Solar LLM server V2 is coming along. There is still a lot to do, but I'm at the point I can run a basic Strata test.

EDIT: 28 tokens per second achieved with Strata's QWEN 3.8 120b model.

Remaining to do:
-The 4x 500GB Velociraptor HDDS land today, so I can replace this single with that RAID0 array to speed up load times.
-Tend to the GPU power delivery cables, clean them up.
-Install the custom GPU cooling system speed controller and high velocity fans.
-Install the rest of the software stack - Hermes Agent, Unsloth, Netbird, etc.
-Stress test it, measure performance and power, tune the software stack.
-Let r rip!

#AI #homelab #homeassistant #llm #hermesagent #selfhosted #selfhosting

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This photograph shows an open-air computer server or mining rig built on a black metal frame resting on a wooden surface. Inside the rig, a Topower power supply unit sits prominently on the left with a glowing green "Power Good" indicator light, connected by a tangle of black power cables. Several graphics cards equipped with PCIe riser cards and black shrouds are installed vertically in the center. A large, white ring-styled cooling fan is actively spinning on top of the components, while two additional black case fans are mounted on the front right side of the frame. In the background, a beige computer monitor displays terminal text, accompanied by matching vintage beige desktop speakers.

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This screenshot displays an nvidia-smi terminal utility output monitoring four NVIDIA Tesla P100-PCIE-16GB graphics processing units running Driver Version 580.178.04 and CUDA Version 13.0. The top section lists the status of four GPUs (labeled 0 through 3). Each GPU is operating at Performance State P0, with power draws ranging from 54W to 98W out of a 250W cap, and memory usage hovering between 13,951 MiB and 15,269 MiB out of the 16,384 MiB total. GPU utilization percentages are shown between 20% and 28%, with temperatures ranging from 59°C to 74°C. The bottom table outlines the active processes, showing process ID 4299 executing an application path (...e/Strata/engine-cuda12/strata) across all four GPUs simultaneously, consuming between 13,856 MiB and 15,174 MiB of dedicated GPU memory per device.

New blog by me:

I'm running Proxmox Backup Server using Backblaze B2 (an S3 compatible object storage service) for storing backups. This does work fine, but my scheduled verification (I verify once a week) regularly fails on some backups due to what appears to be transient issues with the B2 API.

I’ve made a script to re-verify these as needed and thought I'd share:

https://blog.thms.uk/2026/05/pbs-reverify?utm_source=mastodon

#selfhosting #proxmox #backblaze

I’m really enjoying my #Forgejo instance these days: near enough 100% uptime, super fast response times. Reliable CI/CD via Actions.

Everything just works. All the time. Amazing!

#SelfHosting

Da vecchio hardware a "Neural Network" casalinga: il mio esperimento AI.

Ho trasformato 3 vecchi PC in un sistema di agenti AI distribuiti. Si può costruire un'architettura decentralizzata senza essere programmatori.

Leggete la storia completa, le difficoltà superate e come ho fatto: https://noblogo.org/itsmelarry/dalle-ceneri-del-vecchio-pc-un-proof-of-concept-per-capire-lai-senza-essere

#AI #EdgeComputing #Privacy #OpenSource #DIY #TechForGood #Lumo #Proton #NoCode #SelfHosting

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**NEBUVERSE – Mein eigenes Stück Fediverse**

Darin geht’s um meine eigene kleine GoToSocial-Instanz auf Worldnode:

Warum ich sie gebaut habe, wie ich GoToSocial ohne Docker auf Debian 13 eingerichtet habe, wie WebFinger, Relays und nginx zusammenspielen – und wie ich Speicherverbrauch, Backups und Restore-Tests gelöst habe.

Kein „Selfhosting ist Magie“-Gelaber, sondern mein echter Aufbau mit echten Messwerten und den Dingen, über die man beim Basteln wirklich stolpert.

🔗 https://www.dennishilk.com/de/blog/nebuverse-gotosocial-selbst-hosten/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #GoToSocial #SelfHosting #Linux #Debian #OpenSource #Homelab #ActivityPub #WebFinger

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Collage-Grafik zum Blogartikel über NEBUVERSE. Groß im Bild steht „NEBUVERSE – Mein eigenes Stück Fediverse“. Daneben sind mehrere echte Screenshots der selbst gehosteten GoToSocial-Instanz zu sehen: das öffentliche Profil, die Einstellungen, die Speicher-Telemetrie und die Instanz-Startseite. Unten stehen die Hinweise „realer Aufbau“, „getestete Backups“ und „echte Metriken“. Das Design ist dunkelblau mit technischen UI-Elementen.

If #bigtech is permitted to self regulate #AI it will become a #surveillance tool for the govt.

It will be everywhere, whether you see it or not.

The next step will be controlling who can run AI, they want THEIR AI in every device. That will mean no #selfhosting or private AI.

Medical scanners, vehicles, traffic lights, vending machines, anything that processes data will have their eyes in it.

This is why they want you to hate it. Would they give you the venom to spit otherwise? Rogue AI? BS

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A realistic streetscape with amazon stamped on everything.. from the cars to the people to the street signs

Ich betreibe RollenspielMonster neben Job und Alltag. Ich speichere nur das Nötigste: Nutzername und E-Mail-Adresse. Mehr nicht.

Heute kam ein Löschantrag. Er war ein vorformulierter Paragrafen-Marathon mit Art. 17, Art. 12, Art. 19, Fristsetzung und der Androhung von Beschwerde und „rechtlichen Schritten“. Ohne Nutzernamen und ohne Namen, nur mit einer Alias-Adresse.

Eine kurze Nachricht wie „Hey, bitte lösch mein Konto“ hätte gereicht. Das hätte ich in zwei Minuten und mit einem Lächeln erledigt.

Verstehen mich nicht falsch: Das Recht auf Löschung ist wichtig und gut so. Aber nicht jede Anfrage muss wie ein Rechtsstreit klingen. Vor allem nicht bei ehrenamtlichen Projekten, die ohnehin das Beste aus ihren Möglichkeiten machen.

Mein Appell: Fragt erst freundlich. Wenn das nicht klappt, ist die DSGVO immer noch da.

#DSGVO #Datenschutz #OpenSource #FOSS #Ehrenamt #Selfhosting

For anyone who happens to be curious today...

I just set up #vaultwarden and it was incredibly easy to do.

#bitwarden #homelab #selfhosting

Die Offenbarung. #Searxng installiert und plötzlich habe ich wieder eine #Suchmaschine die brauchbare Resultate ausgibt. Habe gleich zwei Suchen getestet, die bei Google nur Schrott und Werbung ergaben und siehe da: Jeweils das erste Resultat ist bereits sinnvoll. Obwohls ja eigentlich nur eine Metasuche ist.
#selfhosting #debian #proxmox

New open-source tool: DnsAutoSwitch, a Windows service in F# (.NET 10) for AdGuard Home / Pi-hole users whose DNS box isn't always on.

Windows doesn't fail over between DNS servers deterministically, so a secondary DNS bypasses your filter. DnsAutoSwitch keeps one DNS server and switches it: primary while it answers, router when it doesn't. Hold/pause files, logs. MIT, release zip, no runtime needed.

https://github.com/giuliohome/DnsAutoSwitch

#fsharp #dotnet #AdGuardHome #pihole #selfhosting

Officially kicked off my annual self-host user survey this morning, which consists of 45 questions across several topics (including a new section on AI!).

Last year's survey received over 4,000 responses - the goal is to hit 5k this year!

https://selfh.st/survey/2026-open/

#selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #opensource #foss #homelab #survey #privacy #fediverse #mastodon #server #sysadmin #devops #ai #cloud #smarthome #git #hardware #software #app #apps #docker #database #streaming

Anyone using actalis instead of letsencrypt ?

Would be nice to substitute a fundamental american piece with an european one.

https://www.actalis.com/

#selfhosting #ssl #europe #fediverse #mastoadmin

Rephrasing an old joke about count of matches in the box: Dear PES, I'm watching the voltage in your power grid every 5 minutes. It always differs: 224.4V, 228.8V, 226V, etc. Are you crazy there?!

P.S. Original joke: Dear Cherepovezky matchbox factory, I count matches in your boxes every time and every time it differs — sometime there are 330 matches in the box, sometime there are 328 matches, and sometime there are 333 matches. Are you crazy?

#munin #electricity #selfhosting

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Munin graphs with stats from APC UPS. The orange line is the voltage in the power grid and it is not a straight line, the voltage differs from time to time.

Wer von euch hat Erfahrung mit Migration aus #Confluence zu einer self-hosted #OSS Alternative (z.B. XWiki oder La Suite Docs)?

Mich interessiert:
- Zu welchem Tool habt ihr migriert?
- Welche Herausforderungen gab es? (Datenverlust, Ausfallzeiten, Kompatibilitätsprobleme, andere)
- Welchen Tipp würdet ihr anderen geben?

Falls ihr ein passendes Forum o.ä. für diese Fragen kennt, auch gerne verlinken.

#wiki #floss #datamigration #xwiki #mediawiki #bookstack #selfhosting #selfhosted #LaSuite

These daily backups from Proxmox's backup server may have saved my data.

When the mysql container is running, data is written to the filesystem. If I set this up properly, this would be on a persistent volume, so that it persists across restarts/shutdowns/etc.

In my case, because computers will do what you tell them to, the mysql data ends up being written locally to the k8s worker node. This lives in the dir /var/lib/containerd/io.containerd.grpc.v1.cri/containers/<random-id>/volumes/<lvm-label>/var/lib/mysql/.

Before I found that path, I figured the data had to live somewhere, and Linux can get pretty creative with mount paths, so I went looking. Based on binary text searches with xxd, and finding references to lomo soltado, I've found it. Other recipes also seem to be in there that I know I had stored.

Recovering the data from the files will be an exercise for tomorrow. But I feel a lot better about it now.

#homelab #pebkac #kubernetes #oops #selfhosting #bookstack #testyourbackups

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Screenshot of hexadecimal and ASCII output from a command line, showing that I have successfully found the text matching lomo soltado, a recipe I was looking for in a database file.

Does anyone have a #web browser bookmarking system they swear by? I research and read a lot for work and my own interests and I am both a tab and bookmark hoarder and it is a Problem. My saved links span sites, articles, images, videos, technical documentation.... you name it.

Preferably something I could #selfhost but open to considering paid services if they fit my criteria well enough.

I cannot dedicate time to sorting, tagging, or otherwise organizing links - I have tried it before and always commit to it for a day and then get overwhelmed by the sheer quantity. Or I get stuck in a cycle of constantly optimizing my tagging/folder system. There is no in-between.

Has to be low-friction to save a bookmark but I also need some search functionality for sifting through links to find what I need.

Ideally I could see what links I use frequently vs less frequently for occasional pruning.

I've considered building my own app for this and have various prototypes in different stages of disarray. Just wondering if there's anything out there I should give a try before possibly re-inventing another wheel specifically shaped for my brain.

Things I have tried:
- Raindrop
- An Org file
- Built-in browser bookmarking tools
- Texting myself links

#webdev #research #selfhosting

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Is this thing working?

I moved the #Mastodon reverse proxy from #Nginx to #Caddy. I took this gist as a base: https://gist.github.com/yukimochi/bb7c90cbe628f216f821e835df1aeac1, added some from @neatnik's answer to my previous post, and followed the Nginx config, because the paths in the gist were outdated. Now I don't need a separate IP for Mastodon and have my two most important services on a single host. Oh, and I can remove certbot from the Mastodon host! Nice =)

#Homelab #Mastoadmin #selfhosted #selfhosting #selfHost

The early stages of SolarAI-V2 local LLM server in assembly.

The 4x TESLA P100 GPUs arrive tomorrow, along with a mining rack and other stuff. This is what the hardware stack is looking like so far:

-Asus Z9PE-D16 motherboard
-CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 V2 Processor
-GPU: FOUR NVIDIA Tesla P100 16GB PCIe (64GB VRAM)
-RAM: 128GB DDR3
-Storage: 64GB SSD for OS
-Storage: FOUR 500GB WD Velociraptor HDDs for models
-OS: ubuntu 26.04 server amd64

It will run my Hermes/Home Assistant, and is not used to generate slop.

#AI #homelab #homeassistant #llm #hermesagent #selfhosted #selfhosting

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A dual-socket computer motherboard is laid out on a dark anti-static workbench mat as an open-bench test system, surrounded by power cabling, cooling components, and connected peripherals. The main board features two CPU sockets fitted with aluminum heatsinks topped with small cooling fans, bearing an Intel logo. Multiple green RAM DIMM modules are populated in the memory slots alongside the sockets. A large passive aluminum heatsink sits near the center of the board. Thick, black sleeved cables and multi-colored power supply wires route across the bench, connecting to a black power supply unit placed to the right. Additional cabling arches over the board to power peripheral boards and cooling fans. To the left, a detached, large black cooling fan rests atop a white product box full of hard drives. In the background, an off-white vintage CRT computer monitor displays white monospaced system startup and configuration text over a dark background terminal screen, showing lines related to mounting, partition extraction, and system boot procedures. Bright blue and yellow data cables run across the light wooden desk surface around the hardware setup.

Open Source SEO and Social Media Tools: Own the Boring Parts https://raymondtec.com/2026/10/open-source-seo-social-media-tools/

Open source SEO and social media tools can reduce lock-in and support steady growth, but only if you budget for maintenance, security, and change.

#ContentStrategy #OpenSourceSoftware #Postiz #SelfHosting #SEO #SocialMedia

Question for those of you that use ansible for deploying/maintaining infrastructure in your labs/prods:

How did you take a manually-configured environment and migrate to ansible?
Did you reversed engineer your existing stack, or build out new using your own generated code (or other people's) and just migrate data?

#ansible #selfhosting #sysadmin #homelab

Mein Self-Hosting-Setup ist wieder gewachsen: Postiz, Open Archiver sowie Stalwart/Bulwark.

Besonders spannend finde ich das Zusammenspiel der Dienste – z. B. meine kleine Bridge von Postiz zu Bulwark: geplante Posts werden per API abgeholt, als
iCalendar-Feed bereitgestellt und direkt im Kalender angezeigt.

Auch LinkedIn läuft jetzt sauber über einen OAuth‑Workaround. Genau solche Verknüpfungen machen Self-Hosting für mich spannend. 🙂

#SelfHosting #Linux #Docker #OpenSource #GeneratedImage

Tips for hosting email in docker/on kubernetes?

Any helm charts you like?

Any images you like?

Any particular servers or clients you like?

Any security steps you take?

Any fancy crowdsec rules?

Firewall tips?

Please do not suggest anything LLM/AI related. I'm not interested. If I wanted that, there's an ocean of slop out there.

Update: getting great server suggestions, please keep em' coming! Also interested in TUIs, desktop apps, web mail, and android apps :)

#email #selfhosting #foss #selfhost #kubernetes #docker #noai

So, based on all the replies here, on lobste.rs, and in anti-ai spaces, I've compiled an issue on my forgejo to start parsing what I want to try for myself as well as what I might offer as a service down the line. It mostly just categorizes links to all the things and adds super brief comments selected from here and lobste.rs so I can take everything into consideration on various categories of things to offer, in addition to just fun treats to try myself (like CLI/TUIs).

You can check it out here:
https://git.open.engineering/oeng/argocd-apps/issues/115

#email #selfhosting #foss #selfhost #kubernetes #docker #noAI

I'm seriously considering moving off GoToSocial to a regular Mastodon instance.

I've self-hosted for a while now, and it's generally good.

But there's a few things I miss.

The first is being able to search widely for posts on a particular topic.

Yes, relays help, but there's a big tradeoff: The more relays you have, the more storage you need.

I miss seeing posts from Lemmy and some other Fediverse apps that don't quite work with GtS.

And then storage becomes a bigger factor over time too.

#Selfhost #Selfhosted #selfhosting #GoToSocial #Mastodon

So now I need to move my #homelab. And I have two options:

1. Migrate #Mastodon reverse proxy from #nginx to #caddy (no documentation on this around the internet except uncertain assumptions).
2. Pay x4 for the internet for a business plan, where I’ll be able to rent more than one static IP.

So the question is do you, dear #mastoadmin, have a working example of Caddy config for Mastodon?

#SelfHosted #selfhost #selfhosting #AskFedi #homeserver