Pssst! BoxyConnect comes soon to @BoxyBSD!

BoxyConnect allows you to create a private network / private link between multiple boxes at BoxyBSD. And the best? You can even create this over different locations/countries to provide you more flexibility.

You can simply assign any RFC1918 addresses on your new additional network interface on both sites and communicate in your own private network - even miles away.

This feature is currently in beta and will hopefully be available to everyone (just like all other services of course for free). Enjoy #RUNBSD!

This new feature is powered by @gyptazy!

#BoxyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #SmolBSD #Hosting #SelfHosting #Provider #BSD #FreeVPS #VPS #opensource #community #education #openeducation

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Image of BoxyConnect for BoxyBSD which shows multiple locations where people can start instances, which soon can be linked within a private own network.

@drscriptt Same, send and receive, and I'll share logs. #selfhosting

The runbsd.eu mailserver (OpenBSD + Postfix + Dovecot + OpenDKIM) is just about done. When it is done done, the blogpost will be there too.

#runbsd #openbsd #selfhosting

Hi, guys. I broke my Mastodon installation. Next time, I should use a server dedicated solely to Mastodon, lol, because it conflicts with my other apps, lol.

#mastodon #fediverse #selfhosting #devops #tech #technology #fail #learning #decentralisation #server #linux #it #networking #development #coding #sysadmin #openweb #community #troubleshooting #web

People who self-host (anything, not just Mastodon). Are you running services at your house? If so, are you hiding them behind a VPS that tunnels to your home's IP?

CC @neil , because you're the first person I thought of that would be able to answer.

#selfhosting

#selfhosting folks:

How, really, louder are ironwolfs 10tb+ compared to we red 6tb?

Hey all you selfhosters and homelabbers. When you are in need of a new fancy domain, where du you get it und how much d you roughly pay for it monthly. Are there any tld's which are really cheap? I mean there really seem to be people out there collecting that stuff and i think that must be quite expensive when you collect exessively.

#selfhosting @homelab @homelab_de

Ik heb een blog met een aanbeveling voor de Git-werkplaats van de #overheid geschreven:

https://developer.overheid.nl/blog/2025/11/11/git-forge-overheid

Conclusie: vanuit het oogpunt van digitale soevereiniteit en digitale autonomie is een self-hosted #Forgejo de beste keuze voor de overheid.

#Git #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #DigitaleAutonomie #GitLab #GitHub #FOSS #OpenSource #GitForge #SelfHosting

@rainy Get a
VPS (Vultr, Digital Ocean), a domain (Porkbun). Learn some DNS (BIND) and email handling (Postfix, maybe Courier IMAP). Pick a Fediverse server (Friendica, Mastodon). There's a lot to learn but you'll become more powerful for knowing it.

#selfhosting

PS: Dovecot is the common option for IMAP but they pulled a fast one recently with their config that's impacted lots of folks, and I've lost faith.

What top level domain do you use for your self hosted home services? I am considering .home or .lan.

#selfhosting

No AI being used here

Also: #RunYourOwnMailServer

#selfhosting #email #openbsd #opensmtpd

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Meme picture How they want my mailserver to look: [Exchange logo] Hos my mailserver actually looks: [hand holding up a small server-type machine]

@cavanholi #selfhosting all the way

Dear Fedi friends,

If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

🔗​: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni

It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).

My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):

"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.

It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.

We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.

I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."

I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.

If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains

#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy

Quick question to those who use a local Ollama install: is there a noticeable performance difference between a normal install through the package manager and a docker install of ollama. The Manjaro packages are a bit out of daten (Ollama is moving quite fast in the last two months) an dont work with the lates qwen3-vl.
#llm #ollama #selfhosting @homelab

The self hoster's paradox...

Everything working well: "I'm bored, there's nothing to play with 🥱"

Something breaks: "This is not how I want to spend my Sunday night, why do I do this 😭"
#selfhosting #fediadmin #homelab

In early September, The Matrix Foundation homeserver went down.

I'm extremely proud of our SRE team. They had a Disaster Recovery Plan and monthly exercises to apply it, resulting in no data loss despite a 24h outage.

I've learned a lot about how to properly backup/restore a Postgres database when writing this post with SREs. We also learned how to better prevent and be resilient to human error.

Thanks all for the hugops during the outage!

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-mortem/

#homelab #selfHosting #sre

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩‍🏭

a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-316-realist-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

My minio instance has very basic needs and continues to chug along, but they've clearly made every effort to do away with the community version and I need to figure out a plan before I'm stuck.

Anyone switched to Garage?

Any other suggestions for self-hosting S3 compatible storage?

I'm basically only using it for hosting static pages, restic backup target, and sometimes as a media store for matrix / GoToSocial (though I think neither at this exact moment).

#homelab #selfhosting

Google is going to make HTTPS required by default in Chrome in a year.

In the post there is quite a bit of talk about the problem of obtaining a cert for local network names. Hopefully their push to make everything-HTTPS will include local network addresses too. We really badly need it.

They kind of seem to say they will, but it's all talk until shown otherwise: "In the future, we hope to work to further reduce barriers to adoption of HTTPS, especially for local network sites."

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/10/https-by-default.html

#chrome #security #selfhosting

Yesterday evening just before going to sleep I installed #pihole on #raspberrypi 5. The process was straight forward and it works like a charm. It neatly blocks advertisements for all devices in my local network. It also blocked #youtube adds to my surprise.

I am actually considering donating to support #pihole.

https://pi-hole.net

#pihole #raspberrypi #SelfHosting #Linux

Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈​

File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.

So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.

I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.

How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.

The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.

Time went like this:

1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)

4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade

5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)

7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install

9m30s in: post installation complete

11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.

14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳​

Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Pretty interesting how an old hardware works well and compute well in the strange configurations.

Prereqs: Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz and 2 Gb RAM.

Since there are no NetBSD builds of xray-core and v2raya — I spin up a FreeBSD VM inside the Qemu and without NVMM accelerator (not supported by my CPU). Execute these programs inside this VM — and the server still running and even doesn't overload

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #Qemu #IntelAtom #SelfHosting

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CPU usage graph from Munin. The graph shows 5-10% CPU usage. The graph rises to near 5% at near 11:40. With one visible spike to 120% at near 12:50.

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Load average graph from Munin. Overall usage were at near 0.3 but raised to 0.8 at 11:30. With one visible spike to 2.8 at near 12:50

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The memory usage by category graph. It shows rise of anon memory from 0.3 Gb to 0.8 Gb at near 11:00 or 12:00.

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Processes graph from Munin. It shows that there are near 53 processes before 11:00 and near 65 processes after this time.

Does anybody has a hint for a Mastodon INstance where i could test my Emby Notification Bot? It works using my own GoToSocial Server as endpoint, but it fails most of the time on mastodon.social, especially when i try to upload media. The logging on the Emby console is a catastrophy. I can only recon there is some kind of rate limiting etc.
I mean in the past there was something like botsin.space, is there something similiar, or could somebody give me an account on its mastodon instance for testing?

Dont want to fire up an own mastodon instance just for this.

#mastodonbot #mastodon #bot #selfhosting @homelab @homelab_de

When I select a VPS how do I know that my data on the server is safe and private? Is trust all I've got?

#SelfHosting #VPS #Linux

Good morning Fedi friends!

Earlier today I installed #DeltaChat to give it a try... and I'm currently flashing the #YunoHost disk image on a card for my #RaspberryPi5 - so I can write about the process.

Super grateful for the world of #FOSS ❤️​

Have a great day everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Made my FreeBSD server at Netcup ready to host multiple isolated applications with automatic https via Let's Encrypt.

Internet → Server → PF firewall → Caddy jail (reverse proxy) → Individual application jails

Each app gets its own isolated jail for security, while Caddy handles all the routing and https. PF keeps the front door locked.

All of course with IPv6 first, where every Jail has it's own public IP address and using NAT for legacy IPv4.

Love how FreeBSD jails make this kind of segmentation so elegant.

#FreeBSD #Jails #SelfHosting #Caddy #ipv4

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Traffic flow diagram

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting: day 300 (new project edition) 💡

a blog post that discusses my next self-hosting project. a hint: it's not fediverse-related but is still very empowering.

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-300-new-project-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #Jellyfin

Days since the last "kid shut down the server by pressing the shiny button" incident: 0

#homelab #selfHosting

Curious about Raspberry Pi and Tailscale? Discover how to transform your Raspberry Pi into a subnet router and exit node, enhancing your self-hosting capabilities. Dive into this slice of delicious Pi and explore the possibilities! #RaspberryPi #Tailscale #selfhosting

https://youtu.be/dneNjDu4HKU

That #Peertube instance is the place to spend your time, instead of letting them grind you down with new rituals of doom at the neutered #TikTok
What Peertube instance? The one you are #selfhosting that's the best one, always! It is not that hard, and people will help you.
@stefano