New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud"
And sorry for repeating myself, but the path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought.
My self-hosted #NextCloud has fully replaced WeTransfer, Google Drive and Dropbox for me... and it's only the tip of the iceberg.
I hope this visual guide will help fellow newbies.
#SelfHosting #YunoHost #MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS #blog #resist
@_elena Hi Elena! I tried this today (up through installing nextcloud) I am pretty much up and running. Even though some things didn't go 100% how the guide said they would (Hetzner now charges for snapshots, DNS is weird, etc.,) your guide gave me the confidence to try! And build the airplane as I fly :D
Next step for me: add users to YunoHost and get them set up on Nextcloud!
Future step: figure out backups....
@semitones amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 thanks for letting me know 😊 and keep me posted on the next steps
@_elena something I never even thought of -- everything is fine with Firefox, but Chrome scared my dad with a "dangerous deceptive website" warning. Safebrowsing... I looked into it and seems that there is nothing for me to do except request that Google take my website off the list.
@_elena
Hello World 🌏
Thank you, your guide (and sudo series) inspired and now showed how to setup Nextcloud and then GoToSocial, in just one evening 🌞
It feels nice - two steps toward greater digital autonomy with #FOSS software made by the community for the community ❤️
Thank you and @yunohost and #Nextcloud and @gotosocial and #Debian and...
@sunny hellooooo there! Your message made me SO HAPPY! I hope you'll enjoy #GoToSocial and #NextCloud. And yay to self-hosting, it's a really empowering feeling, isn't it? 😊
@_elena Should Yunohost go on it's own subdomain? (yuno.mydomain.tld)
@TimeLime no need.
I have my YunoHost installation on domain 1... but then I added subdomains from other TLDs I own too.
For example, elenarossini.com (Wordpress site) is NOT part of my YunoHost installation, but I still added to YH photo.elenarossini.com for my Pixelfed and videos.elenarossini.com for my PeerTube.
The power of DNS 😅
@_elena Could you explain why you chose to install your apps on a subdomain rather than on the main domain?
Thanks for your clear and helpful explanations—I’ve been happily self-hosting for a month now! :)
@Yasuke great question! I find it practical to add subdomains for each app I install… like I have photos.elenarossini.com for my Pixelfed… videos.elenarossini.com for my PeerTube… etc. but I did use a top level domain for GoToSocial and Friendica, in order to have shorter fedi usernames… if it makes sense?
@_elena if I can't trust a storage system without a backup storage system, then there's no point in using the claimed solution of a storage system to begin with. This is why I moved away from Google initially, to avoid cloud storage systems, none of which I've seen are secure & reliable.
@BrahmaBelarusian I plan to discuss backups and security in the next post. I have a solid backup system in place both on the server and offline... of course setting up and running self-hosted services is important but so is maintenance
@_elena You're skipping my point entirely. A main purpose to me of selfhosting is to have a system for keeping sensitive documents safe & accessible to me, so if the system I use requires a backup then it's a pointless endeavor to begin with.
@_elena thanks for the guide. Can you tell me how well Nextcloud Talk performs? I have a Nextcloud AIO install which automatically sets up the STUN & TURN servers for optimising the performance for the Talk app. Does the Nextcloud app in YunoHost do the same?
@MarkJones thanks for the question Mark. I'm sure you can add it from their apps section but I personally do not use it
@_elena thanks, I’ll have a dig into it
@_elena with a VPS, do you worry you don't fully own your data since it lives on someone else's servers?
@TimeLime great question.
I think a VPS is a good solution for a newbie, so that they don't expose a home server to the internet.
Then as people become more confident in self-hosting - and more proficient with security - of course I would recommend hosting services on servers they fully control
@_elena have you tried out immich on there?
@JacquesSmuts not yet, but I plan on doing so soon... it's just that I prefer to keep my photos offline (backed up 4x on different drives)
@_elena Thanks a bunch!!!
