Spent a solid hour wrestling with cable management for my nascent home server rack setup. This is going to be a journey! Any pro tips for keeping things organized when you're adding new hardware all the time? My current 'system' is just... hope. 😂

#HomeLab #SelfHosting #ServerRack

Kleines Rätsel aus dem homelab:

Der pod läuft seit dem letzten Artikel schön automatisiert - plötzlich war ein container aktualisiert, ohne dass auto-update lief.

Des Rätsels Lösung: Bei :latest zieht podman kube play beim Service-Neustart selbst nach.

Neuer quick-tipp: Warum das so ist und wie imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent das abstellt 👇

https://just-stuff.blog/podman-kube-play-latest-imagepullpolicy/

#Podman #Linux #systemd #Container #SelfHosting #FOSS

It would be interesting to see how people who are nomadic (van life type folks) do homelab/selfhosting. That has to put a fascinating wrinkle in it. Power and connectivity solutions especially, running a Pi off solar vs. dealing with Starlink power draw, that kind of thing.

#SelfHosting #Homelab #VanLife #OpenSource

Ich habe #OpenAI #Codex in #ChatGPT heute folgende Admin-Aufgabe gegeben:

Herausfinden, warum eine #SSH-Verbindung zu Server „Orion“ über #autossh und einen lokalen, per #Homebrew installierten #Tor-SOCKS-Proxy nicht funktioniert, während der Zugang über #Tailscale klappt.

„Orion“ als Tailscale Exit Node konfigurieren.

Die Exit-Routen anschliessend auf dem #YunoHost-Server „Andromeda“ über die Konsole der #Headscale-App freigeben.

Codex hat selbstständig die SSH-Konfiguration, Host-Aliase, Portbelegung, Tor-Dienst, Hidden Service und Timeouts überprüft. Gefunden wurden ein fehlender SSH-Alias, ein für Tor zu kurzer Verbindungs-Timeout und ein bereits belegter lokaler Port durch eine andere autossh-Verbindung.

Danach hat Codex die SSH-Konfiguration korrigiert, die Onion-Verbindung erfolgreich getestet, auf „Orion“ die IPv4- und IPv6-Exit-Routen via Tailscale annonciert und sie auf „Andromeda“ direkt in der YunoHost-App-Konsole von Headscale freigegeben. Bestehende Subnet-Routen blieben erhalten.

Dauer: ungefähr 5 Minuten, inklusive Diagnose, Änderungen und abschliessender Verifikation.

Schon beeindruckend, wie weit agentisches Arbeiten mit OpenAI, Codex und ChatGPT inzwischen geht: nicht nur Kommandos vorschlagen, sondern eine mehrstufige Infrastrukturaufgabe nachvollziehbar untersuchen und ausführen.

#Linux #macOS #SelfHosting #Sysadmin #Homelab #AI

Neuer Quick-Tip im Blog:

Distro-Upgrade durch, alles läuft – denkt man. Dann räuspert sich PostgreSQL bei jeder Verbindung: Sortierfolgen-Version stimmt nicht. 🙃

Der glibc-Sprung schlägt wieder zu, quasi Teil 2 nach dem charlock_holmes-Drama. Spoiler: Die Warnung einfach wegdrücken wäre die schlechteste Idee, erst reindizieren!

https://just-stuff.blog/postgresql-collation-version-mismatch-glibc-upgrade/

#PostgreSQL #Debian #Trixie #Linux #SelfHosting #Mastodon

Good morrow Fediverse,

My name is Ben Looper, I'm a software engineer of five years currently living in Houston, TX...but not for much longer!
My wife and I are moving up to Calgary, AB, and I'm taking the opportunity to make some positive changes in my life, one of the first being to write more.

I have a few projects that my ADHD brain bounces between, and I want to begin fearlessly talking about them here, rather than verbal vomiting about them to whatever poor soul asks me about them.

Maybe (hopefully) these smaller updates will cascade into longer, more detailed pieces, but for now I'll be very happy to just share bits and bites, and to engage with others on stuff they're working on.

That last point specifically is what I'm most excited for - I don't have many people in my life that I can full-blown nerd out about this stuff with, and I really hope that I can find a community here to do that with.

Thanks, and happy hacking 📎
#Introduction #NewHere #Homelab #SelfHosting #NixOS #Sysadmin #calgary

@jon If you have the technical skills #selfHosting is the best way to go. You're in full control of your data and you don't have to worry about vendor rug pulls or price spikes.

Fixing #Sveltia CMS auth on #Forgejo + #Anubis

https://bouvier.cc/tech/fixing-sveltia-cms-auth-on-forgejo-anubis/

Small note explaining how I've set up the Sveltia CMS for my #blog, and made Forgejo authentication work despite Anubis challenges getting in the way!

#selfhosting

So I'm with #PaperlessNgx. Which also has some nice 3rd party #iOS clients.

#PaperParrot even supports scanning with my #Canon network MFD.

Both lack a very important feature - offline access. Well, PaperParrot has some, but it can download all your documents at once. You can't choose.

#selfhosted #selfhosting #selfhost

Today I needed to find an old paper document. Also today I realized how badly I need a #PaperlessNgx or #Papra. Coincidence? I don't think so.

This is crazy how many useless papers we have accumulated over the years.

I set up both to figure out a better option.

#selfhosted #homelab #selfhosting #selfhost #personalCloud #HomeCloud

I’m thinking about turning my #VPS in a #Proxmox node and adding it to my #homelab cluster. All other nodes are at my home. They will communicate through #WireGaurd. How bad is this idea? Anyone tried this?

#AskFedi #SelfHosted #selfhost #selfhosting #proxmoxve #ProxmoxCluster

Big shout out to #MusicBrainz
#Picard #MusicBrainzPicard

Works. Free. No ads.

You can donate here
https://metabrainz.org/donate

#OpenSource #Navidrome #selfhosting

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Screen grab of MusicBrains > About

Help me out #Fediverse #selfhosting :

Is there a word or name for the phase of my life when every problem looks like a good excuse to purchase a used Dell Optiplex?

Gmail blocks emails, even from friends and family, if they use another email host without the technical settings they demand. This means people who self-host their email can be blocked from communicating with #Gmail users.

One solution: Gmail users could move to an email host that does not block from known contacts in your own address book!

I suspect many Gmail users are unaware of this change beginning in 2024.

https://m-chrzan.xyz/blog/sending-mail-to-gmail.html

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126

#censorship #SelfHosting

A little #introduction post to get me started here:

I’m just bee seventytwo, you know? (he / him)

Interested in what makes things better for everyone, but probably not very interesting in myself.

Some ideas to get to know me:
#Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosting #TheLeft #Kindness #Cats

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

#NoBot #NoBridge #NoAI

You can contact me on XMPP: b72@disroot.org

Working on a brand new post for my series "a newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost" - showing people how to set up their own #GoToSocial microblogging instance.

Sorry it's been taking a while: I started over when I realized most people use subdomains... and I'm doing a thorough step-by-step explainer that any newbie could follow - I hope 😅

The whole series is available here:

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

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #blog

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a screenshot of GoToSocial's installation page on YunoHost that reads: "GoToSocial Current version: 0.22.0~ynh1 Potential alternative to: Akkoma, Bluesky, Calckey, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Threads, X GoToSocial is a fast ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang. With GoToSocial, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles. All without being tracked or advertised to! The official documentation is at docs.gotosocial.org. Admins are strongly encouraged to read the documentation of this package after installing it. It is available in the webadmin under Applications > gotosocial (at the bottom) or here on the package's repository! Please note that this package uses the "i'm so tired" software license 1.0, please read it and accept it before proceeding with installation."

A few things to share, nginx: CVE-2026-42533 dropped yesterday 2026-07-15. It is fixed in nginx 1.31.3, also released yesterday. CVSS 8.1 or 9.2 depending on the nginx version. It's a heap buffer overflow in the map directive when regex... regardless, it is unauthenticated, needs a custom HTTP request, can crash it or lead to code execution if Address space layout randomization (ASLR) is disabled, or bypassed. Don't disable memory randomization. Not sure how to bypass ASLR, I'll have to look into that.

glibc CVE-2026-5450 originally disclosed 2026-04-20 so it's "not new." What's new is the SSVC exploitation flag flipping to "poc" within the last 21 days meaning a proof-of-concept surfaced recently for an April CVE, which is the "weaponized old CVE" pattern we see regularly. No vendor patch exists? Maybe i'm missing it. CVSS 9.8, scanf %mc off-by-one heap overflow with an explicit width >1024... real-world exposure is low even with a PoC out.

Debian 13.6 was released 2026-07-11. It's a point release, bundled a ton of security advisories including and an expired Secure Boot CA fix. It's the routine patch cycle.

Make it so.

#minimalist #Linux #Selfhosting #selfhosted #selfhost #InfoSec #Exploit

Habt ihr eine Idee, welche #OpenSource gerne auch #SelfHosting Lösung als eine Art Reisetagebuch geeignet ist?

AdventureLog bekomme ich beim besten Willen nicht zum Laufen und wäre evtl. auch etwas overkill.

Im Prinzip möchte mein Papa ähnlich dem WhatsApp Status immer mal wieder Bilder / Text seiner Fahrrad-Trips posten die nicht unbedingt voll öffentlich sondern halt "Seinen Kontakten" oder Leuten mit Link dazu geteilt werden können.
#FragFedi #Linux #FOSS #Reise #Tagebuch

📝 Hosting DokuWiki on FreeBSD with Bastille, nginx, and Caddy // hofstede.it

https://blog.hofstede.it/hosting-dokuwiki-on-freebsd-with-bastille-nginx-and-caddy/

#freebsd #bsd #batille #nginx #caddy #selfhosting

Have setup a server with #YunoHost and really liking it so far. It gives me the #Selfhosting projects that I want that I can manage now that selfhosting is a little burdensome with my version Parkinson's. I was considering downsizing my selfhosting menu because I was afraid of catastrophic loss due to poor digit control of my hands and using the terminal for even the most simple tasks. May soon migrate my Mastodon instance... I have all this bandwidth due to needing business class internet in my home. Hate to waste it, not to mention I have unlimited storage space because due to selfhosted hardware. @yunohost

Have setup a server with #YunoHost and really liking it so far. It gives me the #Selfhosting projects that I want that I can manage now that selfhosting is a little burdensome with my version Parkinson's. I was considering downsizing my selfhosting menu because I was afraid of catastrophic loss due to poor digit control of my hands and using the terminal for even the most simple tasks. May soon migrate my Mastodon instance... I have all this bandwidth due to needing business class internet in my home. Hate to waste it, not to mention I have unlimited storage space because due to selfhosted hardware. @yunohost

I built Kollect because browser tabs are a terrible reading list.

It’s a native Plasma 6 link collector written in C++/Qt/Kirigami: plain TOML files by default, optional self-hosted FastAPI/SQLite storage, KWallet secrets, MiniMax M3 metadata enrichment, and a proper Fedora RPM.

Small, inspectable software that solves one problem well.

https://blog.hofstede.it/kollect-the-native-kde-link-collector-i-built-for-myself/

#KDE #Linux #SelfHosting #Qt #Development

You Were Right: Here's the Better Way to Do Homelab HTTPS #homelab #selfhosting
Watch here: https://youtu.be/XEltHEZU6aE

as someone with essentially no web development experience, but who would like to learn the fundamentals, what modern, lightweight frameworks exist that I should check out? Or should I just do some raw html and javascript stuff?

I'm very partial to simple, efficient design that can be served from low-end hardware. My use-case is for self-hosting some projects and wiki pages, including a small e-commerce shop for custom electronics. I've written a tiny amount of html, but css makes me throw up a bit in my mouth.

my buddy has offered to "help" with his Fable access, and this is a cry for help.

#selfhosting #webdev

Auf meinem Schreibtisch steht eine vollständige Cloud.
Kleiner als ein Taschenbuch, leiser als der Lüfter neben dir, sparsamer als eine Glühbirne. Kein Abo, keine fremde Cloud, keine Blackbox. Sie gehört mir.

Möglich macht das eine Architektur, die erwachsen geworden ist: ARM, energieeffizient, leise. Dazu eine schlanke, quelloffene Software aus Berlin @OpenCloud@opencloud.eu , die die Daten dort lässt, wo man sie hinlegt.

Ein neuer Artikel über ARM, den aus den Fugen geratenen Speichermarkt, die Freiheit, sich selbst auszusperren, und ein Mini-Rechenzentrum, das aussehen will wie ein kleines Gebäude.

Viel Spass beim Lesen!
👉 https://www.pandolin.io/die-cloud-die-in-eine-hand-passt/

#DigitaleSouveränität #SelfHosting #OpenCloud #ARM #Fediverse #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

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Illustration des Pandolin-Maskottchens, ein Pangolin, der an einem Schreibtisch ein kleines leuchtendes Mini-Rechenzentrum in den Klauen hält

Why rent a server when you can own one? #selfhosting is not just about control, it's about cutting the corporate umbilical cord.

Cloud services are profitable for big tech, but the hidden costs of data privacy breaches and vendor lock-in hit hard. Self-hosting offers independence and resilience in the digital age.

selfhosting clouddependence digitalfreedom

https://wopr.systems/?utm_campaign=meme_nodez3r0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

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Cloud services are profitable for big tech, but the hidden costs of data privacy breaches and vendor lock-in hit hard. Self-hosting offers independence and resilience in the digital age.

GitHub gehört Microsoft. Zeit für einen Ausweg.

GitHub gehört seit 2018 Microsoft, unterliegt dem US Cloud Act und lässt Copilot seit April 2026 standardmäßig mit deinem Code trainieren, wenn du nicht widersprichst. Codeberg ist die naheliegende Alternative: gemeinnützig, europäisch, ohne Konzern im Rücken. Reden wir drüber!

https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-07-12-12-49-32-github-gehoert-microsoft-zeit-fuer-einen-ausweg/

#chrislo #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #ServerInfrastruktur #GitHub #Codeberg #GitLab #Microsoft #OpenSource #CloudAct #Copilot #SelfHosting

Something really important happened. My wife approved #iCloud to #Immich migration. She tried the mobile app and liked it much more than the iOS Photos app.
Now the only thing we need is to wait for the Immich sharing overhaul release around version 3.1 or 3.2: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/pull/27437

#SelfHosted #selfhosting #selfhost #homelab #PhotoLibrary #waf

What do self-hosting folks use on their phone (android) for email and calendar integration?

I'm on k9mail and use nextcloud for calendar. I'd really like to accept meeting invite/updates on my phone. I can open the ics file but that seems to struggle with timezones and other small issues.

#SelfHosting #FediHelp

GitHub gehört Microsoft. Zeit für einen Ausweg.

GitHub gehört seit 2018 Microsoft, unterliegt dem US Cloud Act und lässt Copilot seit April 2026 standardmäßig mit deinem Code trainieren, wenn du nicht widersprichst. Codeberg ist die naheliegende Alternative: gemeinnützig, europäisch, ohne Konzern im Rücken. Reden wir drüber!

https://www.chrislo.de/blog/2026-07-12-12-49-32-github-gehoert-microsoft-zeit-fuer-einen-ausweg/

#chrislo #DigitaleUnabhängigkeit #ServerInfrastruktur #GitHub #Codeberg #GitLab #Microsoft #OpenSource #CloudAct #Copilot #SelfHosting

#selfhosting enlighten me, how do I secure, and I mean THOROUGHLY secure, a public facing service (say forgejo/ntfy/matrix homeserver) etc properly, so that I can actually expose them to the public internet and inbound connections?

I am not yet hosting such services, mostly because I'm worried I'll badly mess up somewhere

BUT I really, really want to do it and do it well, all the kubernetes, containers, VM and orchestration talk sounds really nice!

(While we're at it, can someone teach me the difference between a homelab and a homeserver?)

#selfhosted #selfhosting #homeserver #homelab #kubernetes #orchestration #containers #vms

#Selfhosting life hack

Document the fuck out of your setup.
Ive just spend 15 minutes finding where one of my Zone managers is (They merged with another firm)

Qual será a próxima? Desconfiemos de todo projeto com esse modelo híbrido "Community Edition" altamente merdificável. Tentemos focar no software livre e não nos deixemos enganar pela conversa corporativa do chamado código aberto enquanto convém.

Felizmente, o que foi desenvolvido até então está publicado sob #AGPLv3, algo que, por nos conceder as quatro liberdades essenciais para isso, garante à comunidade que qualquer parte interessada assuma a liderança do projeto para tirar o barco da deriva, digo, continuar seu desenvolvimento como derivado. Parece até que isso já começou. Contudo, como há outros projetos mais ativos com propósitos semelhantes, não há certeza de que seu desenvolvimento continuará.

A notícia já é antiga, de meses atrás, mas tomei ciência apenas hoje. A primeira vez que tive contato com esse programa e o utilizei foi muito recentemente, ao implantar meu servidor #EntePhotos, de cuja documentação MinIO faz parte como armazenamento local. Agora vai ter que ficar assim, na última versão lançada, ao menos por algum tempo. Estava cogitando usar MinIO para mais funções, mas vou deixá-lo apenas para o armazenamento de objetos locais do Ente mesmo. Já devia ter usado algum outro sistema de armazenamento com API compatível com S3. Não é interessante começar algo com um componente importante já descontinuado. Lembrete a mim mesmo: mais atenção a dependências, na próxima vez!

#MinIO #selfhosting #softwareLivre #blambers

#selfhosting #Garage #S3 #storage #blambers #AGPLv3 #SoftwareLivre

Hello Fediverse 👋

We’re building ForkMesh: a community-owned Git forge for public and private repos.

Host projects, mirror code across real machines, sign collaboration, and keep work reachable beyond outages, takedowns, or walled gardens.

Run a node. Start a repo. Mirror what matters.

https://forkmesh.com

#ForkMesh #Fediverse #Git #SelfHosting #OpenSource

I've cleaned up my Raspberry Pi selfhosting setup a bit. I'm using two, each in an Argon ONE V5 case with a 1TB NVME drive, running Raspberry Pi OS.

'one' is serving Nextcloud All-in-one, Immich and Vaultwarden via a Caddy reverse-proxy. All using Docker containers, Caddy as a custom build with my domain DNS provider added.

'two' is used as remote borg backup destination for 'one', and later a few monitoring tools.

All three sites are using a wildcard certificate for my domain, and I connect via WireGuard (on the router) when away from home.

Path of least resistance:

I've tried Podman, AlmaLinux, and running a manual install of Nextcloud on Ubuntu. This setup follows recommended installations methods, and gives me fewer things to worry about.

#selfhosting #raspberrypi #nextcloud #immich #vaultwarden #caddy #wireguard

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Photo of whiteboard with green text and drawings. Left: WireGuard, Caddy, Vaultwarden, Nextcloud, Immich and BorgBackup, each with a check mark. Right: a simple illustration showing server 'one' and 'two' and borg backup flow.

Sometimes newer is not better. At least not for the things that matter to you.

I benchmarked two OVH VPS in the same Zurich location. My current 2025 model with a 500 Mbit network against the newer 2027 model with 1 Gbit. Same AMD EPYC Genoa cores, same provider, nearly identical sysbench CPU scores.

Then the surprises started.
The older box pushes 6,612 MiB/s in memory tests, the newer one 932 MiB/s. That is 7x.
Random 4K reads: 1.32 million IOPS against 832k.
And the old model is even about 1 EUR cheaper.

For a Mastodon instance, databases, and Docker workloads, memory and disk beat extra bandwidth every time. So the shiny new VPS gets demoted to reverse proxy and backup duty, and this instance stays exactly where it is.

Benchmark before you migrate.

#SelfHosting #Mastodon #Fediverse #VPS #OVH #Benchmarks #Homelab #Blog #MastoAdmin

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Screenshot of the OVH control panel showing two active VPS in the EU-WEST-LZ-ZRH location: vps-817e781a.vps.ovh.net labeled vps-2027-model2.LZ and zrh-1.dol.ch labeled vps-2025-model1.LZ. Both marked Active, the model names underlined in red

Are you into 3D printing, self-hosting and the Fediverse?

If so you might want to look into Manyfold, a FOSS Fediverse platform which lets you upload and share 3D print models:

🌱 https://manyfold.app

You can follow the official accounts at:

🌱 @manyfold@3dp.chat (main)
🌱 @manyfold@makertube.net (videos)

You can host your own Manyfold server using the instructions at https://manyfold.app/get-started/installation (be warned though, installation does require a bit of tech skill).

#3DPrinting #SelfHosting #Fediverse #ActivityPub