Linux and self hosting microblog update (which contains no Linux and little about self hosting):

I've routinely paid a quick oil change shop for their services for the past couple of decades - until this year.

This year, one of them made a serious mistake, which cost me an engine rebuild.

Yesterday, I changed my own oil.

I'm not more trained to protect my engine. I am simply more motivated to protect my engine.

This is why I now self-host my own email servers.

Engine oil changes and hosting email aren't a huge deal, but can be incredibly expensive when done wrong. It is scary to do it myself, but this year it became much scarier to trust someone else.

There's someone(s) out there I could trust for either, but finding them is more work, stress and risk than just doing it myself.

There's hundreds of companies who could do a good enough job for a fair price.

But zero of those companies have lately convinced me that they care about the harm that could come to me from mistakes, the way I care. Much less that they would lift a finger to make me whole if I was harmed by their mistake.

So, now, I do it myself, instead of working on something more interesting.

#devops #selfhosting #linux #oilchange #carrepair #righttorepair

Eine #Frage an die #Linux #Admin Bubble, von einem unerfahrenen und deshalb noch zaghaften #Selfhosting Admin: Ich betreibe einen #VPS unter #Debian 12.15 und #Yunohost. Darauf läuft nur wenig kritische Software... u.a. #WordPress, #SearXNG und ein wenig Email.

Gibt es (gute) Gründe, auf dem Sever keine unattended-upgrades zu aktivieren?

Toll. Jetzt ist das Supermicro Netzteil meines Ersatzservers defekt. Von Heut auf Morgen, macht einfach keinen Mucks mehr, kein Relais Klicken mehr, keine Standby Spannung, nix.
Eine Diode fällt auf, dass sie in beide Richtung durchlässig ist, aber kann den Typ nicht erkennen, vlt. muss das ja auch so. (Zener Diode?)

Zur Sicherheit gefragt: Hat wer zufällig ein Supermicro PWS-563-1H Netzteil (oder kompatibel), welches nicht mehr benötigt wird?
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#fedihelp #selfhosting #sysadmin

The Intel Atom box eats at near 3 W, the spinning HDD needs at near 20 W at startup and 6-12 W to operate - so for NAS + 4 HDDs I need at near 3 + 20 * 4 = 83 W. So, with 450 W PSU inside the box and an external 400 W power supply (beforementioned) I'll have enough power to power on the system and spin all four disks 🙂

The fun started when I disassembled the bought power supply - I'm a bit paranoid and since I had one Chinese extension cord with a lot of protruding copper strands inside and an extremely bad soldering - I'm always disassembling such cheap things before plugging them to the power outlet.

The power supply works well and provides 12.02 V, which is enough for PSU inside the computer. And the disks start without problems. But it was loud, as loud as the ITX case with two fans inside plus one big fan for HDDs.

Inside the power supply I found the fan cooling nothing - there is just a metal case on the bottom and on the top of the fan. And only two elements (MOSFETs?) "connected" to the metal case for passive cooling - are on the opposite side of the fan 😀

The most funny part - the fan just glued to the PCB from the one side 😀

P.S. Worth to mention, that the "rain protected" label on the case looks like just a nonsense - there are no sealing gaskets in the construction. So the good north rain probably will cause a good short circuit 🙂

#electronics #PSU #selfhosting #HDD

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The photo of a PCB from power supply. There are a terminal block on the left, some transformers, inductives, transistors, etc and a fan in the cutout from PCB.

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The closeup photo of a fan, which lays in the cutout from PCB and hot-glued to the PCB.

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The photo of a case and inserted PCB from the side. There is visible that PCB just stands in the fastenings and nothing connected to the case for cooling.

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Closeup photo of a two transistors connected to the metal case for passive cooling. There are two big electrolytic capacitors on the left, out of the focus.

Présentation : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/firefox-sync-auto-heberge

Tuto pas à pas : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/installer-firefox-sync-auto-heberge

Retrouvez aussi ce service parmi tous les autres ici : https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

Bonne découverte et bon déploiement ! 🚀

#LogicielLibre #Selfhosting #ViePrivée #Firefox #BlablaLinux #Souveraineté

Indice : pas besoin de changer de navigateur, juste de changer de point de vue. 😏

Plus d’infos très bientôt…

#LogicielLibre #Selfhosting #VieePrivée #Firefox #BlablaLinux #Souveraineté

RE: https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/117573322230525781

Overnight and today, I moved 15 domains away from #NameCheap after several decades. Various reasons, from service interruptions for the first time, to policies they are changing, to price increases every time the sun sets and the moon rises. This stuff happened after Private Equity took them over. I went more than a decade and a half without a support ticket and in the past year, three.

I've already moved hosting and went down from 3 hosting servers to just one and I have been migrating it out for a few months and hope to pull the trigger by October 17th. It was my largest server and held 70% of my server apps, email, etc

It's like losing an old friend or moving out of your childhood home. #PrivateEquity

#SelfHosting

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Andres [he/him] » 🌐 2026-11-07 / 2026-11-07
@Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it

So namecheap just randomly locked my domain (which I've had with them since.. 2006) until I send them a valid government ID.

No complaints about the domain, just a random check. What the actual fuck?? #Namecheap #DNS

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Hello, We are reaching out to you from the Namecheap Risk Management Team regarding your 'dilinger' account. We would like to inform you that your account has been flagged to be a part of our routine account information accuracy check-up to establish whether your account information is currently accurate, complete, and up to date. As a result, your account has been locked pending your response to the requests for documentation below. Please refer to our Universal Terms of Service Agreement (Clause 3, Accounts, Accurate Information, Transfer of Data Abroad) at https://www.namecheap.com/legal/universal/universal-tos/ If you would like to resolve this issue, please provide us with the following details by email: For an individual account: A valid government-issued ID (e.g., a passport). You may take a photo of your ID via the link:

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We look forward to hearing from you within the next 72 hours. If we do not, we will permanently suspend/cancel your services.

New blog post: I built a small AI reviewer for my self-hosted Forgejo. It reads every pull request, posts a summary and inline findings, and is not allowed to do anything else.

The hard part was not the integration. It was making it stop being confidently wrong: on my biggest real PR, 18 of 29 first-pass findings were discarded after a second pass checked them against the actual code.

https://blog.hofstede.it/a-read-only-ai-reviewer-for-forgejo-pull-requests/

#Forgejo #SelfHosting #Podman #LLM #CodeReview #AI

New blogpost:

"Automating renewal of Let's Encrypt certificates with Home Assistant OS"

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/11/automating-renewal-of-let-s-encrypt-certificates-with-home-assistant-os/

#HomeAssistant #HAOS #selfhosting

Interessanter Artikel für Rechtsanwält:innen, Steuerkanzleien, usw., ist allerdings recht "nerdig" ;)

#Rechtsanwalt #Steuerberatung #Software #FOSS #Selfhosting

Node64 vereint sechs Homelab-Dienste in einem Container
https://linuxnews.de/node64-vereint-sechs-homelab-dienste-in-einem-container/ #homelab #selfhosting #linux #opensource #linuxnews

This is a good guide and explanation. I also think it is great that Tom covers CrowdSec at the end, which I would like to try out soon.

https://youtu.be/eqB1Cp62y8w

#selfHost #selfHosting

Self-Host Weekly (6 November 2026)

#Immich saves the day, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #EdenText - a web-based #word processor, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-11-06/

#selfhost #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #server #newsletter #privacy #ai #openai #devops #sysadmin #photos #homeassistant #smarthome #app #apps #software #office #microsoft #fediverse #ram #datacenters #wikijs

Ready to read: How murad.chat fits the fediverse on one VPS

GoToSocial, PeerTube, Lemmy, Matrix, a Bluesky PDS and Nostr on one 8-core VPS. How I tamed Pixelfed's Horizon (79% to 16% of its memory limit), cut Celery workers, capped every container and then loosened the limits that were starving the apps.

https://pablomurad.com/murad-chat-fediverse-one-vps/

#SelfHosting #fediverse #sysadmin #linux

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How murad.chat fits the fediverse on one VPS

Mein Roman existiert dreifach: im Obsidian-Vault, in einem Backup auf dem eigenen Server und in einem Ordner einer alten externen Platte. Wie paranoid seid ihr? Habt ihr auch Angst, eure ganze Arbeit zu verlieren – und wie sichert ihr sie?
#Selfhosting #Schreibbubble #Autorenleben #Linux

https://eigen.is/

This looks interesting. I have been using Nextcloud for years, but have been curious about alternatives.

#selfHosting #selfHost

Fedi networking wizards, I need help with the following riddle:

A VPS, two IPs with different gateways, and two users + admin. Each user should get its own IP (and IPv6 ideally). Outgoing IP matching incoming matters (so I can't receive traffic from two different IPs but respond from one).

Searched far and wide but can't find anything that would address the situation where one has one NIC and two gateways

#networking #askfedi #techsupport #selfhosting

Meine Nextcloud ist nach den PHP-Lücken immer noch offline, ich habs einfach noch nicht geschafft, die Patches einzuspielen.

Ich hinterfrage aktuell auch ein bisschen, ob ich eigentlich weiter Webservices offen im Internet betreiben will. Oder ob ich nicht z.B. die Nextcloud auf eine managed-Version umziehen will, wo Updates usw. beim Hoster liegen🤔

#selfhosting #php #php2shell #Nextcloud

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@homeassistant/117553704976286310

With #HomeAssistant 2026.11 on the horizon, I thought I’d audit my configuration for stale entity references ahead of the changes to entity naming.

Rather conveniently, it turned up three references that hadn’t survived some earlier #Zigbee device renaming. A little Python, a few YAML edits, and a clean configuration check later, all sorted.

Always nice to discover your configuration is squiffy before some breaks.

#SelfHosting

If, hypothetically, I wanted to self-host e-mail on a VPS, is it possible to set it up so that the mails are end-to-end encrypted in a way that the company who operates the VPS cannot read them? That is: the mails arrive at the serve encrypted, are stored on the server encrypted, and leave the server still encrypted. I assume this is what services like Proton (claim to) do, so presumably it *is* possible? But what's actually involved in that?

#SelfHosting #Email #Proton

Umbrel Home Review: The Personal Server Logic and the En | TUH

https://theunhacked.com/m062-04-umbrel-home-review/

#selfhosting #homelab #privacy

Words, compiled: The file server I didn't know I needed: copyparty

Every now and then a piece of software solves the problem I installed it for and then keeps showing me other problems it can solve. copyparty is one of those. I've been using it and I'm honestly loving it. The pitch sounds almost too simple: run a program, point it at a folder, open a browser, and there are your files. That's only the…

https://pablomurad.com/copyparty-file-server/

#SelfHosting #OpenSource #tools #homelab

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The file server I didn't know I needed: copyparty

Freshly written: Newt and OpenBSD

The plan was simple: spin up an OpenBSD VM on Proxmox to host a small static site generated with an SSG. No giant stack, no Docker, no panel full of abstractions in the middle. Just a clean, predictable system with httpd serving static files, the way OpenBSD likes it. On the public side I already had something running on a VPS: Pangolin, Traefik and Gerbil. Their job is to…

https://pablomurad.com/newt-and-openbsd/

#openbsd #SelfHosting #homelab #sysadmin

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Newt and OpenBSD

Hello, I'd like to try self host server at home with rpi (start with own calendar, small steps to own my data) but I dont want to expose my home router to internet. So I'd like to use wireguard vpn and go through my vps to my home network. Unfortunately wireguard does not work on some networks outside of my home. Network is dropping after handshake udp packets (maybe caused by deep packet inspection, I am not sure, random udp packets sending to public ip have been sent without problem). I've already tried different port, decreased the mtu, but still wg packets are dropping. do you know solution how could i hide wireguard comunnication to avoid dropping packest and the solution will also work on iphone? Id like to keep wireguard, vps is openbsd...☺️🚀

#ownyourdata #OpenBSD #wireguard #vpn #SelfHosting

In the latest article in our #SelfHosting series, @makkes shows you how to set up and run a Matrix server with Synapse.

https://www.admin-it.io/running-your-own-matrix-server-with-synapse/?utm_source=mam

@element @matrix #Matrix #Synapse #homeserver #messaging #PostgreSQL #OpenID #encryption #backup #security

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Chart of How Matrix Works: The Matrix protocol allows for Matrix homeservers to federate data so that users from different servers can interact with each other.

Snac is a lightweight Fediverse-compatible social network server which is entirely human-written, and doesn't require a database. You can find out more at:

🏡 https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

You can follow Snac's lead developer at:

🏡 @grunfink

It can be installed via @yunohost (at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/snac) or manually using the installation instructions (at https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/src/branch/master/README.md).

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Snac

There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.

An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: https://www.politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/