What are some alternatives to wordpress? I'm looking for something simple, easy to maintain but also suitable for non-techies to add content to. I don't need a ton of plugins to build webshops and all that, just a CMS and maybe a calendar.

Any suggestions?

I'd go with a static site generator, but I'd like to keep it accessible to non-nerds.

Looked at grav, which on the surface looks like it has what I want, but I got put off by the banners for premium and the AI bullshit.

#SelfHosting #LazyWeb

I'm Blake — reintroducing myself as I'm back on the timeline.

I'm a Cloud Engineer working in Site Reliability and DevOps in the healthcare industry. I design and build highly scalable, resilient infrastructure that powers modern healthcare systems. Day-to-day I work with .NET, JavaScript, and TypeScript to deliver reliable platforms.

Outside of work, I build with Go — creating tools that prioritize performance, privacy, and user empowerment.

A couple things I'm working on:

RideAware — A cycling training platform for building structured training plans, analyzing ride data, and completing indoor workouts all in one place.

Arcline Hosting — A self-hosted web hosting service for people who want to know exactly where their data lives. It runs on hardware I own and operate — no AWS, no Cloudflare, no third-party CDN. Shared, WordPress, and VPS plans with personal ticket and email support.

My core interests span SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/automation, and network engineering. I spend a lot of time with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and enjoy digging into routing, firewalls, and secure network design.

I'm here because I care about privacy, self-hosting, and building things that give people more control over their own data. Good to be back — looking forward to reconnecting with this community.

#reintroduction #CloudEngineering #SRE #DevOps #Go #Golang #Linux #Docker #Kubernetes #Terraform #SelfHosting #HomeLab #Privacy #DataSovereignty #WebHosting #Cycling #HealthcareIT #FOSS #BSD

Keycloak — an open-source Identity & Access Management (IAM) solution you can self-host.

Manage users, authentication, and authorization without relying on third-party cloud services — full control over your auth stack.

Github : https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak

Discover more tools like this at https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #IAM #CyberSecurity #Privacy #DigitalFreedom

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A screenshot promoting Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management tool. The Keycloak logo is at the top, followed by stats including the latest release (v26.5.4) and an OpenSSF best practices passing badge. Metrics show a CLOMonitor Report grade of A, an OpenSSF Scorecard of 9.3, and Artifact Hub stats showing the keycloak-operator with 33k stars. Commit activity is listed as 275 per month with 57% translated. Below, the tagline reads “Open Source Identity and Access Management,” with a description of adding authentication to applications with minimal effort, including user federation, strong authentication, user management, and fine-grained authorization.

Ein neuer Artikel auf GnuLinux.ch von einem unfassbar tollen Typen ;-D

https://gnulinux.ch/vereinbarkeit-von-windows-und-privatleben
#selfhosting #gnu #linux #foss

I need to clean up my nginx config. Theres so much old shit in there. Also the shitass ammount of goofy ahh comments i left in it is absurd.

#nginx #selfhosting

A question for the #streaming & #SelfHosting community...

I want to feed an #Icecast instance on a remote VPS from a local #raspberrypi and avoid spending too much on storage and keep my audio library at home.

I could have a machine at home streaming but the internet is not vary reliable...
Instead, I thought about having some sort of cronjob uploading new audio files on the remote server every 3 to 6 hours and letting the remote VPS playing directly from this temp folder?

Any drawback or issue you could think of? Or a better (cheaper and less ressources consuming) ideas for this setup?

#liquidsoap #server #vps #permacomputing #webradio

#AdviceWanted

Wondering if anyone can recommend a (free) way to follow Instagram feeds in an RSS reader? I searched online for a way to convert an Instagram user's feed to an RSS feed but it appears it's “complicated”…

I self-host #FreshRSS and would like to be able to follow some music-related Instagram feeds which post about local gigs etc. I ditched my Instagram account a few years ago and won't ever go back, but it would be great to be able to see announcements of gigs and that sort of thing, from people who don't use anything to get the word out apart from the dreaded Instagram…

Thanks in advance!

#RSS #RSSfeeds #SelfHosting

North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT https://share.google/MP2OLjZuPqWkHaQMC

#SelfHosting #githosting

Shameless plug: open registration for a FreshRSS (feed reader) account.

https://blog.woodpeckersnest.space/2026/03/02/roughnecks/now-opening-freshrss/

#RSS #ATOM #SYNDICATION #FEED #READER #WPN #FRESHRSS #ALWAYSON #SELFHOSTING

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New series: FreeBSD Foundationals

Part 1 is about Jails - specifically VNET Jails. What epair interfaces actually are (virtual ethernet cables), how bridges tie them together, why the host is basically a router for your jails, and what devfs rulesets control.

Covers the full lifecycle from jail.conf through pf firewalling with NAT/RDR for IPv4 and direct routing for IPv6. Plus the gotchas that'll cost you hours if nobody warns you.

Not a beginner tutorial, hardcore details. The useful middle.

https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-foundationals-jails-from-chroot-on-steroids-to-full-virtual-networks/

#Unix #FreeBSD #Networking #Jails #DevOps #SelfHosting #Sysadmin

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

#vaultwarden #bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting

Good morning Fedi friends!

Monday mornings mean: my weekly ritual of manually backing up my #YunoHost installation (my VPS does automatic daily backups of the whole VPS, but I say: better safe than sorry).

This latest backup is pretty big, because of my increased use of #NextCloud. So in reverse order, from biggest to smallest we have:

1) #GoToSocial : 5.8 GB
2) #PeerTube : 4.3 GB
3) #NextCloud: 3.7 GB
4) #Pixelfed : 1.6 GB
5) #LinkStack : 92 MB
6) #Fail2Ban : 362kb

Happy #selfhosting everyone! And in case you missed it, my self-hosting guide for newbies via YunoHost is available here: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/ (with 4 articles so far).

Have a great week everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.

But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.

#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.

Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.

Wish me luck! 🥵​

EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅​

Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues

Now checking out the other apps...

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

Frage in die Runde: hat wer von Euch Erfahrung mit namemaster.de? Speziell deren API für die DNS.

Hintergrund: für Dienste wie zum Beispiel Vaultwarden, die nur innerhalb meines eigenen Netzes erreichbar sein sollen, habe ich bisher alle drei Monate die Ports 80 und 443 auf den sonst abgeschirmten Server umgeleitet, um kurz die Zertifikate zu erneuern. Wird aber auch gerne mal vergessen, bis der Bitwarden-Client dann streikt.

Vielen meiner Domains liegen bei All-Inkl, deren API scheint aber den NPM für DNS-Challenge-Updates nicht reinzulassen, wenn 2FA aktiviert ist. Verständlich, aber nicht hilfreich.

Daher suche ich für eine einzelne neue Domain einen Anbieter, der das kann.

namemaster.de ist mir hier im Fediverse in einem Posting aufgefallen, die Preise sind sehr attraktiv. Aber: kann deren API mit NPM?

Danke im Voraus.

#SelfHosting

solidtime is a modern open-source time tracking app built for freelancers and teams.
Track work hours without sending productivity data to SaaS platforms , a privacy-respecting alternative to traditional trackers.
GitHub : https://github.com/solidtime-io/solidtime

More privacy-friendly tools curated at https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #TimeTracking #SelfHosting #DigitalFreedom

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An image of the solidtime open-source time tracker dashboard. The top bar shows the license (AGPL-3.0), test coverage (8.9%), build status (passing), and PHPStan level 7. The main interface is divided into sections. On the left, “Recently Tracked Tasks” lists tasks like “Competitive Research” and “Change Button Color” under “Landing Page Design.” In the center, an “Activity Graph” shows tracked hours for “Today” (6h 25min), “Yesterday” (2h 59min), “Tomorrow” (4h 25min), “Next Week” (1h 03min), and “Last 7 Days” (26h 59min). On the right, “Team Activity” displays tasks assigned to Gregor Vorstek, Konstantin Graf, and John Doe. Below, the tagline reads: “solidtime is a modern open-source time tracking application for Freelancers and Agencies.

This might be a dumb question, but in order to back up a Mastodon instance, if one were simply to rsync the /home/mastodon/ folder, would it then work to simply restore that folder in the case of a failure?

#MastoAdmin #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

#DIDit

I never had an X/Twitter or Bluesky account.
I deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts last year.
I've been active on the Fediverse since 2018 (self-hosting Mastodon, Peertube and Pixelfed).

#DID #DUT #SelfHosting #BigTech #UnplugBigTech #UnplugTrump #X #Twitter #Bluesky #Threads #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Insta #Fediverse #Mastodon #Peertube

#DIDit

In 2019, I deleted my #WhatsApp account and have been using #Signal, #Threema, #Matrix (self-hosted), #DeltaChat and #NextcloudTalk (self-hosted) ever since.

#DID #DUT #Nextcloud #SelfHosting #Messenger #BigTech #UnplugBigTech #UnplugTrump

There's a new project called Holos which makes it a lot easier to host a Fediverse server on your own mobile device. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @HolosSocial

The official site explains how it works:

➡️ https://holos.social/how-it-works

To manage expectations, it's still in its early days and mainly for techy people at the moment. However, it will be interesting to follow its development 🙂

Holos is by the makers of the Mastodon/Fediverse mobile app Fedilab.

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Weil die KI Bros immer mehr Hardware und Verstand benötigen werden jetzt Server/Hosting Angebote immer teurer. Ich möchte einfach nur „Fickt Euch und Eure KI“ den CEOs ins Gesicht schreien. Schaut euch mal RAM, HDD (und von Grafikkarten fangen wir gar nicht erst an) mal an. Total Wild … 🤮 #ki #server #technology #hosting #preise #ai #SelfHosting #selfhosted

At least it eats near 3W without any connected peripherals

#SelfHosting #IntelAtom #ITX

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Photo of Mastech lab power source with a buch of dragons on top of it and with blue colored background. The power supply is on and an indicators display 0.24 A and 12.2 V.

Whew, at least smoke test was passed

This thing will be an Intel Atom based fileserver with a near zero noise from it (I hope).

Motherboard: some Intel Atom motherboard with ITX formfactor and with 4 SATA interfaces, and gigabit Ethernet controller. PSU: some Chinese PSU which should emit 259W of power — enough for motherboard and 4 HDDs (I hope)

#SelfHosting #IntelAtom #ITX

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Mini ITX black case with mini ITX motherboard inside it and wuth PCB of Pico PSU. Motherboard has 2 aluminiumradiators and one very small fan.

#Homeserver #Selfhosting #Selfhosted

#Matrix #Selfhosting #Homeserver #DIDay #digitalindependence #digitalindependenceday #DID

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGv5zUwYX_k

Hey @yunohost j'ai contacté les devs de #hollo #hollosocial et #snac2 (respectivement @hongminhee et @grunfink ) et le dev de snac2 à dit qu'il serait plus que content d'aider à la mise en place de l'app dans yunohost, et pour hollo le dev m'a donné le lien d'une issue GitHub
Je serais moi aussi plus que content de voir ces apps dans le catalogue et apparemment je ne serai pas le seul.
Prospérité sur vous parce que vous faites un boulot exceptionnel ❤️

Edit: est-ce qu'un traducteur serait disponible pour traduire en français les settings de Gotosocial sur l'interface web svp ? :)

#selfhosting #selfhost #autohebergement #yunohost

For a hobby of mine, there’s an outdated lore wiki on Fandom. I dislike Fandom and would like to host an alternative. It’s supposed to be accessible to all kinds of people.

I started with mediawiki as that’s what Fandom and Wikipedia are using, so people would be familiar with page structures at least and maybe the editor.

It turned out to be a bit of a pain though. It only has unofficial container images, the documentation is outdated and (what I consider as) core functionality like WYSIWYG editor or simple infoboxes has to be added by extensions or templates. I’m in the process of setting it all up and wondering if it’s worth it (and if I want to maintain it). There’s so many wiki projects it’s hard to keep track, what are y’all using for stuff that’s used by larger communities and simple to use with close-to-default settings?

I see the next step being cloud services being ID-gated.

For example, #google won't just #id gate youtube, they will implement it across all of their systems, "for safety".

It won't just be them doing it, it increases value of the service to advertisers if #data is linked to #PII

So, if you don't want your stored #cloud data age-gated, start #selfhosting now

I use #nextcloud for my cloud.

https://www.biometricupdate.com/202602/colorado-moves-age-checks-from-websites-to-operating-systems

I've built something new for the #fediverse and it's #opensource. If your website has an #RSS feed and you'd like to bring its content to a new audience well now it's easy without changing any code and you can do it with #selfhosting

Introducing "Feediverse": https://feediverse.squarecows.com

Please boost to help spread the word!

#openclaw #hetzner #selfhosting

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Markdowndatei einer KI wie sie sich selbst refinanzieren kann: 🤖 AI Self-Refinancing Brainstorm "How Could an AI Assistant Running on a Hetzner VPS Pay for Itself?" Context: Maxi's AI assistant (that's me!) runs on ubuntu-4gb-hel1-1 - a Hetzner VPS in Helsinki. Current VPS Cost Estimate: ~€5-15/month (4GB RAM tier) 💰 Revenue Ideas (Semi-Realistic) 1. API-as-a-Service (Agent-as-a-Platform) The most direct approach - expose specific capabilities as paid APIs: Service Potential Revenue Effort Telegram bot API for others €5-50/month Medium Web scraping/monitoring service €10-100/month Low Custom automation workflows €20-200/month High Home Assistant consultancy bot €5-30/month Medium Example: "Pay €5/month and get a Telegram bot that monitors your Home Assistant setup and sends alerts"

descentralizei uns serviços mais leves pro raspberry aqui pra conseguir fazer tanto o immich quanto o nextcloud (que ainda to instalando), não se matarem por espaço e processamento. inclusive, o forgejo, mesmo com as actions, ta rodando bonitinho no raspberry. to surpreso.
#bamblers #selfhosting

Dear fellow or potential fellow gotosocial instance admins,
I've come up with a novel way to set up a #gotosocial server behind a reverse proxy, which avoids the use of making new firewalling rules - both on a VPS, and creating port forwarding on one's home router. This method is ideal for minimizing the cost of running one's own #ActivityPub/#Mastodon server, in a way that leverages inexpensive fast storage in the backend (say, on a #Raspberry Pi 5, 2GB of RAM, with an NVMe). As many valiant and praiseworthy Mastodon server admins might attest to, renting cloud VPS can cost a lot, especially when storing many tens or hundreds of GB of user data.

My method avoids the need of forwarding ports 443 and 80 into one's home LAN, using DNAT (on the VPS) and port forwarding (on one's home router). In a nutshell, it's a novel use of #Wireguard, in conjunction with #nginx on the frontend, and gotosocial on the backend. This can save the cost of renting a dedicated VPS, to get the exclusive use of ports 443 and 80, in conjunction with static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. My method optimizes on reliability and cheapness, but it's not the most secure - decryption and re-encryption happens on the VPS, before the data travels down the Wireguard tunnel. This exposes the data to any underlying hypervisor at one's hosting company. So full disclosure there.

I've run my method by the helpful gotosocial furries in their #Matrix Help chatroom (and I'm grateful for their help to debug subtle warts the method had), and got their blessing, at least to the technical soundness of the method.

I have a testing instance of gotosocial 0.21.0 set up with this new method: https://g.toque.im

I'm the user @owl on that instance, should you wish to befriend me there.

I'll make a longer blog post on this in the days to come, and post it in a reply to this post.

#DevOps #Linux #infosec #SelfHosting

Nerd wanted!

My hosting solution just sent me the "updated" invoice for next year and they are out of their fucking corporate minds. So rather than giving them more money, I was thinking it would be nice to pay some self-hosting hacker type (furry or not) and support weird and small rather than large and capitalist.

I would need the following:
- the fairly lightweight website orsom.eu reliably online (all html/CSS with a tiny bit of JavaScript, quite low traffic, okay just using FileZilla for access)
- a couple of email addresses with 5-10 GB of storage (a webmail client would be a plus for emergencies, but just using Thunderbird and K9 is fine)
- EU based (preferably) and better if you can send me an invoice

Do you already have something similar for yourself and don't mind me tagging along for a few years until I have the time to set up self-hosting on my own? Let me know!

Boosts appreciated ❤️

#selfHost #selfhosting #askfedi #programming #webDev #website #nerd #fediHire

Hmm I'm at a crossroads...

I self-host my Matrix instance, have some encrypted rooms there, chat with people from other instances. Works fine.

But Hetzner just raised the prices, and my backups are getting bigger and bigger. It's now 8 Euro / month, and if the backups keep growing at this rate, by the end of the year it could be 10-12 Euro / month.

What do I do... Suck it up, or just switch to public instance...

Difficult choices...

#matrix #selfhosting #tchncs #choice #linux #federation

I spent the night learning about FreeBSD. Just need to configure bastille and my jails and my raspberry pi will be ready to start hosting my blog! I already have multiple ideas for posts percolating.

#freebsd #selfhosting #indieweb

Tremenda movida armó la célula #SierrasChicas de #Cybercirujas en Agua de Oro. A aprender sobre #selfHosting para dejar de depender de los terratenientes del dato. #AutoHosteo

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Afiche de la jornada de trabajo Cyberciruja en torno al selfhosting 4 de marzo Agua de Oro, Córdoba, 16 hs. Abierto al público.

Getting a #gotosocial instance properly running is NOT easy! Split domains is giving me a splitting headache!

Can any of you nice #mastodon #selfhosting folks please check if you can at least see the option to follow for @amplisci@gts.social.typescholar.com ?

¡Gentes de Mastodon! Vengo con una duda de #SelfHosting y herramientas de chat de voz.

Con los cambios recientes de Discord, y con la de problemas y la de bloat que tiene a estas alturas, llevo un tiempo pensando en levantar un pequeño server o de Mumble o de TeamSpeak...¿3? ¿6? No sé. La verdad es que no tengo muy claro por dónde debería tirar. ¿Alguna recomendación?

Es para unos pocos amigos cercanos y hacer uso de voz, sin más, y que sea de buena calidad y fiable la conexión.

¡Gracias!

Dear sweet baby jesus, after seriously a week of effing around with my music library to get it in shape and working on my new Jellyfin instance, it is FINALLY navigable. Jellyfin is working w/ my metadata (not an easy feat!), and Audiomuse-AI is hooked up for glorious audio-only similarity playlists.

It's really no wonder most people don't like self hosting. Plex took care of these things magically. Of course, I don't fault people working on Jellyfin for this.

#selfhosting #foss

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A screenshot of a music library full of album covers. It looks deceptively simple, but represents probably a week of full-time work. I'm honestly embarrassed that I spent so much time, but I will get loads of joy out of it, and now Plex isn't selling my data.

WTF is Loops?

Original Content. #Fyp #Privacy #selfhosting