One power supply replacement later. #selfhosting

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zpool status from my array. state: ONLINE scan: scrub in progress since Sun Oct 4 00:00:01 2026 1.88T / 4.55T scanned at 2.46G/s, 34.2G / 4.55T issued at 44.9M/s 0B repaired, 0.73% done, 1 days 05:19:42 to go config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM Media ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 sde1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sda1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdc1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdd1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdb1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors

If you had to rebuild your homelab from scratch with the same budget, what would you do differently? #selfhosting #homelab

AdGuard Home finally reached 1.0, at least as a beta, and I could not wait. Switched the Docker tag from latest to beta, backed up the config first, and it came up without complaints.

Everything in the UI is rebuilt. The dashboard is cleaner, the settings finally make sense, and the query log got proper sorting and filtering. They also say the new frontend is much lighter, which matches what I see.

Over the last 7 days my network made almost 220 thousand DNS queries, and 30% of them were ads that never reached my devices. One single device is responsible for more than half of all the queries, and now I really want to know which one.

One thing to keep in mind is that they switched to flexible versioning, so even minor releases can break things. Back up before you update!

https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/adguard-home-v1-0-beta.html

#AdGuard #AdGuardHome #SelfHosting #Homelab #DNS #Privacy

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AdGuard Home dashboard in the new v1.0 beta design, showing the last 7 days. 219,848 DNS queries, 65,777 blocked ads (30%), no blocked threats or adult sites. The top clients list shows one local device making 54.4% of all queries, and the average processing time is 50 ms.

Oooo ... my weekly #zfs scrub fell over last night. :-( ... the whole pool dropped out. Rebooted and imported the pool again. Scrub resumed. 🤞 #selfhosting #linux

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ZFS pool state, green text on black background: state: ONLINE scan: scrub in progress since Sun Oct 4 00:00:01 2026 340G / 4.55T scanned at 1.09G/s, 0B / 4.55T issued 0B repaired, 0.00% done, no estimated completion time config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM Media ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 sda1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sde1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdb1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdc1 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdd1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors

New post: roost gives every PR its own preview URL on a box you own. Static sites or containers, auto teardown. Works with any forge.

https://pat-s.me/roost-ephemeral-preview-environments/

#selfhosting #ci #forgejo #github #gitlab #gitea

Question to the ine hosting a mailserver themself: i have many alias mail adresses for example school@tld.internet which are forwarded to personal@tld.internet. What do i have to do so i can send a mail from personal@internet.tld so the from adress is school@personal.tld? Is that possible? Dont know if mails go into the spam at gmail if someone sends me a mail to the alias and the answer comes from my personal mail account. #selfhosting #mailserver

🐧 Mon portail BlablaLinux a été amélioré : OpenGist y a pris place, la pluie Matrix est plus légère et la sécurité renforcée 🔒
Tous mes services libres au même endroit 👉 https://link.blablalinux.be/
#BlablaLinux #OpenGist #SelfHosting #Linux

Heute habe ich meinen eigenen SMTP-Relay auf einem kleinen VPS produktiv genommen. Keine Tracking-Pixel, kein externer Maildienst, der Nachrichten kommentarlos „droppt“, und volle Kontrolle über Queue, Logs und Zustellung.
SPF, DKIM, DMARC und TLS laufen sauber, Thunderbird und iPhone senden direkt über meinen Server – inklusive automatischer Zertifikatserneuerung.
Ein kleines Stück Infrastruktur selbst zurückgeholt. 😊

#SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #Email #OpenSource #didit #diday

What's the biggest gap between what you want your homelab to be and what it actually is right now? #selfhosting #homelab

Needed to spontaneously share a big batch of photos with a group, but I don't trust exposing my self-hosted Immich to the internet.

immich-public-proxy by alangrainger solved it: a tiny container that only serves shared links. Login, API and the rest of the library stay internal. Set it up, shared the album, done. 🥳

https://github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy

#Immich #SelfHosting

New on the blog: Self-Hosted AI.

Qwen 3.8 27B on a rented RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, one shell command, ~150 tokens per second. For most of my everyday coding, it is simply good enough now.

Also: what "self-hosted" really means on someone else's GPU. You swap trust in an AI vendor for trust in an infrastructure provider. Not zero trust, but a question I already know how to answer.

https://blog.hofstede.it/self-hosted-ai-qwen-38-on-a-rented-blackwell-at-150-tokens-per-second/

#SelfHosting #LLM #Qwen #OpenWeights #DataSovereignty

@poVoq Yes!

Debian, in general, is the recurring most valuable player, in my self-hosting journey.

#debian #selfhosting #homelab

@dbtechyt I sort of lucked into learning Python. It has been increasingly helpful for self-hosting, over the years.

#python #homelab #selfhosting

What's one homelab decision you made early on that still pays dividends every day? #selfhosting #homelab

So, I decided not to use ZFS for my in-home NAS. I checked it in another server with 2GB of RAM and... it works, but any heavy I/O operation resulted in killing spree of NetBSD kernel, OOM-killing the processes to free the memory. And NetBSD ZFS doesn't have knobs to fine-tune memory limits (IIRC they are still in development).

Instead, the usual approach - the old^Wmature technology - is in use. With the help of netbsd-users maillist (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2026/09/21/msg034895.html) I configured the next thing for HDD with RAIDframe, CGD and LVM:

1) Two identical 1TB disks: /dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1.
2) Both in use in RAID1 /dev/raid0 (as described in this document: https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-rf.html, but without any tricks for root FS).
3) /dev/raid0 divided in two parts: /dev/raid0a for root FS and /dev/raid0b.
4) Both disks (/dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1) has installed bootloader via /usr/sbin/installboot -o timeout=10 -v /dev/rwd0 /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2 and /usr/sbin/installboot -o timeout=5 -v /dev/rwd1 /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
5) The /dev/raid0b was encrypted with CGD, so the /dev/raid0b -> /dev/cgd0.
6) The whole encrypted disk (/dev/cgd0a) was added as physical volume to LVM. The volume group /dev/vg0 was created with this PV and the logical volume /dev/vg0/lv0 was created inside this VG to store the real data.

The LVM allows to add new disk space, just by adding new physical volume to the volume group and then extending the logical volume and resizing the FFSv2. I tested it with a test USB drive and it works and even doesn't led to data loss

And the separate CGD separately encrypts existing physical volume and each new physical volume just in case

One quirk: the underlying physical disks (/dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1) plus /dev/raid0 should use MBR partition scheme or NetBSD disklabel - because the root partition should start from 0 sector - if it started not from zero sector, then the bootloader will be unable to find root FS. I tried to use GPT, but the installer was unable to create root partition not from zero sector, only from 2048 sector

#NetBSD #RAIDframe #CGD #LVM #selfhosting

I just had a thought. Some people talk about #SelfHosting and #Homelabs as some prepper like thing for weird people. I want to change that, as it certainly doesn't reflect how I feel about my mailserver, my various web servers and other services I run myself.

And that's where the thought comes in. From now on I will call it:

#PersonalComputing instead (or again, depending on your age :)

@homelab

Holy shit, I've been so angry at my Audiomuse playlists that I was about to switch from Navidrome back to Plexamp for self-hosted music. But damned it it didn't turn out when I watched the logs that the Navidrome plugin wasn't authenticating, so none of my music apps were actually using the sonic similarity analysis.

Guess what? These playlists are FUCKING GREAT now. My life just got so much better.

#SelfHosting

Hi everyone from my littlefedi instance, this is my first test post with a media file.

This is one of my dogs when she was very young

#LittleFedi
#SelfHosting

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a medium size black dog lying in a white and blue bed. Inside the bed is some of her toys, the one in the foreground is a little orange fox. The wall behind is white and the floor is a light coloured.wood

What's something you self-hosted that you'd never go back to a cloud service for? #selfhosting #homelab

Nachdem ich nach einem Tipp von @kuketzblog den #DNS Provider #deSEC kennengelernt hatte, habe ich testweise eine Domain von #INWX zu diesem Anbieter umgestellt (nicht umgezogen), um die DNS Verwaltung dort vornehmen zu können.

Jetzt habe ich von @angry auch noch von #Stalwart gehört, einem #Mailserver, der gute Dienste leisten soll. Also habe ich in meinem #Homelab per #Docker auch noch Stalwart installiert. Was soll ich sagen: Dieses Stück Software hat mir per API sämtliche DNS-Einstellungen bei deSEC abgenommen. Jetzt läuft bei mir im Homelab ein funktionaler Mailserver mit allem Pipapo wie #DNSSEC, #DMARC, #DKIM und #SPF. Ein Test auf mail-tester.com bringt 10 von 10 Punkten. Bin echt begeistert.

Da Stalwart keinen Webmailer mitbringt, war ich noch auf der Suche nach einem solchen. Nach einer Recherche ist meine Wahl auf #Bulwark gefallen. Dieses beherrscht Mail, Kalender, Kontakte, Sieve und eine Dateiverwaltung. Nebenbei bringt es auch noch eine schöne, moderne Oberfläche mit.

Also, die Kombination aus deSEC, Stalwart und Bulwark gefällt mir echt gut. 👍

#Selfhosting #unplugbigtech

https://system64.computer/radio/

listen from a terminal:

mpv https://system64.computer/radio/live

• fedi: mention @radio@social.system64.computer with an artist and a song
• irc: /msg ascetic !request stereolab tempter (libera, rizon, sdf)

curl -d "stereolab tempter" https://system64.computer/radio/request

#InternetRadio #SelfHosting #IRC

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the system64 radio page in a dark terminal style. a pixel system64 logo and a status board: on the air, 2 listeners, 25 songs today, 128k mp3, fm 87.9 atl. now playing in large type: my bloody valentine, i can see it (but i can't feel it), with a stop button, volume controls and a waveform. below, commands to listen with mpv or curl, and request instructions for fedi, irc and curl.

There's a new very lightweight Fediverse platform that's just been released called littleFedi. You can follow its new official account at:

🌱 @littlefedi_official

Its official website including download and source code is at:

🌱 https://littlefedi.org

LittleFedi is intended for techy people who want to create their own Fediverse server using as few resources as possible.

It's written by @stefano (who also created the weather service FediMeteo).

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #SelfHosting

LittleFedi is an excellent light weight but fully featured Fediverse platform (ActivityPub). I've been kicking tires and providing feedback on the test instance and excited for the first release to give it a go self-hosted.

@stefano has been leading a master class in community and developer relations. He has been stewarding the team and user community with enthusiasm and transparency. Congratulations to Stefano and the team.

Here's a great story of the project's genesis and journey. https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@littlefedi_official/01a0f644-8ed6-7a7d-ade6-46f4c0a74f41

#littleFedi #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FOSS #SelfHosting

This is an #Intro post from a test account on LittleFedi running from home on a Pi. Let's see how this goes before we migrate all my other accounts here.

I'm Richard, retired adventurer/author living in #Spain. El Perro Negro named after first dog. Bit of a grumpy old man but try to be good company. Will post about #hiking, #mountaineering, #photography, #technology, #selfhosting and #privacy issues. Interested in human generated #RSS content. Not got time for Politicians nor Big Tech.

Would love to meet up on the #Fediverse with like minded folk. Photo from last Novembers trip to El Chalten in Patagonia

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A person walks along a rocky ridge. Behind lies the peaks of Cerro Torre and My Fitzroy, El Chalten, Patagonia

Sometimes I think: I'm pretty sure I could host the customers whole infrastructure on my machine(s) in the basement and the office.

Then I check what kind of AWS machines they are renting and I'm sure that I could do it.

Talking about raw compute power, not availability, you can stop typing your "but what about"-toot right now.

#selfhosting

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🛠️ Tool
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Piik is an open-source, private screen sharing tool designed for sharing games, movie nights, drawings, and photos with up to 20 viewers. Viewers can join via an invitation link and watch directly in their desktop or mobile browsers without needing to install any software.

Key Features
• Browser-based viewing: Friends join via invitation and watch in desktop or mobile browsers.
• Flexible sharing sources: Hosts can share a screen, window, browser tab, or camera. Available sources and audio depend on the platform.
• P2P-first media: Media travels directly between participants where possible. A self-hosted server can provide automatic media forwarding (SFU) as a fallback.
• Room management: Invitations, room codes, and optional room passwords for one host and up to 20 viewers.
• Single binary hosting: Web UI, room management, and optional media forwarding are packaged together for self-hosting.

Technical Implementation
The tool emphasizes direct P2P connections for media transmission. If P2P is not viable, a self-hosted Piik Server on a Linux x64 server can act as an SFU (Selective Forwarding Unit) to relay media. The server packages the web UI, room management, and media forwarding into a single program.

Use Cases
• Hosting private movie nights or game streaming sessions for small groups.
• Sharing drawings or photos with friends in real-time.
• Providing commentary over shared media using the built-in microphone support.

Installation/Setup
To host, download the Piik App, extract and open it, choose Public invite, then Open Piik to create a temporary room. Alternatively, advanced users can deploy Piik Server on a Linux x64 server with their own domain.

Note: Tool not independently verified.

🔹 tool #screensharing #p2p #opensource #selfhosting

🔗 Source: https://github.com/TNTcraftHIM/Piik

Der Client liegt bei uns zum Download bereit, Windows, macOS und Linux, vorkonfiguriert. Starten, Kennung durchgeben, Anfrage bestätigen. Ohne Bestätigung keine Verbindung. Betrifft weiterhin nur die Clients, Serverwartung läuft wie gehabt.

#Fernwartung #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Datenschutz #ITSicherheit

🎵 Songhive brings self-hosted music and social networking together: a federated, ActivityPub-powered platform for streaming, sharing, discovery and artist payments—like Funkwhale meets Mastodon, with full control over your library. Explore the project: https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Songhive #Songhive #Fediverse #SelfHosting
💚 🎶 🎶 🎶 🐝🐝🐝

nginx requires you to manually manage cert renewals. Caddy just works. Stop writing cron jobs for HTTPS.

Zero-config ACME is the default, not the exception.

#selfhosting #caddy

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_woprsystems&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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nginx requires you to manually manage cert renewals. Caddy just works. Stop writing cron jobs for HTTPS.

I have a webserver with a LAMP stack. I want to share photos and videos with friends & family. I want albums with a configurable sorting method, and it would be nice if I can give a short description for each photo.
It would be nice if the albums are not public, but that I can send an authorized link so that recipients don't need to juggle with an account to see the photos.

What would you recommend?

#dtv #selfhosting #lazyweb

i run a small (but growing) self-hosted stack and make random things, mostly around retro computing, privacy, classic games and IRC.

lately:

• pagerom, which turns any website or feed into an NES, SNES, or game boy cart you can actually play
• modembin, which is pastebin but with real modem audio decoding to text and live modem chat
• an IRC server that bridges every possible protocol (even email, phone, obsidian) into one hub
• this instance (which is just me) running snac on a tiny vps

the rest lives at https://system64.computer

#Introduction #SelfHosting #RetroComputing #IRC #Privacy

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screenshot of my homepage, system64.computer. a dark page in a monospace font with a pixel-art "SYSTEM64" logo in blue, the tagline "a computer on the internet", a menu (home, projects, journal, status, gear, uses, desk, feed, contact), a short intro about me, and a "now" list of recent short updates.

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the first website ever, CERN's W3 page, running as a game boy game made with pagerom. grey-green pixel text on a game boy screen, with links highlighted as selectable menu items.

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modembin, a pastebin that turns text into real modem audio. a green-on-black terminal-style page with tabs for encode, decode, SSTV, chat, DTMF and blue box, a text box to paste into, and the modem set to "Bell 103, 300 baud".

Stop running 40 containers because you can. A home server needs 5 that actually work. Prune the rest.

Your uptime depends on what you deleted, not what you added.

#selfhosting #docker

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_woprsystems&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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Stop running 40 containers because you can. A home server needs 5 that actually work. Prune the rest.

What's the one homelab project you keep coming back to, even after you've already "finished" it? #homelab #selfhosting

What #fediverse #microblogging #server do you dislike most?

#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

Linux microblog update: I sorting and organizing my computer peripherals, I discovered I had two separate Debian 13 installation media thumb drives.

I regret nothing. Both bring me joy.

#linux #selfhosting #debian #mariecondo

Manutenção de segurança na bolhaverso: atualizamos o "escudo" que fica na frente de todos os serviços.

🛡️ BunkerWeb 1.6.13 → 1.6.15, nos 3 WAFs que protegem 97 domínios
🤖 Anubis 1.26.0 → 1.27.0, o filtro anti-robô que segura scrapers de IA sem captcha (16 instâncias)

Tudo no ar. Status em tempo real: https://status.bolha.us

#bolhaverso #selfhosting #fediverso #segurança

Stop paying $500/mo for 3 VMs. We swapped K8s for a single Docker host + Caddy. CPU usage dropped 40%. My anxiety dropped 80%. Your data is yours. #SelfHosting #Docker #MeshNet

K8s is a Ferrari for a grocery run. Sometimes you just need a bicycle with good tires.

#SelfHosting #Docker #MeshNet

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_woprsystems&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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K8s is a Ferrari for a grocery run. Sometimes you just need a bicycle with good tires.

Linux Microblog update:

I have Debian philosophy leanings.
I want computers that are boring and stable.

I've now spent significant time with YunoHost and Freedombox self-hosting platforms, and I find Freedombox to be the more Debian-ish of the two. There's less available, but what is available is rock solid and worth running.

#selfhosting #debian #linux #freedombox #yunohost

Manutenção na bolhaverso: atualizamos o nginx das 7 bordas (a porta de entrada de todos os serviços) da 1.30.4 para a 1.30.5, uma correção de segurança. Foi uma borda por vez, conferindo cada uma antes de passar pra próxima. Tudo no ar. 🟡

Status em tempo real: https://status.bolha.us

#bolhaverso #nginx #selfhosting #fediverso

Im Kontext von #Diday und #Fediverse komme ich immer wieder am Thema #selfhosting an.

Ein dezentrales System funktioniert nur, wenn es viele Instanzen gibt. Und bei den Wechselrezepten vom Di.day geht es am Ende häufig um die Frage, ob ich mich irgendwo einmiete oder selbst eine Anwendung betreibe. Wie z.B. bei dem Immich Thema für Fotos mit dem ich mich gerade beschäftige.

Anwendungen selbst betreiben ist allerdings auch nicht ohne. Frage mich wie man das verbessern kann.

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I recommend Infomaniak Public Cloud because I use it myself. My instance runs 4 AMD cores, 8 GB of RAM and 20 GB of SSD for about 16 EUR a month before VAT, and it behaves like a real cloud instance rather than a bargain VPS.

Everything runs out of their own data center in Carouge, practically next door to CERN. Bandwidth is free, and object storage traffic is free up to 10 TB too, with the storage itself priced in cents rather than francs.

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#Infomaniak #PublicCloud #Hosting #SelfHosting #Ad

Browser-only blockers miss everything outside the browser. Filtering at DNS covers every device on the network. What NextDNS catches, and what it logs.

https://theunhacked.com/nextdns-review-filtering-logic/

#privacy #DNS #selfhosting

Stop buying 'mini PCs' that run at 90% CPU just to keep Caddy from timing out. Get a used Xeon E5 v4 and 64GB of ECC RAM. It costs less than your monthly cloud bill and doesn't scream 'I'm watching you' when it hums.

That 45W TDP chip is generating more heat than the data center aisle it's pretending to replace. Efficiency is just another word for 'expensive marketing.'

#SelfHosting #Homelab #Docker

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_woprsystems&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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That 45W TDP chip is generating more heat than the data center aisle it's pretending to replace. Efficiency is just another word for 'expensive marketing.'