New blogpost:

"Musings on 'digital sovereignty'"

I wanted to jot down some of my thoughts, before I forgot them.

The more I think about it, the less clear the whole thing seems...

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/musings-on-digital-sovereignty/

#DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #SelfHosting

Thinking of setting up a mail server.

I really want to avoid ending up blacklisted, does anyone have any advice about running their own mail server?

please boost.

#askfedi #selfhost #selfhosting

New Blog post out now!

I'm talking a bit about my progess of this months project and about the new one for April.

5 Minute read time, nothing big but I think I covered the most important points.

Check it out and let me hear what you think about it!

https://blog.spoljarevic.sh/project-for-april-zammad-quadlets/

#it #sysadmin #podman #quadlets #ansible #podmanquadlets #projects #coding #troubleshooting #dns #blog #writing #story #selfhosting #codeberg #foss #floss #opensource

I haven't used #SynologyNAS for a long time, and today I decided to check the #SynologyPhotos release notes to see what new features were added during that period.

It's nothing. The last new feature was added in version 1.8.0-10070, when I was still using it. Almost a year ago, on April 16 2025.

It seems that #Synology is no longer suitable for personal use.

#homelab #selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #NAS #Photos

I'm looking for a community management tool I could #selfhosting

Published on 2026-03-18 04:35

https://lemmy.world/post/44419936

Wer wird davon profitieren, wenn die KI-Blase platzt?
Wenn die vielen neu gebauten und mit High-End-Hardware vollgepackten Rechenzentren unwirtschaftlich oder sogar ungenutzt herumstehen.
Ich möchte gerne jetzt schon investieren.

Auf jeden Fall wird es einen umfangreichen Abverkauf der Hardware geben, der den Gebrauchtmarkt fluten wird und den Selfhostern hilft, ihr #Homelab endlich aufzurüsten. Und massenhaft neue Homelabs werden entstehen.

Aber wird es noch andere große Effekte geben?
Vermutlich einige Insolvenzen und/oder Übernahmen.
Aber wo lohnt es sich zu investieren?

#KI #KIBlase #selfhosting #investment

Just read more about #NetBird and excited there is a totally #opensource alternative to #Tailscale. I think I need to wait for Tailscale to do something stupid before switching though. Need that outrage energy to rebuild everything with a new system.
https://netbird.io/knowledge-hub/tailscale-vs-netbird
#selfhosting #homelab

In case you’re wondering how screwed the SSD and broader storage market is:

Just last week, I bought 5 8TB WD Red Pro NAS drives on Amazon to be delivered the following week. Amazon limited me to 3 hard drives, even across multiple orders, so I used my coworker’s account to buy 2 more. I couldn’t find any other high-TBW CMR 8TB hard drives anywhere else, no matter the brand or retailer.

Less than a week later, and now Amazon says “available to ship in 1-2 days”, but “fastest delivery July 21-31”. That’s 18 WEEKS! 4 MONTHS!

Hope none of y’all were planning to buy new hard drives any time soon.

#RAMpocalypse #tech #selfhosted #selfhosting #sysadmin

I decided to start using #linux on my main system for the first time, and wow, it was a major pain in the ass at first.

Decided to go with @CachyOS since I game quite a bit, and it was one of the more popular distros that people like to game on.

The first thing i noticed was "sudo apt" does not work. My already extremely limited linux knowledge comes from #selfhosting on debian/ubuntu based OS.

Oh, and software compatibility... Im like the king of bloat, always have dozens of applications running, and my overflow/status bar on windows has usually 4-5 lines of apps at all times. The biggest compatibility issue I am having right now is with my streamdeck. While there is opendeck, the thought of moving my probably close to 300+ buttons is just preventing me from even trying in the first place! The other app that i use daily that just doesn't exist on #linux is voicemeeter. I will probably have to figure out an alternate at some point.

But honestly, other than some applications just not existing on linux, it's been a great switch. Everything runs smoothly, and the 2 games i have tried so far have worked fine for the most part. I did have issues with Palworlds, and im still not sure what it was; I installed it and played it successfully without any tinkering, but when it came time to play with friends it would just refuse to work, often showing a black screen eventually leading to a crash. We usually get together to play maybe once every few weeks, but here i ended up spending the whole time trying to troubleshoot it, So i was quite bummed out at that. In hindsight, i could have just as easily switched to my windows install since i was dualbooting, but the fact that it worked fine and then just didn't made me want to fix it. A clean reinstall of the game did end up fixing the issue, but it was too late lmao.

I've been slowly moving my files from the Windows partition to my linux partition and everytime I load into Windows i keep starting to hate windows more and more, everything feels sluggish, slow boot up, so much unnecessary popups and tons of apps opening during bootup (although this is mostly my fault, still worsens the experience).

Overall, it's been a fun learning experience and I've been mostly enjoying linux. The transition was much smoother than i could imagine, and for most tasks I just forget that im using a completely different operating system, which imo is a good thing. Im looking forward to learning what else linux has to offer.

Also since im using #cachyos which is based on #archlinux , can i say "I use #arch btw"?

@jameskimber I can gladly say, been there done that! I currently have over 70 containers running on docker split between 2 servers. Do i use all of them? Absolutely not, but i definitely enjoyed setting them up and all the pains that came along with it. Not to mention the dozens of time where i spend about 3 days setting up a service to perfection, just to end up not using it. I would say #selfhosting was what made my switch to linux much more gentle, even though it's a different system ( #debian -> #arch ).

PSA for fellow self-hosters: bots will probe your services. We caught one trying to scrape sensitive files via CrowdSec — .env variants, AWS credentials, config files, and more. Others targeted common PHP/WordPress misconfigs.

If you're running anything public-facing, assume it's being scanned.

#SelfHosting #InfoSec #FOSS #HomeLab

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crowdsec alert information showing attempt to access credential files

Jeder der mich, vermutlich fragen würde bekäme die Antwort ich weiß nicht viel von Web, Hosting, co. doch falls Ihr das noch nicht wusstet das chinesische Unternehmen https://www.lierfang.com/en/ hat Proxmox ARM Fork veröffentlicht vor ein paar Jahren, VMs auf SoCs ist schon cool, wenn die meisten anderen nur Containern. Ziemlich nützlich für sysadmins

https://github.com/jiangcuo/pxvirt

Tutorial
https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-proxmox/

#linux #selfhosting #rpi #sysadmin

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pxvirt auf arm Weboberfläche in Brave geöffnet

#TerSoftware com tema #selfhosting Vai ter que ser listinha: Num VPS (Contabo)

• #Friendica
• #FreshRss
• #Pelican
• #Forte (Fediverso)
• #Gophernicus (gopherhole)
• #Piwigo (fotos)
• #Nextcloud

Em casa num notebook velho:
#snac2 (fediverso)

This is the best evidence, that Google is going too far.

I got email, that my 200 GB Google One plan is being phased out (with wife we have shared sub for Google Photos), and I have to choose between 100 GB (too small) or 2 TB (too expensive).

Wife, who not even 2 weeks ago asked me how to open file browser on her MacBook, asked me if I can make "some server thingy", to have our photos locally, and not in Google Photos.

So here I am, configuring Immich locally!

#selfhosting #server #linux

Homelab #ddns went down; ended up being a weird agglomeration of #Cloudflare issues, but I think the main one is their IPv4 checker service went down (or was misconfigured). Just updated my ddclient config to point to a different checker and it appears to be up again :)
#selfhosting

My #Gitea instance now requires authentication even for viewing public repositories. I also enabled login and account creation with #GitHub. No more scraping.

#homelab #selfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost

#selfhosting #linux

Ich habe gerade den Nextcloud Client auf meinem Arch Linux Mini PC installiert und eingerichtet.

Jetzt kann ich auch auf meinem Arch Linux Mini PC auf meine selbstgehostete Nextcloud Instanz ohne Browser zugreifen😃
Schon geil😁

Hallo Fediverse! Grüße direkt aus dem eigenen Maschinenraum! 🤖👋

Es ist vollbracht: Nach einigem Schrauben, Konfigurieren und Umziehen sende ich diesen Post hochoffiziell von meiner komplett eigenen GoToSocial-Instanz!

Nebenbei läuft hier im Hintergrund auch mein eigener Matrix-Server. Warum der ganze Aufwand mit Proxmox, LXC und Co.? Weil digitale Souveränität einfach ein unbezahlbares Gefühl ist. Meine Hardware, meine Regeln, meine Daten. 🛡️ Keine Algorithmen, keine großen Tech-Konzerne, die mitlesen.

An alle Follower, die den automatischen Umzug von meinen alten Accounts mitgemacht haben: Schön, dass ihr heil auf PlanetBotler gelandet seid! Macht es euch gemütlich. ☕️

Auf einen tollen, dezentralen Austausch! 🌌

#Neuhier #Selfhosting #GoToSocial #Matrix #Fediverse #Datenschutz #DigitalSovereignty #Proxmox #Linux #Gaming #zocken

Neue Episode ist raus!

Auf den Kakao gekommen

Hier der Link: https://podcast.smarthuette.de/episodes/auf-den-kakao-gekommen

#homeassistant #linux #psi #ram #metrics #selfhosting #homelab #unifi #grafana #logging #vector #apple #macbook #kakao

Wir reden über Home Assistant Kontributionen, Staubsaugerroboter, Kakao und frönen unserem Rantdasein.

Viel Spaß beim Hören!

Tired of Enshittification? Take your knowledge offline.

I am currently self hosting a @kiwix instance on my homelab. Having local, searchable copies of Wikipedia, the ArchWiki, and iFixit feels like a cheat code for digital sovereignty.

Spin up the Docker image, grab your ZIM files, and stop relying on big tech to keep the lights on for your reference data.

https://get.kiwix.org/en/

#Kiwix #SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #ArchLinux #Docker #NoAI

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Screenshot of a Kiwix library home page showing five downloaded "books": Wikipedia, ArchWiki, Python Documentation, MedlinePlus, and iFixit.

The price increase from Hetzner made me rethink my personal infrastructure ..

- Migrated last service off an old auction server
- Moved the content of my StorageBox to my FreeBSD ZFS
- Migrated and cancelled a CPX42 VPS instance
- Migrated and cancelled a CAX21 VPS instance

One more CX23 is currently in the process of being virtualized on my Proxmox cluster.

The Mastodon instance burningboard.net is still running there as cloud instances. But the price of those resources will only increase by ~4€/Month and I don't want to migrate it again (Just moved on the current system in December 2025)

So in the end, the Hetzner bill will be considerably lower in the future, since I reduced my infrastructure footprint by a lot and consolidated things on my bare metal servers in a CoLo datacenter 🙂

Sometimes a trigger like that can break through the laziness and have a positive outcome 🥳

#selfhosting #hetzner @hetzner #proxmox #infrastructure @tux #cloud

Der Kleingarten-Verein der Liebsten hat das übliche Problem: Mails vom VPS werden öfters mal von Microsoft und jetzt auch T-Online abgewiesen.

Erst meckerte MS wegen der Netcup-IP, nun motzt T-Online wegen IONOS. Aktuell läuft der Datenverkehr über Wireguard Netcup -> IONOS.

Hat wer von Euch eine Empfehlung für ein brauchbares Mail-Relay?

Verein ohne kommerziellen Background, daher gerne so günstig wie möglich. Ist #Mailjet empfehlenswert? Eine Fußzeile mit Werbung wäre akzeptabel.

Danke im Voraus.

#selfhosting #Mailanbieter

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/sTchqL3SH3skTyZsM6zrU8
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_microsoft_116234853805557100_fr)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://freundica.de/search?tag=Mailjet")

Les infrastructures low-cost d'auto-hébergement échouent systématiquement face aux filtres draconiens des grands fournisseurs de messagerie.

#microsoft #verkehr #selfhosting #aktuell #mailjet

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/3RNJEpT1VDTuHzuTqzp7dc
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://adalta.info/articles/prstn_microsoft_116234853805557100_en)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://freundica.de/search?tag=Mailjet")

Legacy providers are weaponizing IP reputation, forcing non-profits into costly commercial solutions.

#microsoft #verkehr #selfhosting #aktuell #mailjet

💖 hi! i'm self hosting a gotosocial instance now, and this is my new primary account! please boost to help me federate this instance more!!

about me: i love people, and i especially love the people in my local community. some of my goals in life are getting my own wiki page (im vain), building a housing cooperative, and being the best woman i can possibly be for my partner. i love being intentional with my aesthetic, which has evolved over the years into the pink & black combo i do now. 🖤💖

i have been on some form of mastodon since 2022. i believe we all need to do as much as possible to boycott companies that do or support unethical things, like donating to fascists. for me, using the fediverse is a great alternative to corporate social media.
still, i really value my time - so my following list is very small and i do not spend large amounts of time here. i try to spend my time doing productive things - lots of which are related to @vs - or connecting with the people i love.

on this account you can expect to see lots of random thoughts, some questions, polls, photos (including some cw'd lewds), ventposts, and general nonsense. thanks for following me! 💖

#intropost #introduction #trans #transjoy #Minnesota #vegan #coop #homeschool #anarchy #anarchist #ocd #audhd #fedora #linux #foss #selfhosting #grapheneos

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photo of me. i have split hair coloring, with black on the left and pink on the right. i'm wearing a stetson, pink sunglasses, and a pink sweater with red hearts on it.

2'000 Follis auf YT. Herzlichen Dank!

https://youtube.com/@Tuxwiz

Und auf PeerTube bin ich natürlich auch zu finden:

https://makertube.net/c/tuxwiz/videos

#linux #selfhosting #privacy

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Exakt 2'000 Follis auf YT

Modified my #Gitea config to run `git gc` every day on schedule and now my Gitea backup size is half of before! Why did no one mention trick before‽ #selfhosting

Nuevo server uruguayo de mensajería *XMPP*.

Si bien está funcionando desde el 1 de noviembre, es la primera vez que le _"doy pa delante"_ aquí porque considero que ya esta lo suficientemente "maduro" como para dejarlo crecer.

https://xmpp.uy

#xmpp #snikket #prosody #selfhosting #selfhosted #uruguay #monocles #conversations_im #concersations

New blogpost (on new blog!):

# Moving my static site blog generator from hugo to BSSG

My notes on setting up BSSG, and migrating from hugo, along with copies of my config files, css, and customised header.

With many thanks to @stefano, for sharing his amazing site building tool with us.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/moving-my-static-site-blog-generator-from-hugo-to-bssg/

#Linux #SelfHosting #BSSG #hugo #blog

My server PC started to do the random clicking noise. One of the hard drives is about to fail. This unintended notification warned me sooner than SMART did.

I want to use this opportunity to finally add some redundancy to the storage. Now I have a btrfs on lvm on luks. I am thinking: Should I get rid of lvm and just have btrfs with raid1 on luks? Or shoud I have btrfs on lvm with raid1 on luks? 🤔 Can't decide.

#SelfHosting

Wow, what a difference. After more than a year since I installed friendica, I added memcached. It went from unusably slow to just completely normal and usable!

Why didn't I do this right away? Probably because it's poorly documented that this is even possible.

Anyway, I'm pretty happy I finally fixed the performance issue on my server. Yay!

#friendica #SelfHosting #memcached

Well, I was considering Booklore for my #homelab. However, after this little piece of information, that's right out...

Not only has it become AI slop, the dev is making it REALLY difficult to be even remotely sympathetic...

So, that's right out of the window, I'm sure there are other, non-sloppified, at least as good #selfhosted book management pieces of software...

Context:

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rs275q/psa_think_hard_before_you_deploy_booklore/

#selfhosting

Gestern war ich bei der #C3Selfhosting User Group. Und es waren (mal wieder) überwiegend als Männer gelesene Personen dort.

Warum ist das so und viel wichtiger: Wie können wir die Diversität an der Stelle erhöhen?

Ich mache mir Gedanken darüber und freue mich über euer Feedback / eure Meinung.

#selfhosting #homelab #linux #diversity

Self-Host Weekly (2026-03-13)

#Booklore turns sour, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #OpenDroneLog -- a #drone flight log app, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2026-03-13

#selfhost #selfhosting #foss #opensource #homelab #devops #sysadmin #newsletter #privacy #security #fediverse #app #apps #smarthome #truenas #ntfy

I am looking to host a **de-federated** mastodon instance for 300 to 500 people.

I wanted to know what kind server specs I should go for for this kind of project. should I go for 8gb or 4gb of RAM, roughly how many vCPUs/threads, etc..

#fediverse #mastodon #SelfHosting #activitypub #homelab

The closer I get to #selfhosting my own #email, the more I'm finding myself unsubscribing and blocking emails coming into my personal inbox.

SSH management direkt aus dem terminal heraus.

SSHM greift direkt auf deine ssh config zu und du kannst alle deine hosts mit einer taste anpingen oder connect.

Mega cool!

https://2tap2.be/sshm

#linux #SSH #server #security #selfhosting #homelab #terminal #tui

@mosgaard you're all missing the simple and obvious. *Every* Linux File Browser *already* has built-in support to connect to a remote SFTP share (the remote #linux box needs the "openssh-server" installed).
It goes almost full wire speed, even on tiny files. Beats SMB for speed. I use this heavily in my home lab. For example in #KDE Dolphin: "Network": icon on left - > "Add Network Folder" button in the upper right - > "Secure shell (ssh)" radio button.
#SelfHosting

Not sure why I did this, but ejabberd works fine on my gen 1 raspberry pi (14 years old, 512mb RAM). Would probably enough to handle a small instance for friends and family.

#ejabberd #raspberryPi #rpi #xmpp #permacomputing #selfhosting

Self-Hosting is not just a safety feature. It is a political act.

#SelfHosting

I did not find any documentation or issues on this very nice topic on the web, maybe Fedi can help:
I want to ssh into a remote server and a CLI tool there needs to access my yubikey, which is slotted in the machine i am connecting from.
Is there any way to relay this between the machines?
I do not need help with using the yubikey to log on via ssh...

Not sure which hashtags to use here, if you have any good ones, let me know.

#DuckDuckFedi #Yubikey #SelfHosting