoying. Overall, I’ve had experience with self-hosted LLM web searches on Open-webui, but perplexica is a fun project to try out nevertheless.

Have you tried Grayjay?

Plex is a great example here. I’ve been Hetzner customer for many many years, and bought a lifetime license to Plex. Only to receive few months later a notification from Plex that I am no longer allowed to self-host Plex for myself(and only myself) at Hetzner and that they will block all access to my self-hosted Plex instance. I tried to ask for leniency or a refund, but that was wasted effort as well.

In short, I was caught on a crossfire when for-profit company tried to please hollywood by attempting to reduce piracy, so they could get new VC funding.

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I am now a happy Jellyfin user and warmly recommend all Plex users to try it, the Jellyfin community is awesome!

(Use your favourite search engine to look up “Hetzner Plex ban” for more details)

I wish I knew not to trust closed source self-hosted applications, such as Plex. Would have saved a lot of time and money.