"Syncthing is an open source tool that synchronises files continuously across multiple devices. It transfers data between two or more of your computers, without uploading any information to the cloud."

Give Syncthing a try!

https://edafe.de/2026/02/install-syncthing-2-x-for-continuous-file-synchronisation-on-debian-or-ubuntu-or-raspberry-pi-os/

#android #bigtech #cloud #debian #did #diday #digitalindependenceday #digitalsovereignty #howto #ios #iphone #linux #linuxmint #macos #obsidianmd #opensource #privacy #raspberrypi #raspi #rpi #selfhosting #syncthing #ubuntu #unplugbigtech #windows

MVP (most valuable program) this week:

rsync

#selfhosting #openbsd #unix #linux

Another quick bit of work... I seem to be gravitating to TV shows I watched as a kid.

Shaggy is a pervert imo.

https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/xh3TuQrddDDbBtRmNfUqoU

#Music #IndependentMusic #HomeVideo #SelfHosting #Zoinks #Pervert

Ich habe jetzt ein kleines Skript im Einsatz, das jede Minute die IP-Adresse prüft und die Verbindung automatisch repariert 👍

#NixOS #WireGuard #Homelab #SelfHosting #Linux

https://burningboard.net/@tux/116110940390482418

toot.io relay service boosted

bbₜᵤₓᵢ » 🌐 2026-02-21
@tux@burningboard.net

Ahh, Anfängerfehler! 🤦‍♂️ Habe vorhin meine FritzBox neu gestartet und mich gewundert, warum das VPN tot ist. Der Grund: WireGuard löst die dynamische MyFritz-IP natürlich nur einmal beim Starten auf und funkt danach fröhlich ins Leere. 🙄

#wireguard

for #selfhosting, it will be enough,i'm confident that my service can endure a powercut, so snapshot will be fine.

i haven't figured out how i will manage off-site backup, maybe export a tar from borg ? or rsync the repo even if it's not advised.

Also writing a new blog post and I just had to...

#SelfHosting #SelfHosted

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A screenshot of some text saying: "Okay self-hosting crowd, I know you won't be happy _(but then again, when are you ever happy?)_ but hear me out..."

Mes services publics auto-hébergés font peau neuve ! 🚀 🐧

Besoin d'outils libres, sécurisés et sans pub ? C’est par ici :
🔗 https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

#SelfHosting #Libre #BlablaLinux

@onepict my #RSS feed is here:
https://owleyes.blue/index.xml

I'm #Canadian , an advocate of #OpenSource , #SelfHosting and #DigitalSovereignty

Question for the #selfhosting hivemind -- I would really like to manage DHCP on my home network (for netbooting, controlling DNS etc) but unlike with previous ISPs I've had this is NOT POSSIBLE via the modem/router I have from Virgin (UK); the settings are very limited. The only option seems to be changing the router to operate in "modem" mode and then essentially handling firewall / routing / DHCP etc externally. I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this given some constraints. 1/?

Please - if you share a open pastebin service like HasteBin etc.

You really should read this:

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/214662/be-careful-when-self-hosting-public-privatebin-on-inexpensive-lifetime-shared-hosting-its-risky/p1

#securityawareness #selfhosting #takedown #pastebin #hastebin

Still on my SOMEDAY list is ‘Learn how to self-host’.

I think the original idea was to keep my data self-hosted, so I wasn’t relying on others, especially Big Tech, but I never got round to it.

I read a few articles and a handful of videos, which put me off the process. I’m not interested in self-hosting email.

#selfhosting #applereminders

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@CodeMacLife I self host everything, and have done email since 1999. You are going in exactly the right order. Storage is definitely the easiest thing to get started with. Email is dead last in the list of things to self host. if you ever get to it at all. Try doing some storage and see how it goes. See if you enjoy it.

Things to look into: Nextcloud, truenas, or even just buying a synology device.

You don’t have to build the device from parts and install the OS yourself. If the data is under your roof and you’re running the equipment yourself, you’re #selfhosting.

My #StarterPack for #Linux #SelfHosting
1) Heimdall start page for your LAN
2) Shiori bookmarks
3) Copyparty for filesharing through web or FTP
4) Kanboard Kanban board
5) Kiwix for offline website content
6) calibre-web for ebooks
7) Hyper8 for self-hosted video content, like a poor man's #Youtube.
8) mkdocs for a markdown-based wiki

I self-host all of these, using #nginx as the web server in all cases. These all consume very little RAM and CPU, and would run very performantly on a Raspberry Pi 5 2GB, with a decent SSD. No #docker needed for any of them.
#OpenSource #DataSovereignty

I just realized that every vibe-coded app UI looks the same.

#SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost #vibecoding

Minulla on kotipalvelimella pyörinyt vielä pari palvelua, jotka olisin muuten siirtänyt virtuaalikoneelle, mutta niistä puuttuu autentikointi.

Virittelin äsken virtuaalipannulle Authelian niin nyt on nyt sai nekin kikkareet sinne ☺️

Kyse on siis tästä avoimen lähdekoodin palvelusta: https://www.authelia.com/

#SelfHosting #authelia

Hello Mastodon 👋

I'm rogi.
I have a 2014 ThinkPad. I run a blog with €5/month. Zero cloud.

I read privacy policies so you don't have to.

Last month: an AI had a 24KB psychological profile built from my conversations. Last week: my passport went through 17 US companies just to get a LinkedIn badge. Nobody mentioned that.

That's what I write about. Not paranoia, just what's actually in the documents.

https://thelocalstack.eu

#introduction #privacy #selfhosting #GDPR #FOSS

What are your current uptimes for your homelab? Here are a couple of mine!

#homelab #selfhosting #proxmox

#SelfHosting - i love reading how much uptime you have. But sorry, I am on the other side of the rainbow. My uptime maxes out at 23:59:59... because i force reboots daily.

And Now I am wondering if maybe i should shutdown my server for 8h sleep time and just serve static "Sorry, server is sleeping now" from some dummy host.

Yes - sometimes my genius is obvious.

Dusted off some old LaCrosse temperature sensors and got them talking to Home Assistant via a JeeLink stick on FreeBSD.

Turns out the same jail + MQTT trick that works for Zigbee dongles works here too. Just a few lines of devfs rules and a small Python script.

Wrote it up: https://blog.hofstede.it/integrating-lacrosse-sensors-into-home-assistant-via-jeelink-on-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #HomeAssistant #MQTT #IoT #SelfHosting

Document your entire home lab with RackPeek - hardware, systems, services, all in one place. New video out now!
https://youtu.be/RJtMO8kIsqU
#selfhosting #homelab #documentation

PixelUnion selected Zoho as their email provider.

Zoho is based in India.

PixelUnion promotes using European services at https://pixelunion.eu/blog/eu-alternatives

Consider self-hosting if you are concerned about the hypocrisy of PixelUnion.

PixelUnion is based on Immich.

YunoHost supports self-hosting Immich.

Website: https://yunohost.org
Mastodon: @yunohost

#PixelUnion #Immich #Photos #YunoHost #SelfHost #SelfHosting #Europe #EU #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #Photo #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

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PixelUnion logo.

#selfhosting #NAS #diy

does anyone know a website that has a good filter for searching PC/NAS cases?

the filter params should allow filtering for harddrive sizes and also understand combining them.
example: sometimes there is enough space for, lets say, 2x 2.5 and 2x 3.5 but when combining them the 3.5 would take space of one of the 2.5 😅 I need 2x 2.5 and min 2x 3.5

At the same time I want the physical size of the case not to exceed 230mm 🤓

I’ve been running GrapheneOS since February 3rd. After the initial setup, the first thing I noticed was a strange sense of "emptiness" — not because something was missing, but because the digital noise was gone.

Key Technical Takeaways:

- Hardware: Running this on a Pixel 10. The synergy between the hardware and a de-bloated OS is impressive.
- Compatibility: I opted for Sandboxed Google Play services. Everything works perfectly: banking apps are stable, and NFC payments function without a hitch.
- Performance: Noticeably better battery life and snappier UI response compared to stock.

The "Freedom" Factor
For me, GrapheneOS isn't just for the "anonymous" crowd; it's for enthusiasts who value agency. It’s about owning your device rather than the device owning you. Under the hood, you’re free from the hidden trackers that treat your behavior as a commodity.

Still testing, but so far, the sense of control is worth the switch.

#GrapheneOS #Pixel10 #Privacy #DeGoogle #OpenSource #SelfHosting

email is lame now. Escaping google is a giant pain in the ass. #selfhosting

Fellow homelabbers, if i want to selfhost a Matrix Homeserver for max. 10 people (mainly family) what homeserver software should i use? The software should run on a small VPS with 2GB Ram and 60GB Storage. Working Voice Chat is essential for the kids while gaming.

Would you go with a full blown Synapse install or would you go with something like Continuwuity, Tuwunel or something completely different?

@homelab @homelab_de #matrix #synapse #tuwunel #continuwuity #selfhosting #homelab

I am immensely grateful to the Fediverse for all the encouragement I got here to embark on a #selfhosting journey.

#YunoHost has empowered my digital life in immeasurable ways.

My way of giving back - and fighting the broligarchs of Big Tech - is to create a guide that demystifies the process. I have compiled all my posts so far in a single page:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

If you're curious about self-hosting but you haven't taken the leap yet, I hope my articles will be helpful to you ❤️

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

1. Learn more about system administration
2. Get their hands dirty while doing so
3. Maintain our own shared server
4. Host their own things (be them websites, projects, or services) together with comrades instead of individual infrastructure.

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

1. Find a name for this group/server/mission
2. Plan a series of (free, open) intro lessons with guests
3. Start hosting some things
4. Migrate things I am already hosting with YunoHost in our community server
5. Migrate to a physical device in a home of ours?

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@peaklabs_dev/116085622327344042

Glad I migrated to selfhosted Garage

#minio #garage #s3 #selfhosting

Does anyone deploy #podman #quadlet with #ansible #playbook ?

#selfhost #selfhosting #homelab @homelab@fedigroups.social #sysadmin #devops @homelab@lemmy.world @homelab@selfhosted.forum

Looks like #synapse is moving #minio way. All that mess with the server components, versions, and lack of documentation on all of that forces me to look into an alternative. Well, they are writing docs right now, but mostly for enterprise.

I found the #tuwunel documentation very friendly. Thinking about migration.
#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #matrix

@nm upcoming vegan Matrix homeserver??????? 👀👀👀👀😲❤️❤️❤️ #Vegan #Matrix #Hype #Veganism #Server #Host #Hosting #SelfHosting #Self_hosting #Homeserver

What do have on your list of things to take care of in your homelab this week?

#homelab #selfhosting

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/

Or: this is how newbies do it.

Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.

#blog #sysadmin #selfhosting

Mein #nobigtech journey ist irgendwie vorübergehend zum Stillstand gekommen. Alle bigtech-socialmedia-Accounts sind gelöscht, meine Daten aus Onedrive auf ne #nextcloud umgezogen, mein Freundeskreis auf #signal Mein neuer #linux PC macht mich immer noch glücklich. Und nu? Warten, bis der #raspberrypi geliefert wird und ich mit #selfhosting und #pihole experimentieren kann.. Gilt das jetzt schon als "Onni hat übrigens Ahnung von Technik"?

Und hier eine weitere Frage: Wenn es um ein selfhosted NAS geht, dann ist meiner Meinung nach #TrueNAS oder #Openmediavault die erste Wahl.

Welches der beiden Systeme nutzt ihr und wieso?
Gibt es vielleicht doch Alternativen, die besser sind?

Gerne kann auch diese Frage geteilt werden. 🙃

#followerpower #fragdasfediverse #askfedi #Selfhosting #NAS #Linux

Mein Umzug: Von anonsys.net zu friendica.tomforge.de

Hallo zusammen!

Ich verlasse anonsys.net und schlage mein Lager auf meiner eigenen Ein-Nutzer-Instanz auf. Ab sofort findet ihr mich dauerhaft hier:

📌 @thomas
friendica.tomforge.de/profile/…

Das Ganze läuft als Docker-Setup. Während die Föderation sich gerade erst so richtig einspielt, hoffe ich, dass die Kiste stabil bleibt und ich dort langfristig mein digitales Zuhause finde.

An die Admin-Community:
Da ich gerade noch mit dem Self-Hosting experimentiere: Habt ihr Tipps zur Wartung oder Performance-Optimierung von Friendica unter Docker? Wie regelt ihr eure Backups am effizientesten?

Ich freue mich über jeden, der mir an die neue Adresse folgt und vielleicht den einen oder anderen Admin-Kniff parat hat.

Man sieht sich drüben! 👋

#Friendica #Fediverse #Selfhosting #Docker #Netcup

Thinking about moving my instance to docker. In your experience, are there any downsides besides the migration itself?

#mastodon #mastoadmin #docker #selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab

I think the next part of my project HAS to be email. I want to start using the new identiy I am building through my domain. Does anyone know a good server to test against? #homelab #selfhosting #email

What do people use as #smtp for #email notifications for things like #trueNAS? I’d rather not self-host email specifically. Must be hosted in #Europe.

#selfhosting

I don’t think I can set this up with @Tutanota

What new self-hosted apps have you found recently that you're really happy with?

#homelab #selfhosting #docker

Immich got really good just in the last little while. Some random geek notes/thoughts, after several hours tinkering (non-geeks, stop reading here):

As to sizing: a Pi 5 with 4GB (better yet, 8 to be safe) of RAM - and the docker container gets its own fast SSD, for storage - could do it. Forget using a Pi 4. Great for sharing albums to family and friends privately; they're password protected.

The Good News:

- I'm playing with Immich on a Raspberry Pi 5 in docker, really liking it. It took a long time to import my photos - several hours to do 10,000 photos.

- It's very nice to access from Android or iPadOS, as there are Immach apps for both.

- It does a local AI facial recognition. I'm giving names to the faces - what a trip down memory lane! That's a rather astounding feature for such an open source app: it's awesome to see pictures which involved certain individuals, all grouped. There's been a lot of controversy around facial scanning by apps lately (the data being silently sent back to the "mothership"). With Immich, the data stays local - doesn't go back to any mothership. No geek contests or says otherwise (and I would hear about it).

- The Rasberry Pi 5 on the backend can keep up nicely - to me being the one user pretty much. Its little fan whirs away, while I do the editing, etc in the app, silently in the other room on the iPad.

- I can publish web-accessible Albums online easily.

- I set up a reverse proxy on a VPS for remote access.

The Bad news:

- I had to strip out the videos, before an import. The videos just brutally crushed that Pi to the floor.

- I just tried uploading all ~300 recent photos from my iPad to Immich. About 100 failed. Many are Jpgs, should have no problem. It does have a protection against duplicates - calculates hashes. Some uploads certainly failed (from the Immich #iPadOS app), which shouldn't have! Just saying: copyparty uploads with ~100% wire speed and *does not fail*. But it doesn't have the photo management goodness which Immich has. Copyparty will do a basic slideshow of a folder of photos. Although it annoys me to say this, I think I'll have to use Copyparty to exfil the photos out of the #iPad's (walled-garden) "Photo Library", then as a second, regrettable hop, use immich-cli (the go-based docker container) to do an import to Immich. I just did a test, comparing copyparty's "up2k" uploader (just used from a web browser like Safari of Firefox), and the Immich app in iPad OS, and there's no comparison. Copyparty absolutely rips Immich away, totally destroying it for bulk upload. I just uploaded over wifi at a steady, sustained 80MB/sec with Copyparty.

#Immich #Copyparty #OpenSource #SelfHosting

Is anyone self-hosting Loops? Are there any Loops servers that are popular outside of loops[dot]video? Every time I see someone link to a Loops account, it's on loops[dot]video. I actually think Loops is a really cool idea; that's why I would really hate to see a monopoly.

#AskFedi #Fediverse #Loops #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

Happy Sunday! What projects did you manage to take care of in your homelab this week?

#homelab #selfhosting

Durch einen Troet von @diekehrseite, wo eine App gesucht wurde die Beiträge planen kann, bin ich auf #fediplan gestoßen. Die Planung läuft plattformunabhängig im Browser. Den Dienst kann man auch selber hosten, was für mich wieder interessant war.

Nun habe ich das Ganze mal eingerichtet und teste mal ein wenig ob es funktioniert. Dies ist also der erste geplante Beitrag von mir über fediplan, welches nun auf meinem Server läuft.

#selfhosting #planen #scheduler #mastodon #fediverse

I spun up Seafile last night to replace my bloated Nextcloud setup (which I hadn't really used beyond WebDAV for Obsidian notes & Floccus bookmark syncing).

Documentation was definitely lacking. It didn't help that Google took me to their obsolete v11 instructions instead of the current v13, and I dumped an hour or two into fighting the jank around that.

Seafile seems much less bloated.

Though I wonder if I should worry that it's developed in China?

#Seafile #Nextcloud #SelfHosting #Obsidian #Floccus

Dear EU server admins: If you at all consider a shutdown of your server, you *must* notify your users in advance.

NOT doing so actually is a breach of GDPR, as a "Personal Data Breach" includes "unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorized disclosure of personal data". https://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/

I wholy support everyone wanting to selfhost, but *before* you make a *public* instance, you absolutely need to consider these type of laws and how you're going to handle them.

#selfhosting

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blue_lander/116073437181125303

"It has been a bumpy ride but at least we own the car" is probably the best way to describe why #selfhosting is so important.

Time for an #introduction
My name is Forest and I’m an #SysAdmin in an international company by day and a #gamer by night.
I have lots of hobbies like #retrogaming , #retrocomputing , #gameing and #photography
I really enjoy listening to hard #rock or #metal
My style is #gothic
I will post about everything of the above
And of course I’m #selfhosting an instant of Mastadon and matrix (I’m thinking about expanding to peertube but I have to solve my storage problem first)
Thanks for reading!