ArozOS: Perfect Web Interface for your DIY NAS or Personal Home Server

#diy #homeserver #nas #linux

A while ago, i've build my own personal home server with a small Dell Optiplex 3070 mini pc. I'm mainly using this server to host my self-hosted apps, NAS, and remote development machine. I also using dashboard apps to bookmark & access my apps from single gateway.

I've tried some apps like Homarr, Heimdall, CasaOS, Dashdot, Dashy, etc. They are good and enough for some cases. But for my personal usage, something is missing, like: nice UI, customizability, drag & drop file manager, high resource usage, etc. I can write my own web-dashboard, but I'm too lazy to reinvent the wheel.

Until I read an article by Toby Chui about his story writing it's own web desktop OS. You can read her article here. Fascinated by ArozOS interface, the stacks behind it, and how easy it's to customize using AGI scripting to extend the app, I tried to install it into my home server.

Man, that was the best decision i ever had. Yeah there is some feature that is missing, but i can write my own module or even rebuild ArozOS from it's source code to extend it. The UI is very responsive, and looks clean. I can add my self-hosted web apps as shortcut in it and it will display as iframe window when you open it. So much easy to open multiple apps without opening it in new browser tabs.

Attached is the current preview of my ArozOS instance. If you want to try it or want to know more about ArozOS, you can read it here: