Estoy mirando empezar a toquetear cositas de #selfhosting para montarme un servidor para tener películas, documentos, fotos, etc etc a mano sin depender de Google ni iCloud. El problema es el de siempre: si empiezas a mirar recomendaciones, la cosa nunca para. Busco hacer algo pequeñito y por ir probando (aplicaciones tipo #homelab como Plex o Jellyfin, PiHole, y algunas cosillas del estilo que sean interesantes, en SO fáciles de usar), pero no tengo ningún PC antiguo ni quiero gastarme más de lo necesario. ¿Qué aplicaciones requieren más potencia, y qué hardware se suele recomendar para empezar?

He estado mirando algunos mini PC que rondan los 140 pavos, pero no sé si va a ser un poco overkill tener 16 Gb de RAM en un bicho de aliexpress que tendrá una esperanza de vida de diez meses. Agradezco recomendaciones y guías básicas para alguien sin un background técnico 🫶 y que se mantenga en una inversión baja de alguien que quiere probar cosas y sin fliparse en exceso.

I have deployed and run infra since the noughts, through some wild turns in geo/techno-political history, and will say that now more than ever, #selfhosting is an act of resistance.

Depopulate. Defund. Disempower.

I'm looking for a project to put my PowerEdge R710 to good use! My idea is to install FreeBSD on it and migrate some services currently running on Linux VMs via Proxmox on my PowerEdge R720. Since the software I'm using offers FreeBSD compatibility, this would be a perfect opportunity to utilize the R710's impressive specs:

Dual Intel Xeon X5560 @ 2.8GHz
288GB RAM (fully populated)
6x 1TB SAS drives

#homelab #sysadmin #selfhosting #tech #FreeBSD #Linux

What are some alternatives to wordpress? I'm looking for something simple, easy to maintain but also suitable for non-techies to add content to. I don't need a ton of plugins to build webshops and all that, just a CMS and maybe a calendar.

Any suggestions?

I'd go with a static site generator, but I'd like to keep it accessible to non-nerds.

Looked at grav, which on the surface looks like it has what I want, but I got put off by the banners for premium and the AI bullshit.

#SelfHosting #LazyWeb

I'm Blake — reintroducing myself as I'm back on the timeline.

I'm a Cloud Engineer working in Site Reliability and DevOps in the healthcare industry. I design and build highly scalable, resilient infrastructure that powers modern healthcare systems. Day-to-day I work with .NET, JavaScript, and TypeScript to deliver reliable platforms.

Outside of work, I build with Go — creating tools that prioritize performance, privacy, and user empowerment.

A couple things I'm working on:

RideAware — A cycling training platform for building structured training plans, analyzing ride data, and completing indoor workouts all in one place.

Arcline Hosting — A self-hosted web hosting service for people who want to know exactly where their data lives. It runs on hardware I own and operate — no AWS, no Cloudflare, no third-party CDN. Shared, WordPress, and VPS plans with personal ticket and email support.

My core interests span SRE, cloud infrastructure, DevOps/automation, and network engineering. I spend a lot of time with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and enjoy digging into routing, firewalls, and secure network design.

I'm here because I care about privacy, self-hosting, and building things that give people more control over their own data. Good to be back — looking forward to reconnecting with this community.

#reintroduction #CloudEngineering #SRE #DevOps #Go #Golang #Linux #Docker #Kubernetes #Terraform #SelfHosting #HomeLab #Privacy #DataSovereignty #WebHosting #Cycling #HealthcareIT #FOSS #BSD

#AdviceWanted

Wondering if anyone can recommend a (free) way to follow Instagram feeds in an RSS reader? I searched online for a way to convert an Instagram user's feed to an RSS feed but it appears it's “complicated”…

I self-host #FreshRSS and would like to be able to follow some music-related Instagram feeds which post about local gigs etc. I ditched my Instagram account a few years ago and won't ever go back, but it would be great to be able to see announcements of gigs and that sort of thing, from people who don't use anything to get the word out apart from the dreaded Instagram…

Thanks in advance!

#RSS #RSSfeeds #SelfHosting

Shameless plug: open registration for a FreshRSS (feed reader) account.

https://blog.woodpeckersnest.space/2026/03/02/roughnecks/now-opening-freshrss/

#RSS #ATOM #SYNDICATION #FEED #READER #WPN #FRESHRSS #ALWAYSON #SELFHOSTING

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New series: FreeBSD Foundationals

Part 1 is about Jails - specifically VNET Jails. What epair interfaces actually are (virtual ethernet cables), how bridges tie them together, why the host is basically a router for your jails, and what devfs rulesets control.

Covers the full lifecycle from jail.conf through pf firewalling with NAT/RDR for IPv4 and direct routing for IPv6. Plus the gotchas that'll cost you hours if nobody warns you.

Not a beginner tutorial, hardcore details. The useful middle.

https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-foundationals-jails-from-chroot-on-steroids-to-full-virtual-networks/

#Unix #FreeBSD #Networking #Jails #DevOps #SelfHosting #Sysadmin

Good morning Fedi friends!

Monday mornings mean: my weekly ritual of manually backing up my #YunoHost installation (my VPS does automatic daily backups of the whole VPS, but I say: better safe than sorry).

This latest backup is pretty big, because of my increased use of #NextCloud. So in reverse order, from biggest to smallest we have:

1) #GoToSocial : 5.8 GB
2) #PeerTube : 4.3 GB
3) #NextCloud: 3.7 GB
4) #Pixelfed : 1.6 GB
5) #LinkStack : 92 MB
6) #Fail2Ban : 362kb

Happy #selfhosting everyone! And in case you missed it, my self-hosting guide for newbies via YunoHost is available here: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/ (with 4 articles so far).

Have a great week everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.

But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.

#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.

Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.

Wish me luck! 🥵​

EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅​

Reference: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues

Now checking out the other apps...

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

Frage in die Runde: hat wer von Euch Erfahrung mit namemaster.de? Speziell deren API für die DNS.

Hintergrund: für Dienste wie zum Beispiel Vaultwarden, die nur innerhalb meines eigenen Netzes erreichbar sein sollen, habe ich bisher alle drei Monate die Ports 80 und 443 auf den sonst abgeschirmten Server umgeleitet, um kurz die Zertifikate zu erneuern. Wird aber auch gerne mal vergessen, bis der Bitwarden-Client dann streikt.

Vielen meiner Domains liegen bei All-Inkl, deren API scheint aber den NPM für DNS-Challenge-Updates nicht reinzulassen, wenn 2FA aktiviert ist. Verständlich, aber nicht hilfreich.

Daher suche ich für eine einzelne neue Domain einen Anbieter, der das kann.

namemaster.de ist mir hier im Fediverse in einem Posting aufgefallen, die Preise sind sehr attraktiv. Aber: kann deren API mit NPM?

Danke im Voraus.

#SelfHosting

This might be a dumb question, but in order to back up a Mastodon instance, if one were simply to rsync the /home/mastodon/ folder, would it then work to simply restore that folder in the case of a failure?

#MastoAdmin #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

There's a new project called Holos which makes it a lot easier to host a Fediverse server on your own mobile device. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @HolosSocial

The official site explains how it works:

➡️ https://holos.social/how-it-works

To manage expectations, it's still in its early days and mainly for techy people at the moment. However, it will be interesting to follow its development 🙂

Holos is by the makers of the Mastodon/Fediverse mobile app Fedilab.

#SelfHosting #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Weil die KI Bros immer mehr Hardware und Verstand benötigen werden jetzt Server/Hosting Angebote immer teurer. Ich möchte einfach nur „Fickt Euch und Eure KI“ den CEOs ins Gesicht schreien. Schaut euch mal RAM, HDD (und von Grafikkarten fangen wir gar nicht erst an) mal an. Total Wild … 🤮 #ki #server #technology #hosting #preise #ai #SelfHosting #selfhosted

At least it eats near 3W without any connected peripherals

#SelfHosting #IntelAtom #ITX

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Photo of Mastech lab power source with a buch of dragons on top of it and with blue colored background. The power supply is on and an indicators display 0.24 A and 12.2 V.

Whew, at least smoke test was passed

This thing will be an Intel Atom based fileserver with a near zero noise from it (I hope).

Motherboard: some Intel Atom motherboard with ITX formfactor and with 4 SATA interfaces, and gigabit Ethernet controller. PSU: some Chinese PSU which should emit 259W of power — enough for motherboard and 4 HDDs (I hope)

#SelfHosting #IntelAtom #ITX

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Mini ITX black case with mini ITX motherboard inside it and wuth PCB of Pico PSU. Motherboard has 2 aluminiumradiators and one very small fan.

#Homeserver #Selfhosting #Selfhosted

I've built something new for the #fediverse and it's #opensource. If your website has an #RSS feed and you'd like to bring its content to a new audience well now it's easy without changing any code and you can do it with #selfhosting

Introducing "Feediverse": https://feediverse.squarecows.com

Please boost to help spread the word!

I spent the night learning about FreeBSD. Just need to configure bastille and my jails and my raspberry pi will be ready to start hosting my blog! I already have multiple ideas for posts percolating.

#freebsd #selfhosting #indieweb

The convenience of synchronisation between devices are the most common argument that I hear from friends why they are so invested in the respective walled gardens. But the same advantages can be obtained with old well-tested and open standards. Example: get an SMS with e-mail, add it to contacts and then have it autocomplete in @thunderbird@mastodon.online connecting to whichever mail provider your heart desires, thanks to the magic of CardDAV and IMAP. No need for Giant Mail :)

I am immensely grateful to the Fediverse for all the encouragement I got here to embark on a #selfhosting journey.

#YunoHost has empowered my digital life in immeasurable ways.

My way of giving back - and fighting the broligarchs of Big Tech - is to create a guide that demystifies the process. I have compiled all my posts so far in a single page:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

If you're curious about self-hosting but you haven't taken the leap yet, I hope my articles will be helpful to you ❤️

Just received an email from my mail server administrator. They sent me a link to change my password because it's 'insecure'.

My mail admin is so efficient...

...hey, wait a minute... I AM my mail administrator! 🤦‍♂️

#Phishing #SelfHosting #SysAdminLife #SecurityFail #InfoSec

"We are currently clean on UPTIME"

#selfhosting #uptimekuma

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Screenshot from Uptime Kuma, showing all green status for Adguard Home, Grafana, Home Assistant, Immich, InfluxDB, Nextcloud, Uptime Kuma and Vaultwarden

Just spoke to a friend who's running OpenClaw (f.k.a. MoltBot f.k.a. Clawdbot). What I didn't get before is the "everybody is buying Mac mini's" element. I thought this was all about sandboxing, and it's partially that, but also partially because the Sillicon Valley AI-pilled crowd don't have a machine in their home that is on 24/7 yet.

OpenClaw may just end up being a gateway to #SelfHosting. Once this whole OpenClaw experiment implodes, because — I'm just guessing — people figure out it cannot be secured, is ludicrously expensive and actually not that useful. People will be left with little computers in their home that they have no use for anymore.

Hello! 👋 How about you start self hosting stuff. Like, I don't know @silverbulletmd ! #AlwaysASilverLining

Since my home server not intended for use by any people outside of my city (plus some VPN endpoints in other countries) — it is ok to ban some unwanted countries and cities from which I don't expect anything good, except attempts to hack my box to use my resources or set me up .

So I added some GeoIP blocking to the npf with script to update GeoIP list — I blocked China, Iran, North Korea, etc and Moscow (because there are a lot of government and commercial backed bots coming from here). Results are good — the bots don't disappeared completely but the speed of adding new IPs to the blacklist is decreased

Sadly, I was unable to add USA and UK to the list, because looks like there are some limits (not found how to increase them ), which disallows to load a lot of CIDRs for these countries to the blacklist.

#NetBSD #npf #bots #selfhosting

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Graph of the count of banned IPs per week. There are two red tangents on the two points — before and after the GeoIP bans were enabled. And the two red lines, parallel to the X axis. The resulting derivatives are 0.59 and 0.38, so the speed of raising the values (count of blocked bots) are decreased.

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Part of the script to update npf blacklists. Script contents: # List of blocked countries: # AE - United Arab Emirates # AF - Afganistan # BY - Belarus # CN - China # CU - Cuba # HK - Hong Kong # HU - Hungary # IR - Iran # KP - North Korea # KW - Kuwait # PK - Pakistan # PS - Palestine # TW - Taiwan # UA - Ukraine /usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \ --retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \ --show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \ -o - "$GEOIP_COUNTRIES_SOURCE" | \ /usr/bin/egrep '^[0-9.,]+((AE)|(AF)|(BY)|(CN)|(CU)|(HK)|(HU)|(IR)|(KP)|(KW)|(PK)|(PS)|(TW)|(UA))$' | \ /usr/bin/awk -F, '{ print $1, "-", $2 }' | \ /usr/pkg/bin/iprange > /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then echo "Failed to update countries blacklist" rm -f /usr/share/npf/blacklist.netset.new \ /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new exit 3 fi # List of blocked cities: # Moscow /usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \ --retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \ --show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \ -o - "$GEOIP_CITIES_SOURCE" | \ gzip -d | \

Back to #dockge from #arcane as a web UI for docker compose management. Arcane has more bells and whistles (and required clicks) than I need, and the dockge repo seems to have become active again https://github.com/louislam/dockge also became a sponsor of the project while at at it. #SelfHosting

If you’re a self hoster or interested into getting into #selfhosting have a look at this series by @colocataires https://blog.colocataires.dev/

It’s very well written, informative and has a few projects listed I wasn’t aware of yet.

Welp, the self-hosted, open-core, Mattermost release just introduced a 10k message limit on each channel.

Time to look for alternatives ...

#mattermost #selfhosting #enshittification

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 2: installation & setup"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-2-installation-setup/

with a special shout-out to @shollyethan and @ilja who, a year ago, encouraged me to try self-hosting. And of course immense gratitude to the @yunohost team for making all this possible ❤️

I hope this guide may inspire others to try it, too. The path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought...

#selfhosting #FOSS #empowerment

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

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

#selfhosted #Selfhosting

#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?

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…

New blog post!

A postmortem on how my VPS got infected with a crypto miner through, probably, a vulnerability in a docker container. And that has shown all things I have been doing wrong with administrating my server and self hosted services.

With many thanks to @louis @agturcz and @cichy1173

https://stfn.pl/blog/88-i-got-hacked/

#blog #vps #selfhosting #umami

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