15:47 Check ⏱️

How is your system really feeling right now?

#LighthouseLore #1547Check #SelfHosting

Galera do blambers de devops pode me ajudar com self-hosting?

Preciso fazer um configuração de N máquinas rodando serviços/imagens dentro da minha rede de casa, no final, alguns serviços seriam acessíveis publicamente por meio de um Traefik em um proxy, recebendo as chamadas http e https. Só 2 máquinas seriam HA, todas conectadas por VPN Wireguard.

- Qual orquestramento escolho? Kubernetes?
Tentei docker swarm mas estava muito complicado de desenvolver e fazer deploy. Como próximo passo ia tentar o k3s + k9s.

- Estou usando fedora nos servidores mais essenciais, devo tentar outro sistema?
Outros sevidores rodam sistemas linux de uso geral, provavelmente só rodariam serviços simples que usam a GPU deles.

- Como escolho os centros de controle? Devem ser as máquinas ligadas 24h?

Obrigade a todes

#ajuda #fediajuda #DevOps #bamblers #selfhosting

For the $70-80 it cost me to buy a refurb 12TB HDD last year, today I can buy a refurb 4TB HDD.

Yay.

#selfhosting

Online-Kurse auf Admindocs.de: Linux-Administration 🚀

Egal ob du gerade erst mit #Linux anfängst oder schon länger in der Shell wohnst – diese Reihe packt die Themen an, die in echten Produkten wirklich zählen. Kein BlaBla, sondern praxisnahe Anleitungen zu System- und Servicemanagement, Netzwerkkram, Ressourcen-Tuning und Troubleshooting unter realen Bedingungen.

Jedes Kapitel hat echte Beispiele, die du direkt nutzen kannst, um Effizienz und Sicherheit in Enterprise-Umgebungen hochzuziehen.

👉 https://admindocs.de/category/linux-administration

#linux #LinuxAdmin #SysAdmin #OpenSource #ITSecurity
#Server #SelfHosting #EnterpriseIT #LinuxLearning #foss

2025 self-hosting wrapped

Let’s review which self-hosting service really worked for me in 2025.

I rarely talk about the one that just work. That’s the problem with good work … if something just works, and doesn’t bother you… you tend to forget about it even exists because using it is more a habit than an effort.

Paperless NGX

My almost daily work horse is Paperless NGX. It’s my default for all documents. My local printer-scanner has the Paperless Inbox set as default scanning target. All incoming snail mail that is worth archiving get’s scanned and sent to Paperless.

Paperless does the tagging automatically (with local machine learning models). Sometimes I have to correct a correspondent or a tag. But mostly it get’s it right.

Immich

This is my Google Photos replacement. A client on my iPhone constantly backs up my photos to my self-hosted Immich instance. It archives and indexes the photos (also with local machine learning models) so that I can search for faces and other objects.

NextCloud

My document sync backend. Mostly using it share files between devices and host contacts. Not using any fancy features or plugins. Really just for file sharing.

Occasionally sharing files with 3rd parties via temporary links.

My Joplin notes and OmniFocus files are synced via the NextCloud WebDAV interface.

Mastodon

Of course… one of the most widespread Fediverse software out there.

LinkDing

Hosting my own Bookmark service for years. Using the robust Links software for this.

BookWyrm

Another Fediverse service. This one around sharing books one has read or wants to read including reviews and quotes. Very lovely developer with great support for his community.

Wallabag

Wanna read an article later in a distraction free interface? Use Wallabag!

FreshRSS

This is my default RSS-Reader. Rock solid, self-hosted RSS fetcher.

Forgejo

Quitely serving all my public & private git repos. Simple, elegant, robust. Don’t need more

Peertube

being able to host your own video streaming to embed videos in various websites … awesome. And it’s also able to fetch and archive videos from various sources (online mediatheks, YouTube etc.)

WordPress

Of course WordPress … this is what you’re currently reading. And with the ActivityPub Plugin it’s even part of the fediverse.

Pixelfed

The Instagram alternative in the Fediverse. There is a bit of a love/hate relationship with this. It works. But there is not really much development going on for the self-hosted version… despite the buzz around it.

🌅 Lighthouse Lore — Morning Watch

At first light, the Lighthouse doesn’t shout.
It checks the logs.
It trims the wicks.
It keeps the beam steady while the rest of the internet thrashes about like a gull in a chip bag.

No algorithms barking orders.
No feeds screaming engage.
Just quiet systems, honest uptime, and a signal that means what it says.

Build slow.
Shine true.
Guide those who choose to look up.

⚓🌫️
#LighthouseLore #QuietTech #DigitalStewardship #SelfHosting #Fediverse

Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solution

Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.

📸 https://immich.app

#photo #Immich #opensource #video #apps #tool #foto #management #privacy #tools #app #ImmichApp #organize #selfhosting

y'know, I appreciate the help and coaching i get from folks online. but I do get tired of the thinly-veiled misogyny.
#WomenInSTEM #Technology #SelfHosting #Jellyfin #HomeAssistant #FuckYesIDidItMyself

Changing #OIDC provider for your #Tailscale network requires contacting their support team. Still solved fast. Thanks @tailscale

By the way, did you know you can use your own identity provider to login to Tailscale? I’m now using #PocketID for that.

#homelab #selfhost #SelfHosted #selfhosting

Successfully set up a docker container behind an nginx reverse proxy... but my container is erased each time I start it (using a compose file, if that makes a difference).

This is after following explicit instructions on how to do this.

This is par for the course with docker in my experience. Follow explicit instructions that "just work" and... it doesn't quite work.

What assumed knowledge am I missing??

#Docker #SelfHosting #AskFedi #LazyWeb

#HomeLab status: #SelfHosted #Mastodon and #CalibreWeb services each running as separate #Docker Compose stacks on my 8GB M2 #Mac mini that also serves a household wallboard display and networked #TimeMachine backup host.

Anything else useful I should wedge onto it?

#SelfHosting #DevOps #macOS

Good morning Fedi friends!

Today is a really special day - it marks the one year anniversary of the installation/setup of this #GoToSocial instance 🎂​

For its first few days I kept the account private, doing tests with @stereo (my self-hosting support buddy - THANK YOU!)... and I only published its first public post on January 1st 2025.

I have nothing but great things to say about @gotosocial – I LOVE everything about it. A huge thank you to its developers - keep up the amazing work!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

I configured my #homelab subnet as 192.168.1.0 and am using #tailscale with #headscale to connect remotely to my homelab when I'm away from home

I encountered an issue in France, as some internet providers use the same 192.168.1.0 subnet

I'm considering moving my homelab to a new vlan or moveing all my subnets

What options and strategies do you recommend? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Boots will be welcome 😉

#pool #vlan #ipv4 #networking #selfhosting #selfhosted #devops

#PocketID is very nice-looking and simple. It also supports custom schemas in callback URLs already (last time I tried it, the only schema allowed was “https”).

But while migrating from #Authentik, I realized that some #selfhosted services don’t provide the ability to change identity provider after initial account linking. Some database shenanigans are required.

#homelab #selfhosting #selfhost #oidc #sso

Wenn ich mir das so ansehe schein das Projekt CasaOS tot zu sein 🤔
Da tut sich auf Github ja scheinbar gar nix mehr .....

#casaos #selfhosting

https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/CasaOS

Hat jemand echtes Interesse an einem Netcup ARM VPS Piccolo?
Ich habe noch einen Community-Gutscheincode zu verschenken:
12 € pro Jahr, keine Setup-Gebühr.

Code in den Antworten – first come, first serve.

#fedilz #selfhosting #vps #arm

BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library with smart shelves, auto metadata, Kobo & KOReader sync, BookDrop imports, OPDS support, and a built-in reader for EPUB, PDF, and comics.

https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

#Books #Reading #FOSS #SelfHosting #BookLore #Software

You know, at some point we're going to have to migrate from deny/exclude lists of domain names (adguard, pihole) to MiTM our own households with an HTTPs proxy that looks closely at PUT/GET requests and headers and strip out and replace some values to protect ourselves from ads. Not everything can use ublock..

#selfhosting #adguard #pihole #homelab

Shortest day of the year.
The light barely rises, the dark lingers longer than invited.

But lighthouses were never built for easy days.
They exist for the long nights, the rough seas, the moments when direction matters most.

The light is on.
It always is.

#LighthouseLore #WinterSolstice #ShortestDay #KeepTheLightOn #IndieWeb #Fediverse #SelfHosting

@jwildeboer I've just converted my first application (Forgejo) from MinIO to Garage. It's working great, and Garage is significantly easier to manage than MinIO was. Later today I'll convert Synapse and Mastodon over as well, and then retire MinIO for good from my network.

#FOSS #SelfHosting

🧭 Lighthouse Lore — 1224Z
While others slept, the tower shipped.
Kernel renewed. Systems steady.
No downtime. No drama. No excuses.

This is how you build trust in the dark:
quiet maintenance, boring graphs, and a light that never goes out.
Entrepreneurship isn’t noise — it’s reliability. 🌊⚓

#LighthouseLore #SelfHosting #MastodonAdmin #Fediverse
#Bootstrapped #IndieInfrastructure #Reliability #OpsLife

Short day, long shadows.
Dogs walked, servers humming, kettle on.

Building things the slow way:
owning the stack, minding the details, choosing sustainability over scale for scale’s sake.

The lighthouse keeps running —
quiet, independent, intentional.

#LighthouseLore #IndieBusiness #SelfHosting #Fediverse #IndieWeb

My holiday project will be to setup ente and get rid of google photos

#SelfHosting

Paperless-NGX has become the true successor to #DEVONthink 3 for me, which now focuses on AI and changed its payment model. The automatic document classification is impressively accurate. Container hosting makes self-hosting straightforward. If you want modern, intelligent document management that works cross-platform with full control, #paperlessngx is an excellent choice. Great mobile apps available too. The only downside: no way to financially support this brilliant software. #selfhosting

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The image shows a computer screen with a web application called Paperless-ngx open in a browser. ​On the left side there is a vertical navigation bar with items such as Home, Documents, Correspondents, Tags, Document Types, Storage Paths and other administrative options. The center of the screen shows the details of a document, including fields like Title, Archive Serial Number, Issue Date, Correspondent, Document Type, Storage Path and Tags. On the right side of the screen there is a preview of a two-page IKEA invoice in German, with the IKEA logo at the top, seller and buyer information, delivery address and a table listing items, prices and tax details.

@plwt yup, I have experience on self hosting #gitlab and #forgejo. Forgejo has very small footprint compared to gitlab. Very-very love my #selfhosting forgejo.

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting

Weekend project: set up an IP cam server with Frigate on a Raspberry Pi I had lying around at my parents' house.

I'm worried about those old bastards, but I'm also worried that the stream from those cameras will end up on some hidden Internet forums.

I'm not interested in using the "cloud services" so kindly offered to me by big companies.

#privacy #selfhosting

The lighthouse is in its slippers.
The servers are wearing cardigans.
The kettle has been promoted to senior management.

The sea is politely murmuring,
the dogs are auditing the biscuit supply,
and the light goes round and round
like it’s got nowhere else to be (because it doesn’t).

Nothing urgent. Nothing loud.
Just a small, stubborn glow
doing its best against the weekend.

We’ll keep the light on 💡

#LighthouseLore #DangerouslyTwee #CalmTech #Fediverse #IndieWeb #SelfHosting

Dear Friends

I hate selfhosting e-mail but ... Ive done it for such a long time.

Do you know any CHEAP option to have a simple service that will handle my usage:

• My domains are targetted onto their service
• Service receives all mails (or maybe have it own grey lists)

• I can somehow access that mails (web? email client? ssh? ftp? whatever)

• I DO NOT need sending mails from these domains

#selfhosting #email #selfhosted #smailweb

Ich würde ja zu Hause zu gerne mehr #selfhosting betreiben. So auf #UnplugTrump-Basis.
Wenn ich jetzt nur wüsste, wie ich für die Maschine (z.B. mit Umbrel OS) dann einen #VPN-Tunnel zu meinem Wireguard VPS hinbekomme, damit ich auf die Dienste Zugriff von außen habe..

Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More

The #Watchtower project is officially archived, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Jellify -- a cross-platform #Jellyfin #music client, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-19/

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #sysadmin #devops #privacy #security #newsletter #fediverse #software #app #apps #update #updates #launch

MastoAdmins, are you using object storage for your self-hosted instance? If so, where and how much for how much data?

#mastodon #mastoadmin #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #amazon_s3

@chad my self-hosted #mastodon instance use our #selfhosting #objectstorage: #seaweedfs. It stores around 200GB with 15 days media cache retention.

Most of those are remote media cache.

Welp, the self-hosted, open-core, Mattermost release just introduced a 10k message limit on each channel.

Time to look for alternatives ...

#mattermost #selfhosting #enshittification

Torn between using wordpress vs. coding a simple website myself for my own future™️ blog.

#wordpress #selfhosting

Oh, my personal website just turned 25 years old.
I never imagined it would goes as far back in the days.

It even was abandoned – but still accessible – between 2009 and 2021.

#selfhosting #WebDev

Mid-evening watch: wind easing, rain still tapping at the glass.
Dogs fed, logs checked, lights steady.
The lighthouse hums, quiet and stubborn, doing its job while the world scrolls past.

Keep warm. Keep curious.
We’ll mind the light.

#LighthouseLore #HauntedLighthouse #Fediverse #IndieWeb #SelfHosting #EveningWatch

Tech Keeper recalls dial-up nights: 2400 baud, Liverpool nodes, the modem’s scream before silence. Every connection earned, every minute counted.

Latency taught patience. Scarcity taught care.
Some lessons still guide the light.

Morning watch steady.
We’ll keep it on.

#HauntedLighthouse #LighthouseLore #TechKeeper #IndieWeb #SelfHosting #MorningWatch

does anyone have recommendations for software i can self host that will serve a local video library with a somewhat youtube-like UI? i tried jellyfin but it doesn't let videos have descriptions, and i couldn't get mediacms to install under podman

#selfhosting #selfhost #jellyfin #homelab #homeserver

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Larvitz/115678438984350657

FreeBSD 15.0-p1 fixed the bhyve regression, I've had 🙂 Home-server now running stable on the new release

YAY!

root@voyager:~ # freebsd-version -kru
15.0-RELEASE
15.0-RELEASE
15.0-RELEASE-p1

root@voyager:~ # uptime
10:14PM up 58 mins, 2 users, load averages: 1.27, 1.44, 1.22

#freebsd #freebsd15 #selfhosting

Larvitz » 🌐 2025-12-07
@Larvitz@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Found a regression with PCI passthru with bhyve VMs on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. An Intel I210 Ethernet device, that is passed through into a (FreeBSD) VM gets unresponsive 1-4 minutes after booting the VM. Worked perfectly fine on 14.x.

Boot environments saved the day (again). Just a quick "bectl activate 14.3-RELEASE-p6_2025-12-02" plus a reboot and everything was working perfectly again 🙂

Of course did report the bug in the FreeBSD bz: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291459

#freebsd #freebsd15 #sysadmin #zfs #bhyve

Starting to think that using #OpenHAB for my "smarthome" for my case is kinda overkill…

I have some sensors (temperature and humidity), some reed switches for windows and possibly I'll add thermostats for heating batteries (because here, even with 0°C outside, the central heating works for all the money and it is impossible to sleep and work without all opened windows). All things are using #ZigBee so my #server uses some ZigBee coordinator dongle and #zigbee2mqtt with some MQTT broker inside. I already able to read all necessary data from sensors by reading the right MQTT topics.

And the OpenHAB just communicates with my MQTT broker and displays some nice widgets on the Web UI. This is cool, because I don't need to think about how to work with MQTT and how to output data — all somehow works "by magic".

But the price is very big. The OpenHAB eats near 600 MB of RAM and swaps a lot (near 1 GB for now). It is a largest memory consuming service in my server, which has only 2 GB of RAM (and a RAM prices already increased here ). And also it's sandbox takes near 3.5 GB of SSD space.

So, do I really need not to think about how it all works under the hood while wearing out my SSD or get some services OOMed if I disable swap and start e.g. using BorgBackup? Looks like the game is not worth the candle. I can literally pick #EclipseMosquitto #C library, unwrap some memories about how to use CGI and get the same nice page with sensors data and some logic inside. But with a waaaay less memory footprint and with possibility to open this page from #Dillo

#SelfHosting

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OpenHAB page with two well-drawn barometer+thermometer, showing data for living room and kitchen. And a small widget below, showing state of windows (one green and opened and other yellow and closed).

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OpenHAB page showing battery levels for my phone, for temperature/humidity sensors and for reed switcher. Each record has a nice looking battery icon, showing a level of battery for the each device.

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Top output from my server. The java process (belongs to OpenHAB) eats 615 MB of wired memory and 5.96% of CPU. The swap has 1157 MB used and 879 MB free.

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The output of "du -hs" for catalog with OpenHAB sandbox — the size of this catalog is 3.5 GB.

Dear people selfhosting, how do you manage:

- different services running differently (Docker, VMs, Python virtual env, Go binaries...)
- backups of all these things?

Do you have one server for everything? Do you create containers per application? (but then what about applications that are already containerized ?)

#SelfHosting #Docker #LXC #containers #Linux

This is all very fascinating, but hear me out. You can’t name the product “Immich” and expect people to call it “Image”.

#selfhosting #SelfHosted #selfhost

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113667636910565210

Good morning Fedi friends! Today is the 1 year anniversary of the start of my #selfhosting adventures with #YunoHost.

I'm currently self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube and #NextCloud – and I'm always on the lookout for the next great app to install.

Thank you @yunohost for making me a more empowered digital citizen 💖

To give back, I'm writing a simple #selfhosting guide for newbies. ICYMI, here's the latest chapter: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-2-installation-setup/

Wishing you all a great day!

Currently writing a self-hosting guide for newbies, showing off the beauty and ease of #YunoHost.

Part 1 was really popular - beyond my expectations - with 1500+ unique visitors. Thank you!

For reference:

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

Part 2 (step-by-step installation and post-installation) will be super visual. I tried to keep things simple but I still have 27 - yes TWENTY-SEVEN - screenshots. I'll keep #AltText relevant to each step on a need to know basis or else it will turn into a novel... and will be too overwhelming for people using screen readers.

Aiming to get it published by Wednesday AKA the one year anniversary of the start of my own self-hosting adventures with YunoHost.

This is the guide I wish I had had back in the day... I would have started A LOT sooner. I'm basically writing it to my old self, hoping it will be useful for others 🥹

PSA: if you're using YunoHost please consider donating to them, to keep the project healthy and long-lasting (it's run by a team of volunteers, maintaining hundreds of apps): https://donate.yunohost.org

#MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS #advocacy #selfhosting

Seit ein paar Wochen folge ich @HolosSocial, weil ich die Idee einer eigenen Instanz, die vollständig als Smartphone-App läuft (ggf. plus eigener Relay-Server), ziemlich interessant finde.

Habt ihr Einwände, die dagegen sprechen würden?

mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/115691449342113089

#HolosSocial #SelfHosting #FediVerse

Dear Fedi friends,

I just hit "publish" on my blog post "A newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements". It's here if you wanna read it:

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

This guide is intended for true newbies who are curious about self-hosting some essential digital services. I'm hoping to dispel some myths about self-hosting and make it appear accessible to all. Well, at least to people curious about it but hesitant to get started because they think it's too complicated. That was me up to a year ago.

Special thanks and shout-out to @ilja for setting my journey in motion. And eternal gratitude to @yunohost for the way they are empowering us all with the tools to self-host

#MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #BigTech #rebellion #digitalsovereignty #NextCloud