🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 230 (disconnected edition) 🏝️

a micro blog post that celebrates the release of #Ghost v6 - and laments the fact I can’t upgrade to it at the moment (stranded in a remote place with spotty internet).

🔗: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-230-disconnected-edition/

HUGE congratulations to @index @johnonolan and the whole Ghost team 🥳

I’m starting a countdown and hope I can type “ghost update” in Terminal in 12-13 days or so.

#MySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLifeInterrupted #selfhosted #ActivityPub

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 230 (disconnected edition) 🏝️

a micro blog post that celebrates the release of #Ghost v6 - and laments the fact I can’t upgrade to it at the moment (stranded in a remote place with spotty internet).

🔗: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-230-disconnected-edition/

HUGE congratulations to @index @johnonolan and the whole Ghost team 🥳

I’m starting a countdown and hope I can type “ghost update” in Terminal in 12-13 days or so.

#MySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLifeInterrupted #selfhosted #ActivityPub

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 220 (roller coaster edition) 🎢

A new blog post where I discuss how sanity prevailed and I will NOT install my own Lemmy instance. But! Now I'm tempted to set up something else. Thankfully reality for now is disrupting my fanciful plans.

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-220-roller-coaster-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Sharkey #Friendica #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Docker

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 220 (roller coaster edition) 🎢

A new blog post where I discuss how sanity prevailed and I will NOT install my own Lemmy instance. But! Now I'm tempted to set up something else. Thankfully reality for now is disrupting my fanciful plans.

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-220-roller-coaster-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Sharkey #Friendica #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Docker

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 218 (trimming edition) ✂️

A new blog post where I reveal how many Fediverse accounts I have (spoiler alert: too many) and discuss plans to self-host a new one 🤭​

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-218-trimming-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 218 (trimming edition) ✂️

A new blog post where I reveal how many Fediverse accounts I have (spoiler alert: too many) and discuss plans to self-host a new one 🤭​

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-218-trimming-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife

@_elena è la prima testimone del fatto che si possa fare di tutto con Yunohost. Sul suo blog trovi un bel po' di risorse/testimonianze delle sue esperienze e di come si è evoluta la sua "vita informatica".
#mySoCalledSudoLife è l'hashtag da cercare per i suoi toot vari.

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 210 (viva #FOSS edition) 🎊​

A "micro" blog post about how grateful I am for the ability to self-host essential digital services.

🔗​: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-210-viva-foss/

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 210 (viva #FOSS edition) 🎊​

A "micro" blog post about how grateful I am for the ability to self-host essential digital services.

🔗​: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-210-viva-foss/

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 204 (experimenting with Wordpress edition) ⚗️​

A "micro" blog post about how I'm turning my federated Wordpress site into a social hub - thanks to the amazing plugins by @alex :

🔗​: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Wordpress #ActivityPub #longform

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 204 (experimenting with Wordpress edition) ⚗️​

A "micro" blog post about how I'm turning my federated Wordpress site into a social hub - thanks to the amazing plugins by @alex :

🔗​: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-204-experimenting-with-wordpress-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Wordpress #ActivityPub #longform

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 203 (am I doing POSSE right? edition) 📖​

Experimenting with the #POSSE method by posting on my federated #Wordpress site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

🔗: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/

Not sure if I'm doing things the right way but it feels empowering to have these posts on my site - it will be so much easier to organize them and find them in the future.

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Dear Fedi friends,

Would you like a visual representation of the "Mastodon Hug of Death"? AKA your site immediately going offline when you post a link on Mastodon... because thousands of servers are trying to fetch the preview image?

I have talked about it in the past and I feel like several people didn't believe me.

I experienced it twice with my self-hosted Ghost blog, before I had Varnish cache protecting it.

Well well well, a few minutes ago I experienced the Hug of Death (also known as the "Mastodon stampede") after posting a link to my Wordpress site. I had made a landing page for my Fedi promo video where you can download shorter clips and stills.

A few SECONDS after posting a toot with the link on Mastodon my Wordpress site went offline.

I immediately deleted the toot and went to check out the dashboard of my web hosting site, so I could clear the cache.

This is the image I saw - I GASPED OUT LOUD: nearly 4000 requests in seconds. That's how you DDOS yourself 🤪​

I just re-posted the toot by adding an image from my computer so that thousands of servers wouldn't try to get the cover image from the post itself (media from a toot overwrite cover images from blog posts)

Just a regular Tuesday afternoon 20 minutes before I need to go get my child from pre-school 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 198 (summer project edition) 🏖️​

Hello Fedi friends,

I hope you've been having a nice week so far.

I've been in childcare mode, thus the silence. I've been thinking about something and I would love to get your advice.

#AskFedi: is there a way to export one's #GoToSocial archive of posts (but not replies to other users)? Like something with command lines that doesn't require tedious copy and paste operations?

I wanted to gather up all the posts about the first 6 months of my self-hosting journey, to neatly organize them on my website (either in multiple blog posts or pages) so that they could be more easily searchable. It's not really ideal to go on an infinite scroll quest in reverse chronological order to see the evolution of my self-hosting journey.

Like, I'm curious to see what I was up to in January but going back in time loading old posts takes forever. And I cannot really search for keywords.

I'd like to keep things organized and easily searchable. And implement a POSSE system going forward... publishing on my site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

It's my summer of POSSE inspired by @molly0xfff 🤗
https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

If you have any ideas about how I can easily export all my #GtS posts, I'm all ears.

If not, I suppose I will start copying and pasting everything and do monthly installments of my self-hosting journey (aka "month 1" etc.). After all I have 1125 posts (sigh).

Anyways, I hope this finds you well and that you're keeping cool in this scorching heat (especially fellow Europeans).

have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening wherever you are ❤️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 198 (summer project edition) 🏖️​

Hello Fedi friends,

I hope you've been having a nice week so far.

I've been in childcare mode, thus the silence. I've been thinking about something and I would love to get your advice.

#AskFedi: is there a way to export one's #GoToSocial archive of posts (but not replies to other users)? Like something with command lines that doesn't require tedious copy and paste operations?

I wanted to gather up all the posts about the first 6 months of my self-hosting journey, to neatly organize them on my website (either in multiple blog posts or pages) so that they could be more easily searchable. It's not really ideal to go on an infinite scroll quest in reverse chronological order to see the evolution of my self-hosting journey.

Like, I'm curious to see what I was up to in January but going back in time loading old posts takes forever. And I cannot really search for keywords.

I'd like to keep things organized and easily searchable. And implement a POSSE system going forward... publishing on my site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

It's my summer of POSSE inspired by @molly0xfff 🤗
https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

If you have any ideas about how I can easily export all my #GtS posts, I'm all ears.

If not, I suppose I will start copying and pasting everything and do monthly installments of my self-hosting journey (aka "month 1" etc.). After all I have 1125 posts (sigh).

Anyways, I hope this finds you well and that you're keeping cool in this scorching heat (especially fellow Europeans).

have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening wherever you are ❤️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Dear Fedi friends,

Would you like a visual representation of the "Mastodon Hug of Death"? AKA your site immediately going offline when you post a link on Mastodon... because thousands of servers are trying to fetch the preview image?

I have talked about it in the past and I feel like several people didn't believe me.

I experienced it twice with my self-hosted Ghost blog, before I had Varnish cache protecting it.

Well well well, a few minutes ago I experienced the Hug of Death (also known as the "Mastodon stampede") after posting a link to my Wordpress site. I had made a landing page for my Fedi promo video where you can download shorter clips and stills.

A few SECONDS after posting a toot with the link on Mastodon my Wordpress site went offline.

I immediately deleted the toot and went to check out the dashboard of my web hosting site, so I could clear the cache.

This is the image I saw - I GASPED OUT LOUD: nearly 4000 requests in seconds. That's how you DDOS yourself 🤪​

I just re-posted the toot by adding an image from my computer so that thousands of servers wouldn't try to get the cover image from the post itself (media from a toot overwrite cover images from blog posts)

Just a regular Tuesday afternoon 20 minutes before I need to go get my child from pre-school 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife