Gefühlt hat der Begriff „Self-Hosting“ in den letzten paar Wochen wieder einen gewaltigen Boost bekommen. Ich will hier mal ein paar sehr generische Tipps und Ideen aufschreiben, wie man sein „Self-Hosting-Game“ verbessern könnte. Das ganze ist subjektiv und funktioniert für mich so gut. Für jemand anderen ist vielleicht ein anderer Ansatz besser… Früher™ habe ich […] … → https://ho1ger.de/2025/04/12/self-hosting-ideen-und-moeglichkeiten/

#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.

• It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

• Public Chat? IRC!
• Group Voicechat? Mumble.
• #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
• 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
• E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
• E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
• Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
• …

Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

Lately I've been doing more #SelfHosting again due to the current situation. Of course, I'm paying particular attention to power consumption and noise. After good experiences with the #ARM64 architecture, even with power-hungry applications such as Mastodon, I'm now using the smartphone technology for my homeservers, too.

There are #SBCs with more open hardware, but the #RaspberryPi is widely available, well documented, powerful and inexpensive. And it is available with up to 16 GB of RAM.

Anyone operating a server on the Internet must install #security updates quickly. However, many people forget to restart running software so that the new version runs instead of the old one. The #needrestart tool helps with this on Debian-based Linux systems, which unfortunately is usually not pre-installed.

On my Raspberry Pi 4, needrestart always runs correctly (automatically after apt upgrade). On my Raspberry Pi 5, however, I first had to create a configuration file as described by the main developer here:
https://github.com/liske/needrestart/blob/master/README.raspberry.md
Previously, the tool always claimed that a reboot was necessary because it thought an outdated Linux kernel was running.

Next, I want to activate #LUKS hard drive encryption on both raspis. Unfortunately, this is not as easy under #Raspbian or #RaspberryPiOS as on other Debian systems. If you have managed this: Please let me know how you did it!

I know for a fact that self-hosting is very difficult to pull off but I tip my cap to those who can manage it successfully.

Here's @emilygorcenski who shows us how to create a self-hosted calendar solution.

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/owning-my-own-data-part-1-integrating-a-self-hosted-calendar-solution/

How little metal do you need? https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/how-little-metal-do-you-need/

Success!!! I've migrated Immich from an x86 Debian system to Asahi Fedora on an M1 Mac Mini.
Installing Fedora was easy
Installing Docker was easy.
Installing Tailscale was super simple.
Installing and setting up CSF was easy, but only because I had notes from last time on how to make Docker and Tailscale cooperate.

Migrating the Immich database was a nightmare!! I think because my old system was a mishmash of legacy settings from 100+ releases ago... Also, my old system wasn't on the very newest release, which in itself made migration fail initially.

Si buscas una alternativa a una aplicación privativa, Open Source Alternatives te las puede dar: https://opensourcealternative.to
#SelfHosting #SelfHost

Hey guys, any advice about reverse proxy? I'm a beginner.
#selfhost #selfhosting #yunohost #linux #debian #internet

Hey #selfhosted, what is your favorite mood-tracking web app?

Esta guía te enseña a hacer #Plex lo más privado posible.

https://selfh.st/plex-privacy-settings/
#Privacidad #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting

#ActualBudget with SimpleFin bridge integration has been working mostly fine for me... Except that

1) vanguard often doesn't sync successfully and needs re-auth
2) apple card sync never worked after syncing once......
3) the envelope budgeting just doesn't work for me. Like I front load my retirement accounts, so I don't have income for a few months, and Actual budget will just freak out because I'm over budgeting every month

It's ok because I only have retirement accounts with vanguard so I'm not gonna look at it all the time and I have very few transactions on Apple Card at the moment...

Upgraded all four of my pihole instances to v6. They’re working perfectly!

I love how a bunch of the “advanced” settings are now available from the UI. It makes initial set up so much easier.

I'd like to set up SSO so that I can self-host resources like nodebb, freshrss, and znc, and share them with friends, without those friends having to manage a separate password for every service. Keycloak seems like a decent place to start but it requires a database, and I've always found those a little abstract, I don't know what I need to type to actually install and use one. Can you recommend me a good "just show me the code" tutorial for e.g. postgres on debian 12?

edit: actually, has anyone else here set up SSO for self-hosting, with or without keycloak?

Does anyone here self host Mastodon with @yunohost ?

I'm just curious how well it works given Masto's reputation for being tricky to upgrade without breaking?

Please boost for a larger sample size! Tx!

Memento Mori - Instagram Archive Viewer

"Tool to turn your Instagram export data into a website that you can share after deleting your Instagram"

https://github.com/greg-randall/memento-mori/

#selfhost
#selfhosted
#selfhosting
#foss
#opensource
#homelab
#homeserver

Updated my #privacy guide of optimal #Plex settings to be disabled for anyone not willing to make the jump after their recent news. Feel free to let me know if there's anything I've missed!

https://selfh.st/plex-privacy-settings/

I think I need to just get an HP EliteDesk small form factor PC and start hosting more things. $200-300 for a used one and buying new RAM and drives.

Mostly driven by BitBucket reducing total storage limits. A standard plan is $16.50 a month just for me. LinkWarden cloud is $3 a month. If I *just* hosted those two things (ForgeJo for Git), I break even in 11-15 months. But have full control and as many users as I need.

Plus ability to host other things useful things.

#SelfHost
#HomeLab