Doing more self-hosting. Finally killed the hosting account I've had since 2001 that managed my email and several domains. Losing it was like losing a limb of my body. #Selfhosting It took a bit to pull the trigger.

#GoToSocial instances are being updated to v0.21.3

Your instance might be unavailable for no longer than 10 minutes while the update is ongoing.

Thank you!

#hosting #selfHosting #getFederated #Canada

So I have a server of my own that I would like to put a blog on. Does anyone know of, or recommend, any free blogging software I can load onto my Apache server? Or where to start looking?

#Blogging #SelfHosting

Meanwhile, ~24 hours left until #GlitchySocial #Mastodon media storage migration from #Hetzner object storage to a #Selfhosted #Garage cluster. I'm starting to get nervous.

#homelab #Selfhosting #selfhost

My fellow #selfhosting enthusiast and #electricity specialist: I currently have two small server racks with a UPS each. Next year I probably get solar on my roof and get a battery: Would that make the UPSs unnecessary, or is there an advantage of having the UPS still in my setup? They are currently Line Interactive, and my hardware doesn't have a problem with this.

🔧 MCP retira 3 funciones del core en su próxima revisión (RC 2026-07-28, SEP-2577): Roots, Sampling y Logging.

Deprecadas, no eliminadas: siguen funcionando ≥12 meses (lifecycle SEP-2596).

Migración:
• Roots → params de tool / resource URIs
• Sampling → API del LLM directa o MRTR
• Logging → stderr / OpenTelemetry

Yo los tenía implementados en mis MCP… toca planificar.

¿Tú usabas alguno? 👇

#MCP #SelfHosting #HomeLab #LLM #OpenSource

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Infografía técnica sobre fondo oscuro, slide 1 de 2. Cabecera: Model Context Protocol, etiqueta «SEP-2577 · FINAL». Titular: «MCP retira 3 funciones del protocolo». Se listan las tres funciones deprecadas con sus métodos: Roots (roots/list y notifications/roots/list_changed), Sampling (sampling/createMessage) y Logging (logging/setLevel y notifications/message). Un aviso en verde indica «Deprecadas, no eliminadas: siguen plenamente funcionales durante al menos 12 meses, sin cambios a nivel de protocolo». Línea temporal de tres pasos: deprecada en la próxima revisión de la spec (RC 2026-07-28); soporte de al menos 12 meses en cada versión (SEP-2596); posible retirada no antes de mediados de 2027. Fuente: modelcontextprotocol.io/seps/2577.

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Infografía técnica sobre fondo oscuro, slide 2 de 2: cómo migrar. Titular: «Las alternativas fuera del protocolo». Tres bloques, uno por función deprecada. Roots (roots/list): por baja adopción y semántica vaga; migrar a parámetros de tool, resource URIs o configuración y variables de entorno. Sampling (sampling/createMessage): por ser compleja y la función más sensible en seguridad (prompt injection, exfiltración); migrar a llamar la API del LLM directamente desde el servidor, o usar Multi Round-Trip Requests (SEP-2322). Logging (logging/setLevel): porque ya existe infraestructura más madura; migrar a stderr en transportes stdio, u OpenTelemetry. Aviso final en azul: «Menos superficie de ataque: un core más mínimo y auditable, apoyado en estándares ya consolidados». Fuente: modelcontextprotocol.io/seps/2577.

Second incident with my OVH VPS in the Zürich local zone today.

The first incident was a network problem - https://dol.social/@dima/116781260837510263

This time their super resilient storage failed.

The first image is from the KVM console. It shows many I/O errors on the disk device sda1.
The EXT4 file system aborted the journal and remounted as read only.

The second image is from the OVH panel.
It says Remote storage Resilient is included (haha).

The third image is my monitoring graph.
It shows 4 hours of downtime on June 19 (due to the network issues).

The fourth image shows another downtime today. It lasted 2 hours.

Super resilient storage does not look very reliable right now.

Has anyone else seen problems with OVH storage or local zones? That's insane. 7h downtime per week.

#OVH #VPS #Outage #Storage #SelfHosting

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Terminal screenshot with Linux kernel logs. Multiple I/O error messages for device sda1. EXT4 file system shows journal errors. The system remounted the file system in read only mode.

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OVH VPS settings screenshot. Storage type is Remote storage Resilient. It is marked as included.

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Monitoring chart showing response time in milliseconds for June 2026. Several lines for different locations. Big red bars indicate downtime on June 19 with a 4 hour outage. A tooltip shows average response time of 857 ms and high values for some cities.

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Monitoring chart screenshot focused on June 23 2026. It shows a red downtime marker for 2 hours. A tooltip details the incident with average response time of 855 ms. Latencies listed for Miami 951 ms. Sydney 1.26 s. Helsinki 544 ms. Roubaix 581 ms. Frankfurt 823 ms. Los Angeles 980 ms.

How to Install #GitLab on #AlmaLinux #VPS Easily In this tutorial we are going to show you in detail how to install Gitlab on AlmaLinux VPS.
What is GitLab?
GitLab is open-source #software written in Ruby, Go and JavaScript operated by GitLab Inc. GitLab offers a wide range of features such as CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery) which makes the work of ...
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Neuer Artikel: Sunshine und Moonlight – Spiele vom PC auf den Fernseher streamen – https://rootwerkstatt.de/sunshine-moonlight/ #Selfhosting #Gaming #Streaming #Linux

@mysk don't believe for a second WhatsApp ever had E2EE at all.

• Same for Signal, Telegram, Threema, Matrix, etc…

If you can't

• self-host it's servers,reproduceably build servers & clients
  • dev. your own servers and clients w/ feature parity.
• as well as use it without self-doxxing aka. needing a Phone Number,

it's insecure!

Because Phone Numbers are intrinsically insecure, as they can always be linked to a device [Number->SIM->ICCID->IMEI) / client (SIP uses UDP = no Tor!) and thus trivially connected by circumstances to a person!

So go with PGP/MIME ( @delta & @thunderbird and/or XMPP+OMEMO ( @gajim and/or @monocles ) over @torproject!

• VPNs are snitches
  • If nachash wouldn't touch it, why should you?

#WhatsApp #E2EE #Signal #Threema #Telegram #Matrix #SelfHosting #ReproduceableBuilds #Server #Client #OpenSource #OpenStandards #SelfDoxxing #KYC #ID #PhoneNumber #SIM #IMEI #Privacy #UDP #Tor #OpSec #InfoSec #ComSec #ITsec #OMEMO #PGP

Do any #selfhosting folks know of a good solution for note taking that includes pen/drawing support?

I’m considering options to move away from Apple Notes, but pen support for drawing diagrams etc is essential for me. Apple Notes does this well with the iPad version, but I’d like to find something more cross platform.

#selfhosted #homelab #notes

Check_MK 2.5.0 is a nice update. Feels waaay more snappier and the "facelift" looks nice :)

#checkmk #mastoadmin #admin #selfhosting #foss #monitoring

I just sent my first mail from my new Yunohost VPS, and it did not get flagged as spam! :)

Now to try some apps.

#yunohost #selfhosting

doas vs sudo

#doas #sudo #bsd #freebsd #linux #admin #fediadmin #foss #sysadmin #selfhosting #devops #unix

Building a immich only box thinking of going debian and btrfs any other ideas or tips?

It's a 8th gen nuc

Tia

#selfhosting #immich #server #debian

I Miss Streaming #Music - https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/music/i-miss-streaming-music/ #selfhosting #spotify #musicdiscovery

I built my pool controller on #ESP32 so that I could control it with #homeassistant. Worked great. I was so proud. It had been the least reliable bit of #homeautomation in the house. (Because it was the bit that I had the majority role building 😜)

Then a combination power strike/UPS failure took out my #NAS running #TrueNAS. That NEVER happens. So instead of being super convenient, I spend my weekend trying to rebuild the NAS.

I lost one of the pair of NVMe boot drives and at least one of my SAS spinning rust drives is not working. “zpool import -F -n hope” runs for about 30 seconds and then I get a kernel panic and reboot. I am not a happy camper.

#selfhosting #selfhosted

New post: Monitoring our FreeBSD Mastodon instance.

burningboard.net runs as a stack of Bastille jails on FreeBSD, so I watch it from a separate box with Prometheus, Grafana and Loki. The interesting part is the FreeBSD-shaped gaps: no native ZFS metrics, nothing for the Mastodon API or our S3 media bucket. A small textfile collector fills all of it.

This is how I keep an eye on the very instance I'm writing this on:

https://blog.hofstede.it/monitoring-a-freebsd-mastodon-instance-with-prometheus-grafana-and-loki/

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #Prometheus #Grafana #SelfHosting

One of my (adult) sons is very technical. Chip off the old block. I'm troubleshooting a problem with my NAS, and he's helping. We identify one of the 2 boot NVME drives as a culprit. When it's in the system, it doesn't boot. Cool.

So he says:

"I'm going to mark this one with a sharpie until we're sure it's bad."

"Ok"

"Oh, this stupid sharpie doesn't work, I'm gonna go get one that works."

"Good. And throw the broken one out."

Son proceeds to throw the NVME drive in the trash.

I figured it out when I asked "hey, where's that NVME drive you marked with a sharpie?"

#selfhosting #selfhosted

What many people misunderstand about hosting your own content (like this social media instance) is thinking we somehow NEED a big audience or Big Tech involvement.

I'm perfectly fine if the world faded away and it was just the thousand of us here. It's like the early days of the web when we had small forums, nobody missed Reddit back then. Federation is a big plus, not a requirement.

It's the same with websites or IRC for me. I know people use Discord, but I still stick to IRC even if there are only about a hundred of us left. I know people use AI now and website visitors are dropping, but who cares? I still keep doing it for those who like to read.

I don't need the whole world involved for this to feel worthwhile. It's mine, I own it, and I host it for as long as I breathe. After that, it won't matter to me anymore, but I hope other admins keep things running the way I did.

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenWeb #SocialWeb

Velvet Ant's "Operation Highland" doesn't exploit a CVE for persistence, they replaced trusted binaries: trojanized pam_unix.so + backdoored ssh/sshd/scp that take a hardcoded password and log creds. No patch fixes a swapped binary; the defense is file integrity.
On Debian:
dpkg -V libpam-modules openssh-server openssh-client

No output = your auth stack matches the package DB.
Then confirm /etc/ld.so.preload is empty.

Installing debsums enhances the file integrity checking!!

Scripted it to check files they swap + flag any unowned .so in the PAM dir.

https://github.com/sternecker/midil/blob/main/auth-stack-check.sh

My personal GIT Repo is not public.. that is on my ToDo list.
#infosec #linux #selfhosting

its only been a month since i put my new home server together, and a disk is already failing

good thing i have zfs?

#selfhosting #homelab #zfs

Are you an #XMPP operator?
Or are you interested in running your own #XMPP server, but have questions and concerns?

There will be a full day XMPP OpMeet online meeting in autumn, where you are free to stay the whole day or jump in and out just for the sessions you are interested in.

Vote on which dates would work for you (vote open until 2026-06-20):
https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/1IMTCkRid7Vgbmut

More info (heavily WIP):
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/OpMeet/2026.10

#selfhosting #selfhost #homelab

⚡ beam-cloud/beta9

Ultrafast serverless GPU inference, sandboxes, and background jobs

Runs serverless AI workloads at scale with GPU support, sandboxes and background jobs via a Python interface

⭐ Stars: 1673
📅 Last Update: Jun 19, 2026

https://github.com/beam-cloud/beta9

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #ai #serverless

It looks like by going to a self hosted single user instance I basically just lose access to trending posts.

I'm not seeing any other gaps and I'm not adding a bunch of relays to fill it in either so that's an acceptable loss but something to surface to others running self hosted mastodon.

Would be nice for the Ice Cubes News page to work but oh well.

#selfhosting #mastodon

⚠️ OVH Local Zone Zurich outage (~4h)

My VPS in OVH’s Zurich Local Zone (where this Mastodon instance lives) was completely unreachable for about 4 hours yesterday.

No status page updates, no incident notice, nothing from OVH (so typical).

From my side it looked like a clean Layer 3 issue - pings to the VPS returned Destination Host Unreachable from their ToR router inside the zone:
localzone-zrh-zur1-tor2-as4210011009.ch.eu (57.128.121.83)

Monitoring graph for the last 24h is attached.

#SelfHosting #Mastodon #OVH #LocalZone #Zurich #Outage #Networking #Fediverse

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Uptime monitoring dashboard for the last 24 hours. Large text shows “82.73% UPTIME”. A thin horizontal bar is mostly green with a distinct red segment in the middle indicating downtime. Below it, “0.82 APDEX (1.0)” with a row of small colored boxes showing hourly scores: mostly bright green at 1.0, but with a clear drop to 0.29, then several 0 values, and 0.62 (in red/pink) during the outage window around 16:00–20:00. Time labels on the x-axis go from 12h to 10h (next day). The red elements align with the OVH Zurich Local Zone outage.

Guess what? All my #homelab went offline today at 3:50 AM while I'm away from home. Is it a rule or something?

It happened right after "Cloud Gateway Ultra has updated to 5.1.19". I never had issues with #Unifi updates previously. This sucks. Looks like I'm disabling automatic updates on my network devices.

#Network #selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost

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There are two log messages in a screenshot from the UniFi console. The first says that Device Cloud Gateway Ultra has been updated to 5.1.19 at 3:19 AM, and the second says that Switch Lite 8 PoE went offline at 3:51 AM.

@pojntfx Gee, all of a sudden it seems like a great idea to self-host a #Deltachat relay server
#SelfHosting #OpenSource