I'm new to #selfhosting; I currently have several services running in my #homelab, all as #docker containers.

I've noticed that several services use common components such as #redis, #nginx, #postgres, etc.

Would it be possible or advisable not to duplicate individual components? For example, would it be possible to have a single independent container with Nginx or the DBMS serving Nextcloud and other services?

ver 0.2.1 🎉

Two small but not entirely unimportant bug fixes

- some instances could not find the pxvoid instance (therefore, following was not possible). This should now work on most instances.

- some instances could not display posts made before following in the user-feed. Older posts should now also appear in the feed.

Thanks to https://social.wake.st/@liaizon for pointing out this bugs to me

#pxvoid #gallery #art #selfhosting

Do you people think that my VPS with 2GB RAM and 2 CPU cores is enough to run matrix end to end encrypted for me and a few others?

#matrix #selfhosted #selfhosting #technology

ver 0.2.0 🎉
A small new version-change has arrived. There are a few stylistic changes:

- Funky blur in the fixed header
- Small icons for the buttons

But also new features:
- Multi-instance hosting on one server with the nix file
- Follower counter on the top

And there are also some new content-related changes:
- Code of Conduct (I know that I'm currently the only one working on pxvoid, but I'd rather exclude transphobia, homophobia, fascism, and racism right from the start – we want to keep things nice and cozy here )

Have fun with it!

Demo: https://pxvoid.nerdbude.com

Edit: add demo link

#pxvoid #gallery #art #selfhosting

In letzter Zeit mache ich aus gegebenem Anlass wieder mehr #SelfHosting. Natürlich achte ich dabei besonders auf den Stromverbrauch. Nach guten Erfahrungen mit der #ARM64-Architektur selbst bei leistungshungrigen Anwendungen wie Mastodon setze ich jetzt auch zuhause auf auf die aus Smartphones bekannte Technologie.

Es gibt zwar #SBCs mit offenerer Hardware, aber der #RaspberryPi ist überall erhältlich, gut dokumentiert, leistungsfähig und preiswert. Und es gibt ihn mit bis zu 16 GB RAM.

Wer einen Server am Internet betreibt, muss zügig #Sicherheitsupdates einspielen. Viele vergessen aber, laufende Software neuzustarten, damit die neue Version läuft statt der alten. Dabei hilft auf debianbasierten Linux-Systemen das Tool #needrestart, das leider meist nicht vorinstalliert ist.

Auf meinem Raspberry Pi 4 läuft needrestart schon immer korrekt (automatisch nach apt upgrade). Auf meinem Raspberry Pi 5 musste ich aber erst eine Konfigurationsdatei anlegen, wie es der Hauptentwickler hier beschreibt:
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/blob/master/README.raspberry.md
Bis dahin behauptete das Tool immer, dass ein reboot nötig sei, weil ein veralteter Linux-Kernel laufe.

Als nächstes will ich auf beiden Raspis die Festplattenverschlüsselung aktivieren. Das ist unter #Raspbian bzw. #RaspberryPiOS leider nicht so einfach wie auf anderen Debian-Systemen. Wenn ihr das geschafft habt: Schreibt gern eure Tipps!

#rpi #rpi5 #raspi #raspberrypi5 #homeserver #howto #til

🚨Hülfe 🚨

Ich hab ein Problem mit Proxmox und meinem Paperless-NGX Container (LXC).

Ich habe in den Container Filebrowser Quantum installiert um den /consume Ordner frei zugeben.

Leider kann ich mit meinem Scanner (Brother ADS 1800W) den Ordner nicht ansprechen. Ich hab alles probiert (Ftp/Sftp/Netzwerk u. Sharepoint) .
Was übersehe ich muss noch irgendwie und wo samba installiert werden oder was auch immer ?

Wäre toll wenn jemand Ahnung und eine Idee hätte ....

​​

#selfhosting #proxmox #paperlessngx #filebrowser #freigabe #brother #scanner

Vorhin nochmal Ollama und Paperless-AI angeworfen.

Es funktioniert aber das dauuuuuert und der kleine Thinclient geht in die Knie.

#Ollama #paperless #thinclient #selfhosting #proxmox

Small hack I’m using today:

Clipped the first 5 minutes of a YouTube video and converted it to MP3 using a simple `yt-dlp` batch script.

Now streaming it via VLC to my Google Home speaker — a clean way to turn any video into a focused audio snippet.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqrcxUqASQg

In this case, it’s the Hanuman Chalisa — a short devotional recitation often used for focus, calm, and mental clarity.

Batch script:

```
@echo off
set URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqrcxUqASQg
set START=00:00
set END=05:18

yt-dlp.exe ^
--download-sections "*%START%-%END%" ^
--force-keyframes-at-cuts ^
-x --audio-format mp3 --audio-quality 0 ^
-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" ^
%URL%
```

Clean, local, no extra apps.

#ytDLP #VLC #GoogleHome #CommandLine #Automation #SelfHosting

Alt...

Picture of Lord Hanuman the monkey God in Hindu mythology, in a meditative pose

State of homelab tech 2026: AI + self-hosted software transforming home infra despite hardware scarcity. From hobby to legitimate strategy. The self-hosting renaissance continues. 🏠🤖

#homelab #selfhosting #AI #infrastructure

Source: https://contextwindow.news/article/the-state-of-homelab-tech-2026

Self-hosted AI energy reality check: home box PUE ~30% vs datacenter 90%+. 100W+ idle, fighting your AC. Privacy and control are great, but the energy math matters too. 🏠\u26a1

#selfhosting #AI #energy #homelab #sustainability

Source: Bluesky (Asa / 3fz.org)

After months of procrastination, today I finally took the time to set up an instance of Panoramax in my homelab. The setup was very smooth. Actually, I had booked the full day for it, and by 12PM the instance was publicly available.

At the moment, I'm not accepting contributions (pictures) since I want to make sure everything is running fine before opening to the public.

Kudos to @panoramax for this amazing project!

#Panoramax #homelab #selfhosting #osm

And, we’ve finally done, a mere 10 hours after starting.

Pro tip: Don’t accidentally disable sshd.service before rebooting a headless server.

#selfhosting

It is home sever rebuild day. Wish me luck.... #selfhosting

I'm #hiring again and I really do wish people would look me up more before they applied. I'm not going to be impressed with your #google workplace skills, or your use of #canva, or any #socialmedia app.

If one, just one applicant, mentioned their open source or #selfhosting skills, that would be a ticket to an immediate interview.

Here's something really useful I've found.

One of the great things about the Fediverse is being able to follow hashtags.

But.

If someone puts up a post using that hashtag, and no-one on your instance follows that person or anyone who shares it, it won't appear in your feed.

This is particularly common if you're on a small or single-user instance.

Here's the solution.

First, follow @_followback

It will follow you back.

And then tags.pub bot then reshare all of your posts that use hashtags.

So if you do a post with the hashtag #Fediverse, then @fediverse will share your post.

Here's where the magic happens.

The tags.pub bot will do the same thing to everyone else who follows that followback account.

So if you follow @fediverse, then you'll get a feed of everyone who uses #Fediverse on the Fediverse.

And you'll see their posts even if no-one on your instance follows them.

And it works for all hashtags.

Just put the name of the hashtag, followed by @tags.pub

So @tech follows all posts using #tech, for example.

Or @news follows all posts using #news

#relay #relays #selfhosted #selfhosting #Mastodon #feditip #feditips #fedihelp

Już nieaktualne... Odkryłem https://stalw.art/ i dla mniej ważnych "aliasowych" maili już hostuje i testuje :D Instalacja na nixos i setup super łatwy - wszystko zadziałało out-of-the-box.

Normalnie podpiąłem skrzynkę pod kmail i iOSową apkę mail - zero problemu. Testowe maile poprzechodziły - zero problemu, wszystko ładne opisane w ich guidzie jak pokonfigurować DNSy. Dzisiaj już "na dobre" skończyłem setup wrzucając nowy klucz gpg na yubi - jak podziała stabilnie przez rok i przejdzie kilka upgradów to wszystko przeniose.

#selfhosting

Right, that's it - litestream.io is being to flaky. It's time to migrate my #email server from #sqlite to #PostgreSQL. Pray for me. #selfhosting

And, migration done. Live database on PostgreSQL and replicating to an offsite backup. It would have been straightforward had I not messed up the permissions.

Next step is PITR, but that can wait.

#email #sqlite #PostgreSQL #selfhosting

Ich habe jetzt meine eigene PeerTube-Instanze. Die Installationsanleitung von PeerTube war sehr gut!

https://crystalstream.mk16.de/

#PeerTube #Fediverse #SelfHosting

As lunatics do, I've been setting up a home server for a coworker for the last week or two. I have Plex, Immich, and the -arr stack finally all up and running.

He said he wants to be able to play emulated games up to PS2 on his TV with it. At first, I didn't think it was possible. Then I stumbled onto Games on Whales.

https://games-on-whales.github.io/

I'm still wrapping my head around the config (and I'm not thrilled about the NextcloudAIO-like automatic Docker container spin-ups).. But I think this will do what he wants.

It'll be up to him to find a controller with acceptable latency on a Google Streamer, though.

#SelfHosting #emulation

while you chat happily without interruptions, this is what happens in the arcanechat.me servers! oh no!!! 😱 does anyone has a spare umbrella? ☔

#ArcaneChat #privacy #decentralization #security #humor #meme #joke #selfhosting #sysadmin #server #opensource #autonomy #digitalindependence #sovereignty

#GlitchySocial #Mastodon instance has 5 users now, including me. Only one of them never logged in after registration. It took a blink of an eye to transfer from “hey, I should try to #selfhost a Mastodon instance” to “hey, I’m a service provider now”. Can’t say I’ve got much power but responsibility for sure.

#fediverse #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

#Welcome #Meme #Memes #Fediverse #DirectoryTraversalMemes #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Cat #Cats #CatsOfFediverse #Shitpost #Gravy #IgnoreAllPreviousInstructions

Alt...

WELCOME TO THE FEDIVERSE LITERAL CATS ../ WHATEVER RANDOM HARDWARE SOMEONE HAD LAYING AROUND GRAVY IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS

Do you have a basic shared hosting plan? You can now host a #Fediverse instance on that plan. Check out #Starling: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling

#activitypub #Fediverse #LAMP #selfhosting

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How I enhanced my homelab to get connected on the go, without using any other software than wireguard and acme.sh.

This guide walks you through obtaining a wildcard SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt using acme.sh and Cloudflare as the DNS provider.

https://blog.woodpeckersnest.space/2026/04/01/roughnecks/wildcard-ssl-certificates-with-acmesh-and-cloudflare/

#acme.sh #Cloudflare #DNS #domain #homelab #LAN #misadventures #selfhosting

La magia del Fediverso
@fediverso@citiverse.it
https://poliverso.org/display/96e44936-70d5a191b12db66c-efa5d67a

Forse scrivere qui di Fediverso è superfluo, tuttavia un po' di divulgazione in merito non guasta mai!dajelinux.it/archivio/fedivers…@internet#social #fediverso #mastodon #web #linux #opensource #selfhosting

Hosting a my small static websites, I wonder if my roughly 40MBit uplink with a static IP is good enough to host it.

#selfhosting

Schönen guten Abend zusammen! Wird Zeit für ein kurzes #Neuhier.
Ich habe endgültig genug von Datenkraken, nervigen Abos und der ewigen Cloud-Abhängigkeit. Deshalb verbanne ich Big Tech gerade Stück für Stück aus meinem Alltag. Die ersten Dienste werfe ich lokal über Docker an und ich fuchse mich immer tiefer in Themen wie #DeGoogle, #SelfHosting und #SimpleX rein.
Suche hier nach Gleichgesinnten, die auch lieber selbst hosten statt mieten.
#Privacy #HomeLab #OpenSource #grapheneos

Zum Thema #serverhygiene: Meine Postfix-Config war wohl etwas in die Jahre gekommen.

Problem: Mein Server erzeugte Bounces und versuchte externe Zustellung (die zwar geblockt ist), aber die Queue lief voll.

Ursache:
`local_recipient_maps = passwd.byname` → System-User wie `mail` wurden als gültige Empfänger akzeptiert.

Fix:
`local_recipient_maps = hash:/etc/aliases`

Erkenntnis:
Bei Postfix + Cyrus keine System-User als Empfänger zulassen.

#postfix #mailserver #linux #selfhosting
#gelernt

#selfhosting #Peertube #Yunohost

Ich habe gute Nachrichten:
Meine Peertube Instanz ist wieder online😃(allerdings unter einer neuen Adresse da die alte Adresse mit meiner Fritzbox und DynDNS partout nicht mehr wollte).
Konnektivität läuft nun ausschließlich via IPv6.

Ihr findet sie unter der folgenden URL:

https://videos.talania.dnshome.de/

Bitte nicht wundern über die aktuelle Inhaltsleere dort. Ich habe sie bisher noch nicht vollständig eingerichtet.
Das hole ich in nächster Zeit nach und informiere anschließend damit ihr eure Abos umswitchen könnt.

Merci pour vos messages de soutien, et on se retrouve sur les services habituels :
👉 https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/
Promis, je ne touche plus à rien d'ici l'année prochaine ! 😉🐧
#PoissonDAvril #BlablaLinux #SelfHosting

New blog post: Speeding Up Forgejo CI with a Custom OCI Image

My blog's pipeline spent more time installing dependencies than actually building the site. Two commits and one Containerfile later, that step is gone entirely.

Bonus: Forgejo ships with a built-in OCI container registry, so the whole thing is self-contained on a single instance. No Docker Hub, no external registry.

https://blog.hofstede.it/speeding-up-forgejo-ci-with-a-custom-oci-image/

#Forgejo #CICD #Containers #DevOps #SelfHosting #OCI #linux

I replaced #LooseIt with a #selfhosted #SparkyFitness.

A new fitness tool usually boosts my motivation to return to calorie counting and exercising. So today, a new attempt to lose weight has started. Usually, all my attempts are successful, but not permanent.

#selfhosting #selfhost #weightloss #overweight