homelab storage tip: smaller 2nd hand SAS drives are still fairly cheap compared to SATA stuff (e.g ~50-100 for 4tb),

because enterprises don't buy second hand SAS stuff (especially smaller disk) and people seem to think SAS hardware is expensive or unusable.

If you buy a second hand PCIE Host Bus Adapter/HBA (like an LSI or Dell Perc flashed with IT mode or alike) for like 30-50$ together with some MiniSAS to SAS cables, you'll be able to use these disks in your home server/NAS

#selfhosting

also worth noting that, if you do really want SATA, or you're looking for a lot of storage in the first place, 18-20tb disks seem to be available for around 20-30eu per tb.

It is a larger investment (400-600 for a single disk), but technically speaking you are getting a waaaay better deal than buying a 4tb drive for 200 (50eu per tb, more than twice as much).

#selfhosting

Finally migrated my gitea instance to forgejo. Was simple enough and took like 5 minutes to accomplish.

It's basically just modify the docker compose file to reference the correct forgejo version to replace gitea and bring it up. This is an internal home lab system so no 2fa/oauth or whatever to reverse engineer as part of the process.

<doing proper fs and db backups beforehand are implied in these statements>

#gitea #forgejo #homeLab #Selfhosted #SelfHosting

Sometimes newer is not better. At least not for the things that matter to you.

I benchmarked two OVH VPS in the same Zurich location. My current 2025 model with a 500 Mbit network against the newer 2027 model with 1 Gbit. Same AMD EPYC Genoa cores, same provider, nearly identical sysbench CPU scores.

Then the surprises started.
The older box pushes 6,612 MiB/s in memory tests, the newer one 932 MiB/s. That is 7x.
Random 4K reads: 1.32 million IOPS against 832k.
And the old model is even about 1 EUR cheaper.

For a Mastodon instance, databases, and Docker workloads, memory and disk beat extra bandwidth every time. So the shiny new VPS gets demoted to reverse proxy and backup duty, and this instance stays exactly where it is.

Benchmark before you migrate.

#SelfHosting #Mastodon #Fediverse #VPS #OVH #Benchmarks #Homelab #Blog #MastoAdmin

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Screenshot of the OVH control panel showing two active VPS in the EU-WEST-LZ-ZRH location: vps-817e781a.vps.ovh.net labeled vps-2027-model2.LZ and zrh-1.dol.ch labeled vps-2025-model1.LZ. Both marked Active, the model names underlined in red

The numbers behind the previous post, for the curious.

Same fio and sysbench setup on both boxes, Debian 13, direct=1, libaio.

Random read 4K, the workload databases actually live on:
1.41M IOPS on the 2025 box against 822k on the 2027 one.

RAM bandwidth: 64,038 MiB/s against 11,906. That is 5.4x.

Single thread CPU: 4,504 against 4,147 events/sec. Same EPYC Genoa on paper.

And here is my favorite part. The old box ran all of this while carrying my entire production: Mastodon, Postgres, Valkey, a pile of Docker containers, 17 days of uptime.

The new box was empty and idle.

The loaded veteran still won almost everything.

#SelfHosting #VPS #Benchmarks #fio #sysbench #Homelab #MastoAdmin #Fediverse

Email from @OVHcloud this morning: the bandwidth on my VPS went from 400 Mbit to 1 Gbit. Same plan, same price, nothing for me to do.

This is the box running dol.social. The one I benchmarked last month, on the grounds that its memory and disk beat the newer 2027 model and the network gap did not matter enough to move.

The network gap is now gone too.

Correction while I am here: I said 500 Mbit in that thread. It was 400. The conclusion holds, my number did not.

#SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Mastodon #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

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Screenshot of an email from OVHcloud. The message says that to meet the performance needs of applications and services, the public bandwidth included in the VPS 2027 range has been increased, and that instances now benefit from up to double the throughput at no additional cost. Below is a table listing one VPS with its hostname partly greyed out, showing previous bandwidth of 400 Mbit per second and new bandwidth of 1000 Mbit per second.

Full disclosure on the cost of that free upgrade.

The reboot to pick it up hung at the hypervisor level and took the instance with it. Almost 15 hours of downtime, 41.91% uptime for the day, and nothing I could do from inside the box because there was no inside to get to.

Worth it. But this is the part of "simple restart" that the is mentioned in email.

Also a decent argument for the thing I keep saying: the box is disposable, the data is not.

#SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Downtime #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

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Screenshot of an uptime monitoring dashboard for the last 24 hours. On the left, uptime reads 41.91 percent and Apdex reads 0.4. A horizontal status bar is green at both ends with a long red section covering the middle. Below it, a bar chart per hour shows green bars at 1.0 for the first two hours, then a red 0.46, then a long run of red zeros from roughly 19h through 8h, a red 0.62 at 9h, and green 1.0 bars from 10h to 16h."

https://blog.haschek.at/2026/you-should-selfhost-your-mail.html

#selfHosting #email

Some pictures of my solar-powered web server.

More work to be done on optimising page sizes when I have some time

https://www.uplode.org/posts/inhabitants/webserver/

#solar
#selfhosted
#selfhosting
#energy
#permacomputing
#sustainability
#computing
#lowtech

#permacomputing #SelfHosting #moo #LambdaMOO #snac

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Two IKEA kitchen cabinets bolted together. Metal grates divide the cabinet, and on the grates are things like a network switch , a laptop, a small desktop server and a UPS.

I still have no idea how to properly configure fail2ban.
The whole jail + filter config is pretty black magic to me.

Is there a "more user friendly" solution?
(I also use ufw as firewall).

#linux #selfhosting #homelab

Hab nur ich die Probleme, oder hat die #Hetzner #Storagebox gerade etwas mit Verbindungsabbrüchen generell zu kämpfen?

#selfhosting

I created #GeoPulse accounts for each family member and migrated all location history data from the #Owntracks recorder. The last bit was to switch #HomeAssistant location reporting to it.

I'm not sure we will use GeoPulse often, but it's nice to know we have #SelfHosted location history.

Can't wait to integrate it with #Immich, once we move there.

#homelab #selfhost #selfHosting #LocationHistory #GPS

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A list of three profiles with funny profile pictures. Two names are censored, but the third one says "Yehor". There is a date range picker above the list showing the date range from 27.08.2026 to 03.08.2026. There is also a count next to each profile displaying the numbers 37, 20, and 36.

Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers // Mathieu Aumont

https://aumont.fr/posts/FreeBSD-Home-Server/

#freebsd #bsd #selfhosting

Here it is 🎉
One of three new Wi-Fi access points based on #NixOS, deployable via #colmena and monitored using #Beszel.

The case design might still need a little adjustment.

#diy #selfhosting #raspberrypi

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A small aluminum box with a taped WiFi adapter on it

Foto- und Video-Verwaltungstool Immich liegt in v3.1.0 vor
https://linuxnews.de/foto-und-video-verwaltungstool-immich-liegt-in-v3-1-0-vor/ #immich #selfhosting #linux #linuxnews

What's going on..

..your fedi? Because each one's unique, ain't it?

Bonus Question: Ever thought about running a #bluesky #PDS alongside your fedi instance?
Bonus Answer: I did.

#fediverse #community #social #selfhosting

My homelab has been upgraded to 11.0 🎉

#NetBSD #NetBSD11 #homelab #selfhosting #RUNBSD

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A screenshot of a NetBSD 11.0 system.

Heute mal aus Spaß an der Freude einen kleinen Mailserver aufgesetzt.

Funktioniert.

#Selfhosting

Hmmm... it looks like @Stuxhost may fit the bill. https://Stuxhost.com says they're based in the Netherlands 👍 and that you can choose servers in Germany / Finland 👍 and @stux is here on the Fedi 👍 . (Sidenote, when I've talked to Stux, they've been lovely 👍 👍 )

The only thing I'm wondering about is if there's any easy way to install / upgrade / maintain Mastodon? 🤔 If I need to I can install Yunohost like on my other servers, but I'd really like to avoid having to maintain yet another server for a service that sounds trickier than most to maintain...

#Mastodon #Hosting #Selfhosting #StuxHost #Yunohost

So as someone has already posted about the rising costs of self hosting, here's my reasoning and why we moved to Netcup.
The point being there is other hosting options, be aware and be switched on.

good luck!

https://haunted.lighthouse.co.im/articles/the-30-percent-letter/

#selfhosting #SovereignInfrastructure #costs

Sunday shoutout to all the #selfhosting #solo #DevOps #coders and #Sysadmin that keep the glue together that keeps everything running.
Give yourself self some love and appreciation for what you do.

I've been getting reports of folks not being able to access my website due to firewall issues. I cannot remove the firewall blocks due to bots continuously scraping my website. But I'm thinking of offering an alternative. What do you think is a good alternative to access a (completely static) website? #poll #selfhosting #indieweb

Anyone else DIY monitor the air quality in their living space with a raspberry Pi and get mobile notifications about status?

Just me?

#prometheus #airquality #RPI #pushover #SelfHosting

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TIME SENSITIVE noW [RESOLVED] Air Quality (PM... roci has been unhealthy for more than 5 minutes. roci Unhealthy (150+)

Question for those who #selfhost their email servers - has anyone migrated from #postfix to #openSMTPD?

I've been running Postfix for more than a decade on the primary MX, but it frankly feels overkill for a relatively simple multi-domain setup for essentially just hosting my family's email.

I'm already running openSMTPD on #OpenBSD on my secondary, so I've got some limited experience with it.

Nothing against Postfix, it just feels that with my setup I'm using an 18 wheeler to transport a case of beer...

#selfHosting #email

@AlienJay I am very impressed with Dockhand. It seamlessly has handled two minor updates to #Forgejo and it looks like it would make major version updates much easier than manually editing a .yaml file (yet to test that).

Very easy to set up and had a nice dashboard that can tell me what is going on across a number of Docker containers. I have no reason not to pass on your recommendation to anyone who is #selfhosting and looking for a replacement for Watchtower.

That’s a win, right? I think that’s a win. #GlitchySocial #Mastodon instance officially has no more slow queries. I combined PGTune recommendations with some from here: https://wisechecker.com/configure-postgres-tuning-busy-mastodon-instance/.

#homelab #SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost #postgresql #postgres

Migration von Certbot zu Lego

Ich glaube jeder der selber Dienste hosted kenn das Problem. Da will man nur mal eben eine kleine Änderung auf dem VPS oder auf dem Server im Homelab machen, und dann stolpert man über dieses kleine nervige Problem was man einfach seit Monaten ignoriert hat.

das ist mir heute mal wieder passiert. Eigentlich wollte ich nur eine neue Webapp ausprobieren, aber dafür brauch ich nun einmal ein TLS Zertifikat. Eigentlich kein Problem, aber als ich in mein OVH Dashboard schaue um die Domain anzulegen viel mir auf das der Certbot auf meinem Debian 12 Server immer noch an einen doofen Bug leidet durch den die DNS-01 Acme Challenges nicht mehr richtig gelöscht weren, nachdem die Zertifikate darüber validiert hat: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/10492

Ja ich weiß: das ist an sich nur ein kosmetisches Problem. Aber es ist nicht das einzige Problem was ich mit Certbot in den vergangenen Monaten hatte. Erst im März habe ich gemerkt das das OVH DNS Addon in Trixie einfach nicht mehr vorhanden ist.

Um das Problem zu lösen könnte ich einfach Certbot via Docker installieren, so wie ich es auf meiner Debian Trixie Maschine getan habe. Leider würde das aber zu einem anderen Problem führen. Eine meiner Domains lasse ich inzwischen von einem coolen deutschen DNS Anbieter namens desec.io verwalten. Leider gibt es keinen offizielles Docker Image mit deren DNS-01 Certbot Plugin. Ich müsste also ein eigenes Image erstellen und auch Pflegen. Da hab ich jetzt nicht wirklich bock drauf.

Also was mach ich jetzt. Mit einer nativen Certbot Installation pypi, venv etc. will ich mich echt nicht rumschlagen. Gang ehrlich dieses ganzen Python universum war nie wirklich intuitiv für mich. Im März hatte mir jemand im Fediverse zu Lego einem Acme Client der in Go geschrieben wurde geraten. Das Programm unterstützt ca. 200 DNS-01 Challanges verschiedener DNS Provider und kommt als eine statische Go Binary. Das find ich schon extrem cool, also einfach runterladen, entpacken, ausführbar machen und man kann loslegen. Vielleicht schreib ich mir in Zukunft mal ein kleines Script für solche updates.

Ich wollte unter Lego direkt mit der Config Datei arbeiten, damit die automatisierungen hinterher einfacher von der Hand gehen. Auf den ersten Blick schien das recht aber wenn man sich die Config Datei anschaut dann versteht man recht schnell was man davon braucht und was nicht.

In meinem Fall muss ich zwei DNS Provider mit DNS-01 verifikation anlegen und einen mit einer http-01 webroot challenge. Tja Strato hat immer noch keine DNS API für sowas. Das alles hat den Vorteil das der Acme Client nie an Port 80 etc. ran muss und der Webserver so die ganze Zeit online bleibt.

Das ganze zum laufen zu kriegen war recht eifnach. Lego binary von Github downloaden, entpacken, an einen passenden Ort verschieben (ich nehme /usr/local/sbin) und via chmod +x ausfürhbar machen. Danach habe ich den Ordner /etc/lego erstellt wo dann die ganzen Config Dateien und Zertifikate landen.

Nun kann man sich direkt einen Account (eigentlich einen privaten Schlüssel) anlegen, ich habe als Account Namen einfach meine Mail Adresse genommen:

lego accounts register --email johndoe@example.com -a --path /etc/lego

Wie es weiter geht hängt ein bisschen davon ab wie man seine Domian gegenüber Lets Encrypt verifiziert. Hier ein Beispiel wie ich das bei meinen Domains mache die bei OVH liegen und bei denen ich DNS-01 nutzen. Ich arbeite mit .env- Files um die Zugangsdaten und Einstellungen der jeweiligen DNS Provider zu speichern. Also erstelle ich folgende Datei /etc/lego/.env.ovh und trage dort die im Lego Wiki für OVH aufgeführten Parameter ein, bei mir sind das Application Key, Application Secret, Consumer Key und der Endpoint: https://go-acme.github.io/lego/dns/ovh/index.html

Nun kann man sein erstes Zertifikat erstellen:

lego run --email johndoe@example.com --path /etc/lego -a --dns ovh -d test.example.ovh --env-file /etc/lego/.env.ovh

Lego legt diese dann in /etc/lego/certificates ab.

Da ich jedoch nicht ewig lange Befehle in Cronjobs etc packen möchte bietet sich die Arbeit mit der Lego Config Datei an, sie macht die automatisierung des Vorgangs viel leichter. Dort fasst man Accounts, Challanges und die verwalteten Domains zusammen. Diese lego.yaml erstelle ich in /etc/lego. Meine sieht ungefähr so aus:

storage: /etc/lego/
accounts:
  johndoe@example.com:
    email: johndoe@example.com
    acceptsTermsOfService: true
challenges:
  desec:
    dns:
      provider: desec
      envFile: /etc/lego/.env.desec
      resolvers:
        - 1.1.1.1:53
  ovh:
    dns:
      provider: ovh
      envFile: /etc/lego/.env.ovh
      resolvers:
        - 1.1.1.1:53
  webroot:
    http:
     webroot: /var/www/lego # Muss im webserver konfiguriert sein
certificates:
  test.example.desec: #Kann irgendein Name sein, wird als Dateiname genutzt
    challenge: desec
    domains:
      - test.example.desec
  test.example.ovh:
    challenge: ovh
    domains:
      - test.example.ovh
      - www.test.example.ovh
  test.example.webroot:
     challenge: webroot
     domains:
      -   test.example.webroot

Das ist nur ein Beispiel wie es für mich funktioniert, schaut auf jeden Fall ins Wiki und denkt dran: das ist yaml also nur Leerzeichen, keine Tabs etc.

Wenn man diese Config Datei hat dann reicht ein einfacher aufruf mit dieser als Parameter aus um die Zertifikate zu beziehen oder zu erneuern.:

lego --config /etc/lego/lego.yaml 

Jetzt müssen wir noch sehen das dieser Befehl regelmäßig ausgefürht wird, das kann man über einer Cronjob machen oder über einen Systemd Timer. Dafür werden folgende Dateien angelegt /etc/systemd/system/lego-renew.timer und /etc/systemd/system/lego-renew.service:

[Unit]
Description=Lego Certificate Renewal Timer

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-* 03:00:00
RandomizedDelaySec=1h
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

und

[Unit]
Description=Lego Certificate Renewal

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/lego --config /etc/lego/lego.yaml
ExecStartPost=systemctl reload nginx

Nun können wir den systemd daemon neu laden und den timer starten und aktivieren:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable lego-renew.timer
systemctl start lego-renew.timer

Und das war es auch schon. Lego sollte sich nun darum kümmern eure Zertifikate immer auf einem aktuellen Stand zu halten. Jetzt muss man natürlich noch sehen das man seinen nginx etc. auf die neuen Zertifikate konfiguriert. Ja das war bei mir Handarbeit, es gibt nen Grund warum ich mich so lange gedrückt habe.

Ich hoffe der Beitrag hilft irgendwem und ist zumindest halbwegs interessant. Falls nicht, dann weiss ich in sechs Monaten zumindest immer noch was ich hier getan habe.

Want to detect intruders before they reach your real systems?

OpenCanary is a free, open-source network honeypot that emulates common services and sends instant alerts when someone interacts with them. It's lightweight, easy to deploy, and works on Linux, macOS, Docker, and Raspberry Pi.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=opencanary

#OpenSource #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Honeypot #SelfHosting #Privacy #Linux #Homelab #FOSS

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Screenshot of the OpenCanary project page describing the lightweight network honeypot with passing GitHub test, Docker build, and PyPI badges.

I've been self hosting email for years. This morning, an email to a Gmail account was blocked because of "the very low reputation of the sending domain".

Any advice on how to fix this? Presumably using a hosted email service won't help because I'd still want to use my domain, and Gmail says the domain is the issue.

#SelfHosting #email

Dein Router bekommt ein Mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum

Dein Router bekommt sein letztes Sicherheitsupdate irgendwann, und bisher hat dir das niemand gesagt. Ab Dezember 2027 muss jeder Hersteller ein Support-Enddatum nennen und bis zu diesem Datum kostenlos Sicherheitsupdates liefern. Für freie Software gibt Brüssel Entwarnung. Reden wir drüber!

https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-07-30-08-39-17-dein-router-bekommt-ein-mindesthaltbarkeitsdatum/

#chrislo #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #ITSicherheit #CyberResilienceAct #EURegulierung #OpenSource #SmartHome #Router #Sicherheitsupdates #SelfHosting #BSI #Verbraucherschutz

Finally got automated Flatpak releases working on my self-hosted Forgejo server.

I set up a Forgejo Actions runner with Docker-in-Docker, then wired up a workflow that builds my Python applications as Flatpaks whenever I push a version tag.
Took a bit of wrestling with namespaces, artifact handling, and a weird timezone bug, but it's working now.

#Forgejo #Selfhosting

Il #relay / #chatmail #deltachat chatmail.woodpeckersnest.space è ora aggiornato all'ultima release, 1.12.0.

Qualche cambiamento alle impostazioni, come riportato in homepage, qui:

https://chatmail.woodpeckersnest.space/

Abbiamo aumentato a 200MB lo spazio disponibile per ciascun account ed aumentato anche la longevità degli account stessi, che verranno ora rimossi dopo 60 giorni di inattività, anziché 45.

#deltachatitalia #selfhosting #WPN

" Free DNS, forever. For a better European internet; " -- https://enum.co/blog/free-dns-forever-for-a-better-european-internet

#dns #eu #europe #hosting #selfhosting #freedom #free

Happy #SysAdminApprecationDay!

#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

My careless #Mastodon database optimization paid off. I now have slow queries.

Will try to revert #postgres config to default settings and start over.

#GlitchySocial #homelab #SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost

Oh, I just realized! This could be queries running at the moment of daily backups! I definitely should review my #Mastodon backup strategy. The only thing that needs to be backed up daily is the database, while I snapshot the whole host with suspension.

#homelab #SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost

What's the point of having a home lab designed to solve problems but you end up having more problems than the ones that it should solve?

Decision made to uninstall one of the three storage servers at my in-laws. No matter how much electricity it costs, even if it costs a kebab a year, if it seems useless, they will always challenge the cost.

I'm pretty sure that the second storage server at my dad's will retire too for the same reason anytime soon.

#homelab #selfhosting

Full data: 20 AI agent repos ranked by GitHub stars, OpenRouter daily tokens, npm/PyPI downloads, CVE history, ecosystem size, and Reddit sentiment.

#Hermes #OpenClaw #Community #SelfHosting #LLM #AI

https://www.glukhov.org/ai-systems/comparisons/openclaw-hermes-alternatives-popularity/

Liebes Fediverse.

Meine bisherige Instanz bei Anoxinon liegt leider im Koma. Daher einmal #neuhier

Ich interessiere mich für #kunst, #musik und #freiesoftware.

Ich mache lehrreiche Videos zu #linux und #selfhosting die ihr auf #peertube findet: https://tube.sp-codes.de/c/tuxwiz/videos

Meine Leidenschaft sind #linuxmobile Handys mit #postmarketos und ich nutze dort einen Tiling Windowmanaget namens #sway mit #sxmo.

Wer hier nur noch #bahnhof versteht, dem empfehle ich meine #podcast Folge bei #gnulinux_ch : https://gnulinux.ch/ciw089-podcast

Ich würde mich über #austausch mit euch sehr freuen und bin auf euch gespannt. Gerne auch #retoot für mehr Reichweite.

#follow #followerpower

Literally built hardware for local LLMs just to do my own self hosted voice commands for all the IoT shit in my house because none of these companies can design a decent app to save their god damned life and I’m not letting Apple or Amazon know when the fuck I watch TV or what my thermostat is set to.

#selfhosting #homelab

I came into possession of some old solar panels so I made a solar-powered web server with a raspberry pi. It's been sitting in my garden for two months running continuously on sun/battery power.

Perhaps the continuous uptime is not surprising given the extreme weather in London this summer.

It's been running the nginx start page for most of that time, but I finally made a little zine site and hooked it up to the web.

Channeling Gilbert White, Bruno Latour, lowtechmagazine, whathaveyou. Not much content there as yet.

A Concrete Garden: https://uplode.org

#solar #selfhosted #selfhosting #energy #permacomputing #sustainability #computing #lowtech

Nicht nur für Maker: Project #Nomad – Internet zum Mitnehmen (ohne Internet) | Make https://www.heise.de/news/Nicht-nur-fuer-Maker-Project-Nomad-Internet-zum-Mitnehmen-ohne-Internet-11380693.html #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #ProjectNomad #OpenSource #Linux #Ubuntu #Debian #SelfHosting #Docker

Self-hosting people!

Do you have suggestions for directories of self-hostable free open source software?

So far I've got the Awesome list at https://awesome-selfhosted.net but wondered if there are any others you would recommend?

#SelfHosting #FOSS #AskFedi

Thinking about a new domain+project...

Anyone have the TL;DR; on self hosted fediverse software?

Mastodon vs Snac vs Pleroma vs ?

I'm looking for something that is super low maintenance and lightweight / easy on resources but as full featured as practical within those constraints.

Something easy to tune re: post lengths and media types would be cool too. A "text first" platform is desired.

I've run Mastodon in the past and it's like fishing with nukes for this use case.

What's out there?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #snac #web #selfHosting #SelfHosted

#solar #offgridsolar #balconysolar #balkonsolar #diysolar #selfhosting #solarhosting

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https://deltalima.org/blog/custom.php?site=system-stats ☀️ Solar system 2W ☀️ Solar 7W 🔌 Load 100% 🔋 Battery [www-data@minix-n4100.dmz.nukular.netz:~]# ./system-stats --solar Refreshed: 26.7.2026, 19:08:33 Solar 1 ------------------------------ PV power : 1.6 W PV current : 0.1 A PV voltage : 14.61 V Battery voltage : 13.35 V Load power : 5.07 W Solar 2 ------------------------------ PV power : 0 W PV current : 0 A PV voltage : 0 V Battery voltage : 13.36 V Load power : 2.13 W ============================= PV power all: 1.6 W Load power all: 7.2 W Battery charge: 100 % =============================

I am pretty amazed, how fast and power efficient even those older Intel N4100 Mini PCs are.
My old Wyse 3040 unfortunatelly died recently, so I had to migrate everything to the more power hungry N4100 system.
But turns out, when you disable the TurboBoost, it's average power consumption is around 1,5 - 2,5W running with Debian and a Podman container with my Website, and some custom scripts for fetching stats by bluetooth and usb for the BMS and Solar Charger. Neat!
#selfhosting #solar #diy

If you want to give phanpy a try, I run an instance of it here.

#fediverse #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting

Let’s do this a different way actually. Which of these are #SelfHosting (pick all that that apply)

@caleb I think if you're paying someone to host an instance of something and not using a BigCo's service, it's #SelfHosting. People can be pedantic if they want, but if you're going to the trouble to pay to run it yourself, even if you have someone keeping the lights on, it counts.

Do we still call it #SelfHosting if it’s on #Heroku or similar? There’s the extreme view that to self host you must run the server but that seems like overkill.

Do we still call it self-hosting if it’s something like masto.host?

Tentatively I’d say yes for Heroku (managed server) and no for masto.host (managed _hosting_).

Good morning Fedi friends,

I have been feeling a rising anxiety over the state of the open web and the fediverse - after seeing efforts by politicians all over the world (in Europe too!) to introduce age verification laws for social media.

My way of coping?

Teaching people how to self-host their own Fediverse profile (using the superb #GoToSocial) via #YunoHost.

Chapter 1 in this series is available here:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-gotosocial-part-1-installation-and-set-up/

#resist #blog #ActivityPub #selfhosting