My way of rebelling against techbros and autocrats:

December 2024: quit all Big Tech platforms and start #selfhosting essential services

December 2025: write guides for newbies about how to self-host

I'm also in discussion with a blogger I admire to start a podcast about tech... where we'll focus on solutions (instead of problems)... aiming to inspire others to join in...

It's been a really heavy year but these little acts of rebellion give me hope ✨

So, I have been using Zitadel as my IDP so far, but it’s far too clunky and slow to my taste
I’ve been thinking about moving to Authentik, but now I see this project, PocketID, and I’m starting to think it would do the job at hand very easily

Only this is it’s only supporting passkeys, but I guess Bitwarden will take care of that

Convince me not to use PocketID, how has the experience been with this around here ?

#homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting #pocketid #authentik #zitadel #idp #oidc #security #passkeys

Le temps investi dans la prévention (mise à jour) est toujours infiniment plus court que le temps passé à résoudre une compromission. La sécurité et la stabilité ont un prix : celui de la veille technologique.

Point final.

#homelab #selfhosting #proxmox

Self-hosting does not make your data safe.

If you don't put in place, review, *and test* backup and recovery plans,,and security measures appropriate to the risk, your data are not "safe".

Your data might be less affected by the whims of third parties, which can be valuable for sure, but don't confuse that with your data being "safe".

And I say this as someone who loves self-hosting.

Any "beginners' guide to self-hosting" which doesn't lead with, or at least focus on, security and resiliency, is getting it wrong, IMHO.

#SelfHosting

Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is Kimai, a time tracking tool, which I use to keep records of all the legal work that I do, as well as time spent on committees etc.

It has flexible reporting options - which I use for generating timesheets each month - and there is an integrated invoicing tool (which I do not use).

A great tool for #freelance work tracking.

https://www.kimai.org/

#FreeSoftware #FOSS #SelfHosting

Slight WAN speed update.

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

BookLore: A self-hosted, multi-user digital library with smart shelves, auto metadata, Kobo & KOReader sync, BookDrop imports, OPDS support, and a built-in reader for EPUB, PDF, and comics.

https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

#Books #Reading #FOSS #SelfHosting #BookLore #Software

My current #selfhosted stack, will update this as I go along: https://notes.zef.pub/self-hosted-stack

#selfhosting

Reaching out to fellow #selfhosting fans and #DevOps using #S3 Storage. Since #minio is no more and is now just in "Maintenance Mode", what alternatives are you recommending?
currently thinking between SeaweedFS (https://seaweedfs.com/) and and Garrage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/)

Boost welcome.

I just published a new blog post about my #selfhosting plans for 2026 and... I remembered to add this pic (a scan of my own handwriting) at the bottom of the post.

It's now more important than ever: "written by a human"

🔗: https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-357

#NoAI

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a screenshot of a blog post... there is a picture inserted that is a scan of my own handwriting that reads: "written by a human" with a heart symbol drawn in, too

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 357 (big picture edition) 🖼️

a blog post in which I discuss my big #selfhosting plans for Q1 and Q2 of 2026... involving a major #PeerTube migration.

as I wrote in the post, if you're a sysadmin based in Paris and you could help me with this task, I could offer you in exchange a professional photo shoot for you and your family 🤗​

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-357/

Psst: the blog is now federated and you can follow it here: @ele

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Most interesting alternative to Dockge I've seen so far is Komodo: https://komo.do/ will install it a bit later.

#selfhosted #Selfhosting

I think this is the end of #Immich experiments for now. Will try again in a couple of years more.

Got 10k photos uploaded successfully, but the second 10k fails continuously.

#selfhosting #SelfHosted #selfhost #homelab

#Selfhosted and #Selfhosting people, what your current go-to for web-based docker container management? I've been using #dockge and I like it, but it seems nothing much is happening there (last commit 8 months ago). I tried Arcane, but... it's a bit... arcane, I liked dockge's simplicity more. #portainer seems to have gone enterprise and is likely to get more "enshittified" over time. So what do you all use?

Tom on #Immich

#HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

I Moved to Immich… Can It Really Replace Google Photos? - Lawrence Systems (Lawrence Systems) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5tdK10CRFE

I've been working on improving the documentation for #bovine the the #staticwebsite server for @forgejo and @gitea, you can find it here: https://bovine.squarecows.com/docs/

#forgejo #ForgejoPages #gitea #selfhosting #selfHosted

#Immich first impressions

Well, not really first, but current. Last time I tried it was a couple of years ago, I think.

1. Looks and feels like a polished product.
2. I still can’t have two separate libraries. I really like the idea of two libraries - shared and personal. Like in Synology Photos or iCloud Photos.

#selfhosting #SelfHosted #selfhost #icloudphotos #synologyphotos #photo #homelab

I decided to give #Immich another try. I'll let it serve as a backup for my iCloud photos. Will see how it's going. For now, my poor phone is uploading my entire shared library to my poor server. Both are running hot but still standing strong : )
#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #SelfHost #HomeLab #iCloudPhotos #iCloud

I have one very silly question for #selfhosting
Which service is best for hosting my music library for me, myself and family.

Needs: any android client app support
Any Linux client app support
Works on x86_64 server

Nice to have a web ui but it's not a must have

I have over 1 terabyte of music and I want to have ability to listen to it using our mobiles.

Moin mastodon.de! Bin #neuhier und freue mich auf Content zu den Themen #selfhosting, #Linux und #knackigepfirsische

#selfhosting #freebsd - day 268

Moved over to 15.0-STABLE (weekly) with no issues... only potential gotcha was remembering to update the pkgbase repo names and it was easy peasy.

Did I say no issues? Nearly... the web servers wouldn't come up. After a few expletives and a little digging it turns out there was (as usual!) a sysadmin competence deficiency - apparently the weekly backups have included all the previous backups and the backups inside them (yes, and the backups inside them...) you get the idea. Every week since march! 🤣 The fact that it has taken me until now to notice says a huge amount about how frugal FreeBSD is on drive space.

In other news (to me) the amazing #BastilleBSD has landed on pkg latest with pkgbase support AND the ability to bootstrap STABLE releases. So far
`bastille bootstrap -p 15.0-STABLE` isn't adding anything to the releases folder... I'm sure it's only a minor thing - and once it is I need to work out how to get it to track base_weekly. @BastilleBSD - if you've got some ideas I'm all ears!

Step 1 of my #SelfHosting disaster planning (my server sounds like it's about to die) is to go through all VMs and document what's there in @silverbulletmd:

* Name of the VM
* IP
* Login method (primary account)
* What's running there
* Key configuration paths and config files

Should have done this from day one, because you forget a lot after years. Now it's like #SelfHosted archeology.

Home server started to make weird noises. Enough to have to switch it off for the night. This is one of those times where I’m less excited #selfhosting a bunch of stuff. @silverbulletmd of course still works (#OfflineFirst), but a bunch of home automation won’t, no miniflux, no linkding, no EV charging (don’t ask). I suppose this is what I’ll be doing tomorrow…

I’m convinced 99% of people who give NextCloud a try give up on it after a few hours or couple of days. I certainly did.

It’s incredibly cumbersome and heavy for most things it’s trying to replace.

#SelfHosted #selfhosting

In the past few days I’ve seen talk about RAM prices shooting up due to demand from big datacenters.

Today I read that a historic brand like Crucial - I own plenty of their hardware, including SSDs - is dropping consumer products to focus on gear for those same datacenters.
The result (or maybe the intention?) is to push people away from self hosting, undermine the OwnYourData idea and make everyone depend on huge datacenters for life.

So much for owning your data.
So much for decentralisation.

Because taking down one giant datacenter is far easier than taking down thousands or millions of individual nodes.

Friends and colleagues, don’t trade your freedom for a bit of convenience. Once you give it away, getting it back is very hard.

Always Own Your Data.

#OwnYourData #SelfHosting

Ever messed up an update? We got you covered! Simply restore your Snapshot!

You can now also manage (create, delete, restore) a snapshot of your Box! If you ever messed up your application, OS update or anything else - simply go back to your last snapshot and try again! This way, you can test and learn #BSD even better and easier!

cc: @gyptazy

#education #opensource #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RUNBSD #learning #ipv6 #freevm #freevps #community #fosdem #hosting #selfhosting #snapshot

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BoxyBSD allows you to manage snapshots of your Boxes, now!

Pssst! BoxyConnect comes soon to @BoxyBSD!

BoxyConnect allows you to create a private network / private link between multiple boxes at BoxyBSD. And the best? You can even create this over different locations/countries to provide you more flexibility.

You can simply assign any RFC1918 addresses on your new additional network interface on both sites and communicate in your own private network - even miles away.

This feature is currently in beta and will hopefully be available to everyone (just like all other services of course for free). Enjoy #RUNBSD!

This new feature is powered by @gyptazy!

#BoxyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #SmolBSD #Hosting #SelfHosting #Provider #BSD #FreeVPS #VPS #opensource #community #education #openeducation

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Image of BoxyConnect for BoxyBSD which shows multiple locations where people can start instances, which soon can be linked within a private own network.

#selfhosting folks:

How, really, louder are ironwolfs 10tb+ compared to we red 6tb?

I'm thinking of ways of making SilverBullet more accessible to the not hardcore #selfhosting crowd. Which of these options would you like more:

1. Fully hosted: essentially a SaaS offering: create an account online, we'll host all your content, you just access it from anywhere.
2. Internet tunnel: run SilverBullet locally on your desktop, access it via your browser (localhost), and optionally tunnel via a service to access it from anywhere (as long as your desktop is running).
3. Desktop app

So I found a 4 GB RAM / 40 GB storage VPS for just USD 10.99/year (!) recently.

It's from George Datacenter, which I had never heard about before. I looked it up and found a few negative reviews but nothing that suggested it was an actual scam, so I decided to give it a try considering the absurdly low price and the fact the complaints were all from a long time ago.

So far it's been smooth. Apparently you can load custom ISOs (I haven't tried, but the UI is there) and there is toggleable VNC access.

I'm curious if anyone has any experience to share about this provider?

Also, the offer is still up if you are interested:

https://www.georgedatacenter.com/promo.php

#vps #hosting #selfhosting #datacenters #sysadmin

Pretty interesting how an old hardware works well and compute well in the strange configurations.

Prereqs: Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz and 2 Gb RAM.

Since there are no NetBSD builds of xray-core and v2raya — I spin up a FreeBSD VM inside the Qemu and without NVMM accelerator (not supported by my CPU). Execute these programs inside this VM — and the server still running and even doesn't overload

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #Qemu #IntelAtom #SelfHosting

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CPU usage graph from Munin. The graph shows 5-10% CPU usage. The graph rises to near 5% at near 11:40. With one visible spike to 120% at near 12:50.

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Load average graph from Munin. Overall usage were at near 0.3 but raised to 0.8 at 11:30. With one visible spike to 2.8 at near 12:50

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The memory usage by category graph. It shows rise of anon memory from 0.3 Gb to 0.8 Gb at near 11:00 or 12:00.

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Processes graph from Munin. It shows that there are near 53 processes before 11:00 and near 65 processes after this time.

Sending mail from residential ip be like:

It's easily solvable using a "free" SMTP relay. But the privacy benefits of self-hosting are lost.

I'm using smtp2go to deliver to outlook and gmail. I have no idea if smtp2go is good or no. Do you have any recommendation?

#mail #SelfHosting #email #relay

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Good morning Fedi friends!

Earlier today I installed #DeltaChat to give it a try... and I'm currently flashing the #YunoHost disk image on a card for my #RaspberryPi5 - so I can write about the process.

Super grateful for the world of #FOSS ❤️​

Have a great day everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Made my FreeBSD server at Netcup ready to host multiple isolated applications with automatic https via Let's Encrypt.

Internet → Server → PF firewall → Caddy jail (reverse proxy) → Individual application jails

Each app gets its own isolated jail for security, while Caddy handles all the routing and https. PF keeps the front door locked.

All of course with IPv6 first, where every Jail has it's own public IP address and using NAT for legacy IPv4.

Love how FreeBSD jails make this kind of segmentation so elegant.

#FreeBSD #Jails #SelfHosting #Caddy #ipv4

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Traffic flow diagram

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 300 (new project edition) 💡

a blog post that discusses my next self-hosting project. a hint: it's not fediverse-related but is still very empowering.

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-300-new-project-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Jellyfin

My ISP was kind enough to give me a learning opportunity in how I can manage access to my homelab. While access to #selfhosting can't be in my place by definition, I can at least have it on a VPS from a local company to resist monopolies :)

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 ❤️ 🙏 ✨

🏕️ 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

#SilverBullet is now available on @Pikapods! A great way to run SilverBullet without the usual hassles of #SelfHosting. Already starting from $1.45/month.

https://community.silverbullet.md/t/silverbullet-now-available-on-pikapods/3199

Erm, fellow Fediverse hackers: did I miss something?

I was just told that I should use SHA256 hashes, rather than SHA512 for MTA DANE (meaning: eg 3 1 1 rather than 3 1 2).

Is this correct? I fail miserably at finding the corresponding RFCs.

#DANE #MTA #DNS #mailserver #RYOMS #selfhosting

Awesome-Selfhosted
https://awesome-selfhosted.net/

#selfhosting #selfhosted

Watching how to install some selfhosted-software to the my #NetBSD box:

Deployment methods:
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Kubernetes
- Unraid
- Synology NAS
- Deploy to cloud service
- Build from Source

Looking inside:
- Please install npm and 256 NodeJS dependencies.

Lol, I already love #SelfHosting

Dear Fedi friends,

Happy Thursday from rainy northern Italy 🌧️

In case you missed it: I've spent the past two weeks doing all kinds of #selfhosting explorations, as I strive to learn #Docker to move my Ghost site there (it's recommended for Ghost v6 and going forward).

Yesterday I shared a blog post about the peaches (highs) and pits (lows) in #MySoCalledSudoLife adventures.

I'm hoping my mistakes can be useful for fellow newbies 😅

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-so-called-sudo-life-month-8-peaches-pits/

#blog #VPS #newbie