As another year passes by here on Mastodon, I’m more and more convinced that self hosting my own instance was the right call. I fear less and less for the ”risks” in continuity of all this. I guess I trust my enterprise level server skills enough. The confidence in myself is definitely up a notch.
The Foundation's Managing Director, @josh, recently completed a migration from managed Matrix with EMS to self-hosting using the matrix-docker-ansible-deploy project. It was a tricky process, so we're sharing the details!
Whether or not you're migrating homeservers, or setting up a fresh homeserver, the matrix-docker-ansible-deploy project greatly simplifies getting started with self-hosting.
Alright, I have a small list, but if anyone has suggestions for small server racks or nice, reasonably priced server chassis that can fit a GPU, please throw links my way 👀
Not going to be buying anything right now but putting together some plans, esp. when Black Friday rolls around.
If I start self hosting some pages/small apps, what would be the best/safest way to expose that to the public internet? I understand that I could just do port forwarding on my router, but that makes me a little anxious for some reason. Would it be possible to, say, create a tunnel between my network and a remote EC2 aws instance, and tunnel the traffic through there?
Good thing #postfix sends #email on port 587 by default because I just got a server from Hetzner a few days ago since they told me I could get port 465 opened on request, now reading that I indeed can not (right now).
Now for the impossible task to not have my mails being detected as spam or being blocked by Google or Microsoft… 😑 #selfhosting
What are some interesting server applications that make use of a lot of RAM?
I have an Asus mini PC that I use as a server. I bought 64 GB RAM for it because I thought I would use it for self-hosting LLMs, but it turns out its GPU is not powerful enough to get good performance out of it.
So now, I’m stuck with a server that has 64 GB of RAM, while only needing 16 at most for what I’m doing with it, and I’m looking for ways to utilize all that extra RAM.
I enjoy #selfhosting some services at home. But the best thing I've recently spun up has to be #ntfy. The ability to pipe the notification command into my rendering pipeline free's me from checking the status constantly. This way, if the render completes, fails or stalls, I get a phone push notification.
Question: Does anyone have first-hand experience with a decent self-hosted gallery/portfolio platform that a budding (non-sysadmin) photographer can use if I set it up for them?
Something straightforward to use like WordPress, but aimed at someone who wants to show off their best photo albums?
Also, if it integrates with some method for selling high-res versions, that's a bonus.
I wonder what percentage of the population knows that servers exist.
Do people realize that when they send a message from WhatsApp, there is a server that the message is passing through? Or do most people just believe that the app (which is an interface to the service) is the service itself? Like, my message goes from my WhatsApp app to my friend's WhatsApp app directly. Everything in between is just the wires and routers of the Internet. (1/3)
If you have installed HA Core in a python virtual environment in a Bastille jail, here is an RC script that you can use to manage a homeassistant service
#NixOS win: I finally figured out how to make a single network interface have a native ip while also bridging a vlan so that I can put virtual machines on a different network.
[#HomeLab#SelfHosting#Linux#Nix ]
It took me a few tries to get into the boot manager of the Minix Z100-0dB, but now Debian is installed.
And the first impression is great! Everything already feels very fast. Worlds better than with my Rock64 NAS. But I can only say more once I've run a few benchmarks and finished setting up my NAS.
I think I know why I like #SelfHosting so much. It’s very anticapitalistic in the sence that I get to own the services I host instead of just paying rent on them.