Phase 1: Acquire developer trust. Phase 2: ???. Phase 3: Your code trains our AI by default. The GitHub story.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-profit-the-github-story-97f4616f

#bigtech #blog #github #microsoft #privacy #selfhosting #userhostile #opensource #ai

> Prerequisites
> docker

*sigh*
Closes tab.

#selfhosting #openbsd #bsd

Good morning Fedi friends!

A routine reminder that I've been running a series of #blog posts - "a newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost" - and so far I've published 5 articles:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

Every week I receive messages from people mentioning how my guide helped them embark on their self-hosting journey. This makes me SO HAPPY, thank you!

I wonder if you have requests for future articles? Or do you think the series is now complete?

Should I get a .earth domain? I like the ring of it. Like, you know, I'm a citizen of Earth, fuck borders and nationalists and all that. The company behind it doesn't seem to be evil, but information is sparse.

#SelfHosting

My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt …

I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) #books in the house. It should be able to accept a list of #ISBNs as input for importing items and look them up (with covers) to ingest their metadata.

It doesn't need #library style circulation (I don't want to run a library so don't want #Koha or equivalent)

I've been using #HomeBox which is ok but only understands "things" rather than "books" (I've written a isbn2homebox script to make that easier). I'd like something purpose designed for books though.

Does anyone use anything like this? There are plenty of free or subscription things available online, but I want to run this myself.

Thanks ☺️

#selfhosting #inventory

Certbot OVH DNS Challenge in Debian 13 kaputt

Erst gestern weise ich jemanden im Fediverse darauf hin das seine TLS Zertifikate abgelaufen sind, schon kommt heute morgen der Boomerang und bei den Diensten die ich auf meinem Intel NUC hier zu Hause laufen habe schlagen die TLS Verbindungen fehl. Joa Karma halt.

Ich gehe einfach mal davon aus das es mein Fehler war und ich nach meinem Server Upgrade von Debian 12 auf Debian 13 nicht geprüft habe ob certbot tut was es soll. Die Zertifikate waren noch frisch. Dazu kommt das ich leider kein Monitoring für meine Server Zertifikate habe, das sollte ich vielleicht mal ändern.

Was ist also der Fehler gewesen. Naja ich habe nicht mitbekommen das Debian 13 das Paket python3-certbot-dns-ovh nicht mehr bereitstellt. Das lustige ist es ist in bullseye, bookworm, forky und sid vorhanden, nur halt nicht in Trixie. Warum weiss ich nicht, wenn da jemand nähere Infos dürfen Sie gerne geteilt werden. Ich kann mir vorstellen das es daran liegt weil das Paket python3-lexicon auch aus irgendeinem Grund fehlt, welches eine dependancy von python3-certbot-dns-ovh darstellt. Aber gut ohne python3-certbot-dns-ovh funktioniert die DNS Challenge bei OVH halt nicht. Einfach nur ärgerlich.

Wenn man in die Github Issues bei Certbot schaut dann gibt es mit dem Modul aber wohl schon länger Probleme vor allem was das aufräumen der acme-challenge txt Einträge angeht und im Zusammenspiel mit Wildcard Zertifikaten.

Bei mir kommt leider noch hinzu das mein Webserver zuhause,aus Gründen, nicht via Port 80 erreichbar ist. Die schnelle Umstellung auf die Webroot Methode ist also keine Alternative.

Was ich jetzt gemacht habe: ich nutze den Certbot Docker den es auch in Ausprägungen für die verschiedenen DNS Provider gibt. Ich gehe mal davon aus das hier die Dependancys vernünftig gepflegt werden. Eine schöne Anleitung wie man das ganze umsetzen kann habe ich hier gefunden: https://github.com/boujrafh/TLS-certificates-with-Let-s-Encrypt-Certbot-OVH-DNS-Docker-

Eine andere Möglichkeit wäre sicher das ganze via pip zu nutzen, eine Anleitung dafür findet man auf der Certbot Homepage.

Allgemein muss ich sagen das ich es ziemlich unschön finde das solch eine fundamentale Funktionalität beim Upgrade auf eine neue Stable einfach kaputt geht, aber gut wieder was gelernt.

I am reusing hard drives too I ordered a couple of large ones in October last year before the prices started to spike and started looking all over my house for those old drives they still work. Hopefully weathering this storm
#homelab #selfhosting

Homelab update: Ordered a new HBA card and it works! As I start to go through my HD collection, I realize that most of my smaller <2TB drives are 15+ years old. Oops. Looking at HD prices, I paid $266CAD in 2020 for one WD NAS RED 8TB. Today the same drive is $620!!! Isn’t tech support to get cheaper over time? Older drives will be put to use somewhere.

For now, I am happy that the TrueNAS is up and running. It will start with 2 pools: 4 x 4TB and 5 x 8TB.

#homelab #selfhosting

Hi, I’m Michael. Writer, photographer, and self-sovereignty guide, with 2 books behind me.

I talk about privacy, decentralisation, self-hosting, Linux, Web3, digital freedom, and human-first tech.

Topics: privacy, Linux, self-hosting, digital freedom.

#Privacy #Linux #SelfHosting #DigitalFreedom

#NoBot #NoIndex #NoBridge

This post is a test of a custom rule for Cloudflare I've been working on, and of my own conspiracy theory.

Forgive me my tinfoil hat: I have long suspected that the use of these tags (above), in fact, results in attracting more attention from crawlers/spiders/bots/whatever; that said automated systems exist which are specifically instructed to look for these tags, and to index any and all pages in which they find them.

If and only if my custom rule blocks a notably higher number of attempts to index this post alone, as compared to any of my other posts individually, I assume my theory is true until otherwise proven.

I will provide an update about this whenever I have one.

#CloudflareTunnel #Cloudflare #Fediverse #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

#introduction — Moin, ich bin Daniel. Tech-Nerd aus dem Nahetal, selbstbeigebracht.

Tagsüber repariere ich Handys und PCs, abends baue ich Sachen die niemand gebraucht hat — ESP32 Dashboards, Game Server, Self-Hosted alles mögliche.

🐧 Linux everywhere
🌱 Vegan btw
🔧 Right to Repair > alles
📸 darktable, nicht Adobe
🖥️ Self-Hosting statt Cloud

Persönlicher Account — Tech, Projekte, random Zeug.
Business:
@danielstechnikservice

#opensource #vegan #FOSS #maker #SelfHosting #righttorepair #linux

Fini de copier-coller vos textes dans le vide ! ✍️✨

LanguageTool s'offre une interface web "maison" chez BlablaLinux ! 🛡️ Une page dédiée pour corriger vos textes en toute confidentialité.

🚀 C'est ici : https://languagetool-web.blablalinux.be/

📖 Envie de l'installer chez vous ? Le guide est sur le Wiki :
👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/installation-interface-web-languagetool-nginx

Retrouvez tous mes services ici : https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

P.S. Un grand merci à Universe Photo Archive... il saura pourquoi ! 🤫✨

#LanguageTool #OpenSource #SelfHosting #ViePrivée

#SelfHosting tools I rely on and am very happy with (and I'll probably put on repeat to remind people):

• Pangolin: I have a tiny Hetzner VPS with it that fronts all my #SelfHosted in-house services so I can access them remotely
• Beszel: Monitoring of my servers, simple, shows me exactly the stats that I'm interested in

OpenAI's crawler just found our family server / cloud services and immediately proceeded to crash Nextcloud within minutes. Fucking fantastic.

Is there some nice, up-to-date write-up on the different tools to protect yourself against this?
#AI #AISlop #AttackOfTheMachines #selfHosting

2008 #foss devs were warriors

#ageverification #privacy #anonymity #surveillance #ubuntu #arch #fedora #kde #gnome #apple #google #degoogle #development #coding #github #discord #codeberg #linux #decentralized #FreeSoftware #selfhosting #cloudflare

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Big dog as 2008 Foss devs Vs small dog as 2026 foss devs, big dog sticks to his principles and doesn't bend the knee no matter what, small dog works at big tech and buys Apple hardware, doesn't take a firm stance on age verification.. etc

#nextcloud stand on self signed ssl is clown behaviour. What a bunch of elitist cucks
#nextcloud #selfhosting

Сегодня праздник у девчат
А завтра будет стыдно...

И вот с такой шутки поделюсь: стыдно должно быть мне. За то, что мой серверочек mastodon долго (с февраля 2023 года!) хостился на одном SSD диске. И сегодня он переехал на RAID из 2 синих WD на террабайт. Учитывая, что пока занято всего 40ГБ (а откуда больше взяться?), места хватит надолго.

#selfhosting

cyrneko.eu/the-hosting-solution.html

Community hosting is the solution, a post about self-hosting, and a sort-of-reply to @neil (but not really?)

hope to get people talking about this :3

#SelfHosting

Ok this one’s on me.

I stood up a test website and I used bunny net as my CDN. The url was predictable. Test dot domain dot net. Well, somebody found it and just hammered it. 1.3M requests in a week. I probably account for about 200 of those. I figured it out when the VM’s disk ran out of space from logging it all.

Total bandwidth 27.81 GB
Cached bandwidth 33.32 MB
Requests served 1,380,802
Cache hit rate 1.25%

#selfhosted #selfhosting

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Line graph showing traffic internet traffic. It’s flat at zero until we reach march 17 and then there’s a huge spike. Big numbers at the top say • Total bandwidth 27.81 GB Cached bandwidth 33.32 MB Requests served 1,380,802 Cache hit rate 1.25%

So the last couple weeks have been nuts on keeping up with the news....but here's another that might have slipped under your radar and will effect basically everyone in the US. Your home router has basically been declared a security risk.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/all-this-has-happened-before

#blog #routers #fcc #networking #security #policy #geopolitics #selfhosting #isp #userhostile

UGREEN NAS: FOTOS-APP INSTALLIEREN UND VORBEREITEN – TUTORIAL

https://gadgetchecks.de/ugreen-nas-fotos-app-installieren-und-vorbereiten-tutorial/

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#ugreennas #nas #nasstorage #fotobackup #fotomanagement #selfhosting #homelab #datensicherung #cloudalternative #netzwerkspeicher #tutorial #techguide #itguide #smarthome #datensicherheit #backup #photoapp #diyserver #serverhome #ugreen

Welche #Peertube Instanzen könnt ihr empfehlen?

#fediverse #opensource #selfhosting #privacy #p2p

On reste libres et sécurisés ! 🐧💻

#VaultWarden #2FAuth #SelfHosting #BlablaLinux #ViePrivée

Okay, now the main concern I have with SMTP: is it even possible for me to self-host an SMTP server, and to expose it ONLY via Cloudflare Tunnel, and NOT open any ports in the firewall?

Does that work, I mean?

I've read things that have confused me even more about this; the general consensus, as I understand it, is that that should work in theory but it probably doesn't actually work, or if it does work then for some reason it goes straight to spam anyway (which I would need to see to believe, frankly, because Cloudflare's IP addresses being misinterpreted as spam, would be weird and also ironic, I think).

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #SMTP #Cloudflare #CloudflareTunnel

email is no longer just a communication tool. It has become a surveillance infrastructure. And millions of users are opting out.

Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo Mail have transformed from services into platforms for mass data extraction. Every email is scanned. Every attachment is analyzed. Every communication pattern is logged. This data is sold to advertisers, shared with third parties, and made available to government agencies.

When your email is free, you are not the customer. You are the product.

The response has been a renaissance in self-hosting. Open-source solutions like Mail-in-a-Box, Mailcow, iRedMail, and Poste io have made private email infrastructure accessible without deep technical expertise. What once required a system administrator can now be deployed in hours.

For those not ready for self-hosting, private providers like Proton Mail, Tutanota, Mailfence, and StartMail offer encrypted alternatives built on privacy-first business models rather than data extraction.

The numbers tell the story. Among European SMEs, private email adoption has grown from 12% in 2022 to 35% in 2026. Governments in Germany, France, and Switzerland are migrating official communications to sovereign infrastructure.

This is not a technological trend. It is a political movement for digital sovereignty. Every email you send is a choice between a world where your words are analyzed and stored, and a world where your correspondence remains your own.

The silence in your inbox is no longer silence of consent. It is silence of resistance.

#privacy #email #selfhosting #digitalsovereignty #surveillance

Nutzt eigentlich jemand die "Find my Device" App und kann vielleicht aus gemachten Erfahrungen berichten?

https://f-droid.org/de/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/

https://fmd-foss.org/

#android #fdm #smartphone #fdroid #foss #findmydevice #selfhosting #findmyphone #google

💖 hi! i'm self hosting a gotosocial instance now, and this is my new primary account! please boost to help me federate this instance more!!

about me: i love people, and i especially love the people in my local community. some of my goals in life are getting my own wiki page (im vain), building a housing cooperative, and being the best woman i can possibly be for my partner. i love being intentional with my aesthetic, which has evolved over the years into the pink & black combo i do now. 🖤💖

i have been on some form of mastodon since 2022. i believe we all need to do as much as possible to boycott companies that do or support unethical things, like donating to fascists. for me, using the fediverse is a great alternative to corporate social media.
still, i really value my time - so my following list is very small and i do not spend large amounts of time here. i try to spend my time doing productive things - lots of which are related to @vs - or connecting with the people i love.

on this account you can expect to see lots of random thoughts, some questions, polls, photos (including some cw'd lewds), ventposts, and general nonsense. thanks for following me! 💖

#intropost #introduction #trans #transjoy #Minnesota #vegan #coop #homeschool #anarchy #anarchist #ocd #audhd #fedora #linux #foss #selfhosting #grapheneos

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photo of me. i have split hair coloring, with black on the left and pink on the right. i'm wearing a stetson, pink sunglasses, and a pink sweater with red hearts on it.

How many domains have you registered, total, to date?

#Poll #AskFedi #Domains #Internet #SelfHosting

Is anyone here using NextCloud for extended family chat/photo/whatever?

Thoughts?

#SelfHosting #FamilyNetwork

Oops. It seems my #friendica instance got stuck for more than a week. I was wondering why no-one responded to my posts.

Apologies if you now get all posts from the past 10 days in a row :)

#SelfHosting

Ça bouge dans la salle des serveurs !

Petite mise à jour pour #BentoPDF, #Element, #Gitea, #Mastodon et #Synapse chez #BlablaLinux. Tout est bien huilé et prêt à l'emploi !

Curieux de voir tout ce que je vous héberge ? C'est par ici :
👉 https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

On reprend le contrôle, un service à la fois !

#InformatiqueLibre #SelfHosting #OpenSource

For a while, deploying apps meant a familiar ritual: SSH in, pull the repo, pray nothing breaks, repeat for every service.

Manual.

Fragile.

Exhausting.

This week I finally consolidated everything into a proper self-hosted control plane.

The stack:
→ aaPanel as the central dashboard which I heard about from a friend
→ Docker for containerised app isolation (absolute cancer)
→ PostgreSQL for database management (with per-app panels and log visibility)
→ DuckDNS handling dynamic DNS + automated HTTPS via Let's Encrypt (stayed up until 3AM on Sunday for this btw)
→ Netlify on the frontend side cuz it's easy to deploy

The difference is hard to overstate. One dashboard. Full log access across services. Deployments that don't require me to remember 12 steps in the right order at 11pm.

It's not a perfect setup, aaPanel is proprietary-ish and Netlify is clearly not self-hosted, but it's a defenitely a step away from "I'll fix it manually when it breaks" territory.

Curious if anyone here has migrated from this kind of hybrid setup toward something fully FOSS.

Always looking for the next rabbit hole.

- UltraX

#SelfHosting #DevOps #Docker #FOSS #Linux #Infrastructure #HomeServer #OpenSource #Privacy #Sysadmin #Python #javascript #saas

Why run your own Virtual Private Network, in 2026?

I wrote a post unpacking this Q, with a view to pushing folk to reclaim VPN technology in this neo-feudalist era of the Internet, clawing back autonomy (and privacy) from the big VPN providers.

https://courses.nikau.io/2026/03/24/why-run-your-own-vpn/

#selfhosting #privacy #infosec

OpenZiti is a self-hosted zero-trust networking platform that lets you access services without VPNs or exposing ports.
Each connection is identity-based, end-to-end encrypted, and limited per service.

Instead of full network access like traditional VPNs, it only allows access to specific services -- reducing attack surface.

👉 https://github.com/openziti/ziti
👉 More tools like this: https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #ZeroTrust #Networking #Privacy #DigitalMinimalism

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Screenshot of OpenZiti GitHub repository showing: 3.9k stars, build status, Go reference, Discourse forum link, Apache 2.0 license, and description of the zero-trust networking platform.

Envie de l'auto-héberger sur votre Docker/LXC ? Voici mes snippets Compose tout frais sur ByteStash :

Version Persistance (API) :
https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/4f7a1a645f316457803c94cd237ee388
Version Sandbox (Démo) :
https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/dcdcfa327c4d5f666a96b963d19d99de

Projet source sur GitHub : https://github.com/rackulalives/rackula

Amusez-vous bien avec vos baies !

#SelfHosting #Docker #Linux #Rackula #BlablaLinux #SysAdmin #Proxmox

Been playing around with FreshRSS over the weekend. Pretty cool! Especially when combined with morss to convert RSS feeds that are intro only into full text feeds.

But the mobile view is pretty bad! Had to spend some time adding Custom CSS to make it acceptable to me.

Might blog about it soon.

#FreshRSS #RSS #SelfHosting

Here are the changes I made. Very minor, but it does look a lot neater, in my opinion:

https://blog.thms.uk/2026/03/freshrss-mobile?utm_source=mastodon

#FreshRSS #RSS #SelfHosting

Are you #selfhosting your own data? Do you have a data #backup strategy? Recently I have updated my backup setup to be much more robust and flexible. If you wanna check it out, I have made a blog article about it at https://blog.adamhlavacek.com/2026/03/23/my-backup-solution

Alright, I just moved to my new #mastodon instance fraxoweb.social.

Compared to the last one where I was solo #selfhosting ,

I'm going to allow people to join this new one.

For now, the goal is to be Canadian mastodon instance where both #french and #english is used and accepted. #canada

We'll see how that goes.

Self hosters, do you use Cloudflare in front of your hosted services?

#cloudflare #selfhosting #privacy #security