my adventures in #selfhosting - day 94

Self-hosted Ghost site unveiling - take 2

I'm finally ready to unveil my self-hosted #Ghost site: installed on my own, with command lines, with a lot of patience and after many attempts (including 4 VPS wipes).

It took me a while to migrate all the posts, media and members, but here we go, finally:

https://news.elenarossini.com

Thanks to your wonderful advice and help (especially by @shollyethan) I got the courage to edit my nginx config and I'm waiting to see if the redirects from the old posts work. It's always DNS... and nginx ​

And this is take 2 because I swear this self-hosted Ghost site is slightly cursed and the first time around as soon as I edited the URL of an old Mastodon toot, the site went offline. This happened twice today. Won't touch any URLs and will metaphorically sage the VPS to clear its energy 'cause it's a little cursed

PhotoPrism's latest release adds PDF support, improved UI, and new translations and sets the stage for upcoming batch editing and multi-user features.
https://linuxiac.com/photoprism-ai-powered-photos-app-rolls-out-major-usability-upgrades/

This Week in Self-Hosted (21 March 2025)

#Plex subscription updates, software updates and launches, a spotlight on #PlikShare - a #selfhosted file upload platform, and more in this week's recap!

https://selfh.st/newsletter/2025-03-21/

Artikel-Serie: Joplin Notes

Varut und Felix starten eine Joplin Notes-Serie und stellen Joplin Notes vor. Mitmachen erwünscht. Das hier ist die Einführung.

#Joplin_Notes #joplin #Notes #Artikel_Serie #Selfhosting #Nextcloud #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/artikel-serie-joplin-notes

I cannot stress enough how therapeutic being involved in #linux, #foss and #selfhosting is at this time in history.

I am reminded every day that we’re not at the mercy of tech oligarchs. While the mainstream wring its hands and worries, the FOSS devs are out here providing solutions. The people have power.

To people who use #HomeAssistant, do you need #NodeRed to get the most out of it? Found this guide to setting up HomeAssistant in #Docker that helped me get both installed, but Node-Red's interface is pretty much unusable with a #ScreenReader, and I'm thinking of uninstalling it.
#SelfHosting #SelfHosted #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi500 #RPi #RPi500 #Linux #Stormux #ArchLinuxARM
@selfhosting @selfhost @selfhosted

The thing about blogs: If it looks modern with a short URL and has tons of cookie popups and self-promo, stay away. If it looks like a plain HTML page with some basic CSS, found at a long URL at the bottom of your search result, it's probably trustworthy and written by a passionate self-hosting human being.

Basically, the more it looks like https://motherfuckingwebsite.com, the higher the quality of the material you're about to read.

Just updated to #Nextcloud 10 (31.0.2) and guess what? First time no errors in the logs! It's like magic!

#selfhosting #freebsd - day 5

My previous IPv6 woes were largely a sysadmin competence deficiency.

The FreeBSD forum had someone with the same issue - https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ipv6-gateway-and-subnet-issue-on-vps-server.93750/

While that damned penguin is happy to add routes outside their subnet, beastie is more choosy about who they will communicate with. Just using the commands:-

route -6 add xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1 -iface vtnet0
route -6 add default xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1

...get us connected. So we need to add the route then set it as the default, hence this tweak to rc.conf - and if I enable the gateway too and my jails are publicly routable too.

ipv6_static_routes='default'
ipv6_route_default='xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1. -iface vtnet0'
ipv6_defaultrouter='xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1'
ipv6_gateway_enable=YES

So I can now bring up my first test jail. I'm using BastilleBSD as an orchestration tool - I could do them manually but I think I have enough to worry about.

The countdown continues...

Sometimes the Internet confuses more than it helps and you have to piece together your own solution, even if it turns out to be quite simple.

https://michaelnordmeyer.com/log-all-request-headers-with-nginx

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 93

Thanks to the brilliant advice of @CyberSaloperie I have found an easy-to-implement, no sweat solution for my redirect issue. I am about to create a test subdomain with #YunoHost to try it out before I make the real switch (from my current Ghost blog to the new, self-hosted one).

Maybe tomorrow I'll share with you the URL of my self-hosted Ghost blog if you want to try things out? I have already imported my existing members, I'm ready to go

And yes, I'm fully aware the timing of my switch (from a Ghost Pro plan to self-hosted) is odd, considering Ghost Pro accounts are now part of the Fediverse. It's just that I couldn't justify spending so much ($31/month) on a free, non-monetized blog that I am capable of self-hosting. It's 6x the cost of my Debian or Ubuntu VPS.

And I kept getting close to the edge of 1000 members, which would have increased my monthly payments. Now I don't have to stress out about getting new readers. From what I understand #ActivityPub followers count as members for Ghost, so someone who gets a sizable following on their federated Ghost site would have to pay more.

I'm sure many people will love this feature (it's fantastic!) but it's not for me. I already have 3 federated Wordpress blogs and too many ActivityPub profiles as it is

#selfhosting #freebsd - day 4

IPv6 shenanigans are still afoot - can ping the gateway but nothing beyond it. I can't be the first here...

But the backup script is now in. So when I break it at least I have something to go back with.

Ok, so what is the fediverse's opinion on Bitwarden and Vaultwarden?

I was giving GrapheneOS a spin and since 1password doesn't have an FDroid app I spun up a vaultwarden docker and installed Bitwarden.

Functionally I like it, and it could be an alternative for my 2FA keys too.

Anything that I should be watching out for? Is there any gotchas that I'm missing?

I discovered that I can share my Outlook work calendar as an #iCalendar subscription (with three levels of detail).

If I wanted to share this with my wife, I feel I need to parse and rewrite the feed so that it matches my (already shared) personal calendar. E.g., when work cal has out-of-office because I'm home, it should not show as "busy". Did people already build tools for this (that allow #SelfHosting)?

True story #selfhosting

#selfhosting #freebsd - day 3

Because I'm going to be (potentially) breaking stuff by updating the OS and all my jails with a cron job, backups are going to be rather important especially to recover data when I break it.

Thankfully I can fire up mksnap_ffs and the amazing @stefano has basically done pretty much everything I'm going to need to do over the next few weeks.

I thought I had fixed my IPv6 woes by tweaking rc.conf with
ipv6_static_routes='default'
ipv6_route_default='<IPv6 router> -iface vtnet0'

Apparently that fix lasts for a while after a reboot then the route seems to stop working again. Forums suggest adding `sysctl net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_onlink_ns_rfc4861=1`

Just put put the initial app package for #postiz !

Great way to schedule your social messages and increase your reach

https://postiz.com/

As always the package repo is at https://git.cloudron.io/packages/postiz-app

Please report any packaging issues in our forum so we can fix those up to get the package on a stable trajectory.

https://forum.cloudron.io/category/205/postiz

Heut hab ich meine #Faircamp -Seite mal geupdated.

Neben meiner relativ aktuellen EP "Arbeit oder Liebe" von 2023 lassen sich dort jetzt auch "Demos und Ideen" aus den Jahren 2007 bis 2025 anhören sowie Songs, die ich mit meiner damaligen Band "Danke Samba" aufgenommen hatte.

https://torstentorsten.de/faircamp/