🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 275 (coping mechanisms edition) ​​

World events being what they are, authoritarianism, technofeudalism and other everyday horrors are pushing me to spin up another server on Hetzner with the excuse "well, I've gotten so many requests to show what's it's like to install YunoHost, this is the perfect opportunity."

Self-hosting is a pretty good distraction from the ​ (dumpster FIRES) going off everywhere. At least for me. Top 3 coping mechanism (top 1: playing with my child; top 2: aromatherapy).

I may do it next week 🙈​

I hope you're having a nice day. Chin up! Resist! Enjoy the little things 🌸​🍵​🌈​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 275 (coping mechanisms edition) ​​

World events being what they are, authoritarianism, technofeudalism and other everyday horrors are pushing me to spin up another server on Hetzner with the excuse "well, I've gotten so many requests to show what's it's like to install YunoHost, this is the perfect opportunity."

Self-hosting is a pretty good distraction from the ​ (dumpster FIRES) going off everywhere. At least for me. Top 3 coping mechanism (top 1: playing with my child; top 2: aromatherapy).

I may do it next week 🙈​

I hope you're having a nice day. Chin up! Resist! Enjoy the little things 🌸​🍵​🌈​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

I'm very disappointed to discover that a self-hosted Ghost can't actually send out newsletters by email.

It provides all the front-end for accepting subscribers and promising them new posts by email, and it's all turned on by default. But to send those emails, you need a paid account with a proprietary mail missile called MailGun.

EDIT: Not really Team Ghost's fault, see below.

(1/?)

#Ghost #email #newsletters #SelfHosting #MailGun

In our quest to move away from GitHub, we have a working self-hosted cgit instance as well as a runner for CI.

The last missing piece is to find a way to safely expose it to the world.

Are there any good Cloudflare alternatives to protect the origin?

Tor works fine, but I would like to also be reachable from the clearnet.

#SelfHosting #DevOps #FediHelp

In our quest to move away from GitHub, we have a working self-hosted cgit instance as well as a runner for CI.

The last missing piece is to find a way to safely expose it to the world.

Are there any good Cloudflare alternatives to protect the origin?

Tor works fine, but I would like to also be reachable from the clearnet.

#SelfHosting #DevOps #FediHelp

Dear Fedi friends,

Thank you for adopting #GratefulForYou and filling up my feed with so many shout-outs to amazing Fediverse people.

Today my #GratefulForYou nod goes to @ilja and @shollyethan for encouraging me to start my #selfhosting journey.

ilja was the first person who ever mentioned @yunohost to me (SUPER GRATEFUL for them too!) and Ethan told me: "you learn by doing things" (so true).

This self-hosting journey is incredibly empowering. I feel like a new person, 9 months in ❤️ 🙏 ✨

Could an old mobile device (phone or tablet) be used as a home server, FreedomBox styles?

Imagine it has a big internal storage and/or SDcard, and it's running a custom ROM (a Mobile GNU distro) intended for the purpose. Plus it's permanently plugged into power and connected to reliable WiFi.

Is this something we could realistically repurpose old mobiles for if they don't support 4G calling?

#SelfHosting #HomeServer #FreedomBox

After been fed up by YouTube (as they have decided to shadow-ban my account because I have made a video about yt-dlp, obviously), and been frustrated about the lack of simplicity and usability of Peertube (don't try to convince me, I have tried, really), I have decided to give hyper8 a chance and until now I really love it. It is self-hosted, you can manage the complete setup on your own computer and it generates static sites and RSS-Feeds. https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/

#hyper8 #selfhosting #creator

After been fed up by YouTube (as they have decided to shadow-ban my account because I have made a video about yt-dlp, obviously), and been frustrated about the lack of simplicity and usability of Peertube (don't try to convince me, I have tried, really), I have decided to give hyper8 a chance and until now I really love it. It is self-hosted, you can manage the complete setup on your own computer and it generates static sites and RSS-Feeds. https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/

#hyper8 #selfhosting #creator

@harold

Signal is trustworthy, IMHO, but it has fundamental drawbacks for me:

1. It depends on AWS and Google #bigTech infrastructure. As #EU citizen, I prefer EU based services or even #selfHosting.

2. Even their desktop client requires to have Google Android or Apple iOS, which I don't have nor want.

3. They ask for a phone number to register. I don't like that.

Fortunately, all that has been solved 1999 with the introduction of #Jabber, the #fediverse of chat 🙂

#digitalSovereignty #XMPP

@harold

Signal is trustworthy, IMHO, but it has fundamental drawbacks for me:

1. It depends on AWS and Google #bigTech infrastructure. As #EU citizen, I prefer EU based services or even #selfHosting.

2. Even their desktop client requires to have Google Android or Apple iOS, which I don't have nor want.

3. They ask for a phone number to register. I don't like that.

Fortunately, all that has been solved 1999 with the introduction of #Jabber, the #fediverse of chat 🙂

#digitalSovereignty #XMPP

Taking some baby steps towards self-hosting. I blame you, #mastodon (esp. @span neil)

#selfhosting

Taking some baby steps towards self-hosting. I blame you, #mastodon (esp. @span neil)

#selfhosting

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/
#selfhosting

#Selfhosting + #Activitypub / #Fediverse joining, will be a gamechanger for #Loops! ❤️

I iz much excite!

SAMBA requires me to create user accounts on my host machine - something I’m not keen to do on my server. If it was just me, then SAMBA would be fine.

Unless there’s a way to do that in a container…

Anyone?

Boosts appreciated.

#linux#SAMBA #docker#SelfHosting#HomeLab

Looking for an alternative to Nextcloud for remote file access across my Tailnet. Tailscale Drive is SO CLOSE to what I need, but the filename requirements for the webDAV access are a no-go for me and the family.

What’s an easy way to access my files across my Tailnet?

Bonus points if there’s an iOS app or integration into the iOS Files app.

#linux #tailscale#SelfHosting

Some thoughts on personal git hosting | @Edent

｢ I'm looking at moving my personal projects away from GitHub. I already have accounts with GitLab and CodeBerg - but both of those sites are run by someone else. While they're lovely now, there's nothing stopping them becoming as slow or AI-infested as GitHub.

So I want to host my own Git instance for my personal projects ｣

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/some-thoughts-on-personal-git-hosting/

#git #gitea #selfhosting