Gradually de-Americanising my personal IT stack, and looking for recommendations for domain registration & DNS (to replace Amazon AWS Route53).

Anyone got any experience they'd like to share, either positive or negative? Australian based ideal, with EU second.

#SelfHosting #DeClouding

Falls ihr euren eigenen RSS Newsreader mit Miniflux möchtet und lernen wollt wie das geht, dann schaut euch mein Video an: https://makertube.net/w/qDzSwKjfnj4kFpB5yYCXNK

Mit Flux News steht auch gleich noch die passende Android App zur Verfügung: https://f-droid.org/packages/de.circle_dev.flux_news

#rss #selfhosting #android #did #diday #linux #miniflux

I created a "Shared Cost-Optimized" server on @hetzner (from € 3.49) with #debian13 and installed Proxmox Backup Server on it.

I also have an object storage for this #Mastodon instance. And the instance media files take only 143 GB from 1 TB for now. So why not store #Proxmox backups there as well? In a separate bucket, of course.

Not the fastest PBS I ever had, but acceptable.

Cost-optimized offsite backups - ✅ Done.

#HomeLab #SelfHost #SelfHosting #SelfHost #Hetzner #PBS

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A screenshot of a project from Hetzner Console with one server, one IP, and one bucket icon on it.

best NAS case with just two bays?

#selfhosting #nas #homelab #datahoarder

While thinking about what to do after my current contract ends, I keep coming back to the fact that I'd really like a EU-based alternative for lets encrypt. Don't get me wrong, let's encrypt is fantastic, but it's US based and thus subject to US laws, which might pose a problem for the continuity of the usage of their services outside of the US.

Let's say I were to start a project to do this, write a plan, get initial funding, maybe a few (paid) people to help out with this, would there be interest? Would it be worth it?

Would you want to use it? Could you even think of donating, or maybe know of some companies or organisations who would be inclined to go into a sponsorship relation?

I think it might be very welcome, and it is worth trying, but I'd like a reality check please :)

#LetsEncrypt #WebSecurity #https #CertificateAuthority #ITSec #Security #Europe #DigitalSovereignity #DigitalSovereign #SelfHosting #Self

Has your favorite album vanished from the music streaming service of choice again? I highly recommend ripping your CDs and making them available through @jellyfin with the @manetmusic app; it really works great on iOS & macOS!

#selfhosting #streaming #iOS

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The image shows the user interface of the manet music player on a mac. The focus is on an album titled "Vom Vintage Verweht" by the artist Dendemann. The album was released in 2010 and contains 13 tracks with a total length of 48 minutes. In the top left, you can see the album cover: a gray background with a broken wall from which bricks are emerging. Above it is a stylized, graffiti-like script. In the bottom right of the cover, there is an illustrated male figure with a red cap, drawn in a comic-book style. To the right of the cover, the album title is displayed in large white letters, with the artist's name below it. This is followed by the release year and the number of tracks. Beneath that are two large buttons: "Play" and "Shuffle." Below that, a tracklist is visible. The first track is called "Nesthocker" and is currently selected and playing. More tracks follow below, each with its duration listed to the right. At the bottom of the window is the playback bar with back, pause, and forward buttons, as well as a timeline. To the left of it, the currently playing track "Nesthocker" is shown again with a small album cover, and to the right is a volume slider. The entire interface is designed in light gray and pink tones and has a clean, modern look.

Nextcloud vs Immich : arrêtez de comparer ! 🛑

L'un est un bureau numérique (PDF, agenda), l'autre une galerie photo ultra-rapide dopée à l'IA. Ce ne sont pas des concurrents, mais des alliés ! 🤝

#SelfHosting #Nextcloud #Immich #OpenSource

https://blablalinux.be/b/4J3?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Has anyone got #flarum & #microsoft oauth working? The auth goes ok, but the redirect url (.../auth/microsoft) fails while coming back to flarum. Any tips?

#selfhosting

Mondays mean: manually backing up my #YunoHost system.

Speaking of YH, in case you missed it, here is my latest guide for newbies about how to install an app with YunoHost - I showcased NextCloud in my tutorial: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-3-lets-install-nextcloud/

I'm always surprised by the sheer size of backups - this time 15GB (ugh!) broken down as follows (from biggest to smallest):

#GoToSocial: 6.2 GB
#PeerTube: 4.3 GB
#NextCloud: 3.0 GB
#Pixelfed: 1.5 GB
#LinkStack: 91 MB

I'm brainstorming ways to make my GoToSocial backup size go down... I have cache set to 1 day only, so I'm trying unfollowing a few accounts (that I already follow from my Mastodon profile) to see if that makes a difference.

Anyway, wishing you all a great day & week!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Weitere Experimente mit Ghost durchgeführt. Die Anwendung lließ sich mit Dokploy leicht installieren. Wie immer - Teufel im Detail. Email-Konfiguration für User-Mails und Newsletterversand ist ein wenig tricky. Ansonsten ist dieses Publishing-System sehr leicht zu bedienen und die verschiedenen Themes machen einen optisch ansprechenden Eindruck.

https://ghost.org/

#ghost #selfhosting #publishing

I wish my homelab was stable... Well it would be if I stopped redoing it every 2 months.

Anyone else like this?

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

I'm out of hobby budget for the next several months =(
#HomeLab #Selfhosted #Selfhosting #SelfHost #HomeServer

Die Installation von Etherpad hat mit Dokploy funktioniert. Für die Installation von Plugins ist wieder viel Feintuning erforderlich.

https://etherpad.org/

#etherpad #selfhosting #dokploy

What is the lowest tier at which you would say someone is #selfhosting their #email?

(Please boost this to the #infosec bubble!)

Blog-Artikel sind Momentaufnahmen. Eine Infrastruktur lebt.

Auf der Reise zur meiner digitalen Open Source Only Souveränität habe ich viel gelernt und vieles wieder umgeworfen. Damit der aktuelle Stand (Hardware, DNS-Cluster, Topologie) nicht in der Timeline untergeht, habe ich jetzt einen Ankerpunkt geschaffen.

Der Nukleus der Rebellion ist live. Hier ist die Landkarte meines Homelabs:
👉 https://www.pandolin.io/nukleus-der-rebellion/

#HomeLab #SelfHosting #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #RebelHomebase

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Illustration im warmen Sepia-Stil: Ein zufriedenes Schuppentier (Pandolin) sitzt mit einer dampfenden Tasse an einem Schreibtisch vor einem Laptop. Die Wand im Hintergrund ist übersät mit technischen Netzwerk-Diagrammen, Kubernetes-Strukturen und Notizen zur 'Rebel Homebase' Infrastruktur.

I am giving #Dockhand a try, and after setting up the Stacks from #Portainer, it seems solid. I wonder if the compose files will remain, of I delete Portainer.

#selfhosting #Docker

OK #Immich users, how are you handling backing up photos/videos from your desktop?

I'd like to back up my b-roll directories using Immich and without a desktop sync application, that's a bit convoluted.

#SelfHosting

Anyone self-host PeerTube?

I love YouTube, and by that I mean watching it; I would never upload there, especially now, with all of their silly censorship of things that don't even need censoring.

I feel like I need a PeerTube instance.

#YouTube #PeerTube #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Fediverse

And finally added the last piece to my new Mailserver: Observability via Promtail/Loki. Done for today 🙂

#sysadmin #monitoring #selfhosting #mailserver

Inspired by @ele selfhosting journey and I trying to get all this working and what I started from is getting Ghost working inside Yunohost.
Not that I want to publish a paid newsletter, I just thinking about moving from Medium and I like Ghost's post editor 😜

But I guess I did something wrong or whatever. Does yunohost allow install app like ghost right at domain root? Without some path like `/blog`? If that "blog" path added, Fediverse features seems to not work.

#newbie #selfHosting #Ghost

#selfhosting #homelab
Hat hier jemand Erfahrung mit der Coral USB TPU (https://www.coral.ai/products/accelerator/) für lokale LLMs? Für Frigate wird die Coral TPU empfohlen, um die Bildverarbeitung zu beschleunigen, aber ich frage mich, ob das auch für ein LLM ausreicht.

I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just finished he migration to a new system today.

- OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- MTA: Postfix 3.10
- IMAP: Dovecot 2.3
- Filter: Rspamd 3.14

I used Imapsync to migrate the content of my Mailboxes from the old to the new system. Worked absolutely fine.

Having the E-Mail Jail and the mailbox data on an encrypted ZFS dataset (AES256) that's manually unlocked with my passphrase after rebooting the system. Backups are done via ZFS send/recv to by backup server (-w for raw send to ensure, data is encrypted at rest)

- SPF: ✅
- DKIM Signing: ✅
- DMARC Reporting: ✅
- E-Mail delivery to major providers: ✅
- IPv6 working and actually being used: ✅

All working perfectly well. In about a week, I'll decomission the old Debian based system, that I used since 2017!

#linux #freebsd #sysadmin #selfhosting #email #postfix

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Console output, showing FreeBSD Jails, running E-Mail related services.

Just set up @readeck / https://readeck.org/en and imported the old #Pocket collection .. i love how easy it was to set up and up and running... and the joy of being able to self-host things .. #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab #readeck

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Status of #Readeck importing Pocket collection

In diesem Video zeige ich dir, wie du mit Pydio Cells ganz unkompliziert deine eigene Cloud-Lösung zu Hause aufbauen kannst. Schluss mit dem Teilen deiner wertvollen Daten mit den großen Datenkraken! Hier hast du die volle Kontrolle über deine Informationen – sicher und privat!

https://gnulinux.ch/deine-eigene-cloud-mit-pydio-cells

#pydio #cells #selfhosting #linux #diday

Few days ago I successfully configured #coturn to have a TURN/STUN server for in-family calls. But … looks like bots or some bad guys constantly trying to connect to my TURN server to use it for something :-(

Of course, it is impossible, since anonymous access or any other access without right key is impossible. But, there are no IPs of attackers in the log file, even wth "Verbose" directive — only my local and public IPs and my server's hostname

Maybe, there is some way to force coturn to display IP addresses of connected clients, so I could ban them all with fail2ban?

#TURN #STUN #selfhosting #networking #AskFedi

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Screenshot of turn.log with lines of unsuccessful attempts to connect to my TURN server. Sadly, there are only my IPs and hostname, no IPs of attackers.

Where to begin when starting a #homelab. #LSNED #learnsomethingneweveryday #selfhosting #selfhosted

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation#:~:text=For%20a%20smooth%20transition%20into,for%20everyone%20in%20the%20ecosystem.). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers

My electricity bill has gone down which means: time to set up another homeserver 🤣

The idea so far:
- nixOS
- paperless NGX
- Firefly III

In essence, it would be a little machine dedicated as a backup for documents.

Paperless would be used to index everything, Firefly to read bills etc and provide an overview of finances.

(I have not yet used either of the two apps myself, so I would also evaluate them first, before I do anything like purchasing NAS hardware)

#selfhosting #nas #paperlessngx #fireflyiii #nixOS

I am asking this question quite often... about once every three months. And still not found ANY real alternative.

Is there any REAL WordPress alternative that is:

• simple to run on any hosting / server. Copy files, configure DB access, end. Like with WP

• doesnt require self building anything

• Have any themes/layout system that doesnt require PhD in NodeJS Shitstack

• Have built in RSS feeds

#WordPress #Selfhosting #smallweb

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-3-lets-install-nextcloud/

And sorry for repeating myself, but the path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought.

My self-hosted #NextCloud has fully replaced WeTransfer, Google Drive and Dropbox for me... and it's only the tip of the iceberg.

I hope this visual guide will help fellow newbies.

#SelfHosting #YunoHost #MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS #blog #resist

Is anybody using NFS mount over a 1GBe link? I'm thinking about separating compute and storage but my network is 1GBe. I would leave VM root disks and e.g. databases local and only mount e.g. #nextcloud data dir over the network.

#homelab #selfhosting #nfs #askfedi

Upgraded all services on https://stic.earth including #Mastodon to #NixOS 25.11. Everything went smoothly except #Netdata, which is now broken. Unfortunately, it is too complex and bloated now for me to understand and fix it. Thinking of switching to an alternative. Any suggestions?

#selfhosting #mastoadmin

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

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Screenshot showing the service status of several Mastodon services on FreeBSD

I don’t avoid platforms because they’re popular.
I question them because defaults tend to outlive intentions.

What starts as convenience becomes dependency.
What starts as “temporary” becomes infrastructure.
And data, once collected, rarely forgets.

Choosing where your data lives is one of the few architectural decisions users still get to make.
Most people never realize they made it.

#Privacy #DigitalAutonomy #SelfHosting #DataOwnership #Fediverse #PrivacyByDesign #ByernNotes

@saaste itse olen lähiviikot asennellut ja tonkinut librebooking softaa. Katso kävisikö. Mun käyttötapaus olisi taloyhtiön saunat, pyykkituvat yms. Mutta käy vaikka mihin, ja open source tottakai

https://librebooking.readthedocs.io

#LibreBooking #OpenSource #selfhosting

I have been re-architecting my self-hosted setup for public-facing websites, including my Mastodon server and my own personal website (linked in my Mastodon bio and verified). Watching the logs, I am getting a ton of traffic to my personal website from Mastodon clients, presumably due to the verified link in my bio. I'd never realized it was so much! Not a problem, just interesting (to me).

#selfhosting #mastoadmin

Today I heavily argued with a Hosting and VPS provider called IONOS; there's the domain ionos.com which brings to American site and there's no accessibility statement in that page. On the Italian though, ionos.it, on its footer I found an accessibility statement claiming this company took care of disability needs. It was very affordable. For 10 euro per month or so, I could obtain the Linux VPS L plan, with something like 4 CPU cores, 16GB RAM and 240 GB storage. I don't remember if it's exactly the amount of the offer but now I'm not talking about service's details.
Attracted by the offer I have subscribed to it and the products presentation and e-commerce procedure was actually accessible for screen reader users; but as soon as I has the service in hand, control panel and especially firewall rules, inaccessibility came. As an example, on a single firewall rule, the edit button was labelled with "y", the add with a "@" sign, the delete with a "]" (closed squared bracket) sign.
First thing I did was going to that accessibility page. There was no specialized e-mail for that kind of support but they linked to a contact form.
Clicked on it, it redirected me to a German-speaking page. Last time I spoke German was 1999.
And what did I find there? Phone numbers and a live-chat with German automated answers but nothing on accessibility.
I called them (Italian support) and warned them about the issue, they've been polite with me. I admit I've been quite unkind though, as I was angry. But I managed to obtain contract cancellation and they'll refund me tomorrow. But this issue must not remain under silence. What I'm asking is to all Ionos customers all over the world, to make them aware of this. It hasn't to pass under silence as this habit of placing a declaration without concretely working on accessibility, is becoming more and more normalized.
They find more convenience in violating the laws and losing customers, than create a real remediation.
And there are many faults for this: companies do their own interests, with no doubt. But our fault as people with disability, not to have stood up too much for the cause, or standing up in the wrong way. Not to have pressured governments about investing on LEARNING more than "tou must create accessible sites". You must create, but how many 30-40 years old developers have the culture of accessibility in mind?
How many companies and school have a real decades-long accessibility learning program?
No one wants to mock disability I'm convinced of this. But this practice is due to lack of basic awareness. We can not pretend of nothing.
I'm not inviting anyone to boycott. But to create awareness.
#accessibility #advocacy #awareness #blind #disability #SelfHost #SelfHosting

Let's talk about Linux distribution updates, specifically for Debian.

The last time I upgraded from Buster (10) to Bookworm (12), skipping Bullseye (11), ended up being a disaster. At the end, I had to reinstall everything from scratch.

I want to prevent the same scenario from happening again, so any advice on upgrading from Bookworm to Trixie is welcome.

#homelab #selfhosting #debian13

Thursday Lighthouse Calm

The week creaks on. The light stays steady.
Logs roll. Backups complete. No drama required.

Build systems you can explain.
Run services you can sleep through.
Let the noise burn itself out offshore.

Keep the light.

#LighthouseLore #SelfHosting #IndieWeb #QuietTech #DigitalSovereignty

The next session of #Indieweb Club #Bangalore is scheduled on this Saturday 17th January at 2:30 PM IST. Join us this time for a tech and design focused session. We'll co-work on our personal websites, try new designs, squash bugs, or just do some long-neglected digital housekeeping.

If you don't have any programming experience, don't worry! We'll help you with any technical questions you might have about building your personal website, blog, or participating on the IndieWeb. If possible, we'll pair you up with a buddy who can help you out with the technical and design side of web development.

Bring:
1. Your laptop (+ charger)
2. Ideas for new features/designs you want to add to your website (or just a list of enhancements you want to make)
3. If you're new to programming, come with questions so we can find you answers!

As usual, we will end the meetup with a writing prompt and a focused writing session. Register to confirm your attendance at https://blr.indiewebclub.org.

#bengaluru #selfhosting #WebDev

I habe a Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB RAM, 32 bit Raspberrypi OS) which runs some services (PiHole,homeassistant,....) 24/7.
I want to add immich to view photos via app and browser and use the face recognition & search feature . However, the device crashes regularly during the nightly task execution after midnight when it runs out of RAM.
Does anyone have an idea how to keep using this device (not going to buy a new one....) to solve this issue ?
#selfhosting #selfhosted #raspberrypi #immich #homelab #unplugtrump #unplugbigtech

Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future.

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux.

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-bezos-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-bezos-envisions-that-youll-give-up-your-pc-for-an-ai-cloud-version

If you're wondering how the @cloudron helpdesk is... it's just wonderful.
James from Cloudron.io spent several hours to correctly migrate a Dolibarr I had on another hosting service.
Cloudron is a really great tools with a great service.
https://www.cloudron.io/
#selfhosting

@ben
I'm currently using Geo Activity Playground to store and analyze my workout data. (Mostly #cycling). I host it on my #homelab

https://martin-ueding.github.io/geo-activity-playground/

#selfhosting

On Sunday I finished painting the our new mechanical room, which means I can finally finish up all the wiring - both electrical and networking. There are over 20 power outlets, and just about as many CAT6 ports in this one small room. I have a second patch panel on the way so I can get the rack tidied up too.

#building #networking #electrical #selfhosting #server

@perjakobsen Welcome!

If you are looking for something in particular to replace the "BigTech" services, this site has a good list: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternatives-to

@european_alternatives

Also, we mostly use #selfhosting services in our house, which requires more work, but means I have learnt loads :)

Best wishes!