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/

This Week in Self-Hosted (28 March 2025)

@stalwartlabs grants, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #Posteria -- a #Plex poster management interface, and more in this week's self-hosted recap!

https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-03-28/

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 101 (perseverance edition) ​

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'm putting the finishing touches to a blog post about #PeerTube - from the POV of creators. I look forward to publishing it soon so I can devote the rest of the day to fixing my self-hosted Ghost blog issues.

Yes yes yes I know I keep going back-and-forth on this, so I apologize for the "flip-flopping" but I recently got an amazing shout out on a Fediverse podcast... but that shout-out mentioned my self-hosting woes so as I matter of pride I wanna fix them with code. I'm not done yet! I'm a fighter by nature.

I rebuilt my entire Ghost blog (33 posts and counting) from scratch TWO TIMES this year. After stepping away from the problem for 5 days, I'm ready to dive back in.

Disabling the Mastodon preview cards (for links) would fix all my problems but first I wanna see what happens when I tweak my NGINX config file.

I'm in the self-hosting game for the LONG HAUL! Undeterred, ready to learn. Let's do this.

(And THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT throughout all my stumbles).

Wishing you all a lovely Friday.

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Découvrez les principales nouveautés de #Nextcloud 31 Hub 10, vues par Arawa !
Article basé sur nos propres tests fonctionnels et sur nos recherches d'informations (sur #GitHub et auprès de Nextcloud)
Priorité aux nouveautés à forte valeur ajoutée pour les professionnels
Lisez nos astuces , coups de cœurs , et avis
#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #TransfoNum #Cloud #SelfHosting
@nextcloud
https://www.arawa.fr/2025/03/27/nouveautes-nextcloud-hub-10-v-31/

it took me until this year to establish a #pihole for my network

it's blocking 20% of queries, many of which are my oculus quest 2 pinging Facebook every 10 seconds despite having been "off" for weeks

ad blockers work great in a browser, but it feels great to have this additional layer of privacy

Wrote about how to run a small cloud at home with Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi: https://soledadpenades.com/posts/2025/setting-up-a-home-cloud-with-raspberry-pi/

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 100 (milestones edition) ​

Good morning Fedi friends!

Today I'm filled with gratitude as I think back about all the ways I have changed - and become more empowered - since I installed @yunohost on my VPS on December 17, 2024.

The biggest difference is my state of mind. For example, yesterday I started using #PeerTube, after setting up an account on the instance MakerTube. I am enjoying it IMMENSELY. I uploaded a couple of my videos there but then immediately thought: I should set up my own instance!

If you had told me 4 months ago that one day I would be a couple of clicks away from setting up my own PeerTube, I would have thought you were hallucinating. But #YunoHost has given me this power and confidence – for which I am infinitely grateful.

Since early February 2025 I have also gotten a bit of experience installing things on a separate VPS with command lines. Even if my self-hosted Ghost blog has given me lemons so far (Mastodon Hug of Death, you're to blame for this!) I am undeterred. I will try tweaking my NGINX settings next week, to set up a reverse proxy and increase my cache. Or heck, I could block Mastodon preview card requests and all my problems would go away. (If someone knows how to do that, please let me know!)

100 days of self-hosting, wow! I feel like a completely different person. Digital sovereignty rocks.

What are my goals for the next 100 days?

1) solving my self-hosted Ghost blog troubles
2) getting an education in caching, reverse proxies and the like
3) setting up my PeerTube instance

Thank you for encouraging me to go on this journey and for all your incredible advice and generous offers to help. This is truly the best community

#MySoCalledSudoLife #YunoHost

I was recently having a conversation about "Mastodon hug of death" and how the type of site (static vs dynamic), caching, and page size all play a role in handling traffic. While I never expect to have to mitigate against that scenario, I wanted to take a look at my page size and my most recent post was 5.7 MB. That's pretty chonky, especially as I'm planning to self-host the site!!
That was enough motivation to finally just make a Hugo shortcode to insert images as resized figures (with full size images linked). That reduced my page size to 450 KB, a 12x reduction! That's the TL;DR, but here's the TL;PR.

Interested to know how many of you guys use object store to house your files/movies/pictures and shit like that in the #homelab or we just file systems all of the time?

Started my distributed file system journey with #moosefs . Been rock solid. Then I found #seaweedfs and it comes with a build in s3 gateway, It's built in go.. Seems simple enough to give it a try in the #homelab . Have we lost the ability to write documentation..just code! . 2 hours later. I have 7 terminal tabs open all running a 4 specific process to get this thing working.. and its still not working! . Documentation says. Just run ./this_fucking_command. Then run ./this_fucking_command and the thing is up.. simple.

Question for anyone interested...

If someone offered a service focused towards families (maybe?) for hosting open source and other self-hosted services, would you be interested?

I'm thinking it would provide:
* SSO with OIDC support
* your own instances for each app
* managed updates
* 99% uptime

Other features/ideals:
* contribute back to upstream projects
* keep as much of it open source as possible
* if you leave, you get the AWS account with all your data

So...would you do it?

(more background in replies)

Part of my project for adopting gitops in my homelab has been setting up git hosting. I've selected Gitea for this instead of Gogs because I thought I'd have an easier time bootstrapping fluxcd...

Now that I've had more time to sit with the docs and learn more about Gitea, I've noticed they have broad support to serve as package registries too! It seems like I can host helm charts and docker images alongside my infra as code! This is fantastic, it'll greatly simplify my architecture. Two birds, one container!

Immich 1.130, a self-hosted photo and video backup solution, is here with a folder view for mobile, faster timelines, and massive external library scan speed boosts.
https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-130-released-with-massive-speed-gains/

What are good UK/EU domain name providers, please, anyone?

Watch the release overview here:

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_our7Wt0gM

foss.video:
https://foss.video/w/8tCQmVCns4zCG3xSS73Cz4

Have fun!

I have published a new blog post:

HortusFox v4.5 was just released

Read it here:
https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/30-hortusfox-v45-was-just-released

#AskFedi: Someone not on here asked me whether there are any decent mail hosting services that also can handle custom domain and can serve as a registrar for it.
My first response was: no, not any really trustworthy ones (good ones are mailbox, posteo, …). Was I wrong in that assumption? Because I think this is a “what color do you want your dragon situation”.
And if not, what would y’all recommend as a non-US registrar?