You know, at some point we're going to have to migrate from deny/exclude lists of domain names (adguard, pihole) to MiTM our own households with an HTTPs proxy that looks closely at PUT/GET requests and headers and strip out and replace some values to protect ourselves from ads. Not everything can use ublock..

#selfhosting #adguard #pihole #homelab

Shortest day of the year.
The light barely rises, the dark lingers longer than invited.

But lighthouses were never built for easy days.
They exist for the long nights, the rough seas, the moments when direction matters most.

The light is on.
It always is.

#LighthouseLore #WinterSolstice #ShortestDay #KeepTheLightOn #IndieWeb #Fediverse #SelfHosting

@jwildeboer I've just converted my first application (Forgejo) from MinIO to Garage. It's working great, and Garage is significantly easier to manage than MinIO was. Later today I'll convert Synapse and Mastodon over as well, and then retire MinIO for good from my network.

#FOSS #SelfHosting

🧭 Lighthouse Lore — 1224Z
While others slept, the tower shipped.
Kernel renewed. Systems steady.
No downtime. No drama. No excuses.

This is how you build trust in the dark:
quiet maintenance, boring graphs, and a light that never goes out.
Entrepreneurship isn’t noise — it’s reliability. 🌊⚓

#LighthouseLore #SelfHosting #MastodonAdmin #Fediverse
#Bootstrapped #IndieInfrastructure #Reliability #OpsLife

Short day, long shadows.
Dogs walked, servers humming, kettle on.

Building things the slow way:
owning the stack, minding the details, choosing sustainability over scale for scale’s sake.

The lighthouse keeps running —
quiet, independent, intentional.

#LighthouseLore #IndieBusiness #SelfHosting #Fediverse #IndieWeb

My holiday project will be to setup ente and get rid of google photos

#SelfHosting

Paperless-NGX has become the true successor to #DEVONthink 3 for me, which now focuses on AI and changed its payment model. The automatic document classification is impressively accurate. Container hosting makes self-hosting straightforward. If you want modern, intelligent document management that works cross-platform with full control, #paperlessngx is an excellent choice. Great mobile apps available too. The only downside: no way to financially support this brilliant software. #selfhosting

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The image shows a computer screen with a web application called Paperless-ngx open in a browser. ​On the left side there is a vertical navigation bar with items such as Home, Documents, Correspondents, Tags, Document Types, Storage Paths and other administrative options. The center of the screen shows the details of a document, including fields like Title, Archive Serial Number, Issue Date, Correspondent, Document Type, Storage Path and Tags. On the right side of the screen there is a preview of a two-page IKEA invoice in German, with the IKEA logo at the top, seller and buyer information, delivery address and a table listing items, prices and tax details.

@plwt yup, I have experience on self hosting #gitlab and #forgejo. Forgejo has very small footprint compared to gitlab. Very-very love my #selfhosting forgejo.

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting

Weekend project: set up an IP cam server with Frigate on a Raspberry Pi I had lying around at my parents' house.

I'm worried about those old bastards, but I'm also worried that the stream from those cameras will end up on some hidden Internet forums.

I'm not interested in using the "cloud services" so kindly offered to me by big companies.

#privacy #selfhosting

The lighthouse is in its slippers.
The servers are wearing cardigans.
The kettle has been promoted to senior management.

The sea is politely murmuring,
the dogs are auditing the biscuit supply,
and the light goes round and round
like it’s got nowhere else to be (because it doesn’t).

Nothing urgent. Nothing loud.
Just a small, stubborn glow
doing its best against the weekend.

We’ll keep the light on 💡

#LighthouseLore #DangerouslyTwee #CalmTech #Fediverse #IndieWeb #SelfHosting

Dear Friends

I hate selfhosting e-mail but ... Ive done it for such a long time.

Do you know any CHEAP option to have a simple service that will handle my usage:

• My domains are targetted onto their service
• Service receives all mails (or maybe have it own grey lists)

• I can somehow access that mails (web? email client? ssh? ftp? whatever)

• I DO NOT need sending mails from these domains

#selfhosting #email #selfhosted #smailweb

Ich würde ja zu Hause zu gerne mehr #selfhosting betreiben. So auf #UnplugTrump-Basis.
Wenn ich jetzt nur wüsste, wie ich für die Maschine (z.B. mit Umbrel OS) dann einen #VPN-Tunnel zu meinem Wireguard VPS hinbekomme, damit ich auf die Dienste Zugriff von außen habe..

Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More

The #Watchtower project is officially archived, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Jellify -- a cross-platform #Jellyfin #music client, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-12-19/

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss #homelab #sysadmin #devops #privacy #security #newsletter #fediverse #software #app #apps #update #updates #launch

MastoAdmins, are you using object storage for your self-hosted instance? If so, where and how much for how much data?

#mastodon #mastoadmin #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #amazon_s3

@chad my self-hosted #mastodon instance use our #selfhosting #objectstorage: #seaweedfs. It stores around 200GB with 15 days media cache retention.

Most of those are remote media cache.

Welp, the self-hosted, open-core, Mattermost release just introduced a 10k message limit on each channel.

Time to look for alternatives ...

#mattermost #selfhosting #enshittification

Torn between using wordpress vs. coding a simple website myself for my own future™️ blog.

#wordpress #selfhosting

Oh, my personal website just turned 25 years old.
I never imagined it would goes as far back in the days.

It even was abandoned – but still accessible – between 2009 and 2021.

#selfhosting #WebDev

Mid-evening watch: wind easing, rain still tapping at the glass.
Dogs fed, logs checked, lights steady.
The lighthouse hums, quiet and stubborn, doing its job while the world scrolls past.

Keep warm. Keep curious.
We’ll mind the light.

#LighthouseLore #HauntedLighthouse #Fediverse #IndieWeb #SelfHosting #EveningWatch

Tech Keeper recalls dial-up nights: 2400 baud, Liverpool nodes, the modem’s scream before silence. Every connection earned, every minute counted.

Latency taught patience. Scarcity taught care.
Some lessons still guide the light.

Morning watch steady.
We’ll keep it on.

#HauntedLighthouse #LighthouseLore #TechKeeper #IndieWeb #SelfHosting #MorningWatch

does anyone have recommendations for software i can self host that will serve a local video library with a somewhat youtube-like UI? i tried jellyfin but it doesn't let videos have descriptions, and i couldn't get mediacms to install under podman

#selfhosting #selfhost #jellyfin #homelab #homeserver

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Larvitz/115678438984350657

FreeBSD 15.0-p1 fixed the bhyve regression, I've had 🙂 Home-server now running stable on the new release

YAY!

root@voyager:~ # freebsd-version -kru
15.0-RELEASE
15.0-RELEASE
15.0-RELEASE-p1

root@voyager:~ # uptime
10:14PM up 58 mins, 2 users, load averages: 1.27, 1.44, 1.22

#freebsd #freebsd15 #selfhosting

Larvitz » 🌐 2025-12-07
@Larvitz@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Found a regression with PCI passthru with bhyve VMs on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. An Intel I210 Ethernet device, that is passed through into a (FreeBSD) VM gets unresponsive 1-4 minutes after booting the VM. Worked perfectly fine on 14.x.

Boot environments saved the day (again). Just a quick "bectl activate 14.3-RELEASE-p6_2025-12-02" plus a reboot and everything was working perfectly again 🙂

Of course did report the bug in the FreeBSD bz: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291459

#freebsd #freebsd15 #sysadmin #zfs #bhyve

Starting to think that using #OpenHAB for my "smarthome" for my case is kinda overkill…

I have some sensors (temperature and humidity), some reed switches for windows and possibly I'll add thermostats for heating batteries (because here, even with 0°C outside, the central heating works for all the money and it is impossible to sleep and work without all opened windows). All things are using #ZigBee so my #server uses some ZigBee coordinator dongle and #zigbee2mqtt with some MQTT broker inside. I already able to read all necessary data from sensors by reading the right MQTT topics.

And the OpenHAB just communicates with my MQTT broker and displays some nice widgets on the Web UI. This is cool, because I don't need to think about how to work with MQTT and how to output data — all somehow works "by magic".

But the price is very big. The OpenHAB eats near 600 MB of RAM and swaps a lot (near 1 GB for now). It is a largest memory consuming service in my server, which has only 2 GB of RAM (and a RAM prices already increased here ). And also it's sandbox takes near 3.5 GB of SSD space.

So, do I really need not to think about how it all works under the hood while wearing out my SSD or get some services OOMed if I disable swap and start e.g. using BorgBackup? Looks like the game is not worth the candle. I can literally pick #EclipseMosquitto #C library, unwrap some memories about how to use CGI and get the same nice page with sensors data and some logic inside. But with a waaaay less memory footprint and with possibility to open this page from #Dillo

#SelfHosting

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OpenHAB page with two well-drawn barometer+thermometer, showing data for living room and kitchen. And a small widget below, showing state of windows (one green and opened and other yellow and closed).

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OpenHAB page showing battery levels for my phone, for temperature/humidity sensors and for reed switcher. Each record has a nice looking battery icon, showing a level of battery for the each device.

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Top output from my server. The java process (belongs to OpenHAB) eats 615 MB of wired memory and 5.96% of CPU. The swap has 1157 MB used and 879 MB free.

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The output of "du -hs" for catalog with OpenHAB sandbox — the size of this catalog is 3.5 GB.

Dear people selfhosting, how do you manage:

- different services running differently (Docker, VMs, Python virtual env, Go binaries...)
- backups of all these things?

Do you have one server for everything? Do you create containers per application? (but then what about applications that are already containerized ?)

#SelfHosting #Docker #LXC #containers #Linux

This is all very fascinating, but hear me out. You can’t name the product “Immich” and expect people to call it “Image”.

#selfhosting #SelfHosted #selfhost

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113667636910565210

Good morning Fedi friends! Today is the 1 year anniversary of the start of my #selfhosting adventures with #YunoHost.

I'm currently self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Pixelfed, #PeerTube and #NextCloud – and I'm always on the lookout for the next great app to install.

Thank you @yunohost for making me a more empowered digital citizen 💖

To give back, I'm writing a simple #selfhosting guide for newbies. ICYMI, here's the latest chapter: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-2-installation-setup/

Wishing you all a great day!

Currently writing a self-hosting guide for newbies, showing off the beauty and ease of #YunoHost.

Part 1 was really popular - beyond my expectations - with 1500+ unique visitors. Thank you!

For reference:

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

Part 2 (step-by-step installation and post-installation) will be super visual. I tried to keep things simple but I still have 27 - yes TWENTY-SEVEN - screenshots. I'll keep #AltText relevant to each step on a need to know basis or else it will turn into a novel... and will be too overwhelming for people using screen readers.

Aiming to get it published by Wednesday AKA the one year anniversary of the start of my own self-hosting adventures with YunoHost.

This is the guide I wish I had had back in the day... I would have started A LOT sooner. I'm basically writing it to my old self, hoping it will be useful for others 🥹

PSA: if you're using YunoHost please consider donating to them, to keep the project healthy and long-lasting (it's run by a team of volunteers, maintaining hundreds of apps): https://donate.yunohost.org

#MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS #advocacy #selfhosting

One more thing that really defies my expectations. This is a media LIBRARY. A library is a thing where one organises information to make it findable. So while it is fine to have “recently added” or “recently watched”, and it’s fine to make them prominent, it is not fine to hide the library and the organisation.

These apps offer a zillion ways to organise: recently added, next up, unwatched, related. They don’t show you your library structure. I find it hard to believe there are many people out there like me who have hundreds of films, but DONT organise them. Surely they can’t be the majority. Surely people are not dumping every film into one giant folder and hoping the apps will sort it out.

I know what I want better than they do. Show the fucking hierarchy that I built.
#Jellyfin #movies #selfhosting

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Photo of the movies menu in the infuse app on AppleTV. It offers the following options. All Movies Recently Added Unwatched By Genre By Rating By Release Date By Age Rating By Resolution Feature Films

My router interface traffic graphs are pretty useless. Every night around 2:00am, various things run backups. Some do backups across the network, others copy out to an off-site location. But the bottom line is that if I look at my network interface graphs, that massive spike every night ruins the Y axis.

These are the daily, weekly, and monthly graphs. And the fact that daily hits around 450M, but ordinary hours are like 8-10M, it means I can't see the rest of the graph. It means that I can't spot changes or interesting things.

I'm not really sure how to do better. (It's amateur hour over here)

#network #homelab #selfhosting

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A daily graph with hours on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. From 2:00 to almost 4:00 there's a huge spike up to 450 Mb per second.

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A weekly graph with days of the week on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. Each day there's this sharp green spike up to 450 Mb per second.

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A monthly graph with weeks on the X axis and Mb per second on the Y axis. In and out are blue and green, but they're basically indistinguishable from the X axis line. There are 5 sharp spikes up to 450 Mb per second in each week.

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 2: installation & setup"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-2-installation-setup/

with a special shout-out to @shollyethan and @ilja who, a year ago, encouraged me to try self-hosting. And of course immense gratitude to the @yunohost team for making all this possible ❤️

I hope this guide may inspire others to try it, too. The path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought...

#selfhosting #FOSS #empowerment

The lighthouse wakes before the
world. Frost on the railinas, servers
humming like a steady tide, coffee
steaming against the cold. No hype
No noise. Just a calm beam cutting
through winter static, guiding
wanderers who prefer warmth, craft
and quiet control over their own corner
of the sea
#LighthouseLore #WinterCalm
#SelfHosting #Fediverse #QuietTech

The web gets loud at dusk — dashboards blinking, feeds shouting, algorithms jangling their loose change.
Up here, the Lighthouse stays steady.
Quiet servers. Human pace. No bait, no burn.

If you’re tired of the noise, you know where we are.
The light’s on. Always was.

#LighthouseLore #Fediverse #CalmTech #SelfHosting #DigitalQuiet

I wish there would be end-to-end encrypted, federated micro-blog social media. Social media entries and media aren't stored in plain text, but rather encrypted on the server, and only users who have subscribed to them have the ability to decrypt it.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #DecentralisedWeb #EndToEndEncryption #PrivacyMatters #SecureSocialMedia #ActivityPub #DigitalRights #DataOwnership #OnlinePrivacy #FederatedNetworks #CryptoSocial #PrivacyFirst #SelfHosting #OpenSource #DigitalFreedom #SafeSpacesOnline #EncryptionNow #SocialMediaReform #UserControl #NoSurveillance #DecentralisedSocial #TechForGood #PrivacyTools #DigitalSovereignty #StopDataHarvesting #OwnYourData #SecureMessaging #PrivacyActivism #DigitalJustice #Web3 #InformationSecurity #CyberSecurity #OnlineFreedom #ResistSurveillance

My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

Monday morning.
The world boots loudly, throws pop-ups, demands passwords and obedience.
Out here, we check the weather, scan the logs, and get on with it.
No stand-up meetings with a thousand ghosts. No growth hacks.
Just quiet systems, owned end-to-end, doing exactly what they’re told.
Light steady. Coffee strong. Let’s begin.

#LighthouseLore #MondayMorning #SelfHosting #Fediverse #QuietPower

Seit ein paar Wochen folge ich @HolosSocial, weil ich die Idee einer eigenen Instanz, die vollständig als Smartphone-App läuft (ggf. plus eigener Relay-Server), ziemlich interessant finde.

Habt ihr Einwände, die dagegen sprechen würden?

mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/115691449342113089

#HolosSocial #SelfHosting #FediVerse

Dear Fedi friends,

I just hit "publish" on my blog post "A newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements". It's here if you wanna read it:

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-1-reasons-requirements/

This guide is intended for true newbies who are curious about self-hosting some essential digital services. I'm hoping to dispel some myths about self-hosting and make it appear accessible to all. Well, at least to people curious about it but hesitant to get started because they think it's too complicated. That was me up to a year ago.

Special thanks and shout-out to @ilja for setting my journey in motion. And eternal gratitude to @yunohost for the way they are empowering us all with the tools to self-host

#MySoCalledSudoLife #blog #BigTech #rebellion #digitalsovereignty #NextCloud