Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈
File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.
So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.
I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.
How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.
The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.
Time went like this:
1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)
4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade
5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)
7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install
9m30s in: post installation complete
11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.
14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳
Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻
#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting
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@elena I hope you have an enjoyable day in the mountains! :-)
Why ordering a new server ?
Was it not possible to reinstall a fresh distribution on the bricked one ?
(I am a newbie in VPS)
@elena Well said. Pushing through that initial fear of failure is the toughest part. I emphasize to my team the importance of making mistakes and sharing those experiences.
At first it seems counterintuitive in a work space, but I can assure you it has saved us time and produced creative strategies that otherwise would never have happened. Always create a safe space for failing.
Proxmox in my homelab did that for me! HUGE mistakes all the time, but reset and retry is a snapshot away.
@elena
Have you tried backing up and restoring ?
That kinda stuff may be worth having on your agenda some day ;-)
@elena Some time ago I accepted the vision of the world, where mistakes are not something to be punished for or called fool for. They are simply part of the learning process. They help me learn about things. They give me important feedback. Yes it hurts sometimes, but it's a temporary feeling :)
I really like how you share the whole self hosting journey and I admire you for diving into it.
Have a great day and enjoy the hike!
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