I recently added email to my mastodon instance, and with that success, I'm ready to finally cut email ties with Google. I bought a new domain name and I'll set that up with postfix/dovecot/etc, then start moving all of my various internet accounts over to it.

The new domain has a .net TLD instead of the current .com TLD, and that's nice; it's more appropriate since I'm not running a business. Now I'm just waiting for the DNS changes to propagate.

Hey guys, I have a question for anyone out there who likes to #selfhost

I'm looking for inspiration and ideas for new services to host on my Ubuntu Server instance. I have Pihole running, and I'm wondering what you guys who run Ubuntu Server in your #homelab have running in your servers?

I'm new to all of this, so please be kind, as I said before, I'm just looking for inspiration!

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Immer noch kein vernünftiges #tut gefunden, das mir erklärt, wie ich auf dem #Proxmox #Server eine der VM über die öffentliche IP des Servers erreichbar machen kann.

After some rather significant technical gymnastics some very smart people (myself not included) seem to have employed a fix to get #Microblog to #Mastodon crossposting working again with my setup! Here now is a test post to see how it works :) Documentation sometime next week for the benefit of other admins, as long as everything remains stable #socialmedia #serveradmin #tech

I have a technical question for all the devs, server admins, techies out there.

I'm in the US, my client is in Europe.
The domain resides in Europe.
The Website/VPS Server/host resides in the US.

Nameservers are not propagating to US locations. I ran the various DNS through a checker.

My client in Europe can see the website. Support in India can see the website. I can't. "Server not found".

Is anyone experiencing similar issues, or knows how to resolve this?

Wait, whut? I did not expect this.

OK, finally got back on the Mastodon Good Server Owner Bandwagon and updated to the latest 4.3.x release. One note: using `yarn install --immutable` got me errors, but `yarn install` did not. So...while my mutability has suffered, the security of my Mastodon server has increased.

At the first #software #company I worked at, we had a #server #administrator who named the servers after astrological signs. In my current company, I'm doing server administration, and I use names of gods from Greek mythology. Not because I'm interested in Greek mythology, but simply because I needed a quick naming scheme. I now want to switch to a new scheme. There are probably better/funnier naming schemes. What scheme do you use?
#serveradmin #devops

Fun (actually not fun at all) fact about Caddy:

This expression will be merged with AND:

@matcher {
    path /foo
    header Header-Name value
}

@matcher {
    expression `path('/foo')`
    expression `header({'Header-Name': 'value'})`
}

New #introduction post!

My name is Rory! I'm a fluffy red panda and yes, I do like apples, naps, and big scares.

I work for a county government as a #water / #wastewater treatment plant operator. I love what I do and enjoy talking about all things water and wastewater including how to better utilize these resources better for a more sustainable future.

I have a background in #EmergencyManagement and #EnvironmentalScience / #Sustainability / and #HumanEcology. Hit me up and let's nerd out about population dynamics and how they impact resource usage, sometime!

I have interests in: #GIS #boardgames #gaming #pc #playstation #NintendoSwitch #CloudComputing #ClusterComputing #RaspberryPi #serveradmin #linux #SteamDeck #linuxgaming #reading #audiobooks #photography #conventions

Technical storytime! This actually happened.

A dedicated server on a generic host. A client with 6 sites and 45 domains, one of them lucrative.

The server went completely offline multiple times. I had to reboot through VPN. So I contacted support.

Me: The server keeps going down. It's completely offline. I think it might be hardware related.

Support: Reboot the server through your WPN/IPMI connection.

#Tech #Technical #ServerAdmin

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I really like the grouping of likes and boosts with the new Mastodon upgrade. It makes my notifications feed FAR less cluttered. Now if only we could get that full support for federated blocklists we can subscribe to officially built in rather than Ad-Hoc that would be amazing.

The blocklisting should be similar to PfBlockerNG on my Pfsense IMHO. https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/packages/pfblocker.html

Looks like the spam attacks are picking up steam. These are all the ones I had filtered. You can’t possibly expect small and medium servers to keep up with moderating this, there definitely has to be a priority for blocklists we can subscribe to similar to how PfSense firewalls work and Bluesky apparently already has.

I really think there needs to be an implemention of shared blocklisting where we can federate blocks from sources we choose. Apparently Bluesky has some features related to this, and I think it needs to be revisited to help for some of these spam attacks. This is the second wave of spam attacks. It's still small, but it may amplify and become as problematic as a few months ago.

Does anyone use wildcard Let's Encrypt certificate? Any specifics to know about them?

For years I've been using Sectigo or DigiCert wildcard certificates, but if Let's Encrypt provides them too, why not have shorter validity option

Also note to folks who need to generate Certificate Signing Request (CSR): most wildcard certificate issuers require Common Name (CN) to be set to wildcard subdomain (like *.gyt.is) and then subjectAltName to have both domain (gyt.is) and wildcard subdomain (*.gyt.is)

Belated #introduction post.

My name is Chris and I’m a non-binary (they/them) queer person in a poly relationship. I live in #Maryland around the #Baltimore metro area.

I work for the state government as a #water / #wastewater treatment plant operator-in-training. I have recently passed my Wastewater 5 and Advanced Wastewater license exams with the goal of taking the Water Treatment 4 license exam sometime in the next year.

I have a background in #EmergencyManagement and #EnvironmentalScience / #Sustainability / and #HumanEcology. Hit me up and let's nerd out about population dynamics and how they impact resource usage, sometime!

I have interests in: #GIS #drones #gaming #pc #playstation #NintendoSwitch #CloudComputing #ClusterComputing #RaspberryPi #serveradmin #linux #SteamDeck #linuxgaming #reading #audiobooks