my adventures in #selfhosting - day 182 (new software edition!) ​

Good morning Fedi friends!

This #GoToSocial account is officially back to posting about... self-hosting from the POV of a newbie / non-dev.

This morning I hit a new little milestone: I FINALLY installed #NextCloud on my VPS (thank you #YunoHost).

I'm getting ready to share short clips of my Fedi promo video (that anybody could use / upload on their own accounts - esp. Big Tech ones, if they're so inclined) and I needed a solution to let people download files. NextCloud is perfect for the task - and something I had looked forward to installing for a looooong time.

I'll share more details soon, but so far I'm excited to finally use it.

Wishing everyone a great day! ​

#FOSS #MySoCalledSudoLife

Qualche giorno fa chiedevo lumi su una newsletter o feed rss con le uscite cinematografiche nelle sale italiane. Purtroppo nessuno ne conosceva, quindi ho messo in gioco un po' di sana arte dell'arrangiarsi. Usando RSS bridge ho creato un un feed rss che punta la pagina di comingsoon.it con le uscite della settimana corrente, puntando a.cards come selettore. Funziona ed è tutto self-hostato. Magari a qualcuno torna utile. #selfhosting o morte.
Cheers
https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

#CommunityHosting #Ops

A small group of us are working on community level hosting of 'self-hosted' FOSS tools (think #NextCloud and more) setup as a local service offering for local grassroots organisations. We're seeking advice/tips/guidance.

We're keen to do some orchastration but want to avoid the complexity of say Kubernetes.

As a start we were looking at Ansible with Docker Swarm but we're now exploring other alternatives.

Anyone have experience at this sort of hobbist just a bit bigger than #HomeLab Ops scale?

#Pyinfra is being considered as an Ansible, in the projects words "Think ansible but Python instead of YAML, and a lot faster." (https://pyinfra.com)

Anyone have experience at this homelab/small hosting level? Would love any tips/suggestions for tools/approaches.

One source of inspiration is the 12Factor app methodology: https://12factor.net

Personally, as a rubyist I'm always keen to know what the ruby community is doing in this space also.

Haven't seen many others doing work at this scale, lets use the tag #CommunityHosting to keep connected :)

@digital_justice_society

cc: @jadehopepunk @ryan @gilbert @bounding_star @steph @moxvallix @organvoid @teq

Hello, techhub and #Fediverse residents. I've been on Fedi for a good year or two, and am coming back after a decent break. I have many hobbies, namely tinkering with #Linux, computers, and other geek stuff. I like #gaming and #retro games too. I like #anime, #manga, and anything weeby. I particularly love #Tokusatsu and #Mecha, and other sorts of JP media. That's about it for now. I want to look into #selfhosting my own instance and services in the future, so I don't know how permanent this home will be, but I look forward to communicating with people all the same.

Pregunta para selfhosters: ¿Cuál consideran que es el mejor servidor XMPP?

Estoy pensando experimentar con XMPP en mi servidor personal. Estuve leyendo sobre Prosody, pero quiero tener más opiniones respecto de la facilidad de implementación y mantenimiento, uso de recursos, actualizaciones, implementación de features, etc.

@tecnologia
#XMPP #Selfhost #Selfhosting #Prosody

Looking for #SelfHosting recommendations for family mailing lists. Just one list for now with a couple dozen subscribers and infrequent utilization.

Looking to move one off of Google Groups.

Anyone who has upgraded their self-hosted #Gitlab instance to 18.x might want to check their admin settings and potentially disable "Event tracking":
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/03/26/more-granular-product-usage-insights-for-gitlab-self-managed-and-dedicated/

Please, someone tell me that you shouldn' upgrade #postgres directly

Just launched: My guide to self‑hosted photo backups with Immich!

- Docker
- Optional GPU acceleration
- Mount external NAS shares
- Full control over your library (no more vendor lock‑in!

Check it out! https://youtu.be/ehX0cl3IfdA

Hey adventurers!
Come around, pull a chair and sit by the fire, it's time for an announcement.

We decided to host a new free service (surprise surprise!) and this time is Mobilizon

We decided to give all you gamers, streamers, content creators, etc. a brand new federated place where you'll be able to put your event/calendar, may it be about live streaming, publishing videos/podcast/audiobooks/books/whatever on your channel or just looking for some players for a cozy night. It's a calendar, it's a LFG tool, it's a plane - no wait, scratch this one - and it's yours and as always it's free of charge :)

You'll find the new service here

Seeing how much we expanded our self hosted catalog, we feel it's about time to publish a FAQ page on our blog and we will in the next few weeks. In the meantime, feel free to reach our staff and ask directly on Mastodon/Discord/Matrix/IRC

Our staff:
@innkeeper
@brakeoutgaming
@harrybo
@jamie

Now live on self-hosted Owncast

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (Wii) - 100%

It's so hot, I'm constantly losing HP. 

https://stream.repeatro.de

Just a reminder for #selfhosting folks that #Readeck is an amazing replacement for #Pocket

https://readeck.org/en/

TFW you reboot your machine for the first time in days after setting up a bunch of new stuff, and it all works.

I just pulled out my old server from before the move a couple years ago. It's an optiplex 7010. That's hardly a powerhouse, but it'll be enough to run nextcloud. I also found a WD 4TB HDD.

So, time for some upgrades.

I ordered a second identical HDD so I can have RAID storage. I also ordered a 250GB SATA SSD for the operation system, and a caddy to hold it in a spare disk bay.

Then a 32GB ram kit, the max supported.

Total spend: approx $100 after some credit card rebates

#hivemind

I was wondering. Is there an OSS alternative for real time subtitles aimed for the deaf and people with limited hearing?

I could have sworn there was something that can create subtitles in realtime that isn't a proprietary closed source mess

a little tool I built to fight linkrot and save our sources from the memory hole → https://sij.law/deepciter

Monero is a cryptocurrency with strong privacy properties by default, but your wallet still needs a way to connect privately to the network. The best solution is to run your own Monero node, a copy of the blockchain which allows you to connect without anyone else knowing when you're using your wallet or sending transactions.

Our latest tutorial showcases how to easily set up your own Monero node on your TrueNAS server, using MAGIC Grants's pre-packaged Monero apps: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/12/monero-server-using-truenas/

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Please boost!