More loggia work.
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#HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #HomeAssistant

For anyone following this #selfhosting thread, I am already in love with Immich:

• Trivial integration with Authentik for OAuth SSO
• hierarchical albums
• Effortless launching as an app on TrueNAS
• tagging
• Customizable share links. (E.g. if I want the public link to my album to be /s/Christmas2025, I can do that)

It does not upload folders (ente did that trivially), but I still like it.

Ente is about privacy. Since your password acts as an e2e encryption key, they can’t support SSO. They can’t do server-side ML like OCR or facial recognition. The only way to do ML stuff with Ente is a desktop app or a mobile app (running on your desktop or phone’s CPU!)

Immich does not do the e2e stuff at all, which gives you all the server-side benefits.

If you lose your Ente encryption key, you have lost all your photos, even though you still have the data. Immich is just files on a disk and a Postgres database. Easier to backup and restore.
#photos

Amusing. I wrestled and wrestled several evenings this week and finally got #ente installed #selfhosted. Much like #JellyFin before it, as soon as I got working with it I disliked it. I"m going to shut it down and try #immich.

The two deal breakers for me were:

• No tags. Ente literally doesn't let you tag photos. It has facial recognition and "favourites." But no tags.
• No hierarchy. I don't understand how someone puts 60,000 photos into a series of albums that have no hierarchy. No folders, no nested albums. Just a straight, flat topology of albums.

JellyFin was like that with video. No way to organize MY way. Only their way or the highway.

#selfhosting

Six of my 194 backups came back failed. Retry did nothing.

I had just published an article about pulling 2 TB out of Glacier Deep Archive for 15 dollars flat rate, so I assumed flat rate has limits after all.

It does. Just not that one.

CloudFront refuses to serve a file over 50 GB in one GET. Mine were 250 to 350 GB, because years ago I decided one big archive is easier to move around than many small ones, and I did not think one step further.

The way around it is in the AWS docs. One curl per 40 GB chunk with a Range header, then cat the parts back together. Worked first time, 250 GB in about an hour.

AWS is still not switched off, by the way. Not because of AWS. The disks in my NAS have ten years of runtime on them and HDD prices right now are out of control.

Wrote it up with the script:
https://www.dol.ch/en/blog/cloudfront-50gb-limit-en/

#AWS #CloudFront #S3 #Backup #Bash #SelfHosting #Homelab #Blog

I'm looking for some self-hosted, opensource, service help. I need to monitor a bunch of the services I'm running around the house and the only dashboard I've come across is kuma. It looks like what I need, but I like to shop around before choosing.

Does any self-hosters here have suggestions?

https://uptimekuma.co

#selfhosting #homelab #opensource

It has been a while since I wrote a proper long guide about something I actually love doing.

In September 2025 I wrote up how to run Mastodon on Kubernetes. That blog is gone, the guide survives only in the Web Archive. A text about backups that exists as somebody else's copy. At least it stayed on topic.

So I rewrote all of it against Mastodon 4.6.

The part I got wrong the first time was the most important one: Postgres as a Deployment with a PVC next to it.
Kubernetes sends SIGTERM, Postgres reads that as a smart shutdown and waits for every client to disconnect. Sidekiq never does. Thirty seconds later, SIGKILL and a crash recovery.

CloudNativePG and continuous WAL archiving now, RPO down from 24 hours to minutes. Still no Helm, everything by hand, because I want to understand what runs.

My own instance came off Kubernetes in March, purely on cost. This is the config as it last ran.

https://www.dol.ch/en/blog/mastodon-4-6-kubernetes-en/

#Kubernetes #PostgreSQL #CloudNativePG #SelfHosting #DevOps #Mastodon #Blog #Fediverse

Testing out #MEGA S4 #objectstorage. A compatible S3-like service combined with #Synology #HyperBackup.

https://mega.io/objectstorage

Perfect for backup, archives, media, and video storage.

#selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab #backup

If I want to run something Linuxy on a network to collect SNMP and syslog events, and generate alerts or take actions if those events reach a certain threshold, or match certain combinations, what software should I look at?

Preferably "free" and the other "free" too, but I'm open to other options...

#selfhosted #selfhosting

We are officially a fully selfhosted home, no more relying on external services for communication, note sharing, picture sharing and a bunch of others

Couldn't be more proud 😊

https://halis.io/

#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #homeprod #immich #matrix #element #affine #federated

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Screenshot of the halis.io homepage, showing a globe with orbiting service icons.

Interesting!

https://cloudinabottle.org/

#selfhosting #opensource

#SelfHosting #VPS #IPv6

I now also have a favicon (goodbye Susie ) and I overhauled my config Fun! #selfHosting #customEmoji

As a #selfhosting collective with similar values as #autistici/inventati we are very saddened by the news that their services are getting shut down due to them being illegitimately listed as terrorism supporters by the very biggest and strongest global terrorist #USA government. Here's our letter of support for collective written in Slovene and translated into Italian and English.

https://kompot.si/wiki/izjave_pismo-podpore-autistici-inventati

We hope that many new independent services will rise up instead.

The newsletter dashboard couldn't read its own subscriber list. The password had drifted from the one the Cloudflare Worker wrote with, and a Worker secret can't be read back to check which was right.

So the list moved onto the mail server: one Rust service, four Postgres tables. The send lock is a primary key now — insert the slug, and a second send just fails. That replaced a paragraph of WebDAV precondition reasoning.

#rustlang #selfhosting #email

https://lindfors.no/blog/newsletter-on-my-own-server/?utm_source=mastodon

Ich hab mal mein Home Assistant Dashboard neu gebaut (erstes Bild). 😛

Langsam gefällt es mir echt gut. Die ganzen anderen Seiten des Dashboards (Links oben in der Headbar) sind noch sehr Home Assistant Default. Aber eine kleine Auswahl hänge ich auch noch mit an.

Fragen erwünscht. :-P

#homeassistant #selfhosted #selfhosting #home #homeautomation #smarthome #dashboard

The trendy new term Homelabbing is gradually becoming part of our everyday lives. Essentially, it means building servers at home and running pretty much any software you can think of on them.
There are countless ways to use a homelab. You can install ready-made solutions like Home Assistant, set up a database, build a home media library, run your own service, or deploy yet another app you vibe-coded over a weekend.
What got me interested in Homelabbing was an old laptop. Its battery had died for the second time in a year, and there was no way to upgrade its RAM beyond 8 GB. I started thinking about replacing the laptop, but the old machine turned out to be a great platform for getting familiar with Homelabbing and Self-Hosted solutions.
For the operating system, I chose Proxmox. In my opinion, it is one of the most convenient options for projects like this thanks to its open-source nature, extensive set of tools for working with virtual machines, and convenient web interface.
The first thing I installed on the server was Home Assistant, along with a Linux virtual machine for learning the popular Hermes tool. I’ll talk about both of them in more detail in upcoming posts.

#Homelab #Homelabbing #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #HomeServer #Proxmox #ProxmoxVE #HomeAssistant #Linux #Virtualization #OpenSource #DevOps #SysAdmin #HomeLab #Docker #Server #Networking #VibeCoding #Tech

Welp. My Forgejo instance got popped with an RCE two days ago by CVE-2026-60004. Luckily, I noticed the following morning and had the day free to figure out what happened. Let's dive in!

As a homelab enthusiast, I found this a very interesting post. Here are my take aways from the post that I'm implementing myself:

• Miner detection. I've updated monitoring rules to now watch the CPU on my hosts. If the same thing happened to me I would not have been alerted at all as I'm doing simple up / down monitoring. Fixed.
• Access logging. I turned on access logging for my homelab Caddy instances.
• Log retention. I have increased the amount and retention of my logging. The hope is this will help me reconstruct what happened after a breach.
• Logs offsite. The VPS access logs now ride along with the normal backup process, which runs hourly. The homelab side still only gets caught by the weekly VM backup, so that's next.
• Closed an open signup. My webtrees instance (genealogy) had self registration enabled, which is the same door this guy got hit through. Oops. Fixed.
• Built a tool. log-inventory.sh, so "could I actually reconstruct what happened" is a command I run instead of a thing I assume.

My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem – Phunky Cafe

#Selfhosting #Security

please boost.

https://solarpunk.au/

been running this 45 TB disk array for some time now.

the intention behind it was to provide services to the community.

i was thinking, what sort of services do you want to see or use?

some ideas:

- IRC
- gemini/gopher, there are some forum softwares
- neocities instance

i'd like there to be some way to share this disk space in a useful way.

#selfhosting #permacomputing #solarpunk

Same server, now with Nextcloud AIO added. Memory usage is about 1.3 GB.

#nextcloud #AlpineLinux #RaspberryPi #SelfHosting

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Screen shot of 'htop' running on Alpine Linux. Memory usage is 1.29 GB, load average 0.00/0.12/0.09

Fishing for an answer: Please tell me your favorite self-hosted photo web app (or share with your friends who know one) that:

• Can run in linux, docker

• Supports multiple users, each with the ability to manage their own independent photos and albums.

• Includes a nice slide-show feature over user-curated albums, include "smart" albums (i.e. albums created dynamically based on search criteria).

• Has good metadata support (geolocation, timeline, tags, faces), including preloading metadata from EXIF tags.

• Includes a smartphone app that syncs the device's camera roll.

Basically, a practical replacement for Google Photos. Any ideas?

#HiveMind #SelfHosting #HomeLab #Photography #Photos

@brendan
@stefano

Looking forward to your posts.

I'm hosting #IPv6only since 2years+ already.

#selfHosted #selfhosting #ipv6 #ipv6only #bsd

@ajroach42

All major systems are fascist.
Ai is going to be ubiquitous
There is not going to be a bubble

Build a #selfhosting bunker or goosestep with the rest of the mob 😑

I just recently set up my own #NAS for the very first time!

I took an old laptop I had lying around and I rigged up my own SATA connectors to connect a pair of 2TB hard drives to its native SATA ports, with the OS (TrueNAS) being installed on a USB flash drive. It took HOURS of trial and error with different laptops, but I eventually got it to work.

#selfhosting

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A laptop sitting on a platform under a desk, a pair of 2TB hard drives sitting to the right of it.

Today I want to start a little experiment:

• With an ISP who assigns me a /48 prefix, what is it like to host IPv6-only services on a FreeBSD host?
• What works? What doesn't?
• How does setting up IPv6-only services compare to setting up IPv4 services on FreeBSD?

Why IPv6 only?

It's 2026.

I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that IPv6 offers you more freedom and choice about how you self-host than having to work around NAT (or CGNAT).

https://blog.brendans-bits.com/2026/09/experimenting-with-hosting-ipv6-only-services/

Coming soon:

• Getting IPv6 on FreeBSD: not that hard at all
• Fediverse via IPv6 only: what's the experience like with snac (and littlefedi when that's released)
• IPv6-only jails on FreeBSD

(Thanks to @stefano for BSSG - making this blog possible)

Comments / feedback welcomed.

#selfHosted #selfhosting #ipv6 #ipv6only #bsd

A neat thing I like about my Akkoma instance is that it runs on Oracle Autonomous Linux. Oracle Cloud is known for the ‘free tier’, but when you pay a little, you also get a huge amount of value. It is easy to setup to automate many maintenance tasks and has excellent monitoring included in the cost.

#it #tech #selfhosting #servers #fedi #mastodon

Cloud services give you the middle finger? Build your own server. #selfhosting #meshnetworking

Docker + Caddy = 🔥 #docker #caddy

selfhosting meshnetworking docker

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

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Docker + Caddy = 🔥 #docker #caddy

Building mesh networks is like setting up a neighborhood watch for the internet. Except instead of old ladies on porches, it's tech geeks in basements. #meshnetworking

Fucking ISPs and telcos can't even get basic connectivity right. We do it better, cheaper, and with less bullshit. #selfhosting

#meshnetworking #selfhosting

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

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Fucking ISPs and telcos can't even get basic connectivity right. We do it better, cheaper, and with less bullshit. #selfhosting

Building your own home server? Go with a 12-core AMD and 64GB ECC RAM. It's like having a mini data center under your desk. 🪐 #selfhosting #meshnetwork #homelab

Why rent space in the cloud when you can have your own corner of the internet at home?

#selfhosting #meshnetwork #homelab

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

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Why rent space in the cloud when you can have your own corner of the internet at home?