Today in #selfhosting fun. I have a mail server that's been in place for years and hasn't had any noticable problems, but today I sent the same email from two different addresses to hotmail. Both had SPF, DKIM, DMARC and the same outbound IP address. One was delivered and one went to junk. Headers on the laytter show a spam score of 5 (which is sufficient for it to be diverted):

X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: 5

I tried running it through https://github.com/mgeeky/decode-spam-headers but that didn't give any clues

Was man so am 01. Mai in Ruhe endlich mal macht... 😂

@homelab @homelab_de

#homelab #selfHosting #selfhosted

If you know anything about #discourse, spot the point on the graph where I ran posts:rebake

#webhosting #selfhosting

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Two graphs cover 72 hours. For about 36 of those hours, CPU usage is 45-55% and swap usage is 50-100%

Spent some time messing around with Headscale (self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server).

I couldn't get "raw" WireGuard to work the way I wanted through nested firewalls and CGNAT so this seems like a good way to blow all that complexity out of the water. Less complexity is usually more reliable.

Headscale is pretty neat. Painless install on Debian.

Configuring Linux and Windows nodes is simple too - at least from a basic connectivity point of view.

I need to figure out how I'm going to deal with multi-homed DNS scenarios for clients. Something with very little thought and work through yet. Ha.

Now the hard part, picking apart the security and edge cases to use it regularly.

#Headscale #Tailscale #VPN #CGNAT #WireGuard #HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #VPS

How to Install #Directus on #AlmaLinux #VPS

Here's a step-by-step guide detailing how to install Directus on AlmaLinux VPS.
What is Directus?
Directus is an open-source #headless #CMS and data platform that allows you to manage and interact with your database through a RESTful API or GraphQL API. It provides a modern, ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/install-directus-on-almalinux-vps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #contentmanagement #vpsguide #npm #letsencrypt #opensource #cmsapps #nodejs #installguide #postgresql #selfhosted #selfhosting

Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 hat endlich server-side de/encryption für Syncs zu anderen Servern 🥳

#proxmox #linux #selfhosting #backup

Many moons ago, owncloud split from #nextcloud and I went with Nextcloud. Before that happened, though, apparently I created an account on the owncloud discourse forums. Recently they floated the idea of shutting down the discourse and moving to GitHub discussions.

That’s right: a product firmly rooted in #selfhosting is thinking about using the cloud instead. They asked for comments and I apparently had just enough reputation (read: >0) to be invited to comment. One of the questions they asked is effectively “what are we giving up?”

My reply was “availability”. #GitHub availability is so bad they don’t even share the numbers any more. It’s something like 87.8% for the last 90 days.

To put that in context: if a web site can run at 99.0% availability for 11 months out of the year, then shut down and turn off entirely for the month of February, they would have 91.4% uptime for the year (by my reckoning). Anybody running in their garage can do better than that!

So how is moving to GitHub anything but a step down? And an irrational step at that.

UGREEN NAS: ULIYA AI CHAT UND KI-KONSOLE – KI-TUTORIAL ZUR IDX-REIHE

https://gadgetchecks.de/ugreen-nas-uliya-ai-chat-ki-konsole-ki-tutorial-zur-idx-reihe/

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#ugreen #ugreennas #uliya #uliyaaichat #kikonsole #nas #homelab #selfhosting #ki #künstlicheintelligenz #llm #localai #ugospro #aitutorial #knowledgedatabase #filechat #networkstorage #techtutorial #smartstorage #nascommunity

I need to post something because using #selfhosted #Mastodon instance while you away from it is still some kind of magic for me.

#homelab #selfhosting #selfhost

Hi folks! I would love to hear about the non-standard physical #homelab #selfhosting security measures you've taken. From alarms to boobytraps, from customized IKEA boxes to reinforced closets. The crazier the better!

One requirement: you need to have it implemented (at some point in the past or currently). No concepts that never left the design table please.

New blog post: Ansible-Native Quadlets: Deploying a Mastodon Greeter Bot with containers.podman

Hand-written Quadlet files are great for one host. For a small fleet, I want them in Ansible: templated config, registry login, Podman secrets, systemd handlers, SELinux labels, and repeatable deployment.

The example: a tiny Mastodon welcome bot running as a Podman Quadlet-managed systemd service.

https://blog.hofstede.it/ansible-native-quadlets-deploying-a-mastodon-greeter-bot-with-containerspodman/

#Linux #Ansible #Podman #Quadlet #systemd #Mastodon #SelfHosting #RHEL

Have any self-hosters set up a local cache/mirror of system packages, python packages, container images, and whatever else you might download?

#selfhosting

Homelab idea: Deploy CNCF Harbor on k3s and use it to host your own custom Fedora and OpenSUSE+Elemental custom immutable images and automate updates for them via CronJob.

#Linux #homelab #Kubernetes #selfhosting

Process of building my own silent NAS from Item Atom based ITX motherboard going well

The motherboard itself and the Pico PSU fit well into the ITX case. The system (without disks) is almost silent — there is hardly noticed noise from a small fan, but I think that it will be unnoticed from the closed case.

One of the problem was — how to connect four 3.5" HDDs to the motherboard, since they are obviously will not fit into the ITX case. First, I thought about making a hole in the case, to pass the SATA cables through it . But, I know that SATA interface is not designed for use outside of protected (from ESD) computer's case. So this idea was considered dumb.

Then, I remembered about eSATA — this is like SATA but designed to connect external HDDs to computer: connector has bigger lifetime than SATA connector, also the eSATA cable using differential signal, so it is more resilient to the electric noise . Sadly, this technology was lost because of USB 3, but the connectors and cables still exists. The good thing — eSATA is electrically (but not physically) compatible with SATA, so to connect disks I need: SATA cables for motherboard with eSATA connector at the end; eSATA cables with SATA connector for HDD at the end.

Thusly, I bought some "made in China" SATA cables with eSATA connectors with metal strips (like at PCI cards), sawed these strips and glued them to the case with epoxy glue. Now it's time to buy eSATA cables and make another hole in the case for power connector (for HDDs).

#selfhosting #homelab #SATA #NAS

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Front view of ITX case with 4 eSATA connectors for disks. Each connector is labelled: "Disk 1", "Disk 2", "Disk 3", "Disk 4".

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Top view of ITX case with mini-ITX motherboard, pico PSU and SATA cables in it. SATA cables labelled: "Disk 1", "Disk 2", "Disk 3", "Disk 4".

Self-hosted Linkwarden RSS feature is fkin great. In a week it collected 78 recipes for air fryer my partner will never bother to cook.

#linkwarden #rss #cooking #selfhosting #airfryer #homelab @homelab

I'm having a hard time deciding which self-hosted photo management app I should use. The current candidates are Immich, Photoprism and Ente. I have a pretty large photo collection in a fairly flat directory hierarchy (hosted on TrueNAS). I add new albums by manually moving pictures into folders (to free up space on my mobile). But this makes these pictures inaccessible on my mobile, which sucks. How do others handle this?

#selfhosting #photography #opensource

I now feel myself comfortable enough with #postgresql to have a single database server for many services I’m #selfhosting. I think I’ll do this for my private services used by me and my family. Public ones will still have a separate DB server each.

#homelab #database #optimization #selfhost #selfhosted

What if your social media server lived on your phone, not in the cloud?

@holos does exactly that—ActivityPub, local keys, relay for uptime only. No IP leak, no surrender of custody.

This one matters.

https://holos.social/how-it-works

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #SelfHosting

The next #LightningTalk at #OggCamp was about Self-hosted Observability, using various #Grafana projects and #Prometheus etc.
Alan was using some #YAML files to provision the services via docker etc.

I didn't quite understand it all, but there's a few extra Grafana products I should check out - Alloy and Mimir.

https://github.com/alanionita/observability-stack

#selfhosting #metrics

Mein Router hatte heute Morgen eine Identitätskrise. Neustart half – wie immer. 🔄

Dabei hab ich gemerkt: OpenWrt drauf installiert und plötzlich weiß ich endlich, was mein Gerät eigentlich treibt. Spoiler: weniger Mystery-Traffic, mehr Kontrolle.

Eigene Hardware verstehen statt blind vertrauen – das ist Open Source im Alltag. 🛜

#OpenWrt #OpenSource #Heimnetz #Linux #SelfHosting

From March: Basic Jellyfin tips (2026 edition)

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/basic-jellyfin-tips-2026-edition/

#Jellyfin #selfhosting

It seems that both #lastfm and #listenbrainz are not responding currently.
And for how long? No idea.
And since how long? No f*$% idea!

And then you wonder why people like me (experienced #sysadmin) self-host so much software: the uptime may not be better but at least 1. you can act when there is a problem and 2. the service won't disappear suddenly

A much better solution is of course mutualized community hosting :)

#selfhosting #music #scrobbling

cool google now blocks my mail server now.
ts lowkey the extinction of selfhosted mail.

#mail #selfhosting #email #google

Ich habe hier ja neben dem #HomeAssistant auch einen kleinen Server mit Docker laufen. Ich halte immer Ausschau nach nützlichen / interessanten Tools / Diensten, die ich da laufen lassen könnte.

Hat jemand von Euch Tipps für spannende / nützliche Docker-Container?

Aktuell läuft dort:
- Flightradar24 Feeder
- Vaultwarden
- MeTube
- Stirling-PDF

Paperless-ngx habe ich auf der Liste, weiß aber nicht, ob ich da die Disziplin zu habe.

#homelab #selfhosting

What do you think of Unraid? #homelab #selfhosting

Started migrating stuff to the new home hypervisor. gemini://rosarium.vigilia.cc/ is now served from my first OpenBSD VM :) #openbsd #proxmox #geminiprotocol #selfhosting

J’ai publié une nouvelle veille open source sur Cryptolab

30 projets issus de mes stars GitHub récentes, avec un angle homelab / petit VPS / veille technique :

- agents IA open source
- sécurité et audit
- monitoring léger
- sauvegardes
- Fediverse
- recherche statique
- outils web

https://cryptolab.re/posts/2026/30-projets-open-source/

#OpenSource #SelfHosting #Homelab #GitHub #VeilleTech #ai #selfhosted

Haack's Networking

Tolerating Cockpit on Debian

https://tech.haacksnetworking.org/2026/04/21/tolerating-cockpit-on-debian/

It began with tolerance and ended with adoption. Enclosed, please find my recipe for self-hosting Cockpit securely and conveniently !!

#selfhosting #sysadmin #linux #opensource #freesoftware #floss #debian #cockpit

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Debian logo, ty to Debian project

🚨LIVE NOW!🚨 DevOps/SRE Instructor Livestream

On this lovely Monday, let's chat about #Linux #SystemAdministration, #SelfHosting, or any other topic in the #DevOps and #SRE space you're interested in!

Owncast: https://live.monospacementor.com/

👩🏻‍💻 my so-called sudo life - day 489: new experiments edition 🧪

A blog post that chronicles what I have been up to since December... namely: advocating for the Fediverse, creating #selfhosting guides for newbies and experimenting with e-reader jailbreaks and off-grid mesh radio communications

🔗​: https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-so-called-sudo-life-day-489-new-experiments-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #KindleJailbreak #KOreader #SimpleUI #meshtastic #blog #tech #resistance

Jeder (Self-)Hoster kennt diesen Moment:
Update klicken, kurz die Luft anhalten und hoffen, dass nicht wieder PHP, Datenbank oder Desktop-Client beschließen, heute kreativ zu werden.
Nach Jahren mit Nextcloud habe ich 2026 für meinen eigenen Usecase die Reißleine gezogen. Nicht aus Dogmatismus. Sondern weil digitale Souveränität für mich am besten funktioniert, wenn Infrastruktur wieder ein bisschen langweilig wird.
Darum bin ich bei #OpenCloud gelandet.
Schlanker, fokussierter, weniger bewegliche Teile. Kein PHP. Keine Datenbank. Go-basiert, unter 200 MB RAM im Idle. Auf K3s mit ZFS-Snapshots dahinter läuft das sehr viel näher an „funktioniert“ als an „braucht Aufmerksamkeit“.
Und dahinter steckt das Team von #mailbox.org,  #Heinlein Support. Kein US-Risikokapital, kein Exit-Druck. Keine fragwürdige Eigentümerstruktur. Einfach Leute, die seit 30 Jahren für datenschutzkonforme Infrastruktur in Deutschland kämpfen. Das ist kein Zufall, das ist eine Entscheidung.
Der schönste Nebeneffekt:
OpenCloud wurde bei mir quasi nebenbei zur souveränen E-Book-Bibliothek. DRM-freie EPUBs auf dem Boox Go 7, ohne Amazon-Ökosystem, ohne Plattform-Lock-in, ohne das übliche „wir kennen deinen Geschmack besser als du selbst“.
Amazon weiß sehr genau, was du liest, wann du liest, wie schnell du liest und wo du aufgehört hast. Das ist keine Paranoia. Das steht in deren  AGB.
Genau da wird digitale Souveränität sehr konkret:
nicht als politische Folie, sondern als gelebter Alltag.
Eigene Dateien - eigene Infrastruktur - eigene Regeln - eigene Verantwortung.
Wie der Umzug lief, wo die kleinen HTTPS-/Traefik-Fallen lagen und warum weniger Komplexität manchmal der eigentliche Fortschritt ist:

🔗 https://www.pandolin.io/warum-ich-2026-zu-opencloud-gewechselt-bin/

One person. One homelab. One less excuse. :-)
#Fediverse #DigitaleSouveränität #SelfHosting #Homelab #OpenSource #Nextcloud #K3s #Privacy #EBooks #Linux #Ubuntu #BigTechAlternatives

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Pandolins Desktop.

Having a "reflective" afternoon.

On the topic of free operating systems, I have been playing with these lately, and recommend if it suits usage (alpha order).

- Alpine Linux (my daily driver)
- Chimera Linux
- Elementary Linux
- FreeBSD
- OpenBSD
- Solus Linux

Not "mainstream" suggestions per se, and that's kinda the point. Caveats re: glibc/musl, nvidia support, etc. apply.

If I had to have nvidia support for my primary workstation I'd probably go with Solus (KDE), or at least try it, in spite of systemd.

I'm starting to scratch the surface on

- CachyOS

for my son's gaming rig. Pretty much what it says on the tin. I like it. Arch could use a bit of polish. We'll see how it goes on real hardware.

Others that I haven't run much beyond playing with the iso, but am intrigued by, mostly by intended use case tbh:

- Mint
- Zorin

I used to run these for years and years and years but don't nowadays:

- Arch
- Gentoo

Excellent, but the time intensity ...

~20 years ago I used to run Gentoo in a government research agency data centre. Even came up with an "ansible-like" set of deployment scripts/framework and whatnot in /bin/bash+openssh to manage them (pre-dates Ansible).

Fun times... the time... the time.

Gentoo was bracketed by RHEL in the past and CentOS as the successor. CentOS was fine but gave up a lot of performance way back then. Shifting priorities, server hardware was still following Moore's, and all that.

I flirted with Ubuntu a bit over the years. Could never really get into it back when it was decent. I won't touch it now.

Today, I think I'm done with Debian. Too static for my tastes - stuff gets too stale. Sure, there's Testing/Sid but there's also other options at that point.

Now that I'm a sysadmin just for myself I can embrace using whatever I want. Ha.

I'm all about community projects nowadays.

Corporate software will eventually disappoint you so it pays to just not go there in the first place.

Deep thoughts.

#Linux #RunBSD #HomeLab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #AlpineLinux #ChimeraLinux #Elementary #ElementaryOS #FreeBSD
#OpenBSD #SolusLinux #Solus #LinuxMint #ZorinLinux #Gentoo #ArchLinux #CachyOS

New #blogpost

I have come to share what I've done, some more confessions from a FOSS enthusiast...

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/more-confessions-from-a-foss-enthusiast/

This is day 53 of #100DaysToOffload

#blogging #selfhosting #degoogle #foss

Logiciel open source, prise en charge de DoH/DoT/DoQ, protections et architecture : j’ai documenté la stack de HostuxDNS ici :
https://dns.hostux.net/stack.html

#DNS #Privacy #OpenSource #SelfHosting #Hostux

The current waterproof box I use is a 300 x 300 x 180mm version of this. It works well, so I don't need a different one, but I'm open to suggestions.

#homeautomation #selfhosting

Ok #homeautomation and #selfhosting folks, I am looking for opinions (boosts welcome).

I have this swimming pool controller that I built off a raspberry pi. It sits outside in a waterproof enclosure year-round. Temperatures range from -10ºC to 50ºC over the course of a year. It's running Raspbian or some Debian-flavored Linux.

I've tried spinning rust hard drives and SSDs. They die within 12-18 months and I'm on my third failure. I have a couple ideas.

1. Netboot: I could have it boot via PXE or TFTP or something and have no permanent storage outside.
2. SD flash cards. I could just run it off a micro-SD, and keep a few handy so when they burn out, I just swap it in. I can use NFS for permanent storage, so the loss of the SD doesn't matter.
3. Some kind of storage that is more resilient to this kind of temperature and humidity swing?

Thoughts on storage for this outdoor project? I'm asking other questions later in the thread.

Among my friends, I see four stances about using #LLMs, with many nuances. Can you identifiy more or less with one of the options?

#bigTech #AI #freeSoftware #selfHosting #climateCrisis #surveillance #dataCenter #GAFAM #waterCrisis #energyCrisis

New #blog on #BurgeonLab ✍️

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/fix-ssh-lag-over-wifi-with-ethernet/

Ethernet saves the day for my #SSH, headless Raspberry Pi setup! Quick blog about how I set it up with #macOS Internet Sharing.

This is post 30 of #100DaysToOffload
Progress: https://burgeonlab.com/tags/100daystooffload/

#blogging #blogs #guides #newpost #blogpost #smolweb #techblog #techguides #selfhosting #homelab #ssh #ethernet #raspberryPi #dietpi

I've been running two degraded ZFS arrays for the last few weeks (Debian host).

Yeah, I know. Whatevs.

One of the pools was basically "scratch" backup space and one of the spindles died (breaking the utility of the mirror). Pulled the drive, wiped the remaining, put back in service with minimum fuss as a single drive. I'll throw another spindle at it when drive prices drop again.

The other array had the SSD cache die and it's been chugging along fine ever since. Not a big deal, but from a "experience" point of view it "feels slow" like a working md array.

New SSD arrived in the mail so that'll get sorted sometime today/tomorrow.

So, what's this post about?

Linux peeps, if you are thinking about md arrays, just stop, take the time, and throw 'yer leg over the zfs horse. It's worth it.

#Linux #RunBSD #zfs #md #mdadm #raid #homelab #SelfHosted #SelfHosting

current state of the ship at https://arcanechat.me

the system is working completely without pressure to accommodate the by now +13k passengers

only 22% of RAM used
only 9% of disk used
very low CPU used

#selfhosting #sysadmin #opensource #decentralization #digitalindependence #diday #privacy #encryption #sovereignty #european #europe #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat

My homelab is now using NRPE with TLS thanks to the private PKI I deployed this week-end.

#homelab #selfhosting #tls #ssl #stepca

I'm upgrading the VPS from Debian 11 to Debian 13 which is the OpenVPN server connecting all my home servers. If it goes down, I'll lose 2/3 of the infra. Which me luck 🙏🏻

#homelab #selfhosting #debian #upgrade

Some thoughts on the famous “just self hosted it” meme.

As much as I enjoy self-hosting, nearly no one wants to play sysadmin in their free time.

What would be helpful would be some businesses offering hosted services for a reasonable price.

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/self-hosting-is-great-but/

#selfhosting #selfhosted

BREAKING: reportedly a baby was sighted successfully self-hosting a #chatmail relay after accidentally typing on the keyboard of unsupervised parent's laptop

#selfhosting #selfhost #decentralization #email #chatting #chat #encryption #security #security #humor #joke #meme #comedy #programmer_humor #sysAdmin

Achievement unlocked 🔓

My homelab has now valid internal TLS certificates automatically renewed by certbot on a step-ca server.

#homelab #selfhosting #stepca #tls #certbot

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Screenshot of the "certbot certificates" command showing information about a TLS certificate generated on one of the servers in my homelab.

One day, I will convert all my Docker based Ansible roles to Podman quadlets. But today is a sunny day.

#homelab #selfhosting #ansible #docker #podman

I'm #hiring again and I really do wish people would look me up more before they applied. I'm not going to be impressed with your #google workplace skills, or your use of #canva, or any #socialmedia app.

If one, just one applicant, mentioned their open source or #selfhosting skills, that would be a ticket to an immediate interview.

Step CA configured with PostgreSQL backend and the ACME provider in my homelab. Clients trust the CA. Next steps: configure certbot and add monitoring to check certificates expiration.

#homelab #selfhosting #postgresql #certbot #tls #stepca

Pangolin 1.17 tunneled reverse proxy adds multi-role RBAC, provisioning keys for sites, connection logs, SIEM log streaming, and more.
https://linuxiac.com/pangolin-1-17-tunneled-reverse-proxy-adds-multiple-roles-per-user/

#opensource #vpn #reverseproxy #selfhosting

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Pangolin 1.17 tunneled reverse proxy adds multi-role RBAC, provisioning keys for sites, connection logs, SIEM log streaming, and more.

After months of procrastination, today I finally took the time to set up an instance of Panoramax in my homelab. The setup was very smooth. Actually, I had booked the full day for it, and by 12PM the instance was publicly available.

At the moment, I'm not accepting contributions (pictures) since I want to make sure everything is running fine before opening to the public.

Kudos to @panoramax for this amazing project!

#Panoramax #homelab #selfhosting #osm

My unbound servers are deployed. I can now remove the "ansible_host" variables from my inventory.

#homelab #selfhosting #unbound #ansible

But before, I need to configure a local DNS zone, with unbound for example, using a .internal TLD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.internal
#unbound #homelab #selfhosting

I have rebooted all servers of my homelab while listening to music on my self-hosted Navidrome instance. I had no music interruption. Awesome resilience! I'm impressed.

#homelab #selfhosting #navidrome

About to create my first cron job. Wish me luck! 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

#selfhosting #Peertube #Yunohost

Ich habe gute Nachrichten:
Meine Peertube Instanz ist wieder online😃(allerdings unter einer neuen Adresse da die alte Adresse mit meiner Fritzbox und DynDNS partout nicht mehr wollte).
Konnektivität läuft nun ausschließlich via IPv6.

Ihr findet sie unter der folgenden URL:

https://videos.talania.dnshome.de/

Bitte nicht wundern über die aktuelle Inhaltsleere dort. Ich habe sie bisher noch nicht vollständig eingerichtet.
Das hole ich in nächster Zeit nach und informiere anschließend damit ihr eure Abos umswitchen könnt.

Merci pour vos messages de soutien, et on se retrouve sur les services habituels :
👉 https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/
Promis, je ne touche plus à rien d'ici l'année prochaine ! 😉🐧
#PoissonDAvril #BlablaLinux #SelfHosting

New blog post: Speeding Up Forgejo CI with a Custom OCI Image

My blog's pipeline spent more time installing dependencies than actually building the site. Two commits and one Containerfile later, that step is gone entirely.

Bonus: Forgejo ships with a built-in OCI container registry, so the whole thing is self-contained on a single instance. No Docker Hub, no external registry.

https://blog.hofstede.it/speeding-up-forgejo-ci-with-a-custom-oci-image/

#Forgejo #CICD #Containers #DevOps #SelfHosting #OCI #linux

I could setup Stepca as an internal CA to get TLS Certs for my internal services. Which would mean i also would have to install my own CA Root cert on all of my devices.
Or i could pay 10€/year for an EU Domain and get a LetsEncrypt wildcard cert using DNS Validation.
Your thoughts on that topic?
#selfhosting @homelab

Good morning Fedi friends!

A routine reminder that I've been running a series of #blog posts - "a newbie's guide to #selfhosting with #YunoHost" - and so far I've published 5 articles:

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

Every week I receive messages from people mentioning how my guide helped them embark on their self-hosting journey. This makes me SO HAPPY, thank you!

I wonder if you have requests for future articles? Or do you think the series is now complete?

Fini de copier-coller vos textes dans le vide ! ✍️✨

LanguageTool s'offre une interface web "maison" chez BlablaLinux ! 🛡️ Une page dédiée pour corriger vos textes en toute confidentialité.

🚀 C'est ici : https://languagetool-web.blablalinux.be/

📖 Envie de l'installer chez vous ? Le guide est sur le Wiki :
👉 https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/installation-interface-web-languagetool-nginx

Retrouvez tous mes services ici : https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

P.S. Un grand merci à Universe Photo Archive... il saura pourquoi ! 🤫✨

#LanguageTool #OpenSource #SelfHosting #ViePrivée

OpenAI's crawler just found our family server / cloud services and immediately proceeded to crash Nextcloud within minutes. Fucking fantastic.

Is there some nice, up-to-date write-up on the different tools to protect yourself against this?
#AI #AISlop #AttackOfTheMachines #selfHosting

I did a short write-up on how I fixed the issue with my personal #Nextcloud instance freezing/hanging after upgrading to Nextcloud 33.

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/p/nextcloud-freezinghanging-when-viewing

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

Quick writeup on building a Docker image for Caddy with DNS verification to get a wildcard cert with trusted root going for internal services. #selfhosting #selfhosted #homelab

https://www.screamingatmyscreen.com/caddy-dns-verification/

Bitwarden Doubled Their Price. I'd Already Left. Here's What You Missed.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/bitwarden-doubled-their-price-id-already-left-heres-what-you-missed

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #blog

It’s time to consider leaving GitHub. The community aspect no longer truly outweighs the harm of feeding the corporations models.

Self-hosting Forgejo is easy and free. #selfhosting

#nextcloud stand on self signed ssl is clown behaviour. What a bunch of elitist cucks
#nextcloud #selfhosting

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance"

Not exactly the most exciting post I have ever written, but system maintenance is so essential.

And spoiler alert: thanks to a botched #PeerTube upgrade I discovered the wonders of #tmux (thank you @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks for recommending it!)

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-5-upgrades-maintenance/

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #DigitalSovereignty

Ok this one’s on me.

I stood up a test website and I used bunny net as my CDN. The url was predictable. Test dot domain dot net. Well, somebody found it and just hammered it. 1.3M requests in a week. I probably account for about 200 of those. I figured it out when the VM’s disk ran out of space from logging it all.

Total bandwidth 27.81 GB
Cached bandwidth 33.32 MB
Requests served 1,380,802
Cache hit rate 1.25%

#selfhosted #selfhosting

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Line graph showing traffic internet traffic. It’s flat at zero until we reach march 17 and then there’s a huge spike. Big numbers at the top say • Total bandwidth 27.81 GB Cached bandwidth 33.32 MB Requests served 1,380,802 Cache hit rate 1.25%

On reste libres et sécurisés ! 🐧💻

#VaultWarden #2FAuth #SelfHosting #BlablaLinux #ViePrivée

J'ai publié un nouvel article sur mon blog au sujet mon infrastructure d'auto-hébergement qui a changé : https://www.deblan.fr/post/673/nouvelle-infrastructure-hebergement

#blog #selfhosting

Ça bouge dans la salle des serveurs !

Petite mise à jour pour #BentoPDF, #Element, #Gitea, #Mastodon et #Synapse chez #BlablaLinux. Tout est bien huilé et prêt à l'emploi !

Curieux de voir tout ce que je vous héberge ? C'est par ici :
👉 https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

On reprend le contrôle, un service à la fois !

#InformatiqueLibre #SelfHosting #OpenSource

Why run your own Virtual Private Network, in 2026?

I wrote a post unpacking this Q, with a view to pushing folk to reclaim VPN technology in this neo-feudalist era of the Internet, clawing back autonomy (and privacy) from the big VPN providers.

https://courses.nikau.io/2026/03/24/why-run-your-own-vpn/

#selfhosting #privacy #infosec

Envie de l'auto-héberger sur votre Docker/LXC ? Voici mes snippets Compose tout frais sur ByteStash :

Version Persistance (API) :
https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/4f7a1a645f316457803c94cd237ee388
Version Sandbox (Démo) :
https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/dcdcfa327c4d5f666a96b963d19d99de

Projet source sur GitHub : https://github.com/rackulalives/rackula

Amusez-vous bien avec vos baies !

#SelfHosting #Docker #Linux #Rackula #BlablaLinux #SysAdmin #Proxmox

Instead of having a lot of standalone Ansible roles on my forgejo instance, I have created my own collection.

Let me announce you the first release of the "jriou.general" Ansible collection 🚀 https://git.riou.xyz/jriou/ansible

#selfhosting #homelab #ansible #certbot #coller #firefly #forgejo #galene #golang #navidrome

New #blog on #BurgeonLab ✍️

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/free-private-offline-spell-check-proofreader-languagetool/

I don't know why I haven't writen about my #LanguageTool setup before; it's one of my favourite open source softwares. If you want to get a free and private & offline #spelling #grammar checker and proof reading app, this is your guide (for macOS, should be similar on Linux).

If you have any feedback/questions, let me know!

#blogging #blogs #guides #newpost #blogpost #smolweb #techblog #techguides #foss #openSource #privacy #selfhosting

Working on setting up my own #ErsatzTV IP streams so we can have some auto-generated "channels" of content like Saturday morning cartoons, westerns, etc. that don't require us to manually pick something to watch. Good to have something playing in the background. Settling in on a working systemd service file for it to help lock it down but still keep it functional. Sourcing the media libraries from the #Jellyfin service.

#SelfHosting

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A screenshot of the current version of the systemd service file I've made for ersatz. Its contents are: [Unit] Description=ErsatzTV Requires=jellyfin.service ConditionPathExists=/opt/ersatztv/ersatztv/ErsatzTV [Service] Type=simple User=ersatztv Environment="DOTNET_BUNDLE_EXTRACT_BASE_DIR=/opt/ersatztv/tmp" ProtectProc=invisible ProcSubset=pid WorkingDirectory=/opt/ersatztv/ersatztv ProtectHome=true PrivateTmp=true ProtectSystem=strict ProtectKernelLogs=true ProtectKernelModules=true ProtectKernelTunables=true PrivateDevices=true PrivateUsers=true ProtectControlGroups=true ProtectClock=true ProtectHostname=true NoNewPrivileges=true ReadWritePaths=/opt/ersatztv /var/log/ersatztv InaccessiblePaths=/mnt /media ExecStart=/opt/ersatztv/ersatztv/ErsatzTV ExecStop=kill -SIGINT `pgrep ErsatzTV` TimeoutSec=0 RemainAfterExit=yes StandardOutput=append:/var/log/ersatztv/ersatztv.log StandardError=append:/var/log/ersatztv/ersatztv.log [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Immich 2.6 includes over 350 commits, delivering faster mobile performance, improved playback, and enhanced sharing features.
https://linuxiac.com/immich-2-6-photo-and-video-management-solution-released-with-350-commits/

#immich #opensource #selfhosting

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Immich 2.6 includes over 350 commits, delivering faster mobile performance, improved playback, and enhanced sharing features.

So I’ve set up my private Paperless-NGX server in a FreeBSD Jail. Quite happy about it.
Special thanks to grembo@ for the great pkg and the even greater man page (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=paperless-ngx&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-ports)

Now I need to find a proper scanner I can mass-feed: our konica Bizhub 450i at work is such a piece of crap.

#PaperlessNGX #FreeBSD #Jail #SelfHosting

Thinking of setting up a mail server.

I really want to avoid ending up blacklisted, does anyone have any advice about running their own mail server?

please boost.

#askfedi #selfhost #selfhosting

If you, as an information security professional, think an acceptable way to defend against fraudulent accounts is to limit the *legitimate* email address domains you allow your users to use, then you are bad at your job and you are a bad person and you should feel bad.
#infosec #privacy #email #selfHosting

#selfhosting #linux

Ich habe gerade den Nextcloud Client auf meinem Arch Linux Mini PC installiert und eingerichtet.

Jetzt kann ich auch auf meinem Arch Linux Mini PC auf meine selbstgehostete Nextcloud Instanz ohne Browser zugreifen😃
Schon geil😁

2'000 Follis auf YT. Herzlichen Dank!

https://youtube.com/@Tuxwiz

Und auf PeerTube bin ich natürlich auch zu finden:

https://makertube.net/c/tuxwiz/videos

#linux #selfhosting #privacy

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Exakt 2'000 Follis auf YT

Today we're releasing v0.19 of Keila, the Open Source email newsletter tool. This release adds welcome emails, better bot protection, new translations, editor improvements, and updates the code base to Phoenix 1.7.

You can give it a try at https://www.keila.io or set up a self-hosted instance: https://www.
keila.io/docs/installation

#opensource #floss #update #selfhosting #myelixirstatus #phoenixframework

Fastmail @fastmail has been operating on bare metal for 25 years. Their planning and (over-)provisioning strategy reminds me of Wikimedia.

Situations where cloud renting is cost effective for medium or large companies are vanishingly rare, and always have been. As with so many big tech patterns, this is a myth held up by VC-backed startups and incentives.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-use-our-own-hardware/

#Fastmail #baremetal #sustainability #CloudExit #CloudRepatriation #selfhosted #SelfHosting

Not sure why I did this, but ejabberd works fine on my gen 1 raspberry pi (14 years old, 512mb RAM). Would probably enough to handle a small instance for friends and family.

#ejabberd #raspberryPi #rpi #xmpp #permacomputing #selfhosting

The Prometheus instance in my homelab just blew up. I need to re boot the frozen host, quickly stop the service then reduce the retention again.

#prometheus #homelab #selfhosting

Ok, my #homelab NAS took a power hit last night. Power went off across the whole house for like 5 seconds. It was in a temporary location and not on a UPS. Since it has come back, it does not see any of its hard drives.

This is how amazing the mastodon #selfhosting community is, though. I came here to start typing out the problem and try to ask for help. I had tried an awful lot of things and nothing was working. So as I carefully reproduced the error, and made sure to take some photos and screenshots that I was going to share... it started working.

Thanks mastodon crew! You all are the best rubber ducks that money can't buy.

D'ailleurs, l'instance Papra BlablaLinux tourne déjà avec toutes ces optimisations !

✅ Le labo (mis à jour) : https://papra.blablalinux.be
✅ Le Docker Compose complet : https://bytestash.blablalinux.be/s/c696e234a3d12996b9d6821d8c684b06

Fini les "je n'ai pas reçu le mail" et les serveurs encombrés, tout roule ! 🐧🔥

#SelfHosting #Linux #Papra #OpenSource #SysAdmin #BlablaLinux #Docker #Automation #Productivité

Looks like #synapse is moving #minio way. All that mess with the server components, versions, and lack of documentation on all of that forces me to look into an alternative. Well, they are writing docs right now, but mostly for enterprise.

I found the #tuwunel documentation very friendly. Thinking about migration.
#selfhost #selfhosted #selfhosting #homelab #matrix

For my #NoCode homies : #baserow vs #NocoDB , which one and why ?

I'm looking for simple "superspreadsheet tool" (preferably #libre #opensource #selfhosting ) for my next project at work. I'm trying yo avoid a catastrophic excel sheet that kept growing for 3 years 😅

Any feedback, from these tools or others, is welcome 🤗

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

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

The good thing about Movim is that you can also fully self-host it.

There is no place like 127.0.0.1 ✨

#movim #selfHosting #discord #meme #xmpp

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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

Tips for my fellow homelabers:

Write the serial numbers of your disks and their physical position in the case. When a disk will fail, and that could take years, you'll thank yourself because you'll have forgotten where is the damn failing disk.

On Linux, add the "nofail" argument to the mountpoints in the fstab for your data disks (not the system) so you can reboot the host safely. The host will not be stuck because the disk you are replacing is not available anymore.

#homelab #selfhosting

Hello Fediverse! We are officially 100% LIVE. 🚀

It feels good to be home.

✅ Mastodon is up and running
✅ PeerTube is officially back online, and the first video is already live: https://tube.devwithzachary.com
✅ The Hub at https://devwithzachary.com is now aggregating everything into one clean feed.

If you're into #SelfHosting, #DevOps, or #VideoProduction, let’s connect!

#Introduction #NewHere #Fediverse #PeerTube #MastodonAdmin #SelfHosted #DevWithZachary

cyrneko.eu/the-hosting-solution.html

Community hosting is the solution, a post about self-hosting, and a sort-of-reply to @neil (but not really?)

hope to get people talking about this :3

#SelfHosting

Yes, #SelfHosting is hard. It can be an enjoyable hobby, and it can be cost-effective, depending on what you're hosting. But if you aren't going into it with prior experience as a system administrator, it's going to hurt.

I wrote a whole book about how to do this the hard way. It's written that way so you learn how much work it all takes, but also how to do it well.

In my view, the primary purpose of a home lab is learning and experimentation. That's a different goal than self-hosting to avoid the cloud.

But honestly, this is just a very nerdy iteration of the fundamental rationale for communities: the pooling of resources to benefit all.

We could imagine a world in which communities (defined however you like) entrust their data to stewards they know, and all invest in the maintenance of equipment and services. We can imagine such a world, but of course the human effort required to build it is far greater than simply paying for a service with a modest monthly fee—and your privacy.

So both things are true. We cannot expect everyone to manage their own digital infrastructure to build a better world, but managing our digital infrastructure is probably necessary to build a better world.

Tired of Google’s "Cloud Prison"? ⛓️📸

No more terminal hacks or broken files. Our new Migration Tool makes moving to PixelUnion simple. 🚀

✅ No CLI needed — Just your browser! 💻
✅ Metadata, GPS, and dates are restored 🛠️
✅ Albums stay intact — No digital mess 📂
✅ Privacy-first & EU-based 🇪🇺✨

Stop being the product. Bring your memories home where you are in control. 🏠

🔗 https://pixelunion.eu/blog/migration-tool/

#Privacy #GooglePhotos #DeGoogle #PixelUnion #EU #SelfHosting #TechFreedom

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Migration guide interface

I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.

I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.

I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.

I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/

#SelfHosting #FOSS #blog

The fair story for #SelfHosting is to go beyond the jubilation of only its merits in so many of the "Just Self-host" advice and instruction blogs that are doing the rounds, and also include all the considerations to perhaps not self-host. As it brings a much larger burden than just that initial install. Such that people are even burning out and leave the #FOSS space, having underestimated what it takes.

One of the common misnomers around the migration away from toxic tech stacks is that the options are either 1) services managed by a company or 2) everyone #selfhosting themselves.

There is however an often overlooked 3rd option of community-scaled infrastructure. Here a group identifies their needs, plans & deploys to meet them. Much like a community garden, that infrastructure has people skilled & dedicated to its upkeep in providing for that group, working bees & skillshare as needed.

1/n

There are clowns next to me learning to use basic command line tools to pull together music playlists for #RhinoRadio!

The nerd is growing strong here. <3

#cli
#MusicPD
#selfhosting

Ich habe jetzt ein kleines Skript im Einsatz, das jede Minute die IP-Adresse prüft und die Verbindung automatisch repariert 👍

#NixOS #WireGuard #Homelab #SelfHosting #Linux

https://burningboard.net/@tux/116110940390482418

for #selfhosting, it will be enough,i'm confident that my service can endure a powercut, so snapshot will be fine.

i haven't figured out how i will manage off-site backup, maybe export a tar from borg ? or rsync the repo even if it's not advised.

Mes services publics auto-hébergés font peau neuve ! 🚀 🐧

Besoin d'outils libres, sécurisés et sans pub ? C’est par ici :
🔗 https://blablalinux.be/mes-services-publics/

#SelfHosting #Libre #BlablaLinux

@CodeMacLife I self host everything, and have done email since 1999. You are going in exactly the right order. Storage is definitely the easiest thing to get started with. Email is dead last in the list of things to self host. if you ever get to it at all. Try doing some storage and see how it goes. See if you enjoy it.

Things to look into: Nextcloud, truenas, or even just buying a synology device.

You don’t have to build the device from parts and install the OS yourself. If the data is under your roof and you’re running the equipment yourself, you’re #selfhosting.

The EU tech ecosystem is maturing, but swimming against the current of US defaults still takes work.

[…] If you're thinking about doing this: go in with your eyes open. The EU infrastructure ecosystem is real and maturing fast. But "Made in EU" is still a choice you have to actively make, not one you can passively fall into. The defaults of the tech industry pull you west across the Atlantic, and swimming against that current takes effort.

https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/

#bigtech #nerdreich

#MadeInEU #DigitalSovereignty #EUTech #GDPR #Startup #Entrepreneurship #SelfHosting #TechStack #OpenSource​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​