Not sure anyone in the public can really appreciate how aggressive malicious bots and bad actors are on the internet now days. I know I didn’t till I set up a little web server with a vanity site. I’ve spent the last five minutes watching wave after wave of random addresses try to attack it. 50+ addresses were automatically banned in that time.
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Since the Internet is horrible unless you're a giant corporation or a passive consumer of Content™, I have given up on #SelfHosting my e-mail.
After searching the Fediverse to see what people recommend, and looking at the list at https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers , I went with https://mailbox.org/ . They're in Germany, have a long enough history of operation that I can trust them not to disappear suddenly, and have all the features I want for having them as MX for all my domains and as relay for my local Postfix. E.g. ManageSieve support for sorting incoming mail and DKIM and SPF for my own domains so that it's less likely that my outgoing mail is sorted as spam.
They also have a lot of features I don't need (like an entire Nextcloud instance), and their long history means they do some things a little differently. But overall, I feel like I get a reasonable service for a reasonable price (€3/month).
After searching the Fediverse to see what people recommend, and looking at the list at https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers , I went with https://mailbox.org/ . They're in Germany, have a long enough history of operation that I can trust them not to disappear suddenly, and have all the features I want for having them as MX for all my domains and as relay for my local Postfix. E.g. ManageSieve support for sorting incoming mail and DKIM and SPF for my own domains so that it's less likely that my outgoing mail is sorted as spam.
They also have a lot of features I don't need (like an entire Nextcloud instance), and their long history means they do some things a little differently. But overall, I feel like I get a reasonable service for a reasonable price (€3/month).
European AlternativesEuropean email providers | European AlternativesAn email provider provides its users with an e-mail address and the corresponding mailboxes.
so.. ill soon release my demo page for my #pflanzn web app which will be released as open source and it will able to be selfhosted too
#selfhosting #plants #management #docker #foss
sneak peeks attached!
some features: multiple auth configuration (no/basic/oidc), pwa, plantnet identification api, llm integration (mistral, openai, hugging face, ollama), calendar for each plant to see image uploads and waterings,..
Are there any great ways to self-host a Misskey or other *key instance with NixOS?
I know services.mastodon but am specifically asking about Misskey and its forks.
Boosts welcome! 
#NixOS #fedi #selfhosting #selfhosted #Misskey #Sharkey
This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement 
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my adventures in #selfhosting - day 100 (milestones edition) 
Good morning Fedi friends!
Today I'm filled with gratitude as I think back about all the ways I have changed - and become more empowered - since I installed @yunohost on my VPS on December 17, 2024.
The biggest difference is my state of mind. For example, yesterday I started using #PeerTube, after setting up an account on the instance MakerTube. I am enjoying it IMMENSELY. I uploaded a couple of my videos there but then immediately thought: I should set up my own instance!
If you had told me 4 months ago that one day I would be a couple of clicks away from setting up my own PeerTube, I would have thought you were hallucinating. But #YunoHost has given me this power and confidence – for which I am infinitely grateful.
Since early February 2025 I have also gotten a bit of experience installing things on a separate VPS with command lines. Even if my self-hosted Ghost blog has given me lemons so far (Mastodon Hug of Death, you're to blame for this!) I am undeterred. I will try tweaking my NGINX settings next week, to set up a reverse proxy and increase my cache. Or heck, I could block Mastodon preview card requests and all my problems would go away. (If someone knows how to do that, please let me know!)
100 days of self-hosting, wow! I feel like a completely different person. Digital sovereignty rocks.
What are my goals for the next 100 days?
1) solving my self-hosted Ghost blog troubles
2) getting an education in caching, reverse proxies and the like
3) setting up my PeerTube instance
Thank you for encouraging me to go on this journey and for all your incredible advice and generous offers to help. This is truly the best community
#MySoCalledSudoLife #YunoHost
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@projetslibres_podcast Merci de ton retour !
Il semble avoir beaucoup de potentiel. Mais, il ne semble pas possible d'ajouter un layout sur une page existante. Ai-je raté quelque chose ?
Par contre, la synchronisation via self-host ne semble pas fonctionner pour moi. Sur ma tablette, la synchronisation semble plutôt être en P2P. Sur mon téléphone, je reste bloqué sur cet écran :-(. Il faut que je trouve une solution, sinon je vais devoir rester sur Obsidian.
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@signalapp I disagree because your platform is #proprietary, #SingleVendor, #SingleProvider and doesn't allow for #SelfHosting, #SelfCustody of all the Keys and you demand #PII in the form of a #PhoneNumber which can be used.to track users down!
- If #Signal was as secure as claimed, it would've been shut down like #EncroChat, #SkyECC & others...
#AskFedi: Someone not on here asked me whether there are any decent mail hosting services that also can handle custom domain and can serve as a registrar for it.
My first response was: no, not any really trustworthy ones (good ones are mailbox, posteo, …). Was I wrong in that assumption? Because I think this is a “what color do you want your dragon situation”.
And if not, what would y’all recommend as a non-US registrar?
Since #HostEurope moves our email to MS servers, I'm finally moving my 4 email domains to my own server. Two are already done, they were easy as I only used aliases. One contains my main mailbox, that will be a bit more involved and the other contains my mums mailbox. That one will be the hardest 
Thanks for giving me the push to finally move away HostEurope. I'll probably migrate the domains soon as well, I can pay a fraction for all the .de domains.
#NextCloud installed. It is kinda sad that it took the evilness of the tech giants (... shame on you #Google) for me to take this step, but, at least I got there. Install was "relatively" easy, though I managed to put out a thing to stumble on, I spent some frustrated time trying to figure out what was wrong, but that was me having put an entry in /etc/hosts while doing some other thing that completely messed things up Not NextClouds fault.
The software is quite impressive. The "drive" part seems easier & more intuifive than what Google has. In a way, it makes sense. Google wants to have a "Google Product!", that ties in with their stuff. NextCloud just want to offer something they want you to use. "If you are happy with the free one, maybe have it with commersial support at work", does not work if it is crap.
So, my #selfhosting now is a simple ssh server for quick autosync, gitea (will be replaced with forgejo), and nextcloud.
And HomeAssistant, of course...
Whats next? Pixelfed? Jellyfin?
does anyone know of a service (preferably #selfhosting) that notifies you about new releases from #music artists?
ideally it would be a tool that generates an rss feed, i don't need yet another app or web interface.
if self-hostable, i want to automate the list of artists by reading those from #jellyfin, so i never have to do that manually.
boost very welcomed!
Proxmox + Pocket-ID + Bitwarden + Passkey =
I love this seamless login experience! The future is passwordless authentication. Pocket-ID only supports passkey authentication, so you don't need a password.
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Sunday project, I tried to deploy the Anytype docker-compose, but it’s not working. I opened a ticket:
#anytype #selfhosted #selfhosting
https://github.com/anyproto/any-sync-dockercompose/issues/134
GitHubDependency failed to start: container any-sync-dockercompose-mongo-1-1 is unhealthy · Issue #134 · anyproto/any-sync-dockercompose
Heut eine interessante Alternative zu #Komoot gefunden:
wanderer DocumentationWelcome to wandererThe self-hosted trail database
Zum aktuellen Thema #Komoot – könnte für die Selbsthoster vielleicht interessant sein:
Ich habe es vor einer Weile mal aus Neugier installiert und etwas damit herumgespielt. Auf den ersten Blick ziemlich cool!
Wirklich „produktiv“ benutzt habe ich es bisher nicht, werde es jetzt aber mal als Alternative ausprobieren.
wanderer DocumentationWelcome to wandererThe self-hosted trail database
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my adventures in #selfhosting - day 95 part 2, white flag edition 
I turned my self-hosted Ghost blog private (for now) while I figure out reverse proxy / cache solutions for it.
It's absolutely ridiculous that the whole VPS would get overwhelmed by links to it shared on Mastodon.
Yesterday was a bit of a nightmare. I announced the new URL, tweaked an old toot to update the URL of a popular pinned article about PeerTube (pointing to my new self-hosted blog) and because the link had a preview card that servers had to fetch, the VPS immediately went offline. So people reading my announcement immediately reported they couldn't access the site. So embarrassing.
I'll plan to spend the weekend reflecting on the next steps.
Solution A: staying on my Ghost(Pro) plan which right now looks like a great deal for the money (considering all the features they offer, the lack of stress on my end and the superb customer support). Self-hosting would save me 5 dollars a month at best if I factor in a VPS, Mailgun newsletter integration and a CDN.
Am I so cheap that I will go through all this stress and uncertainty to save 5 dollars a month? Methinks not.
I just have a bruised ego because I literally spent 20+ hours moving the blog and I even started over from scratch twice. Yes I did the whole thing TWICE. First time around I found out at the last second the YunoHost installation was on mariaDB and no longer supported by the official Ghost team. Support had stopped 2 years ago even! So I signed up for a new VPS, installed everything from scratch with command lines... and the second I debuted the new thing, the VPS went offline because of a Mastodon toot with 100+ boosts. Who would have thought? The whole endeavor feels really cursed.
Solution B: figuring out reverse proxy / caching solutions... with no guarantees that a popular toot on Mastodon won't take down my whole VPS.
You can see where I'm leaning.
Aw the joys and pains of self-hosting! Lesson learned: sometimes a managed hosting solution can be a great investment and give you peace of mind.
my adventures in #selfhosting - day 95 
Saturday morning, I naturally wake up at 6:20am (as usual) and proceed to spend almost an hour researching reverse proxies, caching utilities and CDNs for my self-hosted Ghost blog… to prevent the “Mastodon Hug of Death”.
I’m now scared at the idea of sharing a link to my blog that comes with a preview card, because it’s like I’m “DDOS’ing” my own site (words from someone’s blog about this issue, sorry I can’t properly quote them).
I thought that once my site was up and running, it would be smooth sailing from there. Aw how naive I was 
It’s worth pointing out that I have 3 Wordpress sites - all federated - and even when I share blog posts that get popular on Mastodon, I never run into server issues. So this is a little moment of gratitude for my web host, its native CDN and my Wordpress caching plugin. Ouf. This self-hosted Ghost blog is a little cursed I tell you!
I still have a paid Ghost(Pro) plan and I’m having serious second thoughts about keeping it / dumping this whole self-hosted thing. Again.
It’s not a good feeling to be afraid that a popular blog post could take my whole site down… especially when I’m away from my computer (aka half the day, when I’m with my child) or when I’m asleep. This never happened on my Ghost (Pro) plan, even when I had 100+ boosts on a blog post.
Silver lining: I’m learning new things.
Oh and I don’t mean to be a downer on a Saturday morning. I’m sorry. On the upside, I’m super grateful for all your supportive messages, your bug reports and your links to solutions. This is truly the best community