🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 165 (VFX edition) 🎞️​

Good morning Fedi friends!

I've been quiet on here (it's a temporary pause, I promise) as I have been spending every second of free time - that doesn't include childcare - editing the fediverse promo video.

The video will premiere next week at a really exciting event, right after a presentation by an absolute legend. I'm experiencing low key anxiety / palpitations, rushing to get the film ready for that.

On the to do list: sound mix, fixing some VFX animations, adding a couple of slides to the end credits, color grading, doing subtitles, exporting the video and uploading it to my PeerTube. Gaaaaah!

On the self-hosting side, I have to admit it's incredibly empowering to know I can put it on my PeerTube. Super grateful to #YunoHost for that.

If you're curious, I've published some updates re: what I've been up to this month... including a video replay of my presentation for YunoHost at #JDLL: https://news.elenarossini.com/what-im-up-to-may-2025-edition/

As a geeky side note, I had to edit a link in the article... and it would not update on my site. Awww the wonders of #Varnish cache. It's really THAT powerful. So even though I don't have time to do proper self-hosting tasks these days, I still went into my VPS and used command lines to clear Varnish cache. It counts for something, right?

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

We’ve just launched our first ever service tailored to single user instances and using #GoToSocial

#hosting #SelfHosting

https://fedihost.co/hosting/gotosocial

I just published my first ever #peertube video! Thanks to the lovely people at @tilvids

If anyone was thinking of getting a #ugreen #nas for #selfhosting here are my thoughts on my experience so far: https://tilvids.com/w/kKvEbidAQ4nYwisq2ziWVJ

We prepare the first candidate version of 7.4.2. Main highlight is the new responsive Administration design. Many thanks to @onesystems for contributing.

#mailserver #b1gMail #mail #goeuropean #opensource #foss #selfhosted #buyfromeu #email #SelfHosting

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Administration Page

Power consumption and performance notes of a modified #fanless Fujitsu FUTRO S930 using #Debian, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #OmniOS in the context of a #HomeLab.

Enjoy! #SelfHost #SelfHosting #RunBSD

https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/tinkering-with-fujitsu-futro-s930/

Yesterday I spent the afternoon installing and configuring #mailman3
Can I say it's a huge mess and lacks proper documentation? Yeas, I can.
Also, check this graph out.. Red is showing the host after software install - I mean, there is no #mailinglist yet, it's just "idle".

#selfhosting

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CPU stats in a graph. You can see the difference in CPU usage before and after installing mailman.

Might be a shot in the dark, but is there anyone out there self-hosting Navidrome on a Raspberry Pi (or other device), and powering it using solar power?

#navidrome #raspberrypi #solarpower #solarbattery #selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #solarenergy #solarpunk

I'd like to hear your thoughts on a planned #homeserver upgrade. Current set up is a Dual Xeon E5-2470 v2, running a NAS and multiple VMs under #NetBSD 10.

A 2U rackmount case is available.

Two M.2 slots and ECC RAM are hard requirements, AMD is preferred.

My currently favoured options:
- Asrock Rack X570D4U + Ryzen 9 5950X
- Asrock Rack B650D4U + Ryzen 9 9950X or 9900X
- Asrock Rack B650D4U + EPYC 4564P or 4584PX

The 9950X and the 4564P seem to be almost identical performance-wise, so I'm not quite sure what the advantage of the EPYC is.

Cooling 170 W TDP (4564P and 9950X) in 2U may not be trivial. The 4584PX has more cache, but lower single-thread performance, and also lower TDP, but is slightly more expensive, though all are within my budget.

Single-core-Performance is nice for some of my applications, but multiple cores are useful for running up to 6 parallel VMs.

#homelab #selfhosting #unplugtrump #Ryzen #AMD #EPYC

Hello Fedi friends!

Today marks a really special occasion: I’ll be speaking at #JDLL in Lyon as part of the #YunoHost presentation… discussing how I use their amazing #selfhosting tools for #DigitalSovereignty.

It’s hard to believe I had only installed it 158 days ago (according to my Mastodon archive) https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113667636910565210

Thanks to @yunohost I have been able to self-host my own #GoToSocial #Pixelfed #Friendica & #PeerTube instances. I’m incredibly grateful to them ❤️

#MySoCalledSudoLife

I've been happy with Piwigo for many years but I don't want to end up stuck with a service that's throwing itself into the AI hole. Does anyone have recommendations for self-hosted photo sharing services that are similar to Piwigo? I want to be prepared to switch away from it if the need arises.

#AI #GenAI #AISlop #Piwigo #PhotoSharing #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

What kind of issues or concerns might I have if I shut down one kind of AP server software and then set up a different AP server on the domain previously occupied by the now decommissioned first AP server?

(I don’t think the soon-to-be-shutdown server has a self-destruct.)

#MastoAdmin #Fediverse #Admin #SelfHosting

I’ve once again started the process of installing and setting up Nextcloud on one of my servers. It occurs to me that my Nextcloud instances always die a slow death. Something about that piece of software, I think, sort of just falls apart over time. This time I’m attempting to future proof it a little bit more than the previous times, but honestly I fully expect it to go about the same as usual. Then again, historically I have installed all kinds of plugins (or apps) and was running it on fairly low powered hardware. Setting it up on some decently powerful hardware on this go around though. I’ll also try to be more conservative with the app installs as well.

I might actually set up two separate instances and federate them together. Perhaps if I maintain multiple servers they’ll survive a bit longer? Or I’ll just be creating twice the amount of tinkering and maintenance for myself.

#SelfHosting #Nextcloud #Admin