More progress towards #keyboardvagabond, a fediverse space for digital nomads and backpackers! It's a baby step and a place holder, but www.keyboardvagabond.com is a thing that loads.
I already have 7 issues on my #gitea instance. It's more of an outline at this point, but things are getting closer. There's still a decent amount of work to do for prepping to go live in general for all of the services.
I'm currently running a #nextcloud instance in my home server. Now I have all my relevant files, contacts and calendars stored there.
So now I'm thinking about the next step and setup a private collaborative office suite, but I'm not sure of if I'd prefer to enable #collabora in Nextcloud or to use #cryptpad for it.
Suggestions and personal growth stories are welcome.
OK. Now that I understand how to create working S/MIME certificates for signed and/or encrypted eMail with my own Certificate Authority (CA), I can take it to the next level. Federated CAs. Decentralised trust relationships between CAs. https://smallstep.com/blog/step-v0.8.3-federation-root-rotation/
I've built a new custom RSS-Bridge that provides real-time feeds for actions on any bill on Congress.gov.
TL DR: j'envisage d'investir dans un homeserver, avez-vous des conseils?
J'ai actuellement un VPS avec yunohost pour les outils que j'utilise (cette instance Gotosocial, mon site web...). Je souhaite installer une application qui n'est pas disponible sur Yunohost, et je commence à voir les limites des capacités de mon VPS (surtout la RAM). Financièrement, je n'ai pas envie de payer davantage mon abonnement pour le VPS. Du coup, je me demande si ça ne vaudrait pas le coup (et le coût) d'acheter et de mettre en place un serveur perso, un truc physique sur lequel j'installerais un OS comme Casa OS (cet OS permet d'installer des appli basées sur Docker, ce qui a l'air intéressant en terme d'applications disponibles, je n'aurais plus à dépendre de ce qui est paramétré par yunohost).
Est-ce que mon raisonnement est solide? Est-ce qu'un homeserver est difficile à gérer? Je sais utiliser la ligne de commande (faire des copier coller dans un terminal ne me dérange pas trop). Mais je préfère grandement une interface graphique. Casa OS a l'air assez ergonomique à utiliser.
Avez-vous des conseils pour choisir un bon serveur? quelle fourchette de prix je dois envisager?
Questions subsidiaires: Est-ce que la migration de mon VPS vers un homeserver est possible à partir des trucs installés via yunohost ou il faut repartir de zéro? (pour le site web, je pense qu'il suffit de changer les paramètres DNS du nom de domaine pour pointer vers le serveur physique donc pas compliqué, mais pour l'instance GotoSocial, je pense que c'est une autre paire de manches)
#selfhost #casaOS #homeserver
I’m now focusing with Mangotek on helping people + small orgs move away from Big Tech — learning Linux, exploring ethical FOSS tools, and making the shift step-by-step.
If you’re starting your own #BigTechDetox or work in ethical tech, let’s connect, share ideas, and support each other.
Together we can reclaim tech for people, not profit.
Boosts appreciated & welcome! 
I’ve hit a roadblock!
Installed Wallabag on my VPS.
Following the documentation on their website, I have:
- Created an account.
- Can log in.
- Created ClientID and Client Secret via the web.
When I go to sign in on the iOS app I get an error “The client credentials are invalid”!
Not sure where to go next as I can login using the credentials I set up.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
#wallabag #selfhost
@triple This is good. I agree. There are definitely times when someone asks the #linux equivalent of “what pot should I use to grow herbs in my window planter” and they get a #selfhost reply “keeping a cow in your back yard gets you a lot more food and it’s not that hard.” I am sure I’ve been that guy (with the cow advice) sometimes. Gotta meet people where they are in order to get them to go someplace else.
Let’s say I was considering self-hosting a Ghost blog as a replacement/upgrade for my very-long-running wordpress based blog?
Are there good import tools for thousands of posts, images (cloud hosted and not) etc?
(I've seen this article at Ghost, what are people's experience? https://docs.ghost.org/migration/wordpress)
Inquiring FediMinds want to know! :)
And if you have opinions on Wordpress vs. Ghost, I’d be interested in hearing them. I don't have anything against WP per-se. Just interested in new kinds of blogging stuff.
#Fediverse #Ghost #Wordpress #Migration #HowTo #selfhost
I'm still struggling to get .local domains for my home network working... I can't find a good way to expose my main servers index page as homeserver.local and other services (in docker containers) either as subdomains like paperless.homeserver.local or paperless.local... any idea how that would work?
Hey #selfhost people! I am a *super* noob to #Docker. I have it running on an old PC running Ubuntu Server, with a few applications I access over my home network.
I'm considering moving Docker to a macOS machine. Is Docker OS-agnostic w/r/t the applications you run? e.g. do I have to check each application for a macOS specific Docker image, or will any application with a Docker image run regardless of the "host OS"?
TIA
@expertenkommision_cyberunfall @nextcloud that's the Catch 22:
Just cancelled the Zoom plan I kept on tap for work meetings and it felt SO satisfying.
With Jitsi feeling more and more mature and integration in Nextcloud lookin' real nice, it's just so fantastic to be able to switch to something less awful than Zoom.
And after seeing how well LibreSign works on Nextcloud for me, hubs is going to be able to cancel his own monthly doc-signing subscription too!
It's Friday. So all 5 RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) servers get their `dnf update`, a reboot and are checked for running smoothly. On 3 servers I also updated the forgejo runner to the current version 9.0.3. Weekend can start!
(Yes, I update my private servers on a Friday so I have the weekend to fix stuff in case something goes wrong, thanks for asking ;)
UPDATE: All updates installed, all servers back online, no problems found.
If you missed it, custom icon colors and full-text RSS feeds are the newest perks for paid SELFH.ST subscribers.
As always, thanks to those who support the platform and make the content possible!
Self-Host Weekly (8 August 2025)
New site perks (full-text #RSS, finally), software updates and launches, a spotlight on #iSponsorBlockTV - a sponsor-blocking #YouTube platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!
Seems my unknown enemy has topped up his botnet account again and is sending thousands of IP addresses to try to brute-force their way in to my mailserver. Blocketyblocking all of them :)
With the recent GitHub news (https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8), there's always the offer to join the Federated Nexus Git (https://git.federated.nexus, a Forgejo instance)!
Register on our website: https://federated.nexus!
Alternatively, Codeberg is a really good option too!
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