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Our stack is purpose-built for continuity, independence, and transparency. No vendor lock-in, no blind trust in “the cloud.”
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#FailZero #Infrastructure #Proxmox #Linux #SysAdmin #SelfHosting #Reliability #DisasterRecovery

No AI being used here

Also: #RunYourOwnMailServer

#selfhosting #email #openbsd #opensmtpd

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Meme picture How they want my mailserver to look: [Exchange logo] Hos my mailserver actually looks: [hand holding up a small server-type machine]

It’s been about two years into my data migration / self-hosting journey. It seems at least once a day I miss the continuity that I had with my Apple ecosystem. Just working on something on my Linux machine and not being able to just pick up where I left off or even copy/pasting. There’s always that extra step to get things across devices.

Even re-pairing Bluetooth devices after a reinstall.

#selfhosting
#selfhosted

Hello #swarmintelligence of the #Fediverse, how do you solve the problem when you want to install new software on an already known domain?
So in my case from #Lemmy to xxx (I'm not sure yet what it will be, maybe #Friendica). Because if the instance keys no longer match, communication will be rejected.
Mastodon introduced the self-destruct command for this, but Lemmy doesn't have anything like that.

#Fediadmin #Fediadmins #selfhosting

Great article on #Nextcloud, jives with my several years of experience with it:
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/11/03/nextcloud-slow/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting

The AWS RDS drama: why managed databases with EBS are only fast in charging your credit card and not fast with your data:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-dicken-78797a73_want-a-fast-database-choose-your-storage-share-7390743830985359360-isBq

#selfhosting #selfhosted

My new PowerDNS Cluster (HA) went online. Fancy Galera Backend, neafty auto-ZSK rollover, good Monitoring.

Easy to use with WebUI.

WUB IT! 💓

#linux #dns #selfhosted #selfhosting

Thanks to a somewhat related topic with @paco on his post about Android, I now want to look into self hosting email and cal. Does anyone have any recommendations?

#selfhosted #email #calendar #selfhosting

@cienmilojos You should read @mwl 's book "Run Your Own Email Server".

• I run iredmail on FreeBSD.
• There's Docker mail server if you like containers
• mailcow is pretty popular

You can't do it with a residential IP address. I run mine in my house, but I pay for "business" internet to get an IP that is not residential. Or you can go with a VPS from a popular provider. But you might have to try a few times to get a clean IP address. Sometimes some spammer has used the IP before and it's on various blacklists by the time you get it.

Hang out on the #selfhosted and #selfhosting hashtags and you'll see lots of cool stuff.

Dear Fedi friends,

If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

🔗​: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni

It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).

My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):

"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.

It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.

We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.

I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."

I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.

If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains

#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy

Pretty cool trick so you don’t have to deploy a fully fledged Anubis to protect against DDoS-by-LLM-companies?

https://fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/

#selfHosting #homelab #sre

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Gitea 1.25.0 removes deprecated auth, streams archives, adds 3D previews:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/gitea-1-25-0-removes-deprecated-auth-streams-archives-adds-3d-previews/

Qt Creator 18 Released With Experimental Support For Development Containers:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-18-Released

Rust 1.91 adds Tier 1 support for ARM64 Windows platform, raw pointer warnings, and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/rust-1-91-adds-tier-1-support-for-arm64-windows-platform-raw-pointer-warnings-and-more/

Gradle 9.2.0 brings Windows ARM support and stable Daemon toolchain:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/gradle-9-2-0-brings-windows-arm-support-and-stable-daemon-toolchain/

Pi-hole 6.2 released with security upgrades, Alpine Linux support, and DNS enhancements:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/pi-hole-6-2-released-with-security-upgrades-alpine-linux-support-and-dns-enhancements/

Immich 2.2 released with OCR search, web layout boost, mobile workflow updates, and more:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/immich-2-2-released-with-ocr-search-web-layout-boost-mobile-workflow-updates-and-more/

Jellyfin 0.19 for Android TV brings voice search, inactivity popup & enhanced music player:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/jellyfin-0-19-for-android-tv-brings-voice-search-inactivity-popup-and-enhanced-music-player/

Good News! Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud:
https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-ministry-kicks-out-microsoft/

FFmpeg Receives $100K in Funding from India's FLOSS/fund Initiative:
https://news.itsfoss.com/ffmpeg-receives-100k-funding/

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 4 Released With Newer Linux WiFi Drivers & Updated OpenZFS:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.0-Beta-4

FreeBSD Celebrates The Milestone Of Reproducible Builds & No Root Needed:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Goes-Reproducible

OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenIndiana-2025.10

Genode-Powered Sculpt OS 25.10 Brings Performance Improvements & Better Drivers:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sculpt-OS-25.10-Released

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #OpenSourceNews #FOSS #Gitea #QtCreator #QtCreator18 #Rust #Gradle #PiHole #Immich #Jellyfin #FFmpeg #FreeBSD #OS #BSD #FreeBSD15 #OpenIndiana #SculptOS #ProgrammingLanguage #SelfHosting #MediaServer #AdBlocker #Development #Programming #Coding #IDE #CodeEditor #VersionControl #version_control #FosseryTech

Self-Hosting Immich: Private Photo Cloud:
https://www.glukhov.org/post/2025/11/selfhosting-immich/
#selfhosting #immich #nextcloud #photos #privacy

@anthropy nah.

I still think that relying on a #SinglePointOfFailure is bad:

Whether that #SOPF is a Raspberry Pi in a closet or overprced #GAFAM cloud is irrelevant for that matter...

• Tho sloppy self-hosting doesn't compromize others in their availability, so no, do a #CloudExit!

#SelfHosting #Decentralization

It's one of those kind of days in the homelab

#selfhosting #homelab

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A screenshot of Memtest86+ running tests against a system with a Ryzen 5500GT and four sticks of DDR4 16GB RAM. The test has been running for about 35min.

The self hoster's paradox...

Everything working well: "I'm bored, there's nothing to play with 🥱"

Something breaks: "This is not how I want to spend my Sunday night, why do I do this 😭"
#selfhosting #fediadmin #homelab

Going live today at 10am Mountain (4pm UTC) on YouTube to Check Out Some New Containers with Docker!

Would love to see you there! https://youtube.com/dbtechyt/live

#SelfHosting #OpenSource #Livestream

Do you have the media required to build systems without an Internet connection?
Do you have a local repository server with packages enabling a "local" network install?
#Preparedness #Resilience #OpenSource #Selfhosting

Endlich! Ich habe es geschafft, die Dovecot-Konfiguration aus meiner Mailserver-Anleitung auf das neue Dovecot 2.4 aus Debian Trixie anzupassen.

Welche Parameter anzupassen sind (und eine komplette Beispielkonfiguration) findet ihr in meinem Blog:

"Alte Dovecot Konfiguration zu Dovecot 2.4 (Debian Trixie) migrieren" - https://thomas-leister.de/mailserver-migrate-config-to-dovecot-2.4-debian-trixie/

#mailserver #blog #selfhosting #dovecot #debian #trixie

Built something I’ve wanted for a while...
An open-source Docker container that makes running a Tor relay actually simple and reliable.

One command. Self-healing. Multi-arch. Runs everywhere from Raspberry Pi to VPS

🔗 https://github.com/r3bo0tbx1/tor-guard-relay

If you care about privacy infrastructure:
🧱 Try it out
🐛 Report bugs
💡 Suggest features
⭐ Star it to help others discover it

Maintaining this in my free time, donation info’s in the README (and please support @torproject, @eff and @privacyguides too).

Protecting privacy, one relay at a time ✨

#Tor #Privacy #OpenSource #Docker #FOSS #SelfHosting #Infosec

so, some random thoughts on #selfhosting decisions I've made as a technically-homeless semi-nomadic digital serf:

it would benefit me to be "dogfooding" Nextcloud more than I do, because my partner in Wordpress crime and I are learning it in order to be able to sell services installing & maintaining it for people who don't want to use MS365 or G Suite.

I do use Nextcloud for purposes related to our business together, but I don't yet have a personal install.

for calendar, todo, and contacts I use an install of Baikal on a penny webhost, with aCalendar and Tasks.org on my Android device (a desktop frontend is an unsolved problem)

for notes & documentation, I use Tiddlywiki

for file sync, I use Syncthing.

Nextcloud could do all of this in one fell swoop, so why don't I use that instead?

the answer, in short, has to do with *resilience* - specifically in the context of life instability which leads to an occasional inability to pay bills.

Hey @delta! Reading this https://delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-browser-edition got me thinking. I live in Firefox but miss Chrome’s one-click “Install PWA as app”. What about a Tauri-based helper + a Firefox extension that wraps a PWA into a desktop app in one step? Hosting stays light: the PWA is cached; relays/self-hosted instances can serve the client. Keeps control with admins. Interested? 👍🏻

#Firefox #PWA #Tauri #DeltaChat #FOSS #OpenSource #SelfHosting #WebExtensions

Are ECC TLS certificates "production ready" or should I stick to RSA based certificates for mailservers?

#selfhosting #Mailserver #email

@openwrt routers often run on tiny hardware with limited storage, which makes adding intrusion prevention such as @CrowdSec tricky.

I managed to set up only the lightweight firewall bouncer on #OpenWrt, and forward its logs via Syslog to the Security Engine in #Docker (server).

Result: community-powered IPS on tiny hardware. 🚀

Here's how to set this up yourself: https://kroon.email/site/en/posts/openwrt-crowdsec/

#OpenWrt #CrowdSec #SelfHosting #Security

I feel like the richest person in the world: I still have a line of credit of 18.19 Euros on #Hetzner (I had pre-paid 20 Euros to set up my account 2 months ago).

Not sure how it's possible I spent less than 2 Euros with all the servers I started and stopped and apps I ran on them, but hey, I'm now on cloud nine.

There's so much I can still experiment with!!! 🤗

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting ​

Good morning and happy Monday Fedi friends! 🌞​

I found a solution to my #Sharkey installation issues!!! (Something as simple as setting the access permission to "visitors", duh). Thank you kind #YunoHost Forum member for setting me on the right path. The 7th time was the charm 🙃​

I'm SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! #Sharkey AKA my favorite Fediverse social software, here we goooooooo

P.S.: in case you're wondering, I will be keeping my #Mastodon account as my main and this #GoToSocial account to share my #selfhosting adventures. Sharkey will be a much smaller profile, private, to just interact with friends and contacts. My little quiet corner of the Fediverse (my two current accounts can get so noisy sometimes, with 100+ daily mentions on Mastodon alone). I'm setting up a fun little zen garden with Sharkey 💁‍♀️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈​

File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.

So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.

I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.

How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.

The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.

Time went like this:

1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)

4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade

5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)

7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install

9m30s in: post installation complete

11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.

14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳​

Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting