New blogpost (on new blog!):

# Moving my static site blog generator from hugo to BSSG

My notes on setting up BSSG, and migrating from hugo, along with copies of my config files, css, and customised header.

With many thanks to @stefano, for sharing his amazing site building tool with us.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/03/moving-my-static-site-blog-generator-from-hugo-to-bssg/

#Linux #SelfHosting #BSSG #hugo #blog

I'm looking for a simple web based chat app that I can selfhost . I'd prefer something with voice chat but I need to keep bandwidth low. IRC may be too key-board heavy for this use case

suggestions are welcome

#selfHosting #selfhosted

@mastodonmigration We should probably be pushing things like #Friendica and #Pixelfed and other free Fediverse servers over things like Ghost.

Even pushing free wiki software would be a win over a proprietary platform.

But yes, escaping commercial platforms is a critically important idea, and the first step to #selfhosting.

Alright, I just moved to my new #mastodon instance fraxoweb.social.

Compared to the last one where I was solo #selfhosting ,

I'm going to allow people to join this new one.

For now, the goal is to be Canadian mastodon instance where both #french and #english is used and accepted. #canada

We'll see how that goes.

I have deployed and run infra since the noughts, through some wild turns in geo/techno-political history, and will say that now more than ever, #selfhosting is an act of resistance.

Depopulate. Defund. Disempower.

This seems like a good time for people to move off of giant corporate email providers. Surveillance capitalism needs to be shown the door. We're going to need to be able to trust our communications.

Related: I wish the US locality system hadn't collapsed after Jon Postel passed. (Rest in peace.)

#selfhosting #email

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116140431530202122

give @glyph cash

ignore tags

#mutualaid #fediverse #selfhosting #retroComputing #python #dev #indiedev #foss #hosting #mastodon #activitypub #joinIn #video #software #politics #windows #linux #macos #ios #android #fedi #support #help #patreon #indieweb #internet #webDev #homelab #diy #maker #charity #donations #money #rant #writing #writingcommunity #drawing #dragons #furry #furryart #anime #art #server #education #absurdAmountOfTags #humor #satire #meme #joke #pol #lifestyle #give #today #fyp

I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.

I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.

I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.

I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/

#SelfHosting #FOSS #blog

I am immensely grateful to the Fediverse for all the encouragement I got here to embark on a #selfhosting journey.

#YunoHost has empowered my digital life in immeasurable ways.

My way of giving back - and fighting the broligarchs of Big Tech - is to create a guide that demystifies the process. I have compiled all my posts so far in a single page:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

If you're curious about self-hosting but you haven't taken the leap yet, I hope my articles will be helpful to you ❤️

#Introduction ― I'm a 6th year #medicine student, aspiring #neurology
resident. Some topics I'm interested into:

#neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroimaging #pathology #virology
#bioinformatics #socialism #pacifism #minimalism #collectivism
#cooperatives #environmentalism #climatechange #sustainability
#permaculture #vegan #existentialism #posthumanism #postmodernism #scifi
#cyberpunk #foss #unix #netbsd #sdf #gopher #privacy #bbs
#decentralization #selfhosting #lisp #retrocomputing

If you self-host services on the internet, you may have seen waves of crawlers hammering your websites without mercy.

To annoy them and protect my services from DDoS, I decided to setup an iocaine instance, along with NSoE... And it worked... Too well.

Recently, they started flooding my VPS so much it started choking.
If you followed me here on Fedi, you saw my journey to find a way to relieve my server.

This is a rant about LLM crawlers, and some observations & conclusions, along with some techniques to help you protect your own services.

Read it here: https://xaselgio.net/posts/26.poisoning-knowledge/

#selfHosting #iocaine #indieWeb

Just received an email from my mail server administrator. They sent me a link to change my password because it's 'insecure'.

My mail admin is so efficient...

...hey, wait a minute... I AM my mail administrator! 🤦‍♂️

#Phishing #SelfHosting #SysAdminLife #SecurityFail #InfoSec

like/favorite if this appears in your feed please :)

#selfhosting #snac2 #openbsd

Last minute call to join Tunnel, starting in a few days. For those of you interested in learning about #selfhosting, with a focus on network and server security, this your ideal strong start. No prior experience necessary, no comp-sci degree needed.

Best of all, you get to walk out with your very own fast and powerful Virtual Private Network, for which dozens of configs can be handed out as QR codes to give to fam, friends and colleagues.

https://courses.nikau.io/tunnel

Alt...

Title image for Tunnel, featuring that text in caps against a duo-tone image of a medieval brick tunnel system

Since my home server not intended for use by any people outside of my city (plus some VPN endpoints in other countries) — it is ok to ban some unwanted countries and cities from which I don't expect anything good, except attempts to hack my box to use my resources or set me up .

So I added some GeoIP blocking to the npf with script to update GeoIP list — I blocked China, Iran, North Korea, etc and Moscow (because there are a lot of government and commercial backed bots coming from here). Results are good — the bots don't disappeared completely but the speed of adding new IPs to the blacklist is decreased

Sadly, I was unable to add USA and UK to the list, because looks like there are some limits (not found how to increase them ), which disallows to load a lot of CIDRs for these countries to the blacklist.

#NetBSD #npf #bots #selfhosting

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Graph of the count of banned IPs per week. There are two red tangents on the two points — before and after the GeoIP bans were enabled. And the two red lines, parallel to the X axis. The resulting derivatives are 0.59 and 0.38, so the speed of raising the values (count of blocked bots) are decreased.

Alt...

Part of the script to update npf blacklists. Script contents: # List of blocked countries: # AE - United Arab Emirates # AF - Afganistan # BY - Belarus # CN - China # CU - Cuba # HK - Hong Kong # HU - Hungary # IR - Iran # KP - North Korea # KW - Kuwait # PK - Pakistan # PS - Palestine # TW - Taiwan # UA - Ukraine /usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \ --retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \ --show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \ -o - "$GEOIP_COUNTRIES_SOURCE" | \ /usr/bin/egrep '^[0-9.,]+((AE)|(AF)|(BY)|(CN)|(CU)|(HK)|(HU)|(IR)|(KP)|(KW)|(PK)|(PS)|(TW)|(UA))$' | \ /usr/bin/awk -F, '{ print $1, "-", $2 }' | \ /usr/pkg/bin/iprange > /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then echo "Failed to update countries blacklist" rm -f /usr/share/npf/blacklist.netset.new \ /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new exit 3 fi # List of blocked cities: # Moscow /usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \ --retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \ --show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \ -o - "$GEOIP_CITIES_SOURCE" | \ gzip -d | \

Ich brauche eure #followerpower, wieder mal.
Morgen bietet jemand im Rahmen des DI-Day 2 eine Online Session an zum Thema Nextcloud Selfhosting. Diese findet am 1.2.2026 ab 18:00Uhr statt.
Ich habe mir leider weder den Veranstalter noch den Link zur Session notiert. Würde aber gerne teilnehmen.
Wer kann mir helfen und sagen wer das anbietet?

#fedihelp #nextcloud #selfhosting #didday #did

Took advantage of this gloomy (and, frankly, bleak) pre-winter-storm afternoon to try to get Immich installed.

Success! Immich is now running on my Mac mini (via Docker Compose).

Now... to figure out the migration process for my 53,000-ish photos.

#Immich #SelfHosting #HomeLab

Just published a deep dive on self-hosting CryptPad on FreeBSD using VNET jails, PF NAT, and Caddy.

End-to-end encrypted collaboration, fully isolated networking, no direct internet exposure for the app jail, and a few real-world gotchas (including the infamous “Loading…” issue).

If you like FreeBSD, jails, and privacy-first self-hosting, this one’s for you.

https://blog.hofstede.it/self-hosted-cryptpad-on-freebsd-with-vnet-jails-and-caddy/

#FreeBSD #SelfHosting #Privacy #Jails #CryptPad

I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just finished he migration to a new system today.

- OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- MTA: Postfix 3.10
- IMAP: Dovecot 2.3
- Filter: Rspamd 3.14

I used Imapsync to migrate the content of my Mailboxes from the old to the new system. Worked absolutely fine.

Having the E-Mail Jail and the mailbox data on an encrypted ZFS dataset (AES256) that's manually unlocked with my passphrase after rebooting the system. Backups are done via ZFS send/recv to by backup server (-w for raw send to ensure, data is encrypted at rest)

- SPF: ✅
- DKIM Signing: ✅
- DMARC Reporting: ✅
- E-Mail delivery to major providers: ✅
- IPv6 working and actually being used: ✅

All working perfectly well. In about a week, I'll decomission the old Debian based system, that I used since 2017!

#linux #freebsd #sysadmin #selfhosting #email #postfix

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Console output, showing FreeBSD Jails, running E-Mail related services.

New blogpost:

"Testing Radicale, a self-hosted FOSS CalDAV and CardDAV Server"

Setting it up was easy.

Importing my calendar appointments history was not.

It doesn't have calendar sharing, and I'm on the fence as to whether this will be a deal breaker.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/01/testing-radicale-a-self-hosted-foss-caldav-and-carddav-server/

#FOSS #selfhosting #Linux #Radicale

@eff That's encouragement to get into self-hosting if anyone needed the bump.

#selfhosting