Found a good fanless, completely quiet PC with a LAN, WiFi, 2 COM ports, LPT, VGA and SSD inside — all that for the price of two good meals

It has 1 Gb RAM and Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz (i686, 32-bit). So I have a question to #NetBSD folks — how well NetBSD supports 32-bit architectures?

I want to do some #selfhosting, so I need to install some things: sshd, rsyncd, lighweight HTTP server (nginx?), syncthing, ejabberd, some mail server, etc Any chances that these software still builded for i686 and exists in NetBSD repos?

Alt...

Backplane of a fanless PC with a: LPT port, two 3.5 jacks, two USB 2.0 ports, PS/2 port, COM-port, VGA-port, two WiFi-antennas and the DC-in 12V port

Ppl of Mastodon. Please help educate the normies about independent, small tech and self hosting. Not only fancy stuff like docker/VS etc and home servers, but cheap shared webspace online, small CMS, wikis, favourite federated or OS apps, (mine are Masto, Lemmy, Grav, Jekyll, Ghost and others). Introduce them to what is actually out here. Try not to expect total purity! They want to be free, not join a cult 😎😇

#smalltech #smolweb #selfhosting #freeweb #academia #academicchatter

Looking for advice on #selfhosting a personal #LLM. I agree with the most people that Big Tech AI is bad. Bad for the environment and bad for digital sovereignty. However, I am not going to agree that the tools are useless. They are in fact quite useful, when you understand their limits and how to use them.

What would be the simplest way to host my own LLM for personal use. My PC isn't ancient, but it isn't necessarily modern either. Are we at a point yet where this is even feasible for the everyday person?

Selfhosting doesn't necessarily equal single user machines. For instance, I do selfhost Mastodon and Peertube - by that I actually host for others as well.

Seen from the perspective of our members, it might be community hosting - but from my perspective it is true #selfhosting.

And no, it doesn't run from a dusty garage - nor anything worse - but from a datacenter.

Time to discuss self-hosted alternatives to GitHub!

First, has anyone simply put a bare git repo on a server somewhere, pushed via SSH, and called it a day?

https://idiomdrottning.org/hosting-git-repos

Do you really need more than a remote to push to and pull from, for your personal projects? If you've tried this, what obstacles did you encounter and what features did you miss?

#GiveUpGitHub #SelfHosting #git #SSH #BareRepos

Next, have you tried a static site generator for browsing git repos? Here's a list of SSGs for git, sorted by latest commit (fresh to stale):

* reporat https://www.ratfactor.com/repos/reporat/
* git-arr https://blitiri.com.ar/p/git-arr/
* depp https://git.8pit.net/depp/
* itsy-gitsy https://git.trevorbentley.com/itsy-gitsy/file/README.md
* pgit https://pgit.pico.sh/
* stagit https://codemadness.org/git/stagit/file/README.html
* gituwa https://git.mcksp.com/gituwa/
* repo2html https://git.m455.casa/repo2html/

#GiveUpGitHub #git #SelfHosting #SSGs #StaticWebsites #StaticSiteGenerators

To avoid self-hosting a full-fledged code forge, you might want to simply store issues in the git repo itself. Have you tried using git-bug, git-issue, or some other decentralized bug tracker?

* https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
* https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

Last time I tried git-bug I failed to import my issues from GitHub and gave up, but maybe it works now, it seems there is a new & more active maintainer.

#GiveUpGitHub #git #BugTracking #issues #SelfHosting #GitBug

Finally, if you really need a full code forge, with issue tracking and everything, what is the simplest, most light-weight code forge you can self-host?

Is it Forgejo? "Lightweight: Forgejo can easily be hosted on nearly every machine. Running on a Raspberry? Small cloud instance? No problem!" https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo

That sounds great to me, but is Forgejo simple enough that I won't regret taking on the maintenance burden? Is there something even faster?

#GiveUpGitHub #git #SelfHosting

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)

#selfhosting #GoToSocial #Mastodon #NextCloud #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Signal #YunoHost #DeGoogle #LeaveSubstack #resist #resistance #broligarchy

I thought my colleague was an alien who decoded base64 strings on the fly, but he wasn't.

It turns out there's a neat little trick to know that you're looking at a base64 encoded JSON object.

https://ergaster.org/til/base64-encoded-json/

#sysadmin #selfHosting #base64

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 230 (disconnected edition) 🏝️

a micro blog post that celebrates the release of #Ghost v6 - and laments the fact I can’t upgrade to it at the moment (stranded in a remote place with spotty internet).

🔗: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-230-disconnected-edition/

HUGE congratulations to @index @johnonolan and the whole Ghost team 🥳

I’m starting a countdown and hope I can type “ghost update” in Terminal in 12-13 days or so.

#MySoCalledSudoLife #MySoCalledSudoLifeInterrupted #selfhosted #ActivityPub

Thanks to SeaweedFS, I've set up two replicas of the BSD Cafe's media. One is on a backup server (for disaster recovery purposes only, also containing the hourly zfs-autobackup backups), and the other is on a Raspberry Pi 4 running FreeBSD, which is one of my home backup servers - just one meter away from my desk.
I've also configured Nginx in a jail, so when I'm at home, the BSD Cafe's media is served directly from the local replica.
The performance is lightning fast.

#BSDCafe #SeaweedFS #S3 #Mastodon #SelfHosting #Homelab #FreeBSD #RunBSD

At the individual scale, self-hosting is not a good way to “be in control of my data.”

It’s like saying I do a vegetable garden to be in control of my food. I need much more than I can grow, it’s an inefficient use of my time, and I’m one bad season away from losing it all.

Resilience and transparency are key to be in control of my data and I can’t achieve this alone. This is a social problem, we need to bring solutions as a society.

#sovereignty #selfHosting #gardening

So I've just migrated all of my (admittedly entirely uninteresting) #GitHub repos to my own #Forgejo installation. I have no illusions that anyone will actually care about this move, but at least it removes one of the many pebbles in my stomach.

I did not need convincing that using and relying on centralised services run by large, non-European companies is bad; that has been clear for decades. Dependency, privacy concerns, legal implications and the general issue of "being the product" are all well-known and not-so-well-aged problems.

So what's new? Well that's easy: Most - or even all - the companies and services that fall under the umbrella loosely defined above have turned into outright Trump-apologists and bona fide supporters of fascism. Oh and they steal everyones stuff and feed it to their LLMs.

I should have done this a long time ago, and even so I'm keeping my presence on GitHub simply because it's pretty much a necessity to be able to contribute to other projects. And doing that is still more important than "sticking it to the guy": The positive impact of contributing (and maintaining a low bar for me to do so) still seems too important to outright deleting me account.

I'm willing to hear arguments to the contrary, though. #SelfHosting #Independence #EU #DigitalFreedom #OnlineFreedom

Can anyone recommend a self-hosted video server? My wishlist ...

1. Open source.
2. Even minimally-functional Web upload interface so I can upload videos from my phone.
3. Private videos - just obfuscated filenames is ideal, no account required etc.

I could definitely cobble something together with a cron job, uuidgen, sftp, and Caddy configured to stream videos. But I'd rather not 🤣

#selfhosted #SelfHosting #video

Homepage is a really nice dashboard with tons of functionality. Just fiddled a little with and i'm impressed! 😎 (Screenshot attached with my current setup)

Link: https://gethomepage.dev/

#docker #SelfHosting #selfhosted #HomeLab

Installing Mastodon inside a FreeBSD jail: A Comprehensive Guide

Updated for Mastodon 4.4

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/11/23/installing-mastodon-on-a-freebsd-jail/

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #Fediverse #OwnYourData #SelfHosting

Today's Lemmy browsing yielded Navidrome, independent alternative to horror capitalist S**tify (aka Sh*tify). https://www.navidrome.org/

You dont need to self host a server, you can use services like Pikapods at very low cost. Youre still hosting your own library! https://www.navidrome.org/docs/installation/managed/#pikapods

#selfhosting #navidrome #audio #streaming

I have an idea for a new project blog, and discovering useful information about how to set one up with a cheap VPS running NetBSD courtesy of this post from @stefano ...

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/22/make-your-own-internet-presence-with-netbsd-and-a-1-euro-vps-part-1-your-blog/

#NetBSD #RunBSD #SelfHosting #VPS

Casual reminder: you are supposed to run your own mailserver

If you aren't operating your own mailserver by now, what is your excuse? Don't have the hardware? Get a VM with @OpenBSDAms. Too much effort? Nah, @mwl has you covered.

Never surrender the protocols.

Run your own mail server.

Revolt.

Rebel.

#RYOMS #mail #selfhosting #decentralize #reclaim

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Meme How they want my mailserver to look: *Exchange logo* How my mailserver actually looks: *human arm, tattooed, holding up a piece of hardware*

This question is for anyone that manages their own servers and monitors the health of services.

What is your preferred method of receiving alerts?

#FreeBSD #Linux #SelfHosting #monitoring #OpenBSD #Cloud #BastilleBSD

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 212 (consolidating edition) 🎛

If you followed my (mis)adventures yesterday and all the issues I had with caching and #CDN for my #Wordpress site, well, I found a solution.

💫​ Something that had been in front of me the whole time
💫​ ZERO additional costs

Ta-da: 👻​

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-212-consolidating-edition/

#Ghost #VarnishCache

Never a dull day in this #selfhosting journey: editing important #DNS records while your child is on summer holiday - and may come see you every few minutes - is a very interesting exercise in concentration.

Special thanks to nonna (grandma) for helping with childcare this morning 😅​

I'm hoping I'm successful in setting up a more solid #CDN for my personal website because I keep DDOS'ing myself (from a simple Mastodon reply to a federated Wordpress post - 8k followers will do that).

Wish me luck!

P.S.: another moment of gratitude / deep appreciation for #VarnishCache which has been providing rock solid caching to my #Ghost site. Now I need to take care of my #Wordpress site with a pro CDN solution (Varnish isn't an option sadly bc of the Wordpress setup / I don't have direct access to the server)

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 210 (viva #FOSS edition) 🎊​

A "micro" blog post about how grateful I am for the ability to self-host essential digital services.

🔗​: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-210-viva-foss/

#MySoCalledSudoLife

🚨LIVE NOW!🚨 DevOps/SRE Instructor Live Stream

On this lovely Tuesday, let's chat about #Linux #SystemAdministration, #SelfHosting, or any other topic in the #DevOps and #SRE space you're interested in!

https://monospacementor.com/live-stream/

What #docker #containers do you guys/gals host at home? 😎

#SelfHosting #linux #docker #container

looking for a self-hosting app which has good OCR for printed cooking books. Trying to digitize them.

Any recommendations?

#selfhosting #ocr #cooking #books

This is your casual reminder to #selfhost At least that what you are comfortable with

#selfhosting is about being independent. About owning your data. About reclaiming the 'net and decentralizing it. It is about taking control. Being able to do things the way you see fit. And it is about breaking free from subscriptions and from big tech which is #enshittifying like there is no tomorrow.

Go #selfhosted the way you see fit. In small steps, one platform at a time - or with a head first dive if you are feeling adventurous. Share your experiences, write a blog about it, create a video or post about it on the Fediverse.

It most definitely is not too late to revolt. To give big tech the middle finger. Firmly stand your ground. Be a rebel.

#AskFedi do you know anyone with a federated Wordpress site who uses it extensively? Not just for publishing straight to the Fediverse, but also in a social way (aka as a fedi profile)?

I've run into a few roadblocks with mine and I could really use some inspiration 😊​

#Wordpress #ActivityPub #selfhosting

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 203 (am I doing POSSE right? edition) 📖​

Experimenting with the #POSSE method by posting on my federated #Wordpress site first and then syndicating elsewhere.

🔗: https://elenarossini.com/2025/07/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-203/

Not sure if I'm doing things the right way but it feels empowering to have these posts on my site - it will be so much easier to organize them and find them in the future.

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Addendum: This is why I think #SelfHosting is more about #DigitalIndependence than #DigitalSovereignty, for example.

And yes, services that implement #DigitalSovereignty can still violate my #DigitalIndependence when they use my data our data about me.

The digital life is complex, not binary ...

🚨 Reminder! Heads up, LA! 🚨

We’re hosting a Tailscale Community Meetup in Pasadena on July 8 — come hang out with the team, grab a snack, and nerd out on networking (no NAT traversal required 😉)

🗓️ https://tailscale.com/events-webinars/tailscale-community-meetup-LA
#Tailscale #LAmeetup #SelfHosting

GitHub Actions + exit nodes = 💡

Simon Willison routed his scraper traffic through Tailscale (on an Apple TV!) to dodge Cloudflare blocks in GitHub Actions.

Ethical, efficient, and pretty clever.

📝 https://til.simonwillison.net/tailscale/tailscale-github-actions
#Tailscale #GitHubActions #SelfHosting

"All Flash" is my new homelab storage (6x 4T) & I'm not sure if it'll still be #FreeBSD.

The goal? Providing storage for clients at home (NFS/CIFS) but also to servers like Proxmox by NVMeoF (TCP).

It's not a ready-to-use NAS and more a MiniPC with 6x NVMe slots and 2x 2.5Gbit and 1x 10Gbit network. So, I'm happy to make the best out of it. Unfortunately, the performance with SPDK is really worse and I'm not yet quite sure why.

#homelab #nas #storage #selfhosting #networking #network #runbsd

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 188 (REAL self-hosting edition) 👻​

Hello Fedi friends,

I hope you had a nice weekend.

I spent the vast majority of the past two months in full time filmmaking mode, for my Fedi promo video.

Now that the French (https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/) and the Italian (https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverso-video/) voice-over narrations are complete, I can finally resume my self-hosting adventures.

On the agenda for later this week: updating the version of my Ghost installation, which is something I am genuinely self-hosting, without the help of YunoHost...

I already did it once a couple of months ago, but now the stakes are higher because I'm getting hundreds of visits every day (since publishing the Fedi promo video).

Second item on my to do list: figuring out how to log onto #NextCloud from my mobile phone (the iOS app keeps spinning when I enter my server name).

I'm just really grateful to be able to do all this... A mere 6 months ago it would have seemed impossible.

Wishing everyone a great day! 🌞​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

LA friends! 🎉
We’re hosting a Tailscale Community Meetup in Pasadena on July 8th!

Join us for snacks, stories, and some good old-fashioned tailnet talk. No VPN required.

RSVP here 👉 https://tailscale.com/events-webinars/tailscale-community-meetup-LA

#Tailscale #selfhosting #LAtech

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 186 (bandwidth edition)🚦

A moment of gratitude for #VarnishCache and how incredibly it has protected my self-hosted #Ghost blog from the so-called "Mastodon stampede" / "Mastodon hug of death":

Yesterday I published a page on my site with the French-language version of the Fediverse promo video https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/

Then I posted a message on my Mastodon account about it, asking people to boost it, so that people in the Francophone world could see it.

How many boosts did I get? 1300 so far (you people are amazing).

Well, my Ghost blog is still standing and super fast. Varnish is INCREDIBLE and I could not recommend it more.

Oh and my VPS with PeerTube is also still standing because I embedded the French version of the video on my Ghost site, so that hundreds of Mastodon servers attempted to fetch the cover image of the POST and not the cover image of the video.

Bandwidth consumption (for my VPS with GoToSocial and PeerTube) so far this month: 0.457 TB (my limit is 8 TB)

Bandwidth consumption for my VPS with Ghost: 0.06 TB (limit: 4 TB)

So far so good 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife