Time to patch #portainer to 2.33.5 (LTS) with support for #Docker 29. Not that I need it, but it is nice to see that it didn't took long to get official support for it, due to breaking changes last week.
Changes:
🚀 Added support for Docker v29
#selfhost
#selfhost home assistant сам предложил подцепить роутер и сам начал показывать чего там и как
приятно
My ideal #HomeLab for now is a #colocation. I started to think about the real possibility of it recently.
I have options in the city I’m currently living in. It appeared costly compared to my dedicated #Hetzner server first, but then I calculated the price of upgrading the storage. Then I added an electricity price of hosting the part of #HomeLab at home, and now I kinda like the idea more and more. I need to see used rack-mountable #server prices now.
Después de haber crujido el pendrive donde está el SO #UnRAID y ver que este #NAS no me hace ni fu ni fa, he instalado #Openmediavault, también llamado #OMV y no tiene mala pinta. Se ve más sencillo de gestionar. Total, para albergar las imágenes ISO y copias de seguridad, más que suficiente…
#HomeLab #SelfHost #SelfHosting
@taoeffect yes!
And the only way to stop the #Enshittification to consume the world with #Cyberfascism and #LateStageCapitalism in the form of #Shrinkflation as well as #Greedflation is to #decentralize and #SelfHost!
- Cuz a thousand small communities are harder to surpress than one big corporation.
Ok so I decided to take the plunge and let my #protonmail subscription lapse and give @mailbox_org a try.
They're running a "2 years for the price of 1" offer right now which came out at the perfect time to convince me, as it sets the price for their standard offer down to 1.5€ a month.
I'll need to live with it for much longer before I can attempt a fair comparison of their service vs Proton, but so far, here is what I have to say:
Their web portal for the service feels a tad janky at times, with some screen not even properly localized, and an overall lack of polish. This is especially unflattering compared to Proton's web interface, which is really snappy and slick (and not in German -- unless I want it to be...).
On the other hand, I truly appreciate that they went for a sober -- if entirely forgettable -- design language for it, compared to the black and purple infosec mall ninja aesthetic that Proton decided to go for. So there is definitely that!
IT. DOES. NOT. FUCKING. SAY. "AI". ANYWHERE!!!! Not once! Yay!!! Please keep it up, @mailbox_org !
Configuration for advanced features isn't as user friendly as Proton's, but on the other hand their documentation is very complete and detailed. I'm fine with that, but I certainly can understand not everyone would be.
Feature-wise, the custom domain support is very good (that's the one thing I needed the most, tbh). Even with the standard plan, it does not limit the number of external domains you can bind, only the total number of aliases you can have which is ample (50 aliases for external domains + 25 aliases on their mailbox.org domain), and it supports catch all addresses. This is plenty for a single user (it is for me, at least), and much better than Proton, which limits you to a total 10 aliases, and a single external domain.
I have not yet dived into their encryption options, but it looks like that they offer several modes, including one that does not involve sharing the private key with them, which, aside from the obvious, also 1) doesn't force you to use their web client 2) Isn't orthogonal with using your own GPG key client side (without having to share that key with them too). All in all, I don't know if I'll bother with that at all (since, like with Proton, all of this doesn't mean much if the people writing to you / that you write to don't use encryption on their end), but it's worth looking into, IMO.
As for everything else (instant messaging, video conferencing, vpn, office suite, free pony, etc...) I don't care about any of it. Just like with proton before, I need email. That's what I'm paying for. The rest I don't give two shits about. YMMV.
So anyway, as I said I'll need more time before I can form a viable opinion on the service but so far I like it. It's no doubt a "nerdier" option compared to Proton (and that's saying a lot, I guess), but not nearly as much a hosting your own mail server.
The feature set is really good (for me anyway) and the price is right (even without the discount, 2.5€/month is still cheaper than the competition).
If, from a technical standpoint, it just works (i.e. it sends and receives emails), I think I'll have found myself a winner!
What are people using for a discord alternative? I have a group of friends that seem to be getting to the point that they would be open to moving to something else. I’d love to #selfhost on a VPS but I’m not seeing a solid alternative that handles both text channels and voice channels in the same way. Also mobile apps. We essentially use it for text most of the time with voice on game nights. And even then we are using the text channels at the same time.
Sad truth.
#3dprinting #3dprint #selfhost #selfhosting #ai #openai #chatgpt
The end of an era - I cancelled my colo service for my #SelfHost server last week, as I have enough bandwidth at home to run everything in the "#HomeLab".
I've had a colo server for over 20 years (2 different 1U servers, and both have been pretty reliable.
First it was in Telehouse London, then a dudes garage in Maidenhead, which then morphed into Pulsant in Maidenhead.
It taught me good discipline about upgrading things remotely, and keeping an eye on security, as it was over 100miles away, which would have been a right PITA to fix if a reboot failed.
By the time I turned this one off, its uptime was over 800 days.
Thank you for your service, little server 🙏
I'm not sure what im going to do with it now, apparently the RAID controller only supports up to 2TB drives, and it's really noisy.
The previous one was the cheapest SuperMicro one I could find at the time, which was ~£800.
I got this one free from @bobbycc, whos work was chucking it out, so it's been well used - Thanks, I appreciate it!
There's nothing physically wrong with it though... 😢
Recently tried out Kristall Browser for use with Gemini capsules (not Google Gemini AI) and am really liking it. A 40MB AppImage (Windows and MacOS also supported), a scrollbar big enough to grab with a mouse, tabs, and configurable colours for text, links, and headings.
New blog post!
It is about how this Mastodon instance is backed up daily without downtime =)
https://www.yevi.org/blog/daily-matrix-and-mastodon-backups-with-zero-downtime
#Mastodon #Matrix #SelfHosted #SelfHosting #SelfHost #HomeLab #Ansible #Proxmox #Backup #PBS #ProxmoxVE #Blog #GlitchySocial
@Codeberg my problem ain't #scrapers - otherwise I'd #SelfHost my stuff in my own home LAN - but rather #bots flooding #Issues and #PullRequests with garbage.
The problem I dread is once people start abusing their "#AI"#bullshit and #FloodTheZoneWithShit aka. "#AIslop" for no good reason.
- Kinda like @bagder had to deal with "AI" slop #SecurityReports that didn't even try to show #ProofOfConcept or actually evidence their claims in a scientifically reproduceable fashion but merely wasted lifetime of maintainers!
And @Erpel 's original issue is just that: #spam in the #IssueTracker...
@Erpel because the spammers are assholes?
I wished @Codeberg had some #AI #bot / #blocklist feature to flatout block #spammers and #bots cuz given the fact that #GitHub refuses to allow blocking #Copilot, this may be the straw to move the projects over there if I can't be assed to #SelfHost and merely abude GitHub as a #CDN!
Which I certainly would intent…
Interesting things I need!
1.) Self host public code repo (github but not github but can easily run in say like cPanel?)
2.) object trackers (AirTag) but Opensource. Currently using chipolo.. but the ones that dont use the FindMy networks from google and android
3.) A good system for keeping all my junk that I don't use often charged. Flipper, Label printer, Barcode scanner, ect.
Pixelfed.lovetux.net is running on the server at the top (others VMs as well).
Mastodon.lovetux.net is running on the server at the bottom (others VMs as well).
#selfhosting #linux #selfhost #pixelfed #mastodon
Mastodon.lovetux.net is running on the server at the bottom (others VMs as well).
#selfhosting #linux #selfhost #pixelfed #mastodon
Going live in just under an hour with @dbtechyt and @FoxxMD to chat about the results of my recent annual #selfhost user survey -- join us and send a chat to let us know you're there!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faH8Pk7Gx4g
#selfhosted #selfhosting #survey #foss #opensource #homelab #development #privacy #security #smarthome #homeautomation #server #sysadmin
These are my servers running at home #selfhost
Two #proxmox servers and one #NAS
The first #proxmox server's hostname: betelgeuse. Running 7 VMs.
The second #proxmox server's hostname: altair. Running 6 VMs.
And last but not least NAS' hostname: orionis. It handles: VMs backup and store some multimedia files for #jellyfin
Finally switched to self-hosting! Wish me luck 🍀 https://ggirelli.info/blog/2025/11/21/self-host #indieweb #smallweb #selfhost #blog #personalwebsite
Client Info
Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.07
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst